…to McGehee’s post, below, behold!
Speaking in Iowa in 2006, Sen. Barack Obama said, “I’ve had enough of using terrorism as a wedge issue in our politics.” He said the war on terrorism “isn’t supposed to crop up between September and November of even-numbered years.”
But as president, Obama and his reelection campaign have consistently raised the issue — repeatedly referring to a 2007 comment by Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney to suggest that Romney would not have ordered the killing of Osama bin Laden as Obama did one year ago.
On Sept. 17, 2006, Obama spoke at Democratic Sen. Tom Harkin’s annual steak fry in Indianola, Iowa.
“And let me tell you something else I’ve had enough of: I’ve had enough of using terrorism as a wedge issue in our politics,” Obama told the crowd. “I’ve had enough of that. I’ve had enough of that. You know, I – I don’t know about you, but I think the war against terrorism isn’t supposed to crop up between September and November of even numbered years, and yet that seems to be the pattern. There is a sudden burst of activity, a sudden urgency about this whole thing three months before an election every other year.”
Obama’s re-election campaign has released a video questioning what Romney would have done about bin Laden, given a comment Romney made in an interview with the Associated Press that was published on April 26, 2007.
[…]
Romney, during a campaign stop in New Hampshire on Monday told a reporter that “of course,” he would have given the order to kill bin Laden. “Anybody would have made that call, even Jimmy Carter,” he said, referring to Obama’s order one year ago.
On Monday, during a White House news conference, Obama was asked about his thoughts on the first anniversary of bin Laden’s death in Pakistan. The reporter quoted Romney’s statement in the question.
“As far as my personal role and what other folks would do, I’d just recommend that everybody take a look at people’s previous statements in terms of whether they thought it was appropriate to go into Pakistan and take out bin Laden,” Obama replied. “I assume that people meant what they said when they said it. That’s been at least my practice. I said that I’d go after bin Laden if we had a clear shot at him, and I did.”
Yes, Obama. You did. How very brave of you. Putting your life on the line like that.
I don’t say this very often but Romney is right: there isn’t a single President who wouldn’t have given that order; it’s just that this one is so narcissistic that he literally wants us to believe he killed Bin Laden almost with his bare hands and a force of will heretofore unknown to the American people.
It wasn’t particularly brave. It wasn’t particularly gutsy. And that it’s framed that way — because, politically, it could have blown back on him had it not gone well — shows just how completely out of whack are the priorities of the leftists pretending to guide our ship of state.
I said that I’d go after bin Laden if we had a clear shot at him, and I did.
Let me be the first. Fuck you, BO.
I’m starting to think this Obama fellow might be something of an asshole.
Jeff, can you disable the autoplay on the video, please?
No. I’m not even seeing video on my end.
I just took out the vid link altogether.
Thanks.
Huh? Wait a second! Obama didn’t lower the oceans at all! On closer inspection he made the land a little higher by adding many deep layers of bullshit!
The MFM will call him out on his duplicitous rhetoric any time now.
In order to keep a nearly even humor — or call it a head above drowning waters — I like to imagine a volley of cream pies thrown by an enormous crowd of Americans, tens of thousands of them, all hitting Obama simultaneously. Whether he subsequently drowns as an unintended consequence of the volume of pie filling and cream through which he’d have to crawl to find clear air, I cannot say, as I’m simply laughing at the image too hard to notice.
OT and BREAKING WTF: Junior Seau is reported dead by suicide.
I’m assuming that Romney did mean what he said when he said it which was 5 years ago with a completely different situation in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan. I’ll also bet he can explain what differences have made for the differences in his position then and now.
I’ll give Obama the same assumption if he will just explain what he sees as the differences between when he made his 2006 statement and now. Extra credit if he can do so without using a personal pronoun.
Mr. Romney would have gone after bin laden even without a “clear shot” I think, and even that would have been a no-fucking-brainer.
“And let me tell you something else I’ve had enough of: I’ve had enough of using terrorism as a wedge issue in our politics,” Obama told the crowd. “I’ve had enough of that. I’ve had enough of that. You know, I – I don’t know about you, but I think the war against terrorism isn’t supposed to crop up between September and November of even numbered years, and yet that seems to be the pattern. There is a sudden burst of activity, a sudden urgency about this whole thing three months before an election every other year.”
Jim Treacher, please call your office.
Lileks and Tarranto might want some of that too.
The Last Word. One of these things is not like the others.
Hope everybody will palaeomerus.
But there’s something about, “Who me? I’m just quoting here” passive aggressive mockery that explodes progressives’ heads.
If this kicks off, “Kid, I’d like salt and lots of that greasy butter tasting stuff (don’t be stingy, you’re charging $7bucks for the small) on that popped corn you got behind you.”
Now they’re pro-military??? NOW they don’t want to use the War on Terror for political purposes ???? I’m constantly astounding at the heights their hypocrisy reaches.
I’d just recommend that everybody take a look at people’s previous statements
Oh, I think he really doesn’t want us do to that to his collection of 2007 statements.
One could screen How the West Was Won on my ample end.
SDN, I read it twice.
(Possibly wrong) But I looked for “I” and “my” In GW’s speech and couldn’t find a damn one.
One of these things is not like the others.
Yeesh. This Obama chap is a bit of a bounder.
Harkin? Tom Harkin? Would that be this Tom Harkin?
Betcha it is.
Blech. Obama give himself a “shout out” .
I’m also “astounded”.
Blech. Obama give himself a “shout out” .
At least he’s a metrosexual sociopath.
Did he say “Holla!”?
I’m really not so sure that Jimmah Cartah would have done it.
Oh, I’m sure he’d have been okay with the SEALS shooting OBL in the leg.
I know when I’m psyching myself up to do something brave and gutsy it’s important that I hit the links first.
For weeks on end.
Before getting hauled off he golf course and told the decision’s been made.
[…] A gentle reminder: On Sept. 17, 2006, Obama spoke at Democratic Sen. Tom Harkin’s annual steak fry in Indianola, […]
Well, Ernst , I guess once you’ve decided or had it decided for you that you’re going to negotiate with the Tal-ee-bahn, you might need to hit the nineteeth hole.
I’m really not so sure that Jimmah Cartah would have done it.
jimmah tried to rescue the hostages so i’m thinking he do it.
http://bit.ly/IVfrig
Just a reminder that everything about this mook in the White House stems from a fictional narrative. Everything.
LYBD, there was one sentence.
I think it’s worth noting, for this guy, it really was a gutsy call. That’s how he sees it. He could have gone the other way, and if Val Jarrett had had her way, he would have done so. The process that got him off the fence (and off the links) involved some fancy footwork by the ol’ team, so when Barack finally gave the thumbs up, it had been touch and go.
I’m sure it hurt his tummy quite a bit! Sort of like when you finally coax your 5 year old into stepping on that spider that’s crawling across the floor and freaking her out so much. You’re so brave, honey, you’re a big girl now.
As for the girlfriend compression thing, it reminds me of those characters you see in movies or on tv shows. Everybody knows the writers are gay, but they won’t have a hit show unless they make the relationships boy/girl and not boy/boy. So they composite the female lead. She’s mostly male, but they cast a female, they give her female things to say and do (like having a period, shopping for shoes, etc.), but in mannerisms, how she reacts emotionally to events, how she easily jumps in and out of bed with multiple partners, with nary an emotional scar to show for it, that’s because she’s actually a gay male. But you, the rubes in the audience, you wouldn’t go for that, so we had to give her boobs.
James Cameron said in an interview that he gave the female aliens in Avatar boobs specifically for ratings.
Well there is that, but I’m pretty sure Cameron is straight. Lots of these other guys though, they wouldn’t know how to write a male/female love story if their lives depended on it, because they’ve never actually witnessed such a thing. So they composite.
I’m not suggesting Obama is gay, but then, I’m not suggesting he actually wrote that book either, so if the author had to composite, it’s probably due to the fact that he has no idea what kind of love life Obama had led.
Well there is that, but I’m pretty sure Cameron is straight.
Yeah. On the other hand, Linda Hamilton. Just sayin’.
Anyway, Cameron cares more about thinly disguised, lowbrow class warfare than boobs. It’s the entire ethos behind Titanique and Avatard.
“dreams of bill ayers” by baracky hussein obfuscation
ot too funny about pocahontas warren:
link
http://bit.ly/IzLkP8
Don’t read this unless you have an iron stomach for the arch-pretensions of a solipsistic twentysomething liberal arts loser, addicted to literary name-dropping and pitch-perfect pastiches of English Lit professors. Who eventually managed to be elected President.
No wonder Jeff called this asshole for who he is, long ago.
Pinnochio-hontas Warren is more like it.
SEK, call your office!
Lead the blind guy out into the street and then run away. Smart Diplomacy@
No. After those ‘choppers crashed in that freak desert windstorm, Carter was a whipped dog. He’s been cowering ever since.
No. After those ‘choppers crashed in that freak desert windstorm
i find jimmah a loser but at least he gave the mission the go ahead. and that mission was alot more dangerous than offing 1 guy in pokistan.
heh. G00gle ad at the bottom of this page; via smartphone, “Mitt Romney for President” from mittromney dot com. I’ll cliicky on that…
…ouch. There lies a bottomless pit what needs more funds.
Let’s wait to see who’s trotted out as VP firstly, shall we?
Cartier might’ve tried, but he could not stomach a follow-up mission, one this nation’s people craved.
He should’ve asked for Israel’s help. They’ve better stomachs than any modern Democrat.
Carter ask Israel for help? Surely, you jest! This is the guy who said that when he got re-elected (ha!) he was going to “fuck the Jews”.
Not very nice talk. I hope Miz Lillian didn’t hear about that.
Carter was the perfect proto-SCOAMF.
damn, I just discovered Instagram. This might be fun.
Who does this dude look like?
Hint: look at the old pics of Jeff in the sidebar.
How to overplay a good hand.
I blame the humming feet.
is that a crack?
George Orwell, Obama’s is waxing , er, poetic, about The Waste Land? What a dork. He’s just name-dropping and trying to sound smart, not actually analyzing the poem. It’s probably a good thing, since it’s much too deep for a gabrone like him and he’d still be reading the footnotes and chasing down sources and historical references.
And, likely still getting it wrong.
What if second husband Lolo Soetoro had decided to insist, out of patriarchal amour propre, that Barry was his own biological son? Stranger things have happened in families. It would strike me that the difference in hair would be the main stumbling block to getting away with this. Say he then concocted a story to add plausibility to his claim to paternity that his family had some wooly-haired Papuan ancestors from West Irian in Indonesian New Guinea.
Assume the story worked and that Barry Soetoro, along with everybody at Punahou, believed he was just some kind of a funny looking white-East Asian-Melanesian mixed race kid. Would he be president today?
Of course not.
The career of a Barry Soetoro who didn’t call himself black would probably have been a lot like that of his half-sister Maya, a semi-employed soft subject Ph.D.
Putting my reductionist hat on, we can conclude from the spectacular career of Barack Obama that in 21st century America, being black is highly advantageous. Sadly, acting black continues to correlate with self-destructiveness.
http://isteve.blogspot.com/2012/05/obamas-three-white-girlfriends.html
From that Obama manifesto:
Hey! I think we’ve finally found a catchphrase to describe that whole constitutional conservative/classical liberal/libertarian thing:
bourgeois liberalism!
Quick, somebody tell Jeff.
that’s so whit stillman
which, I just showed a wee stupid kid Metropolitan the other day
he didn’t get that no we’re not gonna see anyone fuck
he thought i was just kidding
President Ronald Reagan – Liberty State Park
As a “good night to all” gift, a buddy sent me this.
Sleepy Outlaw out.
Election Night 1980 from CBS – Part 2 of 3
Sorry. Another try at the link.
Think that did it.
too funny
Election Night 1980 from CBS – Part 3
No no no
it’s redolent of The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
so it’s very Macks Fayber* and not at all Whit Stillman, or Slim Whitman for that matter!
*spelled phonetically so we can all pronounce like Obama.
Eliot? Okay. From his 1949 “Notes toward the Definition of Culture” this passage which seems fitting for our present day though written about our radical-progressive’s old mentor.
Somebody go track down the video of Reagan celebrating the emmigration from the Soviet Union of those dissidents and refuseniks who’d been camped out in the U.S. Embassy for years on end.
Let’s see how Reagan spiked the football.
You know, just for comparison.
Spotted on a rare site: a conservative Briton with an interest in the retrofuture. Anyway,
http://davidszondy.blogspot.com/2012/05/welcome-to-airstrip-one.html
This should frighten everyone. Because it is coming here. The worst part? The BBC reports the “incident” without any, any link or reference to the alleged racist remarks. Was a personal threat levied? Was it merely bad language? Who knows? The Ministry of Truth is not obliged to inform the proles of its prerogatives. Freedom of speech is fully dead across the Atlantic, and is moribund here.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-17906911
Remember that thing I said on that one thread agreeing about how the the tanning booth tax is wrong? I take it back.
Doesn’t matter if your an atheist, agnostic, a wiccan, or whatever. Find a Rosary, some garlic, silver bullets, and some cloth from Father Damien’s robe before you look at this.
For the love of God, tax it!
If she wants to turn herself into human jerky, I say let her.
If she wants to turn herself into human jerky, I say let her.
Sure. And her health insurer should be permitted to send her a rewritten policy excluding treatment for any and all forms of skin cancer, retroactive to yesterday.
In addition, she should be excluded from any form of disability payments, public or private, stemming from her hobby.
You want to kill yourself, fine, but do it on your own dime.
pocahontas warren
Pinnochio-hontas Warren is more like it.
I like that one, Mike. I’m also partial to “Fauxcahontas,” which is starting to make the rounds.
I’m betting she’ll be Mitzi’s running mate, since she’s obviously at least as black as Obama and a woman. Any takers?
Warren to tanning bed mom. “Just check the box dear, nobody really looks into how you appear.”
As a man, I’m thankful that we generally have an inflated body image rather than a deflated one. That way I don’t have to worry about doing squirrely things like, say, tanning the frel out of my skin.
I’ll keep my pasty-white glow.