Thursday, January 14, 2016

Obama goes around Congress on Guantanamo again!

We just learned that the Obama administration released more men from GITMO:
"The transfer is the largest batch of detainees shipped out of the Cuba prison camp so far this year. It is part of a wave of transfers as the administration steps up efforts to shrink the prison population, with the ultimate goal of closing the facility despite congressional resistance. "
What happened to working with Congress?  or following the law?

 What about explaining all of this to the American people?   How about a speech from the Oval Office explaining the release?

 Sorry but GITMO is not a recruiting tool.    Releasing them is a huge victory for the terrorists who will go from GITMO to the battle field.
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Why isn't President Obama demanding an apology from Iran?

We've all heard about the 10 US sailors detained by Iran.  

 To be fair, Iran has every right to question or even detain sailors from a military ship that enters its waters.  
At the same time, Iran has no right to treat them as we saw on that video in the news.   It is clear that the Iranian government used the footage as a propaganda tool, including images of sailors on their knees and hands behind their heads.   

 Iran should apologize to the US!   Is this what we get from reaching a new deal with Iran?

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Travis: The Democrats take you for granted!



We have heard this tune before and now it’s Travis Smiley’s turn with Megyn Kelly:
Kelly: On the subject of race, are we better off today that seven years ago?
Tavis Smiley: I’m not sure we are and I think ultimately the president missed a moment… On every leading economic issue, in the leading economic issues Black Americans have lost ground in every one of those leading categories. So in the last ten years it hasn’t been good for black folk. This is the president’s most loyal constituency that didn’t gain any ground in that period.
What an exclamation point for the years of “hope and change”! Wonder how many black liberals like Mr. Smiley thought that they’d be saying stuff like this in year eight of the Obama presidency?
The last ten years? Is Mr. Smiley talking about the years that the Democrats controlled the Congress, 2007-2011? Or our first black president 2009-today?
Mr. Smiley needs to go the distance here and call on black Americans to take ownership of their lives and change how they vote.
Let me paraphrase my friend Bob Parks: “The shop is not fixing your car. Maybe it’s time to change shops.”   
Mr. Smiley laments that blacks are the president’s most loyal constituency. 
Memo to Travis: It’s time for a little less loyalty and more accountability. It’s also time to have a heart to heart chat about the problems in the black districts, from a collapsing family unit to failing public schools run by the teachers’ unions in bed with Democrats.
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Venezuela today and other US-Latin America stories of the week



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