Obama recruits his minions to be his spies

Here in South Carolina the Obama campaign sent an email today encouraging his supporters to keep an eye on the Republicans and report back to them what they hear:

The Republican candidates have brought their primary circus on the road straight to South Carolina. That means we’re going to see a lot of them in the next eight or so days.

What’ll we hear from them? If Iowa and New Hampshire were any indication, false attacks on the President’s record — and even on the President himself.

We also have an important role as our would-be opponents fight for votes on their side: We need to hold them accountable for what they say while they’re here, because soon after they leave, we’ll have a race to run against one of them.

So tell us: What are you seeing on the ground? What are you hearing from your neighbors? What about these candidates needs to be told to fellow South Carolinians - and the rest of the country?

Our state’s GOP primaries can get a little rowdy. So it’s imperative that folks on our side don’t just stand on the sidelines while Republicans lie about themselves and us.

Here’s how:

We’ve been targeted by TV ads, robocalls, and mailings for months. So if you’ve gotten a call, heard an ad, or received a piece of direct mail, you can let us know.

We’ve also gotten to know some of the candidates personally as they’ve visited our state in the past few days and weeks. So if you’ve attended an event or even had a personal interaction with one of the contenders that you think voters should know about, we want to hear it.

Thanks for all you do to support the President here — by volunteering on the ground, and by keeping an ear to it:

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Gingrich the Tyrant

Newt Gingrich made news this week with a couple of media encounters where he suggests he would ignore rulings by the courts including the US Supreme Court if he were to disagree with their rulings. He wants to look like a tough guy but in taking these positions he reveals his disrespect or perhaps lack of knowledge of the separation of powers that were designed into our Constitution to prevent the rise of a monarch, tyrant, and dictator from the presidency. 

You don’t have to look very far to see examples in Venezuela, Hondurus, and other countries where presidents, perhaps even elected presidents, managed to destroy their representative constitutional republics into dictatorships. 

Does Newt really believe Barack Obama should have and use these same powers to eliminate the next presidential election? If he has these powers all he has to do is sign an executive order declaring himself President for life and then just ignore any attempt by the courts to rein him in if he disagrees with their ruling that he cannot abolish elections?

Another one bites the dust.

Obama asserts right to kill US citizens

The Obama administration asserted this week that they should be allowed to kill any American citizen anywhere in the world if the President states that they are at war with the US or aiding terrorists. They say the President doesn’t have to prove his claim about a citizen or even present any evidence in support of his designation of an executive death order against a citizen and Citizens killed under his rule would not have the right (via their survivors) to challenge the legality of the murder of a citizen under this doctrine. 

What has become of the country of Lincoln, Jefferson, Kennedy, and Washington? How did we get to this point? Is there no liberty more important than presidential power? Who put these tyrants in power? Who will remove them from office before they complete their destruction of the United States? 

Call your representatives and remind them what will happen to those who support this dangerous policy. No more Life, Liberty, or Pursuit of happiness in this country until we have a regime change.

Cuba and US - Different Directions?

Cuba has recently made some small internal changes that give more freedom - limited as it is - to their citizens while the US continues to restrict our liberties. Cuban citizens are now, for the first time in decades, allowed to buy and sell houses and cars and will be allowed to take out loans for home improvements or to start or expand private businesses. Additionally hundreds of thousands of small business licenses have been granted with private business actually encouraged for a change while our government continues to add regulation to regulation to make it harder and harder to open and stay afloat in small business. 

These trends in the US need to be reversed soon if the economy is to make a sustained economy. Cuba is laying off government workers while we’re hiring more. Cuba figured out that many government jobs were redundent and unnecessary while we look as the government as a jobs program first, and servent of the people last if at all.