Pardon My Politics

Progressive voters are starting to feel that the Oba­ma Ad­min­is­tra­tion is mov­ing more and more to­wards poli­cies that many who worked to elect Oba­ma have worked to op­pose in re­cent years.

No eco­nom­ic is­sue to­day is more press­ing than the U.S. Trade Deficit. This predica­ment should be Amer­i­ca’s top pri­or­i­ty. It is al­so a key rea­son why we have high un­em­ploy­ment. Yet most peo­ple in Amer­i­ca do not un­der­stand this Silent Killer or what they can do about it. Here are important key facts on why the Trade Deficit threatens America’s future.

It looks like Barack Obama may really be worried about an imminent civil war.

According to the European Union Times, “Russian Military Analysts are reporting… that… Barack Obama has issued an order to his Northern Command’s top leader, US Air Force General Gene Renuart, to ‘begin immediately’ increasing his military forces to 1 million troops by January 30, 2010, in what these reports warn is an expected outbreak of civil war within the United States before the end of winter.”

After campaigning against “George Bush’s War” in the Middle East, Obama has escalated that war by transferring thousands of America’s forces from Iraq to Afghanistan, and by sending an additional 30,000 troops to Afghanistan. Now it’s Barack Obama’s war.

Is the death of a Palestinian worth the same as that of a Jew? For six decades, Israeli Jewish leaders have been killing Palestinians and justifying their crimes as “self-defense” of Israel and all Jews. Absolving the Israeli regime of culpability of war crimes has always been a U.S.-Western ritual. The message is: Jews are above the law and killing Palestinians is Israelis’ right to commit war crimes.