New Dawn Of American Leadership
The bi-partisan reach across could have been handled better. The good news is, the culture wars have given way to presidential fat jokes. Gateway also notes that Obama notes that people think he is cool.
That’s all fine. More importantly, after less than two weeks in office, Obama has ended the Iraq war. Reuters:
WASHINGTON, Feb 1 (Reuters) - President Barack Obama told Americans on Sunday a substantial number of the 140,000 U.S. troops in Iraq would be home within a year, saying Iraqis were now ready to take more responsibility for their own security.
Obama, who inherited two wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, pledged during his presidential campaign to withdraw all U.S. troops from Iraq within 16 months, at a rate of one or two brigades a month.
In an interview with NBC television, Obama praised the provincial elections held in Iraq at the weekend, the most peaceful polls since U.S.-led forces invaded in 2003 to topple Saddam Hussein.
That’s rough, inheriting two wars. Good thing he was able to wrap up the one in Iraq so fast. Damn, that guy’s good. How’d he do that?
“In conversations I have had with the joint chiefs, with commanders on the ground, I think we have a sense, now that the Iraqis just had a very significant election with no significant violence, we are in a position to put more responsibility on the Iraqis,” Obama said in the interview.
Sounds like it was the elusive political progress. Help me out, ever since that guy’s name was chiselled off the monuments they never built, I’m having trouble remembering … how did we get here?
Meanwhile, Hot Air with the important news that Obama is hard at work on fulfilling his campaign promise to sit down with dictators. Or in this case, a wannabe dictator.
Surber with dire news from the capitol: Progressive talk radio is being phased out, conservative radio ratings are climbing. I don’t think that’s what the Anointed One meant by ”Change!”
Topics: Obama, celeb, culture, pols
Posted by Jules Crittenden at 10:47 am on Monday, February 2, 2009
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February 2nd, 2009 at 12:34 pm
I would laugh at their attempts to rewrite history if not for the fact that they might get away with it.
It’s already happened, remember this?
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E06E3D6123BF932A2575AC0A9659C8B63&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=print
“The Bush administration today recommended the most significant regulatory overhaul in the housing finance industry since the savings and loan crisis a decade ago.
Under the plan, disclosed at a Congressional hearing today, a new agency would be created within the Treasury Department to assume supervision of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the government-sponsored companies that are the two largest players in the mortgage lending industry.”
That was in 2003. 2003!
Yet the housing collapse and lack of regulation was somehow Bush’s fault? That’s what most people seem to believe, and it’s sad that readily available proof to the contrary is just ignored.
February 2nd, 2009 at 4:55 pm
O/T, I notice that there is an ad on the side for “The palestinian Holocaust Museum.” Are they finally admitting that something happened in Germany a while ago?
Whoever is doing the ads obviously doesn’t have a proof reader on duty, right?
February 2nd, 2009 at 6:54 pm
Have not noticed that. If it is a Googlead, then some computer at Google thinks you might want to visit. I dunno about you but I’m more interested in the Hamas Martyrs Museum.