Political Name Calling

"I know you are, but what am I?" This playground epithet has been thrown out for years between little elementary schoolers all the way up to the President of the United States.  Has the old disparaging phrase, "the comeback", really ever worked? Probably not, but it sure aggravates the other guy anyway.  LOL!

Bush spoke of the "Democrat majority" in his 2007 State of the Union Address. Democrats complained about the use of "Democrat" as an adjective in the address. "Like nails on a chalkboard," complained Clinton White House Chief of Staff John Podesta.

Bush later remarked about the issue by talking about his leadership of the GOP party the following month. On February 4, 2007, Bush joked in a speech to House Democrats, stating "Now look, my diction isn't all that good. I have been accused of occasionally mangling the English language. And so I appreciate you inviting the head of the Republic Party."

I only wish during this current election season the vicious political word rhetoric was as tame as that Battle on Words about a political name.  I feel though the War of 2012 has has only begun in earnest and will not stop until the winner is declared in the end.

 So be it ...Let the Battles begin!

We'll see who wins the War!

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Obama's New Alter-EGO South of de Border

Who is Enrique Pena Nieto?  This year he is the leading candidate in the race for theGringo Obama office of the Mexican President of the Institutional Revolutionary Party, the PRI.  He will be the important and influential leader to partner with the United States to control the US/Mexico border and develop programs to manage the drug cartels and corruption along with the terrorist threats too.  His inexperience along with no practical knowledge in running a major economy is extremely worrisome too.  Is this Enrique Pena Nieto another amateur like Obama?

Enrique Pena Nieto stumbles on way to Presidency

Leading the bid for Mexico's President is Pena Nieto, until September the governor of Enrique Pena Nieto & Angelica Rivera Mexico state, the nation's most populous. With other parties divided, smarting or in disarray, Pena Nieto has seemed unbeatable. For months, the election of Pena Nieto as a candidate of the PRI party had taken on an air of near-inevitability. The handsome politician with the TV star wife consistently leads polls by seemingly insurmountable margins. Pena Nieto's youthful appeal is meant to target a new generation of voters with little memory of the PRI's dark past. His party, the PRI, has won several governorships and legislative offices to rebuild a formidable party machinery and push laws favoring its election bid. 

But with the campaign now taking shape in earnest, Pena Nieto has stumbled badly in a series of embarrassing, well-publicized gaffes that raise questions about his mettle as a candidate.

For instance, in December 2011 the man who would be the next president of Mexico, Enrique Pena Nieto, was not off to a good start. His troubles started immediately at the renowned International Book Fair in Guadalajara, where he was presenting his own book, "Mexico: The Great Hope." 

Asked to name three books that had influenced him, the candidate hesitated, stammered and looked to aides for help. Struggling, he eventually said he had read "parts of" the Bible. Then he named a Mexican work of fiction from the last decade, "La Silla del Aguila" (The Eagle's Throne), but got the author wrong. He attributed it to a leading historian, Enrique Krauze, but it was written by Mexico's most famous living novelist, Carlos Fuentes.

But amid his stumbles, Enrique Pena Nieto has shown no ability to improvise and muster a quick comeback to rescue himself. "What happens is when I read books, the titles don't always stick," Pena Nieto said by way of explanation. The flub went viral, and Pena Nieto quickly became the butt of many a joke among rivals, on social networks and in the media being compared with Texas Governor Rick Perry's "Oops!" memory lapse during the Republican Primary debates.

Presidential Candidate Enrique Pena NietoMexicans will vote in July to replace President Felipe Calderon, whose six-year term has been plagued by violence and drug cartel warfare that have left as many as 50,000 people dead. Many voters are looking for a change. Calderon is barred by law from seeking reelection.

Pena Nieto's Institutional Revolutionary Party, or PRI, while maintaining that it has reformed from its corrupt ways of drug dealing, kidnapping, murder and pay-offs while they ruled Mexico with an iron fist for seven decades until being unseated from the presidency in 2000, the PRI has now positioned itself to return to power.  

FYI:  The Political Parties in Mexico

Mexico has a multi-party system, which means that there are more than two dominant political parties. In Mexico there are three large political parties the PRI, the PAN, and the PRD. Other smaller political parties survive in isolation or by forming local coalitions with any of the big three. Following the 2003 election, Mexico had six nationally recognized political parties. National recognition was given to those parties that secured representation in Congress. In terms of their congressional representation and share of the national vote, only the PRI, the PAN and the PRD can be considered major parties. Under Mexican law, parties are listed in the order in which they were first registered:

		PAN National Action Party (Partido Acción Nacional) - a right of center party. It is the party of incumbent President Vicente Fox and current president-elect Felipe Calderón. After the 2006 general election it became the largest party in Congress. More About PAN >>
		PRI Institutional Revolutionary Party (Partido Revolucionario Institucional) - the dominating party, under different names, at the local, state, and national levels for most of the 20th century. Although a part of the Socialist International, it is most often perceived as left of center... More About PRI >>
		PRD Party of the Democratic Revolution (Partido de la Revolución Democrática) - a left of center party. Born as "Democratic Front", a splinter group of the PRI, in the 1988 elections. Its first candidate and founder, Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas, lost the 1988 presidential election under dubious circumstances... More About PRD >>

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The Big Question about Obamacare

Recently a number of states have moved forward with changes to their election laws designed to minimize the possibility of voter fraud in the upcoming Presidential Election. These include the abolition of same-day registration and the requirement that voters show a photo ID before being allowed to cast a ballot.

The Obama administration and Attorney General Eric Holder has staked out a position in opposition, telling the state of Texas, for example, that its new voter I.D. law is unconstitutional because it discriminates against Hispanics, African-Americans, the elderly, and others.

The Big Question: 

If an individual's photo I.D. is not required to vote for Obama and the Senators that voted for Obamacare, then why is one required to have a positive Photo I.D. with a residence address and a Federally Issued Social Security Number under the Obamacare Program for any hospital admissions and Doctors visits?

This Obamacare is discriminatory and has prejudicial profiling requirement that puts a burden on some citizens in our nation to carry social security cards and photo I.D.s.  Shouldn't anyone just take the patient's word on who they are and where they live and just give out free medical care?

Can Barack Obama and Eric Holder answer that? 

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Obama Signed New Federal Law Policing Protests

A bill passed Monday, February 27, 2012 in the US House of Representatives and Thursday, March 1, 2012 in the Senate would expand existing anti-protest laws that make it a felony—a serious criminal offense punishable by a lengthy prison term—to “enter or remain in” an area designated as “restricted.”

The bill—H.R. 347, or the “Federal Restricted Buildings and Grounds Improvement Act of 2011”—was passed by unanimous consent in the Senate, while only Ron Paul and two other Republicans voted against the bill in the House of Representatives (the bill passed 388-3). Not a single Democratic politician voted against the bill. 

The virtually unanimous support in Congress for H.R. 347, among Democrats as well as Republicans, reflects an overriding sentiment within the ruling establishment for curtailing existing democratic rights and moving toward dictatorial methods of rule.

The President can also direct the Secret Service to protect whoever he chooses like an advisor or manager. Possibly due to the safety issues related to the Occupy Protests and with unruly crowd demonstrations at private homes, a new Federal Law cedes Speech Freedoms to the discretion of the Secret Service.

What constitutes an event of “national significance” is left to the discretion of the Department of Homeland Security. The occasion for virtually any large protest could be designated by the Department of Homeland Security as an event of “national significance,” making any demonstrations in the vicinity illegal. For certain, included among such events would be the Democratic and Republican National conventions, which have been classified as National Special Security Events (NSSE), a category created under the Clinton administration.

The Secret Service now can arrest you for demonstrating anywhere they determine is off-limits, charge you with a felony and fine and incarcerate you for up to a year or more. This is a slow, creeping destruction of our basic Right to Free Speech.

Here is a vintage Wall Street Journal article on Free Speech - One thing has not changed - Liberal virtues.

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Obamacare - The Smell of Victory!

The Obama "Scorched Earth Policies" unconstitutionally jammed Obamacare down peoples' throats to force citizens to buy single-payer health Insurance.

I can just hear Barack say as he waits for the final Supreme Court decision:

"You smell that? Do you smell that?...Napalm, son. Nothing else in the world smells like that. I love the smell of napalm in the morning....The smell... You know that gasoline smell.... The whole hill, smelled like... Victory..." - Lieutenant Bill Kilgore (Robert Duval) - Click on the 53 sec. 1979 movie clip Apocalypse Now.

I think Obama has got "the whole Hill" afire in Washington but is wrong about his victory in the Supreme Court buying into his bogus Obamacare Law.  Barack, wake up and smell the Tea, not the napalm!

Barack goes to the Supreme Court of American Law to learn about the Constitution and how it works.

Now that the left-wing socialist Obamacare program will be defeated by the United States Supreme Court, Medicare will not have to be stripped of $500 Billion dollars to fund it either.  More important, if the single payer mandate is found to not stand then the balance of the Obamacare legislation falls with it since it is not severable or separate from the total bill, the net result is a total rejection.

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