Obama to Iran: Enjoy Your Nukes!
Barack Obama and his minions — Suha-bussing Hillary Clinton who disses Israel every chance she gets and Ambassador Howard Gutman who thinks Islamic anti-Semitism began at a Tel Aviv felafel shop a week ago Thursday (he should read Andrew Bostom) — love to put pressure on our supposed ally… but on Iran’s despicable mullahs not so much.
So it should be no surprise that our president is pushing back on last week’s Senate vote for stronger sanctions on Iran. Via Reuters:
The Obama administration is urging US lawmakers to soften proposed sanctions targeting Iran’s central bank, Senator Mark Kirk said on Tuesday.
Kirk, a Republican, is the co-author along with Democratic Senator Robert Menendez of a proposal to penalize foreign financial institutions that do business with Iran’s central bank, the main conduit for its oil revenues.
The Senate approved the proposal last week 100-0 despite lobbying against it by Obama administration officials, who argued that threatening US allies might not be the best way to get cooperation in action against Iran. [bold mine]
A similar measure is pending in the House of Representatives; both chambers must agree on the same version before it can become law.
Kirk said on Tuesday that the administration had written to some lawmakers’ offices and “proposed what they describe as technical fixes” to the Kirk-Menendez amendment.
What’s behind this? The mind drifts back to two key events of recent years:
First, and most obviously, the extraordinary silence of Barack Obama during the Iranian democracy demonstrations — one of the more emotionally-disconnected displays of any modern president. Every decent person in the Western world was rooting for the demonstrators to rid themselves of the mullahs, except for our president, who didn’t even give them moral support, preferring to do his own absurd and self-centered negotiation with Ahmadinejad.
Second is the 2003 going-away party and Israel bash, with Obama in attendance, for Rashid Khalidi, recorded on a videotape still sequestered in a vault at the Los Angeles Times. The Times, which was quite willing to run the Wikileaks, is withholding it for reasons that have long not been viable for some time.
Which side are you on, as the old song goes.
Iranian nukes don’t really seem to matter to Barack Obama. He pays lip service, on occasion, to what a bad idea they are, but not nearly the lip service paid by his Defense Secretary Leon Panetta to how bad the Israelis are.
And now, with the chips down and the Congress willing to act, Obama says nay. Well, what could be more obvious? The game is fixed. A little espionage around the edges is okay, but if anyone wants to do anything serious, like having genuine sanctions as opposed to phony (show) sanctions, this administration backs away.
The excuse is that our European friends are dependent on Iranian oil and playing an even worse double-game than we are — and we have to cooperate with our allies, no? Leave aside for a moment that this administration could help solve this problem by opening the spigots here. How do you think this is viewed in Tehran? When the mullahs see our president trying to get Congress to scale down the sanctions, do they think their nuclear facilities are in any real danger from this man?
And what about the prime minister of Israel? What is he supposed to think when observing this, while listening to the endless nattering from the administration about peace talks with an adversary that has demonstrated no interest in peace.
No wonder the administration is nervous about the Israelis acting on their own. They should be.
– get ‘em while they’re hot!
Well, as Forrest Gump said, “Stupid is as stupid does.” Really, I don’t just don’t understand why O hasn’t just given the nuts in Iran some of our nukes. After the Iranians get their nukes finished, & they surely will, all of the Middle East will have to change their underwear-except for the Syrians & Turks. The incompetence of this administration is simply breathtaking.
“Really, I don’t just don’t understand why O hasn’t just given the nuts in Iran some of our nukes.”
Sounds like a job for the DEA.
Eric Holder has it taken care of, with an offshoot of Operation Fast and Furious called Operation Falafel and Festering.
How could it really be incompetence? You’re kidding, right?
The Republican elite say were not supposed to go there ‘cus Obama is still well liked.
Why are you so worried about Iran getting nukes?
The former Mossad Chief Ephraim Halevy (from 1998-2002) sure isn’t worried about Iran getting nukes. He’s more worried about the frum (“ultra-Orthodox”) Jews in Israel.
Don’t believe me?
‘Iran far from posing existential threat’
Ex-Mossad Chief Ephraim Halevy warns strike on Iran could have devastating effect for region. ‘Ultra-Orthodox radicalization poses bigger threat than Ahmadinejad,’ he says
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4143909,00.html
“The growing haredi radicalization poses a bigger risk than Ahmadinejad,” Halevy said, adding that “the ultra-Orthodox extremism has darkened our lives.”
Halevy to ride out storm after haredim, Iran comments
http://www.jpost.com/DiplomacyAndPolitics/Article.aspx?ID=244623&R=R1
“The ‘haredization,’ the process of [religious] radicalization is bringing [societal] segregation and the deepening of a rift in Am Yisrael,” he said in an interview on Radio Kol Hai. “It is more serious and more dangerous than any external threat.
“The State of Israel cannot be destroyed,” he told Ynet on Friday. “An attack on Iran could affect not only Israel, but the entire region for 100 years.”
The former head of the Israeli secret service said Thursday during an army boarding school reunion that while Iran should be prevented from becoming a nuclear power, its capabilities are still “far from posing an existential threat to Israel.”
“The growing haredi radicalization poses a bigger risk than Ahmadinejad,” Halevy said, adding that “the ultra-Orthodox extremism has darkened our lives.”
Halevy thinks that frum (“ultra-Orthodox”) Jews in Israel are a bigger threat to Israel than the Hitler of Iran.
It sounds like the CIA trained this guy. Recall the CIA concluded in 2008 that Iran had stopped working on the bomb.
The atmosphere in Israel is thick with impending war, at least to those with eyes in their head and brains to boot.
As far as most Zionists are concerned, Obama can go to hell and take the rest of his cabal with him!
While our leadership leaves a lot to be desired, when it comes to Iran they know the (existential) score. Holocaust memorials will not suffice!! Moreover, they detest the Islamist loving POTUS. Yes, they do.
So, will our leaders give Washington the heads up to a strike? In a pig’s eye….
“While our leadership leaves a lot to be desired, when it comes to Iran they know the (existential) score.”
Are you sure about that?
Well what do you make of this?
The former Mossad Chief Ephraim Halevy (from 1998-2002) sure isn’t worried about Iran getting nukes. He’s more worried about the frum (“ultra-Orthodox”) Jews in Israel.
Don’t believe me?
‘Iran far from posing existential threat’
Ex-Mossad Chief Ephraim Halevy warns strike on Iran could have devastating effect for region. ‘Ultra-Orthodox radicalization poses bigger threat than Ahmadinejad,’ he says
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4143909,00.html
“The growing haredi radicalization poses a bigger risk than Ahmadinejad,” Halevy said, adding that “the ultra-Orthodox extremism has darkened our lives.”
Halevy to ride out storm after haredim, Iran comments
http://www.jpost.com/DiplomacyAndPolitics/Article.aspx?ID=244623&R=R1
“The ‘haredization,’ the process of [religious] radicalization is bringing [societal] segregation and the deepening of a rift in Am Yisrael,” he said in an interview on Radio Kol Hai. “It is more serious and more dangerous than any external threat.
“The State of Israel cannot be destroyed,” he told Ynet on Friday. “An attack on Iran could affect not only Israel, but the entire region for 100 years.”
The former head of the Israeli secret service said Thursday during an army boarding school reunion that while Iran should be prevented from becoming a nuclear power, its capabilities are still “far from posing an existential threat to Israel.”
“The growing haredi radicalization poses a bigger risk than Ahmadinejad,” Halevy said, adding that “the ultra-Orthodox extremism has darkened our lives.”
Halevy thinks that frum (“ultra-Orthodox”) Jews in Israel are a bigger threat to Israel than the Hitler of Iran.
Why don’t you ask the Israelis in the street their opinion of Halevy from days gone by before taking the media’s attempt at earth shaking stories?
I live in Jerusalem. What I’m saying is that the (secular) Israeli establishment is too busy hating and fighting against the religious instead of doing their job and protecting us from our enemies (in this case that would be Ahmadinejad and the mad mullahs in Iran).
This gives you an idea of the mindset of the typical secular anti-religious Israeli elites — they look at their fellow Jews as being more of a threat to Israel’s survival than Ahmadinejad.
This type of crazy thinking is rampant amongst the secular anti-religious Israeli establishment. Halevy isn’t the only one who thinks such things. Far from it. It seems the Israeli elites aren’t too interested in protecting the country from our enemies. They’re more worried about some phantom threat from those evil, nasty, bigoted, religious throwbacks who belive in G-d. They actually belive in G-d. In this day and age. Can you imagine?
Is that you Ephraim?
America under Obama’s hob nail communist boot now must reap the fetid harvest of the lies he uttered during his oath of office regarding preserving, protecting and defending us. Which were the initial frequent liar miles accumulated during his sordid presidency.
An essential part of Obama objectives, of course, involved making no effort to stop the axis of evil from producing ICBM’s with a range capable of vaporizing half of America’s population in one day.
As to Bulgaricus (commenter # 2) last sentence, it’s a perfect example of the naive conservatives and their failure to recognize that incompetence has nothing to do with it. Obama is a mole in the White House intent on destroying us in every sense of the word. No matter how often commenters on this blog make that distinction somebody like Bulgaricus reminds us the message isn’t getting out.
It’s like blaming your computer service provider for your slow computer when the problem is a virus reducing your computer to mush.
Reminds Rachel of those war movies when an American first Lieutenant quietly says to a private who falls down and makes a bunch of noise during a patrol in occupied France: “You’re gonna get us all killed.
The difference is the private didn’t mean to make a racket falling down.
B. Hussain Obama intends in every sense of the word to destroy us.
Muslim Brotherhood moles</strong.
Just sayin’.
The Israelis have long since written off any expectation of effective action against Iran by any U.S. Administration. Sanctions and weak rhetoric are de facto disengagement. Obviously, if the Jewish state can create chaos in the Nuclear Arms Development program that is the best deterrent, the least likely to generate turmoil, at the least cost of blood and money. But I haven’t the slightest doubt that they have drawn the line where they will act preemptively. Probably the major reason for Obaama’s disgraceful performance is that the Israelis have been unable to conceal their contempt for him, and he is so childishly lacking in statesmanship capability that he is “getting back at them.” for dissing him.
IThe truth is thatsrael is the United States’ sole line of defense against the Arab Spring Winter and Fall. Its government is keenly aware of its position, better in both basic understanding and intelligence, more committedd to avoiding nuclear events, at constant alert, and far more likely to resolve the impasse. It does not need our instruction and cannot afford to wait for the words of a self-preening, third rate Chicago Community Organizer or an irresolute Pentagon before taking action. We should all thank the God of Abraham that they are there to protect us in this time of terror.
Probably the major reason for Obaama’s disgraceful performance is that the Israelis have been unable to conceal their contempt for him, and he is so childishly lacking in statesmanship capability that he is “getting back at them.” for dissing him.
Obama really and truly didn’t like Netanyahu’s firm statement as to the impossibility of returning to the ’67 borders (“not gonna happen”) when he was at the WH, one-on-one with Obama, and the cameras were rolling.
(Israel) does not need our instruction and cannot afford to wait for the words of a self-preening, third rate Chicago Community Organizer or an irresolute Pentagon before taking action.
I give Israel credit for realizing it doesn’t have a peace partner in this administration and planning accordingly.
Something I forgot to weave into my little missive.
Although I respect and love every editor at PJM, I’m waiting for one of them (roger simon would be the best) to point out that Obama intends to wreck America in every sense of the word.
Fact is, Obama doesn’t especially like the United States or our allies. In fact, Obama acts like he likes our enemies.
Reminds me of criticisms that used to be made on candidates who ran for President; “he’s soft on communism. Remember those days?
Well, B. Hussein has a mentality that would make him a perfect leader of a communist country. Barack hates American ideals. Hates capitalism. The profit motive.
I swear. The next editor or commenter who says Obama is “incompetent” I’m going to explode.
Scienter is the word. It means intent. Obama the marxist/communist, the president who literally is soft on terrorism, is out to destroy this nation.
If you can’t grasp this reality, in all candor, you’re part of the problem.
you are consistent and correct. thank you. never give up
Rachel….I’ve saying this for 3 yrs now. It is his intent to bring us down (“fundamentally change the US of A”)
Rachel, you are absolutely correct. Many of us were saying this since his persona became widely known during his campaign of 2008, but almost nobody among the political class would listen, including the so-called Republican establishment. Those who have guts to say this publicly, such as Rush Limbaugh, are vilified to the extent of having to hire security.
Bingo! You nailed it. Obama is not incompetent. He has a world view and he is moving forward on all fronts to bring that view to reality. Anyone who does not realize this must be blind. He is who he’s always been, except the man is now the leader of the free world and is leading the West off a cliff. For those who think it’s incompetance, perhaps that dose of denial makes it somewhat easier to swallow. But it’s dangerous not to see the truth as it is.
If Obama is incompetent, thank God for it. The Bush administration’s Iran policy was merely feckless, naive and weak. Obama, as you and others note, hates America to the core of his dark little soul, and that fact is nowhere more apparent than in his failure to lift a finger (OK, maybe the middle one) or his golden voice to support the Iranian opposition or to define to the world the evil of the Iranian mullocracy. The enemy if his enemy is his friend.
“Second is the 2003 going-away party and Israel bash, with Obama in attendance, for Rashid Khalidi, recorded on a videotape still sequestered in a vault at the Los Angeles Times. The Times, which was quite willing to run the Wikileaks, is withholding it for reasons that have long since been viable.”
It would be great, really great, if this video came out next year just before the election. It would finally show everybody how much of an anti-semite Obama really is. Obama has always thought that Israel was the problem in the Middle East, not the solution. Get rid of Israel, thinks Obama and Clinton (not to mention people like Susan Rice), and your problem with the Muslims will magically go away. So how’s that “smart power” been working for us since Obama got elected? Has Iran magically stopped its nuclear program? Has Iran stopped its support for Hamas and Hezbollah? Has Iran stopped its support for that psychotic Assad in Syria? Has Iran stopped its support for terrorism in the Middle East, especially in places like Iraq and Afghanistan? No, not at all, and we have Obama and Clinton to thank for that. I would like to say that Israel just has to hang on until the next election, when a Republican can get elected. But, at this rate, I’m not sure there will be enough time. As soon as Iran gets its nuclear weapon, it will be “game on” and the next (and perhaps last) war in the Middle East will begin.
Not only the video, but the press needs to name the name that should never be named: Hussein!
So where’s noisy Donald Trump on this video the L.A. Times has sequestered?
He got the Zero to show the birth certificate (another fake, but so what) — maybe Trump needs to get on this bandwagon and spread the word all over the press.
At this point, the majority of the country doesn’t even know this video exists — if it got lots and lots of attention … who knows? It could be a good hammer for the GOP –
People omit a key issue: Obama owns the Jewish vote, no matter what, and a lot of American Jews agree with him on this one.
Per US history, you wait until something forces you hand, then you act. People remember that our sanctions forced Japan into a very aggressive posture, which remember today.
The US knows too, that Israel is the target, and when Iran has enough, they will see any number of their own people die, just to have the bragging rights for destroying Israel.
Deterrence is not an option when Iran has nucs.
If your saying Japan attacked the US because of sanctions, answer this.
What was China’s offense?
Japan wanted China’s resources. The only reason they attacked us was because they thought war with us was inevitable and felt if they could destroy our fleet we would stay out of it. Had they not attacked we might well have stayed out of it.
The Panay ???
The upcoming Republican debate will be moderated by George Stephanopoulos. I think only Newt has the guts to do this but I honestly believe that the following would have huge impact and change the direction of the race-
Question from Stephanopoulos: ” Mr.Speaker, blah blah blah, etc. ”
Newt: ” Mr. Stephanopoulos, before I answer your question I would like you to answer mine. You are a nationally syndicated reporter for a major network. A skilled interviewer trained to elicit information , especially newsworthy information. When you interviewed Barak Hussein Obama he made reference to his Mulsim faith. He called himself a Muslim. That seems quite newsworthy and certainly worth exploring. Yet you treated this statement as though it was not newsworthy. In fact you jumped in to redirect his statement. Mr. Stephanopolous have you ever made the statement – ” My Jewish faith or my Muslim faith? ” Is ones religion something one gets confused about? Whatever Obamas religion may be he has a right to it. However you have an obligation to follow the facts wherever they lead. Since you have made my ethics an issue do you think your actions betrayed journalistic ethics? Have you lost any sleep over taking a pass on the biggest news story of the previous campaign? ”
There is no doubt the audience will roar in approval. So will the American people.
I am no speech writer and I am sure my words could be vastly improved. However I do think that the opportunity to address this issue is good to pass up. I hope someone with access makes this suggestion.
When O said “my Muslim faith,” George should have paused and said “Muslim?” How can so many people cooperate with evil?
Menachem Ben Yakov
Great question, but Gingrich would be a fool to ask it. Obama’s religion, place of birth, birth certificate and social security number are strictly off limits and raising any of these issues would be more damaging to the candidate who raises any of them than being caught in bed with a goat or small boy.
But somebody has to have the guts to get the facts out into the open.
Why are the Conservatives so reluctant to take on the Democrats by using the same techniques?
Hard to get traction when one does not have the convenience of a complicit mainstream media.
Terry, My proposal was not as artfully crafted as mine intent. The point is NOT to attack Obamas religion rather it is to attack the media that failed to investigate. That is why I said whatever Obamas religion is, he is entitled to it. The point is not to make this a discussion of Islam rather to make it a discussion on the obvious lack of journalistic ethic and obvious media bias. I think we would being going over the heads of the media-mysters and directly to the American people. i think it would be huge. I think Newt is the guy who can pull it off. MBY
ps- I am praying for a Gingrich / Condoleeza Rice ticket.
Menacham, you are right. Whoever brings up O’s religion, birth certificate, etc. will suffer the MSM’s “crazy” slings — it’s not a good tactic.
Unfortunately, even if the press is attacked for not reporting on it — the press will just spin that anyway into the narrow religious part of it, and attach the “crazy” accusation — they’ll ignore the real attack on themselves, and it will all backfire.
Better to let that one go. There’s so very much else to be brought up and exposed for what it is.
“…caught in bed with a kid.”
Saves three words!
Really? Who put them “off limits”?
Open the ‘U.S. spigots’, why Mr. Simon that’s preposterous!
Why Uhbama won’t open the Canadian spigots, resulting in thousands of U.S. jobs.
Apparently our CiC thinks the ‘honesty of OPEC’ is good enough for us.
As for his MIA-responses on dressing down the Iranian guy who can’t even grow a beard properly and his a sshole mullahs, no shocker.
When Senator, Uhbama’s approach was when the going got tough- vote ‘Present’.
For folks to have thought this eunuch would grow a pair when CiC is mind boggling.
At a fundraiser in New York last week, President Obama said his administration “has done more in terms of the security of the state of Israel than any previous administration.”
Shirley You Jest!
Charles Krauthammer on TV called Obama delusional for this.
I too was stunned by that statement, until I “parsed” it. The critical distinction: “in terms of” does not mean “for.”
Exactly. Subtle change of phrase-and everyone missed it.
Obama sneaked that one past most everyone.
Their brain heard differently from what was actually said.
Yeah, another one of his “I’m a mirror reflecting what people want to see” moments. (The true motto of the pathological liar.)
Good catch. Unsaid is the word “undermining”. “has done more in terms of [undermining] the security of the state of Israel than any previous administration.”
Well worth reading-
http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Columnists/Article.aspx?id=248256
Roger,
They way it looks is that after after spending billions on dictators to unsuccessfully grind down Israel, Obama is now arranging the most extreme crowd to attain power to get the job done.
Gutman’s Dictionary:
Anti-semitism by “right wingers” is not the fault of Jews.
Anti-semitism by anyone else, is the Jews fault.
Israel needs to take responsibility for the BBC hating them, the UN hating them, for crazed 4th century barbarians hating them, and for the effete, backstabbing, leftist kapos of the world selling them out. That’s the J Street credo, the Soros blueprint and the Goldstone map …the “how to be Jewish the leftist way” manifesto.
Hillary has become a “me too” disappointment. Piling on and showing not an ounce of integrity in the political pincer movement against Israel.
The LATimes is holding hostage a tape that should explain much of this…but, as traitors and co-conspirators they will do no such thing.
Meanwhile, back in Iran…Valerie Jarrett’s old stomping grounds, Panetta, Gutman, and Hillama Obamary…the “diplomatic gelding” resulting from this marriage between the two leftist power bases in American politics…props up the Syrian/Hamas/Iran/Hizbollah regimes…and paints Israel further and further into a corner.
Rashid Khalidi and Ali Abuminah must be very proud of their influence these days. Egypt has been most likely turned. So has Turkey.
All the progress made to make Israel safer has been eradicated. Jeremiah Wright is beaming. So is Farrakhan.
And not a fingerprint left behind at the scene of the crime. It’s the Fabian way. The Cunctator strikes again.
Robert Malley is dancing in the streets and calling all his Hamas friends.
“The infidels never knew what hit them!”
Too bad the Abuminah videotape hasn’t been “Wikileaked.” Yet. Maybe there’s someone there …. ???
It was cathartic to see a democrat (Senator Menendez-NJ) ripping the administration a new one on its Iran policy, or lack thereof.
I need all the catharsis I can get
Where is Chuck Schumer by the way?
Memo:
To: Republicans in office.
From: A girl with balls.
Re: The Obama social democratic communists are constantly on the attack.
The Republicans are almost never on the attack.
Suggestion to Republicans:
Be more like Patton and less like Neville Chamberlain.
In order to be on the attack, the Republicans would 1) have to place values (or even have values in the first place) over being liked, and 2) be willing to risk the possibility of being scorned by the MSM for standing up for those values. If I were in charge of the Republican Party(hah, hah) the term RINO would be unknown, since all proclaimed members of the party would have to sign a statement confirming their support for the party platform, and would have to verbally and visually support that platform in all speeches and statements.
As it is, despite all of the voter’s cries to the contrary, the main motivation in most Republican’s careers – next to assuring themselves of the next election – is getting invited to Georgetown cocktail parties. I’m not even sure that most of them can articulate what a true conservative position is, must less justify a stance on one to a reporter.
I don’t know.
I look at the before and after satt photos of the Iranian missile facality that mysteriously exploded last month;
http://defensetech.org/2011/12/01/before-and-after-photos-of-irans-destroyed-missile-base/
As a commenter pointed out, there are NO craters. There is a technique for pancaking a building that Israel worked out during one of the picnics in Gaza. Explode a JDAM on the air (airburst) over the building. That forces the roof into the top floor. Roof and top floor then land on the next floor, then all 3 collapse the one under. Repeat until grond is reached. This destroyes tghe building and all the occupants with getting rubble into the street, or even waking up granny napping next door. It also leaves no crater. The ONLY way besides many small demo charges to collapse a building.
So logically ( I know how you liberals HATE that word), either the Mad Dog Mullahs destroyed their missile test center or it was taken out by airburst fused PGM’s.
Israel doesn’t have the delivery systems to get a JDAM or EVEN a JSOW to that Missile facility undetected. ONLY the US Air Force can do that.
As a fact mitigating they it was an accident argument, note the two polls of water. Thost pools are used to contain the exhaust from the engines. The Shed at the poll end is used to mount the engine for testing. If there was a epic fail of the engine during a test, there would be a crater where that shed is.
Now one looks at the Obama relection campaign. Teh won is so far in the hole now, the Donls will have to vote every corpse in America to stay in the game. Enough eyebrows lifted when Frankel won in part by having more votes then voters in certain precincts.
If you have a few million more votes then voters, a lot more then eyebrows will be raised.
Obam still has a card to play. It is the “Short Victorious War” card.
Hey, it worked for Bush the Second. It might work for Obama. Granted, he will give up his 25% base but where they gonna go? He will gain the 60% that would like to see Iran bombed back to the Stine age and the rubble bounced. 60 + 25 = 85
Winnwh, we hab Winnah.
Stranger things have happened.
So why are the MDM ( Mad Dog Mullahs) trying to kidnap(?) diplomats? Diplonap(?)
Maybe the B-2′s showed them they have worse problems then a few onery Jews.
Now they know for a fact that the US Air Force can reach into the heart of their air defense system and touch them. Whenever we want. And as the British say; ‘Fokk all they can do about it’.
I can’t believe he would gain more than he would lose. Sure, anti-war Democrats are hypocrites as Libya and Bosnia showed, but he will lose some support. How much will he gain? Wag the dog can divert attention but it doesn’t gain you much votes. I would love for us to go on the offensive against Iran but I actually think Obama is a bigger threat to America than Iran. Most folk at least believe he is a disaster even if they don’t think it’s deliberate, a few bombs dropped or having killed Ben Laden won’t change that. G.W. Bush had the Gulf War and still lost because of a mild recession, Obama is going down in flames no matter what he does between now and November.
I agree: Nasser maneuvered and jawed until he had the sticks kicked out from under him. You can only push so far: people are listening and believing. Painting bombs falling on America on the sides of buildings is not a sign of a high I.Q.
Here is a list of reasons to distrust Obama complied by Rabbi Dov Fischer. I have already posted it here and there and I am trying to distribute it far and wide by election day.
Feel free to add to the list.
1. Obamacare — Attempting to federalize local state rights, extending federal control over massive components of the national house, extending federal control over individuals’ lives in violation of the Constitution’s Commerce Clause. Cynically lining up supporters in white doctors’ robes, while refusing to consult with much more prominent and predominant medical groups who oppose. Lying about the program’s cost and tax burden by subterfuging it with exorbitant taxes that begin several years into its anticipated roll-out. Robbing $500 billion from Medicare that will destroy access for seniors, while lying about the Ryan proposal that would not affect people over 55.
2. The catastrophic $850 billion stimulus. $700,000 to develop a robot that tells jokes. $3.4 million for an underground tunnel for turtles to cross the road in Florida. $1 million to help smokers kick the habit by giving them Blackberry “smartphones.” $2.6 million for Chinese prostitutes in China to drink responsibly. Lying to Americans by claiming the money was going to “shovel-ready jobs” — and then joking about the falsehood. Lying by hiding the amounts transferred to favored liberal projects unrelated to job growth or economic stimulation.
3. Chronically high, persistent unemployment — His own staff said that he would bring it under 8% ; yet it remains over 9% thirty months into his one term, with real unemployment actually exceeding 15% as huge numbers of unemployed Americans withdraw from searching hopelessly for jobs. Lying about a Summer of Recovery (2010).
4. Gas prices — Now exceeding $4.50 a gallon in California, while he bars exploration in ANWR, restricts licenses to explore along the Atlantic coast or in the Gulf, but exports American dollars to help Brazil explore for oil in the Gulf even as Obama promises that America then will buy that oil from Brazil. (See also #82.)
5. Failure to pass a budget. The abject failure by the Chief Executive to get any kind of budget adopted for 2010.
6. Multi-trillion debt free-fall. Turning the disastrous Bush deficits into a multi-trillion-dollar economic free-fall, now leaving the nation with a debt exceeding $14.3 trillion . . . and pressing for authorization to increase the free-fall. His own latest mad deficit proposal was demolished in a House vote 97-318, as his own Democrats abandoned him in droves.
7. The seizure of GM and Chrysler. The illegal transfer of bondholder wealth to unions, imposing his views on parts of the American auto industry, artificially trying to jump-start his favored companies with “Cash for Clunkers,” only to find that American tax dollars were used instead by people buying preferred Japanese cars to acquire them cheaper while being forced to destroy throughly sound used cars.
8. Dodd-Frank.
9. Unremitting hostility to Israel. Destroying the Mideast process by imposing unilateral burdens on Israel, forcing Israel to cease construction of Jewish homes, even in Jerusalem, thus compelling Abbas to harden several positions, all while publicly snubbing Prime Minister Netanyahu in the basement of the White House (the first visit) and trying to snub him on the second visit with a horrible policy speech as Netanyahu was flying en route to America.
10. Failure to support Iran’s Green Revolution. A complete silence and abandonment of leadership when Iranians risked their lives for freedom, while backing the Moslem Brotherhood uprising in Egypt.
11. Failure to support the Syrian people’s revolution against Assad. Utter failure to lead until it was impossible to overlook the massacres by a dictator who actively finances and supports Iran and Hezbollah, America’s sworn enemies in Iraq and South Lebanon.
12. The Libyan Fiasco. Entering Libya while failing to consult Congress. No sense of whether we are supporting people just as bad as Qaddafi. Remaining in the war more than 90 days without obtaining Congressional approval. Lying about violating the War Powers Act by claiming there are no “hostilities” in Libya.
13. The Gulf oil disaster. Bumbling in handling the Gulf oil disaster — refusing aid from countries with oil-cleaning vessels, failing to accept offers of boom to corral the spill, bringing in underwater filmmaker James Cameron as an expert.
14. Closing down oil exploration. The unnecessary moritorium on permitting oil exploration in the aftermath of the Gulf oil disaster, contributing to a massive explosion of oil prices, even leading a federal court to overturn him.
15. EPA interference. The shutdown of Shell’s Arctic oil exploration by EPA
16. Cap-and-Trade Fiasco. The push in Congress for a disastrous “cap-and-trade” plan that would stymie the coal, electric, and natural gas industries, while enormously raising Americans’ home fuel prices, leading even his own party’s U.S. Senator from West Virginia to film a TV promise to voters that he will shoot the proposal full of holes.
17. Use of federal agencies to bypass Congressional oversight. The attempt, after Congress refused to adopt his cap-and-trade nonsense, to bypass Congressional opposition and impose cap-and-trade undemocratically via the EPA.
18. Use of FCC initially to restrict free speech. The push for unconstitutional restrictions on free speech on his political enemies on Talk Radio while assuring protections for unions to spend money on campaigns via The Disclose Act.
19. The Disclose Act and cherry-picking. The attempt to unconstitutionally impose The Disclose Act on his political opponents but not unions via Executive Order.
20. Czars to bypass Congressional oversight. The use of unaccountable “czars” who effectively run huge segments of the American Government without being accountable to Congress and who are protected from Congressional subpoena power.
21. Boorish shaming of Supreme Court justices. The embarrassing and arrogant verbal assault on the Supreme Court while Court Justices courteously attended the first State of the Union address, sitting in front of him, leading most to boycott the subsequent State of Union addresses.
22. Boorish attempt to shame Paul Ryan. The similarly embarrassing and arrogant verbal assault on Rep. Paul Ryan when addressing the federal budget, with Ryan having been invited personally by Obama to attend the speech and sit in front of him.
23. Boorish attempt to shame John McCain. The insulting, embarrassing, and arrogant gloating at John McCain during the televised sham negotiation over Obamacare, when he responded to McCain not substantively but by saying that Obama had won and McCain had lost the election — so there!
24. Refusal to prosecute Black Panthers for Voter Intimidation. Obama’s and Attorney-General Eric Holder’s politicization of the Department of Justice, including refusing to prosecute the Black Panther voter-intimidation case in Philadelphia.
25. Marriage Act. Obama’s and Holder’s refusal to defend the Federal Defense of Marriage Act, an act of Congress.
26. Lies, Lies, Lies. The regular use of straw-man demonizations to try winning support for his unpopular legislation, like accusing doctors of performing unnecessary surgery so that they can enrich themselves by imposing misery on their patients.
27. Throwing his grandmother under the bus. Using his grandmother as a foil to win points, calling her a racist like “typical white people.”
28. Bowing to the Saudi King and the Japanese emperor. Literally.
29. Treating our British alliance contemptuously. Shamefully returning to Great Britain the bust of Winston Churchill that they had given us and that had reposed in the White House, while insulting the Queen and the Prime Minister with inane gifts like DVDs. The subsequent fiasco while toasting the Queen, continuing to talk during the playing of the British National Anthem.
30. Violating and abrogating long-standing promises to our allies. Removing the missile shield from Poland and the Czech Republic to placate Putin.
31. Standing with the aspiring Honduran dictator. Backing the would-be dictator of Honduras when that nation’s duly convoked Supreme Court had removed him from office in careful compliance with law.
32. FTAs with allies. Failure to push for quick ratification of free trade agreements with Columbia, Panama and South Korea.
33. Amateurish handling of Afghanistan military effort. The painfully over-extended indecision, for months, whether to authorize a military surge into Afghanistan, then exacerbating the indecision by announcing to our enemies a date-certain withdrawal timeline — a time coordinated with his reelection bid.
34. Incoherence on how to handle the anti-Mubarak uprising in Egypt. Dispatching Frank Wizner as his emissary, then rejecting Wizner’s advice.
35. Radicalizing the NLRB outside Congressional purview. Appointing [Harold] Craig Becker, a radical unionist, to the NLRB through a recess appointment that otherwise never would have passed Congress.
36. Radicalizing FCC outside Congressional purview. Appointing FCC commissioners who are pursuing “net neutrality” without Congressional authorization.
37. Ecology gone wild in California. Wiping out much of the agricultural economy of California’s Central Valley by restricting full water deliveries to protect a small Delta Smelt fish
38. Gitmo debacles. Promising to close the Guantanamo Bay facility that interns terrorists, trying to close it, failing to close it, refusing to concede his error or assure that “Gitmo” will remain open.
39. Civil trials for terrorists debacles. Promising to move terrorist trials to civilian courts, then trying to prosecute Khalid Sheik Mohammed in Downtown New York, only to be opposed even by the two ultra-liberal Democrat U.S. Senators of New York, then pressing to try another terrorist, Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani, in civilian court, resulting in the terrorist being acquitted on 284 of 285 counts.
40. Napolitano out of touch. The shameful failure of Obama’s Homeland Security chief, Janet Napolitano, to appreciate the Obama Administration’s security failures in the face of the near-catastrophe of the “underwear bomber” in the skies over Detroit, as she insisted “the system worked.”
41. Student loans. Government takeover of the student loan program
42. Border security. Cancellation of the “virtual border fence” project with no replacement, while deploying National Guard troops to do paper work at desk jobs and provide office assistance rather than stand armed along the border.
43. The “Beer Summit.” In the aftermath of wrongly castigating and erroneously pre-judging fault regarding the Cambridge Police Department, tying up the country with a foolish spectacle on the White House lawn.
44. Immigration and Arizona. The Department of Justice’s attack on Arizona for that state’s exercise of its sovereign legislative authority on the issue of citizen identification rules. Failure of his own federal government to execute the law on immigration.
45. The attack on Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker. Attacking the Wisconsin governor and his state legislature for exercising their sovereign legislative authority on public employment issues, while Obama failed to acknowledge that the new Wisconsin rules are comparable to those that always have applied to federal employees.
46. Lying to McCain on their deal over campaign fundraising. Violating his pledge to John McCain to abide by McCain-Feingold limits for funding his Presidential campaign.
47. Downplaying American exceptionalism. Apology tours.
48. Implying that the Minnesota bridge collapse was the result of lack of infrastructure funding
49. Chicago Olympics fiasco. Shamefully inserting himself into a botched campaign to bring Olympic Games to Chicago, thereby exposing the Presidency of the United States to ridicule and formal rejection, and demonstrating early-on his overconfident sense of himself and his unpreparedness for the seriousness of his office.
50. Hypocritical attack on D.C. public school voucher effort. The attack on a voucher program for Washington, D.C. schools, even as his own children are protected from the educational failures that curse the Washington populace.
51. Associating with the murky. Associations with convicted unrepentant domestic terrorists and eccentric haters of America: the Reverend Wright, William Ayres, Van Jones.
52. Anita Dunn. Her war against Fox News and her boastfulness that the Obama White House has the “courage to speak truth to Power” — when it is the White House, not a cable TV station, that is “Power”; and her speech to schoolchildren, as a White House representative, sharing with the young and impressionable her idolization and admiration of mass-murderer Mao Tse-Tung.
53. ACORN.
54. SEIU. Having Andrew Stern, President of SEIU, as the man who has visited the White House more than any other person during the Obama term.
55. Teleprompters / White House for Dummies. A reliance on teleprompters to protect him from stumbling and bumbling speeches when, without scripting, he has spoken of his visits to America’s “57 states,” has denigrated the handicapped, could not pronounce “corpsman,” moronically said that Austrians speak “Austrian,” referred to deceased war heroes adding that many were in the audience he was addressing, and has made more gaffes than Dan Quayle.
56. Arrogance and Haughtiness. An extreme level of personal nose-in-the-air arrogance and lack of graciousness, from physical comportment to the way he addresses others. The Roman columns. The arrogant temerity to tell Americans, God-like, that history will record his coronation as the moment that the rivers stopped rising and the planet healed.
57. Chicago Corruption. The house he corruptly acquired through Tony Rezko.
58. The artificial shifting dialects. Affecting an artificial accent when speaking to unions, and to others with whom he allies in his “class wars,” that belies his having grown up in Hawaii, reared by a Caucasian grandmother, his having spent years being schooled in Indonesia, and later attending school at Occidental College in California, Columbia University, and Harvard Law School.
59. Lack of transparency. Refusing to share his academic records or the sources through which he paid for private college and law school, despite his pre-election calls for transparency.
60. Failure to lead on immigration. Not confronting the immigration issue when he dominantly controlled both the House and a filibuster-proof Senate, then mocking the GOP on immigration, saying they would not be happy with “alligators and moats” — when all they want is secure borders.
61. Fiscal irresponsibility on foreign relations with Egypt. Forgiving billions of dollars in Egyptian and related Mideast debt when we are past the 14.3 trillion debt line.
62. Wasting billions on corrupt “Palestine” agencies. Pumping billions more into the discredited United Nations Relief & Works Agency (UNRWA) and the Palestinian Authority that merged with the terrorist Hamas.
63. Radical judicial appointments. Nominating a radical leftist, Professor Goodwin Liu, for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit despite Liu’s contempt for constitutional imperatives towards limited government.
64. Acceding to political bribery by cherry-picking waivers to Obamacare for favored donors. Forcing Obamacare down the throats of small businesses across America that cannot afford it . . . then approving politically correct and electoral pay-off waivers for his friends, donors, and rich boutique businesses. Granting 20% of all the country’s Obamacare waivers in Pelosi’s San Francisco district. Buying off votes from Ben Nelson of Nebraska (the Cornhusker Deal), Mary Landrieu (the Louisiana Purchase) to pass Obamacare.
65. Using the White House to crush political opposition. Trying to force donors to his political opponents to reveal their contributions. Using the White House official website asking supporters to report to the Government instances of people criticizing Government policies.
66. Attempting to crush media opposition. Punishing a Boston newspaper whose editorial attacked him, having his White House conduct a war against Fox News, claiming they are an entertainment, not a news organization, and then boycotting Fox until that strategy backfired.
67. Encouraging cultural decline. Inviting “Common,” a “poet” with disgusting lyrics of hate, to entertain at the White House
68. The Louis XVI Factor. Vacations and high-profile golf during the Gulf oil crisis, prompting even Democrat strategist and Presidential advisor James Carville to erupt in fury. More high-profile golf at Cape Cod while the country was losing its AAA credit rating for the first time.
69. The Marie Antoinette Factor. Michelle high-profile huge trips abroad, a la Eva Peron, with family friends and their children partying on the public payroll, at 5-star hotels in places like Spain.
70. Al Sharpton. Launching his national presidential reelection campaign with a speech to Al Sharpton’s base.
71. Secrecy in Legislation. Failing to honor his pledge to conduct transparent governance, crafting Obamacare with Democrats behind closed doors barred to Republicans, leaving Obamacare as a massive document so convoluted that Nancy Pelosi had to tell the media: “But we have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it.”
72. A philosophy of redistributing other people’s money. Trying to persuade “Joe the Plumber” that it is a beneficial national economic goal to “redistribute the wealth.”
73. Cynically blaming Republicans and Talk Radio for the shooting of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords. Blaming their rhetoric, while failing to address Democrat use of vile and violent language to describe Republicans and the Tea Party.
74. Lying about a family connection to the Holocaust. Lying and falsely telling Americans that his grandfather was among those who liberated Auschwitz when, in fact, no American troops liberated Auschwitz.
75. Failing to grasp the Israel narrative. Describing Israel’s right to exist as premised on the Holocaust, thus missing the entire point of a Jewish country built on the land where Jews have lived since Biblical times.
76. Lying about a family connection to the Civil Rights movement. Telling Americans that his birth happened because his parents became amorous as a result of the 1965 Selma Civil Rights March — even though he was born in 1961.
77. Collapse of the housing market. American housing prices lowest since 2002.
78. Manipulating legislation by forcing votes on massive documents. Racing massive thousand-page legislation packages through Congress without allowing Congress or the American People time to read, comprehend, and absorb the bill — and thus breaking a major campaign promise.
79. The Credit Rating downgrade. Presiding over the first credit-rating downgrade in American history.
80. Timing military campaigns to coincide with election campaigns. Manipulating and sacrificing the lives of American soldiers, basing a withdrawal from Afghanistan not on strategic national security considerations but timed instead to coincide with the start of the 2012 Democrat Presidential Convention.
81. NLRB. Stacking the National Labor Relations Board with left-focused political hacks who are attempting to prevent America’s leading exporter, Boeing, from building a $1 billion manufacturing plant in South Carolina because that state permits employment of non-union labor.
82. Cynically manipulating the national Strategic Oil Reserve. Releasing 30 million barrels of oil from the United States Strategic Petroleum Reserve in order to obtain the temporary political goal of lowering gasoline prices that have skyrocketed in the face of his severe restrictions on permitting exploration in the Gulf of Mexico, along the Atlantic coast, and in Alaska in his obsessive pursuit of “green jobs.”
83. “Operation Fast and Furious” debacle. Allowing Mexican drug lords to access illegal firearms, then losing track of the firearms while the drug cartels used the illegal firearms for crime including murdering Americans.
84. Lying, lying, and more lying to voters. Trying to create class warfare by telling people that Republicans’ refusal to raise taxes will cause youngsters to be unable to finance their college educations, while causing seniors to lose health care and social security payments. Failing to admit honestly that Congress extended the Bush tax cuts and refused to increase taxes even when Democrats had a filibuster-proof Senate and veto-proof control of both Congressional chambers.
85. Investigating CIA patriots. The Holder investigation into CIA operatives’ interrogations of suspected Al Qaeda terrorists and their use of methods that had been approved in advance by the Justice Department.
Here are some my additions:
86. the Solymdra scandal.
87. Noncompliance by Eric Holder and the White House for information relating to various investigations.
88. Requesting help from an anti-American terrorist group, Pakistan’s ISI to negotiate with the Al-Qaeda supporting Haqqani network.
89. Bankrolling failed green manufacturing schemes in Finland and Spain, to the tune of hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars.
90. having an Islamist Turkish government, that openly engaged in a terrorist attack on Israel, join an anti-terrorism task force.
91. Undermining America sovereignty by joining the International Criminal Court and UN Human Rights Committee. The latter exist mainly as a cover for dictators and to condemn Israel.
92. Setting as a NASA mission the stressing of Arab achievements in medieval math. and science.
Please everyone add to this list and circulate it.
The Times, which was quite willing to run the Wikileaks, is withholding it for reasons that have long since been viable.
Viable? Sure, for Obama.
Not so, for the American public.
The US has been actively and militarily involved within Iran for several years ; Nuclear scientist assassinations, targeted bombings, software virus, starting with President W. Bush and continuing with President Obama.
This is well known and an open secret in the world community. Apparently it is only Americans that live ignorantly.
Yeah, only Americans are not a part of the “world community” and are
therefore ignorant of even what our own government is doing?
C’mon Alex, I know I heard a who?
charles;
read any of the posts on this thread..the only person that has bothered to investigate the facts is #18, Stoicheion.
Everyone else is so blinded by politics they cannot be bothered to review, investigate, or study the events in Iran regarding assassinations of their nuclear scientists, software virus’s implanted into their nuclear program, targeted bombings, and other events that could only occur with tactic US government support and military involvement.
Its intellectual dishonesty at best, willful ignorance at worst.
Really now Alex. You’re sure you know who is responsible for whatever may or may not have happened in Iran recently? There is that group known as the Institute for Intelligence and Special Operations, aka HaMossad, that has been able to achieve some interesting results all by itself. They were, after all, the ones who informed the rest of the world when Kruschchev gave his famous speech criticizing Stalin. Remember?