Rahm Emanuel’s legendary Hollywood hardball skills are being wasted on the lowlife Blagojevich, who isn’t worth five seconds of anybody’s time. Now that Iran is on the brink of an A-bomb, we should sick Emanuel on A-jad… or, better yet, Ayatollah Khamenei. (“Listen, you dumb f-bomb in a straw hat, you want to work in this town again? You can take that mangy beard and that bomb of yours and shove it up your f-in…”) Actually, Rahm could probably do better. He seems to have mastered the form.
Anything would be better than our new president who prefers to address the Islamic world in terms of drawing room politesse: “All too often the United States starts by dictating...” Say what? Historically speaking, it seems the US has been incredibly open and positive for a country that is the world’s sole super power confronting medieval misogynistic theocracies like Saudi Arabia. If Obama had an ounce of honesty, he would have told the Islamic world that their myriad problems had everything to do with them and not a thing to do with the USA and Israel. But no matter. Maybe Barack’s playing “good cop, bad cop” and Rahm is giving them the real skinny behind the scenes. Go to it, Rahm. All we care about is results, Godfather.
How frightening. It is like everyone’s gone back to sleep.
Obama falsely accuse the Bush administration of being hostile to Islam, but Bush over and over again, said that he was only those who perverted the religion. Bush was ‘hostile’ to those governments which promoted terrorism and aggression against its neighbors. Iran’s backing of Hamas and nuclear weapons program has been the reason. Something that the One conveniently ignores.
Dear Roger…
Ain’t nobody gonna do anything to Iran. If the Israelis elect another liberal government, you can include them as well.
I’m afraid that we will all wake up some morning (as we did on 9-11) to see CNN reports about a nuclear strike on Tel Aviv. CNN middle east experts will remind us, that despite being horrific, Israel had it coming.
Fast foward a few months to a memorial service, starring Obama, Hillary, George Mitchell and a few assorted EU types. Obama will offer a prayer that we all come together as one people for a healing. Norway pledges 40 million Euros for radiation clean up in Arab areas of “Palestine”.
A PBS Frontline documentary will come out a year later citing failed Bush administration policies for provoking the Iranian attack.
Obama wins Noble Peace Prize.
Israeli survivors will immigrate to the USA, become citizens and register as Democrats.
Pops, too true.
Good cop, bad cop….but isn’t that “torture”?
The President has this citizen’s permission to take $20 from the bailout and spend it on a copy of William Manchester’s “Alone” — if even a little of it sunk in, we would be better off.
Pops:
My God, that is scary.
I have been thinking and emailing to those who are my like mind the last couple of days, that I fear that in four years we won’t recognize this great country of ours, nor those of our friends, ie Israel.
I am only heartened by the fact that i am 64 y.o. and won’t live that long to endure what my son and his family will have to endure.
I can always hope otherwise………………..but
My scneario – Israel will bomb Iran. Iran and Syria will invade Israel. Obama will send US troops there to help Israel. Then he will take over Isarel and turn agaist her.
It’s in the Book, folks.
“Go to it, Rahm. All we care about is results, Godfather.”
Results should indeed be all that matter. However, Rahm Emanuel has perhaps an earned reputation of merely meaning well. Never forget that the Clinton administration’s Mid East polices unintentionally resulted in the murder of hundreds of Israeli Jews. And why expect anything different today? Is there any substantial evidence indicating that Emanuel (and his boss, Barack Obama) is a hard core defender of Israel’s right to defend itself? I get the distinct impression, in his heart of hearts, that he is a guilt tripped white guy who believes israel is crapping on the dark skinned Palestinians. I am also very well aware that Emanuel served in the IDF, but that doesn’t prove as much as one might initially think.
Why?
Your Pajamas guys said Ayatollah Khamenei is dead, remember?
Simon says: Now that Iran is on the brink of an A-bomb, we should sick Emanuel on A-jad… or, better yet, Ayatollah Khamenei.
As a reader of PJM, what I recall is that a report of Khamenei’s death appeared on PAjamas Media and then was shortly followed (a half hour or something like that) with contradictory reports, asserting this was rumor. Perhaps Mr. Waldron logged on and off quickly.
BS.
What happened is Pajamas kept the report up forever and never really admitted it was wrong as any smart person would know.
Emanuel never served in the IDF. He actually served for two weeks as a volunteer rust-proofing auto brakes an IDF base in northern Israel during the Gulf War. A noble effort to be sure but hardly the equal of a bona-fide Israeli soldier.
Gaurantee when the second American city goes up in smoke (I consider NYC to have been the first) Obama’s strongest message to Americans will be not to overreact.
marcus waldron
If you are so negative regarding PJM, why do you even join as a reader? For your info, it was corrected and stated to be a rumor. “as any smart person would know”, are you saying we are not smart or are you one of the MSM that starts the rumors? Would not the Middle East be better off if it had been true, or are you negative to that possibility also. Just two days ago it was on CNN and a few other stations that Iran has no desire to talk with Pres. Obama since they consider him as one on one with Israel. Rahm was placed in the position he holds by the Preident to do exactly what Roger Simon is suggesting and hopefully you will see that our country will be better off if he suceeds.
Have a good week.
pops, I have one amendment to your prediction. Norway, after pledging 40 million euros and taking a bow before the adoring crowds for making such a generous pledge, actually provides not one thin dime. Nobody notices.
Otherwise, you are eerily prescient.
Wow, the trolls get lamer and lamer. Keeping up reports of his death forever. LOL. You guys won’t have too much time to troll sites like this. The Administration will give you plenty to have to “defend”. Better give up your day job.
Real tough guys.
Guess what? The sit down fee is being able to send 13 year olds across mine fields with plastic keys.
I don’t think affirmative action metro pet Obama, and the ballerina have the stones.
And, they will be called.
Until they bury a thousand 18 year old Marines, they’ll be worked as pu**ies. That’s is, and has been the power fee.
Didn’t make the world, don’t like it. It is what it is.
Barry is a nice guy. He also has an ego. President Ego Trip likes being appreciated for being a nice guy, it’s a nice guy trait.
Trolls stomp all over nice guys. Hamas is a bunch of trolls. Islamofascists are trolls. Captain Ego Trip is going to get stomped on for being a nice guy. You don’t show your appreciation to nice guys by stomping on them.
But, it won’t be the stomping that does it. No, what nice guys really hate is not getting the appreciation they deserve for being nice guys. Nice guys get angry when they don’t get the appreciation they feel that they deserve.
Don’t make Barry angry, you really wouldn’t like it if Barry got angry.
Why? Because Barry has a temper -just ask the White House Press Corp. Barry doesn’t get his due appreciation from the Islama-trolls he’s gonna shit. As in auto-cure for chronic constipation shit. The Islama-trolls go after an American civilian targets (getting kilt is the American military’s job) Captain Ego Trip will get killing upset with them, expect it.
People like Barack Hussein Obama have their dark side, a very dark side. When thwarted, denied, or refused what they consider their due, they will get their revenge. If they are convinced the people they did nice things for have betrayed them, that vengeance can be nasty.
So don’t expect President Obama to roll over when the Islama-trolls betray him. Expect instead a call for all out war and the placement of America on a wartime footing. Pity the fools who pull off another 9/11, for they may well turn America into a true imperial power. And pity the world as well.
Well Obama put out the Olive branch to Iran and now they are demanding he stop backing the Zionist entity and apologize for all the harm we have done Iran since 1954:
http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSTRE50R1SX20090128?feedType=RSS&feedName=topNews
Yep a new world order is upon us. It will be interesting to see Obama’s reaction to this.
If he has a dark side it is time for it to come out.
Obama has been doing exactly the wrong thing regarding terrorism.
Closing Gitmo, then saying they will have to think about how to deal with the ones they have. Suggesting that they return some of them to Yemen, and the same day we find out that former ‘innocent’ residents are now high-ranking Al Queda members in Yemen.
Lying about Bush’s attitude towards all Muslims, when he took great pains not to do so. It makes the US look weak and begging these terrorist sponsoring countries for forgiveness.
Gird your loins, cause Barry is going to do something even more foolish and dangerous to make these terrorist sponsors ‘like us’.
Obama is all about image and atmospherics. He will not act on a provocation. He is a skilled speaker and that is what he does best, especially with a script. Don’t look for action, especially bipartisan action. Nancy Pelosi will set domestic policy and, in foreign policy, we will drift. You might read Fouad Ajami’s piece today in the Wall Street Journal.
“To the Muslim world, we seek a new way forward, based on mutual interest and mutual respect,” President Barack Obama said in his inaugural. But in truth, the new way forward is a return to realpolitik and business as usual in America’s encounter with that Greater Middle East. As the president told Al-Arabiya television Monday, he wants a return to “the same respect and partnership that America had with the Muslim world as recently as 20 or 30 years ago.”
Say what you will about the style — and practice — of the Bush years, the autocracies were on notice for the first five or six years of George. W. Bush’s presidency. America had toppled Taliban rule and the tyranny of Saddam Hussein; it had frightened the Libyan ruler that a similar fate lay in store for him. It was not sweet persuasion that drove Syria out of Lebanon in 2005. That dominion of plunder and terror was given up under duress.
The irony now is obvious: George W. Bush as a force for emancipation in Muslim lands, and Barack Hussein Obama as a messenger of the old, settled ways. Thus the “parochial” man takes abroad a message that Muslims and Arabs did not have tyranny in their DNA, and the man with Muslim and Kenyan and Indonesian fragments in his very life and identity is signaling an acceptance of the established order. Mr. Obama could still acknowledge the revolutionary impact of his predecessor’s diplomacy, but so far he has chosen not to do so.
This is not progress.
The MSM effectively chose the president. Take one part good speaker, one part bad decisions, one part slanted truth and what do you get?
Obama
Maybe this kind of ‘leadership’ worked for Obama in Chicago, but in the real world it’s dangerous.
BTW have we started publishing the count of American soldiers killed in the line of duty yet? It seems to me that the MSM took great pains to ensure these numbers were placed in front of their readers/viewers’ eyes on a near-daily basis. After all, they blamed Bush for every soldier killed, now it’s Barry’s turn.
Alan Kellog #19 said it. Obama has the despotic nature covered with the veneer of a nice-guy politician. I now a guy who knew him in Hawaii. A friend of his wanted to bring another friend, Obama, to meet at a Naval base gym for some pick-up B-ball. When they arrived, they found Obama was mercilessly bullying some little white kid. Another bigger guy stepped in and told Obama to back off. They never invited him back on base after that.
It’s in him
“All too often the United States starts by dictating…”
It seems that the commander-in-chief has co-signed the ignoble proclivities of the anti-american screed.
I guess the next thing out of Obama’s mouth is the apology for 60 years of ‘crimes’ against Iran.
Ramsay Clark must be so proud!
President Alinsky. . .
19. Alan Kellogg: & 25. BMoon:
I hope you guys are right and that Obama will grow a pair and defend the US and our ideals once he realizes that Islamofascists don’t play nice, ever.
I pray to God that he doesn’t act like this his whole term.
29. He’s had plenty of time to learn when he was a US Senator….That is when he took time off from campaigning and hawking his books to actually do the work he was first elected to do in Washington.
He also had more than a couple of decades to pay attention to world events, unless the Rev Wright and his buddy Bill Ayers gave him all the news about the world he felt he needed.
When Obama says, “all too often the United States starts by dictating,” I’m reminded of my least favorite Obama phrase, one that he uses frequently in most of his speeches that I have heard, and in his unscripted comments and answers to questions, so that I’m sure it’s his own word choice, not from a speechwriter. He is always saying, “know this, America…” Even when what he is saying is uplifting, or merely innocuous, that phrase sets my teeth on edge. It is particularly dictatorial and arrogant, and although I hope not, I fear quite revealing of his personality.