1850- I AM JUST A COWBOY-
LONESOME ON THE TRAIL…
This week we were treated to the
singing cowboy- I think from Texas?
I’ll admit- I don’t watch American
idol- or any of the other shows like that.
But because the cowboy made the
news- I saw the scoop.
What happened was you had this
talented singer- who stuttered.
He was interesting- fit the Mel
Tillis style.
When he was asked about the stutter- he said
he got it when a grenade injured him in action in Afghanistan.
Of course the judges- and the
audience- loved the story.
The only problem was- he made the
whole thing up.
So last night I saw a news report-
he seems to have been faking war injuries for years.
Though he did serve in
Afghanistan- for a month- yet he seemed to have some issue with his hearing-
and was sent home.
As he was being interviewed- after
the story came out- he was crying- yes stuttering- and he said ‘this is my
truth- this is what I have believed’.
Sort of like truth is relative-
if the story ‘helps’ you out- then it’s ‘your truth’.
I remember the old days of listening
to classic rock on those vinyl albums.
Yeah- you put them on the
‘turntable’ and the technology was so advanced- you even had that little lever
that you pulled to make the Album replay- all on its own!
I still remember the cover to my
Thin Lizzy album- I mean those guys rocked.
You might remember the hit song
‘the boys are back in town’ there was another song on the album- called ‘The
Cowboy Song’.
Yeah- our stuttering cowboy knows
how to sing- and tell tall tales at the same time.
There have been a few news
stories of importance this past week.
One of the top ones was the
leaking of all the national security info.
I was surprised to see both Dems
and Repubs calling for an investigation.
Diane Feinstein- the Dem senator
form Cali- she said she has never seen the level of leaks this bad in her 11
years on the Senate Intelligence committee.
What are the leaks?
These are leaks that show the
president in tough situations- doing all he can to fight terror- and basically
making him look like a tough guy.
The pres denies- in a Clintonian
way- that he ‘authorized the leaks of classified material’.
When I first heard the denial- I
thought ‘he knows about it’.
How?
As someone who really liked Obama
at the start- I have followed him these last few years- and he has done lots of
‘tricky’ stuff- that at first I brushed off- but after a while I realized- well
sometimes ‘cowboys like to tell stories’.
As I listened to both sides- McCain,
King- a few other Senators and congressman have showed that some of the leaks
had to have come from inside the White House- from the small group of people
around the pres.
They were detailed accounts of
what Biden said- or what Obama did [shuffling the cards that have the names of terrorists].
They brought out the fact that
much of the detail- that came out in the N.Y. Times- were things that only a
few inner circle people would know about.
While it is true that many people
knew about some of the other info- like the Stuxnet virus.
Yet only a few- inside the White
House- would know the details of what Biden said- when there were only 5 or so
people in the room.
Also- the paper that reported the
leaks- said the sources were from the White House [as opposed to the FBI- or
CIA].
Now- some of the leaked info is
bad- we ‘leaked’ that both the U.S. and Israel were indeed responsible for the
Stuxnet computer virus that ruined the nuclear centrifuges in Iran.
Last year Iran had their nuclear facilities
damaged- at the time they did not know for sure that it was a virus- and they
did not know- for sure- who did it.
Now they know- someone leaked it.
There are a few other things that
came out- details of the Bin laden killing- stuff about the underwear bomber.
The thing that makes people
question whether or not Obama [his political team] are actually behind it- is
all the leaks put Obama in a good light- a terror fighting man.
He even had some movie makers who
were covering the Bin laden raid- in some secret meetings- when they were
discussing the aftermath of the raid.
It was reported that the
Intelligence people were shocked that they sat in on the meetings.
Okay- more than likely he [his
team] are behind the leaks.
The denial?
It was done in a way that if it
comes out that he did know about them- that he could say ‘I denied authorizing
the leaks of classified materials’ and simply say when he gave the go ahead to
release it- he ‘declassified’ it.
Now- like I say- I have watched/heard
the pres these last 3 years- he does do this stuff- lots.
Just a few quick examples.
It came out this week that Obama
was indeed a member of a political party in Chicago called ‘the new party’.
This is a left leaning group-
socialist- that advocate for a European type govt.
Okay- in 2008- a news reporter-
Stanley Kurtz- reported that Obama was associated with the group.
He vehemently denied it- it was all lies from
some ‘racist guy who hates Blacks’.
The whole thing- you’ve heard it
before.
So now we find out- that he was
indeed a member.
It came out in an investigation
of another group- Acorn.
It was in the minutes of the meeting
where he joined- pledged allegiance to the group’s ideals- the whole 9 yards.
Are they denying it now?
No.
What’s the big deal?
If you are running for pres
[2008] and a top candidate is known to have been a member of a socialist group-
that usually would kill your chances.
So he simply lied- not a big
crime- but one of many.
Obama wrote 2 books- autobiographies
no less- in his early 40’s [late 30’s?]
Now- for your only 2 books- at a
young age- to be about you- does say something.
In the books there were ‘cowboy
stories’ if you will.
Of course- when writing the
books- you think ‘who will ever go thru them with a fine tooth comb’.
But when you become pres- some
will.
So- some people on the right did indeed
do this- and they found lies.
The pres denied it.
Yet now- after many years of
denials- a biographer who is currently doing a friendly book on the pres- well
he ran into some trouble during his research.
He could not verify some of the
stories that the pres told.
Just one example.
Those who critiqued the original
books- the president’s critics- said he made up stories about some White girl
he was dating- that the places and events that he said took place- were
actually fake.
These same events were told
earlier- by a man named Bill Ayers [who the pres has tried to distance himself
from].
They said Obama simply made the
whole thing up.
He adamantly denied it ‘how dare
you say he lied- you must be a racist’.
Okay- the new biographer- David
Marranis- found out that the pres did indeed make the woman up.
Then they spun the story to say
‘he made a composite woman from various women thru out his life’.
Then you had the Obama defenders-
like historian Doug Brinkley- saying ‘the purpose of biographies are not to be
factual’.
Wow- thanks Doug.
The point is he denied making up
the story for years- now he says it was not true.
This is one of many- I don’t want
to give them all.
But after seeing this happen a
lot- I simply doubt the things he says.
I don’t hate him- I’m not a
racist- but this has happened- a lot.
When the president had to distance
himself from his former pastor Rev. Wright.
He said ‘he didn’t know the man
held to these extreme views’.
That he was shocked to find out
all the stuff Wright said- for 20 years.
When he threw Wright under the
bus- he told the country that this was a man he did not really know [like Bill
Ayers].
Yet the president had
written/spoken about Wright- that he was one of [if not thee] most influential men
in his life.
He said Wright baptized his kids-
performed ceremonies for their family- he even titled his book ‘The Audacity of
Hope’ after a line from Wright.
He attended the church for 20
years.
He had lots of wrights’ tapes and
C.D.’s that he listened to.
He even said [before he threw him
under the bus] that he could no more disown Wright than he could his own Father
or family member.
His own testimony was that he
knew Wright- loved Wright- was influenced by him- more than other man alive.
Then he said ‘I never really knew
the man’.
How can this be?
I guess I’ll end with Ayres.
Bill Ayer’s was the terrorist
that blew up a bomb in the 60’s, 70’s- I think a cop got killed by the bomb.
Anyway- he was a radical left
wing guy- involved with a lot of the social unrest at the time.
The bomb case was thrown out of
court because the govt. messed up some way in the case- Ayres has never denied
his involvement.
Okay- Ayers and Obama were said
to have been friends.
People that knew them knew this.
But during the campaign Obama
denied knowing the man.
He sat on a board with Ayers- but
said ‘people sit on the same board with other people all the time- that doesn’t
mean they know them’.
Okay.
He lived on the same block.
The excuse was ‘Chicago is big-
you might live on the same block and not know someone’.
Okay.
Then it was revealed that when
the pres launched his political career- it was from Ayers house.
How did that happen?
It just happened to be some
strangers house on the block that had lots of room.
I mean nobody would ever get away
with doing stuff like this- not when your running for president.
Yet- till this day- Obama says he
barely knows the man.
Okay- when the critics went thru
Obama’s books- to find the stuff.
One story was Obama walking down
to the Hudson River one day- he saw some kid and said ‘see how the mighty river
flows in and out’ and he went on to give a sort of parable about life.
This same exact event is in Bill Ayres
book- but it happened to him years before.
The same exact event- with the
same words.
Many people have said that Ayers
Ghost wrote the Obama book.
Yet the pres does not know the
man.
I’m sure our singing Cowboy meant
well when he said ‘this is my truth’.
But after you tell ‘your truth’
one too many times- it becomes questionable.
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