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Politics : The Obama - Clinton Disaster -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: GROUND ZERO™ who wrote (67047)	3/5/2012 12:43:10 PM
From: longnshort	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 103300

Al Qaeda defense attorney promoted to No. 3 at Department of Justice From Judicial Watch. (H/T Creeping Sharia) Excerpt: (links removed) In a scary development, a major Obama fundraiser who defended a convicted al Qaeda terrorist will become the third highest ranking official at the Department of Justice (DOJ), which, ironically, is charged with defending the interests of the United States. Northern California lawyer Tony West has been named Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Division, making him the No. 3 guy at the agency. In 2009 West, who helped Obama raise tens of millions of dollars as finance co-chairman of his first presidential campaign, was appointed to help run the DOJ’s civil division which represents the government, Congress and presidential cabinet officers and handles cases dealing with significant policy issues. In a statement announcing the promotion this week, Attorney General Eric Holder says West has served the department with “professionalism, integrity and dedication.” Holder also mentions West’s work before coming to the DOJ a few years ago, including a stint as a Special Assistant Attorney General in California and a lengthier career at a large San Francisco law firm. Conveniently omitted in the press release is that West represented convicted al Qaeda terrorist John Walker Lindh, who is serving a 20-year prison sentence. Lindh was captured in Afghanistan in 2001 while fighting against the U.S.-backed Northern Alliance as a member of the Taliban army. He actually pleaded guilty to aiding the Taliban and carrying explosives while fighting U.S. troops in the region. Holder also knows a thing or two about defending terrorists. After all, he was a senior partner in a prestigious Washington D.C. law firm (Covington & Burling) that represented more than a dozen Yemeni terrorists held at the U.S. military prison in Guantanamo Bay Cuba. While Holder was a senior partner the firm employed a number of radical attorneys to provide the Islamic extremists with thousands of hours of free legal representation, according to a news report. Another highlight in Holder’s resume is that he orchestrated Bill Clinton’s shameful last-minute pardons, including that of a fugitive financier and a pair of jailed domestic terrorists. In fact, shortly after the pardon scandal, Holder predicted that his public career was over. Under his leadership the DOJ has been embroiled in a number of high-profile scandals, including a gun-running operation (Fast and Furious) in which weapons were sold to Mexican drug cartels. One was later used to murder a federal agent. Judicial Watch has sued the DOJ to obtain records involving the operation. I feel compelled to contrast that story with this one from Fox News (April 2009). Excerpt: The government considers you a terrorist threat if you oppose abortion, own a gun or are a returning war veteran. That’s what House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Lamar Smith, R-Texas, said Wednesday in response to a Department of Homeland Security report warning of the rise of right-wing extremist groups. Smith, who said the report on “right-wing extremism” amounts to “political profiling,” said that DHS is “using people’s political views to assess an individual’s susceptibility to terror recruitment.” He joins a growing chorus of protest from irate conservative groups that are protesting the report’s findings. The report, titled “Rightwing Extremism: Current Economic and Political Climate Fueling Resurgence in Radicalization and Recruitment,” released last week by DHS’ Office of Intelligence and Analysis, said while there is no specific information that domestic right-wing terrorists are planning acts of violence, it suggests acts of violence could come from unnamed “rightwing extremists” concerned about illegal immigration, abortion, increasing federal power and restrictions on firearms — and it singles out returning war veterans as susceptible to recruitment. [...]DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano defended the report Wednesday, saying it is part of an ongoing series of assessments to provide information to state, local and tribal law enforcement agencies on “violent radicalization” in the United States. This story goes to show you steeped in moral relativism the Obama administration is – the good people are evil, the evil people are good. winteryknight.wordpress.com

To: GROUND ZERO™ who wrote (67047)	3/5/2012 2:31:28 PM
From: John	2 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 103300

I completely agree, GZ, but that's what the lower tiers voted for and they outnumber us. If we can manage to elect Romney in November, when he takes office in January he and his adminstration must not waltz in there like nothing has happened over the past four years. He needs to swiftly respond as though he is addressing the worst natural disaster in the history of the world. I don't want to see any of this "reaching across the aisle" nonsense when he builds his cabinet and makes appointments. If he has a majority in Congress, and all indications are that he will, they must all act in unison to repeal, revoke, rescind, and remove ALL Obama laws, orders, and policies. Then, they must set about taking very unpopular (with the left) actions that will prevent this kind of nightmare from ever happening again. I doubt they will do any of that, unfortunately. No lessons will have been learned, much less acted on. Yes, the nation will be far better off than under Obama, but beyond that, the presence of undesirables and illegals will still pervade society and I damned well want to know what the government plans to do about it. We're not electing them to facilitate the presence of undesirables and illegals and make their lives happier, easier, and pleasant. I want to see full deportations like during Ike's "Operation Wetback". I also want to see more jails, prisons, and execution centers built and used, and I damned sure want to see welfare and all forms of socialism ended in ways that are fair to those who have paid into those unsavory plans. As many people are, I am completely nauseated by any thoughts of the government regardless of who is in charge. This will all end very, very badly someday. -nfg-