Archives for the 'Obama' Category
It’s Clinton-Bush!
Published on 1 Dec 2008 at 9:08 am.
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Wake up and smell the foreign policy! Big day for the incoming Clinton-Bush administration as POTUS-elect Obama Rodham Bush 3 announces the national security team he campaigned against. Roundup, UPDATED:
Kumbayah, My Lord
Published on 29 Nov 2008 at 9:21 am.
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Filed under Clintons, Iran, Iraq, Obama, genocide.
Samantha Power is back in. You’ll remember her as the Harvard prof/Obama advisor who was forced to resign after she called Hillary a “monster,” one of the earlier examples of Obamian gutlessness, when an apology would have sufficed. Back from Coventry, out of the oubliette or whatever closet she was shoved in, Power’s now working on the Obama transition [...]
Steady Thumb At The Helm
Published on 26 Nov 2008 at 8:15 am.
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ABC, via the Swamp, re Obama: tbh bing POTUS-elct sux! Obama to Secret Service, kma, he wants his Blackberry back. OMG, how’s he supposed to govern without web alerts and txts from his pals?
Brrrrrp.
“Excuse me, Vlad … b/f Bill Ayers says hi! Commies 4evr!”
lmao. Historic presidency would be the first with repetitive stress-injured Blackberry thumbs. w/e.
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Thanks, George
Published on 25 Nov 2008 at 7:55 pm.
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Obama, acknowledging his debt of gratitude to George Bush, will keep Robert Gates on as Secretary of Defense. Politico:
Stop Me If You’ve Heard This One …
Published on 24 Nov 2008 at 11:37 am.
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It’s too bad Obama gets four years, maybe even eight, and not 15 minutes like all the other American Idol winners. Because as game an effort as the last couple weeks of the incoming Clinton-Bush administration song-and-dance act have been, the guy can’t carry a tune. It’s starting to look like his talent may lie in standup. [...]
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Hard Times For Lefty Peaceniks
Published on 23 Nov 2008 at 9:17 am.
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Tragic irony alert. They hated Hill because she hearted the invasion of Iraq, and only turned against it in a naked bid to become president. They even bared their venerable breasts at her in their rage. They loved Obama because he was pure. He always hated the Iraq war, even before anyone cared what he [...]
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Weekly Standard Bearers
Published on 22 Nov 2008 at 9:36 am.
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Filed under Bush, GWOT, Guantanamo, Obama.
Thomas Joscelyn on the unpleasant surprise awaiting the Obama admin re Gitmo. Clear and Present Danger:
… the important point for much of the commentariat is that Guantánamo will be shuttered. For Guantánamo’s many critics, the facility long ago became a symbol of all that is wrong with the Bush administration’s conduct of the war on [...]
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Hill Hearts Obama
Published on 22 Nov 2008 at 8:02 am.
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Filed under Clintons, Obama.
And will date him. Heather heard it from Jenny and told Jessica, who told Pete and Helene on condition of anonymity. NYT:
Flirting With Hill
Published on 21 Nov 2008 at 9:04 am.
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Apparently he is definitely eventually asking her out, though near as I can tell, the eye-batting and passing of notes in class continues.
There’s also this bit about an “enhanced role” for a non-SoS Hill in the Senate. Sounds a little like a booby prize for the also-ran who has been dissed by the boy’s club. You [...]
Shoot ‘Em While You Got ‘Em
Published on 21 Nov 2008 at 8:13 am.
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Filed under Obama, guns.
Obama’s Clintonian AG’s mendacious yet nakedly anti-gun ownership agenda, via Volokh:
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Cheap Nukes
Published on 20 Nov 2008 at 10:03 am.
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Filed under Iran, Obama, nukes.
Then there’s that other thing repressive governments do when faced with financial woes and internal threats … change the subject. NYT, Iran said to have enough for one nuke:
Cheap Oil
Published on 20 Nov 2008 at 9:04 am.
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Filed under Obama, middle east, money, oil.
I like gassing up for $25 bucks, and judging by the prices I saw driving home last night, my next fillup will be even cheaper. It reminds me of long ago, more peaceful times. It may be a Mideast nightmare, but what are the risks, and does it pay other dividends? Roundup starts with MEMRI’s roundup of fear, [...]
AQ’s Race Card
Published on 19 Nov 2008 at 10:25 am.
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Filed under Obama, al qaeda, racism.
It’s a bit of a double-reverse, double-blind poker bluff. Al-Qaeda’s No. 2, piping up at last, calls Obama the “House Negro.” Nice. Gateway with links denounces the racism.* We already knew they were bigots* as well as murderers, and what is more interesting is that AQ has begun its campaign of establishing that the Great Satan is still the [...]
Clinton’s (Coat) Holder
Published on 19 Nov 2008 at 6:37 am.
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For AG! Who won that primary anyway? Help me out, I’m losing count of the Clintonistas who will soon be running the country. Need a chart. Obama to name Clinton pardon rubberstamper as AG. Newsweek:
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Baaing In The Ranks
Published on 18 Nov 2008 at 9:15 am.
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Obamists don’t like the boss’s flirtation with Hillary. They don’t trust the She Wolf and wonder why she is being let into the sheepfold. Politico:
Bill’s Goods
Published on 17 Nov 2008 at 8:29 pm.
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Hill’s SoS vetting is reportedly driving Bill crazy, and his vetting could cost her the job. I can think of a few questions I’d want on my Bill questionnaire. Starting with … “What is is, anyway?” They want to know where all his money comes from, which sounds like a pretty good question, too, given that the wife will be [...]
Giddy Sense
Published on 17 Nov 2008 at 1:47 pm.
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Filed under Obama, media.
May be a bad case of nitrogen narcosis from being so deep in the tank. Washington Post media critic Howard Kurtz marvels at the media’s post-election Obama profiteering and adoring sense of wonderment at the great accomplishment, and gives bias a considered, responsible and measured stamp of approval. A Giddy Sense of Boosterism:
Change That Matters
Published on 16 Nov 2008 at 9:10 am.
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Filed under GWOT, Obama.
Appears increasingly to be occurring within Obama policy positions. Roundup on shifting “change” goalposts starts with Hot Air, reporting on indicators that even as the incoming Obamists struggle with that thorny Guantanamo issue, they are looking at the idea of leaving CIA’s interrogation options open.
“Huge Threat”
Published on 15 Nov 2008 at 3:38 pm.
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Filed under Obama, al qaeda.
Times of London is talking about al-Qaeda’s love of post-election violence and expectations of a test for Obama. It’s actually the Biden Effect, which of course is something he lifted from the Bush administration, now being echoed back by the Bushites.
Valkyrie For War Czar
Published on 14 Nov 2008 at 9:17 am.
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Filed under Clintons, Obama.
Hillary’s being floated now for Secretary of State. And as entertaining as the idea of sticking that in career backbench ditherer John Kerry’s face is, here’s another idea. Make her Oberreichskriegssturmfuhrer. Or … to put it somewhat more Kumbayahishly … War Czar.
New Interest
Published on 13 Nov 2008 at 9:24 am.
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In the past, tangled webs that are woven, as the Obama admin applies heavy scrutiny to job applicants. Not sure where they got this idea that one’s past might be a problem, should be revealed to interested parties. Maybe from the campaign coverage … of Sarah Palin. NYT, For A Washington Job, Be Prepared To Tell [...]
Obamevolution
Published on 13 Nov 2008 at 9:02 am.
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Gateway documents the shift from the absurd to reality in Obamaland, as his proposal to meet dictators without preconditions gets airbrushed out of the picture like an inconvenient Soviet leader in the reviewing stand at Red Square.
Unrepentant Ex-Terrorist
Published on 13 Nov 2008 at 8:51 am.
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Filed under Obama, explosives.
Ready to talk now that he can’t screw his pal’s election up. Malkin has Ayers’ publicity sked and a review of his defense of vigorous dissent, or blowing people up, whatever.
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Why They Will Hate Us Next
Published on 12 Nov 2008 at 8:01 pm.
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This must be what they meant by inexperience. Obama reaches out to foreign heads of state. Only one problem. Blair explains.
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Monster Limo!
Published on 12 Nov 2008 at 1:37 pm.
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Filed under Obama, cars, warmglob.
Sounds like it could be a heck of an arena event. But it’s also a policy issue for Climate Czar-in-waiting Al Gore to sink his teeth into. “Cadillac One.” Obama’s, now being built … more “monstrous” than Bush’s. Boston Herald:
Voters Get
Published on 12 Nov 2008 at 8:22 am.
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What voters deserve. That’s how free elections work. CNN’s Political Ticker happily reports a majority of Americans like the Dem lock on Congress and the White House. But there’s a caveat … big enough to herd a political circus through:
Obama’s War On Terrorizing
Published on 12 Nov 2008 at 8:06 am.
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Filed under GWOT, Guantanamo, Obama, illegals.
Malkin on the Bush admin’s campaign present to Obama: immigration law enforcement was halted for 72 hours to avoid any inadvertant, or advertant, embarrassment that might result from fugitive alien Aunti Zeituni or any other stray relatives getting the boot. In fairness, it was a no-win. Aunti in cuffs would have been seen as a [...]
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Pious Insufferability
Published on 12 Nov 2008 at 7:36 am.
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Emerges as a key theme in Obama transition plans. US News:
The Obamapo
Published on 10 Nov 2008 at 9:01 pm.
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Watch and learn, Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan … and Iran, North Korea, Syria, China, Russia, etal, if they’ll let you. This is how it’s done. It’s called an election, and it is followed by a cooperative, even friendly transfer of power. All smiles as Bush takes Obama into the Oval Office to teach him the secret handshake, show [...]
Bad Decision No. 1
Published on 10 Nov 2008 at 1:01 pm.
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Filed under Guantanamo, Obama, al qaeda, media.
In the works as AP reports the Obama transition team is working on a plan to ship Guantanamo detainees to the United States for trial. A move that apparently will require a controversial new system of justice. Release for some, U.S. criminal trials for others, and some new, special system to handle sensitive national security cases … hey, [...]
Regained In Translation
Published on 10 Nov 2008 at 9:57 am.
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Filed under America, Obama.
Lessee, smartass beer-drinking Blairite Dave S. from Maine. Why does that guy sound so familiar? Anyway, that’s Dave’s helpful subtitle on all this heartwarming post-election grassroots 52-to-48 Kumbayahism.
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What Not To Do (Foreign Edition)
Published on 10 Nov 2008 at 8:28 am.
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In foreign policy what-not-to-dos, this Newsweek article suggests … anything. Stay the course, await developments in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan and North Korea … hey, almost makes it sound like the Bush administration’s been doing something right. Re Iran … there be dragons. And Newsweek reluctantly acknowledges, a first-do-no-harm policy may even include the hated Crusader Gulag at [...]
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What Not To Do (Home Edition)
Published on 10 Nov 2008 at 8:27 am.
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Transition roundup starts with Politico looking at some AG prospects, continues with one AG prospect’s wry lessons for Obama, and a look back at the Clinton admin as various observers weigh in on what not to do:
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Happy Obama Day!
Published on 9 Nov 2008 at 8:34 pm.
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National Holiday to be promoted for Obama! What’s the matter … Presidents Day not good enough? Sounds like discrimination. What about every Sunday? Oh yeah, taken …
Messianic
Published on 9 Nov 2008 at 8:30 pm.
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Quick. Guess which pol said this about which pol:
“Suddenly it felt as if somebody in a back room had flipped a switch … The (politician’s) eyes became fixed; his voice took on the agitated, rapid tone of someone neither accustomed to nor welcoming interruption; his easy affability was replaced by an almost messianic certainty. As [...]
Hitchens 1, Hitchens 0
Published on 9 Nov 2008 at 7:59 pm.
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This Hitchens apparently didn’t succumb to the Obamania. Peter, scathingly, at the Daily Mail, The Night We Waved Goodbye to America … Our Last best Hope on Earth:
Obama Positioned
Published on 9 Nov 2008 at 8:53 am.
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To start quickly governing from the left. WPost on 200-odd quick Obama fixes:
Post Tilt
Published on 8 Nov 2008 at 10:04 pm.
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Filed under McCain, Obama, pols.
Ombudman acknowledges one, Obamaward. Oddly, the WPost ombudsman thought The Fact Checker “deserves praise for parsing campaign rhetoric for the overblown or just flat wrong.” I thought The Fact Checker was short a clue or two.
Meanwhile, Rutenberg at NYT gloats at how campaigners who were talking about Obama “palling around with terrorists” are being gracious and taking the high [...]
Aunti Will Fight
Published on 8 Nov 2008 at 9:54 pm.
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Fugitive alien Aunti Zeituni, who bolted South Boston for Cleveland, has an immigration lawyer and will fight to stay. Not clear what the holdup’s been on fighting for the past four years, but it will be interesting to see whether she fare any better now beloved nephew is president-elect.
Pre-POTUS
Published on 8 Nov 2008 at 9:53 am.
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There’s a lot to like about our young, charismatic, easy-going, wildly popular president-elect. More press conferences like yesterday’s, please, in which, a couple months in advance to taking office, he began establishing the nation’s economic policy but dodged any responsibility for foreign policy, delved deeply into traditional Oval Office canine policy … charmingly and disarmingly if surprisingly refering to [...]
AQ Satellite Office Sends A Memo
Published on 7 Nov 2008 at 11:09 am.
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Head office still not heard from. AQ tends to operate a little behind al-Qurve on qommunications, still on a 14th-century newscycle and hampered by the need to eschew direct contact with 2ist century technology in favor of a donkey relay or two.
Word has now trickled out though from the better-wired satellite office, AQ in Iraq, which [...]
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Celebrating Historic Disaster
Published on 7 Nov 2008 at 12:57 am.
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Iowahawk heralds the dawn of a new era, when neither the color of a man’s skin nor his utter unsuitability for the job can keep a man from reaching his dream:
Less than fifty years ago, African-Americans were barred from public universities, restaurants, and even drinking fountains in many parts of the country. On Tuesday we [...]
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Greater Islamosphere
Published on 6 Nov 2008 at 10:08 pm.
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Filed under Arabs, Iran, Islam, Obama, hated Crusaders.
Reacts to Obama’s election. Some of it is actually quite favorable. Take this Egyptian imam’s fatwa, via MEMRI:
“The Democrats kill you slowly without you noticing it - and therein lies the danger. They are like a snake whose touch is not felt until its poison enters your body.”
Domestically, I heartily agree. In terms of foreign [...]
Congratulations!
Published on 6 Nov 2008 at 9:21 pm.
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Filed under Cuba, Iran, Kim, Korea, Obama, chavez.
Pouring in for the president-elect of the United States of Omerica. Change, we hope, say the world’s despots. Worst first. BBC, Hope for Iran:
Euroviews
Published on 6 Nov 2008 at 11:02 am.
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BusinessWeek: Europhoria gives way to caution. Put another way, gloating reverts to gutlessness.
NYT: They like us again! Hang on, who’s that guy talking “optical illusion” who says it wasn’t the Recklessist Cowboyist Bush that was the problem … it’s America.
Meanwhile, here are some of our old Europals:
Basking In The Obamaglow
Published on 6 Nov 2008 at 9:53 am.
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This is probably just another stage of depression or mourning or whatever, but I was already feeling it yesterday when I encountered a friend of mine who voiced it. It felt really good. It was that President Obama feeling …
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Pinch Me!
Published on 5 Nov 2008 at 1:46 pm.
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How the other half thinks. Michael Moore first, because this really is his special day. Pinch Me!
Omerica
Published on 5 Nov 2008 at 12:12 pm.
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Filed under America, Obama.
Just waking up. It was an early election night as they go, decided well before midnight, but while you got to turn off the TV, some of us still had newspapers to put out. A lot of late nights lately, but I’ll be getting more sleep now. Yes, I can.
OK, looking around to get the lay of [...]
Crazed War Vet
Published on 3 Nov 2008 at 9:19 pm.
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Filed under Iraq, Obama, guns.
Question: When is a crazed war veteran engaged in an armed standoff with a gun not identified in the lede as a crazed war veteran?
Bankruptcy
Published on 3 Nov 2008 at 12:14 pm.
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Filed under Obama, media.
Reaches beyond Obama’s plans for the coal industry and SF Chron’s news sense and professionalism to SF Chron’s logic: Failing to report Obama’s coal-industry bankruptcy remarks does not equal burying them. Busted Chron’s response is a tour de force of injured indignancy:
