It might be hard for you to believe but I still have people tell me how horrible George W. Bush’s presidency was when it comes to unemployment.  A very liberal, retired union member whose name I won’t use (GH) claimed that unemployment under Bush was over 8%!  I can only guess where he got that number but like most libs that attempt to use facts he got them wrong and couldn’t/wouldn’t source the data.  The table below comes directly from the U.S. Department of Labor’s Bureau of Labor Statistics which…is under the Obama administration’s control…not the Bush (or Cheney) administration.

As you can see, the Bush unemployment numbers are far better than the Obama administration.  The libs will still scream, “It’s Bush’s Fault,” but it’s worth noting that the highest unemployment numbers during Bush’s tenure occurred after the Democrats regained the majority in the House of Representatives and Senate during the 2006 mid-term elections and they’ve gone up ever since.

John Maynard Keynes, Economist

The liberals, progressives, elitists, and marxists who support President Barack Hussein Obama usually take every opportunity to make personal attacks on anyone who is conservative or an anti-Obama critic. That’s especially true if a critic or conservative dares to provide indisputable facts about, or express any well founded criticism regarding, President Obama’s policies.  The usual liberal response is to quickly say how stupid, uneducated, and uninformed the conservative/critic is.  They clearly believe that they are the intellectual elite and everyone else is part of the mental midget society.

Recently a number of President Obama’s ardent supporters were caught on video expressing their opinions of a sign at the Restoring Sanity Rally in Washington, D.C. that simply asked “Obama = Keynesian?”  Here at Happily American we are very well aware that the sign was asking about President Obama’s economic policies and philosophies, and whether they were influenced by British economist John Maynard Keynes but apparently the President’s supporters were not.  It seems they were confused and thought the sign was commenting on the President’s place of birth (some say Kenya).  Whether these highly intelligent democrats had difficulty seeing the sign, can’t be bothered to distinguish between Kenyan and Keynesian, or have some other intellectual impediment has not been determined….but the results are hilarious!  Intellectual elite indeed!

To be fair, education in the United States isn’t very strong now days in the subjects of economics, geography, or even reading.  So, who could blame these poor minions of the great and powerful Barack for not being able to distinguish between Kenyan and Keynesian?

Enjoy the video below, it’s a hoot!

With the 2010 mid-term elections less than two weeks away it’s seems strange that people I talk to have forgotten that we have already had four long years of DemocRat majority in the Congress.  Yeah, I know it seems longer than that for some of us but some voters they seem to forget that during the last two years of George W. Bush’s presidency the DemocRats were in charge of both houses of Congress.

The 2006 mid-term elections saw the Republicans lose their Congressional majority and the DemocRats gain the majority.  So, in January 2007 the DemocRats took over the national budget and all Congressional committees.  Yes dear reader, the DemocRats have been in charge of federal oversight for banking, housing and mortgages, and much more for about four years…are you better off?

If your having a hard time remembering what the DemocRats have been up to for the past four years here’s a video to jog your memory:

Remember now? On November 2nd remember who’s been in charge for the last four years and choose between more of the same crap or a new direction.

Is President Obama planning to suspend the 22nd Amendment to the U.S. Constitution or is he just less intelligent that the liberal media would have us believe? I’m not sure how he would accomplish the suspension of the 22nd Amendment but he hasn’t really been paying much attention to the Constitution.  As for his intelligence…he doesn’t seem any smarter than Jimmy Carter.  You decide after you watch the video below:

Another Fly In The White House

I’m not saying that Barack Hussein Obama, President of the United States, attracts flies but I can’t recall any other President being so plagued by them. Whether Obama attracts them or not, the lowly feces-eating insect says a lot about his presidency and ability to govern.

First, it says he is all too willing to bow to radical special interest groups like People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA).  This fly that was buzzing Obama on June 22nd was not subjected to the same fate as the fly that succumbed to the Commander-in-Chief’s wrath in June of 2009.  PETA’s spokesman Bruce Friedrich said Obama shouldn’t kill flies and Obama clearly has complied.

Next, it calls into question Obama’s desire to control borders.  After all, if the President won’t keep nasty disease-infested flies out of the White House or at least capture them once they’ve entered, why should anyone believe he would keep criminal aliens out of the country?  It also makes me wonder if he’ll have the Department of Justice file a lawsuit against makers of bug zappers and fly paper…if he’ll do it to Arizona why wouldn’t he do to lawfully operating American companies?

Sometimes a fly is just a fly, sometimes it’s an interesting symbol of a presidency.

Obama Flips Off Americans

If you’ve ever listened to talk radio I’m sure you’ve heard some remarkably unintelligent sounding liberal callers who sound like they’re reading Democ-Rat talking points on health care reform.  Do you know why they sound that way?  Simple, they are reading talking points!  That’s right, they’re reading talking points from a website – BARACKOBAMA.COM – because they’re too stupid to form their own arguments.

Liberals are given three steps on completing the talk radio call in process.  The first step, “Listen, Then Call” orders the activist to listen to the show using a link to listen online, and gives them the ability to select a different show if they can’t get through to the first one they pick.  The liberal caller can select from variety of shows including Sean Hannity, Fred Thompson, The Savage Nation, and the Dennis Miller Show among others.  The second step called “Add Your Voice” tells the caller “Use the discussion points on the right in your conversation”.  The final step is to “Report Your Call” where the compliant left-winger sends a report about their call to President Obama’s website via email.

The website also includes “Calling Tips” telling the progressive activist caller to “Be polite” (usually ignored), and “Stay calm and firm” if the host challenges their views (Obama’s views actually).

Mystery solved.  Liberal callers anxious to spend your money to provide health care for liberals and uninsured illegal aliens are getting their marching orders from the Socialist in Chief (Peace Be Upon Him).  I’d tell you how to fight back against this but as a conservative you are able to do it yourself.

What would you think if the United States was going to give money to a terrorist organization that is offering a reward to anyone who kidnaps a soldier in the military of one of our allies?  Well, that’s pretty much what’s happening.  The Obama administration pledged $900 million to the muslim terrorist organization Hamas who is offering the sum of one million Jordanian dinars (about $400k) to anyone who kidnaps an Israeli soldier and delivers them to Hamas.  It’s a new bounty reported by the Associated Press and repeated online in Deseret News, Jihad Watch, and other websites.

Hamas has asked Arabs in Israel to kidnap Israeli soldiers before but they haven’t previously been known to offer such a reward.  So why now?  Despite having various income streams from cells here in the United States, private benefactors, Iran, and Saudi Arabia they’ve never offered this type of ransom.  Add to that the budget shortfalls in their political wing, Palestinian Authority, and it just makes you wonder where they think they’ll get the money.  I’m guessing they think their buddy Barack Obama is going to come through.

Obama never saw a camera he didn't love

Alfred Nobel, inventor of Dynamite, was pretty clear about the criteria for awarding the peace prize bearing his name, it goes, “to the person who shall have done the most or the best work for fraternity between nations, for the abolition or reduction of standing armies and for the holding and promotion of peace congresses.”  Given those criteria I was surprised that the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to President Barack Obama.  It was awarded by the Nobel committee despite Obama meeting none of Nobel’s criteria by the February 1, 2009 nomination deadline…nor since.  It must have surprised the President too.  In a rare display of truth President Obama said, “I do not feel that I deserve to be in the company of so many of the transformative figures honored by this prize.”  Truer words….

Interestingly not everyone thought Obama was undeserving, some noted peaceniks fawned all over Obama.  Fidel Castro, former Communist Military Dictator of Cuba, said that Obama’s award was a “positive measure”.  Ahmed Yousef, deputy foreign minister of (Terrorist Organization) Hamas said, “We congratulate him for this”.  Also offering congratulations was Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Mohamed ElBaradei (2005 Nobel Peace Prize) who said “Israel is number one threat to Middle East”.  What a great bunch to have behind you, eh?

Anyway, now that President Obama has won the Nobel Peace Prize he’s being considered by a number of other prize committees.  It’s expected that Obama will be presented the following awards in 2009 and 2010:

The Academy Award (Oscar): Obama will be presented the Best Picture Oscar for the autobiographical movie of his life that he intends to someday write, direct, and star in.  Harrison Ford will deliver the trophy to Obama in France.

The Tony Award:  Obama will be presented the Tony for his one-man show based on the memoir he hasn’t written or even conceived of yet.  No word yet if the teleprompter will get a nod.

The Pulitzer Prize: Barack Obama’s unwritten memoir easily gets the next Pulitzer.  I’m still waiting to find out if the Nobel Committee will revise the 2009 Nobel Prize for Literature winners or wait until 2010 to present the award for the unwritten book.

The Grammy Award:  The as yet to be recorded spoken-word version President Obama’s memoir that he hasn’t yet written will also garner the Grammy Award in 2010 even though it’s not expected to hit the shelves for several years – if ever.

The Emmy Award:  Barack Obama’s planned but not yet produced sock puppet show will get the daytime Emmy for Best Daytime Drama by defeating Susan Lucci.  He’ll also get the prime time award for the same show despite it never being shown…ever.

After that who knows?  Will he be awarded the NBA Finals MVP trophy or the Cy Young award?  The Heisman Trophy?  America’s Cup?  He’s just as qualified to win those awards as he is to win the Nobel Peace Prize.

Maybe I’m too hard on Obama.  Maybe he’s actually qualified to win one award…the World Magic Award for making democracy and free markets disappear in his own country.

Obama addresses Congress

Maybe it’s because I’m getting older, or because I’ve been in the health care field for a while, but I know a lot of people with medical conditions.  I personally know people with chronic pain like debilitating migraines, herniated low back disks, Sciatica, Temporomandibular Joint Dysfunction, Myofascial Pain Syndrome and Fibromyalgia.  I personally know people with heart conditions ranging from Atherosclerosis and Arrhythmia to Cardiomyopathy and Cardiomegaly.  I even know people with auto-immune disorders like Rheumatoid Arthritis and Lupus.  Same with breathing disorders including COPD and Asthma.  And, Cancer – skin cancer, colon cancer, prostate cancer, and ovarian cancer.  Strangely, none of these “sick” people have lost their health insurance because they were sick.  None.  So, why do I bring it up – President Obama.  President Obama is using the fear of losing coverage due to illness to advance his agenda.

During his September 9, 2009 address to a joint session of the U.S. Congress President Obama said, “More and more Americans pay their premiums, only to discover that their insurance company has dropped their coverage when they get sick,”  and of course that’s not the case.  You would think that the President (a Harvard educated lawyer), or maybe his teleprompter, would know that it’s been illegal for a health insurance company to drop coverage due to illness for over a decade.  Apparently he’s just a liar willing to lie to get what he wants because he compounded the lie with a little story.   He said “One man from Illinois lost his coverage in the middle of chemotherapy because his insurer found that he hadn’t reported gallstones that he didn’t even know about…They delayed his treatment, and he died because of it.”  Except he left out a LOT of that story (lie of omission).  The “man from Illinois” has a name – Otto Raddatz.   Mr. Raddatz did have cancer and did receive chemotherapy as his sister testified about in front of Congress.  Mr. Raddatz did have his insurance canceled – due to failure to report the pre-existing conditions of an aneurysm and gall stones (as required when applying for the policy)…not because he had cancer.  You know what else Obama conveniently left out?  He left out that Mr. Raddatz’s coverage was reinstated pretty quickly and he received a stem cell transplant as scheduled and lived another 3 1/2 years.  He did not die because of health insurance coverage being dropped.  His health insurance coverage wasn’t dropped because he was sick.

Don’t let the fear of losing your health insurance coverage convince you to support President Obama’s unamerican, probably unconstitutional, health care reform.  Insurance companies cannot drop you for being sick, nor can they raise your existing premium rate because you get sick.  People do lose their coverage for three main reasons.  First, they fail to report pre-existing conditions when they apply for a policy.  Second, they move to another state and lose coverage because Federal Law doesn’t allow sale of health insurance policies across state lines…something not corrected in the “reform” bills.  And, Third…they quit paying the premiums.  They do NOT lose coverage due to illness.

Tell your Congressmen and Senators that you know President Obama isn’t telling the truth.  Tell them you know they aren’t telling the truth.  Tell them you don’t like fear mongering.  Tell them now.