Reminder: Obama Still a %$@*-Up
This is who this country elected:
In his tour of Burma, billed as an historic first visit since Burma’s 2007 move to democracy, it was clear he was in way over his head, even on small things. Obama repeatedly referred to the country’s Nobel Peace Prize-winning leader Aung San Suu Kyi as Aung Yan Suu Kyi, an astonishing error given her global fame.
He also bungled the norms of Burmese polite address, calling Thein Sein, the nation’s leader “President Sein,” an error comparable to addressing Cambodia’s Pol Pot as Mr. Pot.
But he also undermined his supposed democracy mission, first by telling the Burmese leaders that he too wished he could govern without opposition, calling into question whether he himself believed in the representative government he was advocating.
By 2016 the people who voted this guy into office will finally realize how badly they f’ed up.
By then it will be too late.
Eeesh.
Patterico (43b036) — 11/24/2012 @ 1:37 pmΜαλακας.
nk (875f57) — 11/24/2012 @ 1:50 pmAnd no, μαλακας does not mean what Google Translate says.
nk (875f57) — 11/24/2012 @ 1:54 pmFrom the same link:
Not only is Obama an unprepared amateur, he’s demonstrated no willingness to learn during his first term. That makes him an arrogant amateur so it’s no wonder his foreign policy has been a disaster.
DRJ (a83b8b) — 11/24/2012 @ 1:55 pmNo. So long as their free stuff keeps coming, his base won’t care if he turns into Richard Libertini.
The Sanity Inspector (3d270e) — 11/24/2012 @ 1:57 pmRemember, a repeat of Jimmy Carter is a Best-Case Scenario!
askeptic (2bb434) — 11/24/2012 @ 2:01 pmHe very well could turn out to be a “General Leopoldo Galtieri”.
But historian Michael Beschloss assured us that this Obama person is the smartest man to ever become President.
Elephant Stone (65d289) — 11/24/2012 @ 2:10 pmHmmm. Maybe Beschloss had actually said, “smarmiest,” but it somehow got lost in the spell-check.
To our host’s assertion — “By 2016 the people who voted this guy into office will finally realize how badly they f’ed up” — I must ask this:
Can you give a single previous example to suggest that those people are willing to accept reality after denying it so fervently all this time?
When Jim Jones passed out the Kool-Aid, the answer he got every time was “Bless you!”
Beldar (cab489) — 11/24/2012 @ 2:12 pmI don’t give much credence to the “sampeah” spin, DRJ. Her tilt is lower than his, for one thing. At worst, he is treating her as an equal.
nk (875f57) — 11/24/2012 @ 2:15 pm“When Jim Jones passed out the Kool-Aid, the answer he got every time was “Bless you!””
Beldar – But Jim Jones couldn’t print money, issue bonds and tax people to keep his scam going and wound up with a bunch of bloated corpses in the jungle.
I don’t plan on accepting any drinks from strangers just in case.
daleyrocks (bf33e9) — 11/24/2012 @ 2:18 pmPersonally, my father taught me when meeting a lady to stand up straight and not extend my hand unless she extended hers first. Slight bowing of the head, a polite greeting. Different strokes for different folks.
nk (875f57) — 11/24/2012 @ 2:20 pmThe only thing more amateurish than the President in this Administration, are the Protocol Officers.
askeptic (2bb434) — 11/24/2012 @ 2:23 pm“The only thing more amateurish than the President in this Administration, are the Protocol Officers.”
askeptic – Barky probably should have just grabbed her in a bear hug the way Michelle grabbed the Queen Mum.
daleyrocks (bf33e9) — 11/24/2012 @ 2:27 pmI honestly don’t think President Obama feels the need to be prepared, to know the basic protocols and customs, let alone doing the rudimentary work of knowing his host’s name and correct pronunciation. I think it stems from believing rather the important thing is his presence. Clearly, it will be about him, therefore no need to waste his time on matters of foreign protocols.
Remember, this is the guy who arrogantly decided he did not need towould sit down and studiously prepare for the debates.
Dana (292dcf) — 11/24/2012 @ 2:28 pmRemember, this is the guy who arrogantly decided he did not need towould sit down and studiously prepare for the debates.
Comment by Dana (292dcf) — 11/24/2012 @ 2:28 pm
Sadly, he was right.
Matador (7e574f) — 11/24/2012 @ 2:31 pmShortly after the election I had a bit of a tiff with a liberal friend when I told him that I was willing to bet that by summer of 2016 Obama will be about as unpopular in opinion polls as Bush was in the summer of 2008. Hey, maybe I’m wrong — maybe ObamaCare will be working just fine and maybe a strong economy will counteract the effects of Obama’s tax increases while providing some deficit reduction and maybe moderate Islamists really will take over in the Middle East — but I have an ugly foreboding that Obama simply isn’t up to the challenges that he is going to be facing over the next few years.
JVW (4826a9) — 11/24/2012 @ 2:47 pm==To our host’s assertion — “By 2016 the people who voted this guy into office will finally realize how badly they f’ed up” — I must ask this:
Can you give a single previous example to suggest that those people are willing to accept reality after denying it so fervently all this time?==
That’s a reasonable question, but starts with a gross generalization. I think we must keep something in focus: Not all who voted for the president’s re-election are clueless, mindless “Obamabots”. Many of them saw his flaws, recognized his promises not kept, and had real concerns about his competence and temperament as shown in his first term. I know people like this. But, just as some voters on the libertarian/conservative/right have said that while they felt both presidential candidates were flawed, they reluctantly held their noses and voted for Romney because to them he was less problematic than Obama—I think some numbers of Obama voters applied that same logic in voting for him coming from the opposite direction. By 2016 it may well be too late, but I think we make a mistake for 2014 and 2016 if we automatically just give up and assume none of these Obama voters can be reachable to us with the right candidates and with the right platform.
elissa (33aab3) — 11/24/2012 @ 2:47 pmI think I slightly hedged by saying that Obama wouldn’t be any more than 10 points higher in favorability than Bush was. I think Bush was down in the mid-20s in his last summer. Obama could steal the entire treasury and start a nuclear war with Britain and he would still find a cadre of idiots numbering in the 30% range to support him.
JVW (4826a9) — 11/24/2012 @ 2:53 pmHolding their noses to re-elect this incompetent buffoon… quite a mental image.
Americans will soon come to understand the tragic mistake they have made in putting their trust in one so feckless.
Colonel Haiku (5088bf) — 11/24/2012 @ 2:57 pmWhen in Burma, do as Burmese do.
Elephant Stone (65d289) — 11/24/2012 @ 3:08 pmAmericans will soon come to understand the tragic mistake they have made in putting their trust in one so feckless.
And let’t not overlook that we have another four years of the disgraceful drunken uncle for a Vice President too.
JVW (4826a9) — 11/24/2012 @ 3:10 pmI can tell you honestly that I did no different in 2004…
Ghost (2d8874) — 11/24/2012 @ 3:17 pmIf four years of continuing deterioration of our country – on a number of levels – didn’t clue voters in, then I have little hope that four more years will.
After all, it was during the first four years that we made the hard left turn turn and moved closer toward the European model. There won’t be any huge change of trajectory in the next four years, just a continuing push in the same direction.
Plus, guilty white liberals outnumber common sense. They’ll hold fast.
Dana (292dcf) — 11/24/2012 @ 3:21 pmAmity Shlaes is predicting that we will see a re-enactment of the Depression within a Depression just as in ’37-’38.
askeptic (2bb434) — 11/24/2012 @ 3:29 pmThe question arises, since the Left already calls the current circumstance (to tar GWB) The Great Recession, what will the name be for the Recession within a Recession?
For FDR, ’37-’38 is what made the Depression “Great”.
I don’t think Obama supporters are going to change their minds about him in the next 4 years. If they supported him in 2008 and they support him now — whether that support was enthusiastic or reluctant — they will continue to give him the benefit of the doubt.
DRJ (a83b8b) — 11/24/2012 @ 3:44 pmThe State Department building caught fire today.
Early word on the cause is ‘spontaneous combustion resulting from a YouTube video’.
Icy (boobees) (0de99d) — 11/24/2012 @ 3:46 pmThe country has been listing left for decades. The course only hastens if there’s a D executive & legislative branch. Only the judicial has been there to stop the tossing overboard of the Republic. (Well, we thought it was there, until Roberts decides to go rogue).
Anyone think Romney was going to rescind the Patriot Act (and the illusion of security for freedom), or maybe try to force a Bork onto the Court, or roll back the Prescription Drug benefit or Obamacare?
I’m afraid to say the Republic is lost. And yes the D’s are mostly to blame, but the R’s of today are nothing more than liberals 20 – 30 years ago.
scott (b8618e) — 11/24/2012 @ 4:00 pmJVW, regardless of Obama’s popularity in 2016, his longer term reputation will continue to drop, I am convinced. I am certain that he’s few “accomplishments” will become known as fiascoes, and that his many errors will continue to multiply.
I am confident that his inability to get any legislative agenda, his unseriousness re: budgets coupled with the juvenile tactics of Congressional Democrats will become more of the theme of historian review of his tenure.
SPQR (768505) — 11/24/2012 @ 4:11 pmThere is a very real possibility of the bottom dropping out of the economy as the country plunges over the Deficit Cliff, along with the imposition of the “Clinton-era” tax rates aka the ending of the Bush Tax Reductions.
askeptic (2bb434) — 11/24/2012 @ 4:20 pmIf real unemployment approaches 20% at the same time that the Feds have no money to pump into the economy, the First Keynesian may take a major hit on his popularity. I’m sure he’ll be real popular in the academic community as people have to pay those student loans without having jobs, and faculty and staff are laid-off as enrollment plummets.
The Good Times are ahead.
The Asians are very good at math, obama is not.
mg (31009b) — 11/24/2012 @ 4:25 pmRuh Roh…
Looks like Obama’s White House Protocol Briefings are in the stack of unread papers underneath his Bengazi Security Briefings.
BRB, I have to go check the NY Times Front Page to see the articles about what an idiot Cowboy our President is to make these kinds of gaffes. Those articles were non-stop from 2000 to 2008, I’m sure they are there now.
Kaisersoze (d67f66) — 11/24/2012 @ 4:29 pmBy 2014 we will be in the “Greater Recession” and it will be instructive to see Obama’s supporters trying to blame the Republicans for the mess. I actually think that a lot of his current support will ahve melted away by then. When he leaves office, whether in 2017 or earlier by resignation or impeachment (I have hopes for the 2014 midterms), he will have less support than Truman or Nixon.
Of course, there is also the possibility that he’ll pack the Supreme Court full of hacks who will find the 22nd Amendment unconstitutional and then run again.
Kevin M (bf8ad7) — 11/24/2012 @ 4:45 pmPerhaps his failed protocol in Asia was a result of the fact they don’t speak Austrian there.
Elephant Stone (65d289) — 11/24/2012 @ 4:46 pm#31: Remember that Obama’s math stops at arithmetic. Which is like saying a pianist’s training stops at Chopsticks.
Kevin M (bf8ad7) — 11/24/2012 @ 4:47 pmWHAT in Ghu’s name leads you to this ridiculous flight of incredible fancy?
Smock Puppet, 10th Dan Snark Master (aacc3d) — 11/24/2012 @ 5:24 pmThe average IQ falls around 100 to 105.
Profound intellectual impairment falls down around 30 and below.
America is below average.
gary gulrud (dd7d4e) — 11/24/2012 @ 5:27 pmSorry, Elissa I would believe that anyone incapable of grasping how much worse Obama was than Romney is someone utterly incapable of EVER grasping how bad Obama is.
Smock Puppet, 10th Dan Snark Master (aacc3d) — 11/24/2012 @ 5:29 pmObama is like his syccophantic followers. He is an idiot, who has been told that he is a genius.
gus (694db4) — 11/24/2012 @ 5:44 pmIt’s almost as if Obama is the smartest REEEETARD. And the rest of the REEEETARDS think that they are somehow ELEVATED by virtue of being a fellow traveler with Obama. He’s not smart, he’s an idiot. He is enabled by the Press and millions of morons.
No, it’s like the pianists’ training stopping a black and white keys.
gus (694db4) — 11/24/2012 @ 5:47 pmNo, they wont. And they wouldn’t care if they did.
miked (04e8ba) — 11/24/2012 @ 5:57 pmRight miked. The more Jug ears Fugs up, the more someone else needs to be attacked.
gus (694db4) — 11/24/2012 @ 6:09 pmWhy, Patterico! There is no difference between Romney and Obama, remember? People have incredible facility for self-deception. Nothing bad that happens will ever be Obama’s fault, according to the DNC and MSM (which are the same thing).
Simon Jester (a6c0b3) — 11/24/2012 @ 6:10 pmsorry–Smock Puppet, 60 million people is a pretty big universe to categorize as forever hopelessly lost. We already know that included in that group of misguided Obama voters are intelligent and decent and busy left leaning family members/loved ones of persons central to this blog and also to this large conservative commenter community. They are voters who happen to view the world from a somewhat different perspective than many of us do and they are also regularly misinformed by the media. They are not all greedy and simply looking for “free stuff”.
I stand second to no one in despising what Barack Obama has done to diminish both this country’s spirit and our institutions as well as our reputation in the world. I hate how he has demeaned the office of the presidency. I have known he was dangerous, a fraud and lazy since he was an Illinois legislator and I have tried and will continue to try to enlighten others about this if they seem even remotely persuadable. We don’t need to persuade everybody, you know. We just need to persuade four or five million of them. I guess I still hold out hope that that’s doable.
elissa (33aab3) — 11/24/2012 @ 6:27 pmWhat will make them turn, elissa, gas at $6.00, an attack on the homeland, I want to know what replaces ‘binders full of women’ and the 47%,
narciso (ee31f1) — 11/24/2012 @ 6:30 pmOnly when white folks are stripped naked will the world heal.
mg (31009b) — 11/24/2012 @ 6:58 pmThere is no persuading them. No moving left on abortion, gay marriage or immigration will make them see us as anything other than 1%er racists who will make them get out of bed in the morning.
Looks like we are going to have to hit rock bottom before we can rehab.
Matador (7e574f) — 11/24/2012 @ 7:10 pmGaltieri-like inflation is practically a given, among other economic woes we can expect over the next 4 years.But he makes silly liberals feel good about themselves and those with their frasping hands out want more stuff. Running a 2-car funeral would overtax his administrative abilities. He may be a f___ up, but we are truly f___ed.
Bugg (c8b43a) — 11/24/2012 @ 7:20 pmFrank Zappa did a song apropos of Urkel, The Idiot Bastard’s Son. Why is it that commie mom didn’t abort his sorry ass? Been watching The Wire series. Those drug lords and many of their minions have better minds than Obama and I doubt they are much different morally. Big Balls Barack has no problem ordering drone attack killings from afar. Can you imagine how the leftards would have viewed all of O’s BS had it been performed by W and Cheney? The media gives libs a pass totally. Think our DNC media would be delving into Benghazi if the potus were republican?
Calypso Louis Farrakhan (e799d8) — 11/24/2012 @ 7:31 pmSo assclown Brian William’s thinks it is hilarious that Romney was caught on film pumping his own gas? Like bitch Williams, crybaby pants-peeing Chrissie Matthews or Matt Lauer pump their own? Same jackasses attack free enterprise while getting filthy rich off it. Bald jerk Lauer is supposed to get canned from his $21.5 mil gig? I’d like to see the lot hanging from lamp posts all around NYC and DC. Scum of the earth, along with many pols.
I can’t believe you’re nitpicking this stuff when Obama has committed a laundry list of impeachable crimes.
j curtis (1869e3) — 11/24/2012 @ 8:11 pmSame president, different day.
navyvet (02dd07) — 11/24/2012 @ 8:51 pm49- CLF, A strong hemp rope will be needed for the lamp posts.
convict (31009b) — 11/24/2012 @ 9:11 pmIt’s naïve to think Obama’s fans will learn anything by 2016 if they haven’t learned anything by now. They’ve demonstrated that the concept of “cause and effect” is beyond them. Obama is, for instance, engineering a train wreck in n. Africa and the ME. The chief sponsor of Hamas is now our negotiating partner in Egypt. Thanks to Obama’s college-freshman leftist instincts Hamas has a direct conduit to Libyan and Iranian (via Sudan) weapons. And the MB will make sure Hamas rearms. Because President Arab Spring is so desperate to declare the unfolding catastrophe he’s wrought a success that Morsi knows he’s got the fool over a barrel. Hamas slips the leash and out comes Obama’s federal wallet dispensing whatever it’ll take for Egypt to put Hamas back on the chain. And Obama’s minions will believe this clown when he tells them he’s restored America’s standing in the world after “cowboy Bush” shredded it. (Although everybody was afraid to “shred” one of our consulates when Bush was President.)
Steve57 (08bc52) — 11/24/2012 @ 10:13 pmComment by convict (31009b) — 11/24/2012 @ 9:11 pm
Piano Wire!
askeptic (2bb434) — 11/24/2012 @ 10:19 pmI was with a group of “private contractors” who mentioned that most of the troops being rotated out of Afghanistan are penciled-in for duty in North Africa, starting with countries near the Horn of Africa.
askeptic (2bb434) — 11/24/2012 @ 10:22 pmI wouldn’t be surprised to see new facilities going up in Morocco too.
It’s not FP related but the angry leftard to companies annoncing what steps they’ll have to take to survive Obamacare tells us what the future holds (as does the sacking of our Benghazi consulate and Hamas celebrating Obama’s reelection by attacking Israel). If companies had just quietly laid people off, cut hours, and raised prices the left would have been cool with it. They even said so. It was when businessmen went public and made noise about WHY they were doing what they were doing the left turned ugly. They didn’t want to hear it. These people are vocal about their conscious desire to be lied to. They will lash out at anyone who threatens to tell them the truth about Obama and his disastrous policies.
Steve57 (43b783) — 11/24/2012 @ 10:37 pmIndeed it doesn’t 🙂
Milhouse (15b6fd) — 11/24/2012 @ 10:51 pmaskeptic @55, so Obama’s once again is shutting the barn door after the horse escaped. Or more accurately after he deliberately drove it off. Clearly President Tiger Beat has to kill somebody or several somebodies so he can keep pretending he didn’t screw the pooch in every possible way a pooch can be screwed in Benghazi. But to indulge indulge in another metaphor he let this genie out of the bottle and he ain’t stuffing it back in.
Steve57 (43b783) — 11/24/2012 @ 11:00 pmUm, how can a constitutional amendment be unconstitutional?
Milhouse (15b6fd) — 11/24/2012 @ 11:01 pmMilhouse, it can be done. At least there are judges who are willing to rule that way with a straight face. Obama can find a compliant judge to bless his ambitions just as Obama blessed Zelaya’s extra-legal ambitions despite the fact his attempt to stay in power was completely against Honduras’ constitution.
Steve57 (43b783) — 11/25/2012 @ 1:30 amAs long as the right has rove, schmidt,murphy,boehner,christie,gingrich,huntsman,jindal, the collectivist smiles.
convict (31009b) — 11/25/2012 @ 5:04 amThe real constitution is the nation’s collective cognizance, or concience if you wish, of what is right. If Obama tries to be a Chavez, he will be taken out by his own Secret Service detail and put in a padded cell.
nk (875f57) — 11/25/2012 @ 5:52 amThe average IQ falls around 100 to 105. Profound intellectual impairment falls down around 30 and below. America is below average.
However, intelligence and political bias do not necessarily go hand-in-hand. Some liberals love to portray conservatives as being “rednecks in trailer parks,” but ignore the fact that just about every truly impoverished, dysfunctional, corrupt city/community in America is of the left. Meanwhile, some conservatives equate liberalism with failure and low IQ, while ignoring all the “limousine liberals” throughout America, people such as investor Warren Buffett or tycoon Michael Bloomberg of New York, or most certainly the “latte liberals” of Silicon Valley.
Regardless of one’s intelligence, the facet of human thought that seems to really count the most is basic logic or common sense. And that tends to be in short supply, or becomes squished, when the ethos of “compassion and feel-good rule all” becomes pervasive.
“Compassion and feel-good” (mixed with plenty of self-entitled greed) is running amok in Obama’s America, and also in France, in Greece, in Argentina, in Spain, in Venezuela, in Mexico, etc.
Mark (52bc92) — 11/25/2012 @ 6:12 amI don’t believe this. If it were true at the Supreme Court level there wouldn’t be so many unanimous decisions. Constitutional amendments are by definition constitutional, and I can’t believe there’s a judge in the country who would claim otherwise, and there’s certainly not one on the Supreme Court. Any lower court judge who did rule that way would be impeached the next day. And if 0bama doesn’t voluntarily leave the White House on 20-Jan-2017 the Secret Service will move him out (unless Michelle wins in 2016, of course).
Milhouse (15b6fd) — 11/25/2012 @ 6:24 amWell I’m less sanguine, after Kelo, after the detainee cases, and how NFIB vs.Sibelius, that they will do the right thing,
narciso (ee31f1) — 11/25/2012 @ 6:27 amJebbie wants the Nomination.
More photos for the ego wall.
gary gulrud (dd7d4e) — 11/25/2012 @ 6:32 amNone of those are decisions I agree with, but they’re all perfectly defensible. I think on each of them the side I support had the better argument, but would I think the same if I supported the other side? I can’t be totally confident of that. But there can’t be any question that the constitution is constitutional. It’s a tautology.
Milhouse (15b6fd) — 11/25/2012 @ 6:53 amIf his name weren’t Bush he’d have been a strong contender this year. I’d have readily supported him over Romney. Maybe by 2016 people will be so heartily sick of 0bama that they’ll be hankering for the halcyon Bush days and his name will no longer be a handicap.
Milhouse (15b6fd) — 11/25/2012 @ 6:55 amWell the problem is each one of these cases, often ignored all precedents, before, for pragmatic reasons, with Boumedienne they ignored the facts
narciso (ee31f1) — 11/25/2012 @ 6:57 amat hand as well,
Milhouse, I’m told that learning new languages is a way to ward off precocious dementia. I’m on French, today (actually Cajun), but the only difference in the word is “o” in English and “eu” in French. 😉
nk (875f57) — 11/25/2012 @ 7:21 amBy 2016 the people who voted this guy into office will finally realize how badly they f’ed up.
Well at least those who didn’t vote for him. The others, not so much.
ks1949 (ad6b2e) — 11/25/2012 @ 7:32 amOn the contrary, Kelo was perfectly in line with the precedents, and took them to their logical conclusion. It’s the precedents that were bad, and the Court could have limited them to their facts rather than extending them, but there was nothing legally radical about its declining to do so. Sibelius too was in line with precedent, and from a strictly legal POV is perfectly defensible. Much the same applies to Boumedienne ; I think the Court could and should have found otherwise, but it did not the precedents that prisoners of war have no right to habeas, it just said that first it must be established that they are POWs. None of the precedents addressed that, since in all previous cases the petitioners acknowledged their status.
None of these decisions justify a claim that the Court, or for that matter any federal court, would ever dare to “rule” that the constitution is unconstitutional. Such a decision would be ultra vires and a legal nullity, and the armed forces (including the Secret Service) would simply ignore it.
Milhouse (15b6fd) — 11/25/2012 @ 7:35 amnk, I have no idea what you’re talking about. Which word?
Milhouse (15b6fd) — 11/25/2012 @ 7:35 amIs “teusser” really a French word? 🙂
Milhouse (15b6fd) — 11/25/2012 @ 7:36 amseems German, from a quick perusal, the no compensation part seems the overreach, not the public use, of course bad law, yielded bad results,
narciso (ee31f1) — 11/25/2012 @ 7:40 amI believe μαλακας is masturbatieur in French?
nk (875f57) — 11/25/2012 @ 7:44 amUm, huh? Autocorrect strikes again? Or a slip of the mouse?
Milhouse (15b6fd) — 11/25/2012 @ 7:46 amnk, I don’t know French, but in English “masturbator” isn’t quite the same thing as “tosser”. The former is strictly literal, the latter is figurative, as I take μαλακας to be.
Milhouse (15b6fd) — 11/25/2012 @ 7:47 amno, the word teusser, and a separate thought on Kelo,
narciso (ee31f1) — 11/25/2012 @ 7:50 amPatterico and most Republicans think Obama is an “amateur” or incompetent. Well, he was able to ram through Obamacare. By his own lights, Obama is able enough.
As another commenter said, Obama will still be close to 45% in the polls in 2016. The combination of unanimous support from blacks and large backing from nonwhites in general, along with white liberals, will keep Obama from ever falling as low in the polls as Bush 43.
DN (7fc565) — 11/25/2012 @ 7:52 amWhat “no compensation part” are you talking about? The constitution clearly requires compensation, and Kelo received every penny of it.
Milhouse (15b6fd) — 11/25/2012 @ 7:53 amUm, how can a constitutional amendment be unconstitutional?
Well, it depends on what the meaning of “is” is, and those pesky emanations from penumbras, which I’m sure someone can see – particularly on the 9th-Circus.
askeptic (2bb434) — 11/25/2012 @ 7:55 amWhen an Iranian nuclear weapon in a container goes off in New York Harbor, the Obama voters might begin to doubt him. Until then it’s pretty hopeless. Coleman Young was mayor of Detroit for 20 years. In his first term the city was barely 50% black. By the end, the white population had begun to flee to the suburbs which continue as a prosperous ring around the city.
There has been some speculation that states will be the location of the study of the red state and blue state models as they are increasingly dominated by a single party.
Mike K (326cba) — 11/25/2012 @ 7:59 amOur honored host described our President as a “%$@*-Up.” Allow me to suggest a perfectly polite description of “F(ornicate)-Up” as truly conveying the message, without violating either standards of common decency or the FCC’s famous “seven dirty words.”
The unfailingly courteous Dana (f68855) — 11/25/2012 @ 8:06 amNah, they’ll say we have to rally around him just as we did around Bush, whom they will portray as an incompetent fool, worse than our view of 0bama. And they’ll conveniently forget how their rallying around Bush lasted about a week, if that.
Milhouse (15b6fd) — 11/25/2012 @ 8:08 amI have even managed to train myself to use “Fornicate!” as a verbal expletive, rather than the more common vulgarity. Somehow, people pay more attention to it that way.
The tremendously polite Dana (f68855) — 11/25/2012 @ 8:08 amMilhouse (15b6fd) wrote:
Ahhh, but if that happens, and the liberal voters from New York City are vaporized, we stand a chance of the conservative voters upstate swinging the state to the GOP.
The Dana who sees the silver lining on every dark cloud (f68855) — 11/25/2012 @ 8:11 amMilhouse, yes, Greek is a connotative language, and μαλακας can range from idiot and up the scale of worthlessness, but the literal meaning is “jerk-off”.
nk (875f57) — 11/25/2012 @ 8:16 amwouldn’t that be a kick in the pants
happyfeet (0c5563) — 11/25/2012 @ 8:16 amnk, so’s the literal meanings of “tosser”, “wanker” “jerk-off”, etc., but one would never use them literally. If you meant merely to communicate that the subject engages in onanism, with no reflection on his character, would you still use μαλακας?
Milhouse (15b6fd) — 11/25/2012 @ 8:21 amDana, a nuke in the harbour would kill (and certainly vapourise) very few people, and the survivors, wherever they were, would still vote. And blame Bush.
Milhouse (15b6fd) — 11/25/2012 @ 8:22 amWho’s a wanker is that chris christie my god could jersey dial back on the trashy just a tetch
happyfeet (0c5563) — 11/25/2012 @ 8:24 amμαλ: English trans = “spiller”;
Colonel Haiku (3c7a44) — 11/25/2012 @ 8:32 amακας: English trans = “seed”;
Milhouse (15b6fd) wrote:
Apparently more easily than you think. In Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action v. University of Michigan, the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that Michigan’s ban on Affirmative Action violated the 14th Amendment’s equal protection clause, because it “unfairly placed a special burden on supporters of race-conscious admissions policies,” which means that, de facto, the Sixth Circuit said that the 14th Amendment’s equal protection clause as far as race is concerned is unconstitutional!
According to the Sixth Circus, the burden of trying to work around a ban on applying Affirmative Action outweighs the 14th Amendment’s guarantee of equal protection of the laws when it comes to race. I could never be a lawyer, because I’m just not smart enough to figure out how that makes any sense at all.
The utterly confused Dana (f68855) — 11/25/2012 @ 8:33 amMilhouse, yes. An onanist, with the widow and her four daughters. That is the basic meaning. But, figuratively, it can go from idiot/victim to person not so bad that you need be afraid of but bad enough that you cannot trust or want around.
nk (875f57) — 11/25/2012 @ 8:33 amIn his first term the city was barely 50% black. By the end, the white population had begun to flee to the suburbs which continue as a prosperous ring around the city.
The city of Detroit is Example-Number-One of how bad and corrupt a place can become, yet none (or at least even a small majority) of its people change their voting habits. Least anyone think that is somehow unique to certain demographics instead of the human race in general, keep in mind a country like Argentina.
Although mostly of European descent, Argentina is not too different from Detroit writ large. Its current president, Cristina Kirchner, is sort of like Obama on steroids (but just a bit—eg, she has made it illegal to report the actual rate of inflation), and that nation has witnessed generations of leftist voting patterns. Reports out of its capital, Buenos Aires, in 2012 indicate there’s plenty of street crime in Argentina too.
Alexis de Tocqueville made the following observations during the first half of the 1800s. They show how aspects of human nature haven’t changed much through the eons, but they also hint that this country eventually will hit a point of no return:
Mark (52bc92) — 11/25/2012 @ 8:36 amYes, both her and her late husband, Nestor, were acquaintances of the Montoneros, the militant wing of the Peronist, ala SDS, she even set up her own rallying group, the Campora, like Evita,
narciso (ee31f1) — 11/25/2012 @ 8:41 amIt’s not a bug, it’s a feature
http://twitchy.com/2012/11/25/on-scene-pics-mob-at-us-embassy-in-cairo-embassy-tweets-revolution-positive-step-forward-stands-by-911-apology/
narciso (ee31f1) — 11/25/2012 @ 8:44 amyou get caught in one of them mobs in Cairo they *will* rape you silly cause the whole damn country is a buncha sexual deviants
happyfeet (0c5563) — 11/25/2012 @ 8:50 amYou would think, they would strive to be as neutral as possible in their commentary,
narciso (ee31f1) — 11/25/2012 @ 9:03 amComment by The utterly confused Dana (f68855) — 11/25/2012 @ 8:33 am
Isn’t it amazing how the 6th-Circus has over-ruled a Constitutional Principle with a legislative act!
And we are supposed to respect these clowns, and observe their rantings?
askeptic (2bb434) — 11/25/2012 @ 9:13 amYou would think, they would strive to be as neutral as possible in their commentary,
Not sure if you’re referring to the US Embassy in Egypt — based on the link you posted — or Twitchy.com. Regardless, I originally assumed that Twitchy was a division of Twitter.com. As such, I thought it was a nice change of pace that a company based in the San Francisco area, and undoubtedly chock full of latte-drinking liberals, had some staffers who were running counter to the group think of Obama-ism. D’oh to me since I now realize Twitchy is owned by Michelle Malkin.
I know that one poll indicated Obama got a huge percentage of votes from Americans of Islamic background. I wondered if that was due in part to their sense of knowing who the biggest “useful idiot” was in the presidential election.
When it comes to the ass-backwards nature of Obama’s sympathy for poor, pitiful, humble Islamism versus his gut reactions to the racist, sexist, homophobic, rapacious, imperialist nature of the Western World (ie, the US in particular), no bigger useful idiot than the guy now in the White House—and, in turn, those folks manning the US Embassy in Cairo.
Mark (52bc92) — 11/25/2012 @ 9:25 amUm, what? The decision is certainly illogical, but you’re being even less logical than the court! It certainly did not rule that the equal protection clause is unconstitutional. On the contrary, the entire decision rested on that very clause! If the clause is somehow unconstitutional then what’s the problem? You will not find, anywhere in that decision, a statement that the clause is struck down, or anything to that effect.
Your confusion is a result of the basic fallacy of trying to make logical conclusions from an illogical source. If a source is illogical, as this decision is, then you can’t deduce anything from it using the laws of logic; that’s only logical. It’s a very bad decision, but you can’t read into it more than it says.
Milhouse (15b6fd) — 11/25/2012 @ 9:41 amUm, when did they do that? That’s the very opposite of what they did. They upheld the constitutional requirement of equal protection, and used it to overrule a state law, as is entirely proper. The problem with the decision is not that it purports to overrule the constitution, but that it’s illogical, and gets the constitutional clause completely backwards.
Milhouse (15b6fd) — 11/25/2012 @ 9:50 amThe big question is why did not enough Republicans vote for Ron Paul in the primaries? He certainly knew the fiscal situation in the country, he explained it very clearly, and he has a loyal cadre of followers.
Michael Ejercito (2e0217) — 11/25/2012 @ 9:51 amBecause he’s senile, and his foreign policy is stuck in the 19th century.
Milhouse (15b6fd) — 11/25/2012 @ 9:53 amJudge Sutton made this eloquent point in his dissent.
Coal. to Defend Affirmative Action v. Regents of the Univ. of Mich., p. 66 (Sutton, J., dissenting)
I would add that some state court decisions, e.g., Goodridge v. Dept. of Public Health, 798 N.E.2d 941 (Mass. Sup. Jud. 2003), Opinions of the Justices to the Senate, 440 Mass. 1201 (Mass. Sup. Jud,. Ct. (2004), Kerrigan v. Commissioner of Public Health, 957 A.2d 407 (Conn. Sup. Ct. 2008), Varnum v. Brien, 763 N.W.2d 862 (Iowa Sup. Ct. 2009), effectively make it more difficult for heterosexual couples to achieve beneficial legislation (such as bans on same-sex “marriage”) by requiring them to achieve an amendment to their state’s constitution, instead of appealing to the state legislature. If the Supreme Court adopts the Sixth Circuit’s reasoning, then the continued validity of these state court decisions would be in doubt.
Michael Ejercito (2e0217) — 11/25/2012 @ 10:04 amAnd yet her saw the fiscal cliff four years ago.
Michael Ejercito (2e0217) — 11/25/2012 @ 10:12 amRegarding Obama leaving office at the end of his second term:
I predict that sometime in mid to late 2014 a number of liberal pundits will start floating the idea that Obama deserves a THIRD term.
After all, the pundits will argue, he inherited such a mess from Bush, even a man as brilliant as Obama could not solve it a mere eight years.
And, similar to their opposition to the Electoral College, there will be a great hue and cry from many Democrats that the law that limits presidents to two terms has outlived its usefulness.
I am completely serious.
Whitey Nissan (6de6a0) — 11/25/2012 @ 10:12 amIt seems to me that in Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action, the Sixth Circus has come up with the strange notion that because the Supreme Court has declared a particular policy to be legal, anyone with an interest in the policy should have recourse to the lowest level of decision taking to get that policy implemented, even if higher levels of authority — the state legislature, state courts, or the state constitution — have decided not to put that policy into practice. In other words, if it can be done, it must be done, as long as the applicant can find one person somewhere who agrees.
The Dana who isn't an attorney (f68855) — 11/25/2012 @ 10:17 amWhitey Nissan (6de6a0) wrote:
That really isn’t much of a prediction: we heard similar things in 1987 from Republicans, and in 1999 from the Democrats.
Of course, if the economy is still in the doldrums in 2015, even the Democrats might not make that argument.
If the 2008 election was about Hope and Change, 2012 was about Fear of Change. The people who have done best under President Obama, the more productive citizens, were willing to see things change, for the good of the country, while the people who have done most poorly were deathly afraid of change; the people who had done better had hope that change would make things better, while the people who had done worse were afraid that any change would be for the worse.
The sadly realistic Dana (f68855) — 11/25/2012 @ 10:21 amNote that Coalition, illogical as it is, seems to follow from Romer. It’s taking the premise of Romer to its illogical “logical” conclusion. In other words it’s solidly based on Supreme Court precedent, albeit a stunningly stupid one.
Milhouse (15b6fd) — 11/25/2012 @ 10:44 amHow would such a ban be beneficial to heterosexual couples?
Milhouse (15b6fd) — 11/25/2012 @ 10:45 amHe certainly did not.
Milhouse (15b6fd) — 11/25/2012 @ 10:46 amOf course. Every party with a popular second-term president floats the same idea. That doesn’t magically enable them to do anything about it. The best they can do is run Michelle. Which they may very well try, but the Clinton camp won’t go meekly along.
No doubt, and they may even be correct, but you will surely have noticed that the electoral college is still with us despite over a century of such claims.
Milhouse (15b6fd) — 11/25/2012 @ 10:52 am106 – Indeed.
convict# (31009b) — 11/25/2012 @ 10:54 amPersonally, me thinks it’ll take a whole lot of racism to right these DisUnited States.
gary gulrud (dd7d4e) — 11/25/2012 @ 10:55 amIf you’d told me on 10-Sep-2001 that Ron Paul would one day be a serious presidential candidate and that I would not be supporting him, I’d have called you crazy.
Milhouse (15b6fd) — 11/25/2012 @ 10:56 ama number of liberal pundits will start floating the idea that Obama deserves a THIRD term.
If so, we’ll be witnessing history repeating itself. After all, one of the heroes of the Democrat Party — feted decades ago, honored today, and reelected 3 times, no less — never had to apologize for being a big flop:
Not long ago, I was musing over whether the technology of the 21st century — mainly the personal computer and the ease of modern communication via the internet — would influence things, including American history (eg, the 2012 elections), for the better.
WRONG! (And, if anything, Obama is a far more dumbed-down, far more decadent version of Franklin Roosevelt. However, George W Bush at least wasn’t as irresponsibly liberal as Roosevelt’s predecessor, Herbert Hoover, was.)
Human nature is intrinsic and much of it is immutable, and therefore is innately self-indulgent, short-sighted and, yes, nonsensically left-leaning.
Mark (01c836) — 11/25/2012 @ 11:03 amSmartest President ever!
Pay no attention to the serfs down at State Dept. who are trying to teach you anything! How dare they try to dilute this fine black President’s authenticity!
Still, something tells me that every time a President tours Asia, George HW Bush hopes they do barf on some VIP.
SteveG (831214) — 11/25/2012 @ 11:08 amAn exorcist style projectile barf onto ASSK would clear the resume
“And yet her saw the fiscal cliff four years ago.”
Michael Ejercito – If he did, that must have been some great weed he was smoking because significant short-term fixes that are hallmarks of Obama’s economic policies that comprise a great deal of the fiscal cliff had not been implemented four years ago.
daleyrocks (bf33e9) — 11/25/2012 @ 11:09 amIn particular, the fiscal cliff is a particular “fix” that had never been thought of before 2011.
Milhouse (15b6fd) — 11/25/2012 @ 11:16 amMilhouse @104, if a judge starts with a desired result that conflicts with the plain meaning of the Constitution then they have to get the “constitutional clause completely backwards,” as you put it. Working backward from the desired result through the fact they have to torture the language of the Constitution to get there, it’s not a problem for such a judge to complete the act by issuing a ruling that’s a hot mess of illogic. I was actually thinking of 9th Circuit judge Thelton Henderson who, in order to stay the CA Civil Rights Initiative which outlawed racial preferences, ruled the language of the 1964 Civil Rights Act and the Constitution unconstitutional. His opinion was an embarrassment; so much so that it was quickly overturned by a 3 judge panel of the 9th Circus. But that’s not the point. The legal consensus was that Henderson concluded the voters voted the wrong way, he decided his one vote was worth more, and he was willing to embarrass himself to overrule them. Actually, he demonstrated some judges are impossible to embarrass.
Steve57 (43b783) — 11/25/2012 @ 12:18 pmThere is a very clear distinction between Romer and Coalition.
CO Amendment 2 prohibited anti-discrimination laws for homosexuals, but not heterosexuals. Thus, quota prefgerences and protected status and claims of discrimination were still available on the basis of heterosexual orientation, conduct, practices, and relationships.
By sharp contrast, the MCRI prohibits racial preferences for all races.
Michael Ejercito (2e0217) — 11/25/2012 @ 12:29 pmThe one great disincentive for a third-term for the Teh Won is that there have already been Black Presidents for Life.
askeptic (2bb434) — 11/25/2012 @ 1:52 pmIf he’s not first, it’s boring.
831214 wrote:
T’were this President to do so, someone would dutifully collect the material spewed, and the emesis of our emissary would soon find itself held as a Holy Relic.
The Dana who actually understands those doofuses (f68855) — 11/25/2012 @ 2:02 pmY’all are racists for hatin’ on Barack
The Limerick Avenger (f68855) — 11/25/2012 @ 2:06 pmJust ’cause you don’t like that he’s black
That’s all of you
And our host, too
But O will get us back on track!
We know Barack will
The Haiku Avenger (f68855) — 11/25/2012 @ 2:08 pmFix all of the haters
He’s better than you
never before has
Colonel Haiku (8190f0) — 11/25/2012 @ 2:22 pmso much smoke been blown so far
up many asses
98. 99. 102.
Is this the tweet some people are referring to?
Somebody tell USEmbassy Cairo:
Sammy Finkelman (344836) — 11/25/2012 @ 5:16 pmThst’s a distinction the court could have made, and since it couldn’t explicitly overrule Romer it should have. But it’s not a necessary or even obvious distinction.
Milhouse (ea3f0d) — 11/25/2012 @ 5:23 pmWe are looking at a man who clearly embodies the worst of Harold Stassen and Benedict Arnold.
Assuming there IS an election in 2016, the nation may have by then come to realize the cost of the self-inflicted stupidity of the recent past…
WarEagle82 (97b777) — 11/25/2012 @ 5:36 pmThank goodness we have a distinguished and capable Vice President.
Oh, wait. What was I thinking…
WarEagle82 (97b777) — 11/25/2012 @ 5:38 pmCut the silly talk. It makes you sound like a moonbat. No matter what happens there will be an election in 2016, and a new president on 20-Jan-2017. There is nothing 0bama can do to prevent it, no matter how much he may want to.
Milhouse (ea3f0d) — 11/25/2012 @ 5:49 pmI didn’t see that much focus on Romer, which was bad enough, they seemed to be relying on Hunter (which is more than 30 years old) and Seattle,
narciso (ee31f1) — 11/25/2012 @ 5:52 pmHave you heard the man talk IN PUBLIC about his views on opposition and admiration for authoritarian regimes? Take nothing for granted with these Marxist thugs in power…
WarEagle82 (97b777) — 11/25/2012 @ 5:55 pmNo, actually, but in any case it’s irrelevant. No matter what his views are, there is nothing he can do to extend his term by even a day.
Milhouse (ea3f0d) — 11/25/2012 @ 6:13 pmI’m not familiar with those cases. I brought up Romer because the twisted argument cited from this decision seems similar to the one used in that one. If there are even earlier decisions with similar twisted logic, so much the better for my case, that this decision doesn’t represent a rogue court deliberately nullifying the constitution but rather an unwise court following bad precedents to an even worse place.
Milhouse (ea3f0d) — 11/25/2012 @ 6:17 pmBoth decisions that they rely upon, are frankly ‘blinkered’ like this one here;
http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/getcase.pl?court=us&vol=458&invol=457
narciso (ee31f1) — 11/25/2012 @ 6:35 pmI think they were saying the same thing about “President” Morsi just the other day. Take NOTHING for granted, especially when you ADMIT you aren’t paying attention.
WarEagle82 (97b777) — 11/25/2012 @ 6:37 pmWarEagle wrote:
President Obama’s term ends at noon on January 20, 2017. If no one is inaugurated to replace him, and no one is inaugurated as Vice President on that day, the Speaker of the House automatically becomes President.
Not even the most ardent of the Democrats would stand for President Obama trying to extend his term.
The realistic Dana (f68855) — 11/25/2012 @ 6:51 pmWarEagle, this is the USA, not Egypt. The loyalty of those who count is to the constitution, and to the lawful president whoever that might be, not to Barack 0bama. The moment he is no longer the president, they will not obey his orders.
Milhouse (ea3f0d) — 11/25/2012 @ 7:24 pmIt is obvious enough that someone with no legal training can see it.
Michael Ejercito (2e0217) — 11/25/2012 @ 11:04 pmObama is ONE Supreme Court Justice away from doing anything he wants to do, any time.
You may believe anything you want but take NOTHING for granted.
And don’t believe for an instant that scores of millions of mindless Democrats wouldn’t support Obama in a heartbeat if he did this…
WarEagle82 (97b777) — 11/26/2012 @ 5:51 pmDid what?
Michael Ejercito (2e0217) — 11/26/2012 @ 6:03 pmWhy don’t you go back and read the thread, assuming you can read…
WarEagle82 (97b777) — 11/26/2012 @ 6:30 pmWarEagle, he can read. He just can’t believe you are really floating such absurd nonsense.
SPQR (768505) — 11/26/2012 @ 6:33 pmThe President of the United States now believes he can order the extra-judicial killing of anyone, anywhere, any time. What makes you think he doesn’t think he can do anything else he wants? Come back and see me in 4 years and let’s see what else has happened by then…
WarEagle82 (97b777) — 11/26/2012 @ 7:31 pmOf course it is absurd. That anyone would even risk the shitstorm that would erupt is in itself absurd.
Michael Ejercito (2e0217) — 11/26/2012 @ 7:34 pmthere were scores of extra-judicial killings by Americans on June 6, 1944.
The targeted killings have precedent in the concept of outlawry.
Michael Ejercito (2e0217) — 11/26/2012 @ 7:39 pmNo, there weren’t. You obviously know nothing and eagerly demonstrate your profound ignorance on a regular basis.
WarEagle82 (97b777) — 11/26/2012 @ 7:43 pmWarEagle may be barking up the wrong tree but that doesn’t mean his concerns are entirely groundless.
It’s true that Obama wouldn’t engineer a coup that clearly violated the 22nd Amendment.
It’s also clear that he wishes he could.
But what’s equally clear is that he doesn’t have to to have a third term.
Election Spurred a Move to Codify U.S. Drone Policy
The fact that Obama thought he might lose the 2012 election spurred him and his administration to codify his drone assassination policy. So that Romney, should he have been elected, would have been saddled with Obama’s policies while Obama himself considered himself free to act as he chose.
One might argue that a GOP president would be just as free as Obama to form his own policies.
One would be wrong.
If that were true than it would also be true that getting four Americans in the employ of the USG killed through a combination of incompetence, negligence, and hostility toward historical American interests would be a larger scandal than firing a number of employees in the justice department who serve at the pleasure of the President.
Unfortunately, firing US attorneys remains a larger scandal than what can only be described as reckless disregard leading to murder.
Only one side gets to be “fundamentally transformative.” The other side must follow precedent as established by their liberal betters.
Steve57 (7a880e) — 11/26/2012 @ 8:07 pmSummary executions are the law, when one side violates the Law Of Armed Conflict.
Summary executions are most definitely not “extra-judicial.” In fact, the world could use more of them.
They could also use more reprisals. Again, specifically provided for in the LOAC. The LOAC recognizes that “pretty please” doesn’t work when one side decides it can violate the LOAC with impunity, and it’s only when the leadership recognizes that it will pay the price that it reins in its troops so they don’t target civilians, mingle with civilians, etc.
Steve57 (7a880e) — 11/26/2012 @ 8:11 pmMore on Romer
Michael Ejercito (2e0217) — 11/27/2012 @ 10:09 amNo, Obama will not become a dictator or cancel elections. No, the Supreme Court will not permit that if they get another liberal.
Obama’s next four years will exacerbate the disaster of our economy, and one more liberal jurist on the Court will indeed be a disaster too, but let’s not ruin that message by overwhelming it with a crazy conspiracy theory.
Unfortunately, while Romney would have been a better president, he would not have avoided either disasters. He would have appointed a liberal to the Supreme Court (my guess is based both on his appointment record as Governor and the record of moderate Republican presidents). He would not have balanced the budget.
That’s part of the reason we lost. The GOP did not really try to present a solution to this mess other than noting Obama is making things worse. We offered a less awful alternative when the times called for a principled and honest solution.
Of course the bigger reason we lost is that the moochers want to mooch, but those who are inspired to stop the mooching did not have much of a candidate.
Dustin (73fead) — 11/27/2012 @ 10:42 amOh, and I owe Wareagle an apology for asserting that his caricature of an insane conservative showed he was a moby. I did not have sufficient basis to say that.
Dustin (73fead) — 11/27/2012 @ 10:43 amArticle about the tactics of the Moslem Brotherhood in Egyopt:
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/egypt-at-a-crossroads-after-morsi-grants-himself-sweeping-powers-a-869291.html
Sammy Finkelman (d22d64) — 11/27/2012 @ 11:18 amhttp://hotair.com/archives/2012/11/26/report-morsi-agrees-to-limit-scope-of-power-grab-kinda-sorta/
Sammy Finkelman (d22d64) — 11/27/2012 @ 11:19 amIt is amazing how you can predict the future. We need to PRAY INCESSANTLY for the health of 5 of the Justices. And we need to pray for the spines for two of the especially hard. Roberts has already demonstrated invites to the cocktail circuit in DC are more important that the Constitution.
If something happens to Roberts, Thomas, Alito, Scalia or Kennedy ANYTHING GOES for Obama.
WarEagle82 (97b777) — 11/27/2012 @ 6:50 pmOh, really? Are you nuts?! Or are you just such a pig-ignorant fool that you use the word “extrajudicial” without the slightest clue what it means?
Please explain exactly how you distinguish the thousands (not scores) of extrajudicial killings ordered by FDR on that day from the killings by drone that you seem so exercised about. Because to me they seem exactly the same: valid and perfectly justified acts of war.
Milhouse (15b6fd) — 11/27/2012 @ 10:51 pmUm, excuse me? What bizarre language are you speaking, that so closely resembles English?
Milhouse (15b6fd) — 11/27/2012 @ 10:53 pmYeah, we’re regular Karnaks. Here’s another amazing prediction: the sun will rise tomorrow morning, and every morning for the next four years, and it will not skip a day on 20-Jan-2017. The moon will also rise and set according to its foreordained schedule, and the tides will rise and fall as they have always done. And even if 0bama appoints three more justices, the Court would still reject 9-0 any attempt of his to stay in office even one minute past noon on that day.
Milhouse (15b6fd) — 11/27/2012 @ 11:06 pmIt’s called English. That, plus sanity, prevents me from calling executions that meet the internationally-agreed-to standards “extra-judicial.”
Seriously. If left to my own devices when I capture you disguised in a uniform not your own, your captivity will not be long.
Steve57 (7a880e) — 11/28/2012 @ 7:18 amThank you. You’ll learn I am correct.
I agree that your prayers are well conceived. Unfortunately, Obama will likely be adding a justice to replace a conservative justice. That’s why I was frustrated with conservatives who did not support Mitt Romney in the general election, even though Romney would probably have nominated a Souter type.
We will see the disaster that happens should the court get that additional liberal. This disaster is serious even without Obama becoming president for life (Which indeed I have forseen).
Dustin (73fead) — 11/28/2012 @ 7:24 amVia Hot Air:
MMM kay.
Given that the latest iteration of the excuse given for the administration’s lies about Benghazi is that they wanted to convince the perpetrators that they weren’t after them, then they intended to mislead everyone who heard their statements.
There is no other way to interpret their language. If they, as they say, wanted to lull the perps into a false sense of complacency and then their statements were designed to achieve that goal, then their statements were designed to mislead.
This is going to be interesting. I’m curious to see how any GOP pol is willing to put up with this insult to their intelligence. I can’t state for an absolute fact I’ve been going off about this since the 12th of September, but I’m certain I have been stating with certainty that the administration was lying well before Rice went on 5 Sunday talk shows.
It was a stanky *** lie when they first told it and it hasn’t gotten better with age. You don’t even have to poke holes in it; it comes with holes. It was pre-effin’ drilled with holes.
Yet this is what’s presented as a qualified Secretary of State. A dumb**** who can’t tell her elbow from a hot rock. Plus, PLUS!, any attempts to call her to account for her dumb***ery in the future will be branded as racist.
Yet the McRinos seem to be lining up to sign onto this.
Steve57 (7a880e) — 11/28/2012 @ 8:04 amSenator Ayotte: I’m more troubled today…
Certain minimum standards of sanity seem to be prevailing in some backwaters of the US. If I ever leave Tejas it’ll be so I can vote for this woman in New Hampshire.
Steve57 (7a880e) — 11/28/2012 @ 8:41 amWhat else can you possibly call it? Which court tried and sentenced these people to death?
Milhouse (15b6fd) — 11/28/2012 @ 9:51 amDude,I’m having somewhat of a problem calling what the laws that govern my behavior specifically allow for “extra-judicial.”
Help me out.
Steve57 (7a880e) — 11/29/2012 @ 10:57 amI’m Italian. I will gleefully engage in reprisals. It sounds like “vendetta.”
I’m cool with it.
Steve57 (7a880e) — 11/29/2012 @ 11:07 am