By Michael Scherer

May 17, 2012

Any last hope that this year’s election would be anything but an unprecedented wallow in muck, misstatement and disrespect was lost Wednesday, at a neighborhood spaghetti joint on the border between Ohio and West Virginia. Vice President Joe Biden, after a day of glad-handing locals and attacking the values of Mitt Romney, stopped off for some chicken parmesan, initially unaware that a few feet away sat Ryan Williams, a spokesman for the Romney campaign who had flown to Ohio for no other reason than to cause problems for the Vice President.

For years now, rival campaigns have sent low level staff, called “trackers,” to shadow each others’ campaigns. They were often interns toting video cameras who passively mingle with supportive crowds hoping to catch a candidate in a gaffe. Williams, a former communications director for the New Hampshire GOP, is a different breed—a hybrid spokesman/tracker. He toted an iPhone, but seemed uninterested in documenting Biden’s every move. Rather, he was there to cause mischief in the hopes of getting attention from the press.

Earlier in the day, at Biden’s noontime campaign speech in Youngstown, Williams had arrived quietly, nervously walking by the national press who recognized him, as if he did not want to be noticed. The event was opened to the ticketed public, and Williams had flown into the state the night before to visit a local Obama campaign headquarters to request his ticket. He sat politely through vice president’s remarks, and then, with the event over, made his way to press corps where, with many Obama staff unaware, he began spitting fire. “It’s remarkable to see a presidential ticket that ran on hope and change in 2008 resort to such negative and dishonest campaign tactics,” Williams said, among other things, before entering the press filing area to continue the onslaught. “Voters elected Barack Obama in 2008 to fix the economy. Now he has no record to run on for reelection.”

Once Obama campaign staff figured out what was going on, they asked the Secret Service to ask Williams to leave the press filing area, which is reserved for credentialed reporters, but allowed him to remain at the event. It was by no means the first Obama campaign event that a Romney tracker/spokesman had crashed to spin free media gold. And Williams restricted himself to speaking with reporters, choosing not to confront the staff or other dignitaries, like former Gov. Ted Strickland, who stood nearby also working the reporters.

Then came dinner.

In an interview afterwards, Williams said that he had happened upon Biden’s unannounced dining location by accident. Steubenville is a faded steel town on the Ohio River, known for being the birthplace of Dean Martin but not for its many dining options. When he arrived at the restaurant, with a newly hired Romney state staffer, Chris Maloney, they were informed that a secret guest would be arriving later, so they settled in for a long meal.

Biden entered shortly after 6 p.m. with his usual burst of enthusiasm. “I love Italian food, and I am hungry,” he said, before joining his dinner guests, the owners of a nearby automobile dealership where Biden will speak Thursday. After reporters had been ushered out of the main dining hall, staff identified Williams and pointed him out to the Vice President, who invited the Romney staffer over to his table. At that point, even though there were no reporters in the room, Williams went on the attack, asking by his own account, “Why do you think coal is more important than terrorism?” (Biden’s own staff said they had trouble making out exactly what Williams said.)

In eastern Ohio, just a few miles from a major coal-powered electricity plant, the question was about as courteous as asking why a politician beats his wife. It was based on a bit of opposition research: In 2007, Biden was asked on HBO’s Bill Maher show to rank the degree of danger that “air that has too much coal in it,” high-fructose corn syrup or terrorism posed to the American people. Biden answered that coal and corn syrup killed a greater number of Americans, though he did not discount the danger of terrorism. “That is not in any way to diminish the fact that a terrorist attack is real,” Biden said on the program.

Biden did not answer the Romney staffer’s question. And moments later he shifted his dinner party to an adjoining table so that he could distance himself from Williams, who staff said continued to appear to be eavesdropping on the vice president’s conversation. On Twitter, Williams announced that Biden was “quickly ushered out of the dining room,” but Biden’s staff said he only moved a few feet, to the other side of a divider in the same open dining area.

The Steubenville confrontation comes at a time when both the Romney and Obama campaigns have settled on daily messaging that is almost entirely negative, and often misleading. In Youngstown, Biden had been introduced on stage by a former employee of a company that had gone bankrupt after it was purchased by Bain Capital, the private equity firm that Romney once ran. “All I can tell you is Mitt Romney will stick it to you,” said Randy Johnson. Another Obama surrogate at the event, former Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland, described the presumptive Republican nominee as “a person who represents the 1 percent.” “I sometimes feel sorry for Mitt Romney,” Strickland continued, “because I feel he tries to relate to ordinary people but does not have the capacity to do so.”

Biden’s own speech was also fiercely negative, portraying Romney as a financier more interested in wealth creation than job creation, who did not understand the needs and hopes of working people. That message was matched by an afternoon Obama campaign conference call with reporters, in which deputy campaign manager Stephanie Cutter described Romney and his business partners as greedy money men who ruined the lives of many working people. “They didn’t create jobs,” she said. “They slashed and burned them.”

All this comes just a few weeks after the official start of the general election, and the tone is only bound to deteriorate further. For both campaigns, positive messages about their own candidates’ plans are easily drowned out by the fusillade of daily attacks, which speak to core strategic goals. Obama is determined to disqualify Romney as someone who Americans see as a viable president. Romney is determined to hold Obama responsible for every bit of economic misery that has occurred over the last three years.

For the Romney campaign, the Williams stunt was seen as a success. On Thursday, the RNC released an online video that neatly followed the messaging of Williams own question with an attack on the Obama Administration. “Vice President Biden will try and gloss over their anti-coal agenda to try and shore up their plummeting support among blue collar voters,” said RNC Chairman Reince Priebus, in a statement to reporters, “but their record speaks for itself.” This was accompanied by a new RNC web video filled with carefully edited quotes from Obama and Biden about coal. No doubt a prompt response attacking the values of Mitt Romney will be forthcoming from Chicago.

By Philip Caulfield

Monday, May 7, 2012

The Colombian hooker at the center of the Secret Service sex scandal slammed the G-men as “stupid brutes” Monday — and confirmed for the first time that she and ex-agent Arthur Huntington had sex.

Dania Suarez told NBC’s “Today” that Huntington and his fellow agents were “very direct” in asking her and her prostitute pals for sex at the Cartagena disco where the scandal erupted last month.

“The way they approached us, it seems obvious that they were used to doing it, because people who do this for the first time are very shy,” Suarez, speaking in Spanish, told NBC’s Michelle Kosinski in an interview from Madrid, where the hooker has been hiding out.

The 24-year-old brunette stunner said the elite agents were flaunting their fit physiques during the booze-fueled night at the discotheque.

“They liked to show off their bodies. Great bodies. Well-defined abs,” Suarez giggled. “They liked attention, and we Colombian women are not used to that.”

Huntington, a 41-year-old married father of two, was particularly proud of his ripped stomach, she said.

“I was surprised every time he danced with me, he lift up his sweater so I could see,” she said.

“They were full of themselves,” she added. “There was an over-crazy guy that jumped up on the bar.”

Last week, Suarez told a Colombian radio show that Huntington did not appear to be looking for a call girl and that she picked him out because he was the “most handsome.” She told “Today” that it was clear Huntington knew she was a hooker before they left the club.

“These are very basic words. Sex, sexo, cash, money, dinero,” she said. “I made a sign with my fingers so he couldn’t pretend I was charging 80 dollars or 80 cents” instead of $800.

The pair eventually went back to Huntington’s room at the swank Hotel Caribe and had “normal sex,” after which he quickly fell asleep, leaving his luggage and secret files out in the open, Suarez said.

The next morning, the agent appeared begged her to stay, she said.

“He told me to stay,” Suarez said. “He told me ‘Stay here, stay my love, stay my love.”

“I told him no. I told him to give me my money, that I was going home,” she said.

Huntington got mad, gave her $50 and then kicked her out of his room, she said.

After she refused to leave and local cops shows up, Suarez said Huntington collected about $250 from his agent pals, and she left.

In previous interviews, Suarez said Huntington only offered her $28.

More than two dozen Secret Service agents and U.S. military personnel were disciplined in the aftermath of the scandal, which exploded just days before President Obama arrived in Cartagena for the Summit of the Americas.

Several agents lost their jobs, including Huntington, who packed up his family and fled their Maryland home.

Suarez said the agents got what they deserved.

“I’m not to blame for being attractive. They are to blame for leaving their duty behind,” she said.

“They seem like completely stupid, idiots. I don’t know how Obama had them in his security force. What dumb men.”

Something else to digest. If this is not racist then I don’t know what is. For some reason I thought the job of the president was to be president for ALL Americans. I guess he failed that course also, along with constitutional law.

Subject: SSN#042-68-4425

The information below is quite interesting. Snopes/Urban Legends, naturally, reports “no files on this.”

Is this simply a “coincidence,” or a manifestation of another cover-up???

Our President’s “credentials” continue to involve “smoke and mirrors.” Reminds me of Agatha Christie’s Ten Little Indians.

_

WAKE UP AMERICA.

Subject:

SSN# 042-68-4425

Just who does it belong to?

Jean Paul Luwig or

Barack Hussein Obama

SSN#042-68-4425

WOW, read this, it’s short – very interesting.

An intensive investigation has revealed the identity of the man whose
Social Security Number (SSN) is being used by President Obama: Was Jean
Paul Ludwig , who was born in France in 1890, immigrated to the United
States in 1924, and was assigned SSN 042-68-4425 (Obama’s current SSN) rec’d
on or about March 1977.

Mr. Ludwig lived most of his adult life in Connecticut . Because of that,
his SSN begins with the digits 042, which are among only a select few
reserved for Connecticut residents.

Barack H. Obama never lived or worked in that state! Therefore, there is no
reason on earth for his SSN to start with the digits 042. None whatsoever!

Now comes the best part!

J.P. Ludwig spent the final months of his life in Hawaii , where he died.
Conveniently, Obama’s grandmother, Madelyn Payne Dunham, worked part-time in
the Probate Office in the Honolulu Hawaii Courthouse, and therefore had
access to the SSNs of deceased individuals.

The Social Security Administration was never informed of Ludwig’s death, and
because he never received Social Security benefits there were no benefits to
stop and therefore, no questions were ever raised.

The suspicion, of course, is that Dunham, knowing her grandson was not a
U.S. Citizen, either because he was born in Kenya or became a citizen of
Indonesia upon his adoption by Lolo Soetoro, simply scoured the probate
records until she found someone who died who was not receiving Social
Security benefits, and selected Mr. Ludwigs Connecticut SSN for Obama.

Just wait until Trump gets past the birth certificate and onto the issue of
Barry O’s use of a stolen SSN. You will see leftist heads exploding, because
they will have no way of defending Obama. Although many Americans do not
understand the meaning of the term “natural born” there are few who do not
understand that if you are using someone else’s SSN it is a clear indication
of fraud.

Let’s all get this information out to everybody on our mailing lists. If the
voters of this great nation can succeed in bringing this lying, deceitful,
cheating, corrupt, impostor to justice it will be the biggest and best news
in decades for our country and the world.

“When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald
the end of the republic.” Benjamin Franklin.

THANK YOU AMERICA !

Dear American Taxpayer

For only the second time in my adult life, I am not

ashamed of my country. I want to thank the hard

working American people for paying $242 thousand

dollars for my vacation in Spain .

My daughter Sasha, several long-time family friends,

my personal staff and various guests had a wonderful time.

Honestly, you just haven’t lived until you have stayed

in a $2,500.00 per night private 3-story villa at a 5-Star luxury hotel.

Thank you also for the use of Air Force Two
and the 70 Secret Service personnel who tagged

along to be sure we were safe and cared for at all times.

By the way, if you happen to be visiting the Costa del Sol ,

I highly recommend the Buenaventura Plaza restaurant

in Marbella ; great lobster with rice and oysters!

I’m ashamed to admit the lobsters we ate in Martha’s Vineyard were not quite as tasty,
but what can you do if you’re not in Europe , you have to just grin and bear it?

Air Force Two (which costs $11,351 per hour to operate
according to Government Accounting Office reports)

only used 47,500 gallons of jet fuel for this trip

and carbon emissions were a mere 1,031 tons of CO2.

These are only rough estimates, but they are close.

That’s quite a carbon footprint as my good friend

Al Gore would say, so we must ask the American

citizens to drive smaller, more fuel efficient cars and

drive less too, so we can lessen our combined

carbon footprint.

I know times are hard and millions of you are struggling

to put food on the table and trying to make ends meet.

So I do appreciate your sacrifices and do hope you

find work soon.

I was really exhausted after Barack took our family

on a luxury vacation in Maine a few weeks ago.

I just had to get away for a few days.

Cordially,
Michelle (Moochelle) Obama

P.S. Thank you as well for the $2 BILLION dollar trip

to India from which we just returned!

P.SS. Thank you, too, for that vacation trip to

Martha’s Vineyard; it was fabulous.

And thanks for that second smaller jet that took our

dog Bo to Martha’s Vineyard so we and the children

could have him with us while we were away from the

White House for eleven days. After all, we couldn’t

take him on Air Force One because he might pee

on some wires or something.

P.SSS. Oh, I almost forgot to say thanks also for

our two-week trip to Hawaii at Christmas. That 7,000

square foot house was great!

P.SSSs don’t forget my ski trip to Vail this winter

and now the girls and I are in Africa with my mom.

All this while Barack golf’s and campaigns to

keep my trips coming for the next 4 years !

Love Ya!Remember, we all have to share the pain of these

economic times equally!

Love to -redistribute- share- the wealth.

SEND THIS TO EVERY AMERICAN NOW

……..STAND UP, SPEAK UP.

“We the people are the rightful masters of both
Congress & the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution,
but overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.”
Abraham Lincoln

WHAT DOES THIS WORD MEAN?

Here is some food for thought.

Check Snopes and Google, but don’t stop there, take the time to visit your

Library

Dhimmitude — What does it mean?

Obama used it in

the health care bill.

Now isn’t this interesting? It is used in the health care law.

Dhimmitude — I had never heard the word until now. Type it into Google and

start reading. Pretty interesting. It’s on page 107 of the healthcare bill.

I looked this up on Google and yep, it exists.. It is a REAL word.

Word of the Day: Dhimmitude

Dhimmitude is the Muslim system of controlling non-Muslim populations

conquered through jihad. Specifically, it is the TAXING of

non-Muslims in

exchange for tolerating their presence AND as a coercive means of converting

conquered remnants to Islam.

ObamaCare allows the establishment of Dhimmitude and Sharia Muslim diktat in

the

United States . Muslims are specifically exempted from the government

mandate to purchase insurance, and also from the penalty tax for being

uninsured. Islam considers insurance to be “gambling”, “risk-taking”, and

“usury” and is thus banned. Muslims are specifically granted exemption based

on this.

How convenient. So I, as a Christian, will have crippling IRS liens placed

against all of my assets, including real estate, cattle, and even accounts

receivables, and will face hard prison time because I refuse to buy insurance

or pay the penalty tax. Meanwhile, Louis Farrakhan will have no such penalty

and will have 100% of his health needs paid for by the de facto government

insurance. Non-Muslims will be paying a tax to subsidize Muslims. This 

is Dhimmitude.

Hi Folks:

I got and read this yesterday, then I checked out Snopes and, sure enough, they validate its truth so, as Tony says, “What next?”

Since you’re on/close to Social Security (note how they want to change its name) it’s obvious you and I want to express our opinion to our Congress Person and the AARP; after all, since all financial bills begin in the House, I think it behooves us to “nip this in the bud.” Don’t forget, it’s your/my money.

Count It A Day Lost You Don’t Learn Something!

ON JANUARY 1, 2013, THE US GOVERNMENT IS REQUIRING

EVERYONE TO HAVE DIRECT DEPOSIT FOR SS CHECKS .

WONDER WHY?

HR 4646

Be sure to read entire explanation

Watch for this AFTER November elections; remember this BEFORE you VOTE,
in case you think Obama is looking out for the elderly and your best interest.

A 1% tax on ALL bank transactions is what HR 4646 calls for.

Do you receive a paycheck, or a retirement check from Social Security
or a pension fund and have it direct deposit??

Well guess what . . . It looks as if Obama wants to tax it 1% !!!

This bill was put forth by Rep . Chaka Fattah (D-PA) .

YES, that is 1% tax on all bank transactions – HR 4646, every time it
goes in and every time money goes out .

Ask your congressperson to vote NO .

FORWARD THIS TO EVERYONE YOU KNOW!

1% tax on all bank transactions ~ HR 4646 – ANOTHER NEW OBAMA TAX
SLIPPED IN WHILE WE WERE ASLEEP. Checked this on Snopes, it’s true!

Check it out yourself ~ HR 4646 .

1 .

snopes.com: Debt Free America Act
Is the U. S. government proposing a 1% tax on debit card usage and/or

banking transactions?

. . . It is true . The bill is HR-4646introduced by US Rep Peter deFazio D-Oregon and

US Senator Tom Harkin D-Iowa . Their plan is to sneak it in after the . . .
. . . moved beyond proposing studies and submitted the Debt Free America Act

(H . R . 4646), a bill calling for the implementation of a scheme to pay down the . . .
. . . [2010] by Rep . Chaka Fattah (D-Pa .). His “Debt Free America Act”

(H . R . 4646) would impose a 1 percent “transaction tax” on every financial transaction . . .
Mon, 06 Feb 2012 12:30:17 GMT http://www.snopes.com/politics/taxes/debtfree.asp

President Obama’s finance team is recommending a one percent (1%)
transaction fee (TAX) . Obama’s plan is to sneak it in after the November
elections to keep it under the radar.

This is a 1% tax on all transactions at any financial institution -
banks, credit unions, savings and loans, etc . Any deposit you make, or even
a transfer within your own bank from one account to another, will have a 1%
tax charged.

If your paycheck or your Social Security or whatever is direct deposit,
it will get a 1% tax charged for the transaction.

If your paycheck is $1000, then you will pay Obama $10 just for the
privilege of depositing your paycheck in your bank . Even if you hand carry
your paycheck or any check in to your bank for a deposit, 1% tax will be
charged .

You receive a $5,000 stock dividend from your broker, Obama takes $50
just to allow you to deposit that check in the bank .

If you take $1,000 cash to deposit at your bank,1% tax will be charged .

Mind you, this is from the man who promised that, if you make under
$250,000 per year, you will not see one penny of new tax .

Keep your eyes and ears open, you will be amazed at what you learn
about this guy’s under-the-table moves to increase the number of ways
you are taxed .

Oh, and by the way, if you receive a refund from the IRS next year and
you have it direct deposited or you walk in to deposit that check, you
guessed it .

You will pay a 1% charge of that money just for putting it in your bank .

Remember, any money, cash, check or whatever, no matter where it came
from, you will pay a 1% fee if you put it in the bank .

Some will say, oh well, it’s just 1% . Are you kidding me? It’s a 1% tax
increase across the board . Remember, once the tax is there, they can also
raise it at will . And if anyone protests, they will just say,

“Oh, that’s not really a tax, it’s a user fee”!

Think this is no big deal? Go back and look at the transactions you made
from last year’s banking statements . Then add the total of all those

transactions and deduct 1% . Still think it’s no big deal?

“In my own life in my own small way, I have tried to give back to this
country that has given me so much,” she said. “See, that’s why I left a job
at a big law firm for a career in public service, ” – Michelle Obama

No, Michele Obama does not get paid to serve as the First Lady and she
doesn’t perform any official duties. But this hasn’t deterred her from
hiring an unprecedented number of staffers to cater to her every whim and to
satisfy her every request in the midst of the Great Recession.

Just think, Mary Lincoln was taken to task for purchasing China for the
White House during the Civil War. And Mamie Eisenhower had to shell out the
salary for her personal secretary from her husband’s salary.

Total Personal Staff members for other first ladies paid by taxpayers:

Mamie Eisenhower: One– paid for personally out of President’s salary.

Jackie Kennedy: One

Roseline Carter:- One

Barbara Bush: – One

Hilary Clinton: – Three

Laura Bush: – One

Michele Obama: – Twenty-two

How things have changed! If you’re one of the tens of millions of Americans
facing certain destitution, earning less than subsistence wages stocking the
shelves at Wal-Mart or serving up McDonald cheeseburgers, prepare to scream
and then come to realize that the benefit package for these servants of Ms
Michelle are the same as members of the national security and defense
departments and the bill for these assorted lackeys is paid by YOU, John Q.
Public:

Michele Obama’s personal staff:

One – $172,200 – Sher, Susan (Chief Of Staff)

Two – $140,000 – Frye, Jocelyn C. (Deputy Assistant to the President and
Director of Policy And Projects For The First Lady)

Three – $113,000 – Rogers, Desiree G. (Special Assistant to the President
and White House Social Secretary for Mrs. Obama)

Four – $102,000 – Johnston, Camille Y. (Special Assistant to the President
And Director of Communications for the First Lady)

Five – $100,000 – Winter, Melissa (Special Assistant to the President and
Deputy Chief Of Staff to the First Lady)

Six – $90,000 Medina, David S. (Deputy Chief Of Staff to the First Lady)

Seven – $84,000 – Lilyveld, Catherine M. (Director and Press Secretary to
the First Lady)

Eight – $75,000 – Starkey, Frances M. (Director of Scheduling and Advance
for the First Lady)

Nine – $70,000 – Sanders, Trooper (Deputy Director of Policy and Project for
the First Lady)

Ten – $65,000 – Burnough, Erinn (Deputy Director and Deputy Social
Secretary)

Eleven – $64,000 – Reinstein, Joseph B.(Deputy Director and Deputy Social
Secretary)

Twelve – $62,000 – Goodman, Jennifer R. (Deputy Director of Scheduling and
Events Coordinator For The First Lady)

Thirteen – $60,000 Fitz, Alan O.(Deputy Director of Advance and Trip
Director For the First Lady)

Fourteen – $57,500 – Lewis, Dana M. (Special Assistant and Personal Aide to
the First Lady)

Fifteen – $52,500 – Mustaphi, Semonti M. (Associate Director and Deputy
Press Secretary To The First Lady)

Sixteen – $50,000 – Jarvis, Kristen E. (Special Assistant for Scheduling and
Traveling Aide To The First Lady)

Seventeen – $45,000 – Lechtenberg, Tyler A. (Associate Director of
Correspondence For The First Lady)

Eighteen – $43,000 – Tubman, Samanth a (Deputy Associate Director, Social
Office)

Nineteen – $40,000 – Boswell, Joseph J. (Executive Assistant to the Chief Of
Staff to the First Lady)

Twenty – $36,000 – Armbruster, Sally M. (Staff Assistant to the Social
Secretary)

Twenty-One – $35,000 – Bookey, Natalie (Staff Assistant)

Twenty-Two – $35,000 – Jackson, Deilia A. (Deputy Associate Director of
Correspondence for the First Lady)

(total – $1,591,200 in annual salaries)

There has NEVER been anyone in the White House at any time that has created
such an army of staffers whose sole duties are the facilitation of the First
Lady’s social life.

One wonders why she needs so much help, at taxpayer expense.

Note: This does not include makeup artist Ingrid Grimes-Miles, 49, and
“First Hairstylist” Johnny Wright, 31, both of whom traveled aboard Air
Force One to Europe.