Friday morning open thread *UPDATED*
Bookworm on Nov 20 2009 at 9:23 am | Filed under: Open Threads
I’ve been on the go since 6 a.m. and am only now sitting down at the computer — where I have 6 minutes until my next “on the go moment.” I’ll be back here as of 10:30 my time and I finally figured out what I want to write about.
I’ll let you guys write about the fact that Reid is planning to vote on his 2,000+ health care bill, complete with abortion payments, massive taxes, etc., tomorrow evening.
UPDATE: One more thing to chew on: the flood of leaks from the White House about Afghanistan. In other words, the news isn’t just the leaks’ contents, it’s the leaks’ existence. No wonder swelling tide of voters, still inexplicably charmed by “Obama the man,” desperately wants to clip his wings.
UPDATE II: This story, about Michelle being friendly to Oprah when Oprah was useful during the election, and now giving her the cold shoulder, says so much about Michelle’s angry, hostile, defensive personality, doesn’t it? And this is the person who is closest to a president who is himself angry, hostile and defensive. What have the voters wrought? I know that somethings I find myself thinking longingly, not just of Clinton, but even of Carter. During the campaign, I mentioned repeatedly that I worried that Obama would be Carter redux. Who knew that he’d be worse?
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That picture in the National Inquirer is classic. I would love to be a fly on the wall when either woman saw it. (Very high on the wall and well out of range, because something was going to get hurt)
I read the “Michelle gives Oprah the cold shoulder” article. There is another take on it. While Frank Sinatra, like Oprah, was a prominent celebrity who supported a winning Presidential candidate, no one would claim that JFK should have consulted Frank Sinatra on anything other than popular songs, detection of an offkey trumpet in the third row, or Mafia connections. Thank you Frank, for your support. See you in four years.
Similarly, Oprah is one of those celebrities who mistakes her bank account or Nielsen ratings for political acumen. I have no problem with Michelle giving her the cold shoulder, and acting as a gatekeeper to the Pres. The unfortunate aspect of Michelle acting here as a gatekeeper to keep airheads away from the POTUS is that contrary to the liberal meme that the best and brightest are working at the White House, we have already observed a fair number of airheads in the White House.
Joseph Farah agrees with me for the same reasons, though he expresses it more eloquently– get out of Afghanistan now. Bring the troops home now!
I was a supporter of both the Afghanistan invasion and the Iraq war.
I believed then, following the Sept. 11 attacks, that it was a matter of national security to hand Islamic terrorists stunning defeats in their own backyards.
Even a year ago, I would have said bringing the troops home prematurely would be tantamount to surrender to an enemy determined to do us in.
But that was then. This is now.
Things have changed and changed dramatically.
The biggest change is one in America’s leadership.
I do not believe Barack Obama is capable of achieving anything remotely resembling victory in either Iraq or Afghanistan – at least not victory for the United States of America.
A president incapable of recognizing that war came home Nov. 5 at Fort Hood is certainly incapable of waging foreign wars.
A president incapable of recognizing that terrorists are among us could never be counted on to do the right thing in remote places like Afghanistan and Iraq.
A president whose own worst enemies are the Republican Party, Fox News Channel and the tea party movement couldn’t possibly ever understand the nature of real combat.
It’s time to bring the troops home now!
It’s not without considerable reflection and sadness that I make this call. Like most Americans, I hoped to see the forces that attacked our country without provocation eight years ago utterly destroyed, incapacitated, defeated, devastated, annihilated, demolished and obliterated.
It’s clear that is no longer an option.
Obama has been vacillating since August over what to do in the quagmire that has become Afghanistan – the one conflict he claimed to support in his election campaign. The man he chose to be his field general has requested a surge of 40,000 combat soldiers to finish the job we began eight years ago. Obama can’t decide whether to listen to him and seems determined to meet him in the middle.
The middle spells uncertainty. The middle spells doubt. The middle spells defeat.
I’m not willing to see one more U.S. soldier die in Iraq or Afghanistan under that kind of ambivalent leadership.
Bring the troops home now!
It’s obvious we’ve got a war on our hands right here – and we don’t even have a president ready, willing and able to defend our unarmed soldiers and civilians at home.
By the way, I wonder what happened to that anti-war enthusiasm that swept him into power in the first place? Where has it gone? Why has it dissipated? Where are the protests?
Barack Obama loves to apologize for American mistakes. Why doesn’t he just apologize to the jihadists who attacked America and to all those villages we air-raided and call it a day? Get it over with.
If you disagree with me about this, ask yourself these questions: Do you feel Obama is up to the challenge as commander in chief to achieve American victory in either Iraq or Afghanistan in the next three years? If not, are you willing to allow U.S. soldiers to continue to die for these causes?
Obama is unfit for command. How can we win two conflicts with him at the helm?
Obama has made it clear he is only seeking “exit strategies” – not lasting victories.
“Exit strategies” are easy. Put the troops on airplanes and ships and get them out of there – as fast as possible. Just make left turns at Afghanistan and Iraq. Obama should know how to go left – he’s taken America in that direction for the last year.
Will there be consequences for precipitous withdrawals?
Of course there will be.
They will be grave.
But there will also be consequences for Obama’s half-hearted style of national defense.
As good as the U.S. military is, without a leader who genuinely understands the threat of Islamo-fascism, these wars are already lost.
Bring the troops home now – we’re going to need them more than ever. http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=116127
Narcissists use people and drop them. That being said, I imagine Oprah would be a dangerous enemy to make.
Oprah is easy to fool and manipulate. She got conned by a book writer who faked a “True Story”. She hailed that book on her show as genuine and worthy.
These people are not so much clowns, although they may look like it, but they are tools. And master manipulators and malignant narcissists, cruel and evil people, play them for all they are worth.
Conservatives could get a lot of mileage out of Hollywood or the Left with the same manipulation tactics.
Of course Obama would be worse than Carter if Obama was as bad as Carter. Carter didn’t have a war to run. That meant Carter couldn’t get thousands of Americans killed even if he wanted to. He had no war to do it, and wouldn’t start one either by putting ground forces in Afghanistan.
Obama, with two wars, obviously could kill more Americans by direct and indirect methods than Carter could have, even if Obama was just as bad as Carter but no worse.
Dead Americans are dead Americans. They don’t come back to life at the end of the show.
FACT: In November 1990 – nineteen years ago, Rabbi Meir Kahane was murdered by el sayyid nosair.
FACT: Nosair was acquitted of murder in his first trial and charged with a lesser crime. He was later re-sentenced to life – no thanks to William Kunstler.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Sayyid_Nosair
Follow the link to ali mohamed (stationed at Ft. Bragg) for additional details and links to AQ and the bombing of the World Trade Center in June of 1993.
There are no anomalies in the pattern. The attacks are all linked, all connected, all purposeful in their intent. The victums at Ft. Hood are nothing less than another internal assault and all come from the same source.