Month: October 2009

Get ‘er done — Bush and Obama; a study in contrasts

There’ve been accusations and counter-accusations flying about Obama fiddling while Afghanistan burns.  Cheney accuses him of being a do-nothing.  Gibb claims Bush did nothing.  Jake Tapper looked into the matter and discovered that, while Iraq was a priority, Bush indeed did little with troop requests, struggling to fill them, but

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First they came for Fox News *UPDATED*

Kudos to the major news networks for refusing to allow the Obama administration to blackball Fox: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BlMILRyDRdM[/youtube] Here’s how Pastor Martin Niemöller would have seen it, if he was alive today: First they came for Fox News, and we did not speak out—because we did not have openly conservative commentators

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Read along with me

These are the interesting, entertaining and enlightening posts and articles I’m reading right now, as part of my gig on the Watcher’s Council: Council Submissions Mere Rhetoric – Foreign Policy Expert Marc Lynch: Obama Should Blackmail Israel With The Goldstone Report The Glittering Eye – A Curmudgeonly Comment About Healthcare

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Obama continues to add to the low tone of American politics *UPDATED*

If I recall, Barack Obama promised Americans that, with his smooooth personality (sort of the personality equivalent of Barry White’s voice), he would head an unusually civil, non-cynical, bipartisan administration.  Aside from the fact that this is most decidedly not happening, do any of you ever recall a sitting President

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Given the Obama administration’s attack on the Chamber of Congress, is this stunt a surprise? *UPDATED*

This kind of performance art is horrific, because it makes it impossible to determine any more what is true: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYGcIhNGSIY[/youtube] Hat tip:  Laer Pearce UPDATE:  Here’s another perfect example of the way in which the Left destroys are ability to believe in anything through the use of mirror image deceptions. 

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