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THE WEIRS TIMES & THE COCHECO TIMES, Thursday, April 26, 2012
NO MORE “MR. OBAMA IS A NICE GUY”
There is a re-
by Michelle Malkin
Syndicated Columnist
flexive desire among a cer- tain species of moderate Re- publicans to be perceived as “civil” by liberal opponents who believe that the mere existence of free-market, limited-govern-
ment conservatism is an indecent affront to humankind. All aboard the U.S.S. Lost Cause. This disastrous, bend-over bi-
YOU THINKING? WASHINGTON --
by Oliver North Syndicated Columnist
My dear friend and fellow Ma- rine Joe Foss -- a Medal of Honor recipient -- would ask me occasional ly, “What were you thinking?” The question usual- ly was prompted by my missed
shot on a hunt or when he heard me make a confusing comment on radio or television. Given the re- cent revelations of bad behavior, incompetence, corruption, waste and fraud -- and a deluge of mys- tifying and misleading explana- tions -- the potentates of the press are asking the wrong questions. The American people need to ask our nation’s leaders and the mas- ters of the so-called mainstream media, “What were you thinking?” A few recent examples: --The Secret Service scandal.
On April 11, security cameras in Cartagena, Colombia, captured images of 11 Secret Service agents and at least 10 U.S. military per- sonnel in the company of prosti- tutes. Set aside for a moment the lack of moral judgment by the participants or how an “advance team of experts” for the upcom- ing Summit of the Americas could be ignorant of security cameras. In the aftermath of this incident and an ongoing investigation, the president and likely GOP presi- dential candidate Mitt Romney -- also a Secret Service protectee -- both have told reporters repeat- edly that they still “have confi- dence” in Secret Service Director Mark Sullivan. “Why?” That ought to be the next question. But that isn’t asked. Perhaps the most unusual re-
sponse to this event came from the lips of Gen. Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. At an April 16 news confer- See NORTH on 26
WHAT WERE
partisanship is a hard habit to break. In 2008, Arizona Sen. John McCain rode the “Barack Obama is a nice guy, but vote for me” wave to crashing defeat. In 2012, Mc- Cain’s endorsee, Mitt Romney, has made “Barack Obama is a nice guy but in over his head” a standard stump-speech talking point. Conservatives of good will who’ve watched President Obama brutal- ize his enemies have one question for the nice-guy niceties: Why, GOP, why? Romney’s smarter-than-thou
strategists explain that he can’t scare off independents and Demo- crats with straight talk about Obama’s thuggery. But he’s turn- ing off the conservative base, on whom his hold is tenuous. More importantly, Romney’s McCain- lite impersonation is also writing off independents and Democrats who’ve come to realize what the myriad targets of White House bul- lying have learned the hard way over the past four years: Barack Obama is not a “nice guy.” Ask Gerald Walpin, the former
AmeriCorps inspector general who was pushed out of his job by the Obamas after exposing fraud and corruption perpetrated by Democratic mayor of Sacramento and Obama friend Kevin Johnson.
Walpin was unceremoniously fired and smeared by Team Obama. The White House baselessly questioned the veteran watchdog’s mental health and never apologized for slandering him. Ask the family, friends and co- workers of murdered Border Pa- trol Agent Brian Terry. They have been forced to sue the Obama administration to combat the Op- eration Fast and Furious cover-up of deadly policy decisions that led to their hero’s death. “I think they are liars, and I would tell them that,” Terry’s father, Kent, said of Obama’s henchmen. As Townhall editor Katie Pavlich
makes clear in her devastating new book, “Fast and Furious: Barack Obama’s Bloodiest Scandal and Its Shameless Cover-Up,” the presi- dent, his corrupt attorney general, Eric Holder, and their minions weren’t “in over their heads.” They knew exactly what they were doing and have obstructed investigations into the bloody consequences of their policies ever since. That’s not “nice.” It’s rotten to the core. Nice? Ask those who have felt the wrath of Obama: tea party mem- bers, bitter-clinging gun owners and voters of faith; budget-reform leaders, such as Wisconsin’s GOP Rep. Paul Ryan and Gov. Scott Walker, Chrysler creditors and dealers, and Delphi auto-parts workers strong-armed and cut out of the White House auto bail- out negotiations with United Auto Workers; the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Americans for Pros- perity and their donors; Fox News, conservative talk-radio giant Rush Limbaugh; the Congressional Budget Office and the Supreme Court. There is nothing shameful about shattering the left’s defining fraud- ulent narrative -- which was pro- See MALKIN on 22
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