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l and reality tv star donald trump is running for president considering that a reality tv star may be a presidential contender should tell us that the line between reality and fantasy is already blurred like romney trump had always been pro choice until he thought about running for president now the donald a philandering casino running beauty pageant owning egomaniac has gotten religion doing an interview for the christian broadcasting network one that looks more like the onion than anything else trump is now telling us how much he loves the bible how much he loves sending people bibles and how great it is going to church so now it appears that trump is doing what romney has done for years trying to convince us that he is not what he has always been an empty suit who will say anything to advance himself last week a few reports surfaced on the drudge report where trump on separate occasions labeled both george w bush and obama has the worst president ever shortly after the 2008 presidential election trump called bush evil and even though he supported john mccain he felt comfortable with president elect obama because he would govern by consensus and not rush off to war in a bull headed manner like bush on the one hand this may only mean that trump was one among millions snookered by the smooth rhetoric of candidate obama but on the other hand one has to wonder if trump believed bush was bull headed and rash in going to war what had he ever seen in mccain s character and temperament that led him to believe the arizona republican would have been any different even though trump has traditionally supported democrats and before he supported mccain he preferred hillary clinton which might give us a clue about how the donald feels about government run health care like much of the current appeal of a romney candidacy the reason conservatives seem to be giving for supporting trump is that he has a chance to beat obama but if republicans choose trump what does that say it means that after a lifetime of supporting democrats and democratic causes all a celebrity like trump has to do is start saying a few of the right things and he suddenly has conservative bona fides are republicans and conservatives so eager to make a faustian bargain to regain control of the white house that anyone regardless of all the evidence against them will do so long as they read the right lines time will tell posted by carl wicklander at 11 44 pm 2 comments labels abortion barack obama conservatism donald trump hillary mitt romney national review pro choice pro life wednesday march 23 2011 obama s war of choice so now barack obama has joined the presidential wars club by engaging militarily in libya without even the veneer of congressional authorization ohio representative dennis kucinich suggested that the president s actions are an impeachable offense he s been derided by members of his own party but kucinich is right if unconstitutionally sending the u s military to intervene in another nation s civil war is not an impeachable offense then nothing is while there have been no declarations of war since world war ii presidents have routinely circumvented the constitution s clearly stated clause that only congress can declare war by calling their decisions a police action or getting a watered down resolution there is some debate concerning whether the president may order military action in an immediate emergency and then call congress once the emergency stage has passed but what s happening in libya in no way resembles an emergency that requires the president to act unilaterally and without constitutional authority instead the former professor of constitutional law has allowed the un security council resolution to serve as the supreme law of the land but the un security council resolution only authorizes that there may be all necessary measures to protect libyan citizens if the authorization for use of military force legislation of 2001 was a blank check for president bush then what is this just what does all necessary measures to protect libyan citizens mean now that obama has plunged the united states into this civil war what are our objectives in protecting libyan citizens by intervening in the first place obama has assured that the only possible outcome of this conflict means gaddafi is dethroned by entering on the side of the rebels obama has staked his claim to offer limited assistance and then pull away is to condemn the rebels to the mercy of gaddafi why intervene on the side of the rebels unless it is to see them to victory and if we take them across the finish line how then does the new government in a fragile fractious country operate unless it is propped up what of gaddafi s fighters as students of history should know the losers in a civil war do not often lay down all their weapons and celebrate the peace when the war is declared over so why intervene in the first place is it because the un said it was okay if so obama has done nothing less than cede american sovereignty what vital american national interests are involved in who rules a cobbled together kingdom of the northern sahara consider this moammar gaddafi seized power over 40 years ago why is it that only now he is such a menace to american national interests that he must be confronted it s been over 22 years since gaddafi s only successful aggression against the united states the bombing of pan am flight 103 although 190 americans died that day there was no military action taken against the mad dog of the middle east if no previous president from reagan to george w bush felt the mass murder of american civilians was worth retaliating against gaddafi why does protecting the lives of libyan citizens merit it now as the arab league bails out it becomes increasingly clear that it will only be the united states policing this conflict great britain and france may have led the initial charge to act but countries facing insolvency are not long for occupations to invoke general petraeus in 2003 how does this end by involving the united states obama makes this his war regardless of whether hillary or samantha power bullied him into it if he calls off the whole shebang he will have made himself into a fool by first declaring gaddafi must go doing nothing for two weeks before reluctantly inserting american firepower and ultimately leaving libya with gaddafi still in power having outlasted the strongest military on the planet with his third rate army so now president obama has taken us to war he has taken us to war in a country where no national interests are at stake and he did so without the slightest acknowledgement from congress his actions have left the door open for more naked acts of aggression in the future now is as good a time as any for that neglected congress to grow a backbone reclaim their constitutional authority to declare war and finally put a stop to these presidential wars it s time for speaker boehner to make a real stand and assert one of his chamber s remaining power the power to impeach the president for high crimes and misdemeanors posted by carl wicklander at 10 39 pm 2 comments labels barack obama constitution dennis kucinich george w bush hillary impeachment intervention libya moammar gaddafi wednesday march 16 2011 a serious tea party under discussion the tea party goes to washington by rand paul with jack hunter 272 pages 21 99 hardcover what is the tea party is it the refashioned conservative movement is it the reaction to a new liberal democratic president or worst of all is the tea party just a bunch of astroturfing fox news watching racist rednecks in the tea party goes to washington kentucky senator rand paul begins to give us an answer the tea party according to senator paul is a reaction to the big spending of washington and a desire to curtail the power of the federal government the trouble or virtue of a movement without a central hierarchy is that there is no unified message or platform there have been a few attempts to present an official tea party message but a tea party manifesto and that s no angry mob that s my mom are mostly relegated to the bargain shelf at borders if there is a difference between earlier attempts at a tea party synthesis and rand paul s it s that the current volume is attached to the platform of a victorious candidate since winning marco rubio has shunned the tea party label he rode to election exposing himself as the bush family agent that he always was while tea party losers joe miller christine o donnell and sharron angle are already largely forgotten so without the competing versions the rand paul incarnation of the tea party shines brighter and considering the contents of the tea party goes to washington it s sure to ruffle the feathers of anyone who would like to see the tea party either go away or be co opted by the republican party altogether a note is needed first on the aesthetics of the book the cover art depicts the capitol dome being squeezed by a belt indicative of the diet washington needs but what s most intriguing about the cover is what s not there a picture of the author himself mitt romney sarah palin mike huckabee and newt gingrich all presidential contenders all adorn the covers of their books nor is this unique to politicians talk show hosts mark levin sean hannity keith olbermann and chris matthews all have their mugs defacing the covers of their books this is no coincidence most of the people hawking books are not actually interested in ideas but only in advancing themselves will someone tell me what would be the primary difference between a huckabee candidacy and a romney one what s in sean hannity s book that s not in mark levin s the difference is only in personality and style the fact that senator paul is absent from the front cover although not the back where he is pictured with his smiling wife indicates that the book is more about his ideas than about himself personally the book itself is charming because it is part autobiography and part agenda facing the first page of every chapter is a photo including pictures from the senator s childhood as ron paul s son and several with his own family from the campaign trail while these images and stories from the campaign and his life are affectionate and reinforce the already present human side of rand paul the most lasting impression in the book is how radical it is radical not in the sense that the senator should fear being dragged before peter king s inquisition but radical in how there are real ideas in the book and not shallow talking points this radicalism is evident even before the first page of the text rand paul s selection of a co author is jack hunter a so far obscure south carolina columnist and radio commentator known to many by his alias the southern avenger this choice of co author is remarkable because hunter a veteran of both the ron paul revolution and the buchanan brigades proto tea party movements had like rand paul also never written a book it is not for nothing that rand paul s collaborator was not an accomplished ghost writer but an authentic voice of the grassroots right the fingerprints of the co author are everywhere to be found chapter 3 equal parts chastisement republicans and democrats is vintage jack hunter including a brief introduction to the neoconservatives and treatment of fred barnes sycophantic 2003 wall street journal article big government conservatism where the weekly standard veteran condoned and justified george w bush s growth of government rand paul sees the disconnect among republicans who took this sort of blind eye to the republican bush s growth but are enraged by the democrat obama s growth consider this what kind of person would talk about how badly the neighbors kids behave while ignoring the bad behavior of their own children 62 is a phrase mr hunter s listeners have heard a time or two not to be outdone rand paul reminds democrats that they are just as guilty of looking the other way when their man does the same crime contrary to his supporters belief obama s agenda has not been a reversal of bush s agenda but an extension of it only more ambitious in scope and even more reckless in spending amazingly and perhaps ironically even on the issues that once animated the left against the republicans prolonged war civil liberties infringements the further empowerment of the executive branch obama has basically maintained the same policies as his predecessor and in some cases has expanded them 59 and this was before obama reinstituted indefinite detention at guantanamo bay one wonders if waterboarding will be next but nowhere is the radicalism more evident than in chapter 7 a conservative foreign policy and nowhere else is it more evident that rand paul is indeed his father s son in this important chapter the reader is treated to discussions of the neoconservative influence on foreign policy the long forgotten senator robert taft and a call to end nation building outside of the often insular conservative movement there is scant attention or even acknowledgement of the existence of the neoconservatives and to find a discussion of this sect of interlopers in a u s senator s book is more than just a breath of fresh air it is a torrent especially when there are phrases peppered in like a republican party tainted by neoconservative ideology the importance of the issues discussed in this chapter have been brought up before in ron paul s books and more academic treatises but the blessing in rand paul s book is that he makes arguments that got his father booed without incurring the same wrath himself in other words rand paul takes foreign policy an issue on which there was no allowable dissent during the bush years and presents it in a way that can be accepted by conservatives the great irony is that conservatives preach individual responsibility and reliance domestically but practice policies abroad that create dependence on foreign aid and dependence on foreign soldiers where conservatives will ask the domestically unemployed to seek work and become independent of government welfare abroad we let nations depend on our succor we don t demand the same self reliance internationally that we do domestically 131 132 if there are a couple of faults with the tea party goes to washington they have to do with the frequent references to his father littered throughout the text are phrases like my father always says or my dad believes but these are only slightly distracting this is not necessarily rand paul s fault it just proves he came from a stable home and his father was obviously around enough to influence him but this may expose the younger paul to criticism among the uneducated that he is just a clone of his father there were also a couple of minor historical errors regarding years on page 144 gerald ford is referred to as the moderate candidate for president in 1974 the year ford ascended to the presidency not the year he...