Televangelist Creflo Dollar Arrested For Alleged Choking His Daughter: Good Job Creflo

Posted: June 9, 2012

Megachurch Pastor Creflo Dollar has officially released a statement following his arrest after authorities say he mildly injured his 15 year-old daughter during a disagreement at their Atlanta metro home.
Dollar, known for his extravagant way of living and presentation of prosperity in religion, was arrested by Fayette County deputies that were called to his home by his 15 year-old daughter shortly after 1 a.m according to investigator Brent Rowan.
Arguing over whether or not his daughter could attend a party, Rowan says that Dollar “got physical” with the 15 year-old leaving her with ”superficial injuries.”
Facing misdemeanor charges of battery and cruelty to children, Dollar bailed out of jail the follow morning and released this statement through his lawyer Nikki Bonner:
“As a father I love my children and I always have their best interest at heart at all times, and I would never use my hand to ever cause bodily harm to my children. The facts in this case will be handled privately to further protect my children. My family thanks you for your prayers and continued support.”
It is reported that Creflo Dollar will resume his preaching duties on Sunday morning at World Changers Church International where he serves as the pastor to a community of over 30,000 members.
The website for World Changers Church International proclaims that Dollar began his ministry in 1986 where he held his first service in a local school cafeteria with only eight people in attendance.
The church has since grown exponentially with a 6,000 member New York location, as well as various other “satellite locations” located in Los Angeles, Indianapolis, Washington, Cleveland, Dallas and Houston

Mayor Corey Booker Is A Outcast To Barack Obama

John Hayward - It looks like all his furious backpedaling, and the embarrassing “hostage video” he filmed, were to no avail: an
Obama Administration source tells the New York Post that Newark mayor Cory Booker is “dead to us.”
Booker, a rising young star in the Democrat Party, apparently once harbored hopes of securing a post in the prospective second Obama Administration, specifically housing secretary.  But then he had to go and defend capitalism on Meet the Press, and pronounce himself “nauseated” by Obama’s anti-capitalist campaign rhetoric.
The sources who spoke to the Post don’t say if Booker’s choice of such unpleasant terminology is what killed his relationship with them.  They leave the impression that even the most reasoned and careful defense of capitalism, from a popular mayor of great personal character, who took great pains to declare his general support for Obama’s re-election, was utterly intolerable.  Aren’t these the people who talk about “tolerance” all the time?
Booker made an embarrassingly over-eager attempt to walk back his Meet the Press comments via Web video, but even that wasn’t good enough for the Obama extremists.  In fact, according to the Post, it’s one of the things that sealed his doom with Team Obama:

Almost immediately, top Obama aides were speed-dialing Booker, insisting he backpedal from his comments before returning to the Garden State. But the mayor wouldn’t do that.
Booker further enraged them by waiting until that night to post an online video that was neither cleared by the campaign nor acceptable to Obama strategists.
And then Booker did it again. The next night, he went on Rachel Maddow’s MSNBC show to talk about his earlier comments without discussing it with the campaign or working out a cohesive message with Obama’s team. During that appearance, Booker threw even more fuel on the fire when he made it look as if he had been ordered to retract his comments because he decided to “clarify” them after “he did talk with campaign officials.”

These guys are worried about something Booker said on Rachel Maddow?  Who the hell saw it?  Talk about being out-of-touch!  But that is part of what’s going on here: the extremist lunatics who watch MSNBC are the only constituency Obama cares about any more.  Small business owners, working Middle American families, investors who aren’t already part of Obama’s crony network… those people can go to Hell, where Cory Booker can spend eternity rescuing them from burning buildings.
Publicly, the Obama campaign has taken pains to say it has patched up its differences with Booker, but insiders tell a different story:

“Cory and Barack Obama have never been besties, but that was the final nail. It’s like, ‘You’re dead and done.’ The firing squad is out,” said a Democratic source in contact with both sides. “It’s not just that he messed up, it was that he compounded it and didn’t have their back when they gave him a national stage to talk.”
[…] “What he did was undermine a leading argument for the campaign. It was a serious distraction. Not a minor screw-up; a major screw-up,” a Democratic source said. “He is trying to figure out how to work his way back in the fold.”

It remains extremely disturbing that anti-capitalism and scurrilous, dimwitted attacks on Mitt Romney’s successful private-sector career – which have, thus far, actually turned out to be attacks on the big Obama donor who was actually responsible for everything the Obama campaign wants to pin on Romney – comprise the “leading argument for the campaign.”
They haven’t got anything else, so they can’t afford to let people like Cory Booker and the rest of the insurgency following in his footsteps – including prominent Democrats like former Pennsylvania governor Ed Rendell, former Tennessee representative Harold Ford Jr., current Massachusetts governor Deval Patrick, and now former President Bill Clinton – dilute their toxic rhetoric with common sense.
Clinton, like Booker, only made things worse when he tried to walk his criticism of Obama back on CNN.   ““I’m very sorry about what happened.  I thought something had to be done on the ‘fiscal cliff’ before the election,” Clinton explained.  “Apparently nothing has to be done until the first of the year.”
Good Lord.  That’s just what Americans recoiling from Barack Obama’s fiscal irresponsibility, managerial incompetence, and hostility toward the private sector wanted to hear right now.  Don’t worry about that rapidly approaching cliff, folks!  Plenty of time to pump the brakes!  What Clinton and Booker said in the first place makes more sense to most of us, as we survey the long years of horrid economic news: Obama already went much too far.

CBS Poll: 52% Of Americans Support The New Arizona Immigration Law

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CBS News Poll analysis by the CBS News Polling Unit: Sarah Dutton, Jennifer De Pinto, Fred Backus and Anthony Salvanto.

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Updated: June 8, 9:10 am ET
(CBS News) As the Supreme Court weighs a decision on Arizona's controversial immigration law this summer, a new CBS News/New York Times poll shows that more than half of Americans see the law as "about right."
The legislation, which was signed into law in April 2010, is considered among the most stringent immigration laws in the nation. It requires Arizona law enforcement members to check the citizenship status of anyone they believe appears to be an undocumented immigrant -- and has incited much controversy about whether or not it effectively legalizes racial profiling in a state with a heavy Latino population.
According to the survey, conducted from May 31-June 3 among 976 adults nationwide, 52 percent of Americans believe Arizona's immigration policy is about right, while 33 percent say it goes too far. Eleven percent say the law does not go far enough.
The U.S. Department of Justice is challenging the law on the grounds that it conflicts with what it contends is the federal government's exclusive right to set immigration laws for the country.
Most Americans seem to disagree. Sixty-two percent of respondents - and majorities of Republicans, Democrats, and independents - say both the federal government and state governments should be able to determine laws regarding undocumented immigrants. Twenty-five percent (30 percent of Democrats and 16 percent of Republicans) think such laws should be determined exclusively by the federal government, and 11 percent (4 percent of Democrats and 15 percent of Republicans) think they should be determined by state governments only.
As to what Americans think should happen to undocumented immigrants who are currently working in the U.S., 43 percent think they should be allowed to stay and apply for citizenship, 21 percent think they should be allowed only as guest workers, and 32 percent think they should required to leave the country. These percentages have been generally consistent for the past three years.
President Obama has criticized the Arizona legislation as a "misguided" law that "threatened to undermine basic notions of fairness that we cherish as Americans, as well as the trust between police and their communities that is so crucial to keeping us safe. "  The tensions between his position on the issue and that of Republican Arizona Governor Jan Brewer were highlighted earlier this year when the two engaged in a seemingly heated exchange when Mr. Obama arrived in Phoenix for a visit.

Polls: Romeny Leads Obama In Florida And Ohio

AllahPundit - Remember, Team O dropped a cool $25 million in ad spending last month. Their dividend thus far has been … a series of tightening polls, capped by today’s Gallup tracker showing Romney ahead by two nationally. Dude, is this happening?
First, the Colorado news from Rasmussen:

President Obama and Mitt Romney are neck-and-neck in Rasmussen Reports’ first look at the presidential race in Colorado.
A new statewide telephone survey of Likely Voters shows both the president and his likely Republican challenger receiving 45% support in the Centennial State. Six percent (6%) prefer some other candidate in the race, and five percent (5%) are undecided.

Now the obligatory caveat: In the other major poll released today, a multistate survey of Ohio, Florida, Virginia, and Colorado from Purple Insights, The One leads Romney by two in Colorado. Given the margin of error, though, that result is statistically indistinguishable from Rasmussen’s result. In fact, open up the PDF and scroll down to page 10 and you’ll see that all four states are effectively dead heats, although for the moment Mitt leads in Ohio and Florida and Obama in Virginia and Colorado. The bad news? O actually does ever so slightly better in those last two states than he did in April even though Romney’s favorable ratings have improved. The good news? Romney wins independents in both states as well as in Florida. The only state where he loses them is, oddly enough, in Ohio, where he enjoys a three-point lead overall. I’m suspicious of that result, actually, because of the unusual partisan breakdown: In the other three states, Romney is running at around 85/12 over Obama among Republicans, but in Ohio he’s at a mind-blowing 91/3. I know the base is going to line up behind him, but they ain’t lining up that tightly.
The response when people were asked which candidate knows what it takes to create jobs is interesting. Obama’s on the top line, Romney’s on the second, and “not sure” is on the third. From left to right, you’re looking at results from Colorado, Virginia, Ohio, and Florida, respectively. No surprise that Romney’s winning this category, but it is a bit surprising that he’s only winning it this narrowly:

The poll was conducted from May 31 to June 5; the miserable May jobs report came out on June 1, so O’s numbers may be slightly inflated here due to the results obtained before the report was announced.
This data set is interesting too, as it touches on views of Romney’s Bain career. Top line is people who think private equity helps the economy, second line is people who think it hurts, third line is “not sure.” Again, from left to right, it’s CO, VA, OH, and FL:

Terrible numbers in Ohio and Florida — the two states where Romney leads. Proof that the Bain messaging isn’t moving the needle, or circumstantial evidence that the Bain messaging might be working to keep Obama in the game?
One more data set for you on jobs, which might help explain why Obama and Romney are neck and neck on who’ll do better to create them. This comes from Gallup. Never forget, my friends: There are an awful lot of low-information voters out there.

Column three is the killer, of course. Overall, a plurality actually rates last Friday’s jobs-report stinkbomb as having been “mixed,” “somewhat positive,” or “very positive”(!) (40 percent, seven percent, and two percent, respectively). Just 42 percent say it was either somewhat or very negative. I don’t know how to explain that except to speculate that a huge chunk of voters simply have no idea of what constitutes healthy job growth. They hear that 60,000 jobs have been created and they think “hey, great” without paying close enough attention to know that that’s far below what we need to bring down unemployment. I think that’ll change later this year as people start focusing more on political news in anticipation of election day, but who knows? Maybe The One will surf to victory on a wave of idiots who think 50,000 jobs a month is pretty goshdarned impressive.
Exit quotation from Fox News’s new poll: “More than half of voters think the administration has mostly failed at creating new jobs (56 percent), stimulating the economy (54 percent) and improving health care (52 percent).”