The American Spectator
July 24, 2009
By Ben Stein
from the article “We’ve Figured Him Out”
Why is President Barack Obama in such a hurry to get his socialized medicine bill passed?
Because he and his cunning circle realize some basic truths:
The American people in their unimaginable kindness and trust voted for a pig in a poke in 2008. They wanted so much to believe Barack Obama was somehow better and different from other ultra-leftists that they simply took him on faith.
They ignored his anti-white writings in his books. They ignored his quiet acceptance of hysterical anti-American diatribes by his minister, Jeremiah Wright.
They ignored his refusal to explain years at a time of his life as a student. They ignored his ultra-left record as a “community organizer,” Illinois state legislator, and Senator.
The American people ignored his total zero of an academic record as a student and teacher, his complete lack of scholarship when he was being touted as a scholar.
Now, the American people are starting to wake up to the truth. (more…)

This morning I received an email from President Obama endorsing Judge Sonia Sotomayor for the position of Supreme Court Justice. In the letter he claims to advise me “about the qualifications and character that informed [his] decision to nominate Judge Sotomayor.”
Once upon a time, I was invited to the White House for a private dinner with the President. I am a respected businessman, with a factory that produces memory chips for computers and portable electronics. There was some talk that my industry was being scrutinized by the administration, but I paid it no mind. I live in a free country. There’s nothing that the government can do to me if I’ve broken no laws. My wealth was earned honestly, and an invitation to dinner with an American President is an honor.
Open Letter to Congress from Val Stevens - Vote NO on Obamacare
Thursday, July 30th, 2009Dear ___________________,
President Obama’s national health care bill is now being rammed through the U.S. House of Representatives like a freight train through a dark tunnel.
The 1,000-page document was rushed through committee hearings in just one day. Sadly, it is not a well-thought-out, bipartisan effort, but a force-feeding of the American public – and it distresses me greatly.
If passed, this legislation creating a “public health care plan,” would literally destroy the instant-access, high-quality health care that a majority of Americans have come to rely on.
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