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Showing posts with label Michele Bachmann. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Michele Bachmann. Show all posts

Wednesday, March 30, 2011

Obama Prepares- Deploys Ground Troops to Libya



HT: Posted on March 30, 2011 at 9:22am by Jonathon M. Seidl Jonathon M. Seidl
During a “Fox & Friends” interview on Wednesday, Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) made some strong statements about America’s intervention in Libya. Not only dis she call this Obama’s war, but she also said sending troops in looks like a possibility.
“We’re looking at a full scale escalation, potentially United States troops on the ground — we were assured by our president that that would not happen — and now a call for arms. So this is President Obama’s war, even though he’s not using that term, we are now engaged in a third Middle Eastern battle.
“I think this was the wrong move at the wrong time,” she added:
Bachmann’s assertion that troops may end up on the ground is not far-fetched considering 2,200 sailors and marines have just been deployed off the coast of Libya. WTVD reports:
Twenty-two hundred Marines and sailors from Camp Lejeune are preparing to deploy off the coast of Libya in northern Africa. They said goodbye to their families Monday afternoon, and they’ll be leaving in the days ahead.
“There’s always in the back of your mind what if, what could happen,” Marine wife Carrie Cochran said. [...]
The 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit was set to deploy to the Mediterranean later this year but that got bumped up once NATO forces launched an air assault on Libya.
The unit is relieving the 26th MEU, which took part in some of the initial assaults. The 22nd is a Marine, air and ground task force. Some are trained for aviation combat, others for ground combat. They can handle evacuations and humanitarian missions too.[Emphasis added]
Whatever the president decides, Cochran’s husband, Sergeant Lewis Cochran, says he told his little boy, Dylan, he’s ready.
“My Marines, all the Marines the whole PLT is ready to go,” Sgt. Cochran said.


Thursday, March 10, 2011

Mark Levin Issues Urgent Call: "Only Chance to Stop O-Care" After Bachmann/King Interview



Mark Levin interviewed Michele Bachmann and Steve King tonight and the big takeaway is that if we don’t kill the 105 billion of ObamaCare funding in the Continuing Resolution that will be released tomorrow, we lose our chance to do it. Thus, Bachmann and King are trying to get other House Republicans to sign on with them to force the leadership’s hand to add this to the CR (because they are being very stubborn). But they need you to call your Representative to put pressure on them so that they get on board with this.
Levin has begun one of his famous surges and has already posted this on his Facebook:
THIS IS A LEVIN SURGE! Call your member of Congress and say, “Vote No… On the Continuing Resolution because it doesn’t cut funding for Obamacare!” 202.224.3121
This is absolutely crucial, as it is the ONLY chance we have to kill this funding that Democrats hid in the ObamaCare bill.
Listen to the interview below to get a better understanding of it. And listen to the end for some tough talk from both Levin and Bachmann. She has a one liner in there that I thought was just awesome. And please pass this interview around.

Thursday, March 3, 2011

Obama: Tea Party Racially Organized, Racist Motivation.






Posted: March 2, 2011




Backlash. There were many effects stemming from Obama's presidency, both those that were expected and those that were not. One was a surprising surge in the number of black Republican candidates in themidterm elections of November 2010. At least 32 African-Americans were running for Congress as Republicans . . . the largest number since Reconstruction, according to The New York Times. The last time there was a black Republican serving in the House was 2003, when J. C. Watts of Oklahoma left office after eight years. The New York Times found that "many of the candidates suggest that they felt empowered by Mr. Obama's election, that it made them realize that what had once seemed impossible—for a black candidate to win election with substantial white support—was not." The states where these candidates were running included Arkansas, Arizona, and Florida.
[Top aide] Valerie Jarrett told me, "I think at the time of his victory, there was an enormous amount of historical significance to this country being able to elect a person who was African-American as president. I think that there are probably people who still see him as an African-American president favorably and unfavorably. But the vast majority of people, I think, see him as their president. I think that because he inherited such a crisis on all fronts—two wars, an economic meltdown, a fiscal meltdown, the largest deficit in our nation's history, and a health crisis, energy crisis, education crisis, confidence crisis around the world—because of this extraordinary moment in history when he stepped in, I don't think there has been a lot of time to focus on his race. People just want to know, 'Are you going to be able to improve the quality of my life?'"
But Obama, in his most candid moments, acknowledged that race was still a problem. In May 2010, he told guests at a private White House dinner that race was probably a key component in the rising opposition to his presidency from conservatives, especially right-wing activists in the anti-incumbent "Tea Party" movement that was then surging across the country. Many middle-class and working-class whites felt aggrieved and resentful that the federal government was helping other groups, including bankers, automakers, irresponsible people who had defaulted on their mortgages, and the poor, but wasn't helping them nearly enough, he said.
A guest suggested that when Tea Party activists said they wanted to "take back" their country, their real motivation was to stir up anger and anxiety at having a black president, and Obama didn't dispute the idea. He agreed that there was a "subterranean agenda" in the anti-Obama movement—a racially biased one—that was unfortunate. But he sadly conceded that there was little he could do about it.
His goal, he said, was to be as effective and empathetic a president as possible for all Americans. If he could accomplish that, it would advance racial progress for blacks more than anything else he could do. 


h/t
http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2011/03/02/obama-says-race-a-key-component-in-tea-party-protests?PageNr=3