President Obama’s poor job approval ratings have become as much a part of late July as sweet corn and a fire sale on the Cubs’ roster. But this time, Team Obama has a plan to prevent the second-half slump that played out in every year of his presidency.
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Video: Barack Obama’s Impeachable Offense
By Kris Zane
Reading the headlines the past few weeks has been like a page out of the book of Revelation. Barack Obama riding on his red horse has been foretelling a literal Armageddon if the so-called “draconian” sequestration cuts go into effect.
But Armageddon turned into Chicago’s cutthroat streets with Obama’s Al Capone-like thugs shaking down enemies when pundits, politicians, and journalists began to show that Obama as John the Baptist crying in the wilderness was really the boy crying wolf.
That the sequestration amounted to about two percent of the budget, that the “draconian” sequestration cuts were Obama’s idea. That it was all a sham to get another tax hike on the “fat cat millionaires and billionaires.”
Of course, the leftist media easily spun the narrative for Obama, blaming those evil Republicans.
At least until journalistic giant Bob Woodward came on the scene, setting the record straight. It was hard to argue against Woodward’s facts, given that he had written an entire book, The Price of Politics, describing the whole sequestration debacle.
So the Obama White House did what they do best: the shakedown.
Obama minion and thug Gene Sperling sent Woodward a threatening email, basically telling him to keep his mouth shut:
But I do truly believe you should rethink your comment about saying saying that Potus asking for revenues is moving the goal post. I know you may not believe this, but as a friend, I think you will regret staking out that claim.
Team Obama’s mistake was that they weren’t dealing with one of their hacks in the mainstream media. This was the man who had brought down Richard Nixon. This was the man who, as the mainstream media began to drink Obama’s Kool-Aid, remained at the water cooler of real journalism.
And he began to sing like a canary. First on CNN. Then on Fox. Then, well, his words were beamed as millions of ones and zeros over the Internet, and Team Obama and the Left did the only thing that was left: mockery.
This was exemplified with Obama henchman David Plouffe’s tweet that Woodward’s statements were merely rantings of a senile old man. And the Left parroted this narrative ad nauseam. Woodward was washed up. Put him out to pasture. Nothing to see here, move on. Give Woodward a teaspoon of Geritol and wheel him out onto the patio.
Except then came Lanny Davis, former Bill Clinton special counsel who had been writing a column for the Washington Times. He too received the shakedown treatment from Team Obama.
Then the wheels began to fall off the sequestration bus.
The media began to turn on Obama.
Arne Duncan, Obama’s Education Secretary, was caught in a lie about the sequestration resulting in “thousands of teacher layoffs,” which was a total fabrication.
But this was only the innocuous part of Obama’s spin machine.
Beneath the surface, there was simmering what can only be called treason.
Barack Obama, putting politics above his primary duty as Commander-in-Chief—that of protecting it’s citizens—pulled the aircraft carrier <a target=_blank target="_blank" …read more
Source: FULL ARTICLE at Western Journalism
The Top 7 Things Obama Taught us About the Future of Business
(Photo credit: Wikipedia) Forget what you’ve learned in business school. Forget the marketing consultants, public relations gurus, and social media experts. It isn’t working because they don’t have the big picture. The big picture as it turns out, played out on Election Day and is the reason Barack Obama was sworn in again as President. There are a lot of lessons for business that played out that day – lessons for you, lessons to do, lessons to act on. It’s beyond the politics, the debates, and the spin. This isn’t another political analysis editorial because, really, what the world doesn’t need now is any more of that. This is about how a legion of technologists and political advocates was able to help reelect a man whose last four years – let’s face it – was the political equivalent of Les Miserables. In the last few months I’ve interviewed the true operatives behind the Obama campaign and if I were to If I were to distill one main lesson for businesses, it is that we are all checkers competing on a game board now designed to be won by chess. As former CIO of the United States and now VP of Emerging Markets for Salesforce.com, Vivek Kundra told me, “Every company in the world has to rethink how their business is connecting with suppliers, partners, influencers and customers to amplify their brand in a positive way.” So why is this so important? I’ll give you 7 key reasons: 1. Big data has purpose, little data has hope “If you’re selling mattresses and you have the ability to look down the sidewalk and say, ‘that guys going to buy one today and that guy’s not, then your business can profit immensely,” explained Larry Grisolano, who helped lead the Team Obama’s advertising campaigns and a system called the Optimizer, “when you can cross the data with behavior and develop a scoring process to measure the likelihood that someone will buy from you, you can target and direct resources to those people efficiently and effectively.” In other words, businesses must dig deeper to analyze their current and prospective customers’ needs and wants, and then use that data to target them with laser-like precision. Spray and pray messaging and advertising won’t cut it anymore. 2. Always measure and publicize – this will anger some and motivate the rest NationalField’s founder Edward Saatchi explained to me how by using a Facebook like community mybarackobama.com they were able to get 15-40% more productivity out of the people working on the reelection campaign: “We had leader boards all over the place. Every single profile page for field staff and volunteers had a data table for and charts showing how each of them performed over the previous 30, 60, and 90 days. That allowed them to compare themselves to everybody else and the mean – then raise their game if they weren’t doing so well.” Saatchi realized that by posting community leaderboards, people in the community feel more accountable …read more
Source: FULL ARTICLE at Forbes Latest
Erasing Reagan? The Illiberal War On Truth
The prospect of four more years of Barack Obama in the White House has caused several conservative voices (among them The Wall Street Journal’s Daniel Henninger, Fox News commentator Charles Krauthammer, and noted Ronald Reagan scholar Paul Kengor) to opine that President Obama’s second term portends the passing of the Reagan era, the reversal of his pro-growth policies, and the attempted burial of Reagan’s credo that “government is the problem.”
None of this is news. It is a given that Obama and his fellow progressives reject Reagan’s values and philosophy. They will continue to try to expand government.
There is, however, a more sinister dimension to the progressive agenda: Rush Limbaugh asserted that Team Obama wants to “erase every trace of Reagan from America”—not just to repeal and reverse Reagan’s policies, but to engage in wholesale historical revisionism by obfuscating Reagan’s record and reshaping public opinion about him. It serves the progressives’ interests if they can obscure the fact that Reagan’s policies of lower tax rates, a sound dollar, and reductions in governmental regulatory micromanagement enhanced prosperity and raised standards of living. Those of us who lived through the Reagan years remember the resulting economic growth, but nobody under the age of 30 has first-hand knowledge of those years.
Is it really possible that the left could rewrite the history of the Reagan presidency? Absolutely. They’ve already perverted the record of earlier Republican presidents. Take, as Exhibit A, Warren G. Harding—the president who always appears at the bottom of presidential rankings.
Yes, I know there were a couple of crooks in Harding’s cabinet. Those odious men betrayed the trust of both a president and a nation. But while they gained a few hundred thousand dollars, Harding’s policies enriched the American people by billions. Harding entered office in the midst of the Depression of 1920-21—a downturn as rapid and severe as any in American history, with GNP contracting 24 percent and unemployment more than doubling to 11.7 percent.
Harding’s policy response was to get government out of the way and let free markets make the necessary adjustments. He induced Congress to slash federal spending by 40 percent in two years and lower the top marginal tax rate from 73 percent to 56 percent (on its way down to 25 percent under his successor, Calvin Coolidge). Demonstrating the fallacy of the Keynesian dogma that government should increase spending and deficits to cure recessions, the Harding spending cuts yielded large surpluses (used to pay down World War I indebtedness); and yet, by 1922, GDP was rising and unemployment falling, plummeting to a minuscule 2.4 percent by 1923. Maybe Harding wasn’t the best judge of character, but his economic program was arguably the most successful of any president in the 20th century. A “terrible” president? Absurd.
Another example of historical revisionism, progressive-style, involves Herbert Hoover. Today’s students are routinely taught that Hoover was the last of the “laissez faire” presidents. Last year, progressives produced a “take back the American dream” special edition of …read more
Source: FULL ARTICLE at Western Journalism
Video: ‘Obama’s Enemies List’: An Indispensable Book For All Conservatives
By Kris Zane
Picture this:
Secret agents patrolling the streets with a massive web of neighborhood snitches feeding them information about all those who oppose the Leader.
Intimidation by any means necessary for anyone who opposes anything deemed good for the State.
We’re talking about 1930s Germany, right?
Nope. Try 2009 and 2010 when Barack Obama was ramming socialized medicine—what later became known as ObamaCare—down the throats of Americans.
Team Obama regularly sent out emails to his millions of supporters that made Hitler’s Brown Shirts in 1930s Germany pale in comparison to the number of agents.
As Floyd Brown’s new conservative blockbuster Obama’s Enemies List: How Barack Obama Intimidated America and Stole the Election describes it:
Obama put out a call to the youth of America and told them he needed their help. He needed them to be strong, and loyal, and “turn in” anybody who wasn’t shouting “yes we can” to a “fundamentally changed America.” The president’s team went all in on the initiative. A website was launched. Social media leaders were mobilized. Young people and old were “authorized” to listen in on conversations with family members, friends at coffeehouses, strangers on the subway. And if anything “suspect” was overheard, these newly deputized enforcement officers were to send an email to flag@whitehouse.gov, and rest easy again knowing those high-level functionaries in the White House would take appropriate action.
Obama’s Enemies List is the beginning and end of all books on how evil and corrupt the Obama administration is because it tells the story from the inside, from the point of view of Floyd Brown, who found himself on the end of the stick of Obama’s wrath after daring to challenge his phony message of “Hope and Change.” Obama’s Brown Shirts went after him with a vengeance, even threatening his family:
My bio and personal information soon appeared on a specialized enemies list website the Obama team called “Fight the Smears.” I received even more calls, and the cyber-attacks increased on me and the website. The Wikipedia website that referenced me was overwhelmed with scurrilous lies. My wife, Mary Beth Brown, began getting threatening calls at our home. She began to fear for our children. It didn’t stop until I began to record the messages and post them on the internet for all to hear. The intensity of the hatred toward me and my family was intense and ferocious.
But bestselling author and conservative leader Floyd Brown’s book Obama’s Enemies List is more than simply a narrative of Barack Obama’s attack of a conservative and his family. As founding chairman of the conservative powerhouse group Citizens United and president of the Western Center for Journalism, Floyd Brown skillfully and thoroughly analyzes Obama and his corrupt administration like a psychoanalyst peeling the layers back of a psychopath who wreaks havoc on society.
The book fulfills the mandate of anyone engaged in a war for this country: Know your enemy.
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