To paraphrase Ace, Harry Truman, he of the famous “The Buck Stops Here” motto, wept:
President Obama does not “accept responsibility” for high gas prices, his spokesman indicated today, arguing that Obama has done everything he could to bring down the price of oil and blaming the high gas prices on oil price increases caused by global factors.
“The president accepts the responsibility that he identified the next president should accept, back in 2008, which is the need to develop a comprehensive energy policy,” White House Press Secretary Jay Carney said today when asked if Obama “accept[s] responsibility” for the high price of oil and gas. “If you’re suggesting that there is responsibility for a rise in the global price of oil, it’s certainly not because of anything he hasn’t done to expand domestic oil and gas production,” Carney added.
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Well, that’s one way not to put it.
“President Obama does not “accept responsibility” for high gas prices…”
Got tired of saying “Bush’s fault”, did we?
Well, he probably ain’t Trumanesque in a lot of other things either. I just got reliably informed today, in a class taught by the MBA school at the college I’m attending, that Obama’s buddy Warren Buffett doesn’t think the U.S. has the moral stature to question Iran about the bomb, since we are the only nation that ever used one. The professor appeared to think this was an extremely wise, erudite, and astute point. After about thirty seconds of this moral dwarfery masquerading as wisdom, and seeing as how the class was supposed to be about business fundamentals (today’s topic–new venture exit strategies), I packed up my things and quietly left, since a.) I think stopping rampaging fascist regimes is actually kind of kosher, and b.) my (not yet married) grandfather would have been one of the assault troops for the inasion of Japan, and who knows how that would have ended up for me (in fact, he was on Saipan, conducting invasion maneuvers in the field, when they got the word about the bomb. We visited the sight in 2005 before he died. It’s a golf course now, with a lot of Japanese vacationers on it. Which is good. The profits of a peace well and fully ensured by being well and fully won.)
So I have to wonder if ole’ Barry has the same view on Iran’s nuclear ambitions as good ole’ font of wisdom Warren? If so, no wonder we might not take action. And that’s what stops at the desk of Barack Obama. Relentless action against those who do not wish the West well. Unless the Pentagon and Seal Team Six can gift wrap something electorally useful, that is. Then we act speedily. Or at least overnight. Presumably after some quick polling.
As far as my alma mater, it can go to blazes. They’ve removed from prominent view the plaques naming the college men who died in our 20th century wars, the ROTCs have been exiled to the most distant part of the campus (from the central part they used to have, where freshmen had to walk by them everyday to get to any class at all), and I know for a fact that the faculty do not value military time as an admissions criteria. I’m getting my degree, leaving, and then I might think long and hard about tearing the place apart, brick by brick, if I ever get the chance.
One million casualties…in the first wave! That’s just on our side. At least 2-3 million Japanese within the first two weeks. That is what Truman was told by Army experts (who, by that point in the War, were pretty damn expert!). If one can do math, the choice was overwhelmingly simple. “Buffet” and “buffoon” are strikingly similar, no? He’s just a fancy thief. If you think anything that Romney did at Bain wasn’t totally nice, you should be shocked at what the Sage of Omaha has done. S***bag!
Would that anyone today could still do that simple math. If Carter had fired a small tactical nuke at Tehran all those years ago, we’d have lost a couple of dozen Americans and maybe 2-8,000 Iranians. Instead, hundreds of thousands, probably millions, of Middle Easterners, by the most conservative estimate, have suffered and died at the hands of their oppressors simply because we’d rather be nice than helpful. 40 years of death and destruction with the Islamists growing and killing while their countries and people remain primitively violent, or smacking Japan upside the head and lauching them into a thousand year societal leap? Which would you choose?
Remember that at the beginning of WWII, Japanese society was about where the Arabs are now. Their ability to use technological advantages that they had no hand in developing, coupled with their violent social backwardness made them very dangerous. The comparisons are frightening. The absense of any cultural respect for both honest truth and human life coupled with massive firepower, along with a sense of grievance and inferiority should be familiar by now.
Arabs don’t have battleships. We may, one day soon, wish they had.
Obama has done everything he could to bring down the price of oil…
Sure he has. Yeah, right.
How could the buck possibly stop with Barack? Every dollar he sees that’s not part of his and Michelle’s personal bank account he wants to spend as fast as possible. The buck goes flying through his office and immediately into the latest corporate boondoggle backed by some key Democratic donor.