Monthly Archives: May 2009

May 30 2009

UPDATE: JUNE 14 – Obama Appoints Big Donors as Ambassadors – Pay To Play? – Change you can count on?

Despite his promises of change, President Barack Obama has kept tradition by naming top donors to plum ambassador posts, drawing fire from career US diplomats and causing dismay among some US allies.

Obama has been criticized for naming fund raisers with no diplomatic experience and who together drummed up well over a million dollars for his record-shattering campaign to be ambassadors to Britain, France and Japan.

“It’s an 18th-century practice we are continuing which no other major democratic country does,” said Ronald Neumann, a veteran ambassador and head of the American Academy of Diplomacy, a lobby of former senior diplomats.

“It’s not ‘change you can believe in,’ but it’s not terribly surprising,” said Neumann, referring to Obama’s campaign slogan.

Obama named Louis Susman, a former Citigroup banker in Chicago once dubbed the “vacuum cleaner” for his prowess sucking up money, as ambassador to London.

Obama also tapped two major California fund raisers – naming Charles Rivkin, the former producer of “The Muppets” children show, to Paris and Silicon Valley lawyer John Roos to Tokyo. Read More

UPDATED: JUNE 14

Obama taps more big donors for ambassadorships

Obama on Thursday tapped four big Democratic Party donors for plum ambassadorships in Europe and Latin America while naming six career diplomats to posts in Africa, the Mideast and the Pacific.

Washington lawyer Howard Gutman, who raised more than $500,000 for Obama’s campaign and personally contributed the maximum $4,600 to it, was nominated to be the next U.S. envoy to Belgium, the White House said in a statement.

Obama named former Virginia Lt. Gov. Donald Beyer to be ambassador to Switzerland and Luxembourg. Beyer, who made his money as a car dealer, raised more than $500,000 for Obama and also contributed $4,600 to his campaign, according to the center.

Vinai Thummalapally, a Colorado business executive and Obama friend who raised between $100,000 and $200,000 for the campaign and donated $4,500 to it, was named the next U.S. ambassador to Belize. Thummalapally’s wife, Barbara, contributed $2,800 to Obama, according to the Center for Responsive Politics. Read More

Rewarding fund raisers sure is not the change Obama promised the American people now is it!  Looks like a pay to play to me!  If this isn’t pay to play what would you call it, does anyone have an answer?

LINKS:
(1) Why Let A Good Teacher Go?

(2) Document drop: The truth about ObamACORN
By Michelle Malkin

May 29 2009

Sotomayor would let prisoners vote

Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor wants to give jailbirds the right to vote. It’s her opinion that the federal Voting Rights Act can be used to force states to allow voting by currently imprisoned felons. Ms. Sotomayor’s dissenting opinion in a 2006 felon-voting case should make senators extremely wary of confirming her for the high court. Read More

Do we the people want felons to vote? I think they lost their rights when they commited a crime and become a felon!

LINKS:

(1) The Supreme Court high hurdles contest
By Michelle Malkin

May 29 2009

Obama administration Protecting Black Panthers That Wielded Weapons, Blocked Polls – Video

Political appointees overruled career lawyers and ended a civil complaint accusing three members of the New Black Panther Party for Self-Defense of wielding a nightstick and intimidating voters at a Philadelphia polling place last Election Day, according to documents and interviews.

The incident – which gained national attention when it was captured on videotape and distributed on YouTube – had prompted the government to sue the men, saying they violated the 1965 Voting Rights Act by scaring would-be voters with the weapon, racial slurs and military-style uniforms. Read More

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The Obama administration ignores voter intimidation

Imagine if Ku Klux Klan members had stood menacingly in military uniforms, with nightsticks, in front of a polling place. Add to it that they had hurled racial threats and insults at voters who tried to enter.

Now suppose that the government, backed by a nationally televised video of the event, had won a court case against the Klansmen except for the perfunctory filing of a single, simple document – but that an incoming Republican administration had moved to voluntarily dismiss the already-won case.

Surely that would have been front-page news, with a number of firings at the Justice Department.
The Washington Times

The Chicago pay to play style Obama administration may have open the doors for Skin heads and KKK to be stationed at the polling place next election. I don’t care for any one of the three groups but If the hate group Black Panthers are allowed to then the skin heads and KKK should be don’t you think? I have said all along that Obama will set the civil rights back 20 years or more and now he’s proving that by protecting hate groups such as The Black Panthers!

LINKS:

(1) Why is the Obama Justice Department protecting New Black Panthers?By Michelle Malkin

(2) Sotomayor Member Of Racist Hate Group Well, this explains everything. Judge Sonia Sotomayor’s controversial statements regarding race all make sense now. There’s no speculative v.s. normative. We now know exactly where she’s coming from.

It turns out that Sotomayor is a member of one of the……..Keep read at rjjrdq’s America