The increasingly wounded animal which is Barack Obama and his Dimocrats are waging a secret war on Hillary Clinton. Hillary Clinton is more popular that Barack Obama and his sleeve yanking wife. Dimocrats are terrified of what the voters will do in November 2010.
The fear of Hillary Clinton is growing. Hillary Clinton is increasingly viewed as a threat because she can be the 44th person to take the oath of office (Grover Cleveland had two non-consecutive terms, so Hillary can be the 44th person to take the oath of office and be 44 still). The secret war has begun.
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On Tuesday, January 5, 2010, Sean Hannity on his television show interviewed Andrew Breitbart. Andrew Breitbart has an interesting history and series of powerful current projects. Breitbart helped courtesan Arriana Huffington start her Hillary-hating-Republican-posing-as-Democrat website. Breitbart, has little to do now with Huffington.
Breitbart was a major force in distributing (via Big Government) the ACORN videos which have flattened that organization. Breitbart also has started several website organizations such as Big Government, Big Hollywood, and the most recent, Big Journalism (we think he should join with us and rename that site with our scornful epithet – “Big Media”).
On Tuesday, Sean Hannity was still up to his Hillary Hating ways. But Andrew Breitbart came to the sensible rescue. We warned Hannity on May 7, 2009 to stop the attacks on Hillary. But Hannity persists in his stupidity. Here’s what we wrote back then in an article called The Republican Secret Weapon – Hillary Clinton:
Republicans and Conservatives should take a clue from Ms Tantaros – utilize the history of the 2008 primaries and what was done to Hillary Clinton to expose the intolerant bullies who pose as progressives.
Sean Hannity in particular constantly attacks Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton in ugly, gratuitous ways. Hannity is living in the 1990s. Even the biggest Bill and Hillary haters, such as Richard Mellon Scaife, now recognize they were fools drunk with destructive Clinton hate. Hannity would make a stronger case against Barack Obama if he would invoke the nastiness of the Obama campaign against Hillary and stop the nastiness against Hillary himself.
Some Republicans will fan the flames of Hillary hatred. These are Republicans who are afraid of Sarah Palin and do not want to do anything that might help women, such as attack sexism and misogyny.
But Hannity has rejected our advice. On Tuesday he was attempting to smear Hillary, again. Like David Letterman with his decades stale Bill Clinton intern jokes, which masked his own interns situation, Sean Hannity cannot let go of his Hillary hate. Hannity tried again on Tuesday night.
But Andrew Breitbart is no fool. Andrew Breitbart had some sensible analysis that night.
Sean Hannity began with a tedious recitation of a Washington Post story published that very day. The Washington Post story was a hit piece against Bill and Hillary Clinton. Hannity saw the article as another opportunity to bash and beat the Clintons. Andrew Breitbart was not a fool however. Breitbart saw the hit for what it was.
SEAN HANNITY, HOST: Now, there is a story in today’s Washington Post that former President Bill Clinton and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton sure hope that you missed. Now, it is a story that shows that it pays to have friends in high places. [snip]
But as The Washington Post reports today, Riady visited the United States twice during 2009 after receiving a special waiver from the State Department, a State Department that is now run by Hillary Clinton.
A State Department spokesman denies that Secretary Clinton had any knowledge of Riady’s return. Maybe the documents were filed along with the Rose law firm records.
HANNITY: And joining me now from Los Angeles with more on the story is the founder of BigGovernment.com, the one and only Andrew Breitbart.
Happy New Year, sir.
ANDREW BREITBART, BIGGOVERNMENT.COM: Happy New Year to you, too.
Hannity acted the boob. Andrew Brietbart did not play the monkey for Hannity however. Breitbart deflated Hannity and his Hillary hate balloon immediately:
HANNITY: All right, Breitbart, Hillary knew nothing. A conspiracy to defraud the U.S. government, you get back in, no problem.
BREITBART: Well, I find it strange that this is coming out after the — what happened with the plane bomber over Christmas. I think what you have here is a case of finger-pointing within the administration. And perhaps some — some turmoil going on between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama. This is a huge piece. It’s written very negatively against Hillary Clinton, and there’s innuendo and implications in there that somehow she knew something when it looks like it was the Department of Homeland security that issued this waiver.
Hannity tried, but Brietbart refused to play. Instead of listening to Breitbart’s interesting, and to us accurate analysis, Hannity continued to play the scripted fool.
Hannity did not display much sense. Andrew Breitbart, knew he was on Fox News and expected by Sean Hannity to bash and beat and berate and belittle Hillary Clinton, but Breitbart refused to play the fool and delude the audience.
Sean Hannity tried again, but Andrew Breitbart instead – said smart things about Hillary Clinton and about Barack Obama:
HANNITY: Well, I think something is wrong with the system. But here’s — here’s the big question, and it’s a tough one.
Do we have a president that just doesn’t have a clue about where we are? That we have an enemy that’s out to destroy us? Do we have an administration that’s clueless? Do we have an administration that is endangering the American people?
BREITBART: Well, I think the answer is yes to that, but I think that in terms of pure symbolism, this was a guy who was supposed to come in take over where the supposedly inept George Bush, you know, left off.
This is a guy who treated a surf board accident with his kid more seriously than he treated the underwear bomber. He went out to play golf once he found out about, you know, what had occurred. But when he found out that a friend’s kid’s chin got a cut on it, he quit his golf outing.
HANNITY: Well, all right, so the question is, you know, who is responsible? And, you know, Gibbs wouldn’t say earlier today whether or not people should be fired over this.
In your opinion, because I think Napolitano should go. I don’t think she has any experience. Leon Panetta doesn’t have any experience. You know, I mean, the whole list of people that are not qualified for the positions they have is staggering.
So should anybody be fired? Will anybody be fired? Or are they just tone deaf to the fact that we have a War on Terror?
BREITBART: That’s the answer, is that they all come from that basic orientation. I think that, quite frankly, Hillary Clinton, if she were in charge, would actually be a hell of a lot tougher than Barack Obama is. And perhaps that’s what this entire article in The Washington Post is about, is that she’s been standing off to the side and allowing for these people to hang themselves with their inept behavior.
Andrew Breitbart is right when he says “THAT’S WHAT THIS ENTIRE ARTICLE IN THE WASHINGTON POST IS ABOUT”. Someone, from Chicago, put a hit job out on Hillary Clinton and the Washington Post willingly published. It’s a secret war we are witnessing, not in Afghanistan or Iraq or Pakistan – but in Washington, D.C. as Obama thugs try to take down the qualified and experienced on Day 1 Hillary Clinton.
Sean Hannity, blinded by his Hillary hate missed a big story stinking up right under his nose. Andrew Breitbart provided an important story but Hannity is so prejudiced and blinded he can’t smell or see a big story when it bites him.
Sean Hannity ignored a big story in order to parrot an obvious hit piece authored at the White House and published in the Washington Post.
There is a secret war of attacks by Barack Obama against Hillary Clinton but Hannity is too busy hating to see it. The more Obama attacks, the more coy Hillary Clinton becomes. Her laughter can be heard throughout Washington.
On healthcare, Bill and Hillary say as little as possible and issue bland emails. Barack Obama would like a massive publicity tour of support but Bill and Hillary only say the obvious – a defeat on healthcare will bring the White House columns down on Obama’s already scarred head.
When disaster strikes, Hillary dances away to work her magic. She keeps her distance while doing her job and saving the world from the Obama boobery. When Obama has a publicity stunt to unveil, Hillary dances to work in Europe or Asia or anywhere but near the ground zero which is the big zero at 1600 Pennsylvania. Obama and other Hillary haters are beginning to take notice:
Nile Gardiner at the Daily Telegraph writes: “The White House should send a search party to track down Hillary Clinton. America’s foreign policy chief has been missing from the world stage for several days, and has become as elusive as the Scarlet Pimpernel at the height of the French Revolution.” [snip]
Maybe she is hiding at home, assuming, correctly, that anyone who shows up on camera (e.g., Janet Napolitano, the president) gets savaged. Maybe she is the fall-gal when we get the “how we messed up” report. (Prediction: It won’t say that treating terrorists like criminal defendants or releasing terrorists to Yemen is a problem.) Or perhaps she is studying up on the 2010 senate and gubernatorial races. There must be a race in some state she could run in and win, right? After all, she is the most admired woman in America (well, she’s in a statistical tie with Sarah Palin). She might not stay that way if she hangs out with the Obami much longer.
Even through the hate, they can see Hillary is immune from the catastrophe which are “the Obami”.
Even long time Hillary hater Michael Godwin at the New York Post understands the significance of recent events as they relate to the Obama war on Hillary. Yes, Hillary was right:
Someday, somebody not from Hollywood will make a movie about President Obama’s disastrous vacation. About how his aides waited for nearly three hours after the Christmas airliner attack to wake him. About how he waited three more days to appear publicly. About how even then, he didn’t grasp the seriousness of the situation, racing through a bloodless speech so he could play golf.
Until that film is made, reality is frightening enough. Even the true believers in the White House now realize they blew the response to a potentially catastrophic attack by an al Qaeda-trained terrorist.
When the alarm first went off — the 3 a.m. phone call – they hit the snooze button, putting the president’s personal comfort ahead of the country’s.
Yes, we were right. Yes, Hillary Clinton was right. Obama is not ready on Day 1 or even one year later. That 3:00 a.m. call came and the country needed Hillary, not the sleepy, stinky, unqualified, inexperienced, boob to pick up. Obama knows:
If America gets hit again, it’s on him. All of it.
So Obama will try to drag Hillary down with him. Obama will try to shift the blame to Hillary. Obama will not take responsibility – he never has. We expect Hillary to leave the Obami after the disastrous November elections – a time frame which will allow her to avoid getting embroiled in the Dimocratic mess campaigns.
We were right. Hillary was right, and that is why Obama will now wage a not so secret war – against Hillary Clinton, and coddle America’s enemies.
It’s Three Kings Day, also known as The Epiphany (or Theophany in the East). Three Kings Day is a Christian feast day celebrated in many countries particularly those whose populations worship as part of the Eastern Christian Church. Three Kings Day is also a popular holiday in places like Puerto Rico. In the West, Three Kings Day is associated with the visit ofThe Magi to the infant Jesus:
The West historically observed a twelve-day festival, starting on December 25, and ending on January 5, known as Christmastide or the Twelve Days of Christmas. Some Christian cultures, especially those of Latin America and some in Europe, extend the season to as many as forty days, ending on Candlemas (February 2).
But today in the 2010 United States, we do not respect wise men, or women. We ignore the Frankincense, Myrrh, and Gold bearing Magi of yore. The Three Wise Men – Balthassar, Melchior, and Casper we put aside. For us in 2010 America, it is not Three Wise Men who guide us. In 2010 America it is Three Stooges Day, again.
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On Three Stooges Day we have Dimocrats dropping like flies, from the stench of their deeds. As filing deadlines loom, more and more Dimocrats choose retirement rather than face angry voters. Last night began with Senate Dimocrat Byron Dorgan announcing he will not run for Senate from North Dakota in 2010 – score one for the Republicans. This was a shocker.
Almost immediately, Dimocrat Governor Bill Ritter of Colorado called it quits. It was a shocker. Fear not comedy fans, the Ritter shocker means that top billing in Colorado will likely go to the joke name, Hickenlooper.
After that shocker, came another shocker. Moe decided to quit. No more waitress sandwiches for Chris Dodd. Dodd took a hammer to the head for the good of the show. We laughed so hard we cried. Our ShamWow was soaked. We laughed and laughed:
The grim outlook for Democrats in the 2010 midterm elections just got a little worse. [snip]
Dorgan’s announcement was accompanied Tuesday by Michigan Democratic Lt. Gov. John Cherry’s decision to end his floundering bid for governor, and by the revelation that both Dodd and Colorado Gov. Bill Ritter would announce Wednesday that they would not seek reelection. [snip]
In the meantime, President Obama’s and the Democratic Party’s poll ratings have slipped across the board, generic polling is now generally more favorable to Republicans and a handful of promising Democratic House candidates have abruptly ended their campaigns.
We tried to stop laughing but could not. Late night became midnight and the laughs continued. We read hard hitting “news” to try to stop the laughter. But things got worse. We read of Obama stomping his feet and repeating at every occasion he would “not tolerate” this or that. Instead of conveying the fake sense of purpose and direction, all Obama induced with his “not tolerate” statements, was laughter. “That’s not acceptable, and I will not tolerate it” whimpered Obama and we fell to our sides with aching laughs. The “system did not work” and “that is not acceptable” Obama wheezed. Way to go tough guy – too bad you’re not in Chicago with your thugs – because terrorists just don’t believe you – they laugh at you.
By the time we got to the Obama ban on “finger-pointing” we could barely breathe. From “blame the staff” or “blame Bush” Obama, the very notion of no “finger-pointing” is a cue for the pies to start flying and the banana peels to incite slipping.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, piqued with White House pressure to accept the Senate health reform bill, threw a rare rhetorical elbow at President Barack Obama Tuesday, questioning his commitment to his 2008 campaign promises.
A leadership aide said it was no accident.
Pelosi emerged from a meeting with her leadership team and committee chairs in the Capitol to face an aggressive throng of reporters who immediately hit her with C-SPAN’s request that she permit closed-door final talks on the bill to be televised.
A reporter reminded the San Francisco Democrat that in 2008, then-candidate Obama opined that all such negotiations be open to C-SPAN cameras.
“There are a number of things he was for on the campaign trail,” quipped Pelosi, who has no intention of making the deliberations public.
Nancy Pelousy might not be funny, with all her finger-pointing, but that C-SPAN business sure is a knee-slapper.
Brian Lamb has put President Obama on the spot. Lamb is the CEO of C-Span, and today he wrote a letter to the leaders of Congress asking them to allow cameras in the room for the final negotiations on the health care bill.
But that was then. Today, when asked for the 3rd time whether President Obama believes that the “standard” he set during the campaign for transparency on health care negotiations is being met by the current process (which now appears to include bypassing the formal conference process), White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs gave a flaccid but telling response.
“I do not believe the American people have lacked for information on what’s in these bills – the political and policy arguments around different people’s positions – I think that’s been well documented,” Gibbs said.
With all due respect, the reporter did not ask Gibbs for his appraisal of what he thinks the public does and does not know about the health care bills. Rather, the question is very simple: will President Obama honor his campaign pledge and demand that the final health care negotiations are televised on C-Span? Judging from Gibbs’ response, the answer is an obvious “no.”
We turned to the vilest of courtesans to turn our laughter to anger. But even Sally Quinn failed to stop the laughter. She too had a Three Stooges Day anecdote to relate:
Now it turns out that there was a third uninvited guest at the White House state dinner for Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, this one a member of the Indian delegation. It was enough of a shock that the would-be stars Tareq and Michaele Salahi had crashed. But a third? The Salahi story may have been delicious, but the implications of the appalling breach of security are immense. The president could have been assassinated. And had that happened, the Office of the White House Social Secretary would have been as culpable as the Secret Service.
Courtesan Quinn is demanding accountability – from Obama – what a laugh riot she is. She who pimped herself out for Obama and his thugs now wants accountability. Too late Sally. But courtesan Sally has lots of scores to settle and anecdotes to spill:
Many in Washington wondered why the director of the Secret Service, Mark Sullivan, did not resign over the state dinner security breach. At least Sullivan testified before Congress on the subject. White House social secretary Desirée Rogers came under fire after the Salahi scandal erupted. From the start, Rogers was an unlikely choice for social secretary. She was not of Washington, considered by many too high-powered for the job and more interested in being a public figure (and thus upstaging the first lady) than in doing the gritty, behind-the-scenes work inherent in that position. That Rogers stayed and that the White House refused to allow her to testify before Congress reflected badly on the president. He, not a member of his staff, ended up looking incompetent. Although it has emerged that a State Department protocol error is to blame for the presence of a third uninvited guest, both Rogers and Sullivan should step down.
Courtesan Quinn cannot tolerate a social secretary that is not from the Washington approved Madame’s list. Courtesan Quinn is also miffed that her pal Greg Craig, who stabbed Hillary Clinton in the back to benefit Barack Obama, was fired by Barack Obama. “It’s the judgement” says Sally:
When White House counsel Greg Craig was fired over disagreements about the timing and publicity of closing the prison at Guantanamo Bay, many Obama supporters were troubled. Craig was one of the most admired and trusted men in Washington. His firing was a turning point for a lot of people, who began to question the president’s judgment. Whether or not the Craig decision was the president’s idea, somebody else should have taken the hit for it. Although Obama had pledged during the campaign to close Guantanamo by year’s end, White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel and Craig clearly had serious disagreements over how the issue was playing politically, and there were known to be strong personality clashes between the two. It was Emanuel who was responsible for Craig’s departure. He should have taken the hit and spared the president so much bad feeling.
The other laugh from Sally is the rib tickler Janet Napolitano “the system worked” because that made Obama look bad. As Sally put it “The rampant finger-pointing since then has made Obama look weak and vacillating.” Only now does the courtesan see the “weak and vacillating” that is Obama.
Oh Sally, you old whore, how you made us laugh. The demand for accountability and the “weak and vacillating” bedroom talk tickled our toes. And that assassination talk about those party crashers, what whoppers!
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Ahh, assassination! Who would ever think assassination threats are funny? Ordinarily we do not think death threats are funny but the bozos and Daffy Ducks in the White House make us laugh – no matter how serious the topic. And Sally Quinn reminded us of how funny assassination talk can be.
As Obama supporters witness the bumbling boobery of their Mess-iah, and as Obama supporters witness the lack of “change”, the SNL “Jack Squat” Obama, the Obama who has done nothing but betray them repeatedly, as Obama supporters see former allies angry with Obama for his lies and betrayal, the Hopium addled need a justification for their Obama worship.
By creating non-existent “death threats” against Obama, his former and current supporters want to justify in their minds that they were not wrong about their Mess-iah Obama. Obama supporters want to believe that they were right that Obama is, contrary to all evidence, a world historical figure, a transformational hero, a great man of history – so they desperately try to link Obama, via death and the non-existent death threats, to assassinated genuine world historical figures.
Obama supporters, witnessing the collapsing support for Obama, witnessing the lack of achievement, witnessing the lack of “hope”, witnessing the lack of “change”, have themselves created the “death threats” in order to assure themselves that Mess-iah Obama is a great man of history – so Obama supporters themselves and for themselves and their hero create non-existent death threats. It is necrophilia narcissism.
Mark Sullivan, the target of courtesan Quinn’s ire, testified before the House regarding the party crashers at the White House in December. We recalled that testimony and laughed and laughed some more. Previously the propaganda from the Hopium guzzlers was that Obama was so great there were a great many threats against his life. The piano players at the TPM whorehouse wrote:
The Boston Globe reports that a new internal Congressional Research Service report and government sources say there are an unprecedented number of death threats against President Obama — and that the Secret Service is insufficiently funded and staffed to deal with them.
According to The Globe, a report issued by the Congressional Research Service shows that the Secret Service is investigating more threats against government officials than ever before, and questions whether the 144-year old agency should continue probing financial crimes, as was its original mandate.
That’s right, don’t investigate financial crimes because Obama is so precious.
Secret Service Director Mark Sullivan, testifying today about the state dinner security breach, refuted stories that President Obama has received more threats than previous presidents.
“The threats are not up,” Sullivan said, adding that they receive about the same amount of threats against Obama as they did for presidents Clinton and Bush.
There have been a few reports this year claiming that threats are up drastically, which the Secret Service has disputed. Ronald Kessler, published a book this year claiming threats were up by 400 percent.
The evening before he was sworn into office, Barack Obama stepped out of Blair House, the government residence where he was staying across from the White House, and climbed into an armored limousine for the ride to a bipartisan dinner. Joining him in the back seat were John Brennan, his new counterterrorism adviser, and two foreign-policy advisers, Denis McDonough and Mark Lippert. The three men with the president-elect were out of breath, having rushed more than a mile from transition headquarters on foot after failing to find a taxi in Washington’s preinaugural madness. As the motorcade moved out, they updated Obama on gathering evidence of a major terrorist plot to attack his inauguration. After a weekend of round-the-clock analysis, the nation’s intelligence agencies were concerned that the threat was real, the men told him. A group of Somali extremists was reported to be coming across the border from Canada to detonate explosives as the new president took the oath of office. With more than a million onlookers viewing the ceremony from the National Mall and hundreds of millions more watching on television around the world, what could be a more devastating target?
“All the data points suggested there was a real threat evolving quickly that had an overseas component,” Juan Carlos Zarate, President George W. Bush’s deputy national security adviser for combating terrorism, told me in November. As the inauguration approached, signs of a plot “seemed to be growing in credibility and relevance.” Another senior Bush official involved in those tense events a year ago said last fall that protecting the new president was not enough. Even a failed attack would send a debilitating message to the world. “If something happens on the podium and there’s chaos,” this official told me, “that’s the first time you see the new president, and you really don’t want that.”
The threat seemed to weigh on Obama. He canceled a practice session to go over his inaugural address with aides at Blair House. [snip]
There was little Obama could do but ask questions and rely on the people who had been fighting this fight for years. His advisers worked side by side with the outgoing administration. The two teams gathered in the Situation Room of the White House shortly before the inauguration to sift through what was known and to hash out what should be done about it. The final iteration of Bush’s team sat across the table from the brain trust of Obama’s administration — Condoleezza Rice, Stephen Hadley and their colleagues on one side, Hillary Rodham Clinton, James Jones and their colleagues on the other.
Clinton immediately put her finger on the problem. According to participants, she asked, what should Obama do if he is in the middle of his inaugural address and a bomb goes off somewhere on the mall? “Is the Secret Service going to whisk him off the podium so the American people see their incoming president disappear in the middle of the inaugural address?” she asked. “I don’t think so.”
That scamp Hillary. How she must have laughed once she got home as she pictured Obama and Michelle – arms and legs akimbo with their buttocks protruding from the sides of the podium, shaking from fear.
Then it struck us, between laughs, that those Somalis, and the recent Detroit airplane attempted bomber were all “of color”. We thought of the troubled Andrew Sullivan and Dumb White People. Poor Andrew, those dumb black people of his imagination weren’t so dumb after all. Here’s what dumb ol’ Andrew wrote:
It isn’t about his policies as such; it is about his person. They are prepared to set their own ideological preferences to one side in favor of what Obama offers America in a critical moment in our dealings with the rest of the world. The war today matters enormously. The war of the last generation? Not so much. If you are an American who yearns to finally get beyond the symbolic battles of the Boomer generation and face today’s actual problems, Obama may be your man.
What does he offer? First and foremost: his face. Think of it as the most effective potential re-branding of the United States since Reagan. Such a re-branding is not trivial—it’s central to an effective war strategy. The war on Islamist terror, after all, is two-pronged: a function of both hard power and soft power. We have seen the potential of hard power in removing the Taliban and Saddam Hussein. We have also seen its inherent weaknesses in Iraq, and its profound limitations in winning a long war against radical Islam. The next president has to create a sophisticated and supple blend of soft and hard power to isolate the enemy, to fight where necessary, but also to create an ideological template that works to the West’s advantage over the long haul. There is simply no other candidate with the potential of Obama to do this. Which is where his face comes in.
Consider this hypothetical. It’s November 2008. A young Pakistani Muslim is watching television and sees that this man—Barack Hussein Obama—is the new face of America. In one simple image, America’s soft power has been ratcheted up not a notch, but a logarithm. A brown-skinned man whose father was an African, who grew up in Indonesia and Hawaii, who attended a majority-Muslim school as a boy, is now the alleged enemy. If you wanted the crudest but most effective weapon against the demonization of America that fuels Islamist ideology, Obama’s face gets close. It proves them wrong about what America is in ways no words can.
Unfortunately, that “young Pakistani Muslim” along with that “young Nigerian” along with that “young Somali” (not to mention young Yemeni and young Saudi) is not fantasizing along with Andrew Sullivan. As we mentioned at the time those young angry men and women did not care about the skin color of Colin Powell or Condolezza Rice.
What we needed was a president strong enough to fight and experienced enough to know how to fight. We needed a president smart enough to know how to fight and when to fight and not to be afraid to fight. We needed a president and we got a joke. We needed a wise Magi, and got a dumb stooge.
On Three Stooges Day, those thoughts finally got us to stop laughing.
We Democrats were rightly outraged by the massive intelligence failure which culminated in the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center. President Bill Clinton prepared a ‘watch out for Bin Laden and terrorism’ memorandum for George W. Bush before leaving office. George W. had been president for eight months when the attacks took place. But George W. Bush was on V-A-C-A-T-I-O-N.
Barack H. Obama was on a two week V-A-C-A-T-I-O-N when a terrorist attacked. That terrorist attack has caused havoc and new restrictions on travelers. But from Dimocrats we do not hear outrage at the stumbling, bumbling failures. We hear silly excuses designed to protect Barack Obama.
Dimocrats and Obama enablers are attempting to minimize the terrorist attack in Detroit on Christmas Day. These Dimocrats and Big Media Obama protectors are calling the terrorist attack the “undie” bomber in order to make light of what might have been. What might have been is that on a day of great importance to Christians a Muslim terrorist sought to kill hundreds of people, if not thousands, by having an airplane crash into Detroit.
George W. Bush presided over a massive intelligence failure eight months after his inauguration. Barack H. Obama presided over a massive intelligence failure eleven months after his inauguration. We excoriated George W. Bush for his bungling and lack of preparedness. Barack H. Obama deserves to be equally excoriated – if not more so.
Where was Obama? Obama was on Vacation. When Obama finally emerged it was to issue, with a yawn, excuses and feigned upset. Obama then went back to the golf course.
We Democrats excoriated George W. Bush for what happened on September 11, 2001. We were right to do so. Compared to George W. Bush, Barack H. Obama is even more culpable. George W. Bush ridiculously claimed he was taken by surprise by the 9/11 attacks. That there was a memorandum on his desk directly stating that Bin Laden was preparing attacks inside the United States made the excuse extra-ridiculous.
George W. Bush could claim however that there were bureaucratic obstacles which prevented preventing the attacks. That excuse too would have been ridiculous, but at least it would have the benefit of highlighting the lack of coordination and officials in charge of coordination. Barack H. Obama does not have that excuse.
George W. Bush created the Office of the Director of National Intelligence in order to coordinate intelligence information between agencies. That office has existed for years and Obama has been in charge of it for 11 months. Obama must be held to account. Janet Napolitano, the inexperienced on national security boob Obama has appointed to run the obnoxiously named Department of Homeland Security, must be held to account.
Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab’s father had courageously contacted the American Embassy in Abuja in November and met the CIA station chief to tell him that his son was involved with fundamentalist elements in Yemen. American intelligence had also intercepted discussions in Yemen about a possible attack by “the Nigerian”.
The Obama administration knew most, if not all, of this by last Sunday, 48 hours after the attack was thwarted. But the priority in Obamaland was to play things down and take pot shots at the Bush administration.
Janet Napolitano, the Homeland Security chief – who prefers the term “man-caused disasters” to “terrorism” – blithely stated that there was “no indication that it is part of anything larger”. She then insisted that the “system is working”.
Although Napolitano has taken a lot of flak for these comic utterances, she was not “misspeaking” but trotting out the agreed talking points of the day.
Robert Gibbs, Obama’s chief mouthpiece, also stated that “in many ways this system has worked” and would say nothing about a possible wider plot.
Vacationing in Hawaii, Obama thugs tried to link the “winding down” war in Iraq with “foiled” terrorist attacks. Somehow, these Obama boobs fail to recognize that the Detroit attack has sown chaos and new regulations and restrictions which amount to a successful attack - not as successful as the terrorists wished, but successful nevertheless in circumventing security, loading explosives on board an aircraft, and if not for a Christmas miracle, a fireball aircraft crashing into an American city on Christmas Day (causing terror and further havoc throughout New Year’s Day).
Obama and his thugs and incompetents must be held to account:
Meanwhile, the White House was working overtime to build a case against Bush. A source in the White House counsel’s office told The American Spectator of memos frantically seeking information that would “show that the Bush Administration had had far worse missteps than we ever could”.
Republicans smell blood. There is a pattern in the Obama administration of dismissing Islamist terrorist attacks as regrettable random acts. In his radio address after Major Nidal Hassan’s slaughtered 13 at Fort Hood, Texas, Obama made no mention of terrorism or militant Islam, instead blandly promising that the “ongoing investigation into this terrible tragedy” would “look at the motives of the alleged gunman”.
Hassan was a committed Islamist who had corresponded with the fanatical Yemeni imam Anwar al-Awlaki. In June, Abdul Hakim Mujahid Muhammad, a Muslim convert being watched by the FBI and who had previously travelled to Yemen, murdered a US Army recruit in Arkansas. That rated only a tepid statement by Obama about a “senseless act of violence”.
Tepid Obama statements delivered with a yawn and sleepy eyes enable terrorists and terrorism. The terror attacks continue to turn the United States into an armed camp of security roadblocks and bureaucratic searches of persons and personal possessions and Dimocrats continue to protect Obama. Americans can see that the terrorist plots are working and breaking through security while Americans must endure more and more searches and security blocks. Dimocrats remain silent to these outrages or continue to protect Obama.
But the violence wasn’t senseless, it had a calculated objective – just as Abdulmutallab was not, as Obama described him, an “isolated extremist”. No wonder many Americans want to grab Obama by the lapels and scream: “It’s the Jihad, stupid.” Dick Cheney, the former vice-president, clearly struck a nerve when he charged last week that Obama was “trying to pretend we are not at war”.
The White House communications director Dan Pfeiffer eagerly descended into the political fray, responding to Cheney with the obligatory jibe about Iraq and also a litany of examples of Obama’s “public statements that explicitly state we are at war”.
It’s a sure sign that you’re losing the argument when you have to research quotes from your boss’s speeches to prove that he gets it that America is at war. The problem for Obama is that people are now judging him by his actions as well as his words.
Even Marty Peretz, who trys to make light of the terrorist attack by calling it the “skivvies terrorist” knows something is very wrong:
Joe Klein, who spent a lot of print trying more or less to exonerate Dr. Major Nidal Malik Hasan by dint of his being a nutcase, has been curiously silent about Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab. In fact, there’s been a certain shyness among the whole left-wing blogosphere (and among Democrats, generally) about the skivvies terrorist. There is no place for these journalists to hide and no logic, however dubious, with which they can transfer the guilt to us. And, believe me, if they can’t invent this, there is nothing to invent—nothing.
The fact is that the only personage of note to call Abdulmutallab an “isolated extremist,” which is the closest thing to a solitary crank, was the president himself. And he said it when he already knew that American intelligence, in several of its iterations, had long ago been informed that the would-be bomber had been connected to Al Qaeda in Yemen.
Republicans are denouncing George W. Bush for releasing prisoners from Gitmo to Yemen. They are right to do so. Peretz notes that Dimocrats are the ones acting irresponsibly and blindly:
Moreover, the Republicans and the right-wing opinion centers are, of course, riveted on the president’s instinctive detoxification of what was intended as a faithful act of Islam. They are milking it for what it’s worth. But the Democrats and the vast liberal opinion industry are simply ignoring what is, frankly, an historically naïve and dangerous bewitchment. They do this at their peril.
What is the peril and why must Obama be held to account?
I believe that it is Obama’s perception of Abdulmutallab as an “isolated extremist” that is the real source of the intelligence calamity so dramatically revealed in this case.
Peretz trys to protect Obama a bit by dragging Bush and Bill Clinton into the failure. But that is nonsense. The problem is Obama:
But what the president has done is to wrap the Islamic orbit in a sweetly scented cashmere afghan (if you’ll permit this ironic choice of words) that disguises the reality of the real Islam of this world. Obama has done this grandly several times, most especially with his addresses in Istanbul and Cairo, but also in his more quotidian remarks. The failure of the CIA and the other alphabet agencies to connect the dots is a methodological failure. The president’s failure to grasp the realities is an ideological and psychological failure. In a top-down structure, the top always has the advantage.
It is a thorny matter to design grand tactics for both the world as it is and the world as Obama imagines it. Yes, the president’s representatives and, to some extent, he himself are now talking factual essentials. Already during the campaign, he liquidated the war on terrorism. It was not apt. It was diversionary. And, oh, what a relief this was to his ecstatic crowds.
Peretz is beginning to tip toe into the waters we stirred in our article Barack Obama Is Not Qualified To Be President. Barack H. Obama is not qualified to be president because his worldview is either based on lies he perpetuates or is based on hallucinations he injects:
The president’s cool cannot change that. All that he can do, if that is what he wants, is to divert America’s attention from a massacre culture. But it is not likely to work. The economic imbroglio may allow him to divert us a little longer from this historic crossroads. There is also just a chance that he’ll realize he was wrong and admit it to the great public. I’m not sure I’d bet on that. In any case, the American people see the facts and they will be fooled no longer. It’s ironic that a terrorist assault that had no victims has clarified the truth of our circumstances.
The terror on the Left is that Americans will blame Barack H. Obama and Dimocrats in the same way, for the same reasons, we blamed George W. Bush and the Republicans. George W. Bush did successfully manage the 9/11 attacks and the aftermath. That will likely not be the case for Obama and his Dimocrats. Bob Schieffer of CBS News discusses why the spin won’t work this time:
Homeland Security chief Janet Napolitano is getting hammered because her first response to the “Undie-bomber” fiasco was that “the system worked.”
We shouldn’t have been surprised. Sure, she looks a little silly now that the facts are dribbling out. But she was just following the modern bipartisan, public relations template in this age of information management.
First, play down the problem. Second, emphasize what did not go wrong, assure us that those in charge are “investigating,” and most important; emphasize no one in any position of responsibility is at fault. [snip]
When government officials insult us with spin, they are doing it on our dime, which is supposed to be used to operate the government, not to hold news conferences to tell us what a fine job people on the public payroll are doing.
As we learned during Katrina, self-serving spin at the first sign of crisis does not help the situation; it makes it worse, because it makes it harder to believe anything the government says.
Real security is built on trust in the government. That requires truth, which should be the beginning of government presentations, not the fallback position.
The terror on the Left is that Americans are discovering that Obama can’t be trusted. We wrote a long time ago that:We do not trust Obama to run a 7-11 store, let alone a 9-11 type emergency.
The terror on the Left is that Americans agree with us that:
Obama simply cannot be trusted. Obama cannot be trusted on any issue. Obama cannot be trusted by his friends. Obama cannot be trusted by his enemies. Obama cannot be trusted.
Two cable television stations performed a public service on the last and first day of the new year. AMC, for twenty four hours ran a Three Stooges marathon. Cartoon Network as its introduction to the new year broadcast a marathon of Looney Tunes cartoons. There was no better journalism or capture of the zeitgeistthan those broadcasts.
The Stooges, Daffy Duck, Bugs Bunny are all emblems of the age, along with Barack Obama.
We first coined The Age Of Fake on January 23, 2009. Obama was in office for two days and it was obvious back then that Fake was the Age we lived in. Here’s why we first called this The Age of Fake:
The age of contempt for experience and adoration of fake change and fake hope, exemplified by Barack Obama, is here.
The fake hope and the fake change are poses struck by a fake Democrat and fake president. The age of fake was introduced by the fake music that was played at the fake inaugural with its fake oath.
The Age of Fake had its heralds. The Age of Fake was in the making for years. Barack Obama however is the culmination of all that is fake. The fake hammer-on-heads comedy of the Three Stooges has nothing on the flim-flam steal and deal antics of Chicago’s Barack.
The cartoon antics of Looney Tunes are modern day America in the Obama Age of Fake. Can anyone deny that the “balloon boy” charade of last year was not a plot line from a cartoon script? It turned out that balloon boy was all a ruse to scam a contract for a “reality show”. Reality is now a cartoon and “reality shows” nothing but a fake. It’s fake on fake.
Eminem’s (in reality a man named Marshall Mathers) outrage when an invented character named “Borat” fell onto him, bare buttocks touching Em’s face, we now know was scripted outrage. It was cartoonish fake characters outraged over a fake incident in which broadcaster MTV participated in the fake. It was Looney Tunes come to America.
So fake is the fakery in the Age of Fake that Norman Lear, the great liberal, attacked CNN, MSNBC, Fox News, NBC, ABC and CBS regarding the “balloon boy” story. Lear attacked the broadcasters for “creating a climate that mistakes entertainment for news.” Lear thundered that the climate created by the fake news broadcasters, “all but seduces a Richard and Mayumi Heene into believing they are — even if what they dream up to qualify is a hoax — entitled to their 15 minutes.” Lear launched his attack however at the fake progressive Huffington Post, with their fake Arriana and fake intellectuals, and love for the fake Obama.
But the massive frauds of “balloon boy”, “reality” shows, and “Borat” are nothing compared to the “balloon boy” in the White House. Obama’s cartoon antics and looney tunes budgets and spending priorities are the script for the Age of Fake. “Debt is the problem, so spend more”, says Obama. “Health care is a problem, so make cuts to Medicare”, says Obama. Only a cartoon could capture the cartoon fake which is Obama: “The only way to get out is to go in….The only way to save is to spend…The only way to help is to hurt…” The Fakes are in charge.
In the waning days of 2008, as Caroline Kennedy faked her way forward, SEIU financial scandals were revealed, Judas Bill Richardson found himself in hot water, and Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich was revealed as less than a “reformer”, Time magazine named Barack Obama as its Man of the Year. That December we made the connection between the con man named Barack Obama and the financial fraud Bernard Madoff. We wrote then,
It’s been a big year for flim-flam con artists. Barnard Barack Madoff Obama. It’s been a year of something for nothing. It’s been a year when Hopium became the drug of choice. The scams have been many.
Bernard Madoff flim-flammed billions. Obama flim-flammed trillions and promises to flim-flam trillions more.
Democrats used to denounce flim-flams but that was only in the days of “Mission Accomplished” George W. Bush. Now we get fake surprise from fake Democrats about the fake who is one of their own.
He’s more like George W. Bush that you thought
Barack Obama denounced the Bush administration time and time again on the campaign trail in 2008. But in 2009, he suddenly found a surprising number of ways to agree with his predecessor.
Obama initially invoked Bush-ian logic in rejecting a watchdog group’s request for a list of health care executives who had meetings at the White House — sounding a lot like the Bush administration fighting to keep its energy task force meetings secret. The Obama White House relented in part after being sued and released the names of several executives. Since then, Obama has begun to regularly release details on many of the people who visit the executive mansion.
On the campaign trail, Obama also bashed the Bush administration’s 2003 deal with the pharmaceutical industry that blocked the government from negotiating prices with the nation’s drug makers. But during the summer, his administration gave the drug makers the same deal if they’d back his health care plan.
And the president continued his George W. Bush impression when he announced a “surge” of forces in Afghanistan — just as Bush had done in Iraq just over two years earlier.
It was all a fake. It is also a fake to pretend we did not know that it was a fake. It’s fake on top of fake in the Age of Fake.
Today, we want to end the year on a Cloud 9 of Pink fluffiness. We want to discuss Hillary Clinton at the end of 2009 and the beginning of 2010.
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One of the most intriguing observations about the Japanese and the causes of World War II is that the Japanese act collectively. The analysis concludes that, because of their collective mindset, in the 1930s and 40s, the Japanese people went collectively insane. While we think the battle over natural resources leads to a better understanding of the causes of World War II, this interesting observation of 1930s Japanese society skews our view of what is happening in the United States. It’s almost as if the United States has gone collectively insane.
In 2000, the country was saddled with George W. Bush – a man even his family was surprised could possibly want or win the presidency. Yes, the election was a selection by the Supreme Court, but still a lot of people, about half the country, voted for Bush. In 2004 Bush was reelected despite a massive intelligence failure which was exposed with two demolished towers in New York City.
In 2008, after eight years of disaster, the Democratic Party finally organized itself – in order to defeat and destroy the most qualified candidate and gift the nomination to a self-interested boob. The Democratic Party in 2008 dumped the winning FDR coalition in order to embrace a losing “situation comedy” demographic as its base coalition. The Democratic Party in 2008 committed suicide and an ugly monstrosity put on the old Democratic clothes and became the Dimocratic Party of Barack Obama.
This was insanity. A whole decade of insanity. Trade one Republican boob for one Dimocratic boob. Insanity.
Into the American madness, like a pocket of air in a sunken Chappaquiddick car, there is a bubble of sanity.
“At the end of the 21st century’s first decade,” the sanity bubble is Hillary Clinton and her growing army of supporters.
One is a woman who once lived in the White House — Hillary Rodham Clinton. And the other is a woman suspected of harboring ambitions of living there someday — Sarah Palin.
A Democrat and a Republican. A former senator and a former governor. Two polarizing politicians, both moms, both bestselling authors, both who lost their bids for one of the nation’s top elected offices last year.
Are American voters dropping a hint here?
Two women, both savaged and termed “polarizing”, from opposite sides of the political spectrum, find themselves oddly united in a cause. The cause is the fight against sexism and misogyny.
We used to think that it was the Republicans who were mouth-breathers and Neanderthals but now that best describes Obama’s Dimocratic Party. Republicans who are Palin supporters are now champions in the fight against sexism and misogyny. Let’s hope they stay that way and the conversion into opposition of sexism and misogyny is a permanent, eyes opened, new state of being.
The Hillary Clinton Sanity Bubble gives us HOPE. Perhaps the decade of decline and insanity is truly over. As we enter 2010 Hillary Clinton is the most admired woman in the United States, again. A Hillary Clinton versus Sarah Palin 2012 election would forever blast and destroy the glass ceiling of sexism and misogyny that Barack Obama and his Dimocratic Party exploit.
Not that public admiration necessarily translates to votes. But the results have to set off any political spectator’s eager imagination about a future presidential ballot match-up between the pair who, though politically polar opposites, are both outspoken, both often underestimated and both beloved by their respective bases.
The Hillary Clinton Sanity Bubble gives us all HOPE for CHANGE. Not false hope and cheap change, but a successful battle plan for future changes for the better. The Hillary Clinton Sanity Bubble comes from the hearts and minds of Americans. The Sanity Bubble persists even with Obama attempts to pin prick it. The Sanity Bubble persists and grows. The Hillary Clinton Sanity Bubble is a survivor.
Clinton’s 17 straight years as most- or second-most-admired woman is unprecedented since Gallup began asking the question in 1948 (when presidential daughter Margaret Truman and then-Princess, now Queen Elizabeth II were in the top 10.)
Clinton first headed the list in 1993 as the new first lady in the White House.
And she remained highly admired as first lady throughout the public and private turmoils of her husband’s two terms, then as a senator from New York and now as the nation’s 67th secretary of State, only the third woman to hold the post.
Michelle Obama, known for her work in hospital patient dumping schemes found herself in the discount bin of a Science Fiction convention.
The latest new first lady, Michelle Obama, trailed on this year’s most-admired-women list.
She ended up back at No. 4. As The Ticket reported here Monday, in a separate poll, Mrs. Obama is also mirroring her husband’s plunge in approval ratings. From November to December, her approval numbers dropped seven points, down to 55, still higher than the president’s.
The Hillary Clinton Sanity Bubble is not a Wall Street financial Bubble. The Hillary Clinton Sanity Bubble is an antidote to insanity. The Hillary Clinton Sanity Bubble is long term and growing. Have we said “unprecedented”?
Among women, Clinton continues an unprecedented 17-year run as the first or second most-admired woman. She first led the list in 1993 as first lady and has held the top spot for the past eight years as a New York senator and, now, the nation’s top diplomat. [snip]
Over the years, the list has reflected women’s changing roles. In 1948, the top-10 list included presidential daughter Margaret Truman and Princess Elizabeth of England as well as their mothers. Only one, former House member Clare Boothe Luce, had held elective office.
Now, it includes three current or former heads of state, two U.S. secretaries of State, a former governor and a writer, Maya Angelou.
There is not much good news other than the Hillary Clinton Sanity Bubble as we enter the second year of the Barack Obama Age Of Fake swamp. When you elect a boob, expect boobery. We expect a lot more boobery.
The boobery of the New Year will begin at midnight tonight with the Iran drama and the expired deadline. The boobery will continue with the Obama health scam. The boobery will continue. The insanity will not stop. The insanity will have to be stopped.
The insanity will be stopped with sanity. It will begin with massive Dimocratic defeats in November 2010. The insanity will end with Hillary 2012.
We now come to the close of what feels like a hundred years of Obamas in Washington, but it’s really less than 12 full months. There are many year end assessments of Obama’s annus horrendus in Big Media this week so we thought we would add our assessment.
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Barack Obama was not, and is not qualified to be President of the United States. Put aside Obama’s flim-flam history, the thugs he surrounds himself with, his treacheries, his total lack of accomplishments other than self-advancement, his risible résumé, his stinky body odor, the secretiveness of his past, the lack of documentation about earlier periods of his life, drug use, the self-admitted inability to keep a paper in front of him for 2 seconds before losing it, the lies about lost documents from his Chicago legislative office, the grabbing of credit for work others have done, the race-baiting, the woman-hating, the profitable alliances with criminals which even got him a house, the lack of interest in his constituents, the obvious lies when he denies positions he has even affixed his signature to on questionnaires, his lies about being a reformer when he swims in the swamps of Chicago corruption, the ugly church mentor of 20 plus years, his smearing of opponents with sexual or racial slurs, the gay-bashing, the secret deals, the incompetence, the long list of corruptions and boobery… – put all this history we have documented aside. Barack Obama is not qualified to be President because he does not have a world-view which is congruent with reality.
Winston Churchill was in the political wilderness for many years. Churchill’s world view was not viewed positively and few wanted to have much to do with the cigar chomping Winny. Churchill thought that Germany, at the heart of Europe and with many resources and people was a threat to Great Britain, and the peace of Europe. Many labeled Churchill a warmonger and shunned him. Churchill however stood firm. His knowledge of history and geography informed him that Germany was indeed a threat and he held fast to that understanding even though many ostracized him for it. The appeasement of other British leaders and the military actions of Germany eventually forced the world to acknowledge that Winston Churchill’s world view was the one most consistent with reality. Churchill became Prime Minister, then led the Western democracies and Christian civilization itself, from the abyss of despair into victory.
To be an American president means having a world view. Hillary Clinton has a world-view. Hillary Clinton mocked Obama in her insightful “celestial choirs” speech. Hillary Clinton mocked Obama about his foolish “no preconditions, in the first year, anywhere, anytime” meetings with America’s enemies. Hillary Clinton mocked Obama as “naive”. Hillary Clinton was saying that Obama did not know or understand how the world works. Hillary Clinton was saying that Obama’s world view was not congruent with reality. Hillary Clinton has been proved right.
Today, Leslie Gelb begins a very polite and gentle narrative, saying pretty much that Obama better get a reality based world-view, quickly or we all face continued disaster with a boob in charge. Writes Gelb, “If the president wants to be more than a one-term wonder, he needs to have a vision.”
Don’t be fooled by the year-end reprieve of President Obama because the economy looks a bit brighter and the Senate passed a health bill. He’s been pummeled hard all along the political spectrum. He’s in trouble. If he doesn’t overhaul himself and his administration quickly, right-wing bizarros will control Congress in 2011 and he’ll be looking for another job in 2013. He’ll end up a one-termer like Jimmy Carter and George H. W. Bush. Obama can’t afford to wait to make a mid-course correction a year from now. He’s got to make a quarter-course correction in the next months. He needs to prioritize and focus his energies on the economy, teach his opponents to fear him, and change some top personnel. Above all, he’s got to modify his own ways. He puts far too much store on being the smartest guy in the room and not enough on experience. He’d do well to remember that Jimmy Carter also rang all the IQ bells.
Gelb singles out H.W. Bush and Jimmy Carter as examples of single term presidents. Both had a problem understanding the world. George H.W. Bush squirmed when he discussed “the vision thing”. H.W. knew that for all the items on his résumé he lacked the clarity of vision, or world-view, of his predecessor Ronald Reagan. Ronald Reagan’s world-view was that Soviet Russia was “the evil Empire” and all his actions flowed easily from that perception. A world view is not a set of positions, it is a deep understanding which is in the bones of atavistic history. H.W. Bush made a mess in Iraq but was saved when Margaret Thatcher insisted Iraq be pushed out of Kuwait. H.W. also had a lifetime of experience in job after job which allowed him to accept there was much he did not know and that accepting advice from strong leaders like Thatcher were a help not a hindrance.
Jimmy Carter was a man conflicted. He wanted to be Pope but settled for president. He reacted to events because he did not have a world-view from the outset which comported with reality. Wanting to be an honest man and a peacemaking leader he instead was forced to react to evil in the world and bumbled and stumbled badly. Iran is a great part of his sad legacy.
Both Carter and H.W. had problems with “the vision thing”. Obama too is out of his element (that being the corrupt waters of second city Chicago) and that leads to disaster for us all.
Mind you, I want Barack Obama to succeed. The simple truth, increasingly ignored by Americans and non-Americans alike, is that if he fails, we all fail: Corrosive nastiness and stalemates grow at home, and the world drowns without effective American leadership. I’m talking here about Obama’s success specifically because too many Democrats border on incompetent and Republicans excel mainly at destruction. Obama shouldn’t console himself by believing that as jobs slowly return, his reelection will be saved. His problems, our problems, run much deeper than jobs.
Bill Clinton understood that American military and world power was based on economic power. Bill Clinton knew “it’s the economy, stupid”. American economic strength was deployed by Bill Clinton to solve intractable problems around the world. Northern Ireland and it’s age-old “troubles” is one example of Bill Clinton’s wielding power effectively. Bill Clinton also understood the Teddy Roosevelt and John Kennedy world-view “speak softly, but carry a big stick”. Bill Clinton kept America strong at home and abroad by keeping America economically strong.
More Gelb on boob Obama:
First and foremost, the president must have an overriding theme to discipline himself and focus Americans and the world. He’s been acting as if there are dozens of major issues, when there is only one—the economy, the economy, and the economy. Every other “major” issue has to be judged by how it affects the economy. Our economy is at the heart of our military and diplomatic power, and of our democracy, as Obama said at West Point—but he doesn’t say enough or nor do enough on a day-to-day basis.
Gelb does not understand that Obama knows pretty words and the crafted imagery of his speechwriters via the TelePrompter. But Obama does not understand the meaning of those words. It’s like having a young child star sing, with great feeling and great vocal power, songs about the heartbreak of love and life – the words are there but the understanding is not.
Gelb also fails to let go of the Hopium when he suggests the problems are with legislators and not with Obama when it comes to corruption and “thieving politicians”. As we wrote above, Gelb is being very polite and generous.
When things go wrong at basic levels, there’s only one solution: Go back to basics. Basics means infrastructure—human and physical. We’re falling apart. [snip] But our infrastructure won’t improve if decisions are left in the hands of thieving politicians in state legislatures, or if union workers just stand around so that jobs that used to take one year now take 10. The White House will have to fight to ensure the money gets to the people and the work gets done. That’s far more useful and necessary than Obama flying off on marginal journeys to Copenhagen and the Far East.
Dear Gelb, please understand, those “marginal journeys” Obama makes are his very air. Obama loves the attention and puffing himself up. These trips do not help America at all, but that is not Obama’s interest. Obama only cares about himself. One day Gelb will have the courage, or desire, to finally write this obvious truth.
Gelb wants Obama to go against his very nature, to “modify his own ways”. That’s like asking a coward to be courageous, a follower to lead, a crook to be honest, a Chicago politician to keep his hands in his own pockets.
“Veto that pork” exclaims Gelb. But Obama is a Chicago politician to whom pork projects and waste are the purpose of public life. Gelb pleads, “Same on the need to veto all those damned bridges to nowhere, the pork that candidate Obama promised to get rid ofand that President Obama ignores.”
Gelb explains what a world-view is and the practical effects of acting on a world-view:
Elevating the economy to the sole priority doesn’t mean forsaking other major concerns. It means putting those concerns in economic perspective. Obama can fight global warming by funding new forms of energy, which also will reduce the production of offending carbons and stimulate the economy. To deal with health care, focus the final round of congressional bargaining on cost controls to get the deadly deficits under better control. Perhaps the main killer of our economy is that health costs will soon approach 20 percent of our economy. [snip]
Looking down the road, we can do more to protect ourselves through cheaper policies of devastating air strikes and commando raids, containment with allies who share our interests, tried and true divide-and-conquer tactics against our enemies, and good old reliable deterrence, than by embroiling ourselves in endlessly draining civil wars and insurgencies. It will be less expensive and more effective to let our friends know from the outset that their security is primarily their responsibility, that we will help a lot if they’ll fight, but that most of the fighting must be up to them.
Gelb wants Obama to do what Obama is unable to do. Gelb wants Obama to gain a lifetime of experience through sheer will not hard work. But Obama simply does not have the experience needed to be president. All Obama has to show is self-advancement. Obama is the apex of the age of fake: a celebrity who is known for being famous.
Obama is the problem. Obama is not qualified to be president.It’s like asking a chicken to soar with the eagle. It’s like asking Obama to be Hillary Clinton with her lifetime of experience. It’s like asking Obama to be Hillary Clinton with her lifetime fighting to make the world a better place even if she makes enemies while making things better.
Getting policy priorities established and White House power in gear requires that Obama fix up both himself and his team. He can’t keep pronouncing and speechifying on everything. Every time he does, he’s got to say something new, otherwise nothing gets reported. So, he says something new, and it’s different from what he said last time, everyone gets confused about his goals and policies. He also has to impose message discipline. One top economic counselor, Larry Summers, said that the economy and jobs are rebounding. Another top economic counselor, Christina Romer, said that they aren’t. His Vice President Joe Biden says that U.S. troops will start leaving Afghanistan on July 2011, and his senior military advisers say that it “depends.” Jimmy Carter drowned his power in such inconsistencies.
Obama must have White House staff and senior Cabinet officers who will share his policy focus and accept discipline. Above all, that requires that he be clear and consistent in his own mind about what he’s doing. One Obama word out of place and his advisers will simply run off in their own different directions. The president needs managers and strategists, experienced hands in getting things done.
Obama is the problem. Rahm Emanuel was successful in the Clinton White House because Hillary demoted him when he needed to be demoted, disciplined him when he needed to be disciplined, smacked him on the head when he needed to be smacked. All the Clinton era appointees in the world will not help Obama because the problem is Obama. Obama is not qualified to be president. Obama can’t be trusted by friend nor foe. Obama can’t be trusted.
Obama knew it all along. His supporters are beginning to realize it now. We knew it all along. Obama is not qualified to be president. Obama, is not qualified to be president.
We’re not talking about his manboobs. We’re talking about what makes Barack Obama tick.
After a long year of ceaseless flim-flams, which make the year feel more like a decade, some are beginning to trace an outline of Obama’s innards. We are getting a version of what Big Media thinks Obama is made of. It is important that we are finally getting to some evidence based analysis instead of worship.
Doctors, cosmologists, detectives, lawyers, mothers, fathers, most everyone has to look at the world around them and figure out how things work. Doctors must make a diagnosis and then devise a treatment. Cosmologists look at the universe and decide upon a theory of what they are seeing.
In earlier Earth history cosmologists agreed that the universe revolved around the earth. These cosmologists fought and derided those who believed the Sun was the center of our star system. Eventually the cosmologists who, based on evidence – not faith nor hope, determined the Earth revolved around the Sun were proven right.
The same can be said of the current debate about Barack Obama. Here at Big Pink we have contended that Barack Obama is a flim-flam man. Obama is only interested, as his own wife has stated, in his selfish self-advancement and careerism. According to us, Barack Obama is an opportunist who has never accomplished anything but his own self-advancement; Obama is not qualified to be president; is a boob; and lacks a basic rational world-view as well as any experience for the job he has been gifted.
Our views of Obama are evidence based. Whether it’s Rezko, what happened in Illinois with health care, Exelon, Obama’s race-baiting which goes back to his early Hawaii days where Obama blamed all his failures on race (”The fact that Obama was half-black and half-white didn’t matter much to anyone but Obama, Kakugawa says: “He made everything out like it was all racial.” )
The opposite view of Obama we deride as creations by Hopium guzzlers and Mess-iah worshipers. Their view is that Obama is wonderful and gifted and deserving of great respect and applause.
The two views of Obama are opposed to each other just as the views of those earlier cosmologists were opposed to each other. Eventually the evidence will be in and one side will be proven correct beyond any doubt.
Amazing how the recollections of Obama’s friends over and over again conflict with Obama’s fictionalized accounts of his life story.
“He made everything out like it was all racial.” Sounds like Reverend Wright. 20 years he sat in that church and listened alongside his children.
At the embarrassment which is NBC we see a faith based boob trying to understand why Obama is such a failure when so much was expected of him. The boob at NBC is no ordinary boob. The boob is the Washington Bureau Chief for NBC. Scratching his head to try to figure out why his god has failed, Mark Whitaker, the NBC boob in chief, does exactly what he should not do.
Seeking to make sense of Barack Obama’s first year as president — and why he has come across as competent but less magical than many Americans hoped — I’ve been rereading his autobiography, “Dreams From My Father.”
To revisit that memoir is to be reminded of what a mixed-up childhood the president had. The brilliant but troubled Kenyan father who abandoned his teenage bride and their infant son. The footloose mother who took “Barry” to Indonesia with a second husband, then shipped him back to Hawaii to live with his grandparents. The sense of alienation he felt as a young black man growing up with few African American friends or role models.
Mark Whitaker is a fool. Instead of asking himself if “Dreams From My Father” is a bunch of lies, Whitaker goes on prayerful knees to his pilgrimage site, just like Muslims go to the Kaaba in Mecca. Losing his faith Whitaker re-reads his Barack Bible of lies to try to recapture the glow of earlier cathedral visits to light Obama Hope candles. This is the man in charge of NBC News is Washington!
Instead of acting like a journalist and wondering if he has been flim-flammed, Mark Whitaker seeks to renew his faith in the golden calf. Instead of asking if Obama’s “autobiography” is a bunch of lies which has deceived readers, Whitaker makes new excuses for Obama. Instead of asking, like a journalist, if Obama’s history is more akin to a rejected and dislocated youth who turned to back-slapping and flim-flam confidence games to fill the hole in his life (caused by his disgusting sperm-spraying father and his, to be polite, open petals mother) Whitaker swallows the fake history whole.
Whitaker also absolves Obama of any blame while blaming everyone else. Obama was brilliant on the economy says Whitaker, it was those dastard Dimocrats who harmed Obama’s brilliant plan by gorging themselves on pork projects. Whitaker blames evil Wall Street for being selfish, unlike his wonderful Obama. On Afghanistan Obama is brilliant, according to Whitaker but those “manipulative” generals and advisers made Obama look like a boob. Whitaker blames the health care fiasco not on wonderful Obama but on “grandiose” legislators who hijacked wonderful Obama’s plans.
This nonsense comes from NBC’s top man in Washington. And not to worry Obama fans, Whitaker is sure Obama will brilliantly learn from his boobery. This is the nonsense and worshipful crap that comes from NBC:
Yet, if this first year has sometimes made President Obama seem caught off-guard and frustrated by the meanness and mayhem of Washington, no one should assume that he won’t learn from the experience.
The other theme running through “Dreams From My Father” is Obama’s capacity for self-examination and self-improvement. He has applied that introspection to becoming a better person, a better writer and speaker, and a better politician. In Hawaii for the holidays, taking the long walks he so misses at the White House, Obama may well be reflecting on what he needs to do to be a more effective president.
Mark Whitaker writes like a love struck dumb teen. Mark Whitaker is a self-interested fool and boob, just like the network he serves.
Doyle McManus, at the L.A. Times has not yet caught up with our analysis, but at least he is acting like a journalist and holding Obama to account using Obama’s own words. McManus, is also slowly drawing the anatomy of a flim-flam man:
He promised to save the economy from ruin, redesign the healthcare system, reregulate the financial industry, retool energy policy, slow global warming, reform education, write a new immigration law and serve as midwife to a new era of bipartisan cooperation. He said he would close the prison camp at Guantanamo, organize an orderly withdrawal from Iraq, stave off defeat in Afghanistan, negotiate with Iran, make progress toward Israeli-Palestinian peace, convince the world’s Muslims that America was their friend, launch a new drive toward global nuclear disarmament — and, while he was at it, bring the 2016 Olympics to Chicago.
McManus outlines the celestial choir hopes and dreams of Obama worshipers. Then McManus does the important analysis which point by point shows Obama’s flim-flam in full flower:
Obama turned out to be masterful at launching new policies but inconsistent at getting them to work. His presidency threatened to fall into a worrisome pattern: the announcement of a lofty goal, the delegation of implementation to second-rank officials, a missed deadline or two, last-minute intervention by the president to rescue the effort from collapse, and, finally, mixed results — followed by a statement claiming victory.
Isn’t that exactly what we have seen? Notice the fact based approach McManus employs at the L.A. Times versus the faith based boobery of Mark Whitaker at NBC. McManus looks at the facts as they are, not as he wishes they were. Obama’s stimulus scam McManus notes is a failure in voters eyes. The Obama homeowners plan (not the wonderful Hillary HOLC program which should have been the priority) McManus declares “a bust”, based on evidence. The Obama Wall Street bailout McManus measures appropriately as bankers “awarding themselves huge bonuses”.
McManus notes that, based on the evidence, Obama is not a communicator:
A Pew poll this month found that only 30% of respondents believed Obama’s policies had made the economy better. A president who made his name as a gifted speechmaker has fallen into a spectacular failure in communicating. He might have served himself better by making fewer trips to Scandinavia and more to construction sites in Middle America.
The effect, based on evidence, is failure:
There’s been an important spillover effect: Obama’s other policies — on healthcare and energy, for example — have lost popular support along with his economic plan. Despite the depth of the economic crisis, the public isn’t clamoring for more federal intervention; quite the contrary. That means Obama hasn’t succeeded in building a strong constituency for his overall philosophy of government, a shortfall that will limit what he can achieve from here on.
McManus is generous to Obama. He does not fully see the disaster this year has been. He credits Obama on the economy and on healthcare as well as in foreign policy, because there have been “no outright disasters.”
We of course see the economic devastation of mounting debt, likely inflation, and a looted middle class to benefit insurance companies. We see Iran as an outright disaster, and a lost opportunity.
McManus is to be complimented for holding Obama to account, using Obama’s own standards.
McManus is at least trying to act like a journalist, letting facts lead him to conclusions. It’s what good detectives and good journalists do.
Let facts lead to conclusions. It’s what flim-flam men fear.
Off on a two week Hollywood Hawaiian vacation Obama is busy taking care, as usual, of what benefits himself. The world is going to hell in a hand-basket, but Obama is too busy to care – presumably flashing his manboobs on sandy beaches and on the luxurious estate he now calls home.
We are thankful that finally we have a respite from the ceaseless Obama publicity stunt appearances, but many are asking “Where’s Obama?”
Still no word from the president about the failed Christmas Day terrorism attempt,but the White House did distribute a statement from him today on the death of Percy Sutton.
Obama called Sutton “a true hero to African Americans in New York City and around the country” whose “life-long dedication to the fight for civil rights and his career as an entrepreneur and public servant made the rise of countless young African Americans possible.”
The president also made time for a workout and some early-morning basketball today. On the guest list for a couple of games at the gym: Marty Nesbitt, Eric Whitaker, Denis McDonough, Bill Burton, Reggie Love, Pete Newell, Grant Campbell and Ben Finkenbinder.
Today, another incident on a flight from Amsterdam (another Nigerian it appears, on the same flight number) but Obama is busy – possibly watching Tiger Woods videos to improve his laughable golf game.
Iranian police opened fire on protesters in Tehran on Sunday, killing at least four people, including a nephew of the opposition leader Mir Hussein Moussavi, as vast crowds of demonstrators flooded the streets of cities across Iran and fiercely fought security forces, according to witnesses and opposition Web sites.
The protests, taking place on the holiday marking the death of Shiite Islam’s holiest martyr, were the bloodiest — and among the largest — since the uprisings that followed Iran’s disputed presidential election last June, with hundreds of thousands of people thronging Tehran alone, witnesses said. There were reports of hundreds of injured people and numerous arrests.
In Tehran, thick crowds marched down a central avenue in mid-morning, defying official warnings of a harsh crackdown on protests as they chanted, “Death to the dictator!” They refused to retreat even as police fired tear gas, charged them with batons and discharged warning shots.
The police then opened fire directly into the crowd, opposition Web sites said, citing witnesses. At least four people were killed, the Web sites reported, and photographs circulated of a man with a bloodied head being carried from the scene.
One of the dead was Ali Moussavi, Mr. Moussavi’s 35-year-old nephew, the Parleman News Web site reported. He was shot near the heart at midday in Tehran’s Enghelab Square, the report said.
The Iranian people are rising against their oppressors. Obama however is busy flashing his manboobs and looking at the mirror and thinking “What a clever fellow am I.” For Americans it is a lost opportunity to express solidarity with a freedom movement filled with real Hope for real Change. But Obama is missing.
The day’s clashes showed an opposition movement that is becoming bolder and more direct in its challenge to Iran’s ruling authorities. Yet the protesters continued to reclaim Islamic symbols from the government, which has cast its opponents as anti-religious rioters. On Saturday, when protesters gathered outside a prayer hall where the reformist former president Muhammad Khatami was speaking, they chanted, “The family of the Imam are with us,” a reference to Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the leader of Iran’s 1979 revolution. Ayatollah Khomeini’s grandson, Hassan, is widely said to support the opposition movement.
On Tuesday, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad did not just reject President Obama’s latest feckless floating nuclear deadline. He spat on it, declaring that Iran “will continue resisting” until the U.S. has gotten rid of its 8,000 nuclear warheads.
So ends 2009, the year of “engagement,” of the extended hand, of the gratuitous apology — and of spinning centrifuges, two-stage rockets and a secret enrichment facility that brought Iran materially closer to becoming a nuclear power.
We lost a year. But it was not just any year. It was a year of spectacularly squandered opportunity. In Iran, it was a year of revolution, beginning with a contested election and culminating this week in huge demonstrations mourning the death of the dissident Grand Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri — and demanding no longer a recount of the stolen election but the overthrow of the clerical dictatorship.
Obama responded by distancing himself from this new birth of freedom. First, scandalous silence. Then, a few grudging words. Then relentless engagement with the murderous regime. With offer after offer, gesture after gesture — to not Iran, but the “Islamic Republic of Iran,” as Obama ever so respectfully called these clerical fascists — the U.S. conferred legitimacy on a regime desperate to regain it.
Why is this so important? Because revolutions succeed at that singular moment, that imperceptible historical inflection, when the people, and particularly those in power, realize that the regime has lost the mandate of heaven. With this weakening dictatorship desperate for affirmation, why is the U.S. repeatedly offering just such affirmation?
Apart from ostracizing and delegitimizing these gangsters, we should be encouraging and reinforcing the demonstrators.
Poor Charles Krauthammer. He thinks Obama cares. Obama only cares for his comfort and his self-advancement. Why should he disturb his slumbers and the airing of his manboobs?
With his wealth, privilege and education at one of Britain’s leading universities, Abdul Farouk Abdulmutallab had the world at his feet – able to choose from a range of futures in which to make his mark on the world.
Instead, the son of one of Nigeria’s most important figures opted to make his impact in a very different way – by detonating 80g of explosives sewn into his underpants, and trying to destroy a passenger jet as it came in to land at Detroit Airport on Christmas Day.
As he was charged by US authorities last night with attempting to blow up an airliner, a surprising picture emerged of the would-be bomber.
Abdulmutallab, 23, had lived a gilded life, and, for the three years he studied in London, he stayed in a £2m flat. He was from a very different background to many of the other al-Qa’ida recruits who opt for martyrdom.
Perhaps Obama viewed Abdulmutallab as a potential donor. In either case, Obama has gone missing even as Abdulmutallab’s father took steps which must be the most painful a father can ever take:
Abdulmutallab’s father, Umaru, is the former economics minister of Nigeria. He retired earlier this month as the chairman of the First Bank of Nigeria but is still on the boards of several of Nigeria’s biggest firms, including Jaiz International, a holding company for the Islamic Bank. The 70-year-old, who was also educated in London, holds the Commander of the Order of the Niger as well as the Italian Order of Merit.
Dr Mutallab said he was planning to meet with police in Nigeria last night after realising his son had joined the notorious roster of al-Qa’ida terrorists, and is said to have warned the US authorities about his son’s extreme views six months ago.
Dr. Mutallab, presumably in deep pain, did his duty and reported his terrorist son. But duty is not in the Obama vocabulary. “Self-advancement” and “careerism”, as Michelle Obama herself described Obama, are part of Obama’s life aims.
Santa has come and gone leaving presents for the nice and coals for the naughty. Santa has also left us with this lesson: Don’t count your chickens before they come home to roost.
Barack Obama and the Dimocrats, think they are Santa, dispensing trillions of dollars squeezed from a Chinese government credit card. Americans however are growing resistant to “gifts” purchased with America’s future and the future of their children.
That’s why Barack Obama’s approval ratings continue to diminish. Approval for the health scam is on the death bed too as Americans realize they will not be better off post Obama health scam than prior to the scam. Even after the Senate vote Americans continue to disapprove and express overwhelming lack of understanding of the crooked scam sold as a straight home run by delusional Dimocrats.
Michelle Obama too, even with worshipful Big Media coverage, is breaking like a glass ornament hitting cement reality.
Santa Clause has come and gone. He gave a Merry Christmas and a Ho, Ho, Ho. Santa then looked at the damage done by Barack Obama and ran, scared of what he will find next year. Santa came, saw, and ran – back to the North Pole.
Is it really April Fools’ Day and not Christmas Eve Eve? Is this the cruelest month, not the winter wonderland month?
In the next few days as the attention shifts from the political to the personal we expect skulduggery to reign supreme. The travesties to come we can only imagine now that Obama and Obama’s Dimocrats have at least a week of “Friday Dump Day” opportunities.
We know that tomorrow, as shoppers (those with jobs) head to buy gifts and the networks of travel are filled with “Home For the Holidays” voyagers, Senate Dimocrats will be busy. Not only will there be a vote to advance the Obama health scam there will also be a new debt ceiling authorized.
The measure, passed last week by the House of Representatives, would increase the debt limit, now at $12.1 trillion, by $290 billion.
Senate Democrats may approve the measure largely by themselves because most, if not all, Republicans are expected to vote against it, Republican aides said. Democrats control the Senate, 60-40.
The good news is that Dimocrats were not able to raise the debt ceiling as much as they wanted. That’s what passes for good news this April December.
Democratic leaders had hoped to raise the limit by at least $1.8 trillion, enough to ensure they would not have to revisit the issue before the November 2010 congressional elections. But they were unable to agree on measures that lawmakers had hoped to attach to the legislation to control the debt. The two-month hike provides more time to reach a deal.
The government posted a record $1.4 trillion deficit in the fiscal year ended September 30 and is on track this year to spend at least $1 trillion more than it collects.
Senate Republicans agreed Tuesday to allow a Christmas Eve vote on raising the federal debt ceiling but are insisting on a 60-vote supermajority for passage, a precedent that could come back to haunt both parties in the future.
Debt ceiling votes are inevitably partisan but high-stakes ventures, and this is even more so today, since failure risks throwing the government into default at a time when Washington relies on foreign investment to help finance its burgeoning deficits.
For this reason, the long-standing bipartisan Senate practice has been to require only a simple majority on free-standing bills to raise the debt ceiling. Tuesday’s agreement breaks new ground, establishing that 60 votes will be needed for passage on this week’s debt vote and another to be debated in January.
Republicans are hypocrites with their complaints of raising the debt ceiling but the good news is that they are at least doing something to impede the hemorrhage of money. It is sad that such harsh measures, such as a 60 vote threshold, must be deployed in order to debate fiscal waste, but it is April and the fools are in charge.
More raises for the debt limit are in store and maybe some sanity will someday prevail. But don’t expect sanity or the fools to be rousted soon. This April Fools’ Day might last years.
Pending in the Senate already is a second House resolution raising the ceiling by about half this, or $925 billion. It’s now anticipated that this measure will be called up Jan. 20 and amended by Democrats to set a new unspecified target. And as part of Tuesday’s agreement, 11 potential amendments will be made in order, including five backed by Republicans. [snip]
A 60-vote threshold is also established for this amendment to be added, and the confrontation sets the stage for what could be a game-changing debate on fiscal policy — all within days of President Barack Obama’s State of the Union address and the release of his new 2011 budget in February.
We don’t really expect a “game-changing debate on fiscal policy”. We do expect a lot of flowery words, which will add up to a bunch of lies, and promises and more promises on top of promises.
All the promises will be broken however. The latest bit of news this April, just before Christmas, has to do with the prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. Remember, Obama promised in January to close that durn thing down?
As a result, officials now believe that they are unlikely to close the prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, and transfer its population of terrorism suspects until 2011 at the earliest — a far slower timeline for achieving one of President Obama’s signature national security policies than they had previously hinted.
Here at Big Pink we are not surprised at all. We wrote today’s news back on January 12, 2009. Our crystal ball is still working it seems. This is what we wrote:
When Obama made his campaign promise to close Guantanamo the situation was just as complex as it is today. If anything the actual issue itself should be less complex because there has been so much more time to think about Guantanamo. Obama is simply hedging his bets and flim-flamming Americans with flowery words. Obama can’t be trusted.
The Obama flim-flams are very easy to predict. If Obama says it’s a sunny day, look out your window because it is snowing or raining. If Obama says “I didn’t campaign on the public option” you can bet he campaigned on the public option.
In the interview, Obama vigorously defended the legislation, saying he is “not just grudgingly supporting the bill. I am very enthusiastic about what we have achieved.”
“Nowhere has there been a bigger gap between the perceptions of compromise and the realities of compromise than in the health-care bill,” Obama said. “Every single criteria for reform I put forward is in this bill.” [snip]
Those elements are in the House and Senate versions of the legislation; their competing proposals will have to be reconciled in conference committee next year. The House bill includes a government-run insurance plan favored by progressive Democrats; the Senate version does not. “I didn’t campaign on the public option,” Obama said in the interview.
Even the Hopium guzzlers at the Gabor sister website are laughing at that Obama lie. In August, those Hopium guzzlers posted video after video and document after document (including from the Obama campaign promise website) detailing Obama’s lies on health care.
Our favorite category of Obama health care lies is the one about how he would block lobbyists and beat up on Big Pharma – before he made the deals with Big Pharma lobbyists.
And we can’t forget the attacks on Hillary over mandates. Obama was against mandates before he was for mandates. Hillary’s mandates made sense because they were part of a well thought out plan for health care and she would have fought for her sensible plan.
Expect more Obama lies in the coming week while Americans are distracted with family and deteriorating finances. Obama and the Dimocrats think Americans are fools. So expect more scams, bigger scams, scamier scams, before the new year.
The calendar says it’s December, but for Obama and his Dimocrats, it’s always April.
Born into slavery as one of the youngest of thirteen children of James and Elizabeth in Ulster County, New York, in 1797, Sojourner Truth’s given name was Isabella Baumfree. As almost all of her brothers and sisters had been sold to other slave owners, some of her earliest memories were of her parents’ stories of the cruel loss of their other children. [snip]
In 1843, she changed her name to Sojourner Truth – her name for a traveling preacher, one who speaks the truth – and left New York. She traveled throughout New England, where she met and worked with abolitionists such as William Lloyd Garrison, and Frederick Douglass. Her life story, The Narrative of Sojourner Truth: A Northern Slave, written with the help of friend Olive Gilbert, was published in 1850.
While traveling and speaking in states across the country, Sojourner Truth met many women abolitionists and noticed that although women could be part of the leadership in the abolitionist movement, they could neither vote nor hold public office. It was this realization that led Sojourner to become an outspoken supporter of women’s rights.
In 1851, she addressed the Women’s Rights Convention in Akron, Ohio, delivering her famous speech “Ain’t I a Woman?” The applause she received that day has been described as “deafening.” From that time on, she became known as a leading advocate for the rights of women. She became one of the nineteenth century’s most eloquent voices for the cause of anti-slavery and women’s rights.
Because we want to share our ideas and experiences, our common goals, and nonpartisan solutions to the challenges that we face - and there are no limits to what we can achieve when we do.
And because we want to keep working for a better future for every child, from every family – a world in which no limits is not just our goal, but a reality!
NoLimits.org will "keep you up to date with news about issues on which Hillary took a lead and we know you care so much about," group President Ann Lewis said in an e-mail to as many as 2 million people culled from the Clinton campaign database.
Because No Limits is a registered nonprofit, "it cannot do anything political. It has to be nonpartisan," said Lewis, a longtime senior adviser to Clinton.
In Clinton's job as secretary of state for President Obama, her political dealings are highly restricted.
For example, she shut down her political action committee.
Some, like Democratic consultant and former Bill Clinton aide Chris Lehane, dismiss talk that the group could be a springboard for Clinton to try again for the White House in, say, 2016.
"Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar," Lehane said. "I think this is just [a] group of folks who developed relationships in an intense [electoral] environment and want to stay together."
But the University of Virginia's Larry Sabato countered: "Whenever a group like this says it's not a political organization, you just know it is."
"Maybe [this] is Hillary's answer to Obama's new 'change' group that controls his golden mailing list. Maybe it's a way for Secretary of State Clinton to mobilize backing for her objectives at the State Department," he said. "And maybe [it's] a standby committee of supporters in case Hillary decides to get back into elective politics."
Democratic consultant Hank Sheinkopf said NoLimits.org is "one way to make sure that she - and/or the former President - still have political leverage."
Hillary World-Wide January 26, 2009
Secretary of State Hillary R. Clinton Meets Afghan Women Lawyers. Secretary of State Hillary R. Clinton met today at the State Department with fourteen prominent Afghan women judges, prosecutors, and defense attorneys. These jurists were in Washington to participate in a training program arranged by the Department’s Public-Private Partnership for Justice Reform in Afghanistan. Secretary Clinton told them: "Your American friends greatly admire your bravery and courage. It is your work in the tough environment of Afghanistan for women lawyers that will bring real reform and the rule of law to the Afghan people. As President Obama made clear yesterday in his first foreign policy announcement, we are committed to supporting your efforts to bring security and stability to your country."
