Showing posts with label Obama. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Obama. Show all posts
So Obama spoke last night...
I maced myself as I crossed the picket line. Screw me, I want to talk about this.
So Obama gave a 7-page, single-spaced speech last night about Libya.
And what do we know now that we didn't know last night?
Who are we fighting to protect? Are the rebels a pack of AQ throw-offs who've been exporting trained terrorists throughout Europe and the Middle East, or are they a plucky band of Benghazi U humanities majors and their spirited public employee union allies acting out a "Red Dune" scenario.
Dunno. Obama didn't tell us.
Told us it was not in our national interest for Libya to have a civil war. Why?
Dunno. Obama didn't tell us.
Told us NATO was" taking command of the enforcement of the arms embargo and the no-fly zone. Last night, NATO decided to take on the additional responsibility of protecting Libyan civilians."
Um, except this morning they're not, not yet, anyway.
Said the United States " has done what we said we would do."
Except we haven't. Ghaddafi is still in power and we have said regime change is not our objective. SO WHO THE FUCK ARE WE BLOWING UP?!
Dunno. Obama didn't tell us.
"Moreover, America has an important strategic interest in preventing Qaddafi from overrunning those who oppose him. A massacre would have driven thousands of additional refugees across Libya’s borders, putting enormous strains on the peaceful –- yet fragile -– transitions in Egypt and Tunisia."
"There will be times, though, when our safety is not directly threatened, but our interests and our values are." Liiiike....? Apparently like those American values that are defended by flying airstrikes in support of Al Qaeda. Those values.
"The United States will not be able to dictate the pace and scope of this change."
"But let us also remember that for generations, we have done the hard work of protecting our own people, as well as millions around the globe. We have done so because we know that our own future is safer, our own future is brighter, if more of mankind can live with the bright light of freedom and dignity."
So Obama gave a 7-page, single-spaced speech last night about Libya.
And what do we know now that we didn't know last night?
Who are we fighting to protect? Are the rebels a pack of AQ throw-offs who've been exporting trained terrorists throughout Europe and the Middle East, or are they a plucky band of Benghazi U humanities majors and their spirited public employee union allies acting out a "Red Dune" scenario.
Dunno. Obama didn't tell us.
Told us it was not in our national interest for Libya to have a civil war. Why?
Dunno. Obama didn't tell us.
Told us NATO was" taking command of the enforcement of the arms embargo and the no-fly zone. Last night, NATO decided to take on the additional responsibility of protecting Libyan civilians."
Um, except this morning they're not, not yet, anyway.
Said the United States " has done what we said we would do."
Except we haven't. Ghaddafi is still in power and we have said regime change is not our objective. SO WHO THE FUCK ARE WE BLOWING UP?!
Dunno. Obama didn't tell us.
"Moreover, America has an important strategic interest in preventing Qaddafi from overrunning those who oppose him. A massacre would have driven thousands of additional refugees across Libya’s borders, putting enormous strains on the peaceful –- yet fragile -– transitions in Egypt and Tunisia."
Except that the refugees are swamping Italy instead, realizing there are no government dole checks in Egypt and Tunisia.
Our commander in chief appears unclear about how bombers and aircraft carriers work. One airstrike on Ghaddafi's palace on day one of the insurrection and the tempo would have changed a LOT.
President Bush, is that you?
To sum up: we weren't told why we went in or how long we're going to be there. We WERE told we don't intend to enforce "regime change" on the monster who supposedly made it imperative we go in. We are defending American values by flying air cover for terrorists and we are defending our national interests by putting our troops in harms' way under the orders of foreign powers who can't even permit themselves to admit they are in charge of the mission they called for. We are flying 95% of the combat missions in this "joint action" and we are going to stay there as long as Sarkozy wants us to.
Did I miss anything?
Libyan Mess Not Obama's Fault
The recent embarrassment of US/NATO intervention in the Libyan civil war, where it has become evident that we have fired $200 million in Tomahawk missiles and uncounted millions in air strikes culminating in the loss an F-15 on behalf of Al Qaeda and its associates, cannot strictly be blamed on the poor judgment, ideological blindness and provincialism of President Barack Hussein Obama.
Personally, I blame the water. I don't know what it is about large bodies of water, but put a Democrat near one...
...whether it's Pearl Harbor...
...the Bay of Pigs...
...the Gulf of Tonkin...
...Chappaquiddick...
...the Gulf of Mexico...
...or the Gulf of Sidra...
...put a Democrat near water and people wind up dead. Mebbe that's why so many of them don't wash.
Grubby Capitalist StrikeBreaker Crosses My Picket Line, Assaults President
Things are getting ugly. I've been caught suborning scabs to cross my picket line against myself in my ongoing campaign to support the heroic bloggers of Huffington Post... One of them was caught posting the following...
If the ten year-old with the neighborhood lemonade stand has more business experience than you, you might be President Obama.
If you have more communists in your cabinet than Vladimir Putin, you might be President Obama.
If you try to look more macho by taking part in a military operation – run by France, you might be President Obama. (Read the Rest...)
Who Does This Man Think He Is?
graphic: Yid with Lid
Having already mistaken himself in the last week for Tiger Woods and the Last Chinese Emperor, Barack Obama now fantasizes that he is the reincarnation of Andrew Jackson and warns the Supreme Court not to take up VA Attorney General Cuccinelli's request for an expedited hearing on Obamacare.That should go over well... I didn't think Scalia knew that kind of Italian language...
Obama Addresses Union, Democrat Violence...
In a carefully planned speech of bipartisan outreach, Obama called on the GOP and Tea Party to stop provoking hardworking Democratic politicians and unions members into attacking and threatening to kill them.
"And tell those sluts in the Wisconsin massage parlors to start dressing more modestly!" the tough-talking, inspirational leader of the free world said. "We need all the Democratic State Assemblymen we've got!"
Obama Budget Tragedy!
Following the White House release of a budget that would single-handedly increase the national deficit by over 7 trillion dollars, despite Obama's promises to practice fiscal responsibility, medical authorities today pronounced the Obama Administration dead on arrival.
"They didn't even try to take care of themselves," complained the Medical Examiner, blaming the Adminstration's passing on its bloated and indulgent lifestyle. "What, they couldn't even release this stiff on a Friday or weekend like they did with everything else they've done?"
Obama budget being carried out for transport to an undisclosed Virginia landfill where it will lie in State until the Administration thinks no one is looking.
Obama heroically rises above national tragedy...
...spends Sunday night watching playoffs. Don't let the dip get too salty from your tears, Mr. President...
Fuck You Very Much, Mr. Commander-in-Chief. Sir. (15)
"... when Patrick Collins called the White House and asked to have President Obama call his ex-wife, Linda, to talk about their son... He was told that Obama did not regularly make phone calls to the families of fallen soldiers.
Later, Patrick Collins read a story about Obama’s phone call to Philadelphia Eagles owner Jeffery Lurie. Obama reportedly praised Lurie for giving quarterback Michael Vick a second chance to play football after serving time in prison for running a dog fighting ring.
“That burns,” Patrick Collins said Thursday.
“Any soldier that gets killed in action, you’d think the president would be calling someone in the family. There’s no politics in it. His predecessor did it,” Collins said.
— The News Tribune
Someone should ask that sociopathic poseur in the WH at present how many thousands of troops' families Bush visited or called.
Someone should ask that sociopathic poseur in the WH at present how many thousands of troops' families Bush visited or called.
BREAKING NEWS! Barack Obama Switching Parties!
Following the defection of two African-American Congressmen from the Democrats to the Republican Party down in Georgia, Obama's own forced accommodation of the GOP on the Bush tax rates, the catastrophic defeat of the 'Porkulus' Omnibus bill, and the decisive repudiation of the DREAM Act immigration amnesty bill in the Senate, the President has declared his intention to cross the aisle in the hopes of getting something done in the last years of his troubled first term...
'It has become increasingly self-evident that only an Administration working in concert
with an effective, uncorrupted Congressional leadership that pays close attention to the will
of the American people has any hope of meaningful and lasting achievement on behalf of
this great nation. To that end I am renouncing my affiliation with the Democratic —
Hey, wait a minute! This isn't my script! I never approved this! Who wrote this?
WHO KEEPS DOING THIS TO ME?!"
OBAMA ENDORSES BUSH ECONOMIC AGENDA!
President embraces Bush tax reforms; collapse of Democrat pork surge...
"We must steer this great nation back from the
tragic mistakes of 2006 and my admini —
Hey, this isn't my teleprompter..."
"Yeah. I'm that good..."
Obama provides Party clown for WH Press Corps!
Doesn't want reporters to feel neglected while he goes to fancy party,
says Gibbs
Obama says: "I expect this tax deal to improve the economy..."
"...but the GOP had to hold the American people hostage to make me do it."
Who. Writes. His. Stuff.
Who. Writes. His. Stuff.
The Mind Boggles...
Democratic shill Mark Halperin thinks he knows exactly what Obama needs to get his mojo back...a little "luck" in the form of a terrorist attack or some other national tragedy.
Really.
Is there anyone — even Chris Matthews or Joy Behar — who can even imagine this scene:
— with Barack Obama standing in George Bush's place?
That kind of 'luck' we don't need... and it won't save Barack Obama.
Obama: "Hey, I don't fly commercial. Now shut up and get in line for your groping..."
"He has erected a multitude of new Offices,
and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people,
and eat out their substance."
"Now let your President see you naked,
CRAP
I am waiting for a confirmation I hope will come through on the Obama Quote, but I have run into several sources claiming it is an urban legend/fabrication. Therefore I am withdrawing the post pending said verification.
One thing is already clear in all this: I screwed up. I had one fact, that of Obama's reprehensible insurance proposal, and on that basis I assumed the accuracy of a second statement without confirming its accuracy myself. I could do a lot of weasel-wording here, talking about 'truthiness' or 'fake but accurate' but regardless of my personal beliefs as to whether or not Obama is capable of making such a statement, regardless of whether I get that confirmation at this point, I did not do my homework here, and for that I apologize to my readers. Do better next time.
However, the Obama proposal to have veterans pay for war wounds out of their own personal insurance is absolutely real.
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