>Obama truly does have the tinnest ear in politics.

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Our local version of Obama, Ridgefield Barbie, will be the test case for campaigns to come. Can we continue to support and elect candidates without substance, vision or clue?

I have, on occasion, mentioned that Obama has, perhaps, the “tinnest” ear in all of politics. His recent mosque debacle tend to confirm that observation.

While there is evidence out there to suggest that Obama is not a citizen… and that he may be an apostate muslim. But to date, all the evidence only “suggests” that these things might be true.

So, one is left to ponder: What was Obama thinking when he involved himself into what seems to amount to a local zoning issue? What did he possibly believe the outcome of his interference would be? Why would he slap the families of the 9/11 survivors by getting involved in this on the wrong side?

Why provide ammunition to those who despise him, those who suspect that his true allegiance isn’t to the Constitution or this country?

I believe that building a mosque at Ground Zero is as likely or proper as building a cathedral in Mecca. And what are the chances the muslim world would allow that?

Allowing or advocating for a mosque to be built at Ground Zero makes as much sense as building a Shinto shrine dedicated to the Japanese war dead at Pearl Harbor.

The political calculus is beyond belief. On the surface, as we’re spooling up for the mid-terms, it’s like the anti-American racist bigot occupying the White House is bent on polishing his islamic cred over his American cred.

And all of this begs the question: Why?

One of the warnings from some of the more moderate talking heads is that it’s being done deliberately to provoke the right wing into doing something stupid and racist. From some of the more whacked out right wing elements I’ve seen in the local GOP, that kind of equation is entirely possible. But to what end?

Anyone opposing the Obama agenda is already condemned as racist. Idiots like Harry Reid tell us that he doesn’t “… know how anyone of Hispanic heritage could be a Republican.” Playing the racist card as loudly or as often just becomes background noise after a while. The leftist idiots are increasingly out of the political mainstream (Just ask Craig Pridemore) and as they see it slipping away, leftists will become hysterically victimized, claiming EVERY effort to oppose their agenda is race-based.

In short, those of us opposed to Obama will be labeled racist no matter what we do. And that needs to be an element in the equation. Will overkill on the issue make any particular difference 2 years from now?

Can Obama possibly find any greater way to activate the right and get them out to the ballot box? Is it remotely possible that he simply did not understand the impacts? Was this show put on for us… or those frequently portrayed as the audience he’s working the hardest for?

It sucks to have a “d” after your name. But thanks to Obama, it’s going to become the political equivlent of a swastika. (No, I’m not comparing the two. I’m talking about the political impact ONLY.)

Obama, thy name is “tin ear.”
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>When the President is a lying S.O.B.

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The New York Post is reporting that the Liar-in-Chief stated the following during his whining, sniveling, vacuous bitchfest early yesterday::

President Barack Obama said Thursday that being American “is not a matter of blood or birth,” but said that “no matter how decent” the 11 million illegal immigrants in the U.S. are, they should be held accountable for breaking the law.

God save us from moronic blithering idiots such as this.

Being American is PRECISELY a matter of “blood and birth.” Yes, we have an administrative way to become American citizens that you want to give to 12 million illegal aliens in the hopes they will either vote for your dumb ass or the dumb asses who share your warped view. But for the rest of us, we either wait in line and follow the law, or, in fact, we’re born here, as I was; or blood, as my son was born in Germany while I was a serving Army officer… making him no less an American than I.

But at the end of the day, Mr. President, this “world citizen” crap you’re stuck on, where borders are mere suggestions to fringe leftists such as yourself has as a direct result the very law you assail, a law that is a direct result of YOUR intransigence and YOUR decision to allow the drug cartels to slaughter US. Your deliberate, politically motivated decision to allow what amounts to open borders is inexcusable and stands as a direct violation of your oath.

You have, once again,. managed to make me ashamed of my government. You sir, are a despicable President and human being.
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>Afghanistan. Stay…. Or go?

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This September will mark the 9th year of our active combat involvement in Afghanistan.

I want to take the time to verbally shotgun our “I’m-by-no-means-qualified-to-be-president, but-I’ve- played-one-on-TV” Commander-in-Chief for his lack of faith and concern in and for our military. That is the curse of choosing someone in the middle of a war to lead this country who has opted to view our military men and women with contempt, as “I spoke out against the now wildly successful Surge” Obama has done.

But frankly, I’m just too tired.

The how and why we find ourselves in the position we’re in has no place in this discussion. THIS discussion involves the next step…. The “what now” step.

The United States should have a goal in Afghanistan. The trouble is, even with a diverse military background, with duty and schooling and experience in the enlisted, NCO and company grade officer ranks, even with work in Saudi Arabia and over 6 years overseas, I haven’t been able to figure out what that goal is, or how we’ll know when we have absolutely achieved it.

This is an important discussion to have, I believe, and I’m writing about it in the context of the McChrystal debacle.

McChrystal is a black ops guy. You see the “tab” collection. “Special Forces.” “Ranger.” Apparently, McChrystal was a battalion commander… at the ripe old age of 33, an unheard of feat in the modern military era. McChrystal ran Black Ops in Iraq for 5 years or so before his Afghan gig as CG, ISFA; the command he ultimate resigned from in the face of his remarks to the Rolling Stone reporters.

He’s been taking some heat from Michael Yon, a former Green Beanie himself, who now gets his kicks as an “embed” independent reporter type. Yon, perhaps best known for an amazing picture taken a few years back, has been hammering McChrystal and other general officers for the Afghan strategy, in every aspect from the almost laughable Rules of Engagement, which govern when, how and under what conditions our Forces may fire on the enemy to that same lack of a goal to strategize TO, to the corrupt Karzai regime that hundreds of us have died and thousands of us have been wounded to prop up.

Let me throw this into the mix: I have a vested interest in this issue. I have a son who is seriously considering the military as an option.

And I am doing everything I can to talk him out of it.

Clueless leadership of a war is a death warrant for kids that have been trained to believe they’re making a difference.

Are they?

Well, I might think they were if I or anyone else knew:

A. What’s the goal in Afghanistan, and

B. How do we get there, and

C. How will we know when we’ve achieved it, and

D. How much are we willing to spend in lives and money, to get there?

McChrystal, I believe, knows how to fight that war. But he found himself hamstrung by extraneous and irrelevant political restrictions, because we are much more concerned about some nebulous “world opinion” then we are the blood and lives of our children.

So, we send the finest armed force the world has ever known over to this country to fight what amounts to a caveman insurgency, tell them to knock the stuffing out of the bad guys, and then give the bad guys every possible strategic and tactical advantage. The result?

“June (2010) deadliest month for troops in Afghan War.”

Shouldn’t things be getting better by now?

Militarily, what are the differences between Iraq and Afghanistan?

Could it be the ROE are so restrictive in Afghanistan that we cannot win militarily?

I don’t want to see anyone that doesn’t NEED killing get killed. But this isn’t, by any means, a perfect world.

I believe that all REASONABLE steps should be made to avoid collateral damage. I’ve never been one to “save the village” by “destroying it.”

But as a nation and as a military, unless we can destroy the enemy AND THOSE WHO SUPPORT THEM, we are facing eminent defeat.

This means: airstrikes against Iran. This means leveling villages that provide aid or comfort to the insurgents. This means fighting these people on OUR terms, instead of theirs.

At the end of the day, we are going to lose unless we make the costs so prohibitively expensive for the fight to continue that those involved pick up their football and go home.

McChrystal, I believe, understands all of that. That, as a general officer, he could vote for a complete military imbecile for the presidency in the middle of a war calls his political judgment into question, certainly; but how could he possibly have known for a certainty the depths of the ACORN-in-Chief’s stupidity?

So, he finds himself in command of an untenable military situation: He can win, but he has been ordered to tie one arm and a foot behind his back to do it.

He fully understands the implications of a rotten, corrupt, central government. He understands that we can’t look at the Afghan people and ask them to either believe in such a government or to believe in US, when we’ve already (and quite stupidly) announced we’re going to leave pretty soon.

Everyone aware there’s a war going on in Afghanistan is also aware of our efforts to “Vietnamize” it. The patterns have unmistakable parallels.

We’re propping up a corrupt government. We’re trying to train a military up enough to fight for themselves. We’re sick of being there. We won’t take the military steps necessary to punish those supplying the insurgents with an unlimited amount of supplies and other support.

In a nutshell, that certainly seems to be the plan we’re following now at the strategic level. And the Taliban know it (They’ve got internet access as well) so they don’t even have to fire a round in a village or a region. All they have to do is retell the Obama campaign promises, promises that see us leaving… and then look around and ask: “Who is going to protect you then?”

And anyone would somehow expect a different outcome?

McChrystal sees all of that, and his political ignorance aside, he sees an increasingly difficult military situation, made unnecessarily so by moronic dictates from people like Obama, who don’t know (or care to know) any more about the military than they do brain surgery.

The problem is that Obama isn’t the brain surgeon in chief… he’s the Commander-in-Chief. His military ignorance has, is and will hurt this country. McChrystal is faced with the idea that he must go out and play patty-cake with the bad guys, knowing that he’s doing so with a White House which will toss him under the nearest bus with a rapidity that would make the Reverend Wright debacle look like a fender-bender in comparison.

To win this war, we are going to have to kill a lot of people. Some of them will be innocents. We will never set out to kill innocents, but some innocents are going to die. Sorry about that.

As a nation, that reality should have been our guiding principle from day one.

Unfortunately, we are led by someone apparently incapable of understanding or appreciating that truism. So, we get Rules of Engagement that were written as if OBL had signed off on them.

People can shoot at us; throw their weapons down and run away, knowing full well that we can’t return fire against unarmed people… even if they were shooting at us moments before.

Great for the insurgency.

Not so great for us.

McChrystal commands troops who are dying because of these and other rules. He’s sick of it. He sees what I see. He ponders what he can do next.

He takes the Buddhist monk route, but instead of pouring gasoline on himself and lighting it, he pours gasoline on his career and lights that. Now, America is becoming familiar with terms like “Short-sighted… Chaos-stan… Bite Me… Obama looked uncomfortable and intimidated… he didn’t seem very engaged… I was selling an unsellable position…” and so on.

These are the kinds of things the American people MUST know. We MUST pay attention.

McChrystal asks himself, directly or indirectly, “How can I change this? How can I make it different?”

Was this a deliberately planned verbal fragging of Obama?

I don’t think so. Special ops are all about targets of opportunity. I believe (And I have nothing to base this on except a well-developed gut) that McChrystal read the story and made a snap judgment that here was an opportunity that he could not pass up.

Commands don’t pay 4 star generals any more money. Obama couldn’t reduce McChrystal in rank; to do so would, under these circumstances, require a court martial and provide McChrystal with a platform to pulverize him.

What to do with McChrystal is a fascinating problem as well. But now, he’s looming there, not unlike a buzzard, waiting to pounce on Obama publically, and blow holes in what seems to be a chronically failed policy that is leading us, at a great cost in blood and treasure, no where.
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>Apparently, Obama has yet to understand: "Brevity is the soul of wit."

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Bill Shakespeare’s timeless observation from Hamlet, way back in 1602 applies as much today as it did 400 years ago.

When you’ve surrounded yourself with yes men, yes women and sycophants, you rarely here the word “no.” It’s fairly clear, based on his disastrous administration to date, that no one has the testicular fortitude to stand up to him and say something like, “Uh, Mr. president, excuse me, but is the destruction of our economy REALLY what you want to be known for?”

So, when taken to task a few days ago in a surprisingly poorly prepped (Typically, Obama’s public appearances are scripted to the “n’th” degree, so people like the woman in this article aren’t allowed within 5 miles of The One, because once you take this clown off the teleprompter, it’s all over.

Obama’s 17-minute, 2,500-word response to woman’s claim of being ‘over-taxed’

By Anne E. Kornblut

CHARLOTTE – Even by President Obama’s loquacious standards, an answer he gave here on health care Friday was a doozy.

Toward the end of a question-and-answer session with workers at an advanced battery technology manufacturer, a woman named Doris stood to ask the president whether it was a “wise decision to add more taxes to us with the health care” package.

“We are over-taxed as it is,” Doris said bluntly.

Obama started out feisty. “Well, let’s talk about that, because this is an area where there’s been just a whole lot of misinformation, and I’m going to have to work hard over the next several months to clean up a lot of the misapprehensions that people have,” the president said.

He then spent the next 17 minutes and 12 seconds lulling the crowd into a daze. His discursive answer – more than 2,500 words long — wandered from topic to topic, including commentary on the deficit, pay-as-you-go rules passed by Congress, Congressional Budget Office reports on Medicare waste, COBRA coverage, the Recovery Act and Federal Medical Assistance Percentages (he referred to this last item by its inside-the-Beltway name, “F-Map”). He talked about the notion of eliminating foreign aid (not worth it, he said). He invoked Warren Buffett, earmarks and the payroll tax that funds Medicare (referring to it, in fluent Washington lingo, as “FICA”).

Always fond of lists, Obama ticked off his approach to health care — twice. “Number one is that we are the only — we have been, up until last week, the only advanced country that allows 50 million of its citizens to not have any health insurance,” he said.

The problem for Obama, of course, is that he’s a total liar, not to be believed.

In areas as far ranging as his opposition to the wildly successful surge in Iraq, to his fantasy 8% unemployment ceiling if only the porkulous would be passed, to his complete lies about lobbyists in his administration to his lies about the taxes of those of us making less than $250,000 to his lies about this monumental waste of trillions on health care (Notice how the number of those “uninsured” seems to keep climbing? Why, back in the day, it used to be 35 million. Now, all of a sudden, he’s lying about it by saying the number is 50 million.)

The reason his lying is at issue is because one of the things liars do when they attempt to explain, is they talk… and they talk… and they talk…

Over the years, how many times have we heard that if you can’t “dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bullshit.”

HCR/SL (Health Care Reform/Student Loans) is a socialist, wealth redistribution garbage heap. It is a crap pile of horrific proportion. Obama knows this, and evidence that he knows it is in this term-paper response to a simple and true observation by a woman named Doris, who accurately proclaimed that “We are over-taxed as it is.”

Back in college, studying communism, it became clear that one of that system’s many fundamental flaws was a failure to take into account human nature.

In a totalitarian society of the variety Obama is implementing, again we see that fundamental flaw overlooked.

Human nature typically is that when one works the hardest, one should receive the most in return for that work. It is that X Factor as to why some of us strive towards excellence.

Under the Obama regime, effort is not rewarded. Everyone who isn’t “rich” is a victim of those who are, and those who are somehow become responsible, directly, through income redistribution, for those who are not.

I am reaonably well off. But I certainly haven’t always been so. As a product of the welfare state, I used the military to pay for my education, and I have managed rather well for the past several years consulting on business and political projects that have become righter than they are wrong.

So, even in a down economy like this, the checks keep coming.

I have roughed out some plans for expansion of my business, since at some point, I want to not be working out of a home office.

But lately, I’ve been asking myself: Why should I? Why should I take the risk? Why should I bust my ass to fatten the socialist wallet?

That’s the question I would love to put, directly, to the empty suited, anti-American, racist bigot currently occupying the White House.

I bet I’d get a hell of a lot more than 2500 words out of that clown now.
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>All of Obama’s broken promises to date.

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I used to blog about the manifold number of lies by the empty-suited, anti-American racist bigot that is our president, but frankly, THAT became a full time gig because his idiocy was so omni-present, and his communications plan was so full of lies that even his teleprompter revolted.

Monday, March 29, 2010 BARACK OBAMA A Long Post: The Complete List of Obama Statement Expiration Dates By popular demand, a comprehensive list of expired Obama statements… HEALTH CARE MANDATES STATEMENT: “We’ve got a philosophical difference, which we’ve debated repeatedly, and that is that Senator Clinton believes the only way to achieve universal health care is to force everybody to purchase it. And my belief is, the reason that people don’t have it is not because they don’t want it but because they can’t afford it.” Barack Obama, speaking at a Democratic presidential debate, February 21, 2008. EXPIRATION DATE: On March 23, 2010, Obama signed the individual mandate into law. HEALTH CARE NEGOTIATIONS ON C-SPAN STATEMENT: “These negotiations will be on C-SPAN, and so the public will be part of the conversation and will see the decisions that are being made.” January 20, 2008, and seven other times. EXPIRATION DATE: Throughout the summer, fall, and winter of 2009 and 2010; when John McCain asked about it during the health care summit February 26, Obama dismissed the issue by declaring, “the campaign is over, John.” RAISING TAXES STATEMENT: “No family making less than $250,000 will see any form of tax increase.” (multiple times on the campaign trail) EXPIRATION DATE: Broken multiple times, including the raised taxes on tobacco, a new tax on indoor tanning salons, but most prominently on February 11, 2010: “President Barack Obama said he is “agnostic” about raising taxes on households making less than $250,000 as part of a broad effort to rein in the budget deficit.” RECESS APPOINTMENTS STATEMENT: Then-Senator Obama declared that a recess appointment is “damaged goods” and has “less credibility” than a normal appointment. August 25, 2005. EXPIRATION DATE: March 27, 2010: “If, in the interest of scoring political points, Republicans in the Senate refuse to exercise that responsibility, I must act in the interest of the American people and exercise my authority to fill these positions on an interim basis.” BORDER SECURITY STATEMENT: “We need tougher border security, and a renewed focus on busting up gangs and traffickers crossing our border. . . . That begins at home, with comprehensive immigration reform. That means securing our border and passing tough employer enforcement laws.” then-candidate Obama, discussing the need for border security, speaking in Miami on May 23, 2008: EXPIRATION DATE: March 17, 2010: The Obama administration halted new work on a “virtual fence” on the U.S.-Mexican border, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano announced Tuesday, diverting $50 million in planned economic stimulus funds for the project to other purposes. GUANTANAMO BAY STATEMENT: Executive Order stating, “The detention facilities at Guantánamo for individuals covered by this order shall be closed as soon as practicable, and no later than one year from the date of this order.” January 22, 2009. EXPIRATION DATE: November 19, 2010: “Guantánamo, we had a specific deadline that was missed.” MILITARY TRIBUNALS STATEMENT: “Somebody like Khalid Sheik Mohammad is gonna get basically, a full military trial with all the bells and whistles.” September 27, 2006 EXPIRATION DATE: Ongoing. “President Obama is planning to insert himself into the debate about where to try the accused mastermind of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, three administration officials said Thursday, signaling a recognition that the administration had mishandled the process and triggered a political backlash. Obama initially had asked Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. to choose the site of the trial in an effort to maintain an independent Justice Department. But the White House has been taken aback by the intense criticism from political opponents and local officials of Holder’s decision to try Khalid Sheik Mohammed in a civilian courtroom in New York.”

There are many, many more located here at National Review Online.
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>So, it looks like the American people ain’t drinkin’ the Obama Kool Aid.

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Speaks for itself.

Democrats, in the next election, I’d be afraid.

Very, afraid.

http://www.pollster.com/flashcharts/flash/swfs/chart.swf?xml=http://www.pollster.com/flashcharts/content/xml/HealthCare.xml&choices=Oppose,Favor&phone=&ivr=&internet=&mail=&smoothing=&from_date=&to_date=&min_pct=&max_pct=&grid=&points=&trends=&lines=&colors=Favor-000000,Oppose-BF0014,Undecided-A69A37,NoOpinion-68228B&e=1
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>Is the President losing it?

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Yesterday, Bret Baier of yes, FOX News, got in the president’s grill about, essentially, using the Constitution for kindling through the obviously unconstitutional “deeming” procedure to utilize the Soviet-style “lets not, and say we did” dodge to get his horrific “health care reform – student loan” program through.

The presidents desire to self-immolate, along with the rest of the left, is confusing enough. After all, he’s so willing to lie that just the other day, he assured us that if HCR-Student Loans pass, why, we’ll get a 3000% reduction in our healthcare premiums:

First, he never really answered Baier’s questions. Guilty people rarely do.

Second, if Brett Baier can rattle this guy with his thumb on the nuclear button like he did in this interview, then why is he running the show?

Third… what the hell is he talking about? Has he lost his mind?

This guy is scary enough if he’s sane… which was questionable even before this interview. But in this clip, where he references a fictional earthquake in Hawaii in an attempt to justify legislative bribery, he’s coming across as down right nuts.

When you have to lie like he does about the costs and impacts of a bill that no one wants, you know you’re wrong.

People that do things they know to be wrong, particularly on a scale like this, need to be in a cell next to Bernie Madoff. For me, Obama is engaging in his fraud directly in the view of the public. But he’s making Madoff’s $50 billion look like a fender-bender compared to 8 killed in the intersection.

How much is enough?

The number one job of our government is to protect the American people. How is letting this cardboard cutout of a president bankrupt us equate to “protection?”
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>It’s not often that I agree with the Administration about anything, but this approach to illegals has been needed for a long time.

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There’s a little town in Okanogan County called Brewster. (pop 2200 or so)

To read this article, one would come to the belief that the economy of this town is almost fully dependent on the illegal alien trade.

In this instance, what’s happened here is that Immigration has notified a large farm that they would be subjected to an audit. as a result, they notified the work force of the following:

That because many of the forms and identifications used for employment were suspect, unless those employees could prove they were in this country legally, the company would let them go.

The result?

Five hundred and fifty were fired.

As they should have been.

This is, I believe, the missing link in “enforcement” (using the term euphemistically) of our immigration laws.

It’s not the only step, of course. All locations doing anything concerning illegal aliens, including schools and hospitals, should be reporting them to ICE, who should then, in turn, deport them.

Further, we should make absolutely sure that they receive no government assistance at any level for anything, and we should eliminate the bizarre laws that make birth in this country an automatic qualification for citizenship.

But most importantly, we must hold those who would employ illegals the most accountable.

If we were to take these steps, then the illegal alien problem would be severely curtailed and it would be curtailed in the fairest way possible.

By that, I mean that those who break the laws of this country by being here illegally are in no way favored over the millions of others who would immigrate to this country by following the rules.

The nonsensical idea that those violating our laws are more qualified to be here then those following those laws is just that: bizarre.
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>The subtle bigotry of Rahm Emanuel

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So, here we have it. The President insults those with physical and mental challenges with his bowling blunder…. The democrat Senate Majority Leader and his”no Negro dialect” nonsense… and now we have the President’s own Chief of Staff, Rahm Emanuel using his foot-wide tin ears to screw up again with his “retard” remark:

Emanuel was quoted in the Journal last week making the comment during an August meeting with some liberal activists who were threatening to run TV ads against conservative Democrats hesitant to embrace President Obama’s approach to health care reform. “F**king retarded,” was his response to the plan, witnesses told the Journal. He later called Special Olympics head Tim Shriver to apologize.

The problem I have with all of this rests primarily with the two-faced position of the democrat party concerning minorities and those with physical and mental challenges.

On one hand, they claim to be the party that represents those less fortunate. They claim to be the voice for those who can’t speak for themselves.

Isn’t it obvious that such a claim is a sham? Isn’t it obvious that those leading the democrat party use this as a veneer… a sham…. to fool the very people they hold in such low regard?

Memo to the democrats: you not only have to talk the talk…. you gotta walk the walk.

Just sayin.
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>The President continues to disappoint.

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The “tinnest” ear in politics begins to resemble nothing so much as a can of Campbell’s Soup.

Yesterday should have been an act of political contrition. Instead, it was an act of delusional arrogance.

Bogus budget “freezes,” nonsensical heath care babble, continuing lies about the bogus “jobs created or saved” garbage… a complete lack of vision and down-the-rabbit-hole psychobabble.

He idiotically stood up there and told us, effectively, that the focus “in 2010” must be jobs.

A blind man could see in a minute that every waking moment not spent on defense SHOULD have been spent on REAL economic development, and not an unfathomable expansion of government and government jobs and government payroll.

It takes a clueless moron to FINALLY get around to “jobs” a year too late.

The continuing stupidity of trying terrorists in criminal court, the fantasy foreign policy (How’s that “outstretched open hand” crap working for you?) ending DADT in the middle of a war….

The crippling political loses democrats have suffered and the blame Bush syndrome infesting democrat political leadership… all essentially without acknowledgment or impact.

Failing to include Republicans… closed door meetings… campaign promises over C-Span cameras that were campaign lies. Ham-handed unforced errors… basic incompetence and a lack of responsiveness frightening in dimension.

I have no confidence that the president can either recognize our problems not adequately respond to them. And I am always guided by the over-arching concept that as government expands, our liberties contract.

Someone, far wiser than I, once observed that government governs best when it governs least. And that’s not what we’re confronted with here… here, when we need it most.
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