End of Day -11/12/09
 

Thursday, November 12, 2009

To: Friends & Supporters

From: Gary L. Bauer

 

BREAKING NEWS

There are reports out of New York’s 23rd District of major voting irregularities. Conservative Party candidate Doug Hoffman may have conceded too early. Recanvassing has dramatically narrowed Democrat Bill Owens’ lead to just 3,000 votes, with thousands of absentee ballots still to be counted.

Even though Democrat Bill Owens was sworn in, New York state sent a letter to Speaker Nancy Pelosi making it clear that “no winner had been determined in the 23rd District, and therefore the state had not certified the election.” According to a spokesman for the New York Board of Elections, “all ballots will be counted, and if the result changes, Owens will have to be removed.” Stay tuned. If there are further developments, we will report them.


Obama Demands More Options

A little more than two months ago, General Stanley McChrystal, commander of American forces in Afghanistan, requested that President Obama send an additional 40,000 troops to defeat insurgent Taliban and al-Qaeda forces in the country. Obama said time and again that he would not choose his strategy hastily, but rather in a deliberate manner, weighing all the options. Today, the White House leaked that Obama has heard all the options from his national security team, and has rejected all of them.

For the past two months, Obama has held dozens of meetings regarding Afghanistan; but, interestingly, none of them included Republican leaders in Congress. Despite the Democrats’ harsh criticisms of his foreign policy decisions, President Bush regularly invited them into briefings on national security. Even though Obama has rejected all options on the table, the administration has still not said that Republicans would be involved in the decision-making process as it continues.

Officials say Obama wants his national security team to go back to the drawing board. More specifically, Obama wants to know a timeline of “how and when” the U.S. can exit the war. Can you imagine if during World War II FDR had announced a deadline for American forces to pull out of the European or Pacific theaters? We would have surely lost as such a statement would have emboldened Hitler’s forces and the Japanese. Announcing to your enemy when you plan to stop fighting is a military disaster. Statements like this will assure defeat in Afghanistan.

And consider this: The president is always demanding that major pieces of legislation be rushed through Congress with little debate and little time to read the legislation. But when it comes to our national security, Barack Obama seems incapable of making tough decisions.

Had the media done a better job of vetting Obama, perhaps more voters would have thought twice about putting a man in the Oval Office who voted “present” more than 100 times in the Illinois State Legislature. Even Joe Biden warned us during the primary campaign. Biden said in 2007 that Obama wasn’t ready to lead and that the presidency is not something that lends itself to on the job training. Obama is learning the hard way that he may have been able to get away with indecision on the campaign trail, but that the president can’t vote “present.” It’s a tragedy that one man’s weakness is putting more American lives in harm’s way.


The “Crazy” Hasan

ABC and several other news outlets are reporting that Major Nidal Hasan, the Ft. Hood killer, had contacts with numerous Muslim extremists and had visited jihadist “chat rooms” on the Internet. Anonymous FBI officials predict the details of his other suspicious activities will become public soon. I hope so. But there are a lot of important people, from the president to media mavens, who are obviously committed to convincing us that we shouldn’t believe our own eyes and ears.

First they suggested that Hasan was suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Obama was pushing that idea earlier this week when he suggested that sometimes soldiers just “crack.” And it was the first and most popular speculation by reporters right after they told us not to jump to conclusions. But the PTSD explanation itself began to crack when it became apparent that Major Hasan had never been in combat and had never formally asked to leave the Army.

Now the “jihadist deniers” are suggesting Hasan was just plain crazy – paranoid, delusional, and a psychotic. His acts didn’t have anything to do with Islam, they argue. Rather, he had a chemical imbalance leading to some brain cells misfiring.

Under this theory, the Palestinian mother who encourages her children to become suicide bombers to kill Jews just needs some counseling. The jihadists who throw acid in the faces of little Afghan girls because they want to go to school could be helped with a prescription of Prozac. The American Muslims arrested in recent months in plots to attack Ft. Dix, Quantico, and other U.S. military bases could get counseling under universal health care. Perhaps President Obama should send 40,000 psychiatrists to Afghanistan instead of soldiers.

Islamofascism is by definition crazy, certainly by our standards. How else can one explain radical Muslims who hail the 9/11 hijackers as heroes, while at the same time arguing that the Jews or the CIA or both attacked America that day to provoke us to attack Muslim countries?  Islamofascists are molded, directed and inspired by what the jihadists have concluded their faith requires of them. There are plenty of imams, Islamic “scholars,” Islamic schools, web sites, books, movies and mosques encouraging them to be “soldiers for Allah.”

If our leaders – after all the beheadings, homicide bombings, honor killings and other atrocities – still don’t get it, then I think the evidence is clear that they – not “crazy” Hasan – are the ones who are delusional.


Why Not 14?

The Army officially charged Major Hasan today with 13 counts of premeditated murder. Why not 14 counts? One of Hasan’s victims, 21 year-old Francheska Velez of Chicago, was nine weeks into her pregnancy. Hasan should be charged with the murder of her unborn baby and could be charged under the Unborn Victims of Violence Act, otherwise known as Laci and Conner’s Law.

The Unborn Victims of Violence Act was signed into law by President Bush in 2004. It acknowledges the obvious: In a violent crime against a pregnant woman there are two victims – the mother and the baby. Today, our staff double-checked the law, and it covers the Uniform Code of Military Justice. In fairness, officials announcing the charges today made it clear that additional charges were possible, and the Associated Press reports that a 14th murder charge for Private Velez’ baby is under consideration.


S.O.S – Stop Obama’s Socialism!

As I write, the banner headline on the Drudge Report reads: “TEXAS GOV. SAYS USA HEADING TOWARD SOCIALISM.” I agree with Governor Rick Perry, and that’s why we created our “S.O.S” bumper stickers. I’ll be sending Governor Perry a bumper sticker in appreciation for his willingness to speak out. Do you have your sticker yet?

For a $25 donation in support of our efforts to elect pro-family, pro-life conservatives to Congress, you’ll get our “S.O.S” bumper sticker as our thanks to you. Taking back Congress from the Obama/Pelosi/Reid axis of liberalism is the only way we will stop Obama’s socialism. Click here to get your S.O.S sticker today!


 

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