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Arlen Specter and Barack Obama

National

Oct 312012

There were a lot of nice and deserved tributes paid when former Pennsylvania Senator Arlen Specter passed away, even one from President Barack Obama.

But with his sad passing, I was reminded once again of a warning in which I firmly believe – that what goes around, comes around.

At the end of his impressive tenure of public service, Senator Specter, doing Obama’s bidding, switched parties. By doing so, he not only betrayed the Republican Party and those who voted for him because he was a Republican, he also gave Obama and the Democratic Senate the 60 votes they needed for even more control.

Specter was also one of only three Republicans to vote for Obama’s ineffective stimulus package, which many believe wasted billions of taxpayers’ dollars and failed to provide the shovel-ready jobs that Obama guaranteed. Specter also ignored the wishes of a majority of the American people and voted for Obamacare.

Then after Obama got what he wanted from Specter, the president distanced himself from the Senate’s newest Democrat, as he did to others he no longer needed, or who became a liability to his personal aspirations. Think Jeremiah Wright, his 20-year pastor, whom Obama had once compared to family.

The Associated Press reported “Specter felt hurt that Obama hadn’t done more to help him as a show of gratitude.” Pennsylvania voters, who themselves felt betrayed by Specter, showed him the door in the next election.

So after supporting Obama and his self-serving spending sprees, Specter’s five terms in the Senate came to an abrupt end.

Paying tribute to Specter, Obama said the senator never put “party or ideology ahead of the people he was chosen to serve.” Too bad the same can’t be said of this president.

In an even worse case of betrayal, Obama’s cronies have desperately tried to distance the president from what is looking more and more like a cover-up of the events leading up to the terrorist attacks in Benghazi, which killed four Americans, including Ambassador Christopher Stevens.

Obama instinctively said the attacks were the result of a clip from an anti-Islam movie making the rounds on YouTube. And he downright lied during his second debate with Mitt Romney when he said he immediately called the murders a terrorist attack. Then he flew to Reno to raise money for his re-election campaign.

Now the White House is claiming no one informed the president or vice-president that Americans serving in Libya asked for extra security, pleas which were denied.

Pressed by Fox News’ Chris Wallace on whether Obama met with his national security team following the deadly attacks before heading to Reno, Obama guru David Axelrod dodged the question, saying only that the president is always up to snuff with what’s going on.

So let’s consider as a parting gift what happened to Arlen Specter at the end of his distinguished career. It reminds us that Barack Obama cannot be trusted, is only loyal to someone when there is something to be gained and that as fast as you can say self-preservation, he will run from you as fast as he can, be it his pastor, his grandmother, a U.S. senator or our closest international allies.

There is nothing this man won’t do to hang onto power or advance his liberal agenda. Is that what we want in a president?

- Betty Roccograndi

Trust Obama? Is He Delusional?

National

Oct 282012

President Barack Obama said last week, ”There is no more serious issue in a presidential campaign than trust.” Okay, Bye then.

Obama also told Florida that it knows him. “You can trust that I say what I mean and I mean what I say.”

Wait a minute. Didn’t he say in his last presidential campaign that he would would reduce the nation’s deficit? Didn’t happen.

Didn’t he say, pandering to his left-wing base, that he would close Guantanamo Bay? Didn’t happen, which, of course, is a good thing.

Didn’t he say that he would slash the unemployment rate? “I mean what I say?”

Trust him? We can’t even get a straight answer from this calculating president on the terrorist attacks in Benghazi. Now evidence is coming forth that the White House knew within hours that terrorists killed our ambassador and three other Americans. Yet the administration stuck to its misleading talking points that the attack was prompted by an anti-Muslim video clip. And, worse than that, we have no straight answer on who denied their pleas for help.

This is Obama’s Watergate .

And after four Americans were brutally murdered at the hands of terrorists, Barack Obama, who wants to keep his job as our commander-in-chief, headed to Vegas to raise money for his campaign. This is utterly unconscionable.

Trust him?

Barack Obama added $5 trillion to the nation’s debt. He shoved through an $830 billion stimulus package on promised shovel-ready jobs, which never materialized but later made him chuckle over that miscalculation.

Trust him?

And because he’s sinking in the polls, he’s taken to accusing Mitt Romney of “Romnesia,” alleging he’s a flip-flopper on issues. And in a Rolling Stone magazine cover story, our classy president called his opponent a “bullsh….er.” Can anyone picture Romney being so crass?

So allow us to coin the word, Obamamnesia.

Here is where we would like to trust Obama that he says what he means and means what he says, but he and his colleagues in the mainstream media, of course, have conveniently forgotten this broken promise.

Barack Obama said if he didn’t fix the nation’s financial problems, which in case you haven’t heard he inherited from George W. Bush, then he would only deserve to be a one-term president.

You hear that voters? Barack Obama wants us to trust him that when he says something, he means it.

Let’s not make a liar out of him on Nov. 6.

- Betty Roccograndi

Why Should We Pay For Their Mistakes, Oversights And Deception?

Local

Oct 262012

We anxiously await Wilkes-Barre’s proof that the 67,000 gallons of unaccounted for fuel was used for official business.

City Attorney Tim Henry promised as much after learning the state fined the city $26,000 because the tax-free gas went missing, and no one can explain why.

Just what city taxpayers need with a 31-percent property tax hike looming. This is just the latest in a series of actions which has dug Wilkes-Barre into the hole it now finds itself.

It couldn’t have been easy for city resident Debra Rontinonis to face the city council Thursday night and pour her heart out that she and her husband simply cannot absorb such an astronomical tax hike. Debra and the rest of us who pay taxes in Wilkes-Barre have every right to be disgusted, especially with recent revelations of how money is being spent here.

Secretly-purchased security alarm systems for Mayor Tom Leighton and former city administrator, J.J. Murphy, $300 and $400 per hour for Murphy and his brother’s law firm respectively to pursue a takeover plan for the city’s parking assets, a plan which was shelved; cost overruns for city council members to travel to vacation spots to attend conventions, and an unbelievable $30,000 for a St. Patrick Day’s parade are just some of them.

And with the city facing a $2 million year-end deficit and owing tens of millions of dollars more, that parade should be the first thing to go.

But let’s go back to the missing fuel. The state, reacting to a Times Leader investigation that almost 18,000 gallons of city-owed gas and diesel fuel was unaccounted for, did a little checking on its own and pegged the number at 67,000 gallons. The state’s investigation covered a two-year period.

Mayor Leighton, after being caught red-handed, admitted he helped himself to free gas because he is on the job 24/7 and believes he’s entitled to it. We wonder how he finds the time to run his real estate business.

What we – and we’re quite sure every city taxpayer – wants to know is who else felt so entitled. City council members? City controller Kathy Kane and hubby District Justice Marty? Leighton’s wife and kids? Retired city officials? So, come on, city officials, tell us who dipped into the free gas and why that was allowed. We want names. We deserve to know who is responsible for the imposition of a $26,000 fine.

Of course, city officials have downplayed this outrage as poor record-keeping, just as they are attempting to minimize the impact of the proposed 30-mill tax hike. It will only cost each household an average $183 a year, we’re told. Well, after learning that city employees get, in addition to regular pay raises, another bump in pay, which is not merit pay, mind you, for simply staying on the job, that’s $183 too much.

Of course, that extra pay is not a bonus. It’s longevity pay, said city administrative coordinator Drew Mc – Laugh -lin. You say tomato. I say tomauto.

Happy New Year?

And now we learn that Mayor Leighton’s bare bones budget includes $6,000 to ring in the New Year on Public Square. Only the city hasn’t done that since 2003, The Times Leader reported.

The head of the city’s new – and necessary – taxpayers association Frank Sorick exposed that little tidbit. And what did loyal Drew have to say about that? It was an oversight and won’t be in the final budget. These people actually think city taxpayers are morons.

Maybe the New Year’s money was kept in the budget as a contingency fund, which was the explanation the city offered for keeping in $10,000 for council members to travel across the country to learn how to save money, even though they said in the spirit of shared sacrifice, they’ll stay put.

In exchange, they want the city’s employees to forgo pay raises and to give up three paid holidays, including Flag Day, which we all know that, next to Christmas, is something everyone looks forward to.

Talk about chutzpah. The city expects its employees to pay for their own Flag Day celebrations but has no plan to cut out $30,000 for an unnecessary St. Patrick’s Day parade. You want to celebrate that day? Go to Scranton until Wilkes-Barre gets out of debt.

Drew, forced once again to put a happy face on questionable city expenses, said “tens of thousands of people” come to the city for the parade and then shop “in our stores.”

We never did count, but aren’t bars starting to out number all these stores? Maybe the city can ask Boscov’s, the likely biggest beneficiary of a downtown parade, to finance it.

So now we anxiously wait to learn the final tax hike number.

But if it stays at 30-percent, look at the bright side. In a few months, the pipe-and-drum players will be back marching around the square with Mayor Leighton. Surely, that will take your mind off the extra $183 you’ll be forced to contribute to City Hall coffers.

- Betty Roccograndi

That YouTube Video Has Nothing On Tarah’s Photo With The Camel

Local, PB-Ometer

Oct 212012

State Rep. Tarah Toohil, defending her unflattering appearance in a YouTube video, said she is no longer that young woman.

She sure isn’t. She’s now an influential state representative riding on a camel in Israel, enjoying the ride with a fellow state rep holding tightly onto her from behind. The two were among nine state elected officials who traveled to the Middle East to learn, among other things, how to ease the burden of property taxes on seniors.

What? There was no such tutorial in Paris?

“In Hazleton area, welfare and welfare fraud is a big issue, and in Israel they have programs where they do welfare-to-work. I was able to meet with a welfare-to-work team,” Toohil told TL Staff Writer Mark Guydish in her hilarious justification of her seven-day trip in January.

You have to give credit to Toohil. It didn’t take her long to take full advantage of the perks available to elected officials.

Toohil also traveled all the way to Israel to brush up on outreach efforts for at-risk students. And here we thought Wilkes-Barre city council members flying to Reno to pick up cost-saving tips for their cash-strapped city was a joke.

Toohil did not offer The Times Leader any specifics on which Israeli programs could work in her district. Darn, so now we don’t even know how Northeastern PA benefitted from her visit with a member of the Knesset on how it’s putting pressure on Iran to curb its nuclear weapons program.

But, hey, give the girl a break. It’s not every day a freshman state representative gets to ride a camel and visit the Dead Sea. She declined to comment on her camel ride with fellow Rep. Nick Miccarelli, a Republican from Delaware County. Let’s just say that the color photo someone provided to the newspaper shows Miccarelli’s arms wrapped tightly around a smiling Tarah’s waist, lest she fall off the hump of the exotic mammal.

Wouldn’t that have been something? The cat would have been out of the bag sooner had The Associated Press distributed a photo of Toohil trapped under the hoofs of an Israeli camel. If someone didn’t tip off the newspaper, we may not have known about this extracurricular legislative excursion until after the election, the deadline for Toohil to file on her state ethics form the $2,500 donation she accepted toward her trip.

The Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia personally hand-picked Toohil to go on the Israeli trip, according to The Times Leader. The organizaton’s director of government affairs, Robin Schatz, told the newspaper that she wanted to get to know Toohil better. That’s probably because Toohil is just the person to lead the charge in Butler Twp. to stop Iran from developing a nuclear bomb.

Schatz said helping to finance jaunts to Israel for nine Pennsylvania representatives does not constitute “lobbying trips.” The federation just picks legislators who “are on committees that are important to us,” she said. Oh, now we get it. And she reassured everyone that her federation has never seen state legislators pay their shares of such trips with public money. She said they use their personal checks or credit cards.

And we all know that elected officials never, ever seek reimbursement for personal expenses, now don’t we? Toohil said no taxpayer money was spent on her fact-finding expedition on immigration issues, a problem Hazleton shares with Israel.

Our nine state reps also visited, on behalf of their constituents back home in Butler Township and Delaware County, a company leading the way in electric car technology and met with the designer of a new high-tech security fence outside Jerusalem, the TL reported.

Very valuable information indeed. Maybe Toohil can work with Wilkes-Barre City officials on installing such a fence around Sherman Hills Apartments to contain all the drug dealers doing business there.

And, naturally, there was some time set aside for touristy things, in addition to hopping on the back of a camel. Those outings included a visit to an ancient fortification where nearly 1,000 Jews committed suicide as opposed to surrending to enemy forces,” Guydish reported. Why not take in the sights after a grueling day gathering information to benefit the folks back home.

Luzerne County Republican Party Chairman Bill Urbanski defended Israel’s newest foot soldier, saying that Tarah Toohil “has tirelessly served her constituents with honor and distinction.” No doubt about it, traveling to Israel does come with severe jet lag.

Urbanski also said the Republican Party proudly stands behind her and for the re-election of “this distinguished public servant.”

Distinguished? How so, Mr. Urbanski?

Ms. Toohil is proving she is no different than the rest, promising to be a different kind of public servant and then wasting no time cashing in on all the goodies special interest groups dangle in front of lawmakers. And having the nerve to explain it away as all in a day’s work.

- Betty Roccograndi

Scrap Our Travel Fund? No Way, Jose

Local, PB-Ometer

Oct 192012

Wilkes-Barre City is tens of millions of dollars in debt, faces a year-end budget shortfall and is threatening to impose a 31-percent tax hike.

Every penny counts, right? So will Mayor Tom Leighton strip $10,000 from the city’s 2013 budget for council members to fly to Reno, San Francisco or some other hot spot to learn how to better manage the city when he’s asking city employees to forgo negotiated pay raises and give up some paid holidays, including the ultimate sacrifice of Flag Day?

Councilman Tony George said he was told no.

But take heart, taxpayers. Council members are setting an example by promising not to attend a convention next month in Boston, which is certainly very big of them.

“None of us are going,” said city Controller Kathy Kane, one of the city’s frequent flyers. ”If we’re asking all employees for concessions and looking for ways to save money, we’re willing to do this to help,” Mrs. Kane said. Kudos to The Times Leader for tracking her down for a rare public comment.

So they’re willing to do this? Give up a trip to Boston, and we’re supposed to be impressed?

Obviously, they think we should be, so don’t push your luck by expecting them to remove the travel kitty from the 2013 budget.

“I made a motion to take it out. I was told it was just a contingency fund and it doesn’t have to be used for travel,” Councilman George told TL Staff Writer Bill O’Boyle.

In other words, let’s not be hasty here. After the budget crisis wanes, the council may need a little taxpayer-financed R&R in Bermuda or some other exotic convention venue to pick up some more valuable tips on digging the city out of a hole.

As is the norm, council Chairman Mike Merritt justified the money spent on past junkets, which included ones in Reno and Florida. He said if someone “brings back ideas that could save the city significant money, I think we should attend.”

He’s right, of course. we just learned that State Rep. Tarah Toolhil went to Israel this year to learn how to fight illegal immigration, which is a also problem in Hazleton. (More on that joke this weekend.)

Considering Wilkes-Barre’s serious financial plight, it’s pretty obvious neither Kathy Kane, Bill Barrett nor former council member Tony Thomas came back from Reno with any ”ideas that could save the city significant money.” But it’s entirely possible they picked up some pointers on how to stop the unions from boycotting Mohegan Sun for hiring a handful of non-union contractors.

Regarding Mayor Leighton’s proposed budget and its 31-percent tax hike, Merritt said there are more questions than answers.

Well that’s good to know. For starters, maybe someone, aside from Tony George, will demand to know why it’s necessary to budget $10,000 for travel if no one plans to make any trips any time soon.

Or do they want to keep that money in there just in case The National League of Cities plans a spring convention in Cancun?

Missing out on one in Boston is one thing. But Cancun? You can’t be serious.

- Betty Roccograndi

Is HE For Real?

Local

Oct 182012

Could it be that Wilkes-Barre City Mayor Tom Leighton’s planned whopper of a tax hike is merely a scare tactic?

If it isn’t, then city residents and businesses should revolt because if this goes through, he would have raised taxes by 70-percent since 2009, from 73.63 mills to 126.63.

And if Mayor Leighton thinks he cushioned the blow by prefacing this bombshell with an outline of all the wonderful things he has done for the city, he’s mistaken.

More and more, the city of Wilkes-Barre is holding little appeal for those living and working here. Violent crimes are on the rise. Drug dealers have made Wilkes-Barre their business headquarters. And concerned citizens sometimes have to beg for information.

Mayor Leighton needs to know something. We have a right to know everything and anything that goes on in City Hall.

For starters, we’d like to know how much city taxpayers are paying for health care premiums for City Hall employees, the city council and unionized employees. Because that is where every city, county, school district and municipality needs to curb costs to dig itself out of these widespread financial holes. Add pensions to that list.

The city is in the position it’s in, not solely because it hasn’t yet received $1.2 million in earned income tax that’s due. What about those no-bid contracts, shady behind-the-scenes deals, two unnecessary lawsuits against Bob Kadluboski and Denise Carey, missing fuel and 10-year tax breaks for those wealthy enough to purchase luxury lofts on Northampton Street, and, yes, mismanagment over the years?

A city doesn’t end up $74.9 million dollars in debt without some gross mismanagement along the way.

And notice that the mayor’s budget includes no layoffs. Isn’t that the first place to begin the belt tightening before slamming property owners and businesses with a second 30-percent tax hike in four years? Why threaten layoffs only if concessions aren’t forthcoming? If some employees are not needed, they should go. There is only so much taxpayers can bear.

Leighton has cleverly pitted city employees against property owners. The mayor wants city property owners to blame that tax hike, not on him, but on city employees if they don’t give up their negotiated pay hikes. Maybe we should be placing the blame squarely on those who doled out generous pay hikes and benefits to unionized employees over the years.

It is simply unfair to expect property owners to pay for free health care for retirees when those same property owners have to work longer than planned because they can’t pay for their own premiums.

And what about all the area’s non-profit organizations? Isn’t it high time we take a look at them? It’s hard to fathom that a hospital that charges $15 for an aspirin and outrageous amounts for medical procedures is not making a profit or agencies which pay their executives exorbitant salaries.

“We have come to the point where the government that we currently have is no longer the government that we can afford,” Leighton said. We sympathize with Mayor Leighton, trying to balance the budget with dwindling resources and being at the mercy of labor unions,. But he needs to shoulder at least some of the blame because the people don’t seem to trust him anymore and with good reason.

So now city property owners must ask themselves whether they’re willing to pay more, lots more, for government services. But first they should ask themselves whether they feel they’re getting their money’s worth now.

We’re guessing the answer is a resounding no.

- Betty Roccograndi

What A Hoot

National

Oct 152012

Saturday Night Live did not disappoint. It portrayed Vice-President Joe Biden in its opening skit as clearly as Biden portrayed himself Thursday night – as a clown.

In his only debate with Mitt Romney’s runningmate, Paul Ryan, Biden couldn’t contain his laughter every time his opponent spoke. Ryan did the opposite. He listened with respect to what Biden’s vision was for the country moving forward.

The funny thing is there was nothing funny at all about the foreign policy and economic issues the two were debating. But that didn’t stop Biden from cracking up, laughing, grinning and rolling his eyes upward when it was Ryan’s turn to speak, that is when he wasn’t interrupting him a reported 80 times during the 1 1/2-hour debate. SNL hilariously captured that too.

So since Biden made a fool of himself, let’s give credit where credit is due and that is to the Wisconsin congressman. Paul Ryan showed he was the bigger man by not losing his composure, which must have been pretty difficult when the vice president of the United States is laughing in your face as you’re speaking.

Obviously, this was Biden’s way of unnerving Ryan. Either that or he was coached to be the condescending elder tolerating the rookie running for vice-president, making it look as though everything Ryan said was sheer lunancy. Except it backfired because it was Biden who looked like the loony tune.

Ryan seems to be one of the most serious and focused members of Congress. He drafted a budget and has solid plans for bolstering Social Security and Medicare. The current administration has neither.

So we had two debates so far. The critics said President Barack Obama, in his first one with Romney, was aloof, distracted, weak. Obama said no, no, that’s not true. I was just “way too polite.” Now that’s something that should have triggered fits of laughter from the vice-president.

So everyone’s expecting the gloves to come off Tuesday when Obama and Romney debate the second time. No more Mr. Nice Guy. So which version of the president will we see?

And he and his cronies had the nerve to reduce Mitt Romney’s success at the first debate to a “masterful theatrical performance.”

If Obama can explain convincingly why requests for more security in Libya were ignored shortly before our ambassador and three other Americans were murdered by terrorists and why the very next morning he flew to Reno, Nevada to campaign, then he will be the one delivering a masterful performance.

- Betty Roccograndi

Big Bird Enters The Presidential Race. No, Seriously, He Does

National

Oct 102012

It’s pretty pathetic when the President of the United States is more comfortable mixing with Hollywood celebrities than he is debating serious issues with his challenger in the upcoming election.

And it’s downright desperate when this commander-in-chief recruits a big, yellow bird to try and defeat his formidable opponent.

Fresh from his debate flop, President Barack Obama warned voters that his Republican challenger Mitt Romney “is going to bring the hammer down on Big Bird.”

Yes, it’s true. Big, bad Mitt has said if he’s elected, he will cut funding for public broadcasting television even though, personally, he loves Big Bird. Who doesn’t?

It didn’t take long for Obama and his camp to curry favor with Big Bird while letting the rest of us know that Mitt Romney is the big, bad wolf.

Ominous music, maestro. ”Bernie Madoffi. Kenneth Lay. Dennis Kozlowski. Criminals. Gluttons of greed. And the evil genius who towered over them? ” Glad you asked because up pops a giant picture of a perplexed Big Bird in the Obama ad. And we’re expected to vote him in for another four years?

Then Obama’s ad goes in for the kill. “Taking on our enemies no matter where they nest,” and warns us that “Mitt Romney knows it’s not Wall Street you have to worry about. It’s Sesame Street.”

Well, to make a long story short, Sesame Street wasn’t the least bit pleased with the President of the United States and his campaign team using its star without permission, especially when it could affect the reported $6 million of taxpayers’ money it gets for providing non-partisan entertainment.

The powers that be at Sesame Street wasted no time informing the powers that be at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue to cease and desist. “”We do not endorse candidates or parties in political campaigns. We have approved no campaign ads, and as is our general practice have requested that the ad be taken down.”

So there you have it. Obama may want to make another trip to Hollywood where celebrities there fawn all over him, unlike that diva bird. Beyonce, Sheryl Crowe, Ashley Judd, Julianne Moore have no problem using their star and has-been power to promote Obama as the candidate of women and their daughters. And we know that George Clooney and Brad Pitt will never turn on Obama, because liberal birds of a feather stick together.

But unfortunately for the president, he can no longer count on Big Bird’s support because Sesame Street apparently likes getting that $6 million a year.

As for Mitt Romney, he not only clobbered Obama in the debate with 60 million viewers watching, he also showed us that he is up to the task of being president. And if that means Big Bird has to fend for himself, so be it. And that goes for you too, Cookie Monster.

- Betty Roccograndi

Out Of The Mouths Of Race-Baiters

National

Oct 042012

Let’s see if this latest video, one depicting our commander in chief of class warfare, gets as much play as the infamous “47-percent” one did.

Oh when Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney was secretly taped saying that 47 percent of the American public pays no income taxes so it really makes no sense trying to win them over with his pledge to cut taxes, the mainstream media went berserk.

All we heard was that Romney doesn’t care about almost half of the country; he says they’re self-proclaimed victims. This wealthy man just doesn’t get it because he just cares about his wealthy friends. Beware America.

Naturally, Barack Obama , our caring, compassionate champion of the middle class, hopped on the bandwagon.

At the same time this tape came out, so did another, of Obama admitting that he is in favor of redistributing other people’s wealth. Didn’t hear very much about that one did you?

Well, lo and behold, a stunning new video has surfaced from 2007, which reveals the true colors of this phony politician, who slickly sold the American people his phony bag of hope and change and the promise of a united America if we elected him in 2008.

What we got instead was trillions of dollars added to the national debt, an abominable, costly health care overhaul, which Obama won’t even trumpet as he runs for re-election because it was shoved down everyone’s throat, continued high unemployment and more people on food stamps, because he encourages such entitlements.

The new tape, exposed by Tucker Carlson of “The Daily Caller, is from 2007 and shows an angry Obama speaking to a group of black ministers, including the notorious Rev. Jeremiah Wright.

The media doesn’t need to read between the lines here as it did with the Romney tape because there is no mistaking Obama’s calculated attempts to incite resentment of blacks against whites and America at large. In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, he shouts that the federal government doesn’t care about the black people of New Orleans as much as it did the victims of the 9/11 terrorist attack. Why wasn’t this exposed when this guy was running for president?

Obama then procedes to praise the Rev. “God damn America” Wright. That was before he distanced himself from his fellow race baiter because it was hurting his campaign and exposing him for what he really is – a former community organizer who believes that blacks in this country have been shortchanged, that America is too powerful for its britches, and that entrepreneurs didn’t build their businesses.

Do we want a president who has a chip on his shoulder for the very nation he leads?

Maybe he can go back on ”The View,” so Whoopie Goldberg can ask him about that 2007 tape and why he appeared so angry and bitter while addressing the black ministers.

Yeah, that’ll happen, about as fast as Obama passed on a meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to meet instead with the ladies of “The View” and David Letterman.

- Betty Roccograndi

PureBunkum

Arlen Specter and Barack Obama

Trust Obama? Is He Delusional?

Why Should We Pay For Their Mistakes, Oversights And Deception?

That YouTube Video Has Nothing On Tarah’s Photo With The Camel

Scrap Our Travel Fund? No Way, Jose

Is HE For Real?

What A Hoot

Big Bird Enters The Presidential Race. No, Seriously, He Does

Out Of The Mouths Of Race-Baiters

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