Our Chickencrat of the day has to be...

"Barack Obama will not be coming to us," a spokesperson for the US military hospital in Landstuhl announced. "I don't know why." Well, Barack Obama clearly has his priorities in the right place during his time in Germany. A planned visit with wounded U.S. troops at Landstuhl Regional Medical Center was abruptly canceled today, but "citizen of the world" Obama still managed to squeeze in a workout at (where else?) the Ritz Carlton in Berlin. The campaign's pathetic excuse for the change? Obama adviser Robert Gibbs tried to spin the situation faster than Barack Obama on his elliptical machine, claiming it "would be inappropriate to make a stop to visit troops at a U.S. military facility as part of a trip funded by the campaign." Wow, how ethical of him.

How caring of him!

        

Barack Obama thinks you're stupid. At a townhall event yesterday in Powder Springs, Ga., Obama uttered the latest in a series of snide remarks about everyday Americans: "It's embarrassing when Europeans come over here, they all speak English, they speak French, they speak German. And then we go over to Europe and all we can say is 'merci beaucoup!'" Amazingly, the audience rewarded this bit of America-bashing with hearty chuckles and applause.

If he keeps this up, voters are increasingly going to wonder why Obama's more comfortable ridiculing his own country than going after actual threats - like Iran. Who wants a president who looks down on them?

And maybe Obama should spend some time mastering the English language before the next time he preaches the glories of multilingualism. The punch line of his statement above: "and alls [sic] we's [sic] can say is 'merci beaucoup!'"

Thanks to Laura Ingraham for this bit of information.

        

According to a Dallas Morning News report "While Congress prescribed a strict conflict-of-interest law for the judiciary, which prompted Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito to remove himself from a punitive-damages case involving Exxon Mobil, it didn't apply the same test to lawmakers. "

While the President generally puts his holdings into a blind trust there is no such law that demands it for Senators or House Representatives.  This means that while Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison blocks legislation that would remove tax breaks for oil companies, she continues to profit from her massive holdings in both Exxon (estimated to be between $100,000 and $250,000) and Chevron (estimated holdings to be between $50,000 and $100,000).

According to the DMN "In December, Ms. Hutchison put a "hold" on a bill – a tactic that allows one senator to stop legislation – that would have repealed tax breaks for Exxon, Chevron and three other major oil companies. The measure would have raised $9.4 billion for the U.S. Treasury over 10 years. "

Don't think this is just a Republican problem.  According to the DMN report "Sen. Jeff Bingaman, Democratic chairman of the committee with jurisdiction over energy policy, and his wife reported owning Exxon stock worth between $51,000 and $115,000 in last year's report."

Check out the entire article on this obvious conflict of interest:  http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/latestnews/stories/051608dnbuxexxonstock.39996d3.html

Time to vote out the Chickencrats and pass some new laws.

        

Everyone should check out this video and the orignal site at http://www.gratitudecampaign.org.

        

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Ok, so you may wonder why the name "Chickencrats".  It all began in May, 2003 when 51 Texas House Democrats fled the state to Ardmore, Oklahoma to avoid a vote on redistricting.  The battle started when House Republicans presented a redistricting plan to better reflct the votes of the citizens.  For years more Texas voters had been voting for Republicans over Democrats, but more Democrats were being sent to the U.S. House of Representatives than Republicans.  The redistricing plan was designed to reflect the will of the Texas voters - how dare them!  (Check out these articles for more information: (http://www.cnn.com/2003/ALLPOLITICS/05/13/texas.legislature/) or (http://texasweekly.com/newsletter/tw20030519.html).

Texas state law says that if a quorum isn't present then a vote can't be taken, but at the same time gave the Speaker of the House (Tom Craddick-R) the authority to have the Texas Rangers round up the fleeing politicians and forcefully bring them to the State Capitol to exercise their responsbilities.  Since state troopers don't have authority outside the state of Texas, the Democrats avoided this law by fleeing the state all together; this in my estimation was a very "chicken" move and how the term "chickencrats" was created.

The Texas Democrats pulled this stunt once more in August, 2003, fleeing to a more Democrat friendly state of New Mexico.  (http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=940DEED9153EF932A3575BC0A9659C8B63)  It was all entirely too much and didn't provide the service they were voted to do.  It showed they were more interested in winning than working within the system to honor the votes of the citizens of Texas.  They were and still are today - CHICKENCRATS!

        

It just blows me away that Barack Obama has been held up like the Messiah when not much was really known about him.  He is a well spoke 1/2 white and 1/2 black man, a liberal with 2 years experience in the U.S. Senate, he is well spoken and apparently handsome; I guess that is all that is needed for the Democrats to pick an heir apparent.

A video of Senator Barack Obama's spiritual advisor Rev. Wright during a hate speeach filled sermon at church. Is this the kind of advisor we want our next president to listen to and be influenced by?



How much do we really know about his true feelings about America?  Can we afford to have a President that isn't 100% committed to the betterment of our country?

Senator Barack Obama not saluting the flag during the National Anthem. What kind of respect for our country is that? If it wasn't meant do be disrespectful it certainly wasn't very smart for a politician and do we want a politican that doesn't even know he needs to be aware of his public image? How smart will he be dealing with those that are out to destroy America?



And how about a First Lady that was never proud of America during her adult life.  Is that who we want  representing America in the rest of the world?




Come on America!  Use the brains that God gave you and pick a candidate that we can be proud of and have confidence in that will lead America forward and not backward to a time of racial division and a attitude of entitlement.  We need to move forward knowing that each American has the right and opportunity to achieve whatever they set their minds and hard work to.