Over Use of Air Force One

It's hard to believe that CBS actually said something that wasn't flattering to this President! This is from Mark Knoller of CBS.  I am posting this in the shadow of a report that Obama has conducted more fundraisers in this 3+ years of office than the total fundraisers conducted by the last five Presidents.  And we're not even talking about Obama's record setting golf outings!
  
Air Force One: The pilots and crew of Air Force One are flying more hours than a rookie on a beer run. They are tired of it too, and are adding more crew to Air Force-1, - I know this for a fact because I'm one of the instructors that trains the crews. Our company (Atlas Air) has had the Air Force-1 and E-4 contract for over three years and I've been doing it for about 18 months now. Last year (2011) Obama flew in Air Force One 172 times, almost every other day.

White House officials have been telling reporters in recent days that the Democrat doesn't intend to hang around the White House quite so much in 2012.They explain he wants to get out more around the country because, as everyone knows, that midterm election shellacking had nothing to do with his health care bill, over-spending or other policies, and everything to do with Obama's not adequately explaining himself to his countrymen and women. And with only 288 days remaining in Obama's never ending presidential campaign, the incumbent's travel pace will not likely slacken.

At an Air Force-estimated cost of $181,757 per flight HOUR (not to mention the additional travel costs of Marine One, Secret Service, logistics and local police overtime), that's a lot of frequent flier dollars going into Obama's carbon footprint. $8 Million every time it lands & takes off. We are privy to some of these numbers thanks to CBS' Mark Knoller, a bearded national treasure trove of presidential stats.

According to Knoller's copious notes, during the last year, Obama made 65 domestic trips over 104 days, and six trips to eight countries over 22 days. Not counting six vacation trips over 32 days. He took 196 helicopter trips, signed 203 pieces of legislation and squeezed in 29 rounds of left-handed golf. Obama last year gave 491 speeches, remarks or statements. That's more talking than goes on in some entire families, at least from fatherly mouths.

In fact, even including the 24 days of 2010 that we never saw Obama in public, his speaking works out to about one official utterance every 11 waking hours. Aides indicate the "Real Good Talker" believes we need more. Related: Obama spends nearly half his presidency outside Washington, plans to travel more. Related: Vacationer-in-Chief Spends $1.75 Million to Visit Hawaiian Chums. Obama has spent over $100 million taxpayer dollars flying around in Air Force One, and probably another $100 million on his entourage. Obama is just another tin-pot dictator living lavishly at the expense of his subjects. And we seniors have to "tighten our belts" THANKS TO ALL WHO HELPED PUT THIS GREEDY WINDBAG IN OFFICE!

Justice Department Protects Illegal Voters in Florida

In a thinly vieled attempt to keep illegal voters on the Florida voting rolls, Holder's Justice Department is now threatening Florida, demanding that Florida Secretary of State stop efforts to purge Florida voting rolls of illegal voters. Think about this! Obama's Justice Department does prosecute Black Militants intimidating Penneslvania voters, because the ones beng intimidated are white, older people mostly voting Republicans, but then they have the plain gall to tell Florida they cannot take illegal voters off their own voting rolls? That's because the vast majority of the illegal Florida voters vote Democrat....who else is going to give them free stuff.

From Yahoo! News reported by Reuters, Reporting By Andrew Stern and Tom Brown (Reuters) -

Florida, a key electoral battleground where the 2000 presidential election was decided by a few hundred ballots, will decide in the coming days whether to heed a Justice Department warning to stop its campaign to purge ineligible voters, a state spokesman said on Saturday. The warning issued this week by the head of the Justice Department's voting section said the effort appeared to violate the 1965 Voting Rights Act, which protects minorities. It demanded a response by Wednesday.

A spokesman for Florida Secretary of State Ken Detzner said the state must make certain that only eligible voters cast ballots. "We have a year-round obligation to ensure the integrity of Florida's elections. We will be responding to (the Justice Department's) concerns next week," Chris Cate said in an email message. Cate said in a subsequent telephone call that the state was still formulating its response.

Polls show Florida will be closely contested between Democratic President Barack Obama and Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney and the outcome could swing the November 6 election. A mere 537 Florida votes decided the 2000 election in favor of Republican George W. Bush over Democrat Al Gore, amid charges from both sides that some people were unable to vote, some votes were uncounted, or were counted incorrectly.

The U.S. Supreme Court ultimately decided the contest in a ruling that halted the recount process. Supporters of Florida's voter scrub, conducted by the administration of Republican Governor Rick Scott, say it is aimed at clearing voter registration rolls of non-citizens. But critics call it part of longstanding Republican efforts to deter minorities and the poor, who tend to vote Democratic, from casting ballots.

2,700 VOTERS SUSPECTED

In its letter to Detzner on Thursday, the Justice Department also said the effort seemed to violate the 1993 National Voter Registration Act and its rules for maintaining "accurate and current" voter registration lists "in a uniform and non-discriminatory manner." The purge effort, begun in April, compares lists of registered voters with driver's license records that contain information on citizenship.

Critics contend the information can be out of date as many people become citizens after they get their driver's licenses or state IDs. So far the state has identified about 2,700 voters as suspicious and sent them letters demanding they produce proof of citizenship to avoid being stricken from the voter rolls. According to the Miami Herald, Florida's current list of potential non-citizen voters includes many people who are lawful citizens. Of course they are!  They have the welfarechecks to provie it.

 About 58 percent on the list were Hispanics - Florida's largest ethnic immigrant population. And the largest percentage of the illegal population as well.

Whites and Republicans were least likely to face being purged from the rolls, the newspaper said. Civil rights groups say Florida has a long history of voter roll tampering and manipulation. Most recently, in 2000 and 2004, it tried purging convicted felons from the rolls using what were found to be inaccurate lists that kept ballots out of the hands of black voters - who tend to vote Democratic.

Real Osama Bin Laden Hit Team

One of my White House contacts,....someone really in the know, sent me this classified photo on the team that hit the compound in Pakistan and killed Osama Bin Laden.