Obama's Greatest Accomplishment

[I]f a significant part of the Democratic health care plan survives, that will “probably” easily outrank yesterday’s bin Laden success. Obama will have done something a series of popular Democratic presidents had failed to accomplish in more than half a century. … And it’s easy to overestimate the significance of Osama’s demise: Remember when we thought finding Saddam would turn the tide in Iraq?

C'mon. Does Mickey think bin Laden is the same as Saddam in the American psyche? OBL attacked ths country; Saddam didn't. Osama began this hideously divisive bait of a war. Saddam just couldn't cop to not having any WMDs. (By the way, Mickey had similar prescience (ahem) after 9/11, when he predicted we would have moved on by Thanksgiving.)

In my view, the president who found and killed Osama bin Laden will be very hard not to re-elect. Now the association between his name and his enemy's will be an asset: Obama killed Osama. A few tea-party fanatics will have their heads explode. And the Big Lie that Obama is somehow not a strong president is debunked - because strength doesn't actually mean being inflammatory on Fox News, it means exercizing patience, quiet and resolve to get what you want. That Obama also helped prevent a Great Depression - with zero Republican votes - and brought universal health insurance to America? All we need now is a debt deal. And the only way that's possible before the election is if Obama looks highly likely to win it. That likelihood just increased today.

So it's good potential news all round. And since this incident reveals that we are really at war with Pakistan, not Afghanistan, I suspect Obama will have the leverage to shift strategy drastically in the coming year. Without bin Laden and with Pakistan working against us, the logic for withdrawal just got a lot stronger. Which is why, I suspect, the hegemonists are busy reminding us this war is not over. Because for them, it's never over.

But your average American? We did what we went there to do after 9/11. And after ten years, it is time to leave. With our heads high. And justice done.

(Photo by Tina Fallon via Mackey)

UN Security Council divided over Syria

Smart diplomacy: Syria gloating over US failure at UN

Here's some more smart diplomacy from the Obama administration: Syria is gloating over the failure of the Obama administration to get sanctions enacted and a condemnation of Syria at the United Nations.

Let's go to the videotape (Hat Tip: Hot Air).

BHO: Conventional Deficit Approach Differs from 2008

Arianna Huffington: At the moment, the White House seems to be following the standard Washington playbook, which is premised on two dubious assumptions: a) elections are decided by "independents" b) "independents" are always to be found in the middle of the road. So, the Beltway thinking goes, count on those in your base to come out, and run a middle-of-the-road campaign to win over those independents before your opponent can. It's the classic way to run a campaign. And it was proven completely wrong in 2008 by the winning coalition that swept Obama to victory. He didn't win by swerving to the middle. Instead of fighting for the ever-dwindling number of swing voters, Obama fought to win over the much larger number of voters who had turned their backs on the process. It was audacious -- and it worked. But what will happen to all those 2008 first-time voters, many of whom have been disproportionately hurt by the recession?

Atlas Skulks

From astute Atlas reader van:

Just wanted to give you some thought on the continuing decline of America at the hands of this criminal Presidency.

Shell/BP has quit their plan to drill in the Arctic offshore Alaska after being denied an Air Quality Permit from the EPA and the criminal Lisa Jackson. As you know, destroying the economy is one form of terrorism.

Shell paid $2.2 Billion for the oil leases and put another $4 Billion into exploration. The nearest village is 70 miles from the rig and there are only 243 inhabitants, probably Alaskan native Indians. From what I understand, they were supportive of Shell's plans. The EPA rejected the AQ permit because they claim Shell did not include the exhaust emissions of the icebreaker ship transporting men and equipment to the site! You can't make this shit up, Atlas.

The U.S. portion of the huge estimated oil reserves was 27 Billion barrels, nearly 50% of current gasoline production in this country.

Alaska's general fund receives 90% of it's revenue from the petroleum industry! The State legislators were outraged at the EPA decision. Sarah Palin could probably add a few comments!

There is an ancillary story that the Alaska Pipeline is at risk of falling into destruction because of the low volume of oil being transported. Construction of that pipeline was a monumental achievement necessary to America's oil independence.

This destruction of America is simply NO accident, but the plan of this Administration and its Monetary Policy via the Federal Reserve, as I've opined before.

Obama has targeted the oil speculators. He wants to make them scapegoats and tax the oil companies. Oil prices in the market are a forward pricing mechanism. The speculators are telling us that they think oil will be more expensive in the near future.

We have not increased our domestic production due to onerous regulations for refineries. He has imposed a drilling ban in ANWR, in the Gulf, and other coastal areas, even though other countries are drilling there, including China!

We are subsidizing ethanol production at the cost of a staple food, corn, that is increasing food costs around the world. He wants green technology instead of using abundant coal and nuclear. They will not save us. Oil is the fuel of necessity on this planet. It drives the engine of Capitalism.

Because of liar and tax-cheat Geithner's weak-dollar policy and that of Bernanke's Fed, the price of oil imports and everything else is rising, as is inflation. These two men are responsible for America's economic destruction with the approval of the America Hater-In-Chief. Like you said, it's hard not to hate this guy.

End of story.

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Reagan & Trump?

The team helping to fuel Donald Trump’s run for president is working to brand the real estate mogul as the new Ronald Reagan, a notion Reagan’s closest aides call “preposterous.”

Draft Trump 2012, an independent committee that supports his potential bid for president, is hosting a speech in Las Vegas, Nevada on Thursday to “Bring Back the Reagan Revolution,” which they say will occur if Donald Trump is elected president. The group blasted out an ad for the event Monday, complete with shots of Reagan and Trump side by side with the tag-line, “From Ronald to Donald.”

Granted, it’s a Republican right of passage for a candidate to prove their worthiness of the Gipper’s legacy. But Trump?

The same Trump who called for a Canadian-style single-payer health care system just a few short years ago? The same Trump who wanted to raise taxes? The same Trump who once called the younger President Bush “the worst president in the history of the United States”? The same Trump who, on camera, once smooched with Rudy Giuliani while the former New York mayor was in full drag and makeup?

Yup, that Trump. But hey, Reagan started out as a liberal Democrat before taking office too, and he was an actor. That’s sort of like Trump, right?

Not even close, said Richard V. Allen, who served as Reagan’s National Security Advisor from 1981-1982.

“I could sum up everything I would have to say about the subject by saying: ‘Donald, I knew Ronald Reagan, Ronald Reagan was one of my friend[s]. And Donald, you’re no Ronald Reagan,” Allen told The Daily Caller. (Allen was invoking a famous moment in political history when Democratic vice presidential candidate Lloyd Bentsen said a similar line about John F. Kennedy during a 1988 debate.)

“I consider that one of the more far-fetched things I’ve heard,” he added. “It’s totally preposterous.”

Others who knew and worked with Reagan during his years as California’s governor and in the White House laughed when they saw the Trump flyer. Some thought it was a joke.

“It’s the most audacious attempt by a potential candidate to wrap himself in Reagan’s mantle,” said Peter Hannaford, an adviser and speechwriter for Reagan. “It’s all bogus.”

To be fair, Trump is merely the latest among his peers to invoke Reagan’s legacy in an attempt to tie himself to the 40th president. Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich hosted an entire documentary on Reagan, former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty points to Ronald Reagan as the reason he entered Republican politics and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney last year sung the Gipper’s praises at the annual Reagan Lecture at the Reagan Foundation. Even President Obama penned an entire column in USA Today expressing his admiration. (When’s the last time you heard a Republican coo for FDR?)

To some observers, Trump is just doing what he’s supposed to do, striving for that old Republican gold standard.

As he should, said Grover Norquist, who started the group Americans for Tax Reform at Reagan’s behest in 1985.

“Is it the correct position if you wish to be an elected Republicans to say, ‘I would govern as Reagan’? That is exactly the right thing,” Norquist said. “Now, he’s got to make the case.”

That’s not to say Norquist isn’t skeptical The Donald can pull it off. “It’s possible,” he said. “But it’s going to be a long campaign.”

Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2011/04/26/is-donald-trump-the-new-ronald-reagan-trump-would-like-you-to-think-so/#ixzz1KdZR8vM0

Eject! POTUS Libya Policy in Flames

All you know how to do is to spout falacious, ignorant "hopey, changey" empty rhetoric in campaign fashion.

And take incredibly expensive tourist trips around the country and world at our expense in between your excessive golfing, while you avoid the challenges our country faces and YOU so assiduously IGNORE. Because you have no clue how to do your job and know it.

No wonder you have quickly declared an early run for the presidency to make yourself feel useful to your narcissistic self and pretend to be something you are not nor have the skills to ever be.

You appear to be "hopey" that the naive fools who elected you in the first place are still as stupid as before and have not shifted to "changey" after watching you blunder around like a headless chicken for a couple of years pretending there is some reason to your utter lunacy. Other than the final destruction by YOU of America as a world power by draining our lifeblood to reward your radical friends and punish your enemies, who are real American patriots.
Anti-Mullah

POTUS Bets On Both Sides in Libya

If I recall correctly, we went into Libya — or, at any rate, over Libya — to stop the brutal Qaddafi dictatorship killing the Libyan people. And thanks to our efforts a whole new mass movement of freedom-loving democrats now has the opportunity to kill the Libyan people. As the Los Angeles Times reported from Benghazi, these democrats are roaming the city “rousting Libyan blacks and immigrants from sub-Saharan Africa from their homes and holding them for interrogation as suspected mercenaries or government spies.” According to the New York Times, “Members of the NATO alliance have sternly warned the rebels in Libya not to attack civilians as they push against the regime of Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi.” We dropped bombs on Qaddafi’s crowd for attacking civilians, and we’re prepared to do the same to you! “The coalition has told the rebels that the fog of war will not shield them from possible bombardment by NATO planes and missiles, just as the regime’s forces have been punished.”

So, having agreed to be the Libyan Liberation Movement Air Force, we’re also happy to serve as the Qaddafi Last-Stand Air Force. Say what you like about Barack Obama, but it’s rare to find a leader so impeccably multilateralist he’s willing to participate in both sides of a war. It doesn’t exactly do much for holding it under budget, but it does ensure that for once we’ve got a sporting chance of coming out on the winning side. If a coalition plane bombing Qaddafi’s forces runs into a coalition plane bombing the rebel forces, are they allowed to open fire on each other? Or would that exceed the U.N. resolution?

Read it all.

Labels: Barack Obama, Libyan civil war, Libyan regime change, Muammar Gaddafi

posted by Carl in Jerusalem

A Tribute to Geraldine Ferraro

I cannot think of a more fitting tribute to Geraldine Ferraro - the former Queens Congresswoman and Vice Presidential candidate who passed away over the weekend - than this article by Anne Bayefsky.

At WEOG meetings, Western states hammered out shared policy on issues of common interest before stepping into the full morass of the U.N.’s top human-rights body. At that time, one quarter of all the resolutions adopted by the commission that were critical of specific states condemned Israel alone, while the commission remained silent on almost all egregious violations of human rights around the world. For 25 years, the formal agenda of the commission, which governed every meeting, had contained one item devoted to demonizing Israel and one item to human rights on the almost 200 other U.N. members.

This was the environment into which Ferraro stepped. In addition, she found herself in the middle of an attempt at U.N. “reform.”

The reform effort of that era came to a head in one memorable meeting of WEOG when it became clear that the Europeans had caved to Arab and Muslim states and were prepared to agree on proposals for “reform” that left the Israel-demonization agenda item exactly as it was. In walked Geraldine Ferraro. I don’t remember her staying long or saying much. She just said no. Such a reform sham was not consistent with American values and the United States would not be part of it. She couldn’t be bullied by the multilateral pressure to appear “cooperative.”

With extraordinary poise and straight talk she put everyone else in that room to shame. I remember having to restrain myself from jumping up and clapping in that stuffy chamber, composed almost entirely of men who had spent their careers clawing to the top of foreign offices by being exactly the opposite of Geraldine Ferraro.

In a twist of fate, only a day before she died, virtually the same scenario played out in Geneva 15 years later. A “reform” package was before the Human Rights Council. Again it was a sham. And again it left the same demonization-of-Israel agenda item in place. Only this time, President Obama and Eileen Donahoe, a former fundraiser and his ambassador to the council, desperate for the approval of an un-American audience, waved it through by consensus. Today among Democrats the moral courage necessary to withstand the U.N. hordes is in short supply. Ferraro will be missed.

I'd tell you that Ferraro had more courage and integrity in her pinky than Obama has in his entire body, but that wouldn't be anywhere near as much of a compliment as the story told above.

Labels: Anne Bayefsky, Barack Obama, Geraldine Ferraro

posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 9:43 AM

Obama meets with George W. Bush before Libya speech

President Obama’s speech addressing the U.S.’s attack on Libya yesterday was eerily familiar. Perhaps that’s because George W. Bush gave Obama some advice just before the President announced to the public that major combat operations in Libya have ended and along with coalition help, Libya will know freedom.

The Daily Caller has the exclusive secret video of Bush and Obama’s chat (filmed in what appears to be the historic John F. Kennedy West Wing Man Cave).

Enjoy:

Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2011/03/29/fun-with-xtranormal-obama-gets-advice-from-george-w-bush-before-libya-speech/#ixzz1I5eHfzy9

POTUS Obfuscates in Libya

Libya is yet another Obama-era replay of the 1990s. Just as Bill Clinton had his confused humanitarian intervention, Obama now has his. The Libyan War is Kosovo II: a military action from the air with no congressional authorization; little engagement from the president; tenuous public support; contention among the allies over means, ends, and rationales; and de facto proxy forces on the ground who won’t meet our civilized standards of warfare.

Yet we prevailed all the same against Slobodan Milosevic, who, like Qaddafi, was a miserable tin-pot dictator with a tin-pot military extremely vulnerable to us. Otto von Bismarck’s putdown of the British army — if it invaded Germany, he’d have it arrested — applies with much more force to Qaddafi’s ramshackle force that has proven adept only at facing down even more ramshackle rebels.
Rich Lowry, NRO

POTUS Epic Failure in Libya

Daniel Henninger argues that the failure of the international community to even formulate a response to Libya shows that 'internationalism' has collapsed.

Barack Obama is the first Democratic president to assemble a foreign-policy team made up entirely of intellectuals who for years have developed a counter-thesis to the policies of presidents extending back to John F. Kennedy. We are in a "post-American world," they have argued, in which the U.S. is obliged to pursue its interests in concert with the rest of the world's powers, never alone.

The uprisings against autocracies in 10 separate Middle Eastern countries, a crisis inherited from no one, was their real-world test. In Egypt, they fumbled. In Libya, they have failed.

The poster boy for this internationalist view is White House deputy Ben Rhodes, who told a reporter last week: "This is the Obama conception of the U.S. role in the world—to work through multilateral organizations and bilateral relationships to make sure that the steps we are taking are amplified."

Days later, bemused Libyan rebel spokesman Essam Gheriani remarked in Benghazi: "Everyone here is puzzled as to how many casualties the international community judges to be enough for them to help. Maybe we should start committing suicide to reach the required number."

...

This was a test case, and what we have seen is that a world in which the U.S. doesn't unmistakably lead is a world that spins its wheels, and eventually the wheels start to come off. When the U.S. instructs the Saudis not to intervene in Bahrain, and the Saudi army does precisely the opposite, the wheels are coming off the international order.

Read the whole thing. This crew cannot be gone soon enough.

Labels: American exceptionalism, Barack Obama, epic fail, internationalism, Libyan civil war, Libyan no-fly zone

posted by Carl in Jerusalem

Beyond Sedition: Obama and Global Jihad

But in the age of Obama, we are not merely infiltrated, no...that is so five years ago. They are running the show. Yes, the enemy is in control. Obama confirmed that in March 2011 with one of his most egregious acts of submission to Islam. As Congressman Peter King (R-NY) began his hearings on the radicalization of Muslims in the United States, the Obama Administration issued a statement saying: "We know there are many different reasons why individuals -- from many different faiths == succumb to terrorist ideologies."

What other faiths? It is only Islam that has inspired a terrorist ideology, as demanded, commanded by the Qur'an, Hadith and Sira. For Obama to pretend otherwise is madness. Yet on March 6, 2011, Obama's Deputy National Security Adviser, Denis McDonough, gave a speech at the ADAMS Center, a mosque in Sterling, Virginia. WorldNet Daily reported in February 2008 "Another D.C.-area mosque, the ADAMS Center, was founded and financed by members of the Muslim Brotherhood, and has been one of the top distributors of Wahhabist anti-Semitic and anti-Christian dogma."
Atlas Shrugs

Libya: WH Evaluates New Options

White House spokesman Jay Carney said the U.S. is trying to find ways to free up some of billions of dollars of assets seized from the Libyan leader's government to provide help for the opposition. He was short on details about the plan as reporters peppered him with questions about whether the tide has already turned in Qaddafi's favor.

"I don't have a military assessment for you," Carney said. "We're exploring ways for authorities to free up seized assets to see if we can free that up to the opposition ... this is one of the options" under consideration.

President Barack Obama also planned to meet his national security team Tuesday afternoon to discuss how to apply more pressure on Qaddafi to step down as NATO meets to discuss options for intervention, including the imposition of a no-fly zone.

TPMDC

POTUS Wonders What to Say about Freedom

Washington Wonders What to Say about Arab Freedom
By David Bromwich

From Egypt to Pakistan, February 2011 will be remembered as a month unusually full of the embarrassments of empire. Americans were enthralled by a spectacle of liberty in which we felt we should somehow be playing a part. Here were popular movements toward self-government, which might once have looked to the United States as an exemplar, springing up all across North Africa and the Middle East. Why did they not look up to us now?

The answer became clearer with every equivocal word of the Obama administration, and every false step it took in trying to manage the crisis. A person suffers embarrassment when something true about himself emerges in spite of reasonable efforts to conceal it. It is the same with nations. Sovereign nations are abstract entities, of course -- they cannot have feelings as people do -- but there are times when they would blush if they could.
Tom Dispatch

Govt Partners with Communities to Stop Terror

Partnering with Communities to Prevent Violent Extremism in America

For example, we know there are many different reasons why individuals—from many different faiths—succumb to terrorist ideologies. And there is no one easy profile of a terrorist. But based on extensive investigations, research and profiles of the violent extremists we’ve captured or arrested, and who falsely claim to be fighting in the name of Islam, we know that they all share one thing—they all believe that the United States is somehow at war with Islam, and that this justifies violence against Americans.

So we are actively and aggressively undermining that ideology. We’re exposing the lie that America and Islam are somehow in conflict. That is why President Obama has stated time and again that the United States is not and never will be at war with Islam.

On the contrary, we’ve strengthened alliances and partnerships with Muslim-majority nations around the world, from Turkey to Indonesia. As a result of the President’s speech in Cairo, we’ve forged new partnerships with Muslim communities to promote entrepreneurship, health, science and technology, educational exchanges and opportunities for women. In fact, the President insisted that his National Security Staff create a new office, a Global Engagement Directorate, to make these partnerships a priority.

We also undermine al Qaeda’s ideology by exposing the lie that it is somehow defending Islamic traditions when, in fact, al Qaeda violates the basic tenets of Islam. The overwhelming majority of al Qaeda’s victims are Muslim. In contrast to the ethics and accomplishments of the Islamic Golden Age—a period of scientific learning; networks of Muslim, Christian, and Jewish intellectuals and philosophers; advances in mathematics, agriculture, technology, and the arts—al Qaeda practices nothing but religious bigotry and glorifies suicide bombing.
We undermine al Qaeda’s ideology by showing that it is the power of nonviolence and democratic change that leads to progress, not senseless terrorism. And now people across the Arab world are proving the point.
Consider this. Al Qaeda’s second-in-command, Ayman Zawahiri, an Egyptian, has spent decades trying to overthrow the government of Egypt through terrorism. But in just a few short weeks, it was the people of Egypt—men and women, young and old, secular and religious, Muslims and Christians—who came together and changed their government, peacefully. It is the most dramatic change in the Arab world in decades, and al Qaeda had nothing to do with it. And so President Obama made it a point to commend the Egyptian people and their embrace of “the moral force of nonviolence—not terrorism, not mindless killing.”

The Left Seeks RW Terroists in Vain

Other than Tim McVeigh, the man responsible for the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing, and a few reactionaries who have killed abortionists, the Left is having a hard time finding actual terrorists from the right wing. They can’t even find organizations or individuals who endorse terrorism.

To discredit Conservatives, the Left is forced to resort to double standards in order to fake credibility where none exists. So it is with Justin Elliott’s coverage at Salon of a Tea Party protest against the Jew-hating Islamic Circle of North America (ICNA) and Sarah Palin’s remarks regarding the Supreme Court’s decision on the speech rights of Westboro Baptist Church. Apparently, in Elliott’s world, groups professing that “God Hates Fags” deserve good, clean coverage of their right to free speech, but Tea Party groups’ passionately speaking out against a terror-supporting, anti-Semitic, Muslim Brotherhood front group is equivalent to “anti-Muslim hate.”

I would like to think that Justin Elliott simply did not do the research necessary on either the Tea Party group or ICNA in writing his report on their protest. In a follow-up article about the protest, which he participated in, Congressman Ed Royce explained what the purpose of the protest was. He included the very shocking, but true, information about the speakers at the ICNA event: Imam Siraj Wahhaj and Amir Abdel Malik Ali.

I’ve held hearings on “Islamist terrorism,” the threat the 9/11 Commission identified. And I’ve been criticized for doing so. The Obama Administration refers to the bland threat of “violent extremism.” For years, I’ve made the point that we can’t tackle a problem if we don’t even call it by its name. 9/11, Fort Hood, Times Square and on and on demand candor.

Yet the attacks our nation has suffered aren’t the biggest threat. In a way, they’re a tactic to keep our eye off the ball, which is the “soft jihad” that the speakers in Yorba Linda preach. That is, attacking the institutions that make the U.S. great and protect our liberties. It’s an attack on our culture, including our culture of tolerance.

Sibel Edmonds, POTUS, Exec Priv & Espionage

As soon as Obama became president, he showed us that the State Secrets Privilege was going to continue to be a tool of choice. It’s an arcane executive privilege to cover up wrongdoing—in many cases, criminal activities. And the Obama administration has not only defended using the State Secrets Privilege, it has been trying to take it even further than the previous terrible administration by maintaining that the U.S. government has sovereign immunity. This is Obama’s change: his administration seems to think it doesn’t even have to invoke state secrets as our leaders are emperors who possess this sovereign immunity. This is not the kind of language that anybody in a democracy would use.

The other thing I noticed is how Chicago, with its culture of political corruption, is central to the new administration. When I saw that Obama’s choice of chief of staff was Rahm Emanuel, knowing his relationship with Mayor Richard Daley and with the Hastert crowd, I knew we were not going to see positive changes. Changes possibly, but changes for the worse. It was no coincidence that the Turkish criminal entity’s operation centered on Chicago.
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Sibel Edmonds is a former FBI translator and the founder of the National Security Whistleblowers Coalition. Philip Giraldi is a former CIA officer and The American Conservative’s Deep Background columnist.

Obama's Dhimmi Carter Moment

"I have worked for a year to awaken the conscience of the Egyptian people..."
ElBaradei, Iran's bomb man

The more the layers are peeled back, the more we see the hand of Iran behind what is unfolding in the Middle East.

In stark, bitter contrast to Obama's indifference to the popular Iranian uprising, Obama has almost immediately engaged in events on the ground in Egypt, and it's not good. His silence about the brutal, murderous putdown of its people by the Iranian mullahcracy translated to his tacit support and spoke volumes. Obama became part of the problem, not part of the solution. He gave religious barbarism the free hand. Iranian protestors had a direct message for America's president: "You're Either With Us or With Them."

Obama's most consistent response to Iran (and North Korea's hostile moves) has been to ignore them and hope that proven evildoers will behave themselves. Wrong. The good cop is off the beat.

He failed, and the consequences of his failure have begun to be made manifest .....

Who has emerged as a leader for post-Mubarak Egypt? Iran's man, Mohammad ElBaradei. It is widely acknowledged that Dr ElBaradei repeatedly omitted evidence that the atomic agency had been given about Iran's covert weaponisation plan (more here).

If Obama had seized the moment in the Iranian freedom uprising, we would not be in this position now. Iran is casting a dark cloud over the free world. They are conducting a covert war against the West in Iraq and Afghanistan. Iran has aligned with Venezuela and Brazil, in an Islamic imperialistic advance into Latin America.

Whatever comes after Mubarak will be terrible. Make no mistake.

The disastrous handling of the Iranian hostage crisis by the worst President of the United States, Jimmy Carter, led to the rise of Islamic jihad across the world (that and the Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan). If we still had an ally in Iran, what a wonderful and different world this would be.

The Islamic takeover in Iran also started out as a secular movement and democratic unrest. Then Khomeini flew in from France and it was game over. Fast forward to 2011.

MSNBC.com is reporting that “protestors had taken control of central areas of Suez and Alexandria.” Oil can go to $100 or $200 a barrel.

Tunisia, Lebanon, Yemen, Egypt, and now rumblings in Syria. UPDATE: And Jordan.

Turkey switching sides.

And the rest of the Muslim world has its finger on their itchy trigger. I hold little hope that freedom lovers in these countries have any shot against the devout Muslim movements when the leader of the free world has long abdicated.

He has a very different view of the world. This view is anti-platonic. And I say that, not to be condescending, but Plato said that the natural order of the world was chaos, it was war—peace was a parenthesis, it had to be achieved and worked at. I think in the Obama view that men like him that are charismatic, articulate, they can change the world because it's naturally a peaceful thing until people like George Bush rush in and through their stubbornness—"smoke 'em out dead or alive" vernacular—destroys it, but the fact of the matter is the only reason there is any semblance of peace and tranquility in the world today is because in places as diverse as the Aegean, planes over-flying in Greek airspace daily, where there's near fighting on Cypress, or whether we are talking about the Korean Sea and the Philippines and Taiwan and South Korean democracies not going nuclear because the United States is there, or whether Russian ships keep out of Norway every hour—all of that is predicated on the presence of the United States.

To be frank, or to put it a different way, Vladimir Putin doesn't give a damn that Barack Obama is African American. And the Chinese autocrats do not hear very well "hope" and "change"—it doesn't translate to Chinese very well—and the Europeans don't care if he has a nifty jump shot. All they want to know is half the world are vying to try to take advantage of regional opportunities if the United States is not there to stop mold, and to stop rust, which is the natural organic order of the world. They take advantage of it and our friends are there waiting to see which side to join. All of our friends in Europe know that, and Australia and South America. They don't have deities. Nations don't have deities like Barack Obama, they have interests. And their interests are predicated on who is going to win and who is going to lose. Into that void comes Barack Obama. (Victor Davis Hanson, 2008)
Pamela Geller

Is Obama Attempting Takeover of USA?

Like a donkey pulling a cart at the behest of a driver, Obama carries on as if nothing happened in November and he was not slappped around by the electorate and told to back off his socialist ideology and stop destroying America.

This caused a slight hiccup but as if nothing happened he is now trying to take over our Education system as he did our Health Care. Only this time he cannot shove it down our throats as he did before when he had a Congressional Democrat majority.

He tries to appear as if he was engaged in a memorial for the dead in Arizona but in reality he held a political rally in disguise.



Once you have control of the Health care of the nation you control one sixth of the national economy. Once you control the education systems you have the backing of the unions AND you can implement your plans to BRAINWASH the youth with programs you prefer and or blackmail them by with-holding student loans and school funding, setting agendas give you an almost limitless formative power of our future work force and their mindsets.




This is a mourning ceremony or an organized political event?

Once again Obama is doing this to us. Or trying to!

Anti-Mullah

Obama Insists We Respect Islam

Earlier today Obama made this pathetic speech (here's the video) to the Muslim nation of Turkey:
We seek broader engagement based upon mutual interest and mutual respect. We will listen carefully, we will bridge misunderstanding, and we will seek common ground. We will be respectful even when we do not agree.

In one broad stroke, Barack the barbarian whitewashes any crimes against humanity with impunity.

So are we to understand that the constant malignant drone of the most hateful incitement to Jew hatred and Jewish blood libel is to be "respected"? Iran's call to wipe Israel off the face of the earth is to be respected? Death to America is to be respected? Is this to be respected? Or this?

"Any outstretched hand will be cut off" will be respected?

These cartoons are to be respected? Where is Islam's apology for these calls to murder? We have to drop to our knees to apologize for a couple of innocuous, snarky toons, but RESPECT THIS!

If you were dropped into this moment in time without any context to explain his remarks, you'd think you were listening to the surrender speech of a once great nation.

Respect this!
Atlas Shrugs