A Prediction

From The Opinionated Fool:

  Suppose, just for a moment, that some unscrupulus political person, in a powerful national position (read: Barack Hussein Obama), might consider using American troops as pawns to advance an agenda. It sounds harsh, cruel, and so partisan as to be political science-fiction. 

But think about this:

  Barack Hussein Obama's health-care initiative is on the fence, big time. At first he wanted a bi-partisan bill; then determined that wasn't really necessary. Then other cracks appeared in the form of moderate and conservative Democrats.The health-care bill (the one that doesn't exist yet) stalled.

  Enter stage right: Afghanistan, the war Barack Hussein Obama himself campaigned on as the 'right war' for this country. His personally-selected general submitted an assesment of the situation in Afghanistan along with a request for the additional troops, 40,000 to be specific. The assesment has sat on Barack Hussein Obama's desk for over a month now. Additionally, eventual meetings with Barack Hussein Obama and his military and civilian advisors has resulted in the the 'promise' of a decision on strategy and troop requests within the next few weeks - all while our troops are being killed. 

 

  (For all the folks out there with fathers/mothers/sons/daughters in the military, and as a parent of a U.S. Marine safely back from Iraq, the callousness of this hesitiancy is frightening.)

  Now the prediction: At some point I will not be surprised if a 'deal' is struck. To garner support for the health-care bill among a few Republicans and, more importantly, moderate Democrats, the White House will use the Afghan troop request as a bargaining chip. 

 

  In essence: Give support to the health-care bill, get a quick decision on the troop request and war strategy. Cruel, but not surprising.

  Remember, you read it here first.

The UnDecider President, Part II

Given Barack Hussein Obama's
   inexperience,
   ineptness,
   indecisiveness,
   apparent lack of interest in the military (except when it comes to counting their votes),
   and willingness to spend money on every-damn-thing except the military,

  the decision regarding our troops in Afghanistan is easy:
  

  Bring them home from Afghanistan. NOW.


From 

Bill Kristol at the Weekly Standard

At today’s White House meeting, President Obama, I’m told, reminded the congressional leaders that every thousand troops sent to Afghanistan would cost about a billion dollars a year, and asked whether the lawmakers would really support $40 to $50 billion a year of additional spending for the war.

This particularly pathetic excuse for ducking his responsibility for doing the right thing in Afghanistan put me in mind of the brilliant, and mordant, 1969 Philip Larkin poem, “Homage to A Government.”

Next year we are to bring all the soldiers home
For lack of money, and it is all right.
Places they guarded, or kept orderly,
We want the money for ourselves at home
Instead of working. And this is all right.

It's hard to say who wanted it to happen,
But now it's been decided nobody minds.
The places are a long way off, not here,
Which is all right, and from what we hear
The soldiers there only made trouble happen.
Next year we shall be easier in our minds.

Next year we shall be living in a country
That brought its soldiers home for lack of money.
The statues will be standing in the same
Tree-muffled squares, and look nearly the same.
Our children will not know it's a different country.
All we can hope to leave them now is money.

At the rate the Obamanation is spending money, there won't even be that left.


H/T: Philip Larkin
Pajamas Media

Yes, He Did (?)

   Was Barack Hussein Obama’s biography, Dreams From My Father, actually written by an unrepentant domestic terrorist who lived in Obama's neighborhood?


   According to William Ayers, that unrepentant domestic terrorist who lived in Obama's neighborhood, the answer is   YES. 

   Via Anne Leary Backyard Conservative  :

... unprompted he said–I wrote Dreams From My Father. I said, oh, so you admit it. He said – Michelle asked me to.

... I said I believe you probably heavily edited it. He said – I wrote it.

 

  The unrepentant domestic terrorist who got away with murder claims authorship. 

 

  The social progressive community organizer who managed to get elected POTUS claims authorship.

So which one is the lying liar?

 H/T:

UrbanGrounds

memeorandum

How to Win a Nobel Prize in 12 Days

By Tommy De Seno:

  "Barack Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize this morning. 

Over the last decade the only requirement to win the prize was that the nominee had to be critical of George W. Bush  (see Al Gore, Mohamed El Baradei and Jimmy Carter).

President Obama has broken new ground here. Nominations for potential winners of the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize ended on February 1. 

The president took office only 12 days earlier on January 20.

Let’s take a look at the president’s first 12 days in the White House according to his public schedule to see what he did to deserve a Nobel Peace Prize:

January 20: Sworn in as president. Went to a parade. Partied.

January 21: Asked bureaucrats to re-write guidelines for information requests. Held an “open house” party at the White House.

January 22: Signed Executive Orders: Executive Branch workers to take ethics pledge; re-affirmed Army Field Manual techniques for interrogations; expressed desire to close Gitmo (how’s that working out?)

January 23: Ordered the release of federal funding to pay for abortions in foreign countries. Lunch with Joe Biden; met with Tim Geithner.

January 24: Budget meeting with economic team.

January 25: Skipped church.

January 26: Gave speech about jobs and energy. Met with Hillary Clinton. Attended Geithner's  swearing in ceremony.

January 27: Met with Republicans. Spoke at a clock tower in Ohio.

January 28: Economic meetings in the morning, met with Defense secretary in the afternoon.

January 29: Signed Ledbetter Bill overturning Supreme Court decision on lawsuits over wages. Party in the State Room. Met with Biden.

January 30: Met economic advisers. Gave speech on Middle Class Working Families Task Force. Met with senior enlisted military officials.

January 31: Took the day off.

February 1: Skipped church. Threw a Super Bowl party.

So there you have it. The short path to the Nobel Peace Prize: Party, go to meetings, skip church, release federal funding to pay for abortions in foreign countries, party some more.

Good grief."

Right on, Mr. De Seno.

And despite urgent American affairs at home - the economy, the war, the dollar crisis, Barack Hussein Obama will rev up Air Force One yet again to fly to Europe, yet again, for personal, not presidential, business, yet again.

The UnDecider President

On January 20, 2009, Barack Hussein Obama lost the ability to vote "Present" as he did as an Illinois state Senator ( 129 times ) and U.S. Senator; now he just makes no decisions at all.


As Barack Hussein Obama keeps reminding us, HE is the Commander in Chief. But 30 days after receiving an assessment of the situation in Afghanistan in which a request was made for more troops, BHO flew off to Denmark on a  non-urgent quest to secure the 2016 Olympics for his hometown of Chicago. He had already sent his wife and Oprah as a delegation, so why did he need to go?  

It was all HURRY, HURRY when it came to Health care Reform and the Stimulus billions, but when our troops lives' are in the balance, he has to think about it for over a month? What? 

If Barack Hussein Obama is unable or unwilling to make decisions, he should vacate the office.

Troops Die While Obama Dithers

Absolute Clarity

8 more of our troops were killed in Afghanistan over the weekend.

General McChrystal's request for more 40,000 more troops is still under consideration.

So, what is taking so long for our Commander-in-Chief to make a decision?

Oh. He's waiting for absolute clarity.

In the meantime, our men are dying.

I wonder if Barack Hussein Obama is 'punishing' the General for Remarks he made in London.

If that is the case, Barack Hussein Obama is doing something much more than delaying a decision; he is denying assistance to our troops that are in harm's way. That is reprehensible and unacceptable.

When will the American people get their own absolute clarity and realize this guy is nothing more than a social progressive community organizer who was (and is) totally unprepared for the job of and incompetent to be POTUS?

The "C" Word

"C" as in  CREEPY,  CLASSLESS,  CRASS.

But not Comedy.

Yes, I'm talking about David Letterman, who admitted to doing 'creepy things' (i.e. having sex with his staff members).


While I wouldn't necessarily term having extramarital or extra-relationship sex as 'creepy', I do think David Letterman is creepy and even creepier was the audience response.

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