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Senior Intelligence Officials: Attempted Terror Attack "Certain"

The five senior leaders of the U.S. intelligence community told a Senate panel they are "certain" that terrorists will attempt another attack on the United States in the next three to six months.

If true, why do you think the jihadists feel emboldened?

The Obama administration is seen as weak against terrorism.
Its continued backlash against the policies of the former Bush administration.
Not sure.

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May 23, 2008

Exclusive: Friday, May 23

Presidential Watch

Cliff Kincaid reveals Obama's communist ties on theG. Gordon Liddy Show.

See the list of top advisors to each of the 3 presidential candidates HERE.

Wanted: Barack Hussein Obama's Birth Certificate

Conservablogs.com

Obama may hold dual citizenship of the US and Kenya(?)

My inquiring mind wants to know. Has anyone seen Obama's birth certificate? Just to ease my curious mind, I would like to see it.

Should his birth certificate be in the public domain? Or not?

Senator Barack Obama is a citizen of Kenya, Part One

"The American people, when deciding who to support for president, have a right to know if their ‘president' is also a citizen of Kenya and owes dual loyalty to Kenya because he has never renounced his Kenyan citizenship

If true then, yes I agree he should of been forthright. John McCain received some flak over whether he was a ‘natural born citizen. As a Military brat myself, I was born outside of the US. Of course there are no questions where my loyalties lie. And both of my parents are and were US citizens. Obama's father was a citizen of Kenya. Where does Obama's loyalties lie? Read article.

The Company He Keeps: Obama Hangs With Hezbollah's Iranian Agent Imam

Debbie Schlussel, Debbie Schlussel.com

Barack Obama claims he's against HAMAS and Hezbollah and is offended by President Bush's speech in Israel about Obama's ethos of "appeasement." So why is he meeting with one of Hezbollah's most important imams and agents in America, Imam Hassan Qazwini?

And why is this open anti-Semite and supporter of Israel's annihilation getting to discuss "the Arab-Israeli conflict" in a private one-on-one meeting with Obama? What was said? I think we can do the math.

I've written about Qazwini and his mosque for almost a decade. He is tight with the Government of Iran, and he is an agent of the Iranian government, spreading its propaganda. He was sent to the U.S. by Iran to help radicalize his mosque, the Islamic Center of America, which--at the time--was becoming moderate with women not covering their hair and mixing with men. All that has changed, under Qazwini. Read article.

Obama hijacked phrase from pro-Palestinian friend?

Both called Israel conflict 'constant sore' within days of each other

Aaron Klein, WND.com

In terming the Israeli-Palestinian conflict a "constant sore" last week, did Sen. Barack Obama borrow the phraseology of a pro-Palestinian activist and harsh critic of Israel who has been described as a friend of the senator?

Columbia University Professor Rashid Khalidi also previously held a fundraiser for Obama. He has made repeated statements supportive of Palestinian terror.

In a much-quoted interview with the Atlantic, Obama was asked last week whether he thinks Israel is a "drag on America's reputation oversees."

Obama replied: "No, no, no. But what I think is that this constant wound, that this constant sore, does infect all of our foreign policy."

Obama's remarks, slammed by pro-Israel and Republican organizations, came five days after the Nation magazine published an opinion piece by Khalidi, titled "Palestine: Liberation Deferred" in which the Palestinian activist opened by calling the "Palestinian question" a "running sore."

"The 'Palestine Question' has been with us for sixty years. During this time it has become a running sore, its solution appearing ever more distant," wrote Khalidi in the first paragraph of his op-ed. Read article.

Obama can ‘go to China'

Bradley R. Gitz, NWA News.com

If Barack Obama wins the presidency it will be because white Americans who seek redemption for their country's dismal racial history find it in his candidacy. The catch is that he has to convince them that he, too, wants to put race behind us. To win, he has to continue to benefit from the desire for racial forgiveness while also transcending the question of race. Race is what the Obama candidacy has always been about, but it remains a viable candidacy for white voters only to the extent that it appears to be about anything but race.

For Obama to successfully present himself as a candidate whose blackness is incidental to his other virtues, he must first differentiate himself from the race hucksters who have preceded him like Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton, not to mention his own theological mentor, Jeremiah Wright. Along these lines, the nature of the damage done to Obama by the Wright controversy has been widely misunderstood.

Wright has hurt Obama not so much because doubts can be raised about what he knew about Wright and when he knew it, but because Wright reminds all those white Americans whose votes Obama will need in November of the various pathologies pervading black America and of the continuing liberal tendency to blame them on white Americans. Read article.

A Roadmap for John McCain

Morris & McGann, NewsMax.com

McCain's likely rival, Barack Obama, has raised such doubts among voters that their concerns momentarily energized even Hillary Rodham Clinton's sagging campaign. With the help of the incendiary comments of his former pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr., Obama's negatives have been rising even as he nears the finish line.

Still, voters are tending heavily toward the Democratic Party. Normally, party preferences are about even, but recent national polls give Democrats a decided edge. In last week's Post-ABC poll, 53 percent of Americans identified themselves as Democrats or leaned toward the party, compared with 39 percent who were Republicans or tilted to the GOP.

To sum it up: A candidate who cannot get elected is being nominated by a party that cannot be defeated, while a candidate who is eminently electable is running as the nominee of a party doomed to defeat.

In this environment, McCain can win by running to the center.

His base will be there for him; indeed, it will turn out in massive numbers. Wright has become the honorary chairman of McCain's get-out-the-vote efforts. Read article.

McCain's Global Warming Plan Threatens Economy

Robert Bluey, Townhall.com

Exactly one year after angering conservatives with an amnesty bill for illegal aliens, Sen. John McCain managed to fire up the right again last week-only this time he's proposing a massive plan to combat global warming that would have severe consequences for the U.S. economy.

During a West Coast trip to Oregon and Washington state, McCain outlined his global warming strategy, which in many ways resembles legislation offered by Senators Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) and John Warner (R-Va.). Their plan will be debated on Capitol Hill next month.

Although he's spent the past several months trying to mend his rocky relationship with conservatives by putting forward a market-based health care plan and vowing to appoint conservative judges to the Supreme Court, critics wasted little time going after McCain's global warming proposal.

It's not that conservatives don't care about the environment-they do. But in the case of McCain's proposal, the benefits-lowering Earth's temperature by no more than the Kyoto projection of 0.007 degrees Celsius-would come at a great cost to America's economy.

What's in McCain's Plan? Read article.

The shine is off Clintonia 'Yesterday's gone' has new twist for Clintons

Debra J. Saunders, SFGate.com

Barack Obama is like a shot of Botox. Support him, and you take 10 years off your face. You join the cool crowd. You become one with idealistic kids and Hollywood glitterati.

Clinton Democrats can't compete. They're on the outside looking in. They used to be hip. They were the bad boys, who scoffed at finger-wagging conservatives. Now, they have traded in their saxophones for a pantsuit.

The glamour is gone. Once, their very politics, the simple fact that they registered as Democrats instead of Republicans, made them better than meat-and-potatoes America. They cared more. They were smarter. They knew how to play the system. They were destined to run things.

Now they are trailing behind an upstart junior senator.

Before Iowa, when the Clintons were the party's power couple, the faithful quickly became indignant at any criticism, deserved or not, of either Clinton. As Obama racks up more delegates, Republicans and Democrats can say anything they want about either Clinton, and there is no outrage. Worse, it is now apostasy to criticize Obama.

Even if they were white, middle-aged and living in mostly white enclaves, Clintonians had a quick ticket to the votes of black America. Now the "First Black President" and his missus, Hillary, are the race-baiters. The world is upside down. Read article.

Remapping 2008

Salena Zito, Pittsburgh Live.com

If you wonder why Barack Obama did not try to compete in West Virginia, his dismissal of the Mountain State had nothing to do with giving Hillary Clinton one last hurrah.

The fact is, come November, West Virginia will not be on Obama's list of states to visit before Election Day.

Why ignore an all-time swing state, one no Democrat since 1916 has lost and gone on to win the presidency?

Because, as former Democratic National Committee chairman Mark Siegel explains, "West Virginia is not central to the new electoral map that will guide Obama's win in November."

Forget the Republican red-Democrat blue map the American electorate has followed since the 2000 presidential race between George Bush and Al Gore -- all that has changed. Thanks to President Bush's disapproval ratings and a "change" election year, a whole new electoral map will be drawn this fall.

Siegel says that not only do Democrats think they have a shot at traditional red-state Virginia, they will win it. "We will be highly competitive in Colorado as well as Nevada and New Mexico," he explains, adding that Iowa is probable as well. Read article.

Rival Camps Plan Inevitable Merger

Matthew Mosk & Chris Cillizza, Washington Post.com

A member of the Obama national finance team in Georgia, said that while there is no formal effort by the Obama campaign to recruit Clinton counterparts, "many of us have friendships with Clinton donors that predate the 2008 campaign and will last long after this race is over. Given this reality, it should not be surprising that we have received phone calls in the last few weeks" from individuals interested in crossing over.

Another major Obama fundraiser, granted anonymity to speak candidly, said that while no organized recruitment campaign was underway, "we have picked off some local people and are reaching out to the Clinton people we know individually."

That outreach has been complicated by leading voices in the Clinton campaign having made clear that any defection at this point would be regarded as a betrayal of the former first couple. "Some [Clinton] people have said, 'If you publicly defect, that's the end of our relationship,' " said the Obama fundraiser. "Like, if we live to be 170, we're never going to speak to each other again."

Clinton supporters interviewed for this article all said they think that the senator from New York remains a viable candidate. But several also said they see the wisdom of beginning the conversation about fundraising for the general election. Read article.

The mental exercise of placing Obama in the Oval Office requires more imagination than did moving Reagan from the silver screen to Pennsylvania Ave.

David Broder, JWR.com

One way of measuring the current miserable state of the Republican Party is to note that in the past 10 weeks, 55 years of Republican seniority in the House of Representatives were wiped out in three special elections.

There's no telling what may happen between now and Nov. 4, but we know that John McCain is bucking a powerful head wind as he seeks the White House, while Barack Obama (or maybe Hillary Clinton) can enjoy at least a favorable breeze.

The situation is reminiscent of 1980. Six months before that election, it was evident that the country had grown weary of Jimmy Carter and his administration. What remained to be determined was the degree of comfort voters felt with Ronald Reagan as his successor. Would Reagan be seen as a B-movie actor and TV host, peddling eccentric and maybe dangerous notions, or as someone who had governed California successfully for eight years and could restore some sanity to a dysfunctional Washington? Once he delivered the necessary reassurances, the election was over. Read article.

Obama's Iraq Minefield

Michael Weiss, Pajamas Media.com

Barack Obama has billed himself as the antiwar candidate. He claims that he sagely foretold of disaster in Iraq before the first troop was deployed, always felt the war was a mistake, and will positively remove all U.S. combat forces within 16 months if he is elected.

Upon closer inspection, this amounts to little more than a stump catechism, unsupported by Obama's wavering talk over the past five years. Plus, his policy prescriptions for what to do going forward are not just out of date, they're not even on nodding terms with reality in the Middle East.

It is merely a matter of time before Barack Obama - the self-proclaimed antiwar candidate - will have to face his contradictions, falsehoods, and alarming displays of ignorance on Iraq. Read article.

One Liberal/ Socialist Political Party is Enough

Arnold Ahlert, Political Mavens.com

To sensible conservatives, it is virtually incomprehensible that the Republican Party can't quite figure out why their prospects for the 2008 election seem so dim. Here's your first clue, boys and girls: America already has one socialist, tax-and-spend, appeasement-oriented, global warming Kool-aid drinking political party. Who needs two of them?

But that's just part of it. Spineless obsequiousness-in order to curry liberal media or Democrat party approval-is equally as damning. Just because they characterize every lurch leftward as a move towards "enlightened thinking" or "reasoned insight" doesn't mean it's true. It only means you've sold out your core constituency for a little light and heat.

As Dr. Phil might say, "how's that working for you?" It's not. And no amount of rationalization will help.

Here's what'll help: unambiguous conservatism. First, stand up for limited government. Probably nothing rankles conservatives more than your unwillingness to stand against America's headlong rush towards socialism and all the freedom-killing excesses it entails. Next, stand for border enforcement first, everything else second. The public backlash against last year's immigration "reform" package makes this the biggest no-brainer of the 2008 campaign. Read article.

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