THE OBAMA PRESIDENCY IS WORSE THAN A LIE – IT IS A BLUNDER
The 19th century British Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881) once commented on accusations that a political opponent of his was lying regarding an important issue before Parliament: "It is worse than a lie - it is a blunder." Disraeli's ghost is talking about our president today. President Barack Hussein Obama went to a photo-op at a trucking firm in Hyattsville, Maryland last Friday (6/4), and made a fool of himself. The addition of 431,000 jobs in May shows "the economy is getting stronger by the day," he said. This was a remarkably stupid thing to say, since the employment report issued that morning by the Bureau of Labor Statistics was so disappointing the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 324 points on the news.
JEW HATRED IS BACK IN VOGUE — AND IT’S ON THE LEFT
In other times, Hearst Newspapers White House Correspondent Helen Thomas's demand that the Jews "get the hell out of Palestine," and go back to Poland, Germany and America would have been front page news in every newspaper in the US the day after the story broke. In other times, had the dean of the White House Correspondents Association expressed such hatred for the Jews, the White House would have immediately removed her accreditation rather than wait three days to criticize her. In other times, the White House Correspondents Association would have expelled her. In other times, her employer - Hearst Newspapers - would have fired her. Our times, instead, are times of Jew hatred. Our times are times when hatred breeds strategic madness -- especially among those on the Left.
WHY DON’T YOU GIVE ME A CALL, MR PRESIDENT?
50 days in, and we've just learned another shocking revelation concerning the Obama administration's response to the Gulf oil spill. In an interview aired yesterday (6/08), President Obama admitted that he hasn't met with or spoken directly to BP's CEO Tony Hayward. His reasoning: "Because my experience is, when you talk to a guy like a BP CEO, he's gonna say all the right things to me. I'm not interested in words. I'm interested in actions." First, to the "informed and enlightened" mainstream media: in all the discussions you've had with the White House about the spill: did it not occur to you before yesterday to ask how the CEO-to-CEO level discussions were progressing to remedy this tragedy? Second, to fellow baffled Americans: this revelation is further proof that it bodes well to have some sort of executive experience before occupying the Oval Office -- as if the painfully slow response to the oil spill, confusion of duties, finger-pointing, lack of preparedness, and inability to grant local government simple requests weren't proof enough.
HALF-FULL REPORT 06/04/10
We begin with a happy announcement. Thanks to TTP's one and only Miko, To The Point is now on Facebook! Get on board, connect with your fellow TTPers, get all your friends on board too. Have fun and spread the TTP word. Thanks, Miko!! *** When I saw my friend Sara Carter's report yesterday (6/03) in the Washington Examiner about the Mexican government opening a satellite consular office on Catalina Island in California to provide illegal Mexican immigrants with identification cards, I sent Congressman Dana Rohrabacher the following email: "Dana - since Catalina is in your district, when are you going to take action against this?" Well, I almost sent it, for at the very time I was about to push the "Send" button, I learned that Dana had already flown to Catalina that very morning and was proceeding to embarrass the Mexican officials there into shutting their operation down. Is he our kind of Congressista or what? As most of you know, he's been my buddy for 44 years. I'm prouder of him than ever. Glad I didn't push that Send button though.
WHY SHOULD WE ASSUME OBAMA WANTS PEACE IN THE MIDDLE EAST?
In hindsight, it probably will be obvious that the missteps of the Obama administration vis-a-vis Israel were critical catalysts to a war that today seems ever more likely to engulf the Middle East, and perhaps the world more generally. Assuming - assuming - such an outcome is neither the intention of the president and his team nor is desired by them, American course corrections must be taken urgently. Throughout their 17 months in office, the president and his senior subordinates have been at pains to demonstrate a more "evenhanded" approach to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and to "engage" the Moslem "world." The practical effect, however, has been to excuse, empower and embolden those hostile not just to Israel, but to the United States as well. Consider just a few ominous examples:
THE MEDIA IS SINGING ALONG WITH B.B. KING
"I felt this thrill going up my leg," MSNBC's Chris Matthews famously said after hearing Barack Obama speak during the 2008 campaign. But after the president's news conference last week (5/27), Matthews and the Obama-worshipping media are singing along with blues great B.B. King, The Thrill Is Gone. The thrill is gone The thrill is gone away The thrill is gone baby The thrill is gone away You know you done me wrong baby And you'll be sorry someday
OBAMA IN OKINAWA
Yukio Hatoyama is a weird guy, so weird his countrymen have nicknamed him "E.T.", the Extraterrestrial. What possessed the people of Japan to, 8½ months ago (Sept. 2009), select Yukio Hatoyama as their Prime Minister is a mystery for historians to unravel. He screwed things up so badly with such a massive mix of incompetence and corruption that yesterday (6/02) he resigned. The excuse he gave was Okinawa. Yes, Okinawa. No one in mainland Japan really cares about Okinawa. No one, certainly, in Hatoyama's party - the DJP (Democratic Party of Japan) - which won a landslide victory that sent the long-ruling LDP (Liberal Democratic Party) into the political wilderness last September. What DJP politicians care about is preserving their power - which they look sure to lose in the upcoming elections next month, July 11. Heading towards electoral disaster, they threw Hatoyama under the bus. Okinawa is just the cover story. Now - do you know of any other political party that won a landslide victory in their country's last election, and is now staring Electoral Armageddon in the face because of the gargantuan incompetence, corruption, and unpopularity of its leader? Any party, any leader, any country come to mind?
COMMENCEMENT 2010
[This commencement address was originally published five years ago. We rerun it annually at college graduation time. Feel quite free to send this to any recent college graduate you may know.] Mr. Chancellor, Members of the Board of Regents, Members of the Faculty, Honored Graduates, Families and Friends: It's funny that they call this ceremony a Commencement, for you've all reached the finish line: college, goodbye, we're outta here. Yet of course, "commencement" means a beginning, not an end. But one is supposed to at least start - commence - a talk such as this by saying funny things. So I'll start by talking about Clark Gable movies. If you've heard of Clark Gable at all, you know he was the biggest movie star in Hollywood a long time ago. His most famous movie was Gone With The Wind. He made a movie in 1955 called The Tall Men with Jane Russell as his girlfriend and Robert Ryan as the heavy. It's a pretty ordinary Western flick with outlaws and cowboys and Indians - and at the end, Ryan, the bad guy, and his henchmen get the drop on Gable, the good guy, and all seems lost. Suddenly, surprise, Gable outfoxes Ryan and triumphs. Gable makes his exit, and after he does, Ryan delivers a line that I want you to never forget. Serendipity is funny, a very funny thing, finding something where you least expect it. Out of the blue, out of a movie awash with pedestrian dialogue, comes a line so profound it detonates inside your brain. Ryan turns to his men and says:
THE PROBLEM IS TURKEY, NOT ISRAEL
The "aid convoy" incident off the coast of Gaza on May 30 wasn't about bringing humanitarian supplies to the terrorist-ruled territory. It wasn't even about Israel. It was about Turkey's determination to position itself as the leading Moslem state in the Middle East. Three ships of that six-ship pro-terror convoy flew Turkish flags and were crowded with Turkish citizens. The Ankara government -- led by Islamists these days -- sponsored the "aid" operation in a move to position itself as the new champion of the Palestinians. And Turkish decision-makers knew Israel would have to react -- and were waiting to exploit the inevitable clash. The provocation was as cynical as it was carefully orchestrated.
MAXINE HAS THE SOLUTION TO HEALTH CARE FOR SENIORS
While discussing the upcoming rationing of health care under ObamaCare with my sister-in-law the other day, I think we have found the solution. I am sure you have heard the ideas that if you're a senior you need to suck it up and give up the idea that you need any health care. A new hip? Unheard of. We simply can't afford to take care of you anymore. You don't need any medications for your high blood pressure, diabetes, heart problems, etc. Let's take care of the young people. After all, they will be ruling the world very soon. So here is the solution. When you turn 70, you get a gun and 3 bullets.