Archives for the 'Obama' Category
Home For Christmas!
Published on 20 Nov 2009 at 11:38 am.
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Come on. That’s so old war. Here’s the Obama age take on the old wartime troop-rallying standby. No rush, guys, no decision before Thanksgiving. Fox.
President Obama will not announce a decision on his war strategy in Afghanistan before Thanksgiving, his aides told Fox News on Thursday.
The latest development on the fate of up to 40,000 U.S. [...]
Crazy Is As Crazy Blogs
Published on 20 Nov 2009 at 10:48 am.
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Filed under Obama, blogs, hacks.
OK, indulge my obsessed-lefty obsession for a minute. A quick wellness check on two of my favorite serious, thoughtful, expert moonbat commentators, Glenn Greenwald and Andrew Sullivan. First Sullivan, a professional political observer whose mental health we’ve been closely monitoring (and whose Daily Dish since resuming “as normal” yesterday has racked up no fewer than 23 Palin posts), [...]
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Lefties For Palin
Published on 20 Nov 2009 at 8:06 am.
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It’s a kind of post-feminist shout-out. “Democrat goes rogue, declares Palin’s book ’great’!” Sandra Tsing-Loh at Salon:
Belichick’s KSM Moment
Published on 17 Nov 2009 at 8:46 am.
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Filed under Boston, Obama, sports.
How bad was it? So bad that Ed Morrissey at Hot Air ventured out of war and politics to bash Bill Belichick over the last-minute bollixing of the Pats-Colts game.
That Rattling Noise You Hear
Published on 17 Nov 2009 at 6:50 am.
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Filed under GWOT, Obama, al qaeda.
Is the sound of this news knocking around inside Obama’s tin ear. Two-thirds of Americans want KSM tried in military court. CNN:
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L’Etat C’est O
Published on 16 Nov 2009 at 7:56 am.
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Filed under Afghanistan, Obama.
Have your fun with O’s full-body kowtow to the delightful Mr. Akihito, who really does look like a pleasant old gent. When it comes to the important things, his Omperial Majesty won’t bow to pressure. He’s maintained a spine of steel in his refusal to decide what the heck he’s going to do in Afghanistan, and Politico notes [...]
NixOnian!
Published on 16 Nov 2009 at 7:12 am.
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Filed under Japan, Obama.
Ha! ABC’s Jack Tapper says that while Obama was laying it on a little thick, Nixon did it first. Only he did it right. Nixon gave Hirohito a polite nod, not the human origami act “in the form of a first year English teacher trying to impress with Karate Kid-level knowledge of Japanese customs” that the current president [...]
The Importance Of Being Difficult
Published on 15 Nov 2009 at 2:34 pm.
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Filed under Obama, pols.
Jennifer Rubin at Commentary, channeling Bill Kristol, on the efficacy of “No.” If conservatives were at sea a few months back in the wake of defeat, trying to figure out who they were and what their agenda was supposed to be, that may be in part because the importance of saying “No” and what should be said “No” [...]
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Those Who Re-Invent History
Published on 14 Nov 2009 at 9:57 am.
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Filed under Obama, asia, history.
Are doomed to bollix it. Politico, with “America’s First Pacific President,” on the current president’s latest self-aggrandizement, diminishment of his predecessor, and creative rewriting of history:
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Because Every Circus Needs A Ringmaster
Published on 13 Nov 2009 at 10:23 am.
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Filed under Jihad, Obama, al qaeda, justice, terrorists.
USS Cole, 9/11 plotter to be tried in New York. So the anti-war left finally gets the Bush-Cheney trial is has so desperately wanted, Judge Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, A.Q., presiding.
It would be easy to get depressed about the prospect of unlawful combatants, war criminals, being afforded all the rights and privileges of American citizens in a civilian court. But [...]
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Priorities Straight?
Published on 13 Nov 2009 at 8:40 am.
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Filed under Afghanistan, Obama.
The media seems to get it, at some level. The big news out of Japan, Obama addresses the dithering charge. Washington Post:
The Surprising Re-Learning Of Vietnam
Published on 13 Nov 2009 at 8:17 am.
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Filed under Afghanistan, Obama, military, vietnam.
Maybe that should be “The Surprising Un-Learning of Vietnam.” Newsweek’s new cover article, “The Surprising Lessons of Vietnam,” is the latest high-profile media effort not to let our politicians lose another war politically. Subhead in the hard copy:
The most surprising lesson is not that wars of this kind are unwinnable, but that “You must fight to win.”
It [...]
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Advance To The Rear!
Published on 12 Nov 2009 at 7:38 am.
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Filed under Afghanistan, Obama.
It’s not quite a strategic retreat, more of a retreat into strategizing as Obama dithers about the dithering, informs his national security team it’s back to Square One. Scratch everything, back to the drawing board. He wants to stop thinking about the war until he can figure out the peace part. OK, that may not be exactly how senior administration officials [...]
Great Words, Great Deeds
Published on 11 Nov 2009 at 8:02 am.
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Filed under Obama, courage, military.
It was a good speech. He said all the right things and didn’t say any of the wrong ones. White House transcript. It’s being hailed as the “best ever,” but they seem to say that every time he opens his mouth. Unlike his other great rhetorical moments, no one gets thrown under the bus in this [...]
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Courageous!
Published on 8 Nov 2009 at 10:26 pm.
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Filed under Obama, courage, hacks.
House votes 220-215 to entirely reorder a vast portion of our economy, plus create massive new entitlements someone will have to pay for. NYT is keen to explain that it would have passed by more, but … 39 Dems come from districts that don’t want it. Also via NYT: Obama calls the House vote “courageous.”
Laparoscopic War Strategizing
Published on 8 Nov 2009 at 10:44 am.
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Filed under Afghanistan, Obama.
O’s advisors are working up three options Afghanistan troop options. Glad to hear he’s still working on that. I was a little concerned that, like some other federal agents, his eye was off the al-Qaeda ball. Here’s the status of the last three months of war strategizing, via NYT. Sounds like he’s taking pains to [...]
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The Audacity Of D’oh
Published on 7 Nov 2009 at 9:32 am.
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Mary Katharine Ham at the Weekly Standard on White House flack Gibbs’ exasperation … “Imagine just a few years ago had somebody walked around with images of Hitler” … helpfully points out that they did. Also observes more redneck bashing and comments, “I guess this is what they meant by ‘audacity.’”
Meanwhile, Jules Crittenden at the Weekly Standard, “Obama’s [...]
The Phillies Won!
Published on 5 Nov 2009 at 11:37 am.
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Filed under Obama, baseball, pols.
I would approve of this fine snark at Legal Insurrection, but then I’d have to think the New York Yankees and their Evil Empire are the GOP of baseball, and I can’t do that. As long as we’re plumbing the baseball-sports nexus, hope to change ”There’s always next year” to “There’s also next year.”
Speaking of next year, [...]
Did O’s Re-Invented Politics Bubble Just Pop?
Published on 5 Nov 2009 at 10:00 am.
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Flip side of that ancient “All Politics Is Local” wisdom, and Gibbs’ claim that it isn’t. The reinvented-politics dotcom startup has been looking a little inflated ever since it failed to mobilize for the stimulus or health care. So did it just get its shoe-leather, bricks-and-mortar, pocketbook issues comeuppance? Maybe ear-to-ear bandwidth, glitzy graphics and a catchy slogan isn’t enough.
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All Politics Is Local
Published on 5 Nov 2009 at 8:39 am.
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Congratulations, New Jersey and Virginia. You’re Obamically insignificant! Gibbs, Virginia and New Jersey politics are local. via CNN:
Hope And Shrimp Tacos
Published on 5 Nov 2009 at 7:46 am.
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You get the presidency if you buy everyone else shrimp tacos. via Director Blue.
Economic Stimulation
Published on 5 Nov 2009 at 12:01 am.
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Filed under Obama, money.
Never mind the inflated job counts and pay raises counted as jobs saved. I’m still stuck on the subsidies to social service agencies counting as economic stimulus part. That’s not economic stimulus. That’s welfare. AP.
O No!
Published on 4 Nov 2009 at 10:52 am.
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He had a bad day. The lefty chatter is that it was all local politics. Which is true, somewhat, maybe, though you can’t exactly have it both ways when your messiah commits himself to the local races. Reynolds rubs it in at NY Post: “The Obama magic has faded.”
DC Cabbies Like McChrystal
Published on 3 Nov 2009 at 9:28 am.
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Filed under Afghanistan, Obama, cabbies.
3-2. Lydia Khalil at the Washington Post:
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The Obama Work-Out
Published on 3 Nov 2009 at 8:40 am.
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This really is a new era of hope and change, when the president looks better, more relaxed after taking office than he did before. What’s his secret? Drudge: High-stress basketball, rigorous gym workouts. And lots of golf! It’s that simple. Here’s the best part: It’s taxpayer funded and helps him avoid responsibility! (Important: Avoid straining yourself on [...]
Bush Bad
Published on 2 Nov 2009 at 11:35 pm.
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Filed under Afghanistan, Obama.
O’s GWOT-handling public approval numbers just hit pre-Surge levels. Only 34 percent think we’re winning. The American public hasn’t had this dim a view of American war leadership since January 2007. That’s not just bad. That’s Bush bad. Rasmussen.
Maybe it’s because, from Guantanamo to Afghanistan, he isn’t handling the GWOT. WSJ, on Karzai’s new term and Obama’s as-yet unmade [...]
“White Men Are Not Very Progressive”
Published on 2 Nov 2009 at 8:25 am.
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Filed under America, Obama.
That’s Matthew Yglesias looking mournfully, or maybe more accusatorily at this electoral map. Sounds like a vast swath of the American elecotrate needs its politics corrected:
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Vietnaming It
Published on 1 Nov 2009 at 11:01 am.
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DC’s alive these days with Vietnam analogies which, thanks to today’s news, probably will rear up again, newly re-envigorated.
Before we get to the news of Abdullah Abdullah’s election pullout, here are the fundamentals of the analogy, compliments of a Financial Times analysis that flogged the dead Vietnam horse – it’s more of a zombie-like Vietnam horse, because inexplicably, it still has [...]
Advanced Baby Splittage
Published on 31 Oct 2009 at 10:00 am.
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Filed under Afghanistan, Obama, military.
President Barack Obama, half-pregnant with Bush’s Afghan war, apparently is leaning toward splitting the baby … surgically. Washington Post:
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Wack-A-Mole Advance 360 For Windows 7 Wii
Published on 30 Oct 2009 at 11:12 am.
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As Obama heads into what is purportedly his last big Afghanistan meeting, he’s trying to outplay his own generals, gaming a sort of sophisticated wack-a-mole strategy … not just that clunky, grimy old arcade game with a choice of wacking the “Afghanistan” mole or the “Pakistan” mole, but a high-speed Afghan province-specific one. Light. It raises the question [...]
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Beer Summit II
Published on 29 Oct 2009 at 10:40 pm.
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Gates and Crowley share informal suds. I’d love to know what they talked about. Because I have a dream. Boston Herald:
Gen. L.B.J. “Fightin’ Joe Biden” Obama
Published on 29 Oct 2009 at 7:45 am.
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Filed under Afghanistan, Obama.
The Hero of Altgeld Gardens* asks for a province-by-province analysis of Afghanistan to help decide where, whether, he’ll deploy his troops. Washington Post:
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The Audacity of Hope-Ocrisy
Published on 28 Oct 2009 at 10:10 am.
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Filed under Obama, racism, sexism.
Helen Smith, from her unique position as a non-swooning, conservative woman,* examines Obama’s discriminatory business socialization practices … playing golf and basketball with dudes … and counsels attacking the enemy with his own rules. Pajamas Media:
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Golf For We, Not For Thee …
Published on 27 Oct 2009 at 2:05 pm.
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Filed under Afghanistan, Bush, Obama.
War-weary Obama manages a decision … more golf! Boston Herald:
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Alternate Iraq War Universe … Obama Won!
Published on 25 Oct 2009 at 10:35 pm.
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Filed under Iraq, Obama, media, moronocy.
It’s a weird Tom Friedman dream sequence:
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A Teachable Moment
Published on 25 Oct 2009 at 9:40 am.
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Filed under Obama, medicine.
President Obama declares an H1N1 national health emergency. Washington Post:
Slasher Politics
Published on 24 Oct 2009 at 11:50 am.
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Talk about product placement. It’s Horror-Show Obamism as “Saw VI” embeds a … health-care reform plug? Boston Herald:
Maybe We Can’t!
Published on 24 Oct 2009 at 9:12 am.
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The recently elected Democratic President of the United States can’t fill a room in bluest Massachusetts. Surveying the nearly half-empty Westin Copley ballroom, 2008 “Yes We Can” Hope-and-Changer Barack Obama says on behalf of his longtime political doppelganger Deval Patrick, who in 2006 was the “Together We Can” template O drew on:
“There really should be [...]
Welcome To Moonbat Nation, Mr. President!
Published on 23 Oct 2009 at 9:24 am.
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Filed under Boston, Obama, moronocy.
Howie Carr does the honors as Obama arrives in Beantown to the boos of the moonbat peanut gallery. Boston Herald:
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Hardball Host … Likes A Softball
Published on 22 Oct 2009 at 11:10 pm.
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Filed under Obama, media.
At least until Fox comes up. Boston Herald’s Jessica Heslam interviewed Chris Matthews, reports he was picky about what questions he would take:
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Pak Dawn, Pak Trutherism
Published on 22 Oct 2009 at 10:13 am.
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Irony abounds. What $11 billion in US aid couldn’t do, some guys in pajamas with a handful of homemade bombs manage. Pakistan is onside, fighting hard in South Waziristan. It’s dawn over Islamabad as the Pak Taliban’s bombing campaign has united Pakistan squarely against Islamic extremism, and moves the Paks to action. In fact, some guys in [...]
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Mock As We Say!
Published on 22 Oct 2009 at 8:05 am.
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Filed under Obama, books, pols.
Not as we do!
Lefties resort to sexism vs. empowered woman! Again! (Caution: Don’t try this with the sitting president) Entertainment Weekly:
The Other Thing Obama Inherited
Published on 21 Oct 2009 at 11:15 pm.
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Filed under Afghanistan, Cheney, Obama.
A viable war strategy. Only for some reason, he hasn’t said boo about that Bush legacy. Cheney at Fox:
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Shovel Work
Published on 21 Oct 2009 at 9:25 am.
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Filed under Afghanistan, Obama.
Conducting excavations on a Washington Post poll story, “Americans deeply split on troop increase.” These are sometimes promising sites, but you have to dig deep. Let’s have a look down the hole, see what we can see:
“Dumb”
Published on 20 Oct 2009 at 12:12 pm.
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Washington Post’s Ruth Marcus gets points for noticing:
In Other Thin-Skinned Political Developments
Published on 20 Oct 2009 at 12:10 pm.
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Weekly Standard’s John McCormack gets the bum’s rush at a political event because he asked the candidate about her positions. The problem seems to be that Dede Scozzafava is uncomfortable with people knowing that how well she lines up with the Obama admin … including the shoot-the-messenger part.
Here’s his boss Bill Kristol with more on the extent of the thin-skinnedness [...]
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Layoffs For Thee
Published on 20 Oct 2009 at 9:26 am.
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Not for “we.” Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick’s layoff plans clarify who the “we” was in “Together We Can,” his 2006 slogan that was echoed in Obama’s “Yes We Can,” like much of Patrick’s campaign rhetoric. Boston Herald: Patrick dumps 91, keeps pals.
Quagmire!
Published on 20 Oct 2009 at 8:25 am.
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Sudden interest in health-care polling, now that one shows support for the public option. Cherry-picking Washington Post buries the fact that overall, Americans still don’t like the health care bill. And they don’t want to pay for it.
Rod Blagojevich For Special Envoy
Published on 20 Oct 2009 at 7:09 am.
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Karzai agrees to a runoff. Apparently there’s a backroom deal in the works to get around the lack-of-legitimate-government problem. NYT:
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Last-Man-Mistake-Death Opportunity Knocks
Published on 19 Oct 2009 at 10:53 am.
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Filed under Afghanistan, Obama.
Obama admin to GIs, Afghans: Just hang in a little longer, die more, while we figure out whether it’s worth it or not. It’s Kerrythink in action, as Obama, in extended dither, tries to engineer a mistake some poor bastard can be the last man to die for.*
OK, that’s not exactly how NYT put it:
