Archives for the 'Obama' Category
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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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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Filed under Afghanistan, Obama.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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:
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Afghanistan Syndrome
Published on 18 Oct 2009 at 10:55 am.
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It’s a long way from Stockholm.* Pretty much he other side of the world. NYT scribbler David Rohde, “inside the Emirate,” on what happened to him in extended Taliban captivity:
Miller Time
Published on 17 Oct 2009 at 3:50 pm.
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Moving description of gross injustice and a wholesome expression of American values in the Wall Street Journal. It’s Rush Limbaugh, about the slanderous attacks and discriminatory treatment he faced when he tried to exercise his right as an American to engage in a lawful business venture. It would be fun to watch him sue the NFL, Sharpton, Jackson and his [...]
Hammer Wants An Anvil
Published on 17 Oct 2009 at 10:06 am.
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Filed under Afghanistan, Obama, Pakistan.
Paks, unintimidated by the past week’s attacks, have launched their assault on South Waziristan. NYT.
Meanwhile, still waiting to see whether Obama plans to wack the mole on his side of the board. The administration has denied a BBC report that Obama has told the Brits and the Afghans that he is planning to announce this week [...]
America’s Big Balloon Ride!
Published on 16 Oct 2009 at 9:44 am.
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It’s health care! All over the news, big and puffy, out of control, going nowhere, with no one on board! Except the kid in the cardboard box, and Balloon Dad …
Obama, via Politico: “You guys said we did this for the show.”
Pelosi, via WaPo: “Appalled!”
Could be bad if it actually hits any power lines. OK, blowing some [...]
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Hillary Up, Obama Down
Published on 15 Oct 2009 at 9:41 pm.
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Gallup reports that Hillary’s approval numbers, at 62 percent within five points of her 17-year polling peak, tops her boss by six. I guess that means she has successfully dodged any responsibility for kowtowing to Iran and Russia. The latest sops to China post-dated the Oct 1-4 polling period. So did Obama’s Nobel. Gallup surmises:
When She’s Right, She’s Right!
Published on 15 Oct 2009 at 8:19 am.
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Arianna Huffington says Joe Biden should resign over Afghanistan. Agreed! The strategy he is carrying the torch for is moronic! Hang on, that’s not exactly how Huffington puts it. She wants him to fall on his sword as a matter of principle if Obama actually pays attention to his generals. First miscalculation, the notion that Biden is in any [...]
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Historic Suckupness, Poor Judgment
Published on 14 Oct 2009 at 11:01 am.
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Filed under Afghanistan, France, Obama, history.
Self-destructiveness and abandonment. History doesn’t repeat, they say, it rhymes. Badly, sure, and with poor meter. Free verse, if you like.
Guess who else went to Cairo and addressed a big historic suckup speech to the Islamic world, to no avail? Then, through ineptitude, lost the means of his own resupply, bungled the whole operation and saw the greater Islamic world turn [...]
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Obama’s War
Published on 12 Oct 2009 at 11:11 am.
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Filed under Afghanistan, Obama, media.
PBS’ Frontline is taking a look Tuesday night. An early cut of Act 1 is up at the link.
As basically a grunt’s eye view, on the ground with 2/8 Marines in Helmand, with a lot of about the difficulties of fighting a counterinsurgency. The Marine commander’s opening speech, the combat footage, the Marines’ living conditions and the interactions with locals [...]
Obama White House Breaks With Itself
Published on 12 Oct 2009 at 8:55 am.
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Or throws itself under the bus, so to speak. Dismisses disgruntled gays as the ”Internet left fringe.” It’s a weird kind of ”what you say is what you are” moment for an admin born of the Internet’s left fringe. But it’s also the Obama admin entering a sort of double-reverse Clinton-Nixon phase. Think “noisy minority.” Think “small left-wing conspiracy.”
Internet left fringe is out [...]
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Structural Issues
Published on 11 Oct 2009 at 9:00 pm.
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White House Communications Director Anita Dunn whines that Fox acts as a “wing of the Republican Party.” No complaints about the rest of the White House Press Corps acting as a Democratic high-rise condo development, though. via Think Progress, your go-to place for skewed views on the news.
They’re widely viewed as, you know, a part of [...]
First, Want To Win
Published on 11 Oct 2009 at 10:05 am.
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Filed under Afghanistan, Obama, history.
Good point by Graham Bowley at NYT. You want to sell a war? Start to win. But he misses a key point.
Do Or Die
Published on 11 Oct 2009 at 9:13 am.
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Filed under Boston, Obama, baseball.
Red Sox down a deep post-season hole. Boston Herald: Been there, done that. Don’t much like the look of those Yanks, though, who stopped screwing up right around the time the Sox started this year.
Howie Carr: There’s only one thing that can save them. Put “O-bel” Prize winner Barack Obama on the mound. Is there [...]
What A Nobel Laureate!
Published on 10 Oct 2009 at 9:40 am.
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Filed under Obama, explosives, moronocy, shameless self-promotion.
It used to be one of the highest honors of the human race. Nobel Laureate. Much gravitas and profundity wrapped up in those words.*
OK, One More Thought
Published on 9 Oct 2009 at 12:01 pm.
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Filed under Nazis, Obama, dummkopf!, history, moronocy.
About President Barack Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize. It would be one thing if it was those money-grubbing, Nazi-collaborating … excuse me, neutral … Swedes who had awarded it. Can’t expect them to know the true value of peace.
But the Norwegian Nobel Committee theoretically should be aware that peace and freedom do not grow on trees.
One Other Thought
Published on 9 Oct 2009 at 10:38 am.
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They popped it on a Friday, the traditional graveyard of embarrassing news.
Does that mean they hoped no one would notice that they just taped a big “Kick Me” sign on his behind? I bet these guys noticed:
Peace In Our Time
Published on 9 Oct 2009 at 6:37 am.
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This takes a lot of the heat off. The big question is, who nominated him. Vladimir Putin, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad or Mullah Omar?
