Chicago-style politics, run from the White House

What if during the Bush Administration, it was discovered that Karl Rove, with the President's approval, hatched a plan to influence the outcome of at least two elections? The outcry from all Americans and particularly the liberal media would have risen to the heavens, and rightly so.

No doubt there would have been demands that Bush be impeached. However, because it is the Obama administration that used these tactics, the reaction from the media has been a big "so what?"

Liberals are saying it's just politics as usual, which is partly correct. In Chicago, it is considered politics as usual. The Chicago political machine is one of the most corrupt in the country. Offering jobs to Rep. Joe Sestak and Rep. Andrew Romanoff, if they dropped out of their primaries, is unlawful and unethical, and indicative of the means Obama will use to ensure that elections go the way he wants them to.

18 USC Code Sec. 211 states that: "Whoever pays or offers or promises any money or thing of value, to any person, firm, or corporation in consideration of the use or promise to use any influence to procure any appointive office or place under the United States for any person, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than one year, or both."

Yet, President Obama, in a recent press conference, said that nothing "inappropriate" happened. During his campaign, Obama promised "hope and change." Yet neither of those promises have been fulfilled. His presidency lacks both transparency and change. He has turned out to be, not the messiah people had hoped for, who would fix a "broken" Washington, but just another politician, trained in the Chicago style of politics.

He has underestimated the intelligence of the American people. It is no wonder that they have become cynical and distrustful of their government. They were promised one thing and given another. Misleading the citizens of our country has become the hallmark of his administration.

Obama’s Supplemental Bill Passes, Gives Billions to Enemies.

It gives billions of U.S. taxpayer dollars to countries and entities that support sharia law and/or harbor, hide and support those who want to destroy the U.S. and our allies.

Read the summary from David Obey’s office that was quietly released last week with nary a word from any media.

• $3.6 billion, matching the request, to expand and improve capabilities of the Afghan security forces

• $400 million, as requested, to build the counterinsurgency capabilities of the Pakistani security forces

• Afghanistan: $1.52 billion, $86 million above the request

• West Bank and Gaza: $665 million in bilateral economic, humanitarian, and security assistance for the West Bank and Gaza

• Jordan: $250 million, $250 million above the request, including $100 million for economic and $150 million for security assistance

• Egypt: $360 million, $310 million above the request, including $50 million for economic assistance, $50 million for border security, and $260 million for security assistance

• Pakistan: $1.9 billion, $591 million above the request

• Iraq: $968 million, $336 million above the request

• Oversight: $20 million, $13 million above the request, to expand oversight capacity of the State Department, USAID, and the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan to review programs in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iraq

• Israel: $555 million of the $2.8 billion 2010 request for security assistance, $555 million above the supplemental request. (Note: that means Obama’s original request did not include any money for Israel in 2009)

• Lebanon: $74 million

• International Food Assistance: $500 million, $200 million above the request, for PL 480 international food assistance to alleviate suffering during the global economic crisis

• Refugee Assistance: $343 million, $50 million above the request, …including humanitarian assistance for Gaza. Funding for the UN Relief and Works Agency programs in the West Bank and Gaza is limited to $119 million (Note: Gaza = Hamas)

• Disaster Assistance: $200 million to avert famines and provide life-saving assistance during natural disasters and for internally displaced people around the world, including Somalia, Zimbabwe, Ethiopia, the Middle East and South Asia

• Peacekeeping: $837 million for United Nations peacekeeping operations, including an expanded mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and a new mission in Chad and the Central African Republic

• HIV/AIDS: $100 million, $100 million above the request, for the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria to address a funding shortfall for grants in key countries such as Haiti, The Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Afghanistan. (Note: That means Obama’s original request didn’t include any money for AIDs)

• Africa: $151 million, $18 million above the request, for economic and security assistance for Kenya, Somalia, Southern Sudan, and Zimbabwe

• Mexico: $470 million, $404 million above the request, to address growing violence along the United States-Mexico border by supporting the Government of Mexico’s war against organized crime and drug-trafficking

• Georgia: $242 million to fulfill the United States commitment to the people of Georgia

• Global Financial Crisis: $300 million, $148 million below the request, to address the global financial crisis in developing countries

• Nuclear Non-Proliferation: $55 million, $34.5 million below the request, for the National Nuclear Security Administration to safeguard nuclear material in Russia and other sites world-wide

• Department of Justice: $17 million, matching the request, for counter-terrorism activities and to provide training and assistance for the Iraqi criminal justice system

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