Hammy Voo
These three pictures involve United States Embassies in allied countries.
Cairo 2012
Teheran 1979
Saigon, 1975
… is the phenomenon of experiencing a situation that one recognizes in some fashion, but that nonetheless seems very unfamiliar. …
involves a sense of eeriness and the observer’s impression of seeing the situation for the first time, despite rationally knowing that he or she has been in the situation before …
as when a person momentarily does not recognise a word, person, or place that he or she already knows.
The Nile is a River in Egypt
Islam has a proud tradition of tolerance. We see it in the history of Andalusia and Cordoba during the Inquisition. I saw it firsthand as a child in Indonesia, where devout Christians worshiped freely in an overwhelmingly Muslim country. That is the spirit we need today. People in every country should be free to choose and live their faith based upon the persuasion of the mind, heart, and soul. This tolerance is essential for religion to thrive, but it is being challenged in many different ways …
I have come here to seek a new beginning between the United States and Muslims around the world; one based upon mutual interest and mutual respect; and one based upon the truth that America and Islam are not exclusive, and need not be in competition. Instead, they overlap, and share common principles – principles of justice and progress; tolerance and the dignity of all human beings. — Obama’s Speech in Cairo, 2009
Either something’s not working or someone isn’t trying hard enough. Which is it?
The principle similarities are of course to the Fall of the Shah. In that instance Jimmy Carter believed that the successor regime, though radical in rhetoric, were ultimately people he could deal with. The same miscalculation is being played out in Egypt, and more broadly in the areas affected by the Arab Spring.
After having cut back the pro-democracy funding to Egypt upon his accession to the Presidency, Obama was shaken by the Arab Spring. He revived the funding but perhaps judging it was too late, decided to “lead from behind” and let the Muslim Brotherhood pip him at the finish line.
But instead of being greeted as the leader of the honorable second place, the Brotherhood decided to destroy their rivals. American NGOs were unceremoniously thrown out of Egypt, including the son of Secretary LaHood.
But despite this development the State Department appeared to persist in their belief that they could deal with the Brotherhood. When it became apparent that Morsi was squaring off with the Egyptian Army Hillary flew to Cairo and let Morsi appoint a new officer corps. There was nothing to worry about the public was told, because the new officers though affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood, were ‘pro-American’.
That assumption must now be questioned in the light of the storming of the Embassy. There is now a strong case to be made for the assertion that the Muslim Brotherhood is now seen as the Strong Horse while the United States is increasingly perceived as the Wrong Horse.
It is worse than it seems because not only does this portend a policy failure in Egypt but in the whole region. Muslim Brotherhood-like organizations are ascendant wherever the Arab Spring has bloomed. So a failure in Egypt — already a catastrophe because of its border with Israel and the Suez Canal — foreshadows a foreign policy collapse in the Mediterranean. In the words of Karen Carpenter, “it’s only just begun”.
Even as a I wrote those words, there is news just in that Libyan protesters have stormed and torched the US consulate in Benghazi. “A Libyan Interior Ministry official says armed men have stormed the US consulate in east Libya’s Benghazi and set it ablaze after a protest against a video deemed insulting to Islam’s prophet, Muhammad, which was reportedly produced in America.” There was no prescience involved in my anticipatory writing. Simply a common sense thought that should have occurred to policy makers but which somehow never does.
But as press reports have already informed us, the policy of the White House is to make no waves until election day, a situation which has doubtless emboldened the Muslim Brotherhood who now know they can do almost anything without rousing the torpid occupant of the White House. Watch for them to slap Uncle Sam again and again and again … while the State Department issues ever more craven apologies
It is not yet too late to consider opposing the Muslim Brotherhood more forcefully. Perhaps not to the point of an open break but conveying, perhaps by granting visas to the Copts, or by openly mending fences with Israel, that there are limits beyond which even the Obama administration will not go. That there’s a point beyond which it cannot be pushed around.
Will they get tougher? Nah. That would spoil the illusion. And illusion, like the Boss in the Nile, is everything.
Dreams, so they say, are for the fools and they let ‘em drift away.
Peace, like the silent dove, should be flyin’ but it’s only dead and done.
Like Columbus in the olden days, we must never leave the anchorage.
Sail our ships out on the mental sea. Listen to our fears
And all the years will come and go, and take us up, always up.
We may never pass this way again. We may never pass this way again.
We may never pass this way again.
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From my comment in the previous thread:
Two things that happen when you bow to the King of Arabia:
1) Instant pussyhood
2) Muslims storm the Cairo embassy and burn the torn-up American flag
All in all, another foreign policy triumph for our CinC (now watch others start piling on while O searches desperately for a way to show he’s a man).
I think the bottom picture is ”good” Vietnamese hoping for safety inside the embassy; note the Marine on the wall.
I’m sure that’s not even Cairo. To think that these actors are paid with our taxes and gas money…
Yes it is a picture of Vietnamese desperately seeking safety. But the picture was visually similar and enhances the effect of hammy voo.
Good thing we already built some airfields in Egypt so evacuation can move smoothly.
Re ”demonstrations”, AKA spontaneous outpourings of emotion:
Some old Houstonians may remember the late Donald Morris, USNA graduate and retired CIA, who wrote a great foreign affairs column for the old Houston Post. From time to time he would write about ”demonstrations” and how they were anything but spontaneous; indeed, they are a hell of a lot of work and in the old days they would arrive on time, raise a little hell, then depart on time. Now … who knows? They may indeed be spontaneous flash mobs.
An old Marine buddy, a temporary officer when I knew him, reverted back to sergeant major and was the security officer of the embassy on Malta (or was it Cyprus?) when there was a spontaneous demonstration which he knew about the previous day.
His moment of fame came after he had dutifully herded everyone into the safe room in the upper story of the building—that’s the one with the trap door leading to the roof—but after a while the ambassador got tired of being cooped up. He and my buddy were standing in the hallway just outside the room, arguing about the need to stay inside the room, when a shot came through a window, ricocheted off a wall, and hit the ambassador almost between the eyes. As they say, you could look it up.
Of course, it wasn’t his fault but, according to policy, he and the rest of the USMC contingent were whisked out of there and replaced by a new group from Germany within six hours.
They tried to send him to do penance in the Philadelphia Naval Yard but, being a veteran of Korea, etc (where he had his 17th birthday) and a SgtMaj to boot, he called a general whom he had known as a 2nd Lt. Finished his career as the CommSgtMaj at Cherry Point.
OoooRah!!
And very good hammy voo at that.
Yes, it’s Twitter again, but check out the full-on appeasement mode that the US Embassy in Cairo is engaged in. Great to see our government prostrate themselves to the Muslim Brotherhood (and apparently with a Occupy connection, there are Guy Fawkes™ masks in the photos) while simultaneously throwing free speech rights under the bus. The strong horse indeed.
Edit: Apparently, our friends in Benghazi are going for a repeat performance. Good thing we kept our pimp hand strong.
The (new) U.S. Embassy in Cairo is some distance (~7 km) from the center of the city, built to the updated security perimeter requirements. It is unlikely that a large mob can just show up there on time without some planning and cooperation from the authorities.
Cut.their.funding.off.now.
Is there an appropriate term for those so clueless and arrogant that they tell other people what their, that is the other people’s, religion is? Oh yes, around here we call them Democrats.
It is my expectation that any day now we will start getting reports of U.S. Ambassadors getting pantsed by passing Russian embassy secretaries or Chinese chauffeurs. By that I mean something new, beyond the usual State Department penchant for rough trade with local arabs.
I don’t watch TV. Can any one tell me how the press is handling this? I imagine there must be wall to wall coverage on MSNBC.
Islam has a proud tradition of tolerance. We see it in the history of Andalusia and Cordoba during the Inquisition. I saw it firsthand as a child in Indonesia, where devout Christians worshiped freely in an overwhelmingly Muslim country
Is that anything like George H.W. Bush flying to Manila and saying about Marcos, “We love the way this country honors democratic principles”.
One of the last cogent things Hunter S. Thompson ever said, in 1987, was that of all the politicians he ever knew, George H.W. Bush was the most likely to soil himself in public. This just weeks before Bush went to Japan and vomited into the PM’s lap.
Too bad HST never got to know Obambus.
“there are Guy Fawkes™ masks in the photos”
To defeat image recognition software. I’m looking for a “Lord Sith” mask, like in the Star Wars series. Although the ‘Skull’ masks used by US Special ops units are nice too.
http://www.frightcatalog.com/halloween-masks/skeleton-masks/
I like the Viking and the Pirate.
As far as Obama, if stupid was an Olympic event, he would need a second 747 to cart around all his gold.
Charlie don’t surf.
5. Gordon
Re ”demonstrations”, AKA spontaneous outpourings of emotion:From time to time he would write about ”demonstrations” and how they were anything but spontaneous
Coincidentally on the anniversary of 9/11? Not likely. I think a message is being sent that the Muslim Brotherhood is firmly in power and the US had better beware. We should tell them Allah is no match for the US military and put on demonstrations. As many as it takes for them to get the message. Appeasement only gets you more violence. It is more humane and will cost less lives to just go all in and declare war against them and loose the dogs of war. Make them surrender with the understanding we will thin their herds whenever it becomes necessary. It worked in Japan, Germany and will work there eventually. But you simply CANNOT win over hearts and minds without first kicking asses decisevly. Leave no doubt in their primitive little minds about who holds true power, it is all they respect.
Deja vu is the mind storing and retrieving in the wrong order, I read somewhere. Which accounts for the eerie feeling.
These pics are just similar situations, rather easily recalled.
A Chinese mob snatched the Japanese flag off the ambassador’s car recently, as part of the contrived protest over “disputed” islands. Anyway that was a big deal on Radio Japan.
The Chinese detained the culprits with somewhat short of criminal charges, for a week or so.
The Chinese are worried about their own embassies, like the Russians were in the cold war, but not quite as much.
I am reluctant to explain the pun, but I imagine our good host is referring to jamais vu, “seems very unfamiliar”, another common psychiatric phenomenon.
Presumably pronounced hammy, not zhamay, in the spanish-speaking world.
As far as developments themselves, the worse the better at this point. I am sure slow jihadis (Saudis etc) would like to slow the hotheads down.
Call me an alarmist.
Potential planned “chaos” at home (teacher’s strike), the original “leading from behind” stance at the beginning, another embassy ransacked, Iran announces a 2000 km missile able to hit all Israeli cities, the the conjecture that Iran already has a nuke, and Axelrod encouraging Holder to sue polling companies for “bad behavior”…Hey! Maybe we ought to cancel the elections if this stuff gets too much worse!!!!!
Sig Sauer 716 – here I come!
Anybody got any ammo?
Police state.
Remember how incensed leftists and even mainstream folks were by the killing of 4 students at Kent State in 1970? That was an ill-considered SPASM. The TSA is a massive bureaucracy deliberately set up to intimidate U.S. citizens and get them accustomed to routine violation of their constitutional rights, in the name of protecting us from Islamic terrorists. At the same time our president and all his stooges embrace, applaud, and acquiesce gutlessly to the same Islamic terrorists and their mouthpieces. Domestically AND internationally.
As far as we know the TSA hasn’t killed anyone; I don’t believe they are armed. But they have the authority to summon armed agents and have YOU arrested. This derives from their power to stop you WITHOUT CAUSE and demand that you submit to a humiliating search. If you refuse or fail to cooperate with proper subservience, they have the power to detain, arrest, and fine you up to $5,000.00. Once you’re in an airport, even out in the parking lot, you are NOT ALLOWED to decline the search.
Now the TSA is just showing up at random public events that have NOTHING to do with Transportation hubs. That’s in addition to their expansion to train stations, bus stations, and random road blocks on the public highways.
Seems to me we have a “super-sufficiency” of TSA.
I have an idea. Why don’t we send a regiment of TSA stalwarts to CAIRO to protect our embassy. Those brave and highly-intelligent security folks will probably scare the ba-jeezes outta those radical Islamicists, Right?
16. rhhardin – Something tells me those “islands” are actually Chesapeake Bay. If not, we must hope the Japanese activists don’t have any homemade missiles with them. Someone could get hurt.
13 @stoicheion
Surely any old ski mask or filthy rag would do that job just fine. I doubt that there are a bunch of street vendors in Cairo hawking Guy Fawkes masks so that the young revolutionary can fashionably mask their faces from image recognition. The Fawkes mask showing up in these photos is significant.
Was just reading Naipaul’s *Among the Believers* (1981) on 1979: “In Iran the American embassy had been seized by students and more than fifty Americans taken hostage, for no reason except that of drama: the Islamic revolution had turned sour, wandering, pointless.”
If there is a point, I guess it is, with Muslim true believers, always the Utopian dream – the world ruled by Islam and Caliph – which is to say nothing. But in any case, drama is reason enough. Peformance is the core of the human and the political, the making and exchanging of the sign always comes before rational debate (which can be pointless) about it. Still, one wonders do the Muslim Brotherhood have very much strategic sense, in an event like this, beyond some inchoate need for the drama? Spengler/Goldman wants to see them as Leninist revolutionaries, willing to destroy the country and all ties with unpure benefactors, as the means to rule all by means of some base existential struggle. But sometimes, the urge to drama is just a desperate desire to make something happen, and to see if others (the Big O, for example) bow down, pick up, or refuse your lead.
There is now a strong case to be made for the assertion that the Muslim Brotherhood is now seen as the Strong Horse while the United States is increasingly perceived as the Wrong Horse.
Under Obama it’s the horse’s ass.
U.S. Embassy Condemns Religious Incitement
September 11, 2012
The Embassy of the United States in Cairo condemns the continuing efforts by misguided individuals to hurt the religious feelings of Muslims – as we condemn efforts to offend believers of all religions. Today, the 11th anniversary of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the United States, Americans are honoring our patriots and those who serve our nation as the fitting response to the enemies of democracy. Respect for religious beliefs is a cornerstone of American democracy. We firmly reject the actions by those who abuse the universal right of free speech to hurt the religious beliefs of others.
Obama doesn’t want terrorists to nuke NY City until after the election. Therefore he is non-confrontational.
“9. Tarnsman
Cut.their.funding.off.now.”
‘ell NO! Can you spell Carter? Can you think of ONE thing that will get rid of the Obumbler faster then a bunch of Haji grabbing another Embassy? I Dare them, I double Dog dare them. Please don’t throw me in that Briar Patch!
“Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.” – Yeats
“Surely any old ski mask or filthy rag would do that job just fine.”
No style points there. Riots, Protests, demonstrations, etc. are as much about sex as anything political. It’s been a while but as a teenager EVERYTHING was about sex. Judging by today’s teenagers, that hasn’t changed.
Sure they want to save the world but what’s wrong with getting a little trim in the process?
Celer, Silens, Mortalis.
Against this evil tide we have Barak Obama or maybe Mitt Romney. Surely one of them sees the situation and can leverage all that we have sacrificed and worked for these hard times.
A pox on both your houses. That is hard to say because I love being American. I want Republicans to do better to lead and not just respond. Our government failed when our embassies were overrun in Libya and Egypt where we supported the revolutions in both cases.
The prime minister of Israel as this unfolds cannot get a cup of coffee in the White House.
Gooood morning America.
truepeers @22
Seems to me the MB has had the strategic sense -and depth- to not only maneuver themselves into power across wide swathes of their once and future Caliphate, but they’ve somehow managed to maneuver the great and powerful USA into normalizing an ever-expanding bureaucratic PC tyranny which submissively transforms overt foreign acts of war into domestic factional disputes used to further the consolidation of political power. Western progressives and Islam’s revolutionary vanguard have essentially been springboarding off each other’s actions…And blatant inactions alike. They each depend on ‘the other’ to achieve their stated aims.
The questions for me are: Has this state of affairs been manifest by design through the will to power, or is it the result of a long train of dramatic incompetence at maintaining their legitimacy as codified by the Constition?
…And does it really matter in these middle-years of The Three Conjectures?
Be it in literal chains or majority-imposed ones, I’m not particularly keen on ending up where their [good?] intentions seek to lead me.
Zero surprise that the Islamic fascists are storming the American embassy. This logically follows the ending of Mubarak’s dictatorship. Termination of the Israel/Egyptian peace treaty followed by re-militarization of the Israel/Egyptian border will be the next zero surprise.
Isn’t Arab democracy a wonderful thing?
Wretchard said:
“The principle similarities are of course to the Fall of the Shah. In that instance Jimmy Carter believed that the successor regime, though radical in rhetoric, were ultimately people he could deal with. The same miscalculation is being played out in Egypt, and more broadly in the areas affected by the Arab Spring.”
A huge difference between the Fall of the Shah and the Fall of Mubarak is the Coptic Christians. Iran has Christian and Jewish communities that are small fractions of their original populations. The Wikipedia article on Persian Christians claims that the Christian population in Iran has actually increased (Being a practicing Christian or Jew in Iran would be incredibly dangerous).
Supposedly there are between 5-15 million Copts in Egypt. The attack on the US Embassy in Cairo was allegedly due to some trumped up nonsense related to the Copts. This is very reminiscent of the “Kristallnacht” (google it). People say that history does not repeat itself but often rhymes.
If we allow the Copts to be genocided like the Ashkenazi Jews or the Armenians, history will scorn us for a thousand generations as spineless cowards. One can stretch the facts and claim that Nazi barbarism was a surprise (the Germans were supposed to be civilized). However the capacity for barbarism by Islamic fascists should surprise nobody.
monkeyfan @ 29 said:
“Seems to me the MB has had the strategic sense -and depth- to not only maneuver themselves into power across wide swathes of their once and future Caliphate, but they’ve somehow managed to maneuver the great and powerful USA into normalizing an ever-expanding bureaucratic PC tyranny which submissively transforms overt foreign acts of war into domestic factional disputes used to further the consolidation of political power.”
No, the PC thing is a Cold War relic. Moonbats/useful-idiots are windup robots left over from decades of Soviet agitprop. The Islamic fascists simply got lucky that these idiots were easy to reprogram.
It’s not just the Islamic world which lives in illusion. Thirty years after Jimmy Carter many of the self-described smart people have forgotten everything they learned then and elected Barack Obama. Just as soon as the pressure was off it was back to the same old fantasies.
Even if you’re an atheist it is possible to believe in a version of the Wrath of God, which is described, interestingly enough as payback for illusion. “But God shows his anger from heaven against all sinful, wicked people who suppress the truth by their wickedness.” (Romans 1:18)
Suppress the truth and eventually the consequences get you. And there’s Ephesians 5:6. “Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of such things God’s wrath comes on those who are disobedient.”
If the authors of the Bible had been educated in modern J-School, they might have put it thus: eventually spin stops working. The talking points stop getting traction. Nobody re-Tweets your Tweets. At some point the optics go bad.
Or if they had been programmers they would said, “screw your database and your database screws you.” On the day that happens, the SHTF. This is also known as the Wrath of God.
The reason the “truth sets you free” is because you are best off when facing the facts, however unpleasant. A world in which you describe your enemies as your friends, debt as “investment” and a dwindling worker participation as “lowering unemployment” is a world of lies. Lies may seem pleasant for a while. But you are winding up a spring. Rolling a rock up a slope that is going to sooner or later come thundering down at you.
And sooner or later that spring is going to snap back. Wrath of God, patent pending. Then you’ve got to pay back the truth deficit. Eat crow until you restore the karmic balance of the universe. But lies can never be sustained.
It’s not just the Islamic world which lives in illusion. Thirty years after Jimmy Carter many of the self-described smart people have forgotten everything they learned then and elected Barack Obama. Just as soon as the pressure was off it was back to the same old fantasies.
Times ten – how many times do I have to jump up and down and point out, the guy calls himself “Barack Hussein Obama” so what did anyone EXPECT to happen?
Maybe it’s not the self-described smart people who ever changed their minds, just a couple of percent of ordinary citizens in the battleground states.
… who we’re counting on to do so once again.
Wasn’t a billion dollar aid package just announced in the past week or two for Egypt? I propose that be increased to $10B in the hope that things will get better. Or something.
This really looks like it could get allot worse than Jimmy Carter (Now the second worse President in American History) was, allot worse… Is this the death throes of the SS 0bama? will he take America all the way to the bottom with him? I think 0bama is depressed and that why he stays away from his job and only does what he enjoys. This is also showing Hildabeast to be a louse as Secretary of State!
CharlesWhite @ 34 said:
“This is also showing Hildabeast to be a louse as Secretary of State!”
Supposedly John Kerry is set to replace Hillary after Obama gets reelected.
Doesn’t that fill your heart with joy?
At least Hillary has a functioning brain.
What’s the name of the movie that the US embassy in Egypt condemned? What’s all the fuss about?
Perhaps O/T but I heard the tail end of a news report last week or so that the President has been given a really super capable, hack resistent Blackberry that he is able to take with him for “private” communications outside the standard devices he normally communicates with. Perhaps he is able to talk to all these folks causing problems all over the world and convince them they ought to conduct themselves in a more civilized manner:
http://www.slashgear.com/president-obamas-super-secret-blackberry-cost-3300-2231652/
In the picture of the ‘Cairo 2012′ incident shown in W’s essay above, one sees a corner of a dark banner with a white spot being unfurled above the American flag.
From photos on other sites we can identify this banner to be the black flag of Al Qaeda.
The sad part is that the kampf which molded our Enigma in Chief was an open book that the ‘smart-ones’ even now refuse to glance at…Except to look at the pretty pictures.
What’s the name of the movie that the US embassy in Egypt condemned? What’s all the fuss about?
That’s the genius of it. Nobody knows. And the press isn’t saying. I think it may be a production by that Florida pastor who burned a Koran. But I’m only guessing, and that in itself might be an offense.
The sheer brilliance of it is that we don’t know for sure what gave offense. it could be anything really. But it doesn’t matter. You guilty as charged whatever the charge. And there’s no shortage of people who will wail, “yes! yes! Guilty as charged!” People who will apologize at the drop of a hat even if they don’t know what they are apologizing for.
Today, Chicago, food stamps, black and tan, holding the fort, rule of thumb and oh, yes, niggardly — all of these are offensive words. Ask not for whom the world LOLs. It LOLs for you.
The problem is not with the Muslim world. The problem is with *us*. The Islamic world will respect the West the instant the West respects itself. They are not blind. They see the cultural leaders of the Western World flog themselves at the least excuse. So they give us a sh** sandwich to see if we’ll eat it. And we do! The President of the United States flies to Cairo and publicly snarfs the s**t sandwich. Yum. Yum.
And lo and behold the NYT treats like the triumph of the century. Look he just ate a … and so next they say, how about we build a mosque at ground zero. And what do you know! And the best and the brightest fall all over themselves to do it. How far can this go?
What say you we storm the US embassy and ask for the suspension of the First Amendment. Do you think … is it possible … could they? Don’t be so sure the Obama administration won’t give them what they want. We shouldn’t blame the Islamic world for treating American foreign policy like it was run by clowns. It might just be.
Eggplant @30
Relic of the hot and cold war or not, an old K98 or Kalashnikov in the hands of an Islamist is still a weapon to be reckoned with.
;^)
For their part, the MB has also long adapted, synthesized, and used the tried and true rhetoric of both the National Socialist and the Soviet eras…Rather successfully in view of current events which are busily unfolding. In any event; Progressives and the various Jew-hating vanguards of the caliphate share a thing or two in common.
Look at the silver lining. These events provide great footage for producing some awesome campaign commercials. Theme: Obama is out of touch with reality. Cuts from his speech on Islam interspersed with cuts of Islamists storming embassies, burning the American flag, and what the hell – throw a beheading in there too. Voters seem incapable of using reason, so appeal to their emotions. Scare the crap out of them.
29 Monkeyfan,
Yes, as Wretchard just wrote, they have the strategic sense to play divide and conquer with us. And yet we feed them, and give them arms. Where they seem to lack a concrete vision is in how to rule and feed themselves in any kind of sustainable way. It’s still not cleaer to me whether they recognize the hopelessness of their dream, or, maybe the same thing, whether they have a vision other than chaos, mass death and destruction as the only road back to a simpler world of the kind Islam and its economics can hope to rule.
I think it is all going along as Barack Obama had expected. He expected this at some point, and has another card to play with respect to Morsi and the Egyptian government. Of course, it will in all probability backfire.
There was talk that the Teacher’s Strike in Chicago was another Potemkin village for Obama to conquer, and that too may backfire in the face of Our President. It seems that the union president has another script than the one she was given by Mr. Obama’s friend Axelrod.
It could be that this is Obama’s plan to suck all the Media air out of the room so there is no mention of Romney and the actual presidential campaign. It gives him the chance to stand up in front of the crowd and look “presidential”. Not be presidential, just look presidential. Because the appearance to the Obama crowd counts for more than substance.
These are the community organizer tactics writ large. Except the whole game is likely to get out of control, because all the players are not playing Obama’s game.
Perhaps somewhere there are people that are waking up to the fact that this guy is a small man that does not know what he is really doing?
Somehow, this will not end well.
truepeers @43
As wretchard said:
Here we are.
Once again we’ve got to fight an existential war -much of which is invisible to the naked eye- in defense of Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness – with one knife-wielding hand tied behind our back hacking away at our spine.
In this age of ‘a thermonuclear bomb in every tin pot’, we’ve got to lose our illusions. Fast.
Anyway, that’s four and I’m out.
Ha! Chicago teachers unions, embassy protesters… appeasement works great.
Said with a whiny voice; “He’s not my president!”
Hammy Voo? The only hit I get for this is for the Belmont Club. Is that Philippino bossy?
monkeyfan –
“Seems to me the MB has had the strategic sense -and depth- to not only maneuver themselves into power across wide swathes of their once and future Caliphate, but they’ve somehow managed to maneuver the great and powerful USA into normalizing an ever-expanding bureaucratic PC tyranny which submissively transforms overt foreign acts of war into domestic factional disputes used to further the consolidation of political power.”
Yes they have managed. Exactly. Allah is great and the great Satan is a dysfunctional racist hate organization out to destroy itself. But do not fret… God hates you and so does the Democrat Party.
“so what did anyone EXPECT to happen?”
Democrats are Party whores. They define themselves by who they hate and they use the levers of government to exact revenge and vote accordingly. They are by definition an unconstitutional organization. you may think globally but you are under siege by your neighbor.
Subatai is right… TWANLOC will not be solved by thoughtful conversation.
Desperately pawing through the black clouds for that glint of silver, it occurred to me that the internet was designed to survive a nuclear exchange. So it should handle the forthcoming flock of Black Swans. We will still be able to tell each other we told you so.
And to quote our host:
None of this is surprising. Support radical Islamism from the gov’t center and what do you get? More Islamism.
19. JJRedfan “Remember how incensed leftists and even mainstream folks were by the killing of 4 students at Kent State in 1970?”
Especially since those students had been on an orgy of mob violence including random assaults on townspeople, trashing of shops, arson, and assaults on firemen, and had worked themselves up to the point where they were threatening armed National Guardsmen.
50. pst314
Especially since those students had been on an orgy of mob violence including random assaults on townspeople, trashing of shops, arson, and assaults on firemen, and had worked themselves up to the point where they were threatening armed National Guardsmen.
Hey, pst…don’t take this personally. I love you!