The most secretive of Presidents, Obama, accuses Romney of being secretive

President Obama's surrogates, actively doing his dirty work, have accused Mitt Romney of being secretive because he only released 2 years of his tax returns.  Senate leader Harry Reid, while on the Senate floor even accused Mitt Romney of felonious activity.  Asked by reporters if he has any basis for these accusations.  Reid answered: "An unidentified informant told him."

It's not enough to sully the Senate by making false accusations, but to do it from the Senate floor is pretty low.  As a lawyer Reid knows he has immunity because he made the charges from the floor.

The rest of Obama's trained attack dogs/surrogates, including close associates, David Axelrod and Robert Gibbs made the round of national Sunday news shows, fanning the flames by intimating Romney must have done something wrong because he is hiding those records. Axelrod had previously accused Mitt Romney of being the most secretive presidential candidate since Richard Nixon.

The head of the Republican National Committee, Reince Preibus, said he has had enough of the unsubstantiated attacks and is not going to allow his candidates to be targets without hitting back. On the Sean Hannity show today, Preibus said we (Republicans) are getting punched by these guys with brass knuckles.  We are going to punch back with a bigger set of brass knuckles.

On national TV, Preibus called Senator Harry Reid a dirty liar.  Taken aback, the shocked TV host George Stephanopoulos asked: "Are you sure you meant that?"  Preibus fired back: "I said it didn't I."

But Obama and his surrogates live in an all glass house, although the shades are tightly drawn over many parts of it, it is still glass and susceptible to incoming rock attacks from the GOP.

President Obama didn't receive the scrutiny of his past that other presidential candidates have been subjected to by the main stream media.  As a Democrat, a liberal and the first black presidential candidate, he was treated with kid gloves. Bill Clinton found out the hard way in the Democrat Primaries when he was helping his wife Hillary try to win the nomination.  He complained the race card was used as a weapon against him and that card has been used against political opponents of the 0bama candidacy.  See Bill Clinton: Obama Played Race Card On Me. 

So Candidate Obama evaded questions into his background, unlike other candidates who receive a colonoscopy from the press when they run for office.  There are many unanswered questions about him and sealed off parts of his past which should be answered for:

All of President Obama's school records, thesis papers, grades, financial  arrangements for tuition, are sealed shut and not accessible.

While President Obama was a member of the Illinois State Senate, he claims his scheduling records during those years are lost.

All of President Obama's medical records are sealed from public view.

The media never pressed or wanted to delve into:

Obama's longtime and close personal ties to communist Frank Marshall Davis. 

Obama Attended the church of Reverend Wright for 20 years who called the United States of KKK America. 

His close personal relationship to convicted terrorist bombers/killers Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dorn. 

His longtime association with convicted felon Tony Rezko who played a key role in Obama's purchasing his million dollar property in Chicago.

Something else that is not answered and should be, is Michelle Obama's 300K a year job at a Chicago hospital that magically was created when her husband became Senator. That position ended immediately when Obama won the White house.

Read: Top 10 convicted felons, fugitives and  shady characters in Obamas life.

Additionally, President Obama's recent use of Executive Privilege to seal off the Congressional investigation into Fast and Furious gun running scandal, what is he hiding?

We all know Romney made a lot of money being a brilliant businessman in the private sector, his time at Bain Capital has been well scrutinized.  If anything he seems to be an Eagle Scout morally....if there were skeletons in his closet Obama and his minions would be exploiting them. 

Since the Obama presidency has not been successful and there's not much he can brag about as far as accomplishments, he will try to destroy Romney by inferring he has something to hide.  Mitt Romney needs to turn the tables and let the public know just how much of the Obama image is shielded in secrecy.

The Marquess of Queensberry rules are not in effect in this campaign Mitt, the sooner you know that, the better you will be prepared.  I think a more fitting example of what you should expect for rules in this campaign is the famous street brawl scene in the HBO series Deadwood.

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Betrayed Egyptians chant Monica while they pelt Hillarys motorcade with tomatoes

Sunday afternoon, the ancient streets of Alexandria flowed with red. But the red was not the blood of violence, it was the red pulp and juice of tomatoes, as Egyptians got the rare opportunity to let the Obama administration and Hillary Clinton, know exactly how they felt.  

As the Clinton motorcade passed, crowds pelted them with tomatoes, shoes and bottles, while chants of Monica! Monica! filled the air.

In the middle east there can be no more powerful sign of disrespect than to throw a shoe at someone.  When your motorcade is showered with shoes, it is a bad omen.

But to add insult to injury, Egyptians went even farther to show anger and contempt by bringing up a painful experience for the Secretary of State.  Monica Lewinsky was the young intern with whom her husband had an affair with. The subsequent scandal and impeachment almost lead to the end of Bill Clinton's  Presidency.

Although HillaryClinton was secure inside her armored car, there was no way she could have missed the anger of the crowd that was directed at her. 
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If you only get your information and news from the main stream media, you probably haven't heard about this incident and probably won't. Perhaps, the main stream media feels negative foreign policy news this close to our Presidential election, might have an impact......on the Obama administration. 

Of course a shoe throwing incident occurred to President Bush during a press conference in Iraq.  An Iraqi journalist threw just two shoes at the President, but the video was replayed on the main networks thousands of times.

The attack on her motorcade came after Clinton emphasized Washington is staying out of Egypt’s internal affairs. "I want to be clear that the United States is not in the business, in Egypt, of choosing winners and losers, even if we could, which of course we can't," she said at a the reopened U.S. consulate in Alexandria.

Earlier, Clinton met with Egypt’s top general, Hussein Tantawi and urged him to work with Egypt’s elected president, the Muslim Brotherhood's Mohammed Morsi.

But in a clear display of the power struggle that persists in Egypt following the election of  the Muslim Brotherhoods's Morsi as President, General Tantawi made a defiant statement after meeting with Clinton. He said “the armed forces will not allow anyone, especially those pushed from the outside, to distract it from its role as the protector of Egypt."

Many Egyptians feel the United States made a secret deal with the Muslim Brotherhood and are supporting their total take over, after the Obama administration demanded that longtime President and US ally Hosni Mubarrak step down.  The Muslim  Brotherhood has stated in the past it wishes to bring a religious state to Egypt.  The Muslim Brotherhood is the ideological forebear of Hamas and al Qaeda.

Recent attacks on Christians in Egypt have lead to more than 100,000 Coptic Christians to flee their country, which has been their home for 2,000 years.  This does not portend well for the future of an open secular society.

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Is Bill Clinton the Republican secret weapon?

Barack Obama and Bill Clinton

Bill Clinton is proving to be a valuable source of endorsement sound bytes for the Mitt Romney campaign.

As President Clinton does his obligatory stumping for Obama, stark differences between his free market beliefs and president Obama's anti business record erupt and cause friction between the two.

The Obama campaign had recently tried to demonize private equity firm Bain Capital, where Mitt Romney served as CEO,  as a "vulture capital" firm, only interested in finding distressed companies and stripping them of assets to line their own pockets. As the narrative was supposed to go, Bain was an evil capitalistic firm that loved to lay off employees in order to squeeze out every last penny of profit.  Favorite time of lay offs of course was right before Christmas,  so bonuses didn't have to be paid and end of year tax write offs could be maximized.

Of course that was how the Axelrod/Obama/Plouff script was supposed to be read by the "team players"  Evidently the script didn't get passed around to all the team mates and many high profile Democrats, didn't spin the Bain story that way.  In fact many of them defended Bain Capital and the whole system of capitalism as being a fundamental good force in our economic system.


Other high profile Democrats defended Bain

One such player was hugely popular Democrat Mayor of Newark New Jersey, Corey Booker.  In a high profile display he singled out Bain Capital as a good company which didn't deserve the criticism heaped upon it.  But he soon tempered that statement after being taken to task by the White house team and did an awkward sort of meandering apology after the fact.

Influential Democrat strategist Lanny Davis, condemned the negativity being directed toward Bain Capital & Mitt Romney by the Obama political team...and didn't back down from his statement.

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But heavy hitter Bill Clinton stepped into the Bain Capital arena:  “I don’t think we ought to get in the position to say ‘this is bad work,'" said the former president referring to the Obama campaign’s characterizations of Mitt Romney’s work at private equity firm Bain Capital.

Clinton even went as far as suggesting that likely Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney is qualified to be President of the United States:

“There’s no question that, in terms of getting up and going to the office, basically performing the essential functions of the office, a man who was governor and had a sterling business career, crosses the qualification threshold,” the former president said of Romney....Bain is a good company and should not be criticized."

Of course that recent Bill Clinton semi endorsements of Mitt Romney to be President were met with a visit to the same woodshed that Corey Booker was taken to when he defended Romney's Bain Capital and Clinton came back and tempered his comments.

But Bill Clinton is a smart wily politician and does not make many gaffes...mistakenly.  This has lead to some speculation that perhaps Bill Clinton, the politician,  is looking to do some payback to the Obama campaign for some of dirty laundry launched his way during the Democrat primary where he was campaigning for his wife Hillary.  Many insiders say Bill Clinton is still steaming for underhanded tactics thrown towards the Clinton's by the Obama team. He was supposedly outraged to have the race card thrown at him.

Is Bill Clinton secretly helping Hillary to get the 2016 nomination?

To further this speculation along, a new book out called "The Amateur", by highly respected journalist Ed Klein, suggests that Bill Clinton has a low opinion of President Obama and refers to him as an amateur.

In the book, Bill Clinton, was supposed to have been urging Hillary to run against Obama in the 2011 primaries, thinking she would be a better President than Obama has proven to be.

President Clinton showed during his Presidency he had the ability to work across the aisle in order to get major legislation passed and even get a balanced budget.  This is a far cry from what has been happening in Washington DC for the past 3 1/2 years under President Obama, who seems to not be able to bend his ideology and work with others across the aisle.

Of course there is much speculation that Hillary will run for President in 2016.  Who but Bill would be a better campaigner to see this goal accomplished?   Perhaps he is laying the groundwork now by drawing a stark line between the Clinton attitude of pragmatism and Obama's unbending ideology.

In any case I think the Romney campaign will welcome the help,  as Bill Clinton continues to stump for President Obama.


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A political showdown in the west Texas town of El Paso

Beto O'Rourk

Beto O'Rourke, wasn't an American household name before Tuesdays election, but today his name is creating quite a stir in political circles.  Beto pulled off a monumental upset of long term Texas Congressman, Silvestre Reyes, in the Democrat primary. He has now won the right to run as the Democrat candidate in this congressional district sitting on the border with Mexico.

El Paso, meaning "gateway to the north" was named by Spanish Conquistadors as they looked for a passage up into California.    The city has a rich history dating back hundreds of years with a heavy Spanish influence and had a reputation as a wild border town for years. .


During it's history, El Paso has been the scene of many shootouts, although today that is not a common occurrence.  But spent bullets and the sound of frequent gunfire do hit the town from it's sister city just across the Rio Grande, the violent Mexican city of Juarez.  Juarez is wracked by battles between rival drug cartels and the Mexican government, all vying for control of the strategically placed town and "gateway" to the rich market of America.

Beto O'Rourke has watched the violence increase across the border as the stakes get higher for the illegal drugs shipped into America.  He knows that if those drugs were somehow decriminalized and controlled in America, it would dry up the market and much of the violence would stop.   Beto has many other issues that are important to him, including the border and immigration reform,.

An El Paso native and city councilman, Beto was very aware of  issues facing his city and wasn't satisfied with how they were being represented in Washington. So he said it was time for change and decided to throw his hat in the ring and challenge 8 term incumbent,Congressman Silvestre Reyes.  But Reyes had the money, connections and a well oiled political machine behind him. He also had the backing of President Obama and former President Bill Clinton....So it was a courageous move for the young Beto O'Rourke to step in the ring with Congressman Reyes.

But the courage and determination of Beto O'Rourke didn't go unnoticed by an organization headed by another Irish American named Eric O'Keefe.  O'Keefe heads a powerful Political Action Committee called Campaign for Primary Accountability.  CPA has pledged to help America shed lifetime politicians who become more beholden to special interests in Washington than their own citizens.  Their goal is to  help new faces get into Congress.  CPA, is non partisan and will jump into any primary race no matter what the party. 
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So when Eric O'Keefe  took notice of the political situation in this congressional district, he saw that with some help, political upstart Beto O'Rourke might be able to upset the status quo.  O'Keefe's organization jumped in with both feet and helped level the political playing field with 240K in funds to counter the incumbents financial firepower. 

Eric O'Keefe told me: " CPA communicated directly with voters about some of Reyes behavior that he would rather they overlook,including how his campaign and political connections bring direct financial benefits to his family members; and we also used direct voter contact to tell people that this primary election on May 30 was the only time they would have a real say in who would represent them in Congress.  We used social media advertising, email, phones, and even direct
voter contact with door-to-door communication."

O'Keefe went on: "We did all of that completely independently of the O'Rourke campaign. O'Rourke himself ran a solid campaign.   But as you know it is really tough going against an incumbent, and Reyes pulled out all the stops, including getting the endorsements of Bill Clinton and BHO."

So when the political gunsmoke cleared in this west Texas town of El Paso, Beto O'Rourke was standing tall as he defeated the seemingly invulnerable incumbent Reyes, by over 2,000 votes.  He now sees himself heading for the general election in a heavily Democrat district which will almost assuredly vote him into Congress.

Looks like there will be a new fresh face in Congress, thanks to a new  political guardian angel.  If Eric O'Keefe and his group of Patriots known as Campaign for Primary Accountability have their way, there will be crops of new faces in Washington DC.  I asked him if there was another race he had his eye on and his answer was:  "We have not locked onto anyone else yet... we are going state-by-state as we roll through the primary season."

Stay tuned for more upsets as the season rolls on.  As Charlie Mahtesian wrote recently in Politico "When Incumbents fall, you can usually find the Campaign for Primary Accountability’s fingerprints on the race"

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Bill Clinton is poor choice for attack ad on Romney in Osama Bin Laden raid

 The new political ad which has Bill Clinton extolling the steely eyed determination of President Obama in ordering the Navy Seals to take out Osama Bin Laden, relies heavily on collective amnesia by the American public.

As facts have shown, Bill Clinton's refusal to acknowledge there was a war against us by Al Quaeda, lead to the eventual attack on American soil by Jihadists  under the command of Osama Bin Laden on 911. 

There was plenty of evidence that outright war had been declared during Bill Clintons Presidency:  The first truck bombing of the World Trade Center.  The bombing of our military barracks in Saudi Arabia, killing 19 and wounding hundreds.  The suicide bombing of our warship USS Cole.  Two US embassies in Africa destroyed by bombs that killed 260 and injured more than 5,000.

But as Byron York wrote in the National Review:  "Bill Clinton was too preoccupied with his own political fortunes to an extent that precluded his giving serious and sustained attention to fighting terrorism" and avoided the decision to kill Osama Bin Laden when he had the opportunity served up to him on a silver platter...more than once.

So it is ironic that Bill Clinton is used as the prop in an ad taking credit for the killing of Osama Bin Laden, when in reality if he had done his job as commander in chief and acted decisively,   Osama Bin Laden would be a minor footnote in American history.  Today  911 would just be a number you called on your phone in an emergency. See Losing Bin Laden

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But this doesn't take away from the fact that it was  a great decision by President Obama to order the hit on Bin Laden and he should receive praise and recognition for it. But praise and recognition should also be equally given to the previous administration who set in motion the groundwork that collected the intelligence revealing where Bin laden was hiding.

It is also ludicrous to claim Mitt Romney would not have had the fortitude to make the decision President Obama did if he had been faced with the same circumstances.

Is there any doubt that Osama Bin Laden was public enemy number one and that Americas Special Forces are the most excellent and well equipped the world has ever seen?  How could a commander in chief NOT order a hit on Osama Bin laden if his whereabouts were pinpointed and he was presented with an executable plan?  No President could have passed this opportunity up.  Ann Coulter summed it up when she said: "Even a President Dennis Kucinich would have ordered the operation".

The killing of Osama Bin Laden was a national effort lead by all of Americas intelligence services and executed by our Special Forces.  The go ahead was given by President Obama.  Lets give credit where credit is due and not suffer from collective amnesia when confronted with a campaign ad.