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Showing posts with label Barack Obama. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Barack Obama. Show all posts
March 9, 2012
February 23, 2012
FAIL: THE SOLYNDRA PRESIDENT
From its beginning, to its end; Solyndra holds to be the perfect metaphor for the Barack Obama presidency...propped-up, wooed, subsidized, varnished, coddled, fraudulent, regretful, broken, start over and abandon principles and succumb the market forces - duh!
The old Solyndra building is for sale.
The old Solyndra building is for sale.
June 13, 2011
ECO - LAUGH OF THE DAY.
Electric cars not so green after all.
All show, no go. Most troubling?...is Obama actually feels cool in this car.
All show, no go. Most troubling?...is Obama actually feels cool in this car.
May 15, 2011
MORE CIGARETTES, LESS OIL ?!? GET A GRIP.
It is absurd to me that the public has virtually no outrage over how much the tobacco/cigarette industry profits while its product poisons, tars, and kills people everyday across the globe.
The profit margin on cigarettes is more than 3 times that of big, evil OIL. Now quit listening to all the lefty bitching and see the stats and read more here.
Via Carpe Diem
March 26, 2011
HAMMER MEETS NAIL: THE PROFESSOR'S WAR.
The Professor’s War
America is led by a man determined that it should not lead.
President Obama is proud of how he put together the Libyan operation. A model of international cooperation. All the necessary paperwork. Arab League backing. A Security Council resolution. (Everything but a resolution from the Congress of the United States, a minor inconvenience for a citizen of the world.) It’s war as designed by an Ivy League professor.
True, it took three weeks to put this together, during which time Moammar Qaddafi went from besieged, delusional (remember those youthful protesters on “hallucinogenic pills”) thug losing support by the hour — to resurgent tyrant who marshaled his forces, marched them to the gates of Benghazi, and had the U.S. director of national intelligence predicting that “the regime will prevail.”But what is military initiative and opportunity compared with paper?
Well, let’s see how that paper multilateralism is doing. The Arab League is already reversing itself, criticizing the use of force it just authorized. Amr Moussa, secretary general of the Arab League, is shocked — shocked! — to find that people are being killed by allied airstrikes. This reaction was dubbed mystifying by one commentator, apparently born yesterday and thus unaware that the Arab League has forever been a collection of cynical, warring, unreliable dictatorships of ever-shifting loyalties. A British soccer mob has more unity and moral purpose. Yet Obama deemed it a great diplomatic success that the League deigned to permit others to fight and die to save fellow Arabs for whom 19 of 21 Arab states have yet to lift a finger.
And what about that brilliant U.N. resolution?
● Russia’s Vladimir Putin is already calling the Libya operation a medieval crusade.
● China is calling for a cease-fire to be put in place — which would completely undermine the allied effort by leaving Qaddafi in power, his people at his mercy, and the country partitioned and condemned to ongoing civil war.
● Brazil joined China in that call for a cease-fire. This just hours after Obama ended his fawning two-day Brazil visit. Another triumph of presidential personal diplomacy.
And how about NATO? Let’s see. As of this writing, Britain wanted the operation to be led by NATO. France adamantly disagreed, citing Arab sensibilities. Germany wanted no part of anything, going so far as to pull four of its ships from NATO command in the Mediterranean. France and Germany walked out of a NATO meeting on Monday, while Norway had planes in Crete ready to go but refused to let them fly until it had some idea who the hell is running the operation. And Turkey, whose prime minister four months ago proudly accepted the Qaddafi International Prize for Human Rights, has been particularly resistant to the Libya operation from the beginning.
And as for the United States, who knows what American policy is. Administration officials insist we are not trying to bring down Qaddafi, even as the president insists that he must go. Although on Tuesday Obama did add “unless he changes his approach.” Approach, mind you.
In any case, for Obama, military objectives take a back seat to diplomatic appearances. The president is obsessed with pretending that we are not running the operation — a dismaying expression of Obama’s view that his country is so tainted by its various sins that it lacks the moral legitimacy to . . . what? Save Third World people from massacre?
Obama seems equally obsessed with handing off the lead role. Hand off to whom? NATO? Quarreling amid Turkish resistance (see above), NATO still can’t agree on taking over command of the airstrike campaign, which is what has kept the Libyan rebels alive.
This confusion is purely the result of Obama’s decision to get America into the war and then immediately relinquish American command. Never modest about himself, Obama is supremely modest about his country. America should be merely “one of the partners among many,” he said Monday. No primus inter pares for him. Even the Clinton administration spoke of America as the indispensable nation. And it remains so. Yet at a time when the world is hungry for America to lead — no one has anything near our capabilities, experience, and resources — America is led by a man determined that it should not.
A man who dithers over parchment. Who starts a war from which he wants out right away. Good God. If you go to take Vienna, take Vienna. If you’re not prepared to do so, better then to stay home and do nothing.
— Charles Krauthammer is a nationally syndicated columnist. © 2011 the Washington Post Writers Group.
March 13, 2011
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September 12, 2010
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July 25, 2010
July 14, 2010
"IT'S THE ECONOMY, STUPID"...
...the line made famous by legendary liberal, James Carville. Legendary, mostly because he, and most liberal talking heads do...make statements of "fact" with expiration. For Carville, his statement expired the day Barack Obama became President - of course.
Being that memories are long for the ever vigilant conservatives...credibility matters! As this FT piece has noticed.
As this insightful piece adds...it's not JUST the economy this time.
God help us. And may God help this President/adminstration get smart.
Being that memories are long for the ever vigilant conservatives...credibility matters! As this FT piece has noticed.
As this insightful piece adds...it's not JUST the economy this time.
God help us. And may God help this President/adminstration get smart.
June 30, 2010
June 22, 2010
IS OUR PRESIDENT THE "CHANGE AGENT" THAT HE SOLD HIMSELF AS, OR , A COMPLETELY INCOMPETENT BOOB - OR WORSE ?
Also, cogitate on this statement from Rahm Emanuel, Obama's Chief of Staff, after reading the article - one which of course has gotten a lot of play in conservative circles, but, of course, virtually no play in the lamestream media.
June 20, 2010
June 4, 2010
May 28, 2010
"YES WE CAN" - "NEVER AGAIN" - "HOPE AND CHANGE" BLAH BLAH BLAH Blah Blah blah blah...
Devastating video >>
When you're a Democrat and James Carville is this pissed at you...you're in a lot of trouble.
When you're a Democrat and James Carville is this pissed at you...you're in a lot of trouble.
May 17, 2010
OBAMA MUM: TELEPROMPTER APPARENTLY IS IN THE SHOP
Comments on the signing of the Freedom of Press Act will be postponed.
The hilarity of the level, and regularity of the irony from this Presidency is so rich...words fail to describe.
What does come to mind - if I were a cartoonist - I'd be moving quick on an Iron(Irony) Man spoof...that's all I got...I'm gonna send some emails ;)
-Link(CNN)
The hilarity of the level, and regularity of the irony from this Presidency is so rich...words fail to describe.
What does come to mind - if I were a cartoonist - I'd be moving quick on an Iron(Irony) Man spoof...that's all I got...I'm gonna send some emails ;)
-Link(CNN)
April 22, 2010
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