Blatant Reality

Barack Obama seems to be pissing off everyone in the world that he has pledged to meet with without “preconditions.” This morning, the Palestinians voiced their anger over Barack’s stance on Jerusalem being strictly an Israeli capital and now Iran believes that Obama’s ‘elimination’ threat is ‘unacceptable.’ (My emphasis)

Iran’s foreign ministry on Thursday slammed US Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama’s pledge to work to “eliminate” the threat posed by Tehran as “unacceptable” and biased.

 

“It is undeniable that the nature of the Iranian nuclear programme is peaceful,” foreign ministry spokesman Mohammad Ali Hosseini said, quoted by the official IRNA news agency.

 

“These comments are certainly one-sided and unreal, and are completely contrary to the nature of the Iranian peaceful nuclear programme and thus unacceptable,” he added.

 

Obama vowed on Wednesday that he would work to “eliminate” the threat posed by Iran to world security.

 

“The danger from Iran is grave and real and my goal will be to eliminate this threat,” he told the influential pro-Israel lobby, the American Israel Public Affairs Council (AIPAC).

Man, I sure hope Barack wasn’t expecting the election to get any easier now that he is the presumptive nominee.

Now the Palestinians are outraged at Barack Obama’s promise that Jerusalem must remain solely in Israeli hands. (My emphasis)

President Mahmoud Abbas rejected the U.S. presidential candidate’s pledge to American Jewish leaders and he repeated his demand for a Palestinian state with Arab East Jerusalem as its capital.

 

“This statement is totally rejected,” Abbas told reporters in the West Bank administrative centre of Ramallah.

 

“The whole world knows that East Jerusalem, holy Jerusalem, was occupied in 1967 and we will not accept a Palestinian state without having Jerusalem as the capital of a Palestinian state.”

 

Abbas aide Saeb Erekat said Palestinian negotiators engaged in U.S.-sponsored peace talks would continue to insist on securing East Jerusalem, captured by Israel in 1967, as their capital. He said of Obama: “He has closed all doors to peace.”

Wow, “all doors of peace.” And people think Bush hasn’t done enough to end the violence between Israel and Palestine. At least he didn’t close “all doors to peace” before he was even elected president.

Well, this morning Obama spoke to AIPAC about his ‘unshakable commitment’ to Israel’s cause but the pro-Israel community must ask just how unshakable is it? Just yesterday, reports came out that as recently as 1999 Barack Obama was a very strong supporter of the Palestinian cause.

Reminds me of another presidential flip flopper.

Once again, we see that Planned Parenthood is raking tons of money with a third of it coming from taxpayer money. The question remains, why aren’t Republicans in Washington doing anything about it?
-Michelle Malkin has more on this:

http://michellemalkin.com/2008/06/04/planned-parenthoods-obscene-profits/

Since Clinton is basically defeated (even if she will not admit it), her supporters are now shopping for a new candidate. And where are they going? Well, at least some are finding a home with the GOP.

Wow, what a sad day it is when liberal Clinton supporters are deciding rather to support the Republican candidate than a Democrat.

Now the only thing I haven’t figured out is for what side it’s a sad day. I mean, if unarguably liberal Clinton supporters can relate more with “conservative” McCain than ultra-liberal Obama, what does that say about McCain’s conservatism?

I know we (the GOP) need all the help we can come November but the implications of this probably won’t do anything to reassure conservatives.

Hat Tip Gateway Pundit

Well I just got this fancy new Samsung Blackjack and I decided its going to be fun trying to blog from these tiny keys. Because of certain limitations, here are some things to keep in mind :

-I can’t hyperlink but I will include the link so you can copy/paste the URL.
-I can only link to one thing per post.
-I don’t have spell check
-And finally it takes really long to post so be appreciative of every post you see categorized as ‘Blackjack Blogs’. Every single post is a labor of love.

Other than that, I hope you enjoy these post. No idea how frequent or relavent they will be but I love new experiments.

If you aren’t already aware of this, the United State’s Military has outsourced the production of the Air Force’s new generation of tankers to two European companies (some history on this here and here). These two companies, EADS and Northrop, are going to be receiving this contract that is worth billions of dollars. Normally, globalization is a very good thing that ends up saving everyone money. However, with the current state of the economy and the respective national security implications, this contract should have been awarded to a domestic company.

In fact, Boeing had bid on this contract and was only outbid because these foreign companies are receiving such large subsidies from their respected governments. This, in itself, should be grounds for the US government to not grant this contract to either EADS or Northrop.

Luckily, the US Government Accountability Office will be looking into Boeing’s formal complaint against this decision and should have a ruling towards the end of this month. The Center for Individual Freedom has taken up the fight by launching AmericasTanker.com. This site not only provides updates about this issue, it also allows visitors to send emails to their respective Representatives and Senators.

If you would like to voice your complaint against EADS and Northrop receiving this contract, go here to send an email to your legislator.

One question we must ask ourselves is that in this time of war, do we really want some of our important military technologies in the hands of foreign companies(definitely if it is the French who haven’t been that supportive of us)?

Boeing has been there for us since before World War II and I think that they deserve our support.

Oh that rascally Ron Paul keeps popping up here and there with his latest appearance being at the Missouri Republican State Convention. Just like Barack has a motto (“hope” and “change”) that he keeps repeating over and over again, Paul’s seems to be “Freedom.”

Presidential candidate Ron Paul came to Branson last Friday to speak to a throng of supporters and delegates to the Missouri Republican State Convention.

 

While at the Tri-Lakes Center, Paul spoke on a variety of topics including foreign policy, the war in Iraq, and income taxes, but ultimately his message was about how freedom could remedy a multitude of sins.

 

“Freedom truly is popular. Freedom works,” Paul said. “There is no doubt in my mind that the message of liberty is what this country needs.”

 

His speech outlined the various values of freedom and what it could fix. Freedom from the federal reserve could help with the economic crisis. Paul envisioned a world with no paper money where “gold and silver would be the legal tender,” to which the enthusiastic crowd responded with chants of “No more debt!”

Oh Ron, you have some great conservative ideas but then you have some plain crazy ones. However, I feel like I would definitely prefer your “freedom” over Obama’s “hope” and “change.”

if this ends up being true.

Well, if you have been paying attention to Colorado politics, you probably already know that a new bill is proposing that the state make all bathrooms coed. What you might not know is that this bill was actually signed into law by Governor Ritter.

What a sad day for Colorado.

Hat Tip Sen. Bryant