It’s Friday, August 31st, 2012….and before we begin, two things: first, though we missed yesterday’s deadline, we had a good excuse: a 7:05 pm viewing of 2016, in the company of Uncle Cliffy, Jim Bob and G. Trevor, Lord High King of All Vietors.
If you haven’t seen it, we highly recommend you do. If you have, we’d like to offer the one aspect of Obama’s life that convinces us everything D’Souza claims is dead-on balls accurate: everyone with whom he’s ever been associated….his father, his mother, his grandparents, his friends, his mentors, his pastor….are all anti-American radical Leftists.
Second, today’s edition is going to be bifurcated. It’s been a long day, we’re tired, and we’ll pick it up again early tomorrow.
Now, here’s The Gouge!
First up, Clint was great, Rubio magnificent….Romney’s along for the ride. But as our Uncle Cliffy said, he’s the guy we NEED: “Though he’s uncomfortable in front of a teleprompter, he’s worked his butt to the bone and succeeded at everything he’s done.”
And we believe Ann Romney when she says….
Meanwhile, the desperation grows with every fact the Dims pretend to refute, as the WSJ details:
The Janesville President
Paul Ryan quotes Barack Obama from 2008.Democrats are outraged.
From their fainting couches, the press corps “fact checkers” and the liberals who love them are having a spell over Paul Ryan’s Tampa convention speech. How dare he so much as mention the Wisconsin assembly plant that President Obama promised to keep open but didn’t?
The claim is that there was nothing the White House could do, because the General Motors facility in Mr. Ryan’s hometown of Janesville was already starting to idle production and slated for closure when Mr. Obama took office. Therefore the empty production lines are George W. Bush’s fault, like everything else in the last four years.
But so what? Mr. Ryan made the factual statement that “we were about to lose a major factory” (our emphasis). Basic comprehension of human language didn’t deter Obama campaign functionary Stephanie Cutter from claiming on MSNBC Thursday that “There’s no delicate way to put this, but he lied. He blatantly lied—and brazenly.”
Coming from a specialist in the form, perhaps that was meant as a compliment, but then again all this is an enormous exercise in missing the point. Mr. Ryan wasn’t saying Mr. Obama should have saved this particular plant, as if it were akin to the sea levels that he promised to command in his inaugural address.Mr. Ryan was mocking the President who promised on the record and apparently believed he could save the plant.
At a campaign event at the Janesville factory in 2008 on “a clean energy economy,” Mr. Obama praised its workers for “how many hybrids and fuel-efficient vehicles you’re churning out.” He added: “And I believe that if our government is there to support you, and give you the assistance you need to retool and make this transition, that this plant will be here for another hundred years.”
In October of the same year, when Mr. Obama paid another visit, he promised that “As president, I will lead an effort to retool plants like the GM facility in Janesville so we can build the fuel-efficient cars of tomorrow and create good-paying jobs in Wisconsin and all across America.”
In other words, this is another familiar Obama adventure in industrial policy: The government will tell auto makers what kind of cars they should manufacture, even if they’re not the kind of cars consumers want to buy. For the record, all that talk of “retooling” is because the Janesville plant used to make the trucks and SUVs that are being driven from the market in part by $4 gasoline and rising fuel-efficiency standards.
This Obama model of central planning helps explain why there are fewer good-paying jobs not only in Janesville but all across America.
Next up, remember this scene from Saving Private Ryan?
Then recall how The Obamao has on numerous occasions compared himself with Abraham Lincoln….and compare Lincoln’s heartfelt sympathy to, courtesy of Bill Meisen, the reaction of a Misleader who couldn’t find the time to even affix his signature to letters to the bereaved:
Obama Honored Fallen SEALs By Sending Their Parents a Form Letter Signed By Electric Pen
On August 6, 2011, 30 US service members were killed when a CH-47 Chinook helicopter they were being transported in crashed in Wardak province, Afghanistan. It was the deadliest single loss for U.S. forces in the decade-long war in Afghanistan. 17 members of the elite Navy SEALs were killed in the crash.
Yesterday, Karen and Billy Vaughn, parents of Aaron Carson Vaughn, spoke at the Defending the Defenders forum sponsored by the Tea Party Patriots outside the RNC Convention in Tampa. Karen brought a copy of the form letter they were sent following their son’s death.
It’s a form letter.
It was signed by an electric pen.
That’s not all. Karen Vaughn reached out to the parents of the other SEALs killed in that crash. Their letters were all the same.
Form letters – signed by an electric pen.
Here’s a closer look at the letter sent to the parents of Chief Petty Officer Nicholas H. Null.
It’s the same form letter.
After the deadliest single loss of US forces in Afghanistan, Barack Obama sent out form letters to the parents.
Gee….he must have been busy with….
….pressing affairs of state.
Yet he somehow found the time to pen this letter of condolence marking the passing of rapper Heavy D:
“We extend our heartfelt condolences at this difficult time. He will be remembered for his infectious optimism and many contributions to American music. Please know that you and your family will be in our thoughts and prayers.”
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