'Blowhards' and the enemy within

I have managed to stay off the political comment stage in recent months for several reasons.
My health has suffered greatly in the past two years, and checking out the latest sound-bytes of say, Senator Harry "sell-out" Reid, or Congressman "Goldie-lox" Kevin McCarthy, or the latest words of Senator-hero John McCain, or the person I call the "sleeper" and "usurper" in the White House, Barack Obama, has not been in my highest  priorities to do list.

I suppose I may have thought as well, that my comments weren't reaching very many and meant little to anyone other than those possibly few. But, I was surprised! I discovered that there were tons of people reading them, I just hadn't turned on several buttons that I could use in this format to see them. So for all you readers, thank you for tuning in. Today you might get a treat, I plan on blasting policies and trite conversations, possibly by the truckload! After all, I haven't written much lately.

My comments in the past have seemingly been written for newspaper writers and readers; those that gather news from all over the country and in the world, that look forward to reading the various and myriad of editorials and news stories, no matter how much they may disagree with the writer.  Personally, I like the challenge. I don't mind people snickering or guffawing, or outright make disgusting comments about me, at least they made them aloud (so-to-speak), and are therefore not cowards. No, it's those that read these things and either make no comment publicly, but plenty in the 'backrooms,' or pretend that they have little value while all the time seething inside with contempt. They worry me a little.

I knew Harry Reid personally. I knew Kevin McCarthy personally. I have great respect for John McCain. I have little for Barack Obama. From everything I have read to date about him, I get the impression, from patterns in comments, conferences, and sound-bytes, here in the U.S. and in other countries, that he's all smiles in public, but apologetic, floundering, angering, even ruthless, behind the cameras - in other words, a two-faced person.


Don't I look good in this suit?

However, the truth is he may have to be just that person -- at least that's the excuse I'll give him. The world must not see him stumble, and fall; they'll never let you live it down -- remember President Gerald Ford? -- though Obama has tripped on numerous occasions with words spoken, seemingly without aforethought, which I don't necessarily believe is the case, he is painted as a "paper tiger," by writers from all over the world.
Some Western writers have claimed that Obama lives in a "fantasy world," where what he believes is the reality of certain situations, is not reality at all, but a nightmare.

Take the Russian invasion of Ukraine for instance. First Crimea, and now the rest of the country. Russia says they are just protecting their people. Vladimir Putin, the Russian president, seems to look at Obama as though he is a child waiting for the bear to lick him because he's cute or something. Putin looks like a warrior, while Obama looks like he's ready for another round of polo.

But I would remind people that with 20,000 troops and not a shot fired, they took Crimea. Eastern Ukraine may be a little bit tougher -- but you can bet Russia doesn't think so. In each case the only thing Obama did or said was that we would place sanctions on Russia. Now sanctions may work on smaller countries, but in Russia, who is now attempting to regain former ancient lands, and resources, it will hurt a little, but not stop them. They have basically said this already. 

China openly scolds Obama, saying they realize he has to cater to media hype, but when handling serious matters of foreign policy, he must look at realities. Truly, I don't believe Mr. Obama is in a fantasy world, I think he is the enemy within.
I don't know how it was accomplished, other than through the collusion of many very powerful individuals, but Obama came out of nowhere, and in less than three years became the president of the United States. Some say that people wanted to make history; let's put the first brown man in the White House, they said. Some say that his abilities as a speechmaker garnered him much excitement and support. And others say that he simply followed an agenda set forth by a group of business leaders that have way too much power and influence on governments from around the world. These are passed off as "conspiracy theorists." But the truth may be the elephant in the room; Obama is a "sleeper." Do we know much about his childhood? Are you able to gather more information about him that hasn't been filtered and sanitized than the few bits and pieces of a patchwork life and forged documents?

It is no secret what the Islamic agenda is. They intend to convert the world to their radical beliefs, in any way they see fit. There is resistance, but for the most part, governments seem afraid of them. Maybe they ought to be; those that seem to be leading the charge in the Islamic movement have no problem committing murder. My friend calls what is coming, the ultimate, "Clash of Civilizations." My friend knows something about which he speaks; he has lived it, and as I have stated in the biography I'm writing about him, "He has the battle scars to prove it."

In an article in the Jewish Press, May 1, 2014, written by Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu:  http://www.jewishpress.com/news/breaking-news/leading-muslim-cleric-urges-mass-pilgrimages-to-temple-mount/2014/05/01/

The Muslims are out to show that they far outnumber the Jews on the Temple Mount.

A leading Muslim Brotherhood cleric who previously prohibited Muslims from becoming un-pure by visiting the Temple Mount in “occupied” Jerusalem now has decided they won't be tainted because they have an opportunity to try to claim Islamic sovereignty over the holy site by mass pilgrimages from the Arab world.

Sheikh Yussef Qaradawi as recently as last year prohibited Arabs from “tainting” themselves by going to the  Al Aqsa mosque on the Temple Mount, but now has reversed himself following the collapse of  U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry’s Peace Talks Charade.

It seems like Islamic law is not based on the Quran so much as it based on the Arab world’s struggle to destroy Israel as a Jewish country.

The sheikh previously has written on sites such as Onislam.net and in an e-book that there is no connection between Jerusalem and Jews, that Jerusalem is “occupied” and that therefore “visits are banned in order to deprive the occupier of legitimacy.”

The cleric, now 85, added, “Those who visit legitimize an entity which plunders Palestinian lands, and are forced to cooperate with the enemy’s embassy to receive a visa. We must feel as though we are banned from Jerusalem and fight for it until it is ours.”

His 180-degree about-face, published in a Jordanian newspaper this week, exposes Islamic law as a convenience store that sells anti-Jewish religious edicts as the word from Allah. Islamic law is whatever a Muslim cleric thinks is politically correct.

In 2009, he said in a sermon during the IDF’s counter-terror  Operation Cast Lead campaign in Gaza, O Allah, take your enemies, the enemies of Islam. O Allah, take the Jews, the treacherous aggressors. “O Allah, take this profligate, cunning, arrogant band of people. O Allah, they have spread much tyranny and corruption in the land. Pour your wrath upon them, O our God. Lie in wait for them…. take this oppressive, Jewish Zionist band of people. O Allah, do not spare a single one of them. O Allah, count their numbers, and kill them, down to the very last one.”

As recently as last September, Qaradawi told Qatar TV, according to a translation supplied by MEMRI, he would not participate in an inter-faith dialogue if Jews were present. “If you invite the Jews, I will not participate,” he stated. “I will participate in a Muslim-Christian meeting, but with the Jews there should be no debate.

“Those Jews have committed clear injustice against us. They have shed our blood, killed our children, displaced our people, seized our lands, and usurped our rights.”

He also has said just as “Allah has imposed upon the Jews people who would punish them for their corruption,… The last punishment was carried out by Hitler…. Allah willing, the next time will be at the hand of the believers.”

This is the same wise Muslim who told anti-Zionist rabbis in 2008, “There is no enmity between Muslims and Jews…. Jews who believe in the authentic Torah are very close to Muslims. Muslims are against the expansionist, oppressive Zionist movement, not the Jews.”

That was before the Arab world finally saw that Israel, after 20 years of concessions to the Palestinian Authority, after erasing almost every red line this side of the Temple Mount, and after releasing nearly 100 murderers the past year, finally said “Dayenu,” – enough.

The sudden appearance of Jews standing up for themselves was a bit of shock for U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry but it was expected by Mahmoud Abbas and the Arab world.