Yesterday The DrudgeReport linked to a pair of blog posts (here and here) reporting the 2012 Obama presidential campaign is accepting wedding and birthday gift donations in the recipient's name.
Today (6/24) Drudge linked to a Politico article (complete with video) of the emcee at the National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials conference instructing the attendees to use their utensils before a Secret Service protected speaker speaks. The Service was going to collect the forks; apparently knives had not part of the initial silverware offering.
Perhaps the Obama campaign was planning on melting down the metal for campaign lucre?
Sunday, June 24, 2012
Wednesday, June 20, 2012
David Maraniss, author of Barack Obama, The Story, was heard defending President Obama's memoirs written when the young man was apparently an aspiring fiction writer. Publishing self laudatory tales in the form of two autobiographies, we are to believe the 30-year-old community activist Barry Obama had no political aspirations.
What is most telling of this light shed upon inflation, conglomeration ("composite character") and yarn spinning through race-centered perspective is that until now, we were to understand this is what shaped the man who became president. These were true stories, each one deeply impacted his psyche to shape the man he became.
Just as the "seriousness of the charges" is to be considered, the emotion of the claims are to be held above the veracity of the experience. Today Rush Limbaugh played two clips from CNN's Starting Point on his radio show, both illustrated David Maraniss's downplaying of claims from the book.
It comes as no surprise that the party who used disagreement over the constitutionality of the Stolen Valor Act, tacitly defending Xavier Alvarez, would poo-poo the seriousness of Obama's memoir's discrepancies. After all Barack Obama did play basketball, just not suffering the injustice he claims to have endured at the hand of a white coach.
The Occupy movement gained a lot of traction with a law student on his knees in the middle of a New York street pleading to those who could not hear to give his parents back their home. The thespian effort is what the Left feels is important, while the facts behind the petition are baseless and fantasy (The Blaze).
Put aside those "loosely" similar examples and lets examine a more pertinent notion. From the previously mentioned clip, Mr. Maraniss deflects responsibility from Obama by suggesting a certain amount of this information came from family members. Ignoring his books may be constructed on second-hand stories, this is not a problem. Except for Marco Rubio, that is. Ironically the New York Times political blog reminds the reader who conveniently believes a double-standard is not enough of a reason to discredit a Democrat, inaccurate family history is only a problem when it comes to Republicans.
You see, Senator Rubio wrote about his parents travel between America and Cuba during the Castro Revolution. Either his timeline was fuddled or his parents never "fleed" by the skin of their teeth, this negates his whole book. No other outright lies and aggrandizement have been contended that I am aware of... yet.
Oprah felt compelled to apologize for believing and thereby promoting a fraudulent memoir; not the last one about a Holocaust survivor. No, not the one I discovered while web searching for the one I was thinking of about an L.A. gangbanger, but the first one, "A Million Little Pieces". Didn't Oprah also hail "Dreams from My Father"?
What is most telling of this light shed upon inflation, conglomeration ("composite character") and yarn spinning through race-centered perspective is that until now, we were to understand this is what shaped the man who became president. These were true stories, each one deeply impacted his psyche to shape the man he became.
Just as the "seriousness of the charges" is to be considered, the emotion of the claims are to be held above the veracity of the experience. Today Rush Limbaugh played two clips from CNN's Starting Point on his radio show, both illustrated David Maraniss's downplaying of claims from the book.
It comes as no surprise that the party who used disagreement over the constitutionality of the Stolen Valor Act, tacitly defending Xavier Alvarez, would poo-poo the seriousness of Obama's memoir's discrepancies. After all Barack Obama did play basketball, just not suffering the injustice he claims to have endured at the hand of a white coach.
The Occupy movement gained a lot of traction with a law student on his knees in the middle of a New York street pleading to those who could not hear to give his parents back their home. The thespian effort is what the Left feels is important, while the facts behind the petition are baseless and fantasy (The Blaze).
Put aside those "loosely" similar examples and lets examine a more pertinent notion. From the previously mentioned clip, Mr. Maraniss deflects responsibility from Obama by suggesting a certain amount of this information came from family members. Ignoring his books may be constructed on second-hand stories, this is not a problem. Except for Marco Rubio, that is. Ironically the New York Times political blog reminds the reader who conveniently believes a double-standard is not enough of a reason to discredit a Democrat, inaccurate family history is only a problem when it comes to Republicans.
You see, Senator Rubio wrote about his parents travel between America and Cuba during the Castro Revolution. Either his timeline was fuddled or his parents never "fleed" by the skin of their teeth, this negates his whole book. No other outright lies and aggrandizement have been contended that I am aware of... yet.
Oprah felt compelled to apologize for believing and thereby promoting a fraudulent memoir; not the last one about a Holocaust survivor. No, not the one I discovered while web searching for the one I was thinking of about an L.A. gangbanger, but the first one, "A Million Little Pieces". Didn't Oprah also hail "Dreams from My Father"?
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