Tuesday, July 31, 2012


Amazing!

“It is hard to gauge the influence of this kind of material in a political campaign. Probably it evokes a response only in those who want to believe it – that is, in those whose prejudices make them hospitable to such appeals. It is doubtful that this kind of appeal can be countered on any rational basis. But there can be no doubt whatsoever that it debases the political process and does irreparable damage to the fabric of social unity.”

~ “Debasement of Politics,” The Washington Post editorial, September 2, 1960


“As the Campaign Opens,” stating: “There will always be in any election and between elections small-minded and prejudiced persons who have a neurotic compulsion to feel superior to somebody or an urge to blame some racial or minority group for their own individual failures or misfortunes. But these people are not representative of America. They have rarely determined elections in the past and they will not determine the one that is coming. Millions of Catholics, Protestants, Jews, and people of no formal faith will testify that prejudice cannot be endorsed in this country without doing political damage to the persons or candidates who endorse it.”

~ “As the Campaign Opens,” NY Times editorial, September 4, 1960

“It professes to be in favor of the separation of church and state; but it is doing its utmost to inject the consideration of religion into the politics of the Nation. It professes to be in favor of religious freedom; but it argues that if a man belongs to a particular Church he is not free to become President of the United States.”

~ "Negative Thinking," The Post editorial on a group promoting religious bigotry, September 9, 1960

Source: http://m.newsbusters.org/blogs/paul-wilson/2012/07/31/jfk-and-mitt-media-s-double-standard-faith


Let the Liberal Hatefest Begin

Letter to the editor submission to the Rochester-Post Bulletin:

"You Didn't Build That" Speech

"You didn't build that."

Four words that distill Barack Obama's arrogant attitude, out-of-touch condition and terminal ignorance of what it takes to build a business, much less become successful at it.

Having been raised and mentored by feral Communists, Obama does not believe in private property or the value of entrepreneurship. He has never built anything in his vacuous and unproductive life, yet he believes he can lecture business owners on who really made their business possible — the almighty government.

Obama's only forays into private business demonstrate the extent of his ignorance of what it takes to build and maintain a private business venture. The verdict on the president's much-touted bailout of General Motors, which would not have been possible without taxpayer money — wealth which he didn't build — is still out. Solyndra, the failed solar panel company owned by bundlers to his re-election campaign, is another stellar example of Obama's business acumen. The taxpayers lost more than half a billion dollars in loan guarantees to a company widely known to be in dire financial straits.

The most recent gross domestic product report issued by the Commerce Department indicates that it has reached an impressive — by Obama standards — 1.5 percent growth. Need I mention the current unemployment level? It's 8.2 percent in cooked numbers.

Barack Obama brought change to America all right. For the worse.

Othelmo da Silva
Rochester