Obama, A New Low

When I was a kid and got caught doing something I ought not have been doing, my knee jerk reaction was to vehemently deny, deny, deny. And my ma would always say,"on the gonif brent a hitel" - on the thief the hat burns. Obama's hat is on fire.

It is obvious that Bush, in his historic speech to the Knesset yesterday,  was referring to Dhimmi Carter - fresh off last month's ass kissing tour of blood thirsty terror gangs.  But Obama had to make it all about him insisting Bush was talking about him because Obama has promised to meet unconditionally with the annihilationist Ahmadinejad.

Can Somebody Explain to Me ...   [Andy McCarthy] hat tip Larwyn

... how Obama sat in Wright's church for 20 years and managed never to hear anything, but hears 20 seconds of a Bush speech that doesn't mention him and perceives a shameful personal attack?

I watched Obama today and I can say unhesitatingly that he is good. Very, very good. He can spin like a top. And the media is so in the tank for him that they nod like bobble heads and report his Orwellian double talk as fact.

He refers to McCain as Bush/McCain as if they are on the same ticket and McCain is the number two. He sees Bush's polls numbers and wants to paint McCain with that brush despite the oceans of difference between the two. Iraq is the club and Obama will wield it.

He refers to his jihad enabling platforms as "aggressive diplomacy".  Isn't that an obnoxious oxymoron? Will Rogers was right when he said diplomacy is saying "nice doggy"  until you find a rock. Obama has no rocks. The rocks he has are in his head and the few he can throw he throws at America. He points to North Korea as a success of diplomacy. He says we engaged in talks and VOILA! - we talked them out of their nukes. Could he be more wrong? John Bolton said here, "In fact, the protracted Six-Party Talks have provided Kim Jong-il with the most precious resource of all: the time to enhance, conceal and even disperse his nuclear weapons programs.  Time is nearly always on the side of the would-be proliferator, and so it has proven here. In exchange for five years of grace to North Korea, the U.S. has received precious little in return."

Was it not a North Korean nuclear bomb making factory (plutonium) that the Israelis took out September 6th in Syria? He promises more sanctions on Iran and we know what a circle jerk that is. Every premise Obama operates on is false and fatally flawed.

Bolton said Israel and the United States know very well that Syria's close relations with North Korea have not been severed, but refused to elaborate. He said North Korea might sell nuclear know-how and a ready-to-use nuclear bomb to the highest bidder.

"The proliferation of nuclear weapons in the middle east will start with North Korea. More here

And what exactly can Obama offer that hasn't been offered before?  Krauthammer hammered this point home here (hat tip ewin)

.... Of course he should defend himself on this, and of course he should include Obama with Jimmy Carter, who spoke with Hamas, and with Pelosi, who went cap in hand to Damascus and spoke with Assad.

And the question John McCain asks is a good one — what exactly is he going to say to these thugs that has not already been said? If he doesn't have anything new to say, then a trip to Iran or a negotiation with Ahmadinejad is an exercise in redundancy, and in honoring him.

And if he has new stuff to say, what is it going to be? It's not going to be more sticks. He is not going to be tougher on Iran than Bush and Cheney. It's going to be carrots.

So let's ask Obama — are you going to offer Iran Lebanon? Are you going to offer sway over Iraq? Are you going to offer it domination of the Gulf? Or are you are going to offer it America squeezing Israel?

So it is about appeasement, and Israel is a place in which he wants to make that statement....

Obama Thinks Hamas, Hezb'allah Have Legiimate Grievances Ed La sky

In an interview with New York Times columnist David Brooks , Barack Obama was asked about the statement he released regarding the situation in Lebanon. Specifically this statement was in issue:      

all those who have influence with Hezbollah must press them to stand down immediately. It's time to engage in diplomatic efforts to help build a new Lebanese consensus that focuses on electoral reform, an end to the current corrupt patronage system, and the development of the economy that provides for a fair distribution of services, opportunities and employment.   

This statement was met with criticism for flying in the face of reality, for having a surreal air about it especially when that air was already filled with smoke from the ravages of Hezbollah attacks against the Lebanese government and the Sunni and Christian communities. His solutions seemed more akin to suggestions offered in civics and good government courses rather than geopolitcal and strategy courses.

Both organizations were founded and have as their principal aim the destruction of Israel. Their charters-especially so in the case of Hamas-talk about the killing of Jews and Christians around the world. They are fiercely anti-American and filled with religious extremism.  Are those legitimate aims? After all, appeasers in Europe-particularly in England-justified their approaches towards Adolf Hitler by agreeing that he also had legitimate claims (on territorial and World War One reparations). By granting credibility to these terror groups-and to at least some of their aims-does he enhance their status , power and obduracy going forward? Those are questions one wishes David Brooks had asked.

He claims that Iraq is a failure consequently bolstering Iran. What is he implying in this? Is he saying that Islam and democracy are not compatible so Iraq could never be won? Perhaps he has inside knowledge as he was raised a Muslim in a Muslim country.  And if that is his belief system why does he intend to convene a summit of Muslim countries was he snags the White House so that he might address their grievances.

Photo: Iran's Ahmadinejad and Hamas Khaled Marshal (hat tip Lawn via NERO)

Media Disgrace America, Israel and Themselves News busters

Thursday May 15, 2008, American media hit a new low. To paraphrase Michelle Obama, I have never been less proud of my country.

On the occasion of Israel's 60th anniversary, President George W. Bush gave one of the greatest speeches of his career.

Yet, America's media could only see this event through the tiny prism of the upcoming presidential election, and thereby totally ignored virtually everything that was said by the most powerful man in the world to one of our nation's greatest allies.

From a speech that lasted over 20 minutes -- interrupted eight times by applause from Israeli Knesset members -- America's media exclusively reported 83 words they felt insulted the candidate for president they have been unashamedly supporting for over a year.

Everything else in the President's stirring and emotional address went completely ignored, so much so that the other 2,400 words were totally irrelevant, as was the signficance of the day and the moment.

The President spoke of the founding of Israel, and America being the first nation to recognize her independence.

American media didn't care.

The President spoke of the history of the Holy Land, and the miracle that was the creation of a democracy in the center of a region violently opposed to such a political structure.

American media didn't care.

The President spoke of "the matchless value of every man, woman, and child," how "democracy is the only way to ensure human rights," and the sad reality that "the United Nations routinely passes more human rights resolutions against the freest democracy in the Middle East than any other nation in the world."

American media didn't care.

The President spoke of religious liberty being "fundamental to a civilized society" while condemning anti-Semitism.

American media didn't care.

The President spoke of nations having "a right to defend themselves," "that no nation should ever be forced to negotiate with killers pledged to its destruction," and "that targeting innocent lives to achieve political objectives is always and everywhere wrong."

American media didn't care.

The President spoke of the fight against terror and extremism as being "the defining challenge of our time...a clash of visions, a great ideological struggle."

American media didn't care.

The President spoke of folks that "suggest if the United States would just break ties with Israel, all our problems in the Middle East would go away. This is a tired argument that buys into the propaganda of the enemies of peace, and America utterly rejects it."

American media didn't care.

The President spoke of freedom yielding peace, and how we "must stand with the reformers working to break the old patterns of tyranny and despair...give voice to millions of ordinary people who dream of a better life in a free society," and above all, "have faith in our values and ourselves and confidently pursue the expansion of liberty as the path to a peaceful future."

American media didn't care.

The President spoke of the Middle East 60 years in the future:

Israel will be celebrating the 120th anniversary as one of the world's great democracies, a secure and flourishing homeland for the Jewish people. The Palestinian people will have the homeland they have long dreamed of and deserved -- a democratic state that is governed by law, and respects human rights, and rejects terror. From Cairo to Riyadh to Baghdad and Beirut, people will live in free and independent societies, where a desire for peace is reinforced by ties of diplomacy and tourism and trade. Iran and Syria will be peaceful nations, with today's oppression a distant memory and where people are free to speak their minds and develop their God-given talents. Al Qaeda and Hezbollah and Hamas will be defeated, as Muslims across the region recognize the emptiness of the terrorists' vision and the injustice of their cause.

Overall, the Middle East will be characterized by a new period of tolerance and integration. And this doesn't mean that Israel and its neighbors will be best of friends. But when leaders across the region answer to their people, they will focus their energies on schools and jobs, not on rocket attacks and suicide bombings. With this change, Israel will open a new hopeful chapter in which its people can live a normal life, and the dream of Herzl and the founders of 1948 can be fully and finally realized.

This is a bold vision, and some will say it can never be achieved. But think about what we have witnessed in our own time. When Europe was destroying itself through total war and genocide, it was difficult to envision a continent that six decades later would be free and at peace. When Japanese pilots were flying suicide missions into American battleships, it seemed impossible that six decades later Japan would be a democracy, a lynchpin of security in Asia, and one of America's closest friends. And when waves of refugees arrived here in the desert with nothing, surrounded by hostile armies, it was almost unimaginable that Israel would grow into one of the freest and most successful nations on the earth.

Yet each one of these transformations took place. And a future of transformation is possible in the Middle East, so long as a new generation of leaders has the courage to defeat the enemies of freedom, to make the hard choices necessary for peace, and stand firm on the solid rock of universal values.

American media didn't care.

No, none of this was important to Obama-loving press members, who in an effort to frame the President's 2,500 words into a soundbite that would embarrass him while giving the junior senator from Illinois and fellow Democrats fodder to elucidate their foreign policy vision, ended up stealing this marvelous speech from the American people

Read it all. See also President Bush Addresses the Knesset
View the Video. Read the Text. (White House)

And buy a McCain tee shirt while you're at it.

 

Comments

[RISE_UP]

In spite of my displeasure with GWB on some things.His speech in Israel was absolutely brillient and it left no doubt as to our stance with Israel and perhaps that fact is what really bothered the idiots.For some reason Obama seems to not be aware that what he has said from the time he was a child is ON THE DAMM INTERNET. and the media in the tank for him can't do a thing about it. (Makes me smile.)IF THE SHOE FITS Osama.. Obama is going to look like the naive child he is on foreign policy when there finally is a debate.

[john Ryan]

Appeasement ???
Better check wikipedia you will find that the Bush family fortune was in fact founded on their earnings from Nazi Germany before the war beganhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prescott_Bush
Appeasement ??? this was the work of the socially conservatives who admired Nazi Germany

[RISE_UP]

Me and my grain of salt went to Wikipedia.I always take my salt when I go there. That kite was launched before. It didn't fly then and it won't fly now. Pretty sure a lot of folks unwittingly dealth with unsavory characters. However...has nothing to do with appeasement. These were businessmen,with their own interest at heart speaking for themselves and acting for themselves. GO GWB you finally made a wonderful speech.

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The terrorist monkey can not be negotiated with. The only reason to maybe talk to Ahmadamadmonkey in say maybe Switzerland is to provoke him by debating his ideology and criticizing his hatred. Force him to say lots of stupid and insane things which would be widely publicized thus educating more people to his ideology's insanity. This, I am quite sure, Obama would never do.

Ouch, Obama and the poor little Dems were hit a little too close to home by what GW said. It's one of the best things Bush has ever said. Bravo! And he didn't even have to mention the Dhimmicrats or any body's name.

So sure, then he folded in Saudi Arabia, but what he said in Israel almost makes that OK.
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absurd thought -
God of the Universe says
appease the appeasers

don't embarrass them
by calling them appeasers

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absurd thought -
God of the Universe said
have a sit down with Hitler

he should have been sweet-talked
he had goodness within

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Appeasement Talk Bothers Appeasers

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