Hannity, Daily Caller: Bombshell Obama Race Tape

Hannity, Daily Caller: Bombshell Obama Race Tape

Rev. Jeremiah Wright's Racist Rant: Allah and Yahweh Are the Same

Barack Obama Praising His Pastor Jeremiah Wright...? 

Obama speech at Hampton University. 

Jeremiah Wright - God Damn America

Obama speech at Hampton University. 

  

Barack Obama Praising His Pastor Jeremiah Wright...

Hannity, Daily Caller: Bombshell Obama Race Tape

By JEFFREY LORD on 10.3.12 @ 6:10AM

The two faces of Barack; Obama caught on 2007 tape pushing overtly racist politics on Katrina.

The presidential race exploded last night on Sean Hannity's television show.

The explosion came with the revelation by Tucker Carlson's The Daily Caller of a stunning 2007, exclusively obtained unedited video tape of then-Senator Barack Obama making blatantly racial appeals to an audience of black ministers. And doing it in a southern accent that by now all of America knows the man who was famously raised in Hawaii and Indonesia and migrated to California, Massachusetts, and Chicago -- simply doesn't have.

The audience at Virginia's historically black Hampton University included Obama's own pastor, the Reverend Jeremiah Wright. Whom Obama glowingly praised during the talk -- and later famously disowned. In the recent bestseller The Amateur: Barack Obama in the White House by former New York Times journalist Edward Klein, the Reverend Wright, in a lengthy taped interview, said Obama considered Wright's "problem" to be one of having "to tell the truth." Essentially accusing his famous ex-parishioner of being a habitual liar.

The difference between the Obama delivering this speech and the Obama of presidential teleprompter fame will do nothing to change that impression.

The speech was filled with racially incendiary language reminiscent of rapper Kanye West's infamous televised charge that when it came to helping the stricken New Orleans, "George Bush doesn't care about black people."

In the speech, Obama unfavorably compared the reactions of the U.S. government during the 1992 Hurricane Andrew and the 2001 attacks on 9/11 to that of Katrina. Comparing the victims of each incident, implying that both Andrew's victims (mostly in heavily Hispanic Miami-Dade County) and those on 9/11 were treated differently than those in the heavily black New Orleans, Obama twanged in a shout that "The people down in New Orleans they [the Bush administration and U.S. government] don't care about as much." The divisive comparison obviously meant to divide the government's treatment of blacks in the black majority New Orleans from both Florida Latinos and 9/11 whites.

A comparison that will doubtless be noted in the wake of fresh revelations and accusations of cover-up about the Obama Administration's policies in the Fast and Furious scandal, in which most of the victims were Hispanics.

Particularly interesting, as Carlson pointed out last night, was that the speech was mostly ignored by reporters present for the then-candidate's speech. While a transcript was in fact provided, what was not noted were Obama's off-script riffs. No complete video of the speech was widely released until the Daily Caller obtained this one -- with Hannity airing the controversial remarks last night.

The DC quoted the Wright reference by Obama as follows: 

Obama begins his address with "a special shout out" to Jeremiah Wright, the Chicago pastor who nearly derailed Obama's campaign months later when his sermons attacking Israel and America and accusing the U.S. government of "inventing the HIV virus as a means of genocide against people of color" became public. To the audience at Hampton, Obama describes Wright as, "my pastor, the guy who puts up with me, counsels me, listens to my wife complain about me. He's a friend and a great leader. Not just in Chicago, but all across the country."

Particularly striking is Obama's use of the 1992 Los Angeles riots as a central point in his speech. He discusses the plight of a pregnant woman who was shot in the stomach during the riots, although he does not say whether by police or rioters. The baby -- a girl -- was subsequently born with a bullet in her arm. The Daily Caller says that

at a similar speech he gave in April of 2007 at the First AME Church in Los Angeles to commemorate the 15th anniversary of the riots, according to a church member who was there, Obama described the slug as "the bullet of slavery and Jim Crow." 

Whether Obama mentioned that both slavery and Jim Crow were legacies of his own political party is not known. But clearly the speech reveals a man as intent on using race to get elected as was any old time segregationist.

The point the then-Senator Obama is making in the video is that the 1992 riots and the government's reaction to Katrina were one and the same. Says the future president: 

The irony here is stunning.

First, as the Daily Caller notes, a full six months before Obama's speech, "the federal government had sent at least $110 billion to areas damaged by Katrina. Compare this to the mere $20 billion that the Bush administration pledged to New York City after 9/11." While Obama accuses the government of not waiving the "Stafford Act" (which provides for a matching fund ratio in reconstruction efforts) during Katrina, unlike, he says, during the Andrew and 9/11 disasters, this is simply untrue. As the DC points out, the Stafford Act was waived at various points during the Katrina clean-up -- and mere weeks before Obama's speech an additional $6.9 billion went to the hard-hit arena with "no strings attached." The notion that as a sitting senator and by 2007 an active presidential candidate Obama had no knowledge of this is preposterous. 

Second, now that he himself has been president for four years what happened to all that "poverty in our midst" Obama was shouting about back there in 2007? That's right -- as noted here, the poverty rate is expected to rise shortly to 15.7% -- the highest rate since the LBJ 1960's. And the number of Americans on food stamps has shot up by some 800,000 in 2011 to a record 46.7 million Americans.

What the Daily Caller has unearthed here, what exploded into the political atmosphere on Hannity's show last night, is the portrait of a man with two faces.

When he isn't quite so famous, when the press was snoozing on the job, he can miraculously deliver a 40-minute minute speech in a Southern-accented twang in spite of the fact that his southern heritage reaches only as far as the South Side of Chicago.

He can -- and did -- play the race card, ironically playing blacks off not just against whites but Hispanics as well. No wonder theUnavision folks are so suspicious of him on Fast and Furious.

What's significant here?

This speech, pricelessly captured on video, shows a man who has no intention whatsoever in leading a "post-racial" America. This is a man who has every intention of dividing by race, and twisting the facts or eliminating them altogether as he goes along.

The really shocking thing here is that only now, confronted with video tape, will some people begin to understand the actual presidential performance of the man they elected four years ago.

This is a President with two faces. The one on display when, figuratively speaking, he thinks no one is looking. The other the man who sits today in the White House -- trying to convince his fellow citizens he really isn't the man his critics accuse him of being.

That would be the first man.

The man on the tape who sees America , as the Daily Caller points out, as a "racist, zero-sum society, in which the white majority profits by exploiting black America."

On the very eve of the first presidential debate, the Obama campaign now has a serious new problem.

And there's plenty of time for millions to get acquainted with the man on that tape.

Rev. Jeremiah Wright's Racist Rant: Allah and Yahweh Are the Same 

Newt Gingrich Interview Hannity - "The first four Executive Orders are..".

EXECUTIVE ORDERS NEWT GINGRICH WILL SIGN ON THE FIRST DAY 



The first four Executive Orders President Newt Gingrich will sign are…


1. Eliminate the thirty-nine White House "Czar" positions created during the current administration. The president does not have the authority to appoint bureaucrats to power who are not accountable to the Congress.

2. "Mexico City Policy" of Respect for Life. Reauthorize President Ronald Reagan’s policy – also known as the "Mexico City Policy"— to stop tax payer dollars from being used to fund or promote abortions in foreign countries.

3. Restore conscience clause protections for Healthcare Workers. No American working in a medical environment should be forced to perform any procedure that he or she finds morally or ethically objectionable based on religious teaching. This protection should include, but not be limited to abortion. Existing conscience clause protections need to be strengthened.

4. Respect Each Sovereign Nation’s Choice of its Capital. Each sovereign nation, under international law and custom, may designate its own Capital. Accordingly, the U.S. State Department should be instructed to respect the choice of each sovereign nation and place the American embassy in their Capital. (Israel is the only country the United States discriminates against in this regard. The people of Israel have designated Jerusalem as their capital. Yet the United States retains its embassy in Tel Aviv.)

Contrast Newt wants to repeal Obamacare, Mitt wants to fund Obamacare?

Mitt Romney Wants to Fund Obama Care!!!

Romney. The guy who lost to McCain, who lost to Obama.

Good Choice?


Insanity: doing the same thing over again and expecting different results.
Albert Einstein

No Room for Allen West- or You- in Romney’s GOP

By John Ransom

With Friends Like Romney's . . .

Norm Coleman tells voters the GOP won't repeal ObamaCare.

This is the same GOP gang that gave us Charlie Crist, Romneycare, real estate bailouts, automaker bailouts, abortion bailouts, assault weapon bans.
Yeah, yeah, Obama is the Devil, but Mitt and company have been willing accomplices.

Get ready for the all new GOP, under the lead of Mitt Romney.

It’s a GOP where the Tea Party won’t be welcome, where the federal government will continue to bailout out banks and unions and everyone who’s anyone will continue to make money- except of course you and me.

We’ll just continue to get stuck with the 100 year mortgage payment, as the GOP continues to be the “tax collector for the welfare state,” in the WSJ’s apt phrase.

That’s the takeaway from Florida where Florida Representative Will Weatherford, a Romney proxy, helped redistrict Tea Party favorite Congressman and retired Col. Allen West into a much more liberal district than he previously represented.

I guess Tea Party ideas of limited government and fiscal responsibility aren't wanted in the GOP under Mitt.

Writes the Florida political blog the Shark Tank:

West’s congressional district inexplicably sheds the most out support as compared to all other incumbent Republican and Democrat Congressman. A few weeks back we quoted an unnamed legislator saying that, “Allen West was screwed”, a statement which was originally made about made five months before the purposed maps were made public, leading insiders to believe that the fix was in against Allen West. But in light of Weatherford’s comment, it is increasingly clear that this is a fait accompli. 

Republicans control both houses of the Florida state legislature plus the governor’s office and could have written the new congressional districts however they wanted. But they decided to throw a bone to liberals in the state by redistricting Allen West out of a job.

Why should that surprise anyone?

Throwing a bone to liberals is the thing that Romney, McCain, Dole, Bush and company do best. They recoil under the assault of the left-wing media in this country, seeking refuge in the “bipartisan” label, reaching across the aisle to “get things done” so that they can hit the cocktail circuit and make jokes about guys like Col. West…oh, and you too.   

This is the same GOP gang that gave us Charlie Crist, Romneycare, real estate bailouts, automaker bailouts, abortion bailouts, assault weapon bans.

Yeah, yeah, Obama is the Devil, but Mitt and company have been willing accomplices.

And because of that complicity, conservatives will under-vote for president in 2012 rather than support another Bush-Dole-Bush clone in the White House. Heck, there are lots of positive things to say about the Bushes and the Doles, but little good to say about Romney.

He’s Bush-Dole without character.

But give him this: The guy really, really wants to be president. Toward that end, he’ll say anything you want to hear just as soon as he knows what you want to hear. So don’t believe anything that comes out of Romney’s mouth. When he says “read  my lips,” you should plug your ears- and just imagine Mitt saying whatever you want to hear.

It won’t matter anyway. 

As Romney advisor, former Minnesota Senator Norm Coleman- you know, the guy who lost to Al Freakin’ Franken?- admitted recently, Romney is not going to repeal Obamacare no matter what he says on the campaign trail. 

Observes the Wall Street Journal:

It was a remarkable admission, especially given the aspiring Republican President whose ear Mr. Coleman happens to have. Then again, it may also be evidence of his kind of crack political thinking that couldn't outwit Al Franken of all people in the 2008 race and again in the 2009 recount and thus provided the 60th Senate vote for ObamaCare.

The larger point is that the path of least political resistance for the GOP would be to revert to its historic minority role as tax collectors for the welfare state, and this temptation is especially strong for health care. No one doubts that repealing and replacing ObamaCare will be a hard slog if the party does take the White House and Senate in 2012, namely because the American political system is designed to make change hard (even if those controls failed in 2010 amid Democratic abuses). Mr. Coleman's advice is, essentially, why bother trying.

But that hasn’t stopped Romney from bravely telling us that Obamacare’s individual mandate is unconstitutional, while Romenycare’s individual mandate is not.

The Obamacare repeal will be Mitt’s 0-97 vote in the Senate, just the way Obama’s budget was an oh-fer in 2011.

Oh-well-they-tried.

And here it is: Romney is lying to you one way or another.

He’ll keep one big, fat Obamacare or he’ll try to foist on you 57 varieties of Romneycare that add up to the same thing.

But in either case, like Allen West, the rest of us will pay the price for Romney’s intellectual inconsistencies in pursuit of the great, white house.

Because if Romney wins the nomination, expect neither hope nor change for the GOP.

Expect four more for Obama or in the best case scenario, Obama lite.  source:

Top Three Conservative Arguments About Romney’s Record No One Has Made Effectively

Republicans listening to last night’s primary debate might have been surprised to hear the question asked of former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney by Fox News Channel’s Juan Williams.

“Gov. Romney, Speaker Gingrich says your record of support for gun owners is weak,” Williams said. “You signed the nation’s first ban on assault weapons in Massachusetts and steeply increased fees on gun owners in that state, in fact by 400 percent. How can you convince gun owners that you will be an advocate for them as president?”

Romney answered that the legislation he signed “was crafted both by the pro-gun lobby and the anti-gun lobby. Massachusetts has some very restrictive rules and the pro-gun lobby said, ‘You know what, this legislation is good for us, it includes provisions that we want that allows us, for instance, to cross roads with weapons when we’re hunting that had not been previously allowed.’ And so the pro-gun folks in our state, the Gun Owners Action League and others said, ‘Look, we would like you to sign this legislation.’ And the day when we announced our signing, we had both the pro-gun owners and anti-gun folks all together on the stage because it worked. We worked together. We found common ground.”

Romney’s overall gun record is more mixed that that. The Gun Owners Action League that Romney cites issued a February 2007 report  asserting that Romney made “some rather serious political missteps” early in his administration, though “relations dramatically improved,” and eventually Romney became the most supportive governor of the group’s issues since 1979.

But the larger issue for voters may have been: Romney raised fees on guns? He did? Where? How? When?

Indeed, largely due to the inability of Romney’s competitors to run credible national campaigns that include voter registration and Get-Out-the-Vote, fundraising, event planning and– for the purposes of this discussion — opposition research, the governor has not had to answer many items about his record.

I’m not judging Gov. Romney as having done anything wrong in any of the below stories. Indeed, there will be readers who peruse the below and approve.

But these are aspects of Romney’s record that conservative Republican primary voters are almost certainly unaware of, and in which they may be interested — certainly more so than the attacks that have so far been leveled, such as the populist digs at Romney’s time at Bain Capital, which have in many ways solidified support for the front-runner among some business conservatives.

For whatever reason — likely because of the anemic opposition research efforts in Romney’s rivals’ struggling campaigns — these aspects of the Romney have not been raised.

Here are the Top Three Missed Opportunities for Conservative Attacks:

1. Free Cars for Welfare Recipients?

In 2006, Romney started a program to provide welfare recipients without access to public transportation with free cars. The idea was to provide them with a way to get to work so they could eventually get off welfare.

The cars were donated by charities, while Massachusetts taxpayers funded — as the Boston Herald reported in 2009 — “repairs, registration, insurance, excise tax, the title and AAA membership for one year.”

Romney’s Department of Transitional Assistance started the program, officially called “Transportation Support,” and nicknamed “Welfare Wheels” by the Boston Herald.

You can read more about the program HERE.

The program was discontinued in 2009.

“I don’t care who started it,” said then-state senator (now U.S. Senator) Scott Brown, a Republican. “In this day and age, it’s not appropriate. I mean, we’re paying for Triple A? You’ve got to be kidding me.”

“We can’t be giving out freebies,” Democratic state Sen. Steven Baddour said. “At a time when we’re cutting programs across the spectrum and working families are struggling to pay the bills, this program is just too rich for this budget.”

In 2011, Romney for President spokeswoman Gail Gitcho defended the program to the Herald, saying “over 80 percent of participants have moved off of welfare.” In 2006, the program cost Massachusetts taxpayers $400,000; Gitcho claimed over three years the program saved the state almost $1 million in welfare payments.

2. Early Release for Prisoners Serving ‘Life’ Sentences Peaked Under Romney

Romney and former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum got into a back-and-forth last night about voting rights for felons. Santorum brought up the issue, because a Romney-supporting super PAC is depicting him as supporting prisoners getting voting rights, in his view, as opposed to giving rights to those who have served their time, earned parole, and paid their debt to society.

While Santorum was hoping to show that Romney was a hypocrite — the law in Massachusetts while Romney was governor was more permissive than what Santorum had voted for — the debate allowed Romney to say, “I don’t think people who have committed violent crimes should be allowed to vote again. That’s my own view.”

What Santorum may or may not know is that, according to a 2011 analysis by the Boston Globe, “over the past 20 years, the percentage of inmates paroled while serving a life sentence … peaked in 2004″ — when Romney was governor — “and when all seven members of the state Parole Board had been appointed or reappointed by Republican governors.”

And that, according to the Boston Herald in 2008, “Some 118 killers and rapists were sprung early from prison under former Gov. Mitt Romney’s watch … allowed to walk out the gates by the Department of Correction by claiming so-called ‘good time’ that in some cases substantially reduced their sentences.”

That’s likely more of a concern to Republican primary voters than those ex-cons’ suffrage.

The Romney campaign has pointed out that the governor’s first two nominees to the Parole Board were rejected by The Governor’s Council as too hard-line. A majority of the appointees on the Parole Board were not Romney’s until late 2005. As governor, Romney did not issue a single commutation or pardon, and he tried, to no avail, to reinstate the death penalty.

3. Free Abortions

“On every piece of legislation, I came down on the side of life,” Romney said at the Family Research Council’s Values Voters Summit in 2007.

That’s a matter of interpretation.

For instance, Romney’s Massachusetts health care reform law created an 11-member “Health Care Connector Board” that would ensure affordable pricing for various health insurance plans. Romney appointed actuary Bruce Butler, CEO of Associated Industries of Massachusetts Rick Lord, and economist Jonathan Gruber. Four administration officials from Romney’s cabinet were also appointed to the board, per the law: his Secretary of the Executive Office for Administration and Finance; the Medicaid Director in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts; the Commissioner of Insurance; and the Executive Director of the Group Insurance Commission.

The law also allowed the governor to appoint the executive director of the Connector Authority, and Romney picked senior vice president for policy development at Tufts Associated Health Plan Jon Kingsdale.

Kingsdale wrote a memo to the Connector Authority recommending that for abortions, insurance companies require co-pays between $0 and $100, depending on income level. In September 2006, that was approved by the Connector Authority. Every health care plan offered to low-income Massachusetts residents covers abortion.

Want to see for yourself? Go to this archived page from the 2006 Connector Authority,  and download the “Commonwealth Care Frequently Asked Questions” at the bottom left side of the page.

At the 2009 Value Voters Summit, Mike Huckabee said, “The only thing inexpensive about Massachusetts’ health care bill is that there you can get a $50 abortion.”

The Romney campaign’s response is to assert that “The Connector Authority” is independent and separate from the governor’s office. That’s technically true, but the majority of members of the Connector Authority were appointed by the governor one way or another.

(UPDATE: The Weekly Standard’s John McCormack points out thatGingrich has indeed made the abortion argument — just maybe not effectively. So I am adding the link and I changed the title to “effectively,” though I haven’t seen the other two items mentioned above even uttered by Romney’s rivals.)

-Jake Tapper