President Obama, who has been known to be fond of leading from behind, says that V.P. Joe Biden ‘got out ahead of him’ on the issue of same sex marriage.

But comedian and Rick Amato Show producer Sutton Porter thinks Obama got the whole thing half-backwards as she sings this song called Obama Gay Marriage Song.

A special thank you to conservative hip-hop artist Hi-Caliber for creating and performing the introductory theme song for The Rick Amato Show new daily comedy segment.  Hi-Caliber also works on The Monica Crowley and Jason Materra radio shows. Take a listen to the video above and you be the judge about who is leading and from where.

Sheriff Joe Arpaio joined me on the radio last night to respond to Eric Holder, the Obama White House and the DOJ’s lawsuit against him.  It was announced early yesterday morning that the Justice Department has sued Sheriff Arpaio for a ‘pattern of unconstitutional conduct’ against Latinos, especially immigrants, including racial profiling, abuse in jails and retaliation against critics.

Sheriff Joe brushed aside the charges as a “political sideshow” and said he would like to compare the lawsuit to a three ring circus “but that wouldn’t be fair to those who work in the circus”.  He went on to say they are trying to intimidate him and his wife and force him into stepping down but, “I’ve got news for them. They’re messing with the wrong guy.”

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“They’re using me for the Latino vote.  Showing that they’re doing something, taking on the Sheriff over an alleged racial profiling.”  CLICK the image above to hear Sheriff Joe Arpaio in his own words.

Apraio said he is looking forward to going to court and finally learning where it is the government is getting all their so-called evidence and “who exactly their witnesses are”.

Separately Arpaio said his investigation into the authenticity of Obama’s birth certificate continues to “progress very nicely” and teased that a news story is in the works.

CLICK HERE to listen to my interview with Sheriff Joe Arpaio.

Dr. Orly Taitz has multiple lawsuits pending in multiple states challenging the authenticity of President Barack Obama’s birth certificate.

Back in 2009 it was Taitz who discovered that Obama has a Connecticut issued social security number which is quite peculiar since the President has never lived there nor does he have any connection to the state.

Dr. Orly Taitz joined me on the radio to discusss the May 7 deadline in the Obama social security case and suspicious activity occuring around her.  Click the image above to listen to the interview.

But of course according to the left wing media there is a perfectly understandable explanation for the discrepancy. This is how Media Matters explained it to their readers after Rush Limbaugh talked about the story on his radio show,

Why Barack Obama’s Social Security card application might have included a Connecticut mailing address is something of a curiosity, as he had no known connection to that state at the time, but by itself that quirk is no indicator of fraud. The most likely explanation for the discrepancy is a simple clerical or typographical error: the ZIP code in the area of Honolulu where Barack Obama lived is 96814, while the ZIP code for Danbury, Connecticut, is 06814. Since ‘0’ and ‘9’ are similarly shaped numbers and are adjacent on typewriter keyboards, it’s not uncommon for handwritten examples to be mistaken for each other, or for one to be mistyped as the other (thereby potentially resulting in a Hawaiian resident’s application mistakenly being routed as if it had originated from Connecticut).

 

This is all hitting the news cycle now because according to Dr. Taitz the government missed a May 7 deadline ordered by the Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia to produce the original application dealing with Obama’s social security number reserved for Connecticut applicants.  It is the second missed deadline (or default) according to Dr. Taitz and she is hopeful the court will now order the government to produce the document.

Separately Dr. Taitz reports that her car has repeatedly been tampered with and fraudulent charges- from Florida, Mexico and Spain- have suspiciously appeared on her bank card. She has notified the FBI.

Famed political pollster Scott Rasmussen stopped by AmatoTalk TV to discuss “the” 2-3 key variables that are highlylikely to determine next American President.

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Not surprisingly how Obama is perceived by voters on his ability to solve the nation’s economic problems ranks chief on the list.  However you might be surprised to learn where the strategic importance of Mitt Romney’s V.P. pick ranks among voters!

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Scott Rasmussen says 2 out of 3 Americans trust their own personal economic judgement more than they do either Obama’s or Romney’s.  Click image above to watch.

Watch the 7 minute interview above for insight from one of America’s savviest Political observers.

In a previous issue of AMATO FOR LIBERTY guest columnist Dr. Adam Dorin, founder of America’s Medical Society(AMS), explained why he and the majority of our nation’s medical doctors oppose ObamaCare.

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Now in an article which I originally wrote for Breitbart.com AMATO FOR LIBERTY exposes the financial relationship which exists between the federal government and the American Medical Association (AMA).  The very same American Medical Association which has endorsed the President’s plan while profiting handsomely at the expense of patients and doctors.

President Obama has tried to sell the American public on the merits of his plan based upon the fact that it is supported by the AMA.  But as Dr. Dorin tells me,

“What people don’t realize and what Obama didn’t say is that the AMA only represents about 15% of practicing physicians in America.  In other words 85% of the doctor’s were shut out of the discussion.”

While President Obama made a 2008 campaign promise to be the most transparent administration in history, he somehow neglected to disclose the relationship that exists between the AMA and the federal government.

According to Dr. Dorin the AMA receives approximately $70 million dollars annually from its exclusive copyright on medical “coding”.  Medical coding, is the process of transforming descriptions of medical diagnoses and procedures into universal medical code numbers.

“Their medical coding copyright essentially makes them a wholly-owned subsidiary of the federal government.  These onerous regulations and “codes” have made the AMA rich at the expense of physicians and patients.  These code requirements are expected to increase greatly under the new Obamacare,  and the AMA gets paid a royalty for each one.  Something which the President forgot to mention.  The new codes will profile your every move at every moment of your medical life — pegging you with descriptors about your weight, your looks, your hobbies, your personal sex life, and just about everything else that makes you “you.”  Based on these codes, which are also used by all private insurance companies, your care will be relegated to predetermined categories and restricted options.”

In an unprecedented move a coalition of medical organizations, led by Dr. Dorin, are scheduled to convene the weekend of May 5-6 in San Diego, CA to create the nation’s first ever consensus-based, healthcare reform blueprint based upon the input of the majority of medical industry professionals.  Or as Dr. Dorin puts it, “a bottom up approach to healthcare reform not a top down approach like we currently have.” The event is is open to everyone and in fact is soliciting ideas from the public.

To paraphrase the late Andrew Breitbart, politics is downstream from society. The time has come for politicians and their cronies to step aside so that Americans can receive a physician-based, patient-centric model for health care reform.

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Hollande, who finished with nearly 28% of the vote compared to 27% for Nicolas Sarkozy in the ten candidate field, ran on campaign promises to:

* Lower the country’s retirement age.
* Raise the tax rate on France’s highest income earners to 75%.
* Renegotiate a European treaty, agreed to in 2011, intended to limit excessive government spending.
* Roll back deficit-cutting reforms.

Many economists fear, if elected, implementation of Hollande’s campaign promises will both increase the deficit and slow the economy…in France and across Europe.

What It Means Here In The U.S.

For U.S. investors the Hollande round 1 victory creates a feeling of uncertainty and as we all know the financial markets hate uncertainty.  If a round 2 Hollande victory appears likely (scheduled for May 6) then expect U.S. investors to “flee to safety” by pulling their money out of stocks (considered riskier investments) and shifting it into bonds (considered safer investments).

History suggests that a declining U.S. stock market coupled with an uncertain, unstable Europe is more likely than not to create a gloomy, turbulent U.S. economic outlook.

The U.S. Presidential Election

In a previous issue of AMATO FOR LIBERTY we pointed out that famed political pollster Scott Rasmussen recently observed “economic concerns trump all other issues…if the economy improves between now and then, confidence in the president’s economic policies — and his job approval ratings — are sure to improve as well, and he’ll be much tougher for Romney to beat”.  If on the other hand the economy and confidence in the president’s economic policies do not improve- or worsen- then it will be difficult for Obama to get reelected.

Whoever said all politics is local?  Keep an eye on the May 6 round 2 French presidential election both for a glimpse of the U.S. economic outlook and in turn for the U.S. presidential election outlook.

Breitbart.com is reporting that the Los Angeles County coroner’s office completed its investigation into the death of Andrew Breitbart and has confirmed that he died of natural causes, namely heart failure.

Chief Coroner Investigator Craig Harvey told Breitbart News that the final autopsy report would be released next week.

A press release issued by the Department of Coroner states: “No prescription or illicit drugs were detected. The blood alcohol was .04%,” a negligible amount.

The press release concludes: “No significant trauma was present and foul play is not suspected.”

America’s medical doctors have begun to rise up in large, growing numbers to oppose ObamaCare.

The following article was submitted to AMATO FOR LIBERTY by one such doctor.  Dr. Adam Dorin is the founder and President of a medical non-profit organization called America’s Medical Society.  The AMS opposes ObamaCare and on May 5-6 will be hosting a Health Care Reform Conference in Southern California to provide alternative solutions to the President’s plan.  Mitt Romney is among those scheduled to speak. Conference registration is open to the general public and medical professionals alike.  Yours truly will be the event emcee.

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Health Reform: The Paradox of Barack Obama
By Dr. Adam Dorin

A non-military man, President Obama has orchestrated reasonable (and perhaps even smart) plans at the behest of his generals on the battle field.  Announcing timelines for troop withdrawals may not have been smart wartime strategy, but no one can deny that the Obama-Petraeus-Gates team did good work on battlefields abroad.

How then did the President fall so short on the stimulus plan and in his remake of ‘Hillary-Care’, now known as ObamaCare?

By all accounts, public, private and expert, and in extensive, indisputable public opinion polls over the past three years, Americans know that ObamaCare will decrease safety, increase non-physician directed care, push healthcare quality lower, and perhaps even raise costs for the American healthcare system (most estimates put the expense of ObamaCare at upwards of two times the original $1 Trillion price tag).

The ‘Affordable Care Act’ is neither affordable nor palatable.

Instead of finding a way to better ferret out waste, fraud and abuse, and how to give medical care to those without, the White House and Democratic Congressional leaders conspired to push an overhaul of approximately 18% of the U.S. gross domestic product with little regard to spillover consequences.  Constitutional questions aside, the true dangers in ObamaCare lie in the top-down, central-government run rationing bodies, such as the Independent Payment Advisory Board and the local mini-HMOs called ‘Accountable Care Organizations’.  Instead of empowering physicians and other providers practicing ‘in the trenches’ all across our land, the ‘Act’ stifles competition (by overly prescriptive practice guidelines), and thwarts bio-medical research and development (through an over-reliance on generic medications and outdated treatment protocols).  The ‘Act’ also consolidates power in the hands of the Feds, the insurance industry, and large national/regional health systems built on the questionable premise of restricting what drugs doctors can prescribe and what procedures will be ‘approved’ for payment.

President Obama succeeds on the battlefield because there is no room for dissent in war, and the president, thank goodness, has had excellent military leaders at his side.  With the proper strategy, and American might, it is likely that America will succeed in a just war—and the war on terror is rightly, morally, and defensively justified.

On the economy and in the health care reform arena, however, the President has failed because he has forgotten that unions and left-of-center special interest groups ‘do not a country make’. America is much more than the sum of its presidential donors. America is a strong and enduring fabric of human interests, which, unlike in war, all demand a voice in both the process and results of democracy. Free markets and free people are what make America strong at home.

If President Obama could take a step back and acknowledge his missteps on Obamacare, declare a ‘do-over’, and build a consensus-based, independent-practice, physician-supported model for expanding health insurance (one based on charity and incentives, not socialist pressures and disincentives), he could do his country a great service and perhaps even win re-election.

With an economy stalled and broke on the back-end of a failed stimulus package, the President cannot win domestic healthcare battles on the homeland unless he changes his failed course. War is fought by soldiers, but a strong peace is built on the economic foundation of innovation, entrepreneurship, low taxes, and the spirit of American ingenuity.

The question that remains to be seen:  is President Obama capable of reversing his domestic agenda as he eventually, implicitly did in adapting the Bush Iraq troop surge to the Afghanistan theatre?

Admitting his domestic mistakes would go a long way toward promoting American interests and protecting the President’s own political future. Patients, physicians, nurses, and all of America are depending on our President to recognize that the ‘Affordable Care Act’ must be replaced by a physician-based, patient-centric blueprint for medical system reform.

Doctor Adam Dorin is board-certified physician and founder/CEO of America’s Medical Society, a non-profit corporation dedicated to education and healthcare policy analysis. Along with a coalition of many other national medical organizations, he is hosting the National Doctors’ Coalition Meeting on Healthcare Reform in San Diego on May 5th/6th. Registration for this momentous event is open to healthcare professionals and the public alike.

Marco Rubio was the favorite choice among those polled by AMATO FOR LIBERTY when asked, “Who should Mitt Romney pick as his Vice Presidential running mate?”.

Rubio led the thirteen candidate field with 22.37% of the vote while Paul Ryan and Rick Santorum each finished with 15.1%.  Col. Allen West displayed an impressive write-in performance with 8.55%.

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Col. West’s straightforwardness and frank talk has made him a favorite among grassroot conservatives and TEA Party faithful.  He has also received the endorsement of Sarah Palin. Ironically though it is his refreshing candor which may actually work against him in the selection process.

The Romney strategy is to keep the focus of the campaign on Obama’s poor track record and any distraction from that- such as an outspoken running mate- is believed to be viewed by those advising Romney as an opportunity for Obama to shift attention away from himself.

Meanwhile political pollster Scott Rasmussen wrote this week in the Boston Herald, “this election will be all about Obama”.

Rasmussen went on to offer this insight,

The most important indicator of the president’s prospects will be his job-approval rating. That rating will be very close to his share of the vote on Election Day. In 2004, President George W. Bush had a 51 percent job approval rating and won 51 percent of the vote.

Obama’s ratings suggest we are heading for a potentially very close race. For the past 32 months, the full month approval ratings for the president have been remarkably stable, holding to a very narrow range of 44 percent to 49 percent…For most of the past three years, the president’s ratings have stayed in an even narrower band of 46 percent to 48 percent. Those numbers suggest Obama would earn just under 50 percent of the vote on Election Day…

Economic concerns dominate the voters’ agenda, and here the numbers for the president are more troubling.  Some 49 percent of the voters trust Romney more than Obama when it comes to the economy. Just 39 percent trust Obama more…

In a year when economic concerns trump all other issues, these numbers represent a good starting point for Romney. But if the economy improves between now and then, confidence in the president’s economic policies — and his job approval ratings — are sure to improve as well, and he’ll be much tougher for Romney to beat.

Funny how time changes things. Romney’s message is now ‘anybody but Obama’.

Now that Mitt Romney has weathered the “anybody but Romney storm” conservative voters are begging, praying, hoping that what you see is not what you get.

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He has reached that point where he can now pull out his etch a sketch and change the dynamics of the game by selecting a vice presidential running mate that leaves the Obama camp feeling wrought with concern and the rest of us upbeat and energized. Or not.  Either way there are plenty of interesting choices for Romney to ponder each with their pros and cons.  Does he make a decision based upon geography, gender, ethnic background, party loyalty or…gulp…ideology?

Which leads us to our AMATO FOR LIBERTY poll question,

POLL QUESTION:
Who should Mitt Romney select to be his vice presidential running mate?
. Chris Christie, Gov of NJ

. Newt Gingrich

. Nikki Haley, Gov of SC

. Bobby Jindal, Gov of LA

. Susana Martinez, Gov of NM

. Bob McDonnell, Gov of VA

. Ron Paul, Congressman TX

. Rick Perry, Gov of TX

. Rob Portman, Sen OH

. Marco Rubio, Sen FL

. Paul Ryan, Congressman WI

. Rick Santorum

CAST YOUR VOTE HERE!

Conservative commentator George Will recently observed that since WWII, 10 presidential candidates have failed to win the home state of their vice presidential running mates. Will makes a compelling case in support of two candidates experienced in budgetary issues and administration, Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal or Paul Ryan, Chairman of the House budget Committee.  Will wrote in the Washington Post,

“So Romney’s running-mate should have intellectual firepower, born of immersion in policy complexities, sufficient to refute Obama’s meretricious claims and derelictions of duty. Here are two (Jindal and Ryan) excellent choices.”

The etch a sketch is now firmly in Romney’s hands.