100 Super Secret Multi-Millionaire Guests each paid $40,000

New York – President Obama collected $4 million at a fundraiser hosted by Jay-Z and Beyoncé at their lounge bar, Manhattan’s 40/40 Club.  About 100 donors who paid $40,000 each to attend the event sat on sofas in a large, glass room, according to the pool report.

Jay-Z and Beyoncé gave only brief remarks, letting Mr. Obama bask in limelight.  (More)

(More from the NY Post)  Nix the flags and the podium. Cue the opulent 18-foot tower of gold-bottled French champagne.

When President Obama addresses an elite roster of hipsters and multimillionaires, including hosts Beyoncé and Jay-Z, in New York tonight, he will do so next to a custom-designed tower of $800-per-bottle champagne that dominates the main room at Jay-Z’s 40/40 nightclub.

The 350-bottle champagne tower — designed by Jeffrey Beers — is a monument to Jay-Z’s favorite bubbly, Armand de Brignac, which is known colloquially by rappers, clubgoers and connoisseurs as Ace of Spades because of its gold-spade label.

“It’s floor-to-ceiling gold bottles in the entire space. It’s beautiful — breathtaking,” a rep for the Flatiron District hot spot told The Post. “It’s the first thing you see when you walk in.” (more…)

(article via DougRoss)  International Franchise Association held a convention in Washington this week where most of the Radio Shack, Dunkin Donuts, Curves and other franchisers were grumbling about new federal regulations, especially the impact of Obamacare.

…he pulled out his powerpoint showing how funding Obamacare will cut his–and likely their–profits in half overnight. With simple math the small business folks understood, he spelled out that their only choice is to slash employee hours so they aren’t eligible for company-paid health care or stop offering insurance and pay the $2,000 per employee fine.

Barr has 23 stores with 421 employees, 109 of whom are full-time. Of those, he provides 30 with health insurance. Barr said he pays 81 percent of their Blue Cross Blue Shield policy, or $4,073 of $5,028 for individuals, more for families, for a total bill of $129,000 a year. Employees pay $995. (more…)

I wonder how the media is going to provide cover for President “Gutsy Caller” on this one?  Obama Pentagon gave Hollywood actual name of Seal Team member.  Now trying to hide the release….. 

They spiked the football, now trying to avoid the backlash from  excessive celebration.

(Virginia Pilot)  Last July, a top Pentagon official gave two Hollywood filmmakers the name of a Navy SEAL involved in training the squad of commandos who carried out the raid that killed Osama bin Laden. Now, the Obama administration is fighting to keep that same name from the public.

In legal papers filed Friday in U.S. District Court in Washington, the Justice Department argued that the government is under no obligation to make public the SEAL’s name or the names of Central Intelligence Agency personnel involved simply because officials shared their names, partial names or identities with the makers of a forthcoming movie about the raid, “Zero Dark Thirty.” (more…)

Hiding The Sun With Two Fingers

Jimmy Carter and Barack Obama are joined in ideological failure, both foreign and domestic, and the Dem’s are panicked about the current optics in the Middle East, al-Qaeda flags above US embassies, and flag draped coffins with a dead US ambassador.

All this Romney-hidden-tape nonsense is a strategic distraction.  P.E.R.I.O.D.

If you were to ask a random room of people to name one thing complimentary about Jimmy Carter’s term as President from 1976-1980 I can guar-an-damn-tee you the only thing they could come up with is the “Camp David Peace Accords”.

So with the exploding anti-Americanism visible ALL OVER the Middle East (Deja-vu), and with the President Obama doctrine essentially mirroring the Carter Doctrine,  who do you think stands to look the worst currently and historically?

Consequently, does it come as a “surprise” the legacy media-hyped video tapes showing Mitt Romney in a progressively defined “negative light” stemmed from, as in -originated from- wait for it, Jimmy Carter’s 35-year-old grandson, Jimmy Carter IV.    Hello?

(Via The Hill)  The grandson of former president Jimmy Carter told NBC News that he was motivated by Republican attacks on his grandfather’s foreign policy record to help leak a secretly recorded video that has become Mitt Romney’s latest headache.

James Carter IV, who is 35 and unemployed, said he helped persuade the person who filmed the May 17 fundraiser in Boca Raton, Fla., to leak the video to the press. Carter described himself as a “partisan Democrat” devoted to getting president Obama reelected, but he also told NBC that he had a personal stake in going after Romney.  (more)

Would it further be a “surprise” to find out the video as claimed in the current release to be in the full form is not, actually, the full video?      Yeah, that’s right….. contrary to what the Mother Jones journalist, David Corn, originally stated, the video during the Q&A session is “inadvertently” cut… (more…)

“The message we have to send to the Muslim world is we expect you to work with us to keep our people safe”.   “We expect their full cooperation because that’s the only way the world works.”

President Obama – David Letterman Show Appearance Sept. 18th, 2012

Oooooh, “Gutsy Call”…. well that’s that then….. just ask them to please stop killing Americans, try to keep our people safe and stuff, and all’s better.  I mean, hey, we expect it.  

Johnny Brando delivers his version –  Excellent !  *but the unauthorized disclaimer at the end might spell trouble:

Previously, Diawataman delivered his.

These are based on current Middle East events contrasted against the recent President Obama speech to the VFW in Nevada.   The original Obama speech video and concept is outlined HERE.

I think we have all the makings of a contest.   Anyone who wants to submit their entries create your u-tube video using the prior linked presidential soundbite, drop the link in the comments, and we will spotlight in a discussion post.   If we get enough entries we’ll pick the best for a reader/viewer poll and the winner will earn a “Major Treehouse Award” along with a Breitbart Deputy Badge of recognition.

Today’s morale booster edition brought to you via Professor Jacobson:

Every 3-4 days for the past several weeks there has been a mass media pronouncement that Romney has lost:  When Paul Ryan was nominated and false “fact-checks” purported to declare him a proven liar.  When Clint Eastwood took the stage and presented the perfect metaphor for the Obama presidency, an empty chair.  When Mitt Romney did not get enough of a post-convention bounce.  When Obama got a post-convention bounce.  When Mitt Romney spoke the truth about Obama’s collapsing Middle East policy and proclivity to sympathize with the hurt religious sensibilities of anti-American Islamists, and the media lost its mind.

And now that a tape has been released that shows Romney stating an obvious truth about the dependency state, although as Romney said, not very elegantly.  The media is giddy with delight. (more…)

Oh the humanity…..   Shock and AWE – g.a.s.p….

Mitt Romney SUPER-SECRET expose’ video reveals he said that Palestinians are “committed to the destruction and elimination of Israel” and that the prospects for a two-state solution to Mideast peace were dim.

This is why I can’t stomach the insufferable weakness of Republicans.   They just don’t know how to play smash mouth politics and constantly are on the defense.   President Obama and his team have been spouting the phrase “GM is alive and Bin Laden is Dead“, as some credibility claim for President Obama.

So how about hit em’ back….  HARD.

GM is going bankrupt again, and the Flag of al-Qaeda is flying above US Embassies !

Duh!   During the Democrat National Convention the various speakers beat the drumbeat of lack of foreign policy experience of Romney/Ryan.   So… why are Romney/Ryan staying quiet when the entire current presidential foreign policy claim is literally burning down in front of the electorates’ eyes. (more…)

…..a “new era of American leadership” that has made the U.S. “safer and stronger and more respected in the world.” “Because we’re leading around the world, people have a new attitude toward America”….

– President Barack Obama (July 2012).  speech to VFW