Free Republic

First lady Michelle Obama on Monday told a fundraiser in Southern California of the toll the presidency has taken on her husband Barack Obama. "I see the sadness and worry that's creasing his face," she said to a crowd of about 500 at the Pasadena luncheon organized by the Southern California Women For Obama. She described his worth ethic as “tireless,” according to pool reports. "He reads every word, every memo, so he is better prepared than the people briefing him," she said. "This man doesn't take a day off." She said the next two years of campaigning would be...

More and more Republicans and conservatives see President Barack Obama’s re-election as a disaster for future of the United States, yet feel powerless to stop. Unless we find a special candidate to unite the right, the GOP, the tea party movement — and win over independents — we will not defeat Obama. That candidate needs a unique combination of skills and temperament not seen since the days of Ronald Reagan: a strong vision of where the country ought to go combined with a personality that can sell that vision to more than 50 percent of the voters, plus a thick...

An exclusive Newsmax/IBOPE Zogby International poll shows New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie so dominates the GOP field for 2012 that he garners more than twice as many votes as his nearest Republican competitor. The new poll reflects growing momentum for Christie, despite his repeated insistence that he’s not ready to be president and has no intention of running. Christie’s strong showing is likely to further encourage those Republicans who are actively engaged in mustering support for a campaign to draft him to run. Supporters launched a DraftChristie2012 website last October. The Newsmax/IBOPE Zogby survey shows Christie to be the choice...

The CPAC annual meeting has shown us that we on the right do not have a front-runner or even a plausible candidate to unite us as we head into the crucial 2012 presidential and congressional elections. In fact, CPAC demonstrated that the organized right, which sold its soul to a faux conservative in 2000, G.W. Bush, and then supported him and an irresponsible GOP-run Congress as they partnered to bankrupt our public fisc and squander our moral and military advantage for six years, is now devoid of a true conservative who understands and believes in the principles that separate us...

The Obama administration is planning on handing over power to the U.S. Commerce department in a new effort to increase security on the Internet. The idea is to create an "identity ecosystem" for the Internet, while the government says this is not a "National ID Card" it does appear to be very similar but restricted only to Internet activities. According to CBSnews.com, "We are not talking about a national ID card, we are not talking about a government-controlled system. What we are talking about is enhancing online security and privacy; reducing and perhaps even eliminating the need to memorize a...

Here are my predictions for 2011. By the end of the year, the unemployment rate will still be unacceptably too high — in the 8 to 8.5 percent range. And that will turn the country even more sour about the economy, the future, and the 2012 elections. Articles will appear asking this question: Has any incumbent president ever been re-elected with unemployment north of 7 percent or 8 percent? While President Obama will not have a Democratic Party challenger, he will be viewed as beatable in November 2012. The upper Midwest, from Ohio to Minnesota (all states he won in...

Supporters of Israel mounted an impressive campaign this week to try and prevent Seattle buses from running anti-Israel advertisements, sending over 1,800 email messages to local government council members and to the bus company involved. The planned advertisements show a group of Arab children standing near a bombed-out building and carry the text: "Israeli War Crimes: your tax dollars at work." The ads are supposed to appear on at least 12 buses that run through downtown Seattle, starting December 27, the second anniversary of the Cast Lead counter-terror campaign mounted by Israel after eight years in which Gaza terrorists shelled...

First Amendment be damned . . . If Oscar-winning actor Sean Penn had his way, any journalist who called Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez a dictator would quickly find himself behind bars. Penn, appearing on HBO's "Real Time with Bill Maher" on Friday, defended Chavez during a segment in which he detailed his work with the JP Haitian Relief Organization, which he co-founded. "Every day, this elected leader is called a dictator here, and we just accept it, and accept it" said Penn, winner of two Best Actor Academy Awards. "And this is mainstream media, who should -- truly, there should...

The 87-year-old Kenyan grandmother of President Obama – once described by the Associated Press as a "Christian" – is making the Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca and Medina, the Hajj, according to news reports. The annual Islamic tradition was noted by the president, who issued a special statement today as Sarah Obama was reported to be a guest of the Saudi Arabian king. "Michelle and I would like to send our best wishes to all those performing Hajj this year, and to Muslims in America and around the world who are celebrating Eid al-Adha. The rituals of Hajj and Eid al-Adha...

Caroline Kennedy opened a new stage in the evolution of the Kennedy Cult when she announced that she wants to be appointed U.S. senator from New York to fill out Hillary Clinton’s term. For 48 years, the Kennedys have treated American politics as family property, like a castle European aristocrats pass on from one clan member to another. Caroline, as John F. Kennedy’s daughter, believes she’s entitled. Kennedys think that Kennedys should have whatever they desire.

Mother Nature, of course, is oblivious to the federal government's machinations. Ironically, 2008 is on pace to be a slightly cooler year in a steadily rising temperature trend line. Experts say it's thanks to a La Nina weather variation. While skeptics are already using it as evidence of some kind of cooling trend, it actually illustrates how fast the world is warming.

According to Newsmax, Huckaphony is getting ready for the 2012 campaign already. Awesome. Captain Queeg is going to lose big time for us in 2008, and we have the specter of Huckaphony as the front runner going into 2012. Will the media and big shots who run the GOP annoint him like they did McCain? Can there be any doubt left that the Republican party has abandoned conservatives? We need a Conservative Party in place to win back congress in 2010 and the White House in 2012. If not, enjoy 8 years of Hillary!

The State of Washington is seeking public comments on climate change and what to do about it. If you believe as I do that global warming is a myth, promulgated by the media and politicians to keep the ignorant masses afraid and dependent, let them know. They myth of global warming is designed to take away more of what little liberty we have left, and to raise taxes. http://www.ecy.wa.gov/forms/wr/draft_comment1.html

Follow the link to read about a play making a hero out of Rachel Corrie that is running in Montreal. Corrie was a nitwit, indoctrinated by Israel-hating leftists at Evergreen State College who got flattened by an Israeli military bulldozer. Good riddance to her! Anyone dumb enough not to move out of the way of a slow moving bulldozer shouldn't be using up valuable oxygen. Does the play have a bulldozer come on stage, like the helicopter in Miss Saigon? Because watching a re-enactment of the flattening of the unlamented Rachel Corrie might be worth the price of a ticket.

Drudge had a headline last week that the Times of London was running a story about Huma Abedin, Hillary's lesbian lover. As if having a muslim lesbian girlfriend wasn't explosive enough, there were rumors on the internet that Abedin was an agent of Saudi intelligence. The Clintons sold us out to the Chinese, so why not the Saudis too? Who killed this story in the US? I expect the liberal media to cover up for Her Thighness, but what happened to our guys? Hannity always shoots his mouth off about being the "Stop Hillary Express"; why isn't he on this?...

Do you enjoy burning mix CD's from you personal collection? Do you own an MP3 player and rip tracks to listen to? Do you find it convenient to videotape your favorite shows and movies? Sen Fritz (Foghorn Leghorn) Hollings has proposed a bill that would make it a federal crime to do any of those things. You'd be subject to fines and possible imprisonment if it passes. I'm hardly a pinko who thinks that music should be free, but I find it outrageous that the government wants to tell me that I can't burn CD's I've bought and paid for...

Here is the URL: http://www.usatoday.com/news/washdc/2001-04-21-sarah-brady.htm

Find it at this link: http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2001/1/24/192006.shtml This is the sickest thing I've ever heard. The article doesn't give an email address for Comedy Central, and the only thing I could find on their web site was advertising@comedycentral.com. I sent a message. I hope about 100,000 other people do the same. Crash their email server. Let them know that they cant trash innocent 19 year old girls to get their twisted jollies. This kind of crap is nothing but cultural polution and has to be stopped.

http://king5.com/detailtopstory.html?StoryID=12454 The expected protests in Seattle took place. The usual suspects crawled out from under their rocks and meandered down from Capitol Hill to Westlake Center. It is always the same maggot infested, dope smoking, nose and nipple pierced, tatooed, unemployable, hippie throwbacks that protest everything in Seattle. I think I was the last conservative on Capitol Hill until I moved far away to a rural county, the real America. These morons can protest George W. Bush for the next 4 years but no one takes them seriously. They are professional whiners. The one comment in the story I found ...

I just saw the clip of Hillary being sworn in as NY's senator© The urge to vomit was almost overwhelming© I am looking forward to hearing the liberals whine and rage for the next 4 years as George Bush has a successful presidency© The left will be exposed for the intellectually and morally bankrupt scum that they are© Seeing Gore perform his duties today for Clinton, knowing that she won and he lost, was priceless© He must be choking on it! The only black mark will be that the Queen Bitch from Hell has a seat in the Senate©