These guys are really sensitive, aren’t they?
I thought that former Vice President Al Gore’s vein-bulging attacks on Bush & Co. marked a new “no rules in the arena” era of politics. Fine—if the Left wished to write novels, make films, and write op-eds about doing in Bush, and if Nazi/brownshirt was to be on everyone’s lips, from Al Gore’s to Garrison Keillor’s, then I thought surely they would be immune to criticism when their turn to return to power came.
But no. Instead we are getting this hysteria about the evil Cheney criticizing Obama, or furor that “bipartisanship” has ended, or mania about the archaic filibuster. It is sort of like the retiarius throwing his net every which way while stabbing with trident—only to cry foul and “how dare you!” when nicked back by the sica of the Thracian.
“Jobless Recovery”
I am delighted as anyone that the latest unemployment figures show a slight drop in joblessness to 10%. Much of the media is upbeat as well—which raises the question: in 2004, John Kerry ran on the theme of a “jobless recovery”, a charge resonating through the major media outlets. Yet unemployment in the last quarter of 2004, when these accusations were most frequent, was 5.4%— and soon dipped to average 5% for 2005. If 5.4% is termed “jobless”, what is 10%—job-full?
Reset button/’they did it’ diplomacy
Barack Obama, nearly a year into his term, is still talking about Bush culpability for everything from unemployment to Afghanistan. At what year will it ever stop?
Bush inherited a nuclear Pakistan, a firewall between the CIA and FBI in matters of counter-terrorism, an appeased and ascendant Osama bin Laden, unsustainable no-fly zones over Iraq (the French had already bailed), al-Qaeda with a safe zone in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan, and an intifada-prone Mideast—in other words, no more than the regular stuff. But I don’t remember Bush talking of the creepy Clinton pardons—Eric Holder being at their epicenter—after a year in office.
When Clinton arrived in January 1993, the Balkans were a mess, and no one knew what to do about Milosevic. Eastern Europe and the former republics had been promised varying degrees of NATO membership. And we were running staggering trade deficits, and in a recession. But even Clinton got over blaming Bush soon enough.
Bush I had to deal with an invigorated Saddam Hussein, the Kuwait mess, a Noriega who was out of control, easing the Soviets out of eastern Europe, a divided Berlin reuniting—and, again, the usual stuff.
Reagan inherited a demoralized military, an insane regime in Khomeini’s Iran, a bellicose and appeased Soviet Union, and communist expansion in Central America.
In other words, nothing Obama has seen overseas is, by past standards, all that unusual. Iraq was mostly quiet when he assumed office. We had not been hit again since 9/11. The Patriot Act and anti-terrorism protocols were in play and working. The fact that he has not yet closed Guantanamo and kept Predators, tribunals, renditions, etc. apparently means he finds them useful—despite the reset rhetoric.
But what is different from past Presidents is the serial, incessant whine of “poor me”, “Bush did it”, “we have to hit the reset the button” with the Russians, the Arabs, the Iranians, the Europeans, etc. I thought all this would have the usual shelf-life of 6 months. But here it is nearly a year and we are getting more, not less of it. We are back to the lamentations of Jimmy Carter, who, 30 years after his disastrous leadership in 1979-80 on the Iranian hostage crisis, is still talking about how others would have done worse, and how he had saved thousands of lives.
Suggestion: a 10-day-free-period in which no one in the Obama administration says “they did it” and “we had to reset…”
Debt will do us in…
Either Obama will stop the astronomic spending and spiraling debt, or he will not only destroy his presidency, but take his party—and many of us— down with him. He apparently did not understand that the fury against Bush was not just due to Iraq, but the unprecedented $300-400 billion annual deficits. But rather than address that, Obama has scheduled a number of trillion-dollar-plus annual deficits for the rest of his term.
Obama’s legacy is to reduce the word “trillion”—which used to be a mind-boggling concept—to the equivalent of “billion”, as in a “trillion here, a trillion there.”
There are solutions, of course. Don’t laugh: the ridiculous can become the real when the money runs out. We can furlough federal employees 1 -5 days a month. We can inflate our way out by expanding the money supply. (I started farming with 12% inflation, and 19% interest rates and 10% unemployment, and watched the price of raisins go from $1,350 a ton to $480 in a single year: ergo, anything, I learned, is possible. [There is really no "they" who will step in and save us.])
E.g., we can default on Social Security and Medicare—as in saying “those who make over $150,000 will not be eligible for Medicare” or have 50% of their Social Security withheld as tax. Don’t laugh, worse may be in store.
Our country is in a terrible mess. We have an elected leader who is incapable of fulfilling his duties. Barack Obama lacks the education. His Harvard University degree is something of a joke. He obviously benefited from its well-entrenched affirmative action programs. At best, Obama should still be an Illinois state senator. A majority of well-meaning and guilt-tripped citizens, however, voted to put him into the White house merely to prove they were not racists. Obama’s ridiculously slim resume was no mystery. Nobody has the right to claim otherwise. These naive voters cast their ballot with their eyes wide open.
The immediate future does not look bright. And things could get much worse. I still believe the odds are minimally 50/50 that the narcissistic Obama will experience a mental breakdown before the end of his term. What can we do if that does occur? It’s truly awful when one has to hope that Joe Biden is ready to become our next president before the elections of 2012 roll around.
I wonder what the Democrats would say about withdrawal dates if we had a weak army that was forced to believe it could win no matter what. If we thought it was imperative that we win for our survival they would not be so nonchalant. The reason that we are allowed things like that is because we have such a great military that is still able to defend us in some form or fashion even if we fail.
Both Roman farce and Greek tragedy…
In the military, a unit of any size that loses ten percent or more of it’s assigned strength is generally considered combat ineffective–it can no longer accomplish its assigned tasks–and removed from the field for replenishment, unless of course the tactical situation is so dire that understrength units cannot be removed. President Obama has started his (second) well considered and official, brand name Obama Afghanistan policy in a year by supplying our commanders in the field with 25% fewer troops than they need. Combine this with much talk of pre-scheduled retreat and none of victory–unless one considers “finishing the job” (whatever the “job” might be) to be synonymous with victory–and we are not off to an auspicious beginning for the second grand strategy.
Having friends in low places actually engaged in combat in Afghanistan, I hear much that is disturbing, including rules of engagement that American police officers might find unduly restrictive, ROE’s that are actually costing the lives of American soldiers. Considering our current pre-9-11 retreat, we don’t have far to go before our troops are deprived of live ammunition and issued Nerf bats. No doubt three SEALS who dared to capture one of America’s worst enemies are seeing that as the next logical step these days.
We should all remember that Obama is not in any way a conventional politician. He is a narcissistic megalomaniac with distinctly totalitarian tendencies. If the 2010 congressional elections provide the kind of upset and Republican resurgence that now seems more and more likely, we will indeed be living in interesting times with a White House full of petty crooks and communists and a president who has no respect for the nation or its laws. The possibilities for a variety of constitutional crises are mind boggling. No, a rational politician wouldn’t blatantly traduce constitutional and legal bright lines, but Obama is different. When he said that his nomination as the Democrat candidate would be recorded by history as the moment that the seas stopped rising and the planet began healing, is there any doubt that he saw himself as a messiah? Who even thinks that sort of lunacy let alone says it in public? And despite the utter failure of the omnipotent force of his personality, of his majesty, to bend the world to his will, he persists in believing–and saying–that it is happening. Yes, he couldn’t even secure the Olympics for Chicago, yet he announces that he has transformed Asia? And what could he possibly believe proclaiming himself to be the “first Pacific president” would accomplish? OK, I’ll admit that that and a dollar will buy coffee at any McDonald’s, but that’s about it.
Remember his bold leadership when the Iranians were slaughtering students in the streets after the elections? He proclaimed that we would “bear witness.”
He has since showed incredibly intense and smart diplomacy by threatening to “move toward sanctions.” The Iranians have responded by vowing to build ten nuclear processing plants. Perhaps a strongly worded letter will be composed and the threat of its being delivered will compel the Iranians to build only nine plants? When an American president cannot tell when he–and America–is being spat upon, when he cannot accurately identify friends and enemies, when he cannot conceive of the need to use military force, little else matters for our very lives hang in the balance.
He is already doing things that would have been considered not only ill advised, but dangerously insane, in past presidents. For a man who considers himself a God, who can barely utter a teleprompted sentence without including “I,” there are no limits. Remember that this is the man who announced that he was fully aware of his importance to the world and of its expectations for him. Again, to even think such a thing, let alone say it, is indicative of a seriously unbalanced mind. We will see worse–far worse–to come.
Will someone please explain to me how having a nuclear-armed Iran on the southern border of the old USSR, and potentially meddling on behalf of Islamist radicals all over the Caucasus, is in Russia’s interest? I should have thought that would be the last thing Putin wants, especially if he dreams of a reconquista in that area.
We can’t FREEZE govt spending (fed, st, loc) and think that all will be well!! We have to reduce it. I’m talking ALL govt ‘ees. Is it preferable that govt ‘ees keep getting their average $60k or whatever it is PLUS their $40k in bfts, while the private sector gets their $40k plus 10k in benefits and lose jobs, OR is it preferable that the govt ‘ees get cut across the board by 20% on pay AND bfts ? So that the private sector can survive? The private sector, as we know with deficit spending, is NO LONGER ABLE to support the egregious govt sector pay and benefits. So why would we, the fiscal conservatives, shout out that govt spending should FREEZE ? It’s killing us, and our kids’ futures.
Dr. Hanson correctly points out in many of his posts the essence of conservatism; that there’s nothing new under the sun, the nature of man has not changed, and Something for Nothing is a construct of politics, existing nowhere in nature. He seems uncharacteristically timid about raising the debt issue though. I’m certainly not laughing at scenarios he suggests. In fact I think he is being overly optimistic no matter which side of our one party system is in power. There is no greater existential threat to the US now than our increasing debt obligations and increasingly shaky fiat currency. Various estimates ranging upwards of 75 trillion dollars and whispering in some financial circles of a future US default are much more consequential than who rules the backwaters of Iraq and Afghanistan. All the global pistols are loaded with dollars, cocked and pointed at each other’s national heads and it’s just a question of who shoots first. History will have its way and no fiat currency has ever survived long term. Sooner rather than later , we will roll up our flags, come home and leave global meddling to someone else.
But of course every liberal friend I knew during the past election dismissed Obama’s tough talk on Afghanistan as “the lie he has to tell to get elected.” The possibility that he might default on his lie (what an odd phrase that is) is what causes worry and even rage-at-the-ready among those same folks now. “How dare he even consider not selling out Afghanistan!” though they might not phrase it as such. Odd too that our president will be blamed by them for lying on Afghanistan only if it turns out he was sort of, possibly, maybe telling the truth all along. We are in Cloud Cuckoo Land.
Terrific and cogent analysis as always, sir. I remain a dedicated reader.
VDH is probably the most important blogger in these troubled times.
What leadership can be expected from a compulsive finger-pointer who, in full public view, uses the middle one?
What policy can be expected from our historic first Islamic apostate president other than the most primitive form of “to the victor belong the spoils”?
Like Benedict Arnold who conspired with the enemy to seize West Point, what more disrespect for duty, honor, and country, while trampling over “a million ghosts in olive drab, in brown khaki, in blue and gray” along the way, than his making his odiously seditious announcement of the official date of V-USA Day for jihadists to celebrate?
#7 It is surprising that someone self-monikered Ivanhoe would miss the military mark. Ivanhoe’s argument seems to be that all the overspending by Obama and his Congress is the fault of a foreign war being fought to improve our chances that suicidal terrorists, who routinely use kamikazi tactics, will not seize nuclear weapons in Pakistan and use them on us. Further, if we just bring our forces home our government financing will be fine.
This argument is blatantly false.
Obama blaming Bush is political affirmative action. Its no different then blacks wanting advantages in school admissions, government jobs etc. Even many years after the practice should have been eliminated, it still goes on because they continue to shout racism from the highest mountain because they have shown they fail on their own merits. Obama will blame Bush for his political failings long after his own Presidency has come and gone. Do you really expect a liberal to act any differently?
Unemployment: I suspect that the dip in unemployment is due to people who have given up looking for work. Companies with improved business are using overtime instead of hiring more workers.
Obama whining: He had everything (except a passing score on the bar exam) handed to him on an affirmative action platter since he was a teenager. He learned that speaking movingly without saying anything is the key to politics. Now, this man who has never actually done anything, is the leader of the most powerful nation, but the has no idea how to lead. So, like a spoiled child who is frustrated by his situation, he whines and blames. If we wasn’t hurting us so badly, I would just laugh and say that’s what we get for giving everyone the vote.
Afghanistan: We should have left Afghanistan five years ago. Our primary goals were to weaken the Taliban (done) and kill Osama bin Laden and his chief aides (done). All we are doing now is putzing around and occasionally killing a handful of Taliban recruits. The country is, was, and probably always will be a mess. We need to leave yesterday.
Iran: This country can use a strong dose of high altitude strategic bombers: every nuclear plant, every major factory, every military base, and every missile site. We then should give North Korea the same treatment. If China makes waves, then we threaten a total embargo and removal of most-favored-nation trading status. Of course, these won’t happen because Obama is a wuss.
9. wl21
The professor is the only one worthy to use the line:
“And that’s the way it is. December 4th 2009.”
Because this is the way it is.
Russia, China and other powers, for a variety of reasons, are interested in discredting the US as a world power. Mainly because it raises their own status and influence by contrast. Further, the Russians are calculating that an Iranian hegemon (semi-dependent on Russian technology) will serve as a useful wedge in the middle-east.
There is a major difference today – Iran going nuclear. This is no ordinary problem. And the Wimp-in-Chief has obviously tacitly accepted a nuclear Iran, that should be completely evident.
We (and the world) will pay dearly for this irresponsible position.
An immature, inexperienced, ideologically driven socialist, largely ignorant of economics and foreign affairs, and one time community organizer was elected to the American Presidency and now he has no idea how to govern or how to lead. Big surprise!
unsustainable no-fly zones over Iraq (the French had already bailed)
what’s that ?
are our jet-fighters still aegering, like our helicopters ?
sorry, some found/find that our plane industry is quite competitive
but unfortunately, NATO countries were lobbied to buy “american”
note that we weren’t on the chemical industry, WMD anyone ?
The Administration is going to start to unravel soon.
One of the cadets not asleep waiting for Obamas speech in the enemy camp at West Point
was reading a book ‘Killing Bin Laden’
The irony caused me to grin also.
The cadets know a joke when they see one.
It is not the martinets (strict leaders) that make an army work; it’s
the morale that the leaders put into the men that
makes an army work.
Harry S. Truman
Source:Speech Oct 24, 1950
Too easy. Forever.
Bush is just like that guy that headed the Un-American committee of long ago. Next year we’ll hear about “Bushism” in the same breath as “Swiftboating”.
“Carter, who, 30 years after his disastrous leadership in 1979-80 on the Iranian hostage crisis, is still talking about how others would have done worse, and how he had saved thousands of lives.”
Well, he did save the lives of thousands of Muslim fanatics when he refused to attack Iran after they attacked our embassy and took Americans hostage. Thanks to peanut man, Khomeini lived to a ripe old age, and the mad mullahs still rule in Iran.
Too bad he wasn’t around in December 1941. He likely could have saved the lives of thousands of Nazis and Japanese Imperialists as well.
I have no illusion that the election of obama to the presidency has emboldened the enemy and the direct result is a reinvigorated offensive in Afghanistan.
the increased fatalities are a direct result of obama’s presidency and the weakness it has brought to the USA.
there are consequences and this is one of them.
If it were not for the serious gravity of the blatant lack of “leadership”, from the annointed one, you would think this administration is being run by a bunch of wannabe Hollywood screen writers. No offense to the Screen Actors/Writers Guild. Literally, we the American people who actually swallowed his “campaign” “promises”, his misguided and apparently unknowing observations of Rev. Wright, his 96% voting record in Ilinois Senate as being “present”, his total lack of any semblance of business experience, his total lack of any semblance of Military experience, his constant blathering of blaming everone else, but his own insecurity, his own ineptness, his own contrived it I its I its I, instead of being the leader this Country so desperately needs. Now the “health care crisis. Folks, I and more and more Americans of every political stripe are getting damn fed up listening to this imposter for a President. There will be no second guessing come the mid term elections in 2010, Obama and his corrupt/inept/deceitful regime will be shown the dor. Yest it will still leave Obama/and Biden in office. One can only pray that the guards at the door, do not allow them out to do further harm to our Country.
Gee, how long does it normally take to turn around some large private corporation that was nearly run into the ground by several years of corruption and mismanagement? Do you guys ever get tired of making up things to whine about?
Here is a garbled message that Bush didn’t send, but that Obama and his crack war team did. Perhaps it should have read, “Secure the Taliban. Defeat/degrade the population.”
http://hotair.com/archives/2009/12/05/wapo-white-house-forgot-that-they-told-mcchrystal-to-defeat-the-taliban/
Professor, spot on as usual. (I love the aside about the Thracians.) The looming debt I think is the biggest problem. We absolutely HAVE to have a constitutional amendment to mandate balanced budgets. Congress is completely addicted to spending and they need cold turkey. As for taxes, I, being an evil rich person, won’t be seeing my Social Security. As far as I’m concerned, none of us Baby Boomers should be allowed to retire seeing as we’ve screwed the pooch so badly. I’m 51, so yeah, this affects me. This debt is immoral and it must stop.
Hillary Clinton is still echoing Obama about “inheriting” Afghanistan with more Bush basing on the corrupt Meet The Press.
We’re in trouble. We have Moe, Larry, and Curly, running the country, the three Super Stooges also known as The O, Axelrod, and that unforgettable genius Emanuel.
We can kiss goodbye to that old cliche about a free press being the guardian of freedom, shedding the light of information into the nooks of corruption. Almost as one they gave us this flop of a human being, this total fool.
And even as he sinks further into the abyss of deceit and flounders in his socialist, yes kids, socialist, dreams, the Press follows him down into the muck.
President Obama’s continual incessant immature whining & constant blaming President Bush for Obama’s problems puts the spotlight on Obama’s lack of leadership skills. Why not write an essay about that? There has been plenty of examples of Obama not being a cogent leader since he prefers glittering generalities, jargon, & hyperbolic platitudes found in a campaign speech instead of governing. President Obama is not a leader. He is a small, divisive community organizer who feeds off division & chaos, but he cannot even do this right. He’s a parasite.
When will everyone start to realize that it is Obama’s intention to bring the United States into bankruptcy through socialism. He is not makeing “mistakes.” Everything he does is intentional; he wants to remake America into another Europe. Just wait and see. It is happening right now: What do you think is the purpose of the government take-over of the medical industry is all about? What do you think the take-over of the auto idustry is all about? What do you think the take-ver of the financial industry is all about? What was that “cash-for-clunkers” all about?
Thanks again. Cogent as usual. Gerard Mason in comment #5 has raised a point that keeps nagging me too. Is it the enemy of my enemy thing or something else?
mike mcdaniel – thanks; excellent analysis.
I think the current Executive Branch is a complex node, made up of Obama as the frontman, a slick public salesman; and a BackRoom Gang as the unseen and unaccountable plotters/planners; and a host of appointed enablers (czars).
Obama himself is intellectually shallow and ignorant of history, economics, etc. Add to that is his basic inability to ‘think’; he is unable to think through an issue for its basic causes and effects. We see this in his lack of researched papers and his inability to answer ad hoc questions without his teleprompter.
What Obama does seemingly well, is not intellectual but psycholgical. I suggest that Obama retreated to the psychological world while a young boy; he abandoned the ‘reasoning world’. He can charm and manipulate people around him. He’s relied totally on this realm for his whole life.
He does this by misinformation; he lies. He’ll tell you one thing one day, and another person or day will get a different story. And he manipulates, using your emotions of fear and hope..all his talk about hope, about apocalyptic scenarios if you don’t agree. Oh, and if you don’t agree…he’ll use race and accuse you of bias.
The problem with this set of psychological skills is that their best-working agenda is ‘local’ rather than national. By this I mean that Obama’s pathological narcissism requires that he control people around him; that he ensures himself of their adulation.
When Obama moves out of the local realm into the nonlocal, several things can happen. He doesn’t move into the intellectual; he still has no connection to issues such as the economy, the struggles between nations, issues of democracy and dictatorships, nuclear weapons and so on. With Obama, his ‘realm’ is always and only: are you ‘His’; are you controllable by Him; and is your view of him submissive and adulatory?
So, in the public realm, Obama needs to constantly campaign, using misinformation, emotional manipulation and rejection of dissent..constantly. With a nonlocal set of people, Obama has to ensure himelf that He controls you. So, he’ll reject the Will of the People; he’ll reject the right to dissent; he’ll reject Congress and insist on its being a rubber stamp for His policies; he’ll bribe, threaten, manipulate, to get His Will.
But Obama, himself has NO policies. He’s purely and only about psychological control. He’s embedded with the socialists because their policies enable him to control you, not because he genuinely believes that these policies are beneficial to the nation.
It’s the BackRoom Gang who are pushing the policies of radical socialism, using Obama as their upfront grinning, winking, campaigning Salesman.
In public office, and moving his need to control people beyond just those around him, Obama’s narcissism means that he HAS to get these policies passed or he will feel threatened. By the American people. Obama will start to see the American people as a threat to Him, and to government. That is already happening.
In foreign affairs, as noted, Obama has to insult allies; that is a first step to lowering his sense of their power and sense of equality to America. Obama has to ‘take them down’ so that he can feel in domination. With non-allies, Obama tries to charm and ‘be friends’. He doesn’t understand their contempt for him when he does this. AND, for Obama, if you are not controllable by him, he has absolutely no interest in you.
That’s another reason why Obama behaves so badly in foreign affairs. He doesn’t feel that he can contrl, eg, the Iranian demonstrators for freedom..and they are focused on democracy. Not Obama. With Obama, if you aren’t focused on him, he has no interest in you. None.
Will he collapse, as David Thomson astutely suggests? I don’t know; we are dealing with a psychological pathology here. On his own, probably yes. But Obama is run by the BackRoom Gang; he makes no policies or decisions by himself.
As long as the BRG can use Obama to sell their socialist agenda, they’ll keep Obama’s pathology ‘fed’ by setting him up in public settings of adoring crowds, insulating him from criticism. BUT, if his popularity ratings continue to slide and if he can’t get their policies through Congress, this BackRoom Gang will drop him.
Someone clever and artistic should write a graphic novel, or even a series, that show the craziness of our current political leaders. Maybe they could be disguised as pigs, chickens, or some such creatures.
it is a matter of character, or the lack thereof. I am in awe of President Bush’s restraint. His silence in the face of unremitting attacks is a testimony to his character, grace and love of country/ Quite the opposite of the individual that pretends to be president. The worm will turn.
The Kenyan will NEVER stop blaming Bush because there is a group of radical, insane, anti-American, leftists in the US, mostly California, Chicago, Madison and Boston, who will accept any stupidity/incompetency by the Kenyan and his administration if it is associated with blame Bush. This hard core Obama support group never has been concerned by facts or reality; it’s members are motivated solely by their irrational hatred of Bush.
#5) Imo, it is not in Russia’s interest at all. However, I think Russia’s inner circle still has a cold-war mentality and considers ‘checking’ American power in Asia paramount over non-proliferation.
Obama is no leader, he is simply the front man, the face, the spokemodel for the power brokers of the Democrat Party, installed by them to rubberstamp their agenda.
Dark Horse Comics is releasing a limited series called Barack the Barbarian as Obama in the role of Conan & Sarah Palin is Red Sonja. It reads like a parody; however, the story seems serious.
Obama takes over, and the casualties in Afghanistan double from the previous year. And not a word from the MSM.
RE: #5 – Gerard Mason:
It is interesting and curious as to why Russia would want this, but it is also interesting and curious to note that Russians merely completed what Germans started in Bushehr. And it was France (Chirak) that wanted to build one in Iraq. And Pakistan’s Prof. Khan started stealing nuclear secrets while working for European nuke firms, and had a vacation home on the Black Sea in Iran.
25. BC:Do you ever grow tired of making excuses for the idiot Obama?
“At what year will it ever stop ?”
—It will stop when these pussy adolescents grow up, or are replaced by grown men and women.
Gerard@5
Putin needs Iran to become the excuse for nuking an Islamic country in self-defense, as an example to the rest of those to-be-reincorporated, while issuing a strong message to the rest of world. Appears the mullahs are paying Putin for their own demise. Along with some TBD number of Iranian civilians.
Ivanhoe@7
And this leads inexorably to nukes being far more economical than armies, whenever engaging in tough fights with intractible enemies. They are the actual “end the conflict and come home” tools; ie, the most cost-effective means, leaving aside the humanity. There is no room for compassion in Marxism – fascism – socialism – juntas -mullahcracy – dictatorship – royal regimes.
Efficiency reigns, independent of effectiveness. See computerized govts – for the chimera of automation.
#10 Charles Gordon,
Catchy tune you’re playing. I too mourn for our nation. If those million ghosts had voice, what would it be screaming, cept for utter disgust at our national betrayel?
And on the homefront we have the media savaging Tiger, while dismissing the massacre at Ft Hood, describing the KSM trials in NYC as a struggle between competing rival attorneys like in the OJ case, and characterizing the CRU incident as a data hack, rather than the expose of the greatest crime against humanity in recorded history that is the cabal of scientists, politicians, bureaucrats, NGOs, publications and venture funds colluding in the climate change conspiracy(tm). Pass those size 10 shackles Comrade.
I’m not confident that even winning every seat up for grabs next election cycle will be enough to slow the trainwreck. Inertia being such a real mistress.
Only delaying defunding of this certifiable criminal enterprise may suffice. April 14th comes sooner than Nov 5th.
HOw wonderfully ironic. A column whining about Obama’s continued harping on Bush, while continuing to reject responsibility for any Republican mistakes and corruption by saying “Kerry did it”. While being the most annoying element of Republican discourse, it is often also the most entertaining.
#25 BC
#25 BC – It’s not a matter of how long it takes to turn around a large, failing enterprise. It’s a question of how long it’ll take to even get started doing so. The situation has only gotten worse, not better.
#27 DocinPA – The Constitution already forbids deficit spending except for war expenses. The SCOTUS is supposed to review all laws for Constitutionality. They don’t. Those who run our government are simply ignorant of our Constitution, or they simply ignore it as they please.
carla@35: I am in awe of President Bush’s restraint.
I’m not. I’m p*ssed. It is this restraint that enabled the smears of the Left to stick. Come on W, speak out. US conservatives need your help.
That same restraint on McCain’s part in not calling out the Once on his associations, funders, inexperience, citizenship, outrageous stance on the issues et al, resulted in facilitating the opposition win.
Texed@36, don’t forget Boulder and Austin, or any other Ivy league town or Hollywood, or the upper Westside of NYC. It’s an infestation. At some point civility is wasted, right up to the point where it’s irrelevant.
#5 Gerard Mason and #32 Yaryar:
I think #15 Gylippus, is on track wrt to Russia. When dealing with Russia, it’s helpful to recall the description I read somewhere that Russia plays chess while the US is playing poker.
Thinking like a mobster (which is basically what you have to do when dealing with both Russia and Iran), it works out to Russia seeking influence (and money). A nuclear Iran can run up oil prices astronomically. Russia has massive quantities of oil to sell. A tidy profit is right there on tap.
Add to the that the fact that mobsters know how each other think, and you can see why Russia has no fear of a nuclear Iran. Iran knows to the marrow that if their nukes end up going off in Russia, Iran will be a shiny glass parking lot within the hour. In spite of appearances, the Iranian mullahs are probably not all that eager to get their 72 raisins as yet. Russia is the Godfather. Iran will be subordinate. For now… until Iran manages to get most of what it wants from the West (there’s a big job, right there… enough to keep Iran busy for a while). And Russia figures it will never be afraid to nuke Iran, so they have plenty of time to get what they want out of the instability Iran causes, without any danger to themselves. Eventually, if Iran tries to get too big for its britches, Russia may slap them. But for now, Iran can give us all kinds of trouble, and Russia likes that.
The problem for the US, is that nobody actually believes that we will do anything about Iran or any other mob out there now. When we have cowboys as CIC, it spooks them, as when we are serious, we do tend to go at foreign policy with the bad guys in a Clint Eastwood, Wild West sort of mode, which keeps them on their toes. Much easier to bluff when you have a cowboy CIC saying “I’ve outlawed the Soviet Union. Bombing starts in 5 minutes” as a joke. Painting the town red and calling it hell only works when you mean it and are willing to follow through.
We have a bunch of nukes of course, but they know especially now with our dithering silly CIC, that we’ll never actually use them. And the world knows we do our best to protect innocents when we wage war anyway. It’s an admirable trait. But it does no good at all when dealing with mobsters who have no qualms about throwing the innocents in the path of oncoming tanks. And dithering only makes them laugh.
40. neverquit
And it was France (Chirak) that wanted to build one in Iraq. And Pakistan’s Prof. Khan started stealing nuclear secrets while working for European nuke firms, and had a vacation home on the Black Sea in Iran.
http://www.ccnr.org/exports_3.html
scroll down until Pakistan (3.3.1. KANUPP)
see who sold nuclear to Pakistan , not anyone from our continent !
while you’re at it study the CANDU system, mere uranium is used without sophisticated transformations, surely not alike in France, where sophistication is our major skill ;cool: !
Chirac may have been the intermediary that sold a nuclear reactor to Irak, but it was under the scrutiny of AIEA, and Saddam was Chesney’s best friend at those wealthy times, while Israel that bombed the site of Osirak had also build its nuclear reactor in secret, with plans stolen from America. Israel, up to now, still has refused any inspection of her sites
B(ikehelmet) C(hild):
“nearly run into the ground by several years of corruption and mismanagement? ”
An Obamatron has the nerve to talk about corruption and mismanagement? Muahahahahaaaa!
This is the headline story on the Drudge Report: “OBAMA RACES TO HILL TO SAVE HEALTHCARE!” His whole presidency is on the line—and thankfully the odds are aginst him. This is going to stress out Obama to the max. He will unlikely be able to handle the defeat. Get ready for the fireworks.
This is the headline story on the Drudge Report: “OBAMA RACES TO HILL TO SAVE HEALTHCARE!” His whole presidency is on the line—and thankfully the odds are aginst him. This is going to stress out Obama to the max. He will unlikely be able to handle the defeat. Get ready for the fireworks.
“…our president is still talking about Bush’s culpability for everything from unemployment to Afghanistan. At what year will it ever stop?”
That’s easy – when the damage Bush did is undone.
TexEd: I wish it were only Bush, the left hates everything and every one. Watch when things get tough in the next year or so, how they bite and devour each other. Wait till all the ’2nd handers’, (I’m trying to be kind) dependant on handouts can’t get the money that the tax payer owes them for breathing God’s air and eating God’s food. Obama has kept some appeasement money in store for this reason but it won’t be enough to quiet the masses.
BC: Yes WE CAN! YES WE CAN!
VDH: It’s apparent to me that you see how all this will turn out, in general, and I’m glad you have some experience dealing with hard times in the past. For a while things will look much worse than they ever have. So thanks for this; “(I started farming with 12% inflation, and 19% interest rates and 10% unemployment, and watched the price of raisins go from $1,350 a ton to $480 in a single year: ergo, anything, I learned, is possible.[There is really no “they” who will step in and save us.)”
It is those that believe as you do (“anything is possible” in the face of catastrophe) who will help create a future much better than our past.
The smart Chicago guys Obama surrounded himself with will figure a way to get this mess passed. Blanche Lincoln, one of the endangered Democrats, voted against a Republican amendment but then voted yes for the record when it turned out her vote wasn’t needed. That was on the floor of the Senate. Imagine the deals being cut being closed doors like those already cut with Big Pharma, AARP and the other players.
^ Steve Bourg … gov’t pay ‘n’ benefits:
Federal Pay>/a>
I pointed this out on a Belmont Club comment some time ago. Federal benefits packages have soared in value since 2000 from $25k to over $38k. Average Federal wages and benefits are more than double the average of the private sector.
We now have more jobs ‘saved or created’ …
in the public sector. Let’s outsource Congrefs to the private sector and save a LOT of money.
tom
As a father with a son fighting in the thick of things in Afghanistan (his team mate was killed only 3 weeks ago), the only comfort I get is that Obama’s military policy and visible staff are the only thing he hasn’t tried to turn into a progressive program. Sure the Rules of Engagement, and the lame West Point speech disturb me. But I figure Obama’s radical strategy requires him to at least appear as a regular president in defense. Besides, the military is the most loyal to their Constitutional responsibilities. So a guy like Obama can turn the rest of our Constitutional protections against things like socialist health care and the officer corps won’t lift a finger out of loyalty to their oaths.
That Obama can change the billions wasted by Bush and Congress into trillions wasted is only under-reported and contextualized by an almost whipped and neutered media. God help us if the remaining outlets for reporting are shut down. But that may result in Obama turning the water up a bit to fast on us frogs.
In the end, Obama is increasingly despised by conservatives and independents for his unfamiliarity and distaste of American exceptionalism. But the next shoe to drop could be the idealogical left. Those not forced to experience the ‘dream’ of life in a socialist society, but in books. If they realize that Obama is as much an opportunist as a radical progressive – which is a polite term for a communist – they may turn on him also. And the numbers already seem to be saying that.
I, for one, am ready to see Articles of Impeachment drawn up. Even if we end up with Slow Joe as a caretaker president.
To be sure, Bush left our great country morally and financially bankrupt. They say that by the end, he was sending out almost a billion a day to the middle east just as a farewell gift to old family friends out there. And although our nation was bankrupt when Obama took over its time for him to stop complaining and get on with the task of fixing some of those nightmares. Republicans need to get on board and start helping our country to fix health care and address the tough issues we face in the future. This president keeps asking for help and only a few from the right are willing to help. Will they help next year? Who knows.
Any fault of this administration can and should be laid at the feet of the very large group which we call ‘The American People’. We are going to get what we deserve, good and hard. No complaining allowed. Next time, get someone up to the task. And I’m not suggesting a Sarah/Condi with Sec Def Liz Cheney either. When voters start taking their votes seriously, things will change, for better or worse, it will change. I blame the idiots, not the politicians the idiots voted in.
VDH, I think you’re being too soft here when you say it’s “a terrible mistake” for the President to give the date of troop withdrawals. It should have been a deal-breaker to Gen McChrystal et al. As you know, the message now sent to the Taliban and to the Afghan people is totally counterproductive to any real victory. Its result will be US casualties to no purpose.
GEOFFGO
Of course you are correct. I suspect that his restraint is the product his spiritual rebirth. Still, very, very frustrating. I, on the other hand, when attacked, aim for the jugular. A weakness, I suppose, but much more satisfying.. About the only thing that Obama has not blamed on Bush is the size of Michels derriere. TV butt wait, there is more…………
Withdrawal dates guarantee the war will heat up as the date nears. We leave amid blood and chaos and the Taliban declares victory. They get to say they drove us out with their superior will and strategy.
I know the question “when will it stop?”, referring to when will zerO stop blamming Bush, has been asked before. It was answered then – When the won’s honest-constitution-supporting successor has been sworn in, and not a moment before. Obeymugabe will blame Bush until his dying day, after all, he is the center of the universe, and his light shines on all. Nothing bad that happens is ever his fault.
The name Ozymandias keeps coming to mind in referrencing his egoness . . . .
Perhaps we can starting call him the iPresident, the newest latest gadget, fascinating to look at, with a limited useful application.
The man is DANGEROUS friends,wake up ! If you knew how many rich Liberal’s are supporting this puppet,you’d be alarmed !
Biblio44
Yeah, right. But he kept your sorry ass safe. Pity. When the shit hits the fan, call Michael Moore direct. In the old days, we referred to you as a tool.
In other words, POOR CITIZEN, you would like somebody else to pay your way? It’s tough being a castrati, isn’t it?
This article proves my predictions from November 2008 correct:
http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/12/understanding_climategates_hid.html
Obama was a better candidate than McCain, a much better candidate by far. I am pretty happy American people elected him.
Just think how Obama will tarnish the liberal image – it will be damaged for the next 50 years!
this also shows how few generals have principals, I didn’t hear about any high level resignations from the generals.
the withdrawal date alone should have spurred one …I guess the pension is more important then the soldiers.
Dear Poor Citizen:
A billion dollars a day?? That is chump change when measured against the Bamsters calculus. Our nation was not bankrupt, but sure as hell is on that track now that your hero is managing the slush fund. And I’m confident that you are willing to sacrifice your childrens future to achieve a more equitable redistribution of wealth. Good for you, guy. Pity the children.
anon #44 Real clever. But let me ask you concerning your brilliant comment, have you heard so much as a whisper from Bush after the little tyke you support has been hiding behind him for a year? Could you use this as an indication of the difference between The O and Bush, or for that matter the parties.
You never, never heard Bush whine about Clinton as Obama does now about Bush.
You really don’t want to get into other differences so I’ll close for now with this: you emulate your hero The O when you bring up Bush, you give credence to the point of the thread. Get over it Anon, your man has been in office for almost a year, & with huge majorities in Congress. Time to grow up.
But I’m glad you’re entertained, wait till your party hits you with the fees, fines, tax increases, control of the nation’s healthcare, and what ever environmental regs they can sneak in, you’ll never stop laughing!
Some people have a peculiar sense of humor.
From my stand point, Bush was a flaming liberal. So is Obama constantly saying that the liberal agenda does not work?
A loss in Afghanistan will be “Bush’s fault” for Democrats, too.
62. And the only way to shut them up will be to nuke them.
You know everytime that the “O” speaks he reminds me of the BATTY-BATTY-BATTY character from the Hollywood Shuffle. But this isn’t as funny as the movie…
How to Sell Hopes
By Robert Winkler Burke
Copyright 11/5/09
You gotta’ sell hopes, hopes!
Joe said to me,
Giving three envelopes,
Kindly to me.
Khruschev, he said,
You’re going to have crisis,
I’m gone, you lead,
Here’s what my advice is.
Stalin died, I led,
Later came trouble,
Envelope One I opened,
On the double!
Hi, this is Uncle Joe,
Is what it said,
Blame me in crisis one,
Though I am dead.
It worked!
Somehow I made through,
But later!
Came, well, crisis two!
Envelope Two I opened,
Trying to be brave,
Blame me! Uncle Joe, again!
He said from the grave.
Wow! It worked like magic,
Oh lucky me,
Then! Then came last crisis,
Crisis three!
Shirt soaked with sweat,
Slowly I read Joe Stalin’s greatest letter,
It said, Dear Khrushchev,
Three envelopes prepare, you had better!
So, you gotta’ sell hopes,
As deceiving leader of your gullible sheep,
Then, blame previous blokes,
And make three letters that your next-in-line keep.
This is a wonderful wile,
A wile among many,
We deceivers keep secret,
To take all from any!
But if you know us deceivers,
By our fruit,
Then your fruit among others,
We can’t loot!
Why do we tell you this,
Our deception pathway?
The under-taught don’t care,
They are our slaves anyway!
But you say,
We’re taught! Now you can’t rule!
You believe?
So what, enough others we fool!
You’ll be true shepherds?
We’ve heard that before!
In fact, once thought I,
But power made me whore!
<>
Bull hockey, you’re either deliberately helping to spread the same old BS or you’ve had so much Kool Aid that you’re never going to recover.
“When Clinton arrived in January 1993, the Balkans were a mess, and no one knew what to do about Milosevic. Eastern Europe and the former republics had been promised varying degrees of NATO membership. And we were running staggering trade deficits, and in a recession. But even Clinton got over blaming Bush soon enough.”
Only because Clinton actually inherited a recovery and the United States as the sole-surviving superpower with the end of the Cold War. So of course he stopped blaming Bush. But he didn’t give him–or the 12 years of Reagan-Bush which paved the way for Clinton’s party-time– any credit, either.
there is no such place as palestine and we better hope like heck there never will be. if arabs stop spending much of their fortunes trying to kill jews and other infidels, the arabs who call themselves “palestinians” could be settled w/in the vast expanse of araby.
It is sort of like the retiarius throwing his net every which way while stabbing with trident—only to cry foul and “how dare you!” when nicked back by the sica of the Thracian.
You gotta love writers who make references like this.
President Obama is stupid and an ignoramus. No one, including no leader, waging war would state a date for when to quit. War is not a game, as President Obama seems to think, with limited times. The aim of war is victory, and no date can be set for that.
#58- Poor Citizen:
Right, so the answer is to treble down on Bush’s fiscal profligacy? And “fixing” healthcare is the number one priority in terms of addressing that? Maybe we should get past the left-wing/right-wing wall of noise and just tell both houses of congress to DO NOTHING for the next 90 days. I bet we’ll start to see improvements in all critical areas by then.
You gotta love writers who make references like this.
Only if the “you” in that sentence is used to Harry Potter books.
#83 (Understandably “Anon”). The put-down of another person for their alleged reading habits is so low-brow sophomoric…you must be bucking for the Neener/Neener award. I find VDH’s mixture of common sense, plain speaking, and erudition refreshing and appealing. Perhaps you could list your last 10 books read……….
To answer Dr. Hanson’s question, Obama will never quit blaming the previous administration. Everything socialists, communists, and fascists do is wonderful. They are simply always correcting the problems previous “rulers” have caused.
#83 (Anon). Supercilious, put-down posts are rare here– and that’s unique and pleasing. Your neener/neener put down of another poster is the kind of sophomoric baloney better left to Huffington or TMZ. I find VDH’s style a refreshing mix of common sense, straight talk, and erudition. Many people here, in keeping with VDH. and excepting you, have respect for those with long reading lists and for those with long life experience– and everyone in between.
I’m fighting the impulse to borrow that trident and then to metaphorically apply it to your ***.
Essential vdh
America will continue to lose as long as the Utopian masks of AA, and PC are allowed to development Americans like the BHO’s and the moronic MSM personnel.
They the Utopians are not “intelligent” nor are they “smart” they have been indoctrinated to believe both and this “intelligent mind set” is nothing but Utopian deceit.
Utopian deceit is a simple communist tool for developing internal strife and for taking control within the confusion and lawlessness involved.
This indoctrination occurs by the very people, Union and Academic “intellectuals” who believe they can make an alternative universe of Utopian truths. Who in the end will lose the most? Did the USSR finally collapse? How are the believers doing as Russian communists?
Even huge China is now using capitalism to keep the lid on.
Is a vacuum being formed with Islam and their pretensions of greatness being fed by our self induced weakness? Socialism/communism creates a nation of weak and fearful individuals who developed rules like AA, and PC to assist them in overcoming their “fears”.
A terrorists soon loses his religious fervor if he is lined up and shoot as a non military terrorist who kills non combatant women and children to what purpose? Simply to prove his worth to Allah?
What do you think. Muslim terrorists, not soldiers fight and kill US Soldiers with women and children in front of them. We prosecute our own for giving a Muslim terrorist a fat lip. More rules to show we are afraid.
A shooting,killing war of Class warfare can and routinely develops in a communist society when the communists finally come to power and yet perhaps more than 50% of the people do not agree.
What then citizen? What then Comrade?. Will you quietly turn over your property for the “good of all”. Will you let taxes accomplish the job in a “more civilized way”.
They, the intellectuals and Union heads can not survive in a more primitive society, and it will be a primitive society that will emerge under the BHO’s regime or future socialist regimes if they are allowed to win politically, by fair or by rigged ballots in America.
That has been and will be the result of not seeing the world as it is.
Communist Socialist thinking is a Utopian verbiage designed to exchange the real wars of the Warrior against other countries for territory but instead a psychological war of class against class within a country and the erroneous assumed static class differentials that keep all people down. Not even true with simple observation of the American story.
BHO once “thought about” enlisting in the military but somehow did not know what to do. That also is a standard answer by a communist subversive. “I would have served in the Military to really protect America but I am more interested in Controlling America” thought process. A John Kerry moron type. Can we find anyone dumber than a subversive like JK. A Pathological liar.
The communist/socialist is not a warrior he is the pit organizer for the bull and bear or dog on dog fights that occur in the arena within the same country. A dick Durban, a Nancy Pelosi, a Charlie Wrangle, a “Reverend Wright”. A moron like John Kerry. The BHOs.
In communist/socialist society they kill their own because it is not about expansion of territory but about ideas and the need to suppress individual freedoms and property rights. This–after they have taken power by democratic methods or by force. See Acorn for methods. Not here go to an Acorn office.
Stalin and Hitler were classic examples. Stalin killed more of his own countrymen then Hitler, Mao killed more than Stalin or Hitler put together. Their own people.
Not a democratic capitalist society but Communist or Nazi Socialism. Socialism by any name. Parasites that are not smart enough to let the host live, it dies, as did the USSR who was and could not live on other’s handouts.
The bigger the country the more unsustainable socialism is. The more deadly it will be in its implementation.
It is never more evident that Communists/Socialists such as the BHOs and other Utopian Tool Dictators are products of a subversion of justice, human weakness and some individuals need for power but— who have no guts.
All Humans as well as standing resting bodies deteriorate until they pay their dues with real work. The lowest common denominator for Humans is communism/socialism. A cesspool of hate and continual internal strife and war fare to maintain population control. Mao’s cultural revolution happened not to many years ago.
A country founded on American principles will never rest easy with socialism/communism even if the Union run schools, MSM and embedded Utopian Communist Academics are successful with the current levels and use of subversion of history and what is important to human development.
The words of America’s Bill of Rights and the Constitution will become more and more important to individual Americans the farther we get from the reality of what they mean..
There eventually will be no confusion abut the 2nd Amendment to Americans.
America is not Europe, it is especially not French. The French with their “nuanced” thinking make people like the BHO’s, Ho Chi Min, Marx, Khomeini, and any other psychotic who wanted to intellectualize a power grab that could be accomplished without dangers to the founding intellectual Utopian revolutionaries them selves.
For America it will need to get worse before it gets better. The BHOs push for Government run Health care is not health– it is the click of a handcuff. With more coming.
David K., Only a ill-educated bonehead like Anon. would liken references to classical Greece (something the good professor knows a bit about) to Harry Potter and think it’s a witty reply instead of a pitiful expose of his own ignorance.
Like I said, the amusing thing about these leftist lunkheads is their absurd belief that they are smarter than everyone else.
Yes, Obama does sound like “Doug and Wendy Whiner” from the days when SNL was still funny. But “it’s all Bush’s fault” won’t work at all by the time the 2010 midterms roll around.
The current president always gets blamed for current economic woes. Sometimes that isn’t entirely fair. (The roots of the mortgage crisis, for instance, go back to the Carter era. That situation was not created overnight.) Well, as JFK said, life isn’t fair.
Every president has to deal with issues left over from the last administration. Crying and blubbering over what a mess you inherited – sorry, bud, but you asked for the job.
Oh, yeah, David K. if you stuck a trident in anon.’s ****, you’d give him a lobotomy.
He obviously benefited from its well-entrenched affirmative action programs.
Yes, unlike our previous glorious President, who worked his way into Yale, overcoming the handicap of being a legacy admission with hard C level work.
David K.:
http://archives.cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/aging/07/12/alzheimers.drug/index.html
Who used to watch Seinfeld? Hands. Wow, more than I thought.
And who remembers the episode when George tells Jerry that he has a plan for success? Nobody?
Okay, permit me give you a snippet or two to jog your memories.
(REAL SEINFELD SCRIPT)
Jerry : What is it that isn’t working?
George : Why did it all turn out like this for me? I had so much promise. I was personable, I was bright. Oh, maybe not academically speaking, but … I was perceptive. I always know when someone’s uncomfortable at a party. It became very clear to me sitting out there today, that every decision I’ve ever made, in my entire life, has been wrong. My life is the opposite of everything I want it to be. Every instinct I have, in every of life, be it something to wear, something to eat … It’s all been wrong.
( A waitress comes up to G )
Waitress : Tuna on toast, coleslaw, cup of coffee.
George : Yeah. No, no, no, wait a minute, I always have tuna on toast. Nothing’s ever worked out for me with tuna on toast. I want the complete opposite of on toast. Chicken salad, on rye, untoasted … and a cup of tea.
Elaine : Well, there’s no telling what can happen from this.
Jerry : You know chicken salad is not the opposite of tuna, salmon is the opposite of tuna, ‘cos salmon swim against the current, and the tuna swim with it.
George : Good for the tuna.
( A blonde looks at George )
Elaine : Ah, George, you know, that woman just looked at you.
George : So what? What am I supposed to do?
Elaine : Go talk to her.
George : Elaine, bald men, with no jobs, and no money, who live with their parents, don’t approach strange women.
Jerry : Well here’s your chance to try the opposite. Instead of tuna salad and being intimidated by women, chicken salad and going right up to them.
George : Yeah, I should do the opposite, I should.
Jerry : If every instinct you have is wrong, then the opposite would have to be right.
George : Yes, I will do the opposite. I used to sit here and do nothing, and regret it for the rest of the day, so now I will do the opposite, and I will do
something!
( He goes over to the woman )
George : Excuse me, I couldn’t help but notice that you were looking in my direction.
Victoria : Oh, yes I was, you just ordered the same exact lunch as me.
( G takes a deep breath )
George : My name is George. I’m unemployed and I live with my parents.
Victoria : I’m Victoria. Hi.
(Rachel again)
And why do I bring up this old Seinfeld episode? Because a couple of weeks ago, more like almost three weeks or so ago, just after Obama gave
his (you lied) Sept. 9th healthcare speech, I began realizing Obama probably saw this same Seinfeld episode because since day one of his Presidency, he’s been
doing the opposite of what he must have realized was the appropriate thing to do.
Examples: Letting Eric Holder call Americans cowards. Dropping the Black Panther voter intimidation case. Nominating a bigot (sotomayor) for the
supreme court. Spending one and a half trillion dollars that we don’t have. Talking class warfare. Acting like a stupid racist President when Hank
Gates, Obama buddy was arrested by Cambridge cop Crowley. Lobby for socialized medicine over and over again and, and approve a Bill that raises taxes on medical stuff, creates a public option, cuts Medicare Advantage to the tune of four or five billion dollars. Sits on the need for reinforcements in Afghanistan. Fiddle to the point where Iran is 90 days away from having the capacity to lob a nuke or two at Israel.Etc. Etc. Et cetera.
Dr. Hanson covered most all of Obama’s hypocrisy and idiocy above to help explain our anxieties.
Rachel wrote this for all to see because she’s starting to understand the man, Obama, and his methods. He believes we are living in an epoch where up is down, right is wrong, green is good, tall is short, enemies are friends, missile defense is for misfits, lies are swallowed as fast as they’re said (not by all, by some).
You get the picture. It’s the post modern, moral relativist gobbledygook that half this country has swallowed hook line and stinker; a morally relevant reference to our esteemed President.
Two days or so ago in a PJM comment, I said that Obama and his elves didn’t expect to win in 2012.
Well, Today, I changed by mind. I think he thinks there’s more than a little George Kostanza in him. Obama’s mistake: Seinfeld wasn’t real. It’s the creation of two Long Island funny guys. Jerry’s idol growing up was Bob Hope. Larry’s was Jack Benny. They’re funny. They’re actors and writers in the right time and right place for doing the Seinfeld show. They had timing.
President Obama, though, wasn’t so lucky. Although, he had timing, he misread half his audience, many of whom are opinion leaders, which, in advertising, which I’m in, can spread ideas far and wide. And can kill perceptions just as fast. The perception that Obama is the Democratic Party’s silver bullet is 180 degrees off.
Obama, believing this one Seinfeld episode could make him bulletproof opinion-wise is laughable. If Obama runs in 2012, because he’s hurt America so badly, gotten so many of us so angry; really what he’s done is the equivalent of desecrating the bible. Hanging with Bill Ayrey friends who stomp on the American Flag in Chicago Magazine cover pictures. Filling the White House with American haters, communists like van jones, Nambla fans like
kevin jennings in charge of school safety.
Does anybody think I’m making this stuff up? I’m not.
People like the Seinfeld episodes because they were funny. Obama’s not. His vision for American is treasonable.
Eventhough, most of what Obama’s done is the opposite of what should have been done, most Americans at this point in his administation, dislike Obama intensely. I hate what Obama’s doing to this country as much as I hate root canals. No, maybe more.
After Obama’s horrific 2012 loss, I’m sending him a letter that gives him a hint. A tip. “Next time, if you’re ever in a position of power in government and you want to be re-elected, don’t think you can do the opposite of what should be done and succeed. It only works on TV.
It’s the reason you and Usama Bin Laden are two of the most despised men in America, the land of the free. And the home of the brave.”
It won’t stop in 2012, but it’ll be the single-termed, failed ex-president still making the claim.
America is not Europe, it is especially not French. The French with their “nuanced” thinking make people like the BHO’s, Ho Chi Min, Marx, Khomeini, and any other psychotic who wanted to intellectualize a power grab that could be accomplished without dangers to the founding intellectual Utopian revolutionaries them selves.
oh, I was sorry that we were forgotten LMAO
Karl Marx ain’t french
BHO ain’t french, but your society product
Khomeyno was backed by America to replace a Shah that was looking for oil independency from anglo-saxons companies
Also he was going to make a peace alliance with Saddam that aimed for oil indepency too, so big troubles for the western oil companies !
Since 2001,it has been safer for a US citizen to be in the Armed Forces in a combat zone than to be a US citizen living on the southside of Chicago.
Nine (9) Americans were killed in Chicago over Thanksgiving.
And today the EPA declares carbon dioxide to be a danger to human life.
Obama’s speech on jobs this week ought to be a real laugher.
Barack Obama is in *way* over his head.
David Thomson says the odds are … that the Clinically Narcissistic 0zero will experience a more complete mental breakdown before the end of his term.
I reckon that the combination of his loathsome and fearsome “spouse’s” tangible contempt, his gradual realization that the “secret” (it’s still a secret to him) of his own absolute incompetence and the increasingly-fascistic “Democrats’” loss of both the reps and the senate will prove too much for the pathetic poor creep — and he’ll be gone by September of 2011.
As for whether the dumbest politician (except for the effectively-treasonous Jimmy Cartah, the actually treasonous and recidivist, Hitlery Cli’ton and for the second-generation traitors, John Thorne Teresa Simões-Ferreira Heinz-Kohn-Kerry and the dangerously dullard Al-Fredo Gore-leone) in all of Human History, Joe “Goin’-Rogaine” (nee Plugs) Biden, will EVER be ready to occupy the office and to pretend to the “presidency?” Forget it. The hapless poor galoot couldn’t manage a 7-Eleven.
But at least he doesn’t hate our beloved fraternal republic and all free men. And, until January 20 2013 rolls around and United States of America’s President and Armed-Forces Commander-In-Chief-Elect, Sarah Louise Heath Ronald Reagan Palin, moves into our house, that simple difference will make his for a nice change from the mobbed-up modified-Marxist murtadd Muslim multiple-mothers’ boy, Big Ears!
He hit the reset button alright.
We were hit with a terrorist attack on American soil in his first year, no matter how bad the Administration and the MSM want to sweep it under the table.
When will you guys stop blaming jimmy carter for the state of the middle east?
Sorry, but a year in and the US really is still paying for bush’s “gaffes”. It’ll still be paying for years to come (in ways that don’t even occur to you). I don’t believe it’s a coincidence that the country’s financial system dug itself a grave while he was obsessed with overseas adventures and finding workarounds for the constitution. It DID happen on his watch, and a much more serious economic downturn that took place just after he took office (SARS, 9/11, recession) didn’t cause anything like the recent collapse (which says something about the state of the system he inherited). It’s his baby, like it or not.
Fred, the point I am trying to make is that the major existential threat to the US is not Afghanistan and certainly not Iraq. The perfect storm that is about to engulf us is runaway bipartisan spending, a shaky fiat currency that has only survived this far due to its reserve status, and an increasingly powerful central government that has been just as confiscatory and intrusive under R’s as D’s. Agreed that Obama is a garden variety Marxist with star appeal for some. We can pour a half-million men into “Afstan”, stay for fifty years and we will still leave what the Brits, Russians and others did; a hodge –podge of tribes that were hammered into a “nation” that has never truly been a unified country and never will be. If we don’t get a handle on our debt and spending , and that includes military spending, we are headed towards more calamity than Taliban tribesman can visit upon us. I don’t think we can determine long term who runs Afstan anymore than who runs Pakistan, who is in no danger of falling, North Korea, Somalia or any of a dozen other dictatorships, many of whom we claim as “allies”. We are overspent, overstretched and are living on borrowed time and borrowed money. This is unsustainable and to claim otherwise is delusional.
Dr. Hanson stated that “debt will do us in…” Truer words have never been spoken
” Obama Orders 1 Million US Troops To Prepare For Civil War”
This is an interesting article posted on another PJM site.
It fits in with the blame game we are playing around the world.
Just an interesting statistic:
By my (rough) calculation, the soviets were officially in afghanistan for 3342 days.
So far, the COTW has been officially in afghanistan for 2984 days.
That’s just 358 days to go until the anniversary. I imagine that somebody at pravda will notice the significance.
I don’t we can complain about spending without taking a hard look at the cost of both wars.
What the President has sais during the campaign amd what he has said during his presidency are unrelated to his agenda (or the staff “advising him”). He is committed to upending the existing social order in this country. I recall a photograph of Mr. Obama during the early days of his campain (before he was nominated as the candidate of the Democratic Party). He, along with other Democatic candidates were standing facing the Ameriacn flag (with the national anthem probably being played). The others had their hands on their chests. Mr. Obama, unlike the others, stood with his hands at his side with his fists clenched. It has been said that a picture is worth a thousand words. In my judgment this was one such picture. His conduct as President is consistent with the clenched fist, “no salute” Mr Obama of the picture described above.
I guess the question is, “How do we take back control of our government from the politicians. The only solution I can think of is to vote against all incumbents in each and every election cycle and against any and all levys, bond issues, etc. in your state. That’s what I’ve done for the last 40 years, but it didn’t work. If the people of this country would adopt that as dogma, then we wouldn’t have a tenured political class in D.C. like we have in academia. The longer the tenured political class is in control the more they conspire to scam the country, line they’re pockets, and ignore the will of the people. They really need to afraid of the people whose lives they are destroying.
Lancaster, OH