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Barack’s National Address: Another Prediction Opportunity

by Flyovercountry ( 246 Comments › )
Filed under Barack Obama, Cult of Obama, Democratic Party, Progressives, Syria at September 10th, 2013 - 4:00 pm

Political Cartoons by Glenn Foden

As we sit here on the precipice of another worthless address to the nation by our man child President, one thing is clear, and that is the sad fact that Vladimir Putin is in full out schoolyard teasing mode now. Like the true schoolyard bully, he flashed our Bumbler in Chief a way out of the situation engineered by the odd combination of his utter incompetence, unbridled arrogance, and bizarre belief in appeasement, which is that projection of American Weakness that has served our interests so well in the past. Also like that schoolyard bully, he took that offer away as soon as the feckless Obama reached for it. This address to the nation was announced before these last minute theatrics took place of course, and the original intent was to pitch one more time, his plan to bomb Syria, with no objective in mind, no potential upside for our trouble, and now as it turns out, no clear evidence that Syria in fact crossed that blurry red line drawn, erased, redrawn, erased again, and sort of redrawn, albeit by parties now unidentified. As a helpful gift, our new Secretary of State, John Kerry, (who by the way served in Viet Nam,) has promised that what ever military action we do in fact take, should it come to that, will be so small that he hopes it won’t be likely to upset anyone at all. To which I, and I suspect many others would say, huh! So with the offer from Putin, which by the way started as a gaffe by John Kerry and was subsequently reported by a reporter with a great sense of humor as a joke, having been revoked, just as it was desperately reached for by a President who’s credibility has leaked out his left ear, what in the world will President Zero tell us tonight? Here are my five predictions.

1. Expect that soaring rhetoric and those empty platitudes that we have come to know and loathe so well. It’ll make the dumber of our citizenry feel all warm and fuzzy inside, but will leave anyone with two functioning grey cells bewildered. I’m sure the usual pleas of coming to the aid of those suffering will be mentioned, multiple times, enough in fact to make one ill. Glossed over however will be the fact that the rebels are indeed not the terrible long suffering people of Syria, but in reality peopled entirely by Al Queda, those same fine gents who flew planes into the WTC and Pentagon about a decade ago, and are most probably the guys who actually used those chemical weapons that Bashir Assad has been accused of using.

2. In the game of the ensuing strike, and waste of our national defense resources, being on again, off again, on again, off again, put me down for on again. Barack Obama will not get the approval he seeks from the House, and even the Senate is now faltering, having seen first hand how vehemently against this the American People are. He does however face some more critical problems, like losing what ever little bit of credibility he had to begin with. Half of us have known for a while that his statements and promises come with fairly short expiration dates, less than the sell by dates found on anything in the dairy case in fact, but now the Bamster’s performance of late has brought into that fold most of the other half of the country as well. He’s damned if he does, and damned if he doesn’t. This is a test of another pet theory of mine however, and that is this. His loyalties have always been more in line with the Muslim Brotherhood, and his ever evolving foreign policy has always magically formed to each situation so as to benefit that group above all others. Bombing Syria will aid the Muslim Brotherhood. Therefore, the strike is on.

3. Barack Obama is as of now, a Lame Duck President. It will be a long time before anyone takes him seriously. He’ll be allowed to address a future Democrat National Convention, as an ex-President, but only one. He has also severely damaged Hillary Clinton’s electoral prospects, who must be sitting at home looking over her copy of the contract in which she’s sold her soul, and is desperately looking for a loop hole, seeing as how the Devil failed to disclose the fact that she’d be screwed so thoroughly by Bozo The President.

4. John Kerry does not last the full four years as Secretary of State. Remember those calls for Hillary Clinton to have her picture placed on a milk carton when she was Secretary of State? That was nothing more than self preservation on her part. John Kerry is not nearly so smart, and he decided to be helpful right from the start, and he’ll be the one who’ll end up under the Team Zero Bus over all of this. He may be aligned politically with the Bamster, but when push comes to shove, he ain’t one of them, not by a damn sight. John Kerry has not learned that Team members participating in the Obama Administration are best not seen and not heard, until Barack needs his bacon to be saved. The only down side of saying good by to Lurch is that his replacement is bound to be every bit as terrible a choice as both he and Hillary turned out to be.

5. The 2014 midterms will be the same epic disaster for the Democrats that the 2010 midterms were. Electorally, the Republicans will clean house, led by a Tea Party tsunami. After the tsunami, the GOP will once again tell all members of the Tea Party to shut up and fall in line, and those very same leaders of the GOP will spend another couple of years refusing to state our argument in any appreciable way. They’ll not oppose the Zero for fear of being labeled racist homophobic misogynists, and the end result will be another two years of capitulation which will end up putting life back into a Hillary campaign that by all rights should be dead already.

Special Note: Last week I received another half dozen solicitations by the Republican Party for donations to, “help defeat the radical Obama Agenda.” Once again, I gave them nothing, since I am convinced that their goal is to help facilitate the radical Obama Agenda.

Cross Posted from Musings of a Mad Conservative.

Essential VDH: Obama is a joke

by Phantom Ace ( 100 Comments › )
Filed under Al Qaeda, Barack Obama, Democratic Party, Military at September 10th, 2013 - 12:12 pm

Despite huffing, puffing and chest pounding Obama has thankfully backed off helping al-Qaeda and its allies in Syria. The Russians have made offer that they will help dismantle Syrian WMDs in return for the US backing off strikes. Not only will this mean Assad can’t transfer weapons to Hezbollah, but it will prevent al-Qaeda/al-Nusra from seizing them and using it.

In the end, Obama ended up looking like a clown and his red line over Syria, has effectively crippled his Presidency. Not even his own party was backing his call for war. The public was vehemently against the intervention.

To support the president’s enforcement of his red line in Syria requires suspensions of disbelief. Here are several.

I wish it were not true, but there is scant evidence that the world, led by the U.S., went to war in the past over the use of weapons of mass destruction — whether by Gamel Nasser in Yemen or by Saddam Hussein against the Kurds and the Iranians. Understandably, the current West’s reaction, including Obama’s, to possible Syrian WMD use is calibrated mostly on the dangers of intervention, not the use of WMD per se. Thus Obama is now focusing on Syria in a way he is not, at least overtly, on Iran, the far greater WMD threat, because he believes the former could be handled with two days’ worth of Tomahawks and the latter could not. That would be understandable pragmatism if it were not dressed up in the current humanitarian bluster about red lines and the “international community.”

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No one currently in charge of U.S. foreign policy has any record of foreign-policy success. Those who might have offered wise counsel either are dead, have left the administration, or do not exercise authority — Crocker, Eikenberry, Gates, Holbrooke, Mattis, Petraeus. In contrast, the common theme among Obama, Biden, Hagel, Rice, Kerry, and Power is not brilliance. They cannot agree in public with each other; they contradict their own past statements; they have lost the public’s confidence in their veracity; and they sermonize and pontificate rather than inspire. One day we are bombing and skipping authorization from Congress; the next day, everything is on hold while Congress vacations; the next, its vote may not even matter; the next, the “shot across the bow” is a full-fledged, non-tiny attack; and most recently, everything is on hold again while the Russians — in the middle of a civil war, no less — negotiate with Assad to account for and turn over his WMD. We are certainly not in reliable hands to make one of the most complicated interventions in recent U.S. history.

Obama has been exposed as the jokester many on the Right have known for the last 5-7 years.

Our Foreign Policy, And More Importantly Syria, In A 29 Second Nut Shell

by Flyovercountry ( 91 Comments › )
Filed under Al Qaeda, Barack Obama, Democratic Party, Progressives, Republican Party, Syria at September 5th, 2013 - 8:00 am


We there you have it my gentle fellow citizens of the land of the feckless, home of the naive. When asked what it was exactly that our leaders hoped to gain by intervention in Syria, Admiral Martin Dempsey, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, answered, “I don’t know, I can’t answer that.” Just let that soak in for a moment or two, and we’ll chat afterwards.

I really did not want to do another Syria bit today, but seeing as though the only other news was about the monster Ariel Castro’s suicide, and the fact that a senior Obama Official has admitted that when we do intervene in Syria, our belief is that our action will accomplish nothing, I felt obliged. I don’t know what the background of Admiral Dempsey is here, and my sense is that he is held hostage by his principals to serve an Administration that he genuinely dislikes. Somebody has to hold his job while our treasonous President serves out his term, and it’s possible that, to his thinking, somebody should actually have America’s best interests at heart. At the same time, he is honor bound to follow the President’s orders, no matter how stupid they may be.

So, when the President ordered him to appear at the Kerry dog and pony show orchestrated for the Senate, he was stuck betwixt a rock and a hard place when asked the simple question, what good do you hope comes of this? Kicking out the Iranian puppet regime which takes the form of Hezbollah and that group of shiite thugs, in favor of the Muslim Brotherhood controlled puppet regime which will take the form of Al-Queda and that group of Shiite thugs, makes darned little sense when the end game is considered in its proper perspective, which is that there will be no appreciable difference in what Syria will be, in the end.

There is not one single argument for intervention in Syria that passes even cursory scrutiny. Chemical Weapons or WMD? Do you honestly believe that Al Queda, those fine folks who flew airplanes into the WTC and Pentagon are less likely to use Chemical weapons once they get their hands on them? They had no compunction with the thought of killing thousands of innocent people, what makes anyone believe that killing hundreds would give them pause? Bashir Assad is a really bad guy? What evidence does anyone have that the replacement thugs will be any nicer? Does September 11, 2001 ring any bells for you? That’s exactly who our President has chosen to support.

What it comes down to is this, our President, as much as he accused everyone else in the world of having this fault, decided that seventh grade school yard diplomacy would be the way to go in terms of helping Bashir Assad, the one time bestest buddy of the Democrats in Washington, make the best decisions for all of humanity, and those poor souls in Syria who live at his pleasure. Our President, fully armed with that smart diplomacy power, and his vast array of sternly worded letters and such, told Mr. Assad, a known sociopath, that there was a, “red line,” which he dare not cross. So, in the spirit of seventh grade, “neener neener,” brand of politicking, which for those Middle East aficionados is also known as saber rattling, Bashir Assad emphatically asked directions to the vaunted, “red line,” and crossed so many times that it is indistinguishable from the rest of the sand in the desert.

So now, the rush to lob a single cruise missile so that it explodes harmlessly in the desert, (brings back memories of Bill Clinton doesn’t it,) is supported by the latest iteration of an argument, America will look weak should we fail to do this thing. For the intellectuals out there, who may have a hard time following an argument that is not properly nuanced, I am truly sorry. I realize that simplicity is the enemy of tortured logic, and I’m only spit balling here, but perhaps the foreign policy based on projecting American weakness is what has made America seem weak. Maybe, just maybe, Bashir Assad looked out over the happenings in Egypt, Tunisia, Quatar, Libya, the Sudan, Yemen, Nigeria, and where ever else, and said, hey there’s a Democrat in the White House again, I can behave poorly with impunity.

The worst part of this dog and pony show for me is the realization that the Republican Party once again, asserts its place as the Palooka Party. Barack Obama, who has thrown this farce to Congress for a hypothetical debate, which means basically that he’ll act with or without Congressional Approval, is clearly seeking political cover, so that he may share blame, or better yet, manage to once again escape any of the accountability for committing U.S. troops to a military operation in which we have no identifiable objective, and consequently no chance for any sort of victory. Listening to a good number of the Republicans in the Senate, and in the House, it would seem that there is a large swath of our side more than willing to kiss canvas here.

By the time this is remembered for the 2014 midterms, it will have been a bipartisan disaster, in which Barack Obama’s hand was forced because of the ill advised council he’d received from John McCain, Lindsey Graham, and John Boehner. By the time the 2016 Presidential election rolls around, this will have been consigned to history as the McCain-Graham-Boehner war. Just like history granting Richard Nixon the lion’s share of the blame for the war in Viet Nam, conveniently forgetting that it was John Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson who gifted that use of military force to our nation, by the time that this one gets retold in the reeducation camps formerly known as public schools, Barack Obama will have tried to keep it from happening at all. He will have fought against the establishment as he always has, while leading our country from behind.

Cross Posted from Musings of a Mad Conservative.

Speaker John Boehner supports war with Syria

by Phantom Ace ( 17 Comments › )
Filed under Al Qaeda, Headlines, Republican Party, Syria at September 3rd, 2013 - 1:31 pm

The Wilsonian Progressive wing of the GOP are the ones who actually call the shots in the Party and love to get the US involved in any war they can. Speaker John Boehner and Majority leader Eric Cantor today pledges support to Obama for any action involved in Syria.

Speaker of the House John Boehner says that he’ll support President Obama’s “call for action” in Syria:

“The use of these weapons has to be responded to and only the United States has the capability and capacity to stop Assad and to warn others around the world that this type of behavior is not going to be tolerated,” said Boehner after meeting with Obama. “I appreciate the president reaching out to me and my colleagues in the Congress over the last couple of weeks. I also appreciate the president asking the Congress to support him in this action. This is something that the United States as a country needs to do. I’m going to support the president’s call for action. I believe my colleagues should support this call for action. We have enemies around the world that need to understand that we’re not going to tolerate this type of behavior. We also have allies around the world and allies in the region who also need to that America will be there and stand up whether it is necessary.”

War without end is what the Non Libertarian faction of the GOP supports. The Party of cautious Internationalism has become the Party of never ending war. There is nothing Conservative about the GOP’s foreign policy.

This is who the GOP elites wnat to assist.