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By Derek Hunter

Warren G. Harding was corrupt, as was Richard M. Nixon. Bill Clinton and John F. Kennedy were like blind golfers, looking for a hole, any hole, every hole. Woodrow Wilson and Franklin Roosevelt were power-mad narcissists convinced they knew best how everyone else should live. Jimmy Carter was clueless. But as we approach the 100-year anniversary of the first of these men to serve as president, all have been lapped in debasing their office by its current occupant: Barack Obama.

It is understandable President Obama would not want to run on his record. Who would? “Give me four more years so I can make up for the first four” is not the stuff of campaign slogan greatness.

But even that wouldn’t work because, as he told CBS News this week, “The mistake of my first term – couple of years – was thinking this job was just about getting the policy right. And that’s important. But the nature of this office is also to tell a story to the American people that gives them a sense of unity and purpose and optimism, especially during tough times.” In other words, his only flaw is he’s too damn close to perfect.

It’s like someone bragging about being the most humble person on the planet.

The president of the United States thinks he needs to tell us stories to give us “a sense of unity, purpose and optimism…”

This struck me as odd because a.) he’s already told us stories, the story of his life, in – count ‘em – two autobiographies written before he accomplished anything, and b.) he’s made zero effort to bring people together at any point in his presidency.

Putting aside his autobiographies, which should be moved to the fiction section of the bookstore considering the 38 provable falsehoods uncovered in them – remember the uproar when James Frey’s A Million Tiny Pieces turned out to have exaggerations and lies? Obama does it; crickets – the fact this man would feel comfortable enough to speak the word “unity” without laughing is a testament to just how far we’ve fallen as a nation.

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by Ken Blackwell
for Townhall.com
May 01, 2012

Someone in the Obama campaign should find a new line of work. They’ve adopted as a slogan the single word: Forward! You’ve heard those complaints from conservatives that Obama is a socialist? Well, Forward! is one sure way to validate those concerns. Forward! has been the slogan of Marxists for more than a century. Vorwärts is not a soccer rival to Harry Potter’s Hogwarts school, that home of witchcraft and wizardry. . Vorwärts was the German language name of the Socialist newspaper for generations of European leftists.

In Russia, Vladimir Lenin’s Bolsheviks used the word Vperyod! Now, if you had been accused day in and day out of being a Marxist, would you run for re-election with such a freighted word? It’s a comment on American education that a candidate for president can use a Communist word and expect no one will notice or object.

Maybe the Obama team is just taking cues from MSNBC. They try to deny their far-left orientation with the disarming slogan: Lean Forward. Try to imagine that we’re on the rim of the Grand Canyon, staring down at the chasm of debt that this administration has dug for. This president has dug a hole of debt in three years deeper than all previous forty-three presidents. And while we’re hanging out over that canyon rim, MSNBC tells us to lean forward.

It’s surprising that President Obama didn’t pick up on the unsavory associations with the word Forward! It’s like David Duke not getting the problem with white sheets.

In his book, Radical-in-Chief Stanley Kurtz takes great care to document Mr. Obama’s ties to American socialists. Obama admits in his memoir that he attended the Socialist Scholars Conference in New York City in April 1983. The way Obama tells it, going to that conference was part of the delightful intellectual smorgasbord of activity that a Columbia student samples in Manhattan. You know, Lincoln Center, the Bronx Zoo, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Grant’s Tomb—all that cultural stuff in the Big Apple.

The only problem with this scenario is that the agenda of the Socialist Scholars Conference in 1983 was pretty clear: How to bring Socialism to America without importing all that nasty, brutish KGB and GuLAG apparatus from what President Reagan was calling the evil empire.

Those democratic Socialists may well have hit on the formula: work against the family, abolish marriage, crush small businesses, take over big ones. Nationalize student loans and home mortgages, the two biggest items in the American family budget. You don’t have to nationalize everything. As former Obama economic adviser Austan Goolsby said, just the “commanding heights” of the economy. Nice Marxian phrase there, Austan.

Stanley Kurtz is quite careful to distinguish President Obama’s radicalism from that of the Continental Marxists. Kurtz will not go where the evidence does not lead. He finally concludes that Barack Obama is a Socialist, but he’s a Socialist like the left wing of the Swedish Social Democratic Party.

Now, it was hard enough to get Americans to muster on the village green when Paul Revere rode through “every Middlesex village and farm” crying out “The British are coming! The British are coming!” But stand they did and fired the shot heard `round the world.

During the Cold War, Hollywood’s Alan Arkin made fun of anti-Communists here with a spoof called “The Russians are Coming! The Russians are Coming!”

So it’s not hard to figure out why Stanley Kurtz’s book did not raise greater alarms. How do you get folks stirred up yelling “The Swedes are coming! The Swedes are coming”?

The serious question we need to ask ourselves: Does the Swedish Socialist model work, even for Sweden? Sweden and the rest of Scandinavia will find it increasingly impossible to meet the demands of their social welfare systems with an ever-shrinking native-born population. That’s why Sweden has taken to importing folks from the Third World. And that, tragically is why the ancient city of Malmo has become dangerous for Jews. The children and grandchildren of people who fled there with the rise of Hitler are being forced out by the rise of jihadist anti-Semitism.

Anti-Semitism is the inevitable result of the politics of re-distribution. We should not forget that in Germany, it was National Socialism that blamed the Jews as that nation’s one percent. Socialism didn’t work in the USSR, but anti-Semitism was rife. That’s why millions of Soviet Jews fled when they had the chance.

The reason Socialists always proclaim Forward! as their slogan is that they never want you to look at their record. Don’t look back at the wreckage of the economy and the dangers to liberty. Just keep marching together, Forward! indeed.

Ken Blackwell, a contributing editor at Townhall.com, is a senior fellow at the Family Research Council and the American Civil Rights Union and is on the board of the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty.

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If the embattled Obama should win re-election, say the pundits, you can thank the “gender gap.” And Democrats have packaged a campaign slogan that seems to be winning the hearts and minds of soccer moms across the nation: “The Republican War on Women.”

Since the good-old-days of the New Deal, Progressive Democrats have carved out a substantial piece of political real estate by buying off various constituencies with taxpayer cash or by placing the self-appointed leaders of these political factions in the media spotlight.

Recently, Georgetown University Law student Sandra Fluke testified before Congress that mean old Republicans, if they get their way, will hit her unfairly in the pocketbook by refusing to pick up her $3,000-a-year contraception tab.

“We, as Georgetown LSRJ [Law Students for Reproductive Justice], are here today because we’re so grateful that this regulation implements the non-partisan medical advice of the Institute of Medicine,” said Fluke.

The regulation she referred to was a ruling by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) that Catholic institutions, like Georgetown University, must provide “free” contraception although it conflicts with church doctrine, tramples on the separation of church and state and the Constitution’s Free Exercise Clause.

“Scientists have abundant evidence that birth control has significant health benefits for women,” insisted HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, adding that contraception “is documented to significantly reduce health costs.”

Fluke and Obama administration thralls used the claim once employed by global-warming alarmists that scientific truth demands we submit to, well, their demands.

Unfortunately for global-warming alarmists, e-mails surfaced unmasking a conspiracy among the globe’s leading climatologists to skew temperature data in a way that supported their alarmist computer models. The e-mails also detailed efforts to discredit and deny peer-review publication of articles by scientists whose conclusions differed from what former Vice President Al Gore insisted was a universal “scientific consensus.”

The “climategate” scandal reduced the Academy Award-winning Gore to shrilly denounce his opponents as “Holocaust deniers.”

Gore, once the darling of the talk-show circuit, is conspicuously missing from the public eye.

Georgetown coed Sandra Fluke breathed new life into the better-living-through-science nostrum. She insisted that the Institute of Medicine recommendation to ObamaCare bureaucrats trumped the Constitution – whether the question was separation of powers, lawmaking by unelected technocrats or trampling the conscience of individuals. To deny her claim to free contraception was a declaration of war against sacred science not to mention an entire gender.

And American women seem to be responding. According to a recent CNN poll, women view President Obama more favorably, by 16 points, than his presumptive Republican opponent Mitt Romney.

Then the New York Times’ Science Section ran a story with revelations as shocking as climategate. An investigation conducted by Dr. Ferric C. Fang, editor in chief of the journal Infection and Immunity, and Dr. Arturo Casadevall, of  the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, found a dramatic increase in the number of peer-reviewed science articles retracted after it was discovered they contained false claims, and that the retractions “were just a manifestation of a much more profound problem – ‘a symptom of a dysfunctional scientific climate’ …  a winner-take-all game with perverse incentives that lead scientists to cut corners and, in some cases, commit acts of misconduct.”

In an editorial published in Infection and Immunity, Dr. Fang explains why he believes misconduct among scientific researchers is on the rise:

“Overall success rates of research proposals, including both renewal and new applications, submitted to the National Institutes of Health have fallen by more than 50% … As the amelioration effects of the 2009 ARRA (American Recovery and Reinvestment Act) stimulus funding come to an end, the full impact of the deficient federal investment in science is only now being fully felt … Funding agencies cannot continue to reject more than nine-tenths of grant applications without seriously damaging science.”

This is pure speculation on my part, but Dr. Fang seems to suggest that cutthroat competition among science researchers hungry for federal funds is driving them to tilt their findings in order to legitimize the political prejudices of the funding agencies. If HHS says ripping up the Constitution is good for women’s health … federally-funded scientists can rustle up a study proving it. It’s either that or face the humiliation of standing in a long line at the unemployment office.

Junk science nearly put America’s crippled industries in the hands of United Nations carbon bureaucrats. Today, junk science works to diminish our liberties and return a community organizing political hack to the White House – by cynically reducing American women to frightened lab rats.