Search






Jeff's Amazon.com Wish List

Archive Calendar

November 2024
M T W T F S S
 123
45678910
11121314151617
18192021222324
252627282930  

Archives

Obama chutzpah vis a vis Syria [Darleen Click]

Obama is trotting out known liar Susan Rice to argue for Syrian intervention on the one-year anniversary of Benghazi

In an astonishing display of either ignorance or brazenness, the White House will mark the first anniversary of the Benghazi terrorist attack this Wednesday by sending National Security Adviser Susan Rice to Capitol Hill to argue the administration’s case for military force in Syria. Rice infamously delivered false talking points on national television, blaming the Benghazi attacks on a spontaneous demonstration against an anti-Islam YouTube video. Sending Rice to Congress to brief members on Syria is like sending Typhoid Mary to lecture on public health. Her credibility is, to use a diplomatic term, limited.

John Fund details other facepalm worthy “gaffes” in regards to the White House’s utter lack of out-reach, even to sympathetic GOP members.

However, they are only “gaffes” is one takes at face-value that Obama wants Congress’ approval at all, rather than another move by The Won, along with his media sycophants, in the continuing campaign to tear down the legislative branch.

Feature, people, not bug.

93 Replies to “Obama chutzpah vis a vis Syria [Darleen Click]”

  1. newrouter says:

    The fundamental, and very first mistake that the political establishment
    made with respect to Charter 77 – its refusal to hold a
    dialogue about the duty to respect the Constitution – had immediate
    repercussions. This error could not help but lead to further
    error, and falsehood to breed still more falsehood until, in the end,
    the established power bloc was bringing down a torrent of misfortune
    on its own head and endlessly making a fool of itself. In the
    media the Charter was described as a project conceived by ‘turncoats
    and double-dealers’, and elsewhere as ‘has-beens’. The miserable
    bungling oaf who thought those expressions up deserved a good
    kick in the pants from his political masters. The Chartists were
    indeed ‘has-beens’ in the sense that they lacked any sort of political
    power. But the same can be said of 90 per cent of the Czechoslovak
    population. What else is a double-dealing turncoat but someone
    who hands his country over to a foreign power for personal gain,
    like those who collaborated with the Germans, for example? It is
    fairly obvious that it is quite inappropriate to call traitors those
    who demand strict observance of the constitution. This allegation is
    in fact a boomerang which rebounds on those it suits best: those who
    ordered the notorious media articles in the first place.

  2. newrouter says:

    @ page 126 pofthep

  3. geoffb says:

    Wonder just what we gave away at G-20 for this little act to be played out?

    Got to be a hefty price to save his face.

  4. BigBangHunter says:

    Got to be a hefty price to save his face.

    – Whatever he gave Putin and Assad part of the deal would be no telling about it.

  5. palaeomerus says:

    They were playing chess. He was playing “ants in the pants” by Milton Bradley.

  6. McGehee says:

    I’m assuming the consummation of the deal ended with Putin and Assad zipping up.

  7. Slartibartfast says:

    Kickstart WWIII, because Obama.

  8. serr8d says:

    A shame, how Putin (and the rest of the world) views Barky

  9. sdferr says:

    That sucker was funny Slart, even right down to the “Paid for by Koch Industries” gag. Because Disaster.

  10. dicentra says:

    Yeah, the Kickstart thing is pretty funny. And also the first genuine jab at Obama I’ve seen from a non-conservative outfit.

    Also, I’m sure that Russia will make sure that the chemical weapons are safe and sound and never are used against anyone ever.

  11. geoffb says:

    Also, I’m sure that Russia will make sure that the chemical weapons are safe and sound and never are used against anyone ever.

    Maybe they’ll truck them back to Iraq.

  12. Squid says:

    Might have to do a little “quality testing” in Chechnya first.

  13. bgbear says:

    it is clear that Putin is a better politician than Obama, it is really annoying that so is Ahmadinejad and Assad.

  14. Blake says:

    Maybe I’m just imagining things, but it sure looks like Putin bent Obama over and hollered “Who’s your daddy?”

  15. dicentra says:

    It is clear that Putin is a better politician than Obama,

    Putin knows that appeasement is for suckers and that the Muslims do what they do for the same reasons he does, not because they’re being provoked by Western Hegemony.

    And therefore he’s not burdened by White Guilt or Edward Said’s Orientalism, among other delusions.

  16. cranky-d says:

    OT: I frelling HATE looking for work. Seriously. Just give me a job that pays decently and let me stay in it forever.

    I know that’s too much to ask for in Obama’s New Economy.

  17. leigh says:

    You and me both, cranky. I’m soon to become the great “missing” from the employment rolls. Over qualified for some things, not enough experience in others.

    Obamacare and the economy have decided I need it good and hard from both the business and the private sector.

  18. palaeomerus says:

    “Ahmadinejad”

    He’s in the WAS a better politician category now. The Ayatolla’s replaced him with a new “election” during which they threatened to have him flogged for interfering with democracy at one point.

  19. geoffb says:

    Russia is dancing around the leaden footed O!

    Obama is being played. The Russian deal forced him to change course and re-write tonight’s speech at the last minute. Now he has to re-write it again, or pretend that the Russians didn’t just drop a flaming bag of something on the White House doorstep. It will be grimly amusing to see what Obama tells the American people about all this now. The words “fiasco” and “clusterf*ck” have been said by others today. He won’t use either word, but that doesn’t mean both don’t apply.

    I wonder if they will be re-writing the speech, on the fly, as it is fed to the teleprompter tonight.

  20. leigh says:

    The One got seriously pwn3d by Putin.

    That speech tonight? Gaffe-tastic!

  21. geoffb says:

    And with tomorrow being 9/11/13 Al Qaeda may just force another re-write then. Expiration dates just ain’t as far out as they used to be.

  22. dicentra says:

    If you know PHP or Linux kernels, I know where you can play.

  23. cranky-d says:

    I don’t know either one, di. I know Windows forms programming, and am looking to expand into all the Windows web stuff as well as general web stuff because that is what the people want.

    I just had a bad interview a few hours ago and it still stings.

  24. bgbear says:

    There was a game we used to play about Hollywood casting that would go like: “You want Robert Redford, you’ll settle for Nick Nolte, you get Gary Buse”

    I want Ronald Reagan, I would settle for Bill Clinton, I’ve got Barack Obama.

  25. dicentra says:

    @iowahawk “By getting his head stuck in the bowling ball return, Obama brilliantly tricked Putin into pantsing him. #HeMeantToDoThat”

  26. dicentra says:

    Few things are more humiliating than job searches.

    I hates them, too.

  27. palaeomerus says:

    Uh oh. I just got some text-enhance type stuff popping up. Now I have to wipe my cache, looks for weird extensions and probly get rid of my shockwave plugin. Sometimes I really hate you internet.

  28. leigh says:

    I don’t code. I barely learned DOS.

    *sigh* I’m obsolete.

  29. palaeomerus says:

    Interestingly, with computer code there is no room for interpretation vs. intent. Interpretation is fixed per the device and if it malfunctions the intent is always the source of error provided the device is actually working within spec.

  30. Are you saying that Derrida has nothing to offer us on computer programming? Or any objective reality for that matter?

  31. cranky-d says:

    I’ve only seen code that ran wrong (i.e. did not work as it should have) a few times. Once was related to how a particular machine/OS combo handled a pointer. The code was wrong but worked because of an OS bug, so I gave the student full credit, because I got tired of arguing with the little lawyers.

    Another was related to some code movement brought on by an optimizing compiler. In that case, it was the compiler’s fault, not the machine’s.

  32. Blake says:

    I remember putting together a simple vb script to query a database many years ago and going crazy because it wouldn’t work.

    Turned out the problem was a couple of operators I was using. Supposedly, both operators meant and did the same thing, but the script wouldn’t work until I used the same syntax throughout the script. (going from memory, it’s been a decade since I worked on that little project)

    On another note, I hate Adobe Flash Player. Freaking updates are coming out faster than I can get them installed across my domain. It’s the only software I’ve ever run across that has it’s own custom uninstaller. I suppose I should be grateful there is an uninstaller, otherwise I’d have trouble updating Flash on all of the computers in a timely fashion

  33. Blake says:

    cranky, the local paper has this.

  34. newrouter says:

    mark levin- “i’ll be on glenn beck’s show next week”

  35. Blake says:

    Seriously, Levin will be on Beck’s show?

  36. newrouter says:

    yes that’s what he said about 6:40 edt

  37. newrouter says:

    >By the way, Obama’s speech tonight will be “unbelievably small,” just 15 minutes long….
    Obama has decided on a “limited, targeted” speech which will be like his planned war, brief, pointless, and slightly less consequential than America’s Got Talent.<

    link

  38. happyfeet says:

    what is America’s talent? Buying shit on credit? Stepping on its dick in the middle east? Driving multitudes of people out of the work force?

  39. TaiChiWawa says:

    “Ah, but the strawberries . . . er, I mean Syria! That’s where I had them. They laughed at me and made jokes, but I proved beyond the shadow of a doubt and with geometric logic that . . .”

  40. newrouter says:

    don’t bogart that line my friend

  41. TaiChiWawa says:

    Queeg went over the line — in more ways than one.

  42. newrouter says:

    a play on this The Caine Mutiny

  43. newrouter says:

    and this

  44. cranky-d says:

    Well, that was certainly a bracing speech from our president. I know I’m convinced!

    I’m not sure what I’m convinced of, though.

  45. leigh says:

    Well, that we need not be hasty. Or something.

  46. McGehee says:

    CA Passes Bill To Defy Federal Immigration Law

    What happens if every one of the other 49 states votes to secede?

  47. leigh says:

    Good, I think. What do they do now?

  48. cranky-d says:

    What happens if every one of the other 49 states votes to secede?

    I believe there are 56 other states, sir. That’s what our president said, and he is never wrong.

  49. palaeomerus says:

    No, he said that he had been campaigning in 57 states and still had two more to go, and one that sadly he wouldn’t get to for a total of 60 states.

  50. geoffb says:

    So will Giron “lowride” her way out of being recalled? Use the Hispanics to beat a guy named Rivera? a guy with this for his life story?

    A lifelong resident of Pueblo, I was born here in 1948 and grew up poor on Pueblo’s east side. My mother, brother and older sister arrived in Pueblo in 1948 having crossed the border illegally. In 1963 they, along with my Grandmother, returned to Mexico to process their visas and, after returning legally, all became American citizens.

    Can’t get more Hispanic than that can you? Wake up [R]s. There is no ethnic solidarity, it is all based on support for the left and the agenda of the left.

  51. newrouter says:

    >726 votes left to be counted in Morse recall. Not impossible, but highly unlikely he will keep his seat. #coleg #copolitics<

  52. newrouter says:

    > UPDATE: With 83% reporting, Sen. John Morse falls further behind: 52.3% favor recalling bit.ly/15UEDj5<

  53. newrouter says:

    hoo ray

    >NOW – Colorado Senate President @SenJohnMorse offering concession speech in recall. He’s been ousted for gun votes. #copolitics #coleg<

  54. cranky-d says:

    The lowriders geoffb mentioned don’t like it when people shoot back.

  55. newrouter says:

    >Earlier, Mark Glaze, exec dir of Mayors Against Illegal Guns told told me “If we win this (recalls), Christmas will have come early” #coleg<

    serves you right xtians

  56. newrouter says:

    >#Pueblo County Clerk Gilbert Ortiz said expect #Giron recall results by 11 p.m. Says lack of mail ballots caused delay #copolitics #coleg<

  57. newrouter says:

    some hickenlooper here

    >Huge change in #CORecall of @SenGiron . Latest update shows 56.9% vote YES on recall. ch7ne.ws/1fUnUSI<

  58. newrouter says:

    >BIG SHIFT in @SenGiron #recall: 16,723 votes now counted: 57% – Yes, 43% – No. #COpolitics #COleg<

  59. geoffb says:

    Good.

  60. newrouter says:

    >New Giron recall numbers: Yes 57% and no 43 % with 17.25% reporting. #PuebloRecall<

  61. serr8d says:

    Thanks for the CoRecall links, newrouter. May the Barky’s heartburn override his supply of Maalox. *

  62. newrouter says:

    oh my 2 for 2

    >BREAKING: @SenGiron will be recalled too. W/ 23,887 votes counted, she’s down 60-40%. #COrecall #COpolitics #COleg<

  63. newrouter says:

    fat lady sings
    >”We are going to be waiting a little longer,” Giron said. #PuebloRecall<

  64. newrouter says:

    oh my george soros hardest hit

    >UPDATE – Colorado recalls: Sen. John Morse concedes, vows to “continue to fight” bit.ly/1d4EoYO #coleg #copolitics<

  65. newrouter says:

    lynn clown

    >Dems privately said always more worried about @SenGiron be/c Pueblo is a blue-collar town, despite Dem registration.<

  66. eCurmudgeon says:

    Thanks for the CoRecall links, newrouter. May the Barky’s heartburn override his supply of Maalox.

    All well and good, but I don’t see the gun laws in question getting repealed any time soon…

  67. newrouter says:

    >but I don’t see the gun laws in question getting repealed any time soon…<

    one election at a time

  68. newrouter says:

    >Colorado recalls, catalyzed by gun control votes, will be shot heard across country by national Dems. Look for D’s to back off gun control.
    retweeted by lynn_bartels
    12:18 AM
    TwitterLynn Bartels @lynn_bartels
    Things haven’t been this bleak for Colo Dems since 2002 blowout. is the GOP back.<

  69. newrouter says:

    >All well and good, but I don’t see the gun laws in question getting repealed any time soon…<

    at the state level we are "community organizing"

  70. newrouter says:

    >UPDATE in @SenGiron #recall: 34,556 votes counted. Yes – 56.01% (19,355); No – 43.99% (15,201). #COpolitics #COleg<

  71. newrouter says:

    >Per @SteveHensonME : Most votes counted. Recall effort ahead by 4,100 votes. Insurmountable.#PuebloRecall #Chieftain<

  72. newrouter says:

    oh dear

    >Waiting on #Giron to concede in #Pueblo recall race #copolitics #coleg<

  73. newrouter says:

    yes 2 for 2

    >#CORecall in Pueblo is called by the @AP : @SenGiron recalled, @riverasenate3 elected to replace her ch7ne.ws/1fUnUSI<

  74. newrouter says:

    100 years of this sh*t we take it back piece by piece

  75. newrouter says:

    >STORY: Two Colorado lawmakers recalled over support of gun control laws: on.kdvr.com/SpUjeoH #COleg #COpolitics #COrecall<

  76. newrouter says:

    mr jeff g. good work!

  77. palaeomerus says:

    Outlawwwwwwwwww!

  78. newrouter says:

    the man with body guards says:

    >.@MikeBloomberg : Coloradans are safer today because of the leadership demonstrated by Senators Morse. #coleg #copolitics<

  79. palaeomerus says:

    Better crank those speakers tomorrow Mr. Goldstein, before the ‘No labels’ types can get out in front of this.

    I almost want to check out LGF just to see how CHARLIE takes this.

  80. palaeomerus says:

    And yes I meant that in the ‘Flowers for Algernon’ sense.

  81. geoffb says:

    New Union group formed.

    The American Federation of Socialist Non-labor & the Congress of Progressive Organizers.

Comments are closed.