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Politics : How Quickly Can Obama Totally Destroy the US? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: unclewest who wrote (14423)	3/12/2015 9:15:36 PM
From: joseffy	Respond to of 16547

We now know why Thad Cochran did not sign the Senate letter to Iran and it’s not good ........................................................ March 12, 2015 by Ryan S. Walters mississippiconservativedaily.com This week 47 Republican Senators sent a letter to the leaders of Iran in regards to President Obama’s deal on that terrorist nation’s nuclear weapons program. Those Senators, representing the majority party, sought to remind Iran that any deal struck with Obama would likely be a treaty, requiring 2/3s of the Senate to ratify it, a vote that is highly unlikely. Furthermore, any other type of agreement would only be temporary and could be revoked under a new President in just a few short years. Aside from Obama’s unacceptable appeasement mentality, why did they take such an unusual, although not unprecedented, action? Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, who conservatives have come to loathe in recent years, said it best. The President had essentially told Congress “to go to hell.” So they decided to take some action to counter the dangerous path of President Neville Chamberlain Obama . One of the few Republican Senators who did not sign the bill was Thad Cochran, who thinks the administration should use a more cautious approach in dealing with Iran. “I think taking one step at a time and making one decision at a time is a better policy than trying in one sentence to describe what the policy is or ought to be,” he said. He even believes Obama, someone he thought would make a good President, understands the threat Iran poses: “I think everybody understands we’re not going to just sit back and let potential adversaries put us in a position where we can’t defend ourselves and protect our country’s interests.” So Cochran is obviously siding with Obama on this issue, as dangerous is it is. We can now put him squarely in the Chamberlain camp on Iran. But why would he do that? Today we found a major reason why Cochran did not join the defense hawks in the Senate who seek harsher measures against Iran. As we all know, Cochran owes his Senate “victory” over Chris McDaniel to the despicable acts and dirty tricks of the Barbour machine. Now it’s time for Ole Thad to pay the piper! According to a 2012 report in the Huffington Post and Business Insider, a client of Uncle Haley’s lobbying firm is tied to Iran and it’s nuclear program: GOP power broker Haley Barbour’s lobby shop, BGR Group, represents a Russian bank that has financed a company that helped build Iran’s Bushehr nuclear power plant, according to corporate documents and lobbying disclosure records. The bank is owned by a secretive oligarch, Mikhail Fridman, who has met at least twice with White House officials in the last few years, according to visitor logs. As we said during the Senate campaign, Cochran will do Uncle Haley’s bidding, no matter the cost or sacrifice. It seems the corruption never stops with the Barbours, and Cochran is tied up in it too, just as we assured people it would be. Last year we had a golden opportunity to replace Cochran with a true statesman and a patriot who would never have cut any backroom deals with any lobbying firm, let alone the Barbours, and who would never have sold out his country’s security in order to get re-elected. This is truly despicable on Thad Cochran’s part.

To: unclewest who wrote (14423)	3/13/2015 2:14:59 PM
From: joseffy	1 Recommendation Recommended By Woody_Nickels Respond to of 16547

Obama has Democrats attacking Republicans for not going along with his plot to let an avowed enemy state develop nuclear missiles.

To: unclewest who wrote (14423)	3/14/2015 12:09:12 AM
From: joseffy	3 Recommendations Recommended By D.Austin John ManyMoose Respond to of 16547

Strangers give homeless St. Paul vet military rites .................................................................................. By Mara H. Gottfried 03/13/2015 twincities.com A man wearing a Marine T-shirt put his arms around an American flag-draped casket Thursday and hugged it. He was one of about 80 people at Our Savior's Lutheran Church Thursday, paying their respects to Jerry Jackson. Many were strangers who didn't know the 58-year-old Marine veteran who had died alone, his body found frozen in Indian Mounds Park last month. The man giving the casket a final hug was a friend of Jackson's and a fellow Marine. Jerome Wilson Jackson grew up in St. Paul's Midway neighborhood. In the Marines from 1975-78, he was a lance corporal. More recently, Jackson was homeless and apparently died of exposure last month. His body was found in a makeshift shack Feb. 21. "Dying homeless, in a park, during a bitterly cold winter is a sad and tragic way to die." said the Rev. Brian Scoles, pastor at Our Saviour's "Most people didn't understand why he went down there to sleep when it was 11 below," said Jackson's brother, Don Jackson, who drove up from Missouri for the funeral and searched the Mississippi River bluffs Wednesday for the place his brother died. "It makes sense, but it doesn't make sense," Jackson said. "He was proud." "He wanted to be his own man; he wanted to be in charge of his destiny, which I think was robbed from him sometimes during his life." Jackson's funeral was organized by people who volunteered their services. Mueller Memorial handled the arrangements for free. "The way in which he died was so awful, I think people wanted to stand up and say, 'You mattered to me,' " said Scott Mueller, who owns the funeral home. Mueller says he received a note from a man who said he'd served in the Marine Corps, asking him to accept a few dollars for the funeral. Mueller passed the check along to the church. Unlike the day he died, Jackson's funeral was held on a day that felt more like spring. Jackson's pallbearers. from the Arcade-Phalen American Legion Post 577, were men who had never met him. "We're honored to do it," said John Weiss, the post commander. "No man left behind." A police officer at the Minneapolis VA Medical Center where Jackson had received care remembered him and had approached the Marine Corps to bury Jackson with full military honors. In their dress blues, a Marine honor guard fired a three-volley salute, and a bugler played taps. The U.S. flag that draped Jackson's casket was ceremoniously folded and presented to his brother. Don Jackson met his brother's friends the day before the funeral at the St. Paul Saloon, where Jerry Jackson had hung out for years. "It was calming. It had a way of making me see that, 'Yes, he died, but it wasn't in vain.' His life was more than just being a hobo. ... These are lifestyles that people choose and that's the way they want to live their life. They can't live their life under authority, they want the freedom. Knowing his life now makes it a lot easier to understand." Jerome William Jackson (Courtesy photo)