Seriously. How can anyone above the age of 18 — or who isn’t still a member of the Buffalo Springfield (or Nena, for that matter) fan clubs — support a man who, when he bothers to say anything substantive, shows himself to be so completely out of touch with the Anglosphere’s best interests that its a wonder he’s able to deliver his lines in English.
Let’s cut through the tonal “strength” projected by O! here and cut right to the heart of the matter: if elected, Obama promises to do his best to even the martial playing field world wide by gutting the military strength of the US — ostensibly, to divert that spending (from one of the few areas where government should be spending) to areas more in tune with his “vision” and to the vision of progressives everywhere: a militarily impotent US, whose vast economic resources are used to fund the pet social engineering projects of those too smart to wait around for sloppy and ineffectual democracy to catch up with the plans our betters have for us: putting Americans “to work,” socializing health care, caving in to the demands of junk science and its lobbyists-posing-as-scientists, and “transcending partisan politics” — which is simply a fascistic euphemism for letting the smart people run things, without all the inaction and inelegance that comes with a democratic republic.
Reagan gave us peace through strength. O! will counter with peace through (cross your fingers and) HOPE! For freedom!
Of course, disarming Ayers, Dohrne, and the like? Well, that’s a bit more complicated. BECAUSE OF THE NUANCE!
(h/t Macsmind, via dre)
Wow, hadn’t seen that one before. Now that’s some real stoopid right there. Wassa matter wid dis dude. He never see No Country for Old Men?
Obama believes in the Rainbow Fish doctrine. All the other countries hate us because we hold ourselves out to be special. If we give away all of our pretty scales, we will be just like all the other fish, and they will finally like us.
I will set a goal for a world without nuclear weapons.
He ought to set a goal to get rid of mean people, too. Because mean people suck.
The funny/sad thing is, the other countries do the same thing. We just don’t bitch about their attitudes.
(The French think they’re the most “sophisticated”. The Indians believe their they most “spiritual”.)
Is “sophisticated” one of those dog-whistle words for “smelly?”
Two in a row! With embedded video, no less! I’m glad I held off. So, where’s that Kleagle hood?
“I will slow our development of future combat systems.”
Why? So China can develop them first?
Because American isolationism and weakness has such a wonderful track record as shown by the history of the 20th Century. Everyone was safe and the bunnies frolicked in the rainbow meadows next to the chocolate rivers until that mean old Franklin Roosevelt decided America had to increase its military power, against the advice of good men like Sen. Borah. Since then it has all been gray skies and the hatey. That must stop – for the sake of the bunnies!!!!!
I saw this a few months ago, and I immediately thought, “Wow, what an amazingly effective commercial for whoever he’s running against!” I mean, seriously, was Karl Rove off camera holding a gun on one of his daughters or something?
He looks good though. And if you are going hand over the country to the Islamojihadifreedomhaters, you should definitely look stylish doing it.
Now that you’re done shuddering at the limp wristedness of Senator Barack Obama may I suggest you turn to http://iowahawk.typepad.com/bolus/2008/05/smoke-em-if-you.html#comments to restore any lost faith in plain ole American manly-crazy. Burge/Goldstein our best hope.
Those McGovern comparisons are turning out to be spot on.
If he keeps this up, Maverick will eat him alive.
Does he think he’s running for the chair of the poly-sci department at Duke or something?
Two in a row! With embedded video, no less! I’m glad I held off.
Me too. Don’t want to spoil anyone’s afterglow.
9. Comment by Sean M. on 5/20 @ 3:52 pm #
I saw this a few months ago, and…..
I was thinking that it wasn’t recent; he’s not wearing his flag pin.
He’s a pansy. Like my guy in Chicago said. He said I really like Obama except for his policies. I said oh that’s what Other Guy says too… What’s wrong with you people? Oh I just like him is all Chicago Guy said. And, you know, McCain. I said oh well yeah.
Why am I in this handbasket and where are we going? And slow down, you’re mussing my hair and I’m getting windburn!
Sheets was seen weeping for Teddy on the Senate floor today. “I love you. I miss you.”
When words fail me, I turn to google image for help.
Carp all you want but the power of the community organizer will not be denied! BO’08
BTW, this is to be expected from someone listening to Retired Air Force General Scott Gration, but the video really brings it home.
Up until now the Democrats’ best plan for protecting the US from the threat of future terrorism was to hire thousands of new Federal workers and allow them all to join the union that funds the Democratic party.
I think Obama might push the envelope a little further and propose that the government give ACORN a trillion dollars to prevent terrorism, and, you know, “address the root causes”.
O! The fun we shall have!
IIIRC, the Bander-Log were not the group to hang out with.
you ever see that movie, The American President where Mike Douglas plays the President? t some point in that movie, he has to show how tough he is and he bombs some countries defence ministry, but he orders it done in the middle of the night to reduce casualties. Later in the movie he agonizes over having to be the guy who has to make a decision that will kill the night janitor in that building, an innocent guy, caught up in World Politics. Instead of, you know, the guys who actually did whatever it was that made him want to blow up the building to begin with. We were supposed to be so impressed at what a statesman Hollywood had created, how we wished our president was that brave.
Obama is that guy. God help us all.
I will set a goal for a world without nuclear weapons.
Cool! I vote that we start with North Korea and Iran, then we can work on China and Russia. Get that diplomacy workin’, Barry!
I’m not too fond of France having them, either, frankly.
“I’m not too fond of France having them, either, frankly.”
I don’t know…at least they threatened to use them against Iran if push came to shove, iirc.
Cool! I vote that we start with North Korea and Iran, then we can work on China and Russia. Get that diplomacy workin’, Barry!
I’d love to be in the room when he suggests that Israel give them up.
B Moe-
He ought to set a goal to get rid of mean people, too. Because mean people suck.
Are you saying that Michelle isn’t ‘mean’? (Or, perhaps she is?!)
Guess who the community organizer had open his come to Jesus Oregon rally:
Decemberists support Obama with free Portland show
The Decemberists
The Decemberists
They’ll perform at a rally on Sunday
* May 16, 2008
Did they come out for the band or hear the community organizer?
What was it that Eisenhower said?
Considering how much we spend compared to the rest of the world, I don’t think it’s so crazy to make a few cuts:
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/spending.htm
Course, we’d have to give up some of our future military adventures, but I think that’d be fine by most people.
So, Jeff: still planning to sit this one out?
I decided to bend over and lube up for McCain after the Wright thing emerged.
The funny/sad thing is, the other countries do the same thing. We just don’t bitch about their attitudes.
I know!
When another country thinks its better than us, the left blames the US (Bush made everyone hate us!).
When we think we are better than other countries, the left blames the US (we shouldn’t act superior!)
Obama is going to lead the left and the US on the quest for everyone in the world to get little PARTICIPANT trophies. He already said it at the Dallas debate – he doesn’t want anyone to have to earn their opportunity to play in the big leagues.
Of course you don’t see the invisible hand of that military expenditure, steve. You don’t see navy ships patrolling sea lanes so that trade can flow freely. You don’t see countries not going to war with a neighbor because a retaliation can be brought on them.
You sit in this wonderful, rich, peaceful land and believe that is the norm, when the cold record of history reveals that it isn’t. Have you ever read of a time when large merchantships, called ‘East Indiamen’, were armed to the teeth just to be able to carry a cargo? To produce that transnational veneer of trade and easy travel requires a lot of force that can be sent nearly everywhere in the world. That train and support is expensive, but a necessary expense else diplomats couldn’t travel to conferences to produce position papers that bad mouth the Tommies that permit them to have that free travel.
Fool.
“FORE!”
putting Americans “to work,â€Â
Because of the COMMUNITY ORGANIZING!
Steve:
Our military spending isn’t exactly “our” military spending. We’re geared up to defend the homeland + Canada + NATO. Were it not for the fact that Americans are willing to die to defend just about anybody–including those nasty A-rabs in Iraq–Canada and NATO would have to sacrifice their lavish, buttery welfare state to buy guns for themselves.
Why else do you think they hate us? No one likes to be beholden someone else for their defense, let alone to the Descendants of the Dregs of Europe.
Ignore steve. He just likes to be all contrarian and whatnot.
Which, incidentally, won’t put him in good stead with the Obama administration. Because they’re all about the forced TOGETHERYNESS!
This is what O! wants to slow down, by the by.
O! The things you can think!
Oh, and the fissionables. Because we, even Obama, are all about taking France’s toys away.
“I’m not too fond of France having them, either, frankly.â€Â
I don’t know…at least they threatened to use them against Iran if push came to shove, iirc.
And they may yet be forced to use them on their own suburbs.
Usually I do, Jeff. Except in this case he doesn’t see that deployed guns can = butter for everyone. And what are waffles without butter and real maple syrup? How could Wisconsin’s production, let alone the production of Vemont,get to the breakfast tables of Baton Rouge without someone able to keep the roads and rails open so the trucks and trains can roll? How could Canadian grain get forth to make the delicious batter for households worldwide if frigate weren’t on the sea lanes?
A world without waffles? Preposterous!
-SPHERISTS!
But France’s relationships with Hamas and Hezbollah are informal, so it’s not a problem…their living-memory history of gleefully joining up for genocide notwithstanding.
Cutting the US defense budget ultimately means more US casualties and/or more collateral casualties when we do go to war. Which of those would you prefer, Steve?
Seriously, Obama’s nuclear weapons policy should scare anyone with any knowledge of geopolitics or twentieth century history. I know in the past, Obama was in favor of what was billed as a “virtual nuclear arsenal” which was that he’d get all the nuclear weapons powers to dismantle their weapons but retain the capability to rebuild them. The whole thing is a non-starter as nobody’s actually going to dismantle their arsenal, meaning Obama’s most likely a liar who hopes the anti-nuclear left is stupid enough to believe him.
But the whole idea is crazy stupid anyways, as the scheme gives such a massive incentive to cheat, and makes possible something that should be completely abhorrent to any moral human being. It makes it possible to win a nuclear war, which makes it rational to start a nuclear war. If he put his scheme into practice, I don’t believe we’d end up being nuked back to the stone age, but you can pretty much kiss the middle east and south Asia goodbye.
Why else do you think they hate us? No one likes to be beholden someone else for their defense, let alone to the Descendants of the Dregs of Europe.
The “Dregs of Europe?” I submit this country owes its greatness not to the “dregs,” but just the opposite. Those who came here are the survivors, the most adventurous, the most inventive, the bravest, the smartest, and the most desirous of living free. Whether the Huguenots of France, the Quakers of the British Isles, the Jews of the Polish and Russian ghettos, or the escapers of communism, they brought a grit and determination that is the core of America’s greatness.
I will seek a global ban on the production of fissile materials.
That level of retardedness practically begs for bold italics. Nishi wants to elect a man who doesn’t know what fissile materials are.
“transcending partisan politics† which is simply a fascistic euphemism for letting the smart people run things,”
Irony thickly falls…..we’ve had eight WH years and 13 Congressional
birthdays of smart regressives running things. That’s why Mississippi
and Luziana have dumped their co-dependency on conservative promises.
“….ostensibly, to divert that spending (from one of the few areas where government should be spending”
There it is again. There is no end to corporate welfare (Halliburton, KBR) you would endorse, but let’s all sit back and envision more regressive prescience and put alternative energy on the back burner for another decade.
Plenty of oil in them thar hills, Homer. Just drill another hole. The last one did good.
alternative energy on the back burner
Tell ya what, Cleo: You and your hippie buddies get together and build an “alternative energy” plant that can crank out 8 gigawatts.
Until then, STFU.
Well, the Republicans did put a stop to that nice alternative energy wind farm off Massachusetts… oh, wait, my bad…
Hey, Baracky just wants to finish his.
I meant to add: And the reason they hate us is because they know they are the ones who never had the guts to go for it. They are the weenies left behind who were easily overcome by the oppressors. They hate us for the same reason that Obama hates the good solid citizens with their God and guns. They have the guts, all he has is his fancy degrees and a shrew wife to hide behind.
Last night I watched a docudrama about General George Washington. He was a leader of men, he’d get in the trenches and dig with his men, he’d ride out in front of a charge as the leader, he stayed and suffered with his men during their most dire Winter months, and his men were willing to die for him and the cause he stood for as a result. Can anyone ever see Obama as that kind of leader of men?
Chris Matthews comes to mind.
The glorious fuckheaded stooopidity never ceases to amaze.
Sara – being called the ‘dregs of Europe’ is a point of pride when you look back at what the spurned achieved.
The New Colossus
Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame
With conquering limbs astride from land to land;
Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand
A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame
Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name
Mother of Exiles. From her beacon-hand
Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command
The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame,
“Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!” cries she
With silent lips. “Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore,
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!”
(emphasis added)
Those who tore themselves from home, kin, and land to come here and to Canada, Australia, and New Zealand – or were ejected to those wild lands – have nothing to be ashamed about to be called the product of ‘wretched refuse’. They can say, ‘talk’s cheap; what have you done to match this?’.
Wo, there, Miss Cleo.
Louisiana has dumped its dependency? You have got to be kidding.
Speaking of which, Obama’s proposed that we abandon nuclear power. So at least cleo’s happy.
If by alternative energy you mean Sen. Kennedy nixing those windmills in Nantucket Sound because they would spoil his view….
The only reasonable solution to the energy issues right now is nuclear power. Abandoning that basically means more of the same for years to come from oil supply issues.
“O! will counter with peace through…”
ketsu-gO !!!
“Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!†cries she
With silent lips. “Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore,
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!â€Â
Well, Mikey, when you put it that way.
Sara, success is the best revenge. Ever.
Steve is of the Center for Defense Information school of rhetoric, to wit:
“We spend too much on complicated weapons systems that don’t work, unless they do and then they so outclass the adversary that it’s not fair.”
Because war should be fair.
If by ‘fair’ you mean “I win, they lose” then I agree war should be fair.
Sounds like the same people who complained about the fragile and complex and expensive US weapons as opposed to the more robust and simple and inexpensive Soviet weapons before the 1991 Gulf War. And when the delicate US weapons devestated a Soviet-style military? Not so much was heard.
These ae the same people who would have been against the development of radar during WWII because of the expense and delicate nature of the system.
Even worse Mikey–after all their predictions fail, they then shift the debate and claim that we are SO preponderant that we can cut.
Drives me nuts.
Right wishbone. Because once you are ahead, that is the time to take a nap. Worked for the hare when he was running that race with the tortoise, didn’t it?
It didn’t? Darn that history coming up again and spoiling the Hopeyness of the Changitude! Okay, first thing we do is get rid of all history – including instructional annecdotes that uncles tell to nephews. Starting from zero means we’ll avoid all the bad things, right?
wishbone – What do you know? You are just a racist sexist homophobic neotheocon Bush apologist.
I just cling to my guns and Ronald Reagan idol, JD.
#44 Cleo
it is PROVIDE for the common defense. Military spending is one of the few legitimate provinces of the Federal Government.
The Ted Kennedy/GW Bush “no child left behind” Fed money=fed control of education is NOT.
“President Barack Obama”
Think about it.
Think about it long and hard.
Is it too late to revive the Kellogg-Briand Pact?
Comment by Semanticleo on 5/20 @ 5:55 pm #
Darn it, seman, you neveranswer my question:
Do you speak English?
It types on a Roman-type alphabet keyboard…
BTW – the Kellogg-Briand Pact is as relevant as the Washington and London conferences to limit naval armaments. Not that they didn’t turn out well…
What? The bad guys cheated? That has never happened in history! Oh, wait…
#65 Darleen
The Constitution says what Cleo wants it to say.
Those who came here are the survivors, the most adventurous, the most inventive, the bravest, the smartest, and the most desirous of living free.
In Europe those are what are considered ‘the dregs of society,’ you know – gauche.
There is no end to corporate welfare (Halliburton, KBR)
How exactly are we going to slash military spending, and at the same time end all the support sub-contracts?
And Halliburton sold KBR, numbnuts. I think they ran out of places to stash all teh loots.
The “Dregs of Europe?” I submit this country owes its greatness not to the “dregs,” but just the opposite.
Sorry for my misfired heteroglossia: I was lampooning the European point of view. They have looked down on the States since before its inception precisely because it was the penniless “inferior” classes that came here. That we have showed them up in spades is something they’ll never forgive us for, and that we’re also their sole means of protection is galling beyond endurance.
They’ll never love us unless and until we become significantly weaker than they. And then they’ll despise us for being weak.
I think Halliburton turned about an 8% net profit in its dealings with the gov’t, and in the cases they didn’t they were smacked for overcharging (IIRC). You might argue that they should make a little less return, but not too much less. They are, after all, in business to make money.
Then again, one probably should not argue business with people who are clueless about business.
put alternative energy on the back burner for another decade.
By banning fissile material, right?
The guy is Jimmah. There’s no denying it. He’s all smiles and gooey hopeyness, masking a veneer of small-minded bigotry and eloquent emptiness.
To vote for him you must be a fool or an ideologue.
By banning fissile material, right?
LMC: Nuclear power doesn’t count as “alternative energy” in the hippie scheme of things. You see, it actually works. We can’t have that, now, can we?
“alternative energy” is lefty magic words used to denounce actual, proven energy sources.
There is none, so the leftists want us to use it, of course, and advocate laws to force us to use it, like ethanol, which reduces gas mileage and is shifting food into fuel, with the poor being hardest hit by the rising costs of both at the same time.
And funny how he doesn’t mention the massive subsidies for Corporate farmers, including the tariffs and price supports which keep sugar artificially high and thus, make ethanol that much more expensive to produce.
But, fuck the poor. Progress demands them as a sacrifice on the alter of AGW.
See also: “transitional fossils”.
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