Obama violates the Logan Act

Picture from Washington Times.

The Logan Act:

§ 953. Private correspondence with foreign governments.
Any citizen of the United States, wherever he may be, who, without authority of the United States, directly or indirectly commences or carries on any correspondence or intercourse with any foreign government or any officer or agent thereof, with intent to influence the measures or conduct of any foreign government or of any officer or agent thereof, in relation to any disputes or controversies with the United States, or to defeat the measures of the United States, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than three years, or both.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logan_Act

"At the same time the Bush administration was negotiating a still elusive agreement to keep the U.S. military in Iraq, Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama tried to convince Iraqi leaders in private conversations that the president shouldn't be allowed to enact the deal without congressional approval.

Mr. Obama's conversations with the Iraqi leaders, confirmed to The Washington Times by his campaign aides, began just two weeks after he clinched the Democratic presidential nomination in June and stirred controversy over the appropriateness of a White House candidate's contacts with foreign governments while the sitting president is conducting a war.

Some of the specifics of the conversations remain the subject of dispute. Iraqi leaders purported to The Times that Mr. Obama urged Baghdad to delay an agreement with Mr. Bush until next year when a new president will be in office - a charge the Democratic campaign denies.

Link to Washington Times.

Such outrageous actions and violation of the law leaves me speechless. Yet the main stream media says nothing.

Take me too!

A little humor

The best one I've heard in a while..... for some reason it seems to fit the conversations I have had with my broker..

A man boarded a plane with 6 kids.
After they got settled in their seats a woman sitting across the aisle from him
leaned over to him and asked, 'Are all
of those kids yours?'
He replied, 'No. I work for a condom company. These are customer complaints

Hat tip to Terry M.

Christiane Amanpour and other outrages...bump and update

Wish I had said that:

"If it weren't for that put-on British accent, Christiane Amanpour would be reporting on pest control in Bolivia, and that's an insult to the Bolivians. She proves that ignorance, bigotry, and an inability to distinguish truth from fiction are no barriers to success in journalism."

The above comes from William Katz at UrgentAgenda. If you don't read him daily you are missing a real treat. Of course he has an advanatge... talent.

Do you ever wonder where people like Amanpour come from? Is there some "worm hole" that connects to an alternate universe where the US is evil with no value?? My love of science fiction aside, I doubt it.

But a few minutes ago I heard Senator Thune explain that last summer Congress authorized ACRON, you know, the people who registering every person in sight, to receive 4.5% of funds provided by Congress. Now the bailout bill supposedly shut ACRON off, but since there is a conflict here it is up to the "Director" whether or not they get the money... Well duhhhh.... do we really have to guess what that means?

Now let me see, 4.5% of $700,000,000,000.00 is $31,500,000,000.00 and that's enough to have a revolution with.

Maybe that "worm hole" does exist.....

Update.

I gave Senator Corker's office a call and had a chat with a nice young man who noted that the bill was introduced last February and that the Senator was only 1 of about 12 that voted against it. It was passed in July.

And that the money isn't exclusively ACRON, but to the various Non Profits... some of which are supposed to help people fight eviction from their homes...

Okay, the outrage has gone from get the pitchforks and torches level to just get the pitchforks...

I asked the young man two questions.

First, why didn't the Senator filibuster the bill from the floor of the Senate. He explained that the Democrats had enough Republican votes to pass it so it would have been useless. True, but it would at least have, just maybe, gotten enough exposure that the public would have raised enough hell that the needed 60 votes would have washed away.

Secondly, why did the Senator call a press conference, issue a press release, etc. and whatever, condemning the bill??

Look, my dear Repub chums, and Demos too, the cable news networks gobble content like crazy. Call them. Tell them you want to make a statement. At least that is doing something.

Paulson and Bernake... take the rest of the week off

Guys, can we talk?

I know you mean well, but look...

Yesterday AM the market was having a nice little bounce, somewhere around up 200 when Bernake made his speech.... It went into a tail spin and lost around what... 300? 500??

Today the market was having a nice little bounce when Paulson made his speech... It went to a tail spin and lost around 200...

So look, just take the rest of the week off. I can't afford any moreof your jaw boning... I am tired of feeding the bears!

Obama, Bill Morris and the G20

I am not a great fan of Dick Morris. He came too late to the side of the angels and I don't think he is as smart as he thinks he is. Two traits that any true southerner would be put off by.

But he does make some astute observations from time.

This summarizes Hussein's associations and why.

Even apart from the details of the Obama/Ayers connection, two key points emerge:

a) Obama lied and misled the American people in his description of his relationship with Ayers as casual and arm’s-length; and

b) Obama was consciously guided by Ayers’s radical philosophy, rooted in the teachings of leftist Saul Alinksy, in his distribution of CAC grant funds.

Since Obama is asking us to let him direct education spending by the federal government and wants us to trust his veracity, these are difficulties he will have to explain in order to get the votes to win.

Now that Obama is comfortably ahead in the polls, attention will understandably shift to him. We will want to know what kind of president he would make. The fact that, within the past 10 years, he participated in a radical program of political education conceptualized by an admitted radical terrorist offers no reassurance.

Why did Obama put up with Ayers? Because he got a big job and $50 million of patronage to distribute to his friends and supporters in Chicago. Why did he hang out with Jeremiah Wright? Because he was new in town, having grown up in Hawaii and Indonesia and having been educated at Columbia and Harvard, and needed all the local introductions he could get to jump-start his political career. Why was he so close to Rezko?

Because he funded Obama’s campaigns and helped him buy a house for $300,000 less than he otherwise would have had to pay.

Not a good recommendation for a president.

Hussein scares me not because of his associations, but that he does appear to be guided hy Alinksy, which explains why he didn't run away screaming. My real problem is this. He is a practical radical. Remember that Marx and Lenin may have set the stage, but it was the practical Stalin who closed the deal..... killing millions along the way..

And no, I don't think Hussein will do that, but as he tries to tie the US economy directly to the G20 the end result will be drastically lowered wages and benefits for the working class. The very people who are now so enamored of him.

Remember dear chums. If we can pass a law giving 700 billion dollars to save the banks and the economy, something appearing less likely every day, we can nationalize the oil industry... the car industry......

Tom Brokaw destroys Town Hall debate

Debate? Was there a debate tonight??

This was supposed to a Town Hall affair. But now we find out that the qustions were submitted and then selected by Tom "I am biggger than the election" Brokaw.

Tom seemed especially interested in not letting the candidates talk.

Instead he asked the same questions that are asked by him and his peers. And as anyone could expect, we got the same answers. Nothing new was asked, nothing new was learned except Hussein did finally, in an off hand way, admitted that he said he would meet with the leader of Iran without pre-condition.

Disgusting.