From Rasmussen Reports:

Public support for the health care reform plan proposed by President Obama and congressional Democrats has fallen to a new low as just 42% of U.S. voters now favor the plan. That’s down five points from two weeks ago and down eight points from six weeks ago. A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey shows that opposition to the plan has increased to 53%, up nine points since late June.

The President already started retooling ObamaCare at a “townhall” in New Hampshire.  President Obama came out to a crowd of seemingly hand-picked supporters to make a strong defense for his health care plans. Philip Klein at the American Spectator says the President is lying about a single-payer health system.  Klein cites at 2003 speech in which Obama clearly supported a single payer system, Jim Geraghty at National Review Online points to Obama’s support of a single-payer system as late as last year.

It looks like the Democrats’ push to unite voters behind ObamaCare, has actually united them in opposition.

UPDATE: The President claimed  at the townhall event that the AARP endorsed Obama Care. The problem: The AARP hasn’t endorsed it.

An anti-Obama rally in Israel’s capital planned to coincide with US envoy George Mitchell’s visit to the Jewish State brought over 1,000 people out to the streets to protest the Administration’s hostility towards Israeli interests.

In June, 6% of Israeli’s considered the Obama administration pro-Israel, down from 31% only a month before.  What’s surprising about the extremely low esteem for Obama is that Israel is essentially a European-style nanny state. Most Israeli’s fall further to the left than most Americans. While many Israeli’s may agree with Obama’s political ideology, the President’s strong-arm tactics and mischaracterizations of the Israeli-Arab conflict leave him as one of the most disliked American presidents ever in Israel.

Candidate Obama promised to show a more friendly American face to the world, and to enhance working relationships with friends as well as enemies. Six months down the road however, it looks like the Administration’s strategy is to offend, insult, and bully our allies while building weak, subservient relationships with the worlds most dangerous actors.

Stephen Hayes at The Weekley Standard reports that the Obama administration has secretly instructed American agents to give Miranda warnings to captured alien terrorists:

When 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammad was captured on March 1, 2003, he was not cooperative. “I’ll talk to you guys after I get to New York and see my lawyer,” he said, according to former CIA Director George Tenet.

Of course, KSM did not get a lawyer until months later, after his interrogation was completed, and Tenet says that the information the CIA obtained from him disrupted plots and saved lives. “I believe none of these successes would have happened if we had had to treat KSM like a white-collar criminal — read him his Miranda rights and get him a lawyer who surely would have insisted that his client simply shut up,” Tenet wrote in his memoirs.

If Tenet is right, it’s a good thing KSM was captured before Barack Obama became president. For, the Obama Justice Department has quietly ordered FBI agents to read Miranda rights to high value detainees captured and held at U.S. detention facilities in Afghanistan, according a senior Republican on the House Intelligence Committee. “The administration has decided to change the focus to law enforcement. Here’s the problem. You have foreign fighters who are targeting US troops today — foreign fighters who go to another country to kill Americans. We capture them and they’re reading them their rights — Mirandizing these foreign fighters,” says Representative Mike Rogers, who recently met with military, intelligence and law enforcement officials on a fact-finding trip to Afghanistan. [Read More]

Interestingly, this is another Barack Obama backtrack (or, outright lie). On March 22, 2009 President Obama said in an interview on 60 minutes, “Now, do these folks deserve Miranda rights? Do they deserve to be treated like a shoplifter down the block? Of course not.”

Andy McCarthy at The Corner rightly connects the dots between the return to the law enforcement approach to dealing with terrorism and the McCain Amendment in the 2005 Detainee Treatment Act.

Jeremiah Wright in an interview with the UK’s Daily Press shows us yet again why he’s not the best “spiritual mentor” for a President.

“Of course I voted for him; he’s my son. I’m proud of him,” Wright said. “I’ve got five biological kids. They all make mistakes and bad choices. I haven’t stopped loving any of them.

“He made mistakes. He made bad choices. I’ve got kids who listen to their friends. He listened to those around him. I did not disown him.”

Asked if he had spoken to the president, Wright said: “Them Jews aren’t going to let him talk to me. I told my baby daughter, that he’ll talk to me in five years when he’s a lame duck, or in eight years when he’s out of office. …

“They will not let him to talk to somebody who calls a spade what it is. … I said from the beginning: He’s a politician; I’m a pastor. He’s got to do what politicians do.”

Wright also said Obama should have sent a U.S. delegation to the World Conference on Racism held recently in Geneva, Switzerland, but that the president did not do so for fear of offending Jews and Israel.

“Ethnic cleansing is going on in Gaza. Ethnic cleansing (by) the Zionist is a sin and a crime against humanity, and they don’t want Barack talking like that because that’s anti-Israel,” Wright said. [Read More] [Audio]

Two questions for our readers: Should the President be talking to Rev. Wright, and did Barack ever “talk like that”?

Author Shelby Steele cuts right to the bottom of Sotomayor’s nomination and the lie of Obama’s “post-racial” grievance mongering, in an article in the Wall Street Journal:

President Obama’s nomination of Sonia Sotomayor for the Supreme Court points to a dilemma that will likely plague his presidency: How does a “post-racialist” president play identity politics?

What is most notable about the Sotomayor nomination is its almost perfect predictability. Somehow we all simply know — like it or not — that Hispanics are now overdue for the gravitas of high office. And our new post-racialist president is especially attuned to this chance to have a “first” under his belt, not to mention the chance to further secure the Hispanic vote. And yet it was precisely the American longing for post-racialism — relief from this sort of racial calculating — that lifted Mr. Obama into office.

The Sotomayor nomination commits the cardinal sin of identity politics: It seeks to elevate people more for the political currency of their gender and ethnicity than for their individual merit. (Here, too, is the ugly faithlessness in minority merit that always underlies such maneuverings.) Mr. Obama is promising one thing and practicing another, using his interracial background to suggest an America delivered from racial corruption even as he practices a crude form of racial patronage. From America’s first black president, and a man promising the “new,” we get a Supreme Court nomination that is both unoriginal and hackneyed.

This contradiction has always been at the heart of the Obama story. On the one hand there was the 2004 Democratic Convention speech proclaiming “only one America.” And on the other hand there was the race-baiting of Rev. Jeremiah Wright. Does this most powerful man on earth know himself well enough to resolve this contradiction and point the way to a genuinely post-racial America? [Read More]

Today the US Government and the Barack Obama administration officially began the process of nationalizing one of the countries most prominent and long standing corporations, the General Motors company. Mainstream media sources and leftist politicians will tell you that the government is saving GM, investing in the country’s future, and that nationalization will be temporary and is for the greater good. It’s not true.

If you didn’t believe it over the last few months you’ll believe it now, the American decent into Socialism has begun.

General Motors had been performing poorly for years. It was a mismanaged business, it was being robbed by the auto unions, and it was hemorrhaging money. Under normal circumstances, a company so poorly run would fail or go into bankruptcy protection. Not GM. As the President, the board of GM,  and many political leaders told us, “bankruptcy [was] not an option.”  It was an option before the bailouts just as it was an option this morning when GM filed for bankruptcy protection in a deal with the Obama administration. It was not an option for the President however, for GM to remain a private company.

“I want you to know that what you’re doing is making a sacrifice for the next generation,” the President said today. “Not a sacrifice you necessarily chose to make, but a sacrifice you’re called to make.” No Mr. President, it is a sacrifice you forced us to make. General Motors was stolen from it’s stockholders this morning.

Under the “restructuring plan” Obama says a New GM will be created. It’s not true. The creative force in this country is free people in free markets, this is theft and destruction. The government will control 72.5 percent of GM, the United Auto Workers union will control 17 percent, the stockholders will be left with almost nothing, and the American taxpayer is being fleeced all along.

The weekend before GM stockholders and investors lost up to 50 percent of their investments, Barack Obama and the First Lady spent a luxury weekend in New York that cost $24,000 possibly $250,000. This is a President that wants control, he wants power, and he will do whatever it takes to get it without regard to American freedoms. The New GM will be Obama’s GM. Making “green” cars no one wants, while charging us for their production, and trying to force us to buy them. Ford better watch it’s back.

If  this is what the President calls Hope, I don’t need it. Hope comes from the opportunity to do for yourself, not from the oppressive burden of government theft and regulation. The face of America changed today, for the worse. And that’s Hope and Change for you. Didn’t we say it months ago? “You keep the Hope, I’ll keep my change” was a slogan heard over and over from those of us who could see this coming from a mile away. Hopefully we’ll have enough change left when we boot this guy to the curb in four years.

Yup, the title says Pravda. The Russian newspaper recognizes something that the American mainstream media can’t see even as it strikes them square in the face:

It must be said, that like the breaking of a great dam, the American decent into Marxism is happening with breath taking speed, against the back drop of a passive, hapless sheeple, excuse me dear reader, I meant people.

True, the situation has been well prepared on and off for the past century, especially the past twenty years. The initial testing grounds was conducted upon our Holy Russia and a bloody test it was. But we Russians would not just roll over and give up our freedoms and our souls, no matter how much money Wall Street poured into the fists of the Marxists.

Those lessons were taken and used to properly prepare the American populace for the surrender of their freedoms and souls, to the whims of their elites and betters.

First, the population was dumbed down through a politicized and substandard education system based on pop culture, rather then the classics. Americans know more about their favorite TV dramas then the drama in DC that directly affects their lives. They care more for their “right” to choke down a McDonalds burger or a BurgerKing burger than for their constitutional rights. Then they turn around and lecture us about our rights and about our “democracy”. Pride blind the foolish.

Then their faith in God was destroyed, until their churches, all tens of thousands of different “branches and denominations” were for the most part little more then Sunday circuses and their televangelists and top protestant mega preachers were more then happy to sell out their souls and flocks to be on the “winning” side of one pseudo Marxist politician or another. Their flocks may complain, but when explained that they would be on the “winning” side, their flocks were ever so quick to reject Christ in hopes for earthly power. Even our Holy Orthodox churches are scandalously liberalized in America.

The final collapse has come with the election of Barack Obama. His speed in the past three months has been truly impressive. His spending and money printing has been a record setting, not just in America’s short history but in the world. If this keeps up for more then another year, and there is no sign that it will not, America at best will resemble the Wiemar Republic and at worst Zimbabwe.

These past two weeks have been the most breath taking of all. First came the announcement of a planned redesign of the American Byzantine tax system, by the very thieves who used it to bankroll their thefts, loses and swindles of hundreds of billions of dollars. These make our Russian oligarchs look little more then ordinary street thugs, in comparison. Yes, the Americans have beat our own thieves in the shear volumes. Should we congratulate them? [Read More - You really should]

Pravda makes some striking generalizations, and luckily we have an election in a year that may slow the silent revolution.  Putin’s Russia is rising with lightning speed to dictatorship (it’s pretty much already there). Russia is no bastion of freedom, and we are not to be blamed for the horrors of Soviet Communism nor  for the decrepit state of “democratic” Russia’s (yeah right) political system. Notwithstanding the disgusting self-righteous arrogance of the author, this is a sobering piece.

“The proud American will go down into his slavery with out a fight, beating his chest and proclaiming to the world, how free he really is. The world will only snicker,” the author says at the end of the piece. It’s de Toqueville to a “T.” If we sit by and let our nation slide unopposed into soft tyranny, we’ll prove the author right.

In an interview with NBC’s Brian Williams, the president responded to critics of his Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor, specifically on the issue of her embrace of identity politics/justice. In the title I say Obama kind of responded, because his statement is rambling, contradictory and attempts to deflect criticism rather than address it head on. Watch for yourself (the interview starts at 1:17):

The president starts by canceling out any defense he or Sotomayor could possibly have for her, I believe, racist statement saying, “I’m sure she would have restated it.” Then continues with a half-hearted and incoherent defense.

If it were “clear” in context that Sotomayor “was simply saying that her life experiences will give her information about the struggles and hardships that people are going through,” then the defense would be unnecessary. Instead, it’s clear in her statement that she takes her gender and racial experience, whatever that is, much further.

“My hope is that I will take the good from my experiences and extrapolate them further into areas with which I am unfamiliar. I simply do not know exactly what that difference will be in my judging. But I accept there will be some based on my gender and my Latina heritage.” Sotomayor said in her now infamous lecture to La Raza in 2001.

She’s not saying that her experiences lead her to understand others who are not like her, but that her judgments will be different from others’ judgments because of her gender and race. She believes that she may “care” enough to understand the people who bring cases before the court but recognizes her limitations, which is where her race and gender fill in the gaps. The point is, she should take the time to block out her race and gender from her judgments and be impartial. Sure it may be hard, but she’s up for a post on the highest court in the country, impartiality should be expected of her.

The White House is using Organizing for America, an extension of the Obama campaign that continued into his presidency as his political advocacy wing,  to rally support for SCOTUS nominee Sonia Sotomayor. The “Stand with Sotomayor” website asks visitors to sign a petition in support of the judge, no telling how this petition would actually affect Senate hearings. A brief bio is also included on the site:

Your signature and comments will be part of a public display of support for this historic nomination in these crucial early weeks. Judge Sotomayor’s unique qualifications include:

Experience: She would start with more federal judicial experience than any new Justice in a century.

Brilliance: She’s studied and taught at America’s top universities, and is widely regarded as one of our nation’s finest legal minds.

Perseverance: Born and raised in a South Bronx public housing project, Judge Sotomayor has broken barriers all her life, honing a common-sense understanding of how the law affects our daily lives.  [My.BarackObama.com/sotomayorstand]

The heading over the petition form reads “Equal, Justice, Under, Law.” The problem is that Sotomayor’s “judicial realist” ideology says that justice is not always equal, it depends on the individual judge’s background, experiences, and even gender and race.

The White House has also tried to use Organizing for America to build support for its national health care program, asking campaign volunteers to take to the streets and rally support for the presidents health care plan.