Another Obama Friend Indicted -- Does The President Elect Know Anyone Moral? Seriously!

Obama supporter, Baltimore Mayor Sheila Dixon, was indicted yesterday. Is this getting old, or what?

Wall Street Journal:

A Maryland grand jury on Friday indicted Baltimore Mayor Sheila Dixon on 12 criminal counts, including theft and perjury, for alleged official misconduct beginning when she was a councilwoman.


In addition, the Maryland prosecutor's office charged that for four years Ms. Dixon misused holiday gift cards that were intended to be distributed to needy families. Prosecutors say she gave them to members of her staff and used them to buy herself electronics and clothing.

Dixon met with Obama gal pal Valerie Jarret last month.

The mayor and her chief of staff, Demaune Millard, traveled to Chicago yesterday evening and will meet with senior Obama adviser Valerie Jarrett. Dixon "is very excited that she gets to sit at the table and help shape what an economic stimulus blueprint could look like," said Ian Brennan, Dixon's spokesman. The mayor was invited because of her work on the urban policy work group for the U.S. Conference of Mayors.

President-Elect Barack Obama was scheduled to meet with Ms. Dixon next week.

You get it yet? Is anyone connecting the dots? Has anyone realized yet that Barack Obama has a poor choice in friends? Blago...Jeremiah Wright...Tony Rezko...Rahm Emanuel...Father Flager...Michelle Obama...Louis Farrakhan...Bill Richardson...Iran....Hamas...Harry Reid...Bill Clinton...Hillary Clinton...Nancy Pelosi...Barney Frank...Valerie Jarrett...Karl Marx....

Yawn! 60 Million Strong voted for this guy! Good Luck! Hope we don't have to say "I told you so"!

Obama Is A Sell Out! Obama Camp Uses Polls and Focus Groups to Sell Stimulus Plan! Messiah Once Again Deceives America!

From Bloomberg:

President-elect Barack Obama’s top political aides are transplanting their campaign tactics to the policy arena, using data from polls and focus groups to shape the debate over a stimulus plan that may cost at least $775 billion.

David Axelrod, Obama’s chief political adviser, along with campaign media adviser Jim Margolis, are encouraging lawmakers to use the word “recovery” instead of recession, and “investment” instead of “infrastructure.” Those recommendations came from focus-group research indicating that such framing would make the package more appealing to voters.

This is disgusting and irresponsible. Polling the American people to determine their wants and needs is one thing.

Using focus groups to intentionally deceive Americans is vial and reprehensible.

Transparency? Change? Yeah right!

Obama Wants To Meet With Terrorist Group Hamas

Guardian is reporting some very frightening and dangerous news. It is becoming more lucid each day that Obama has no clue about foreign policy nor does he have a vested interest in protecting the American people.

The incoming Obama administration is prepared to abandon George Bush's ­doctrine of isolating Hamas by establishing a channel to the Islamist organisation, sources close to the transition team say.

The move to open contacts with Hamas, which could be initiated through the US intelligence services, would represent a definitive break with the Bush ­presidency's ostracising of the group. The state department has designated Hamas a terrorist organisation, and in 2006 ­Congress passed a law banning US financial aid to the group. The Guardian has spoken to three ­people with knowledge of the discussions in the Obama camp.

There is no talk of Obama approving direct diplomatic negotiations with Hamas early on, but he is being urged by advisers to initiate low-level or clandestine approaches, and there is growing recognition in Washington that the policy of ostracising Hamas is counter-productive. A tested course would be to start ­contacts through Hamas and the US intelligence services, similar to the secret process through which the US engaged with the PLO in the 1970s. Israel did not become aware of the contacts until much later.

Yes, the economy is sour. Yes, he needs to address this and we encourage him to seek advice from BOTH sides of the aisle.


But his naivety on National Security is becoming more "dire" each day.

Hugh Hewitt at Town Hall has a fantastic piece on this.

Solid, serious appointees cannot overcome such a profound misunderstanding of the nature of the radical Islamist movement. At least overtures to Iran could proceed with the hope of communicating with the pro-American population suffering under the rule of the mullahs. There is zero evidence that Hamas can be reformed or that there is a large population beneath its iron rule that longs for its overthrow in Gaza.

Obama seems to favor scare tactics as a way to advance his socialist economic agenda, so here's a scare tactic for him and his fellow Liberals. You want to get nuts and play dirty? Let's get nuts!


The most devastating thing to both Obama and our economy will be another terror attack against America.


And for that not happening since September 11th, 2001, we thank you George Bush.

Everyone From Castro to Hugo Chavez to Former Saddam Hussein Top Aide Are Lining Up to Meet With Obama/More Dangerous Foreign Policy

Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri, a top aide to Saddam Hussein and Leader of the Iraqi Baath Party following Saddam's execution, said he would "enter a dialogue" with President-Elect Obama if the Commander-in-Chief-to-Be will withdrawal from Iraq.


The news comes just a day after Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said he would like to accept Obama's offer to meet "without preconditions".


Reuter's is reporting:

DUBAI (Reuters) - A former aide to Saddam Hussein said in an audio tape aired on Tuesday that Israel would not have dared to launch its current attack on Gaza if the Iraqi leader was still in power.


But Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri, the most senior member of the past regime still at large, said on the recording broadcast by Al Jazeera television that Iraqi insurgents would negotiate with Washington if the administration of president-elect Barack Obama withdrew from Iraq.


"The barbaric ... attack on our (Arab) people in Gaza is the natural result of the absence of Iraq, its national leadership and its leader ... the martyr Saddam Hussein," said Ibrahim, a leader of Iraqi insurgents.


Saddam, executed in 2006 after being deposed by a U.S.-led invasion in 2003, had launched missiles at Israel in 1991 during a war with the United States.

"We are with you on the battlefield ... and Gaza shall be victorious, God permitting," he said. The television did not say how it obtained the recording and its authenticity could not be verified.


Ibrahim also addressed Obama, whose opposition to the Iraq war was a major part of his election campaign, but who has also said he wants a responsible withdrawal.


"If you withdraw fully from Iraq and leave it to its people, free and independent, we will enter a dialogue with you immediately to set up the widest strategic relations with America," Ibrahim said, adding that Washington had "legitimate strategic interests" in Iraq and the region.

This news comes just a day after Top al-Qaeda Chieft Ayman al-Zawahiri all but blamed Obama for the conflict between Israel and Hamas.

From CNN:

An audio message attributed to Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri, the highest ranking former member of Saddam Hussein's regime still at large, salutes the "People of Palestine" and calls on them to fight back against Israel in Gaza.

"We say to the people of Gaza, give more resistance and we will be with you in the field, and know that our victory in kicking out the invaders is your victory as well, because the main assailant on the nation and on Palestine is the American imperialism," the recording said.

"A salute to the martyrs of the massacre, and our condolences to their families."

Al-Douri's recording follows reports of a similarly defiant message from al Qaeda's deputy chief a day earlier. Ayman al-Zawahiri reportedly vowed revenge for Israel's air and ground assault on Gaza and called Israel's actions against Hamas militants "a
gift" from U.S. President-elect Barack Obama.

Castro also accepted Obama's invitation last month when he agreed with the President-Elect on his views of closing the US Military Facility on Guantanamo Bay.

According to (actor Sean) Penn, Raúl Castro told him, "Perhaps we could meet at Guantanamo. We must meet and begin to solve our problems, and at the end of the meeting, we could give the president a gift. ... We could send him home with the American flag that waves over Guantanamo Bay."

All this on top of the probable nomination of Leon "No Intel Experience" Panetta and Janet "no credentials when it comes to security, national security issues, military or law enforcement" Napolitano.

This leaves us with Diplomat-in-Chief Hillary "Centrist Uniter" Clinton as our best hope in bringing sensible foreign policy to the Obama Administration?

Obama Picks Former Bill Clinton Chief of Staff for CIA Chief, Panetta "No Experience in Intelligence World"

Fox News has confirmed:

Bill Clinton's former chief of staff has been tapped to head the CIA under President-elect Barack Obama's administration, FOX News has learned.

Two Democratic sources close to the transition process say that Leon Panetta, who also previously led the White House Office of Management and Budget, is Obama's pick to replace Michael Hayden at the CIA.

Panetta is a surprise choice, since he has no experience in the intelligence world. He was a longtime congressman from California who also served on the Iraq Study Group, a bipartisan panel that released a report at the end of 2006 with dozens of recommendations for the reversing course in the Iraq war.

He is just the latest Clinton-era official to be invited into Obama's administration. Obama's pick for chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel, used to work in the Clinton White House, and a number of other nominees to key positions worked in the Clinton administration.

Panetta currently directs with his wife Sylvia the Leon & Sylvia Panetta Institute for Public Policy, based at California StateUniversity, Monterey Bay a university he helped establish on the site of the former U.S. Army base, Fort Ord.

FOX News' Major Garrett and The Associated Press contributed to this report.

The key points: "Panetta is a surprise choice, since he has no experience in the intelligence world." and "He is just the latest Clinton-era official to be invited into Obama's administration. "

Obama's understanding of National Security is continuing to be questionable. See related.

Daschle Officially Named HHS, Will Head New White House Office of Health Reform

In his book, "Critical: What We Can Do About the Health-Care Crisis", Daschle writes "Most of the world’s highest-ranking health-care systems employ some kind of 'single-payer' strategy - that is, the government, directly or through insurers, is responsible for paying doctors, hospitals, and other health-care providers."

Is this socialized medicine that has given mixed results to Canada and many European countries?

View Daschle's voting record on health care. You decide.

What is single-payer health care?

President-Elect Obama Governor Blagojevich Valerie Jarrett. What is the Connection?

Read this article on Politico.com. Chicago and Illinois politics have been corrupt for decades.

Corruption, Bribery, Pay to Play is the Chicago Way!

America voted for Barack Obama despite his shady connections. Gov. Blagojevich was counting on a favor from Barack Obama.

The paper trail is dubious. The connections are obvious.

Certainly Barack Obama is not connected to this, right? For the sake of America, we hope the President-Elect has no knowledge of the wrongdoings of Gov. Blagojevich.

Time will tell, you decide. God Bless America.

LATimes: A Brief History of Illinois Corruption

Susan Rice: 'Mind-Boggling" Choice for UN

Read Newsmax.com report on the resume of Susan Rice which has proven to put United States military at risk and may have influenced Osama Bin-Laden to view US as "weak" and unwilling to retaliate for 9/11 Terror Attacks.

Susan Rice Likely to Take UN Ambassador Job Under Obama

Susan Rice, a long-time foreign policy advisor is expected to be named United States Ambassador to the United Nations.

Her distinguished resume include:

• Advisor to Michael Dukakis during the 1988 presidential race.
• National Security Council under Bill Clinton
• Assistant Secretary of State under Bill Clinton
• Long-time friend and mentor of Bill Clinton's Secretary of State Madeline Albright

Ms. Rice is experienced and qualified for the position and it looks like Bill Clinton has his fingerprints on another one.

We admire President-Elect Obama's desire to hire those with a wealth of Washington Insider experience, but we are still wondering about this Change Nonsense.

Here is Dr. Rice in September giving us Obama's foreign policy in a nutshell. You decide.

Attorney General Reminds Us President Bush Has Kept Our Country Terrorism-Free

The following is an excerpt from Attorney General Mukasey's speech last night. As many of you know, the speech went unfinished and we wish the Attorney General the best. He was released from the hospital earlier today. However, much to Mr. Mukasey's chagrin, coverage of his speech was limited to his collapse at the podium and not about the substance of his address.

As the end of this Administration draws near, you would expect to hear broad praise for this success at keeping our Nation safe. Instead, I am afraid what we hear is a chorus with a rather more dissonant refrain. Instead of appreciation, or even a fair appraisal, of the Administration's accomplishments, we have heard relentless criticism of the very policies that have helped keep us safe. We have seen this in the media, we have seen this in the Congress, and we have heard it from the legal academy as well.

Click the title for the full speech transcript.

Obama Energy and Environment Meeting of the Green Minds CLICK HERE to Give Them Your Opinion

Watch the video and then you can share you personal views on energy Independence. Send your message to the transition team and let them know how you feel about drilling, nuclear technology, and energy. Obama is going to talk the talk, but we know Mr. Obama will sell out to the environmentalists.

You heard it here first.