Good article from Dick Morris

As if we didn't have enough Barbara Streisand (BS) flying around this election season, most of it from the democrats, with BO and his preacher issues and now, HRC, her thighness, claiming that she has more experience than BO to run the white house.

So, Dick Morris, who was once the guru for the Clintons, has been writing about the election. If anyone knows the Clinton's, it's Morris. He writes in the article below the BS that HRC is trying to lay down as "experience" for her run for the white house. What utter Rubbish. As an internet posting that has been making the rounds put's it;

Quarterback for the Packers...??

In a news conference Deanna Favre announced she will be the starting QB for the Packers this coming Sunday. Deanna asserts that she is qualified to be starting QB because she has spent the past 16 years married to Brett while he played QB for the Packers. During thisperiod of time she became familiar with the definition of a cornerblitz, and is now completely comfortable with other terminology of the Packers offense. A survey of Packers fans shows that 50% of those polled supported the move.

Does this sound idiotic and unbelievable to you? Well, Hillary Clinton makes the same claims as to why she is qualified to be President and 50% of democrats polled agreed. She has never run a City, County, or State. When told Hillary Clinton has experience because she has 8 years in the White House, Dick Morris (former Clinton adviser) stated "so has the pastry chef".


So, as Mr Morris outlines in this piece below, Her Thighess' claim to have "experience" is phony, just like her and her husband.


HILLARY'S IRISH PEACE FANTASY
By DICK MORRIS & EILEEN MCGANN

Published on FOXNews.com on March 21, 2008.

"I was deeply involved in the Irish peace process"Those words were uttered by Hillary Clinton — with a straight face!

Ever since she began her campaign for the presidency, Hillary and Bill Clinton have both boldly — and falsely — claimed that she played an important role in the Irish peace process. Suddenly rewriting history, they’ve claimed that her success in bringing peace to Ireland is all part of the vast experience that makes her qualified for the White House.

It’s funny that they both forgot to mention her magical diplomatic skills in their respective memoirs.

But now her recently released White House schedules show that Hillary’s assertions are one big fantasy. Hillary’s role in all of the Irish visits were no different than any other first ladies, the ones who didn’t think that accompanying the president to a foreign country was a major diplomatic coup.

The daily schedules show that Hillary visited Ireland on numerous occasions with the President. For the most part, her role was to stand next to him, shake hands, and occasionally introduce him before he gave a speech. Sometimes, she met with women’s and children’s groups.For example, on a trip to Ireland in late November and early December in 1995, she attended the speech given by the president in Derry, Northern Ireland. Her role: to shake hands after the speech. Later that day, the first couple traveled to Belfast, where they lit the Christmas tree outside of City Hall. After the Lord Mayor announced the winners of the annual "letter writing and poster contest," Hillary read excerpts from the children’s letters.

When the Clintons flew to Dublin the next day, Mrs. Clinton toured the National Gallery, where she signed the guest book. In the afternoon, she did give a 25 minute speech to about 350 women from all over Ireland. This meeting seems to be at the heart of her exaggerated contentions that she helped the peace process by bringing both sides together.

But published reports indicate that the women advocating peace in Northern Ireland and the Irish Republic were well known to each other long before the meeting. And a 25 minute speech outside of government channels was hardly the cause of the end of a bitterness that began almost a hundred years ago. Immediately afterwards, she introduced the president to a crowd of 30,000 people at Trinity College, where he spoke to the Irish people.

In 1997, she participated in a roundtable discussion with students in Northern Ireland and met with representatives of various Youth Councils.

In September 1998, she accompanied the president when he made a speech to the people of Northern Ireland. Noble Peace Price Laureate David Trimbell was present. He recently had this to say about Hillary’s role in the peace process:“Hillary Clinton had no direct role in bringing peace to Northern Ireland and is a "wee bit silly" for exaggerating the part she played.”He continued:"I don’t know there was much she did apart from accompanying Bill [Clinton] going around," Her recent statements about being deeply involved were merely "the sort of thing people put in their canvassing leaflets" during elections. "She visited when things were happening, saw what was going on, she can certainly say it was part of her experience. I don’t want to rain on the thing for her but being a cheerleader for something is slightly different from being a principal player.”

When the President of Ireland, Mary Robinson, visited the White House, Hillary was not invited to her Oval Office meeting with the president. Instead, she hosted an informal coffee for Mr. Robinson.

How could they discuss important peace matters without Hillary?

On another trip, in October 1999, when she was already a Senate candidate, Hillary gave a Millenium Speech in Galway.In January 1999, she did a "drop-by" for 15 minutes to say hello to women from Northern Ireland. Later, in June, she did another 15 minute "drop-by" to see the Children’s Friendship Project of Northern Ireland.

After she was elected to the Senate, in December 2000, she attended a reception in Dublin for prominent Irish women, visited the Guinness Store, and the Belfast Opera. She made some short remarks at the Opera.

On October 24, 1997, Hillary received a briefing on Ireland from a group that included George Mitchell, Larry Butler of the NSC, and Randy Bell, from the Ireland Office of the State Department and members of her staff that was held immediately before meeting with Mary Robinson, then UN High Commissioner for Human Rights. A week later, she went to Ireland for a dinner at Dublin Castle for 22 people, and a roundtable discussion with 10 students.

Does that sound like the schedule of a woman who was instrumental in the Irish peace process?By the way, even with her limited schedule that did not involve the president, Hillary routinely took five or six of her own staff people on the Irish trips.But her claim to any role in the Irish peace process is pure fantasy.

This is how the MSM does view Obama

On the return show from the writers strike, SNL nailed the Obama worship. I found this funny as the MSM is beside itself with their messianic praise of Barack Hussein Obama. This exaggerates just how the MSM is predominately liberal, no matter what many say. If you were from another planet, you might think he was the leader of the world or the second coming of Jesus. But SNL does nail how the media treats BO.

clip courtesy NBC Universal/SNL

Why "Universal" Healthcare won't work

I had checked the mail today, not looking for anything specific, just looking at what came in. As usual, it was the bills, adverts and flyers and a catalog for a particular vendor I frequent. But I noticed there was a piece of pink paper, from the USPS, saying that there was a letter, a package or something at the local post office that had postage due. Well, I had to take the youngest kitty, Shammy into Phoenix to drop her off to be spayed. I also had to run some errands and figured I would take the USPS notice and drop by the post office while I was out.

It took me just under an hour to drive 46 miles, round trip, to the vet, through downtown Phoenix on the 405 ( my name for the I-10/202/101 highway system here, it's very reminiscent of LA's 405 anymore). I got back to the house, checked my email and computer, I have been working on solving a problem with a new processor, anyway, picked up the paper and headed out once again 2 miles to the local post office.

I got there and as usual, it was packed with people doing the same thing as me, picking up, dropping off, etc. I walked in and there was a line almost out the door with only 1 employee working behind the desk. There are 6 stations to serve people there. So, I took up my space in line and listened to people complaining about how only 1 person was serving anyone. A little while later, employee #2 came out and opened up a 2nd window and I figured that maybe the line would move a little faster. They have a business window too, but that was closed, even though I noticed obvious patrons who were there for business reasons. I just watched all the activity (or lack thereof, at this point I now there 15 minutes) and listened to more complaining from patrons. I saw at different times, 3 different employees walk out doing different things, and yet, not one of them went to help out or open another window. So, I wasn't annoyed or anything, I expect long waits at the post office. After a half an hour at this point, I notice employees #6 and 7, different people yet, wearing USPS shirts, walk out and do various things.

At this point, I have been there for almost 45 minutes, yet another employee walks out and opens window #3. Now, at present count, there have been 7 people who work there make themselves visible. #8 came out of nowhere and opened window #3 so the line is starting to move a bit faster. At this point, I have been there 55 minutes.

I finally got my turn and walked up to the counter and handed over the paper and the employee looked at it and asked, "did you get this yesterday?". I said, "no, it was in the mail today" as I had gotten the mail and brought it in. I didn't notice at the time, but he correctly pointed out that it had yesterday's date on it. So, he went into the back and came out with a letter, addressed to my mom, and said, "30 cents, please."

30 cents. I now have been there at the post office for an hour and it was over 30 cents for a letter from a clinic for my mom. All that time, I have been wondering what it possibly could be.

Now, you have to figure, the USPS is government run, although I guess you can call it a franchise of the US government. It is under the executive branch but overseen by the US government and is under protection of the US federal government. And then you factor in the fact, that with all the independent mail or freight shippers out there, it is still by far the only real mail service in the US. So, people are somewhat forced to mail letters through the USPS. There has been a debate over the years about the mail monopoly of the USPS. Wikipedia has a fascinating read on the USPS. US Postal Service.

You are probably asking yourself, "what does this have to do with Healthcare?". Well, think about it. You have a government run or sanctioned entity handling our mail. You have employees that are part of a union, yes, the postal union, serving you. They follow the labor rules set down by the postal union and are followed. With the fact that USPS is still the biggest carrier of the mail, you have really no other choice to mail letters, bills, advertisements and other such things except through the mail. Given the bureaucracy of the US government and it by far a bureaucracy of enormous size, you are at their mercy. I had to stand in line for something as insignificant as a .30 cent postage due letter.

Ask yourself this. Why do people in other countries come to the US for Healthcare? Many would say, "well, they can afford to". That's not the question though. Why do they choose to spend their money here, for healthcare instead of going through their own nationalized system? Could it possibly be that our system provides a wider range of care with many more specialists that are educated in areas of medicine that many in Socialised countries are not?

What you have to understand is, People are not alike. You can't say that one diagnosis fits all. People are not like cars that can be put on a computer and have codes come up that tell the technician what is wrong. If you combine the inefficiency of the Federal Government with the "one diagnosis fits all" you are going to have problems. Imagine walking into your local government run healthcare facility for something as simple as a flu shot. Chances are, like the USPS and DMV, you will have to wait in line, then fill out all kinds of forms, Get asked all kinds of questions and then sit and wait as there will be Government employees, who by law, have to take a break, etc. All you have to do is substitute USPS with USHS and you can get an idea of what people will be dealing with under Government Healthcare.

I was talking to my mom about Socialised healthcare. She mentioned that my uncle Bill, who lives in Edmonton, Alberta, needed to see a cardiologist. Well, she said that he has an appointment, in 5 months! 5 months to see a Cardiologist!??? Another story out of England I read a couple of weeks ago and wished I had saved, was one of an auto mechanic who had some problem regarding a broken arm. Seems, that he needed to see a specialist to attend to his arm for whatever reason and the story was about the fact that now, as a result of the wait, he will probably have to have the arm amputated. And to add insult to injury, he had to make an appointment that will take another 3 months unless it's life threatening. Then and only then will they see him and to amputate his arm. He said, if he could afford to fly to the US, he was sure that he could have gotten the arm fixed and not have to have it amputated. But since he didn't have the money, he was at the mercy of the NHS in Britain.

So anytime you think that maybe "Universal" healthcare might be a good idea, notice the lines at the post office, notice the lines at the DMV and other Government run services and think about it. What savings you might think you gain in money, you will probably end up spending in Time, frustration and even perhaps, your life.

In their own words...

My friend Vincent, whom I used to work with at Fort KPNX, sent me this video. I don't really know how to preface this, as I think it speaks for itself. Let's see if it jogs anyone's memory about what was said about Saddam Hussein and the lead up to the war in Iraq. Now I can hear all the looney leftie libs and swamp fever KOS kids people saying, "there were never any WMD's found in Iraq, Bush lied" ad nauseum.

Well, good.

That means that we haven't lost a larger number of American GI's than we have already, due to Saddam 1) not using them had he decided to or 2) had no sufficient time to perfect them or deploy them or 3) was not able to supply Al Qaeda . I am still of the mind that they were there, may yet still be there and evidence from his own regime, i.e., Air Force and Intelligence officials, Iraqis, have said that during the lead up to the invasion, Saddam had the weapons or what was left of them, carted out on converted aircraft to destinations unknown, although a few of the Iraqi Air Force guys said it was Syria and or Iran. Hmmm.

But to get back to the following video, this is what the very people who now criticize the President and his decision to invade Iraq were saying as recently as 2004.

You know, let's put this in a little perspective. What would have happened to world history had we decided to invade Germany or Japan or both in say, 1935? Do you not think that might have saved countless innocent lives? And, Hitler did have a nuclear weapons program already in place for exploring the possibility of building a bomb that he could use against Britain, Russia and...the United States. Fortunately for all of us, things didn't happen the way Adolf planned.

Watch this video and see if it jogs your memory. When all is said and done, when our military is over there doing the job, would not the correct thing be to want them to complete the mission and WIN? Reagan put it best when asked about his cold war strategy, "We win, they lose." Too bad the Democrats don't have the balls to do the same.