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Candidate Obama pledged to stand up against Cuba's oppressors. Oh yeah, the election is over now

Candidate Obama pledged to stand up against Cuba oppression when pandering for Cuban votes during the 2008 election. He said there was no place for this kind of tyranny and he wouldn't stand for that kind on injustice. Of course, the election is over. Now, he wants to improve relations with the oppressors and treat them as equal partners. Here is the video in case anyone forgot the strong words Obama said about Cuba and Cuban oppression.

Obama Speech On Cuba

Now, Obama has a new song and dance.

Obama Statement On Cuba

What CNN doesn't want you to see

CNN keeps having YouTube take down the video of their reporter, Susan Rosegen, calling tea party attenders anti-government, anti-CNN and organized by Fox News. Founding Bloggers shot additional video of the confrontation with CNN reporter Susan Rosegen. The crowd accused her of picking out the most radical attendees. The protesters point out tea party protests are not anti-Democrat. They point to a sign saying "Republicans s#ck too." I am not sure how long this video will continue to be available.

Chicago Tax Day Tea Party - What CNN Did Not Show You Behind The Scenes - Reporter Owned 4/16/09 (language warning)

Obama stalled Captain Phillips rescue

President Obama delayed dispatching the seal team to rescue Captain Phillips for thirty six hours because they didn't want to use lethal force. Then, the White House rejected two rescue plans offered up by the Seal commander. They imposed very severe rules of engagement on the seal team. If a pirates had not pointed his AK-47 at Captain Phillips, he might still be held hostage. Of course the White House, liberals and most of the Main Steam Media gave Obama credit for the rescue. The truth is he was a hindrance to the rescue effort.
WorldNetDaily is reporting,

WASHINGTON – While Barack Obama is basking in praise for his "decisive" handling of the Somali pirate attack on a merchant
ship in the India Ocean, reliable military sources close to the scene are painting a much different picture of the incident – accusing the president of employing restrictive rules of engagement that actually hampered the rescue of Capt. Richard Phillips and extended the drama at sea for days.

Multiple opportunities to free the captain of the Maersk Alabama from three young pirates were missed, these sources say – all because a Navy SEAL team was not immediately ordered to the scene and then forced to operate under strict, non-lethal rules of engagement.

They say the response duty office at the Pentagon was initially unwilling to grant an order to use lethal force to rescue Phillips. They also report the White House refused to authorize deployment of a Navy SEAL team to the location for 36 hours, despite the recommendation of the on-scene commander.

The White House also turned down two rescue plans offered up by the Seal commander on the scene and the captain of the USS Bainbridge.

The SEAL team operated under rules of engagement that required them to do nothing unless the hostage's life was in "imminent' danger.

Candidate Obama: secrets bad. President Obama: secrets good.

The FBI has a huge database collected from many sources. We don't know what is in it because President Bush made the contents secret. President Obama ran on a promise for open government. He has decided he wants to keep the FBI database secret too.

PROMISES, PROMISES: Obama keeps some Bush secrets

WASHINGTON (AP) - Despite a pledge to open government, the Obama administration has endorsed a Bush-era decision to keep secret key details of an FBI computer database that allows agents and analysts to search a billion documents with a wealth of personal information about Americans and foreigners.

President Barack Obama's Justice Department quietly told a federal court in Washington last week that it would not second-guess the previous administration's decisions to withhold some information about the bureau's Investigative Data Warehouse.

The Electronic Frontier Foundation, a digital rights advocacy group, had sued under the Freedom of Information Act to get records showing how the FBI protects the privacy of Americans whose personal information winds up in the vast database.

As a result, there is no public list of all the databases the FBI sucks into this computer warehouse; no information on how individuals can correct errors about them in this FBI database; and no public access to assessments the bureau did of the warehouse's impact on Americans' privacy. (excerpt) read more at breitbart.com.

Republican Norm Coleman continues to fight for fairness

The three-judge panel reviewing the Minnesota Senate race has declared Democrat Al Franken the winner, but Republican Norm Coleman intends to appeal to the state's Supreme Court. Of course Democrats are pressing for him to give up. The main issue is absentee ballots. Early in the recount, Several hundred questionable absentee ballots from Democratic precincts were allowed to be counted. This is where Al Franken got his narrow lead. Later, the three judge panel made a decision about which absentee ballots should be counted. This kept Norm Coleman from being able to use several thousand from precincts he felt would be favorable. The Al Franken absentee ballots would be uncountable under the new rules, but they were allowed to stay in the count anyway. This creates a double standard that is unfair to Coleman. The WSJ is reporting,

Case in point: the panel's dismal handling of absentee ballots. Early in the recount, the Franken team howled that some absentee votes had been erroneously rejected by local officials. We warned at the time that this was dangerous territory, designed to pressure election officials into accepting rejected ballots after the fact.

Yet instead of shutting this Franken request down, or early on issuing a clear set of rules as to which absentees were valid, the state Supreme Court and the canvassing board oversaw a haphazard process by which some counties submitted new batches to be included in the tally, while other counties did not. The resulting additional 933 ballots were largely responsible for Mr. Franken's narrow lead.

During the contest trial, the Coleman team presented evidence of a further 6,500 absentees that it felt deserved to be included under the process that had produced the prior 933. The three judges then finally defined what constituted a "legal" absentee ballot. Countable ballots, for instance, had to contain the signature of the voter, complete registration information, and proper witness credentials.

But the panel only applied these standards going forward, severely reducing the universe of additional absentees that the Coleman team could hope to have included. In the end, the three judges allowed only about 350 additional absentees to be counted. The panel also did nothing about the hundreds, possibly thousands, of absentees that have already been legally included, yet are now "illegal" according to the panel's own ex-post definition.

Martin Luther King Jr.'s children are shaking down the MLK Memorial Foundation

Martin Luther King Jr. was a great American. Sadly, the same can not be said of his children. They are charging the foundation building a monument to the civil rights leader on the National Mall about $800,000 for the use of his words and image. I wonder what the Reverend King would think of that arrangement? According to this AP story,

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The family of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. has charged the foundation building a monument to the civil rights leader on the National Mall about $800,000 for the use of his words and image - an arrangement one leading scholar says King would have found offensive.

The memorial - including a 28-foot sculpture depicting King emerging from a chunk of granite - is being paid for almost entirely with private money in a fundraising campaign led by the Martin Luther King Jr. National Memorial Project Foundation. The monument will be turned over to the National Park Service once it is complete.

The foundation has been paying the King family for the use of his words and image in its fundraising materials. The family has not charged for the use of King's likeness in the monument itself.

"I don't think the Jefferson family, the Lincoln family ... I don't think any other group of family ancestors has been paid a licensing fee for a memorial in Washington," said Cambridge University historian David Garrow, who won a Pulitzer Prize for his biography of King. "One would think any family would be so thrilled to have their forefather celebrated and memorialized in D.C. that it would never dawn on them to ask for a penny.

Obama shakes Hugo Chavez's hand and laughs it up

President Obama has decided to ignore Hugo Chavez political oppression, support for FARC terrorists, antisemitism and past statements calling President Bush "the devil" and the U.S. imperial and racist. President Obama pledged to be equal partners with Latin American dictators; includng Chavez, Castro and Ortega. According to breitbart.com,

PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad (AP) - President Barack Obama extended a friendly hand to America's hemispheric neighbors on Saturday at a summit in the Caribbean where he offered a new beginning for U.S.-Cuba relations and sought out Venezuela's fiery, leftist president for a quick grip and grin.

"We have at times been disengaged, and at times we sought to dictate our terms," Obama said to loud applause. "But I pledge to you that we seek an equal partnership. There is no senior partner and junior partner in our relations."

In case anyone has forgotten. Chavez calls Bush 'the devil' in his speech at the UN G.A.


Chavez is big "buddies" with Iranian leader Ahmadinejad.