Obama: Stop Focusing on Bloggers
The cynicism and arrogance is breathtaking, even coming from this chump:
And now that the government has reopened and this threat to our economy is removed, all of us need to stop focusing on the lobbyists, and the bloggers, and the talking heads on radio and the professional activists who profit from conflict, and focus on what the majority of Americans sent us here to do, and that’s grow this economy, create good jobs, strengthen the middle class, educate our kids, lay the foundation for broad-based prosperity and get our fiscal house in order for the long haul. That’s why we’re here. That should be our focus.
If Barack Obama says to stop focusing on bloggers, you know what to do.
Focus more on bloggers.
P.S. If I have to hear one more time about this hypocrite pretending he is more concerned than I am about getting our fiscal house in order? You won’t want to be around when that happens.
Ding.
Patterico (e369c3) — 10/18/2013 @ 8:35 pmFree Speech threatens our nation!
It sure would be great if I could rule by decree!
SPQR (768505) — 10/18/2013 @ 8:39 pmDid the “community organizer” also say “professional activists”? Yes, yes, he did.
nk (dbc370) — 10/18/2013 @ 8:43 pmThe president got his start as a professional activist. Is he saying to ignore people like him? Or is he just saying that tolerance doesn’t apply to bad people.
Kevin M (bf8ad7) — 10/18/2013 @ 8:43 pmMemor mens reputo pariter, Kevin.
nk (dbc370) — 10/18/2013 @ 8:46 pmYeah, and great minds think alike, too!
Kevin M (bf8ad7) — 10/18/2013 @ 8:48 pmBut not always in Latin
Kevin M (bf8ad7) — 10/18/2013 @ 8:49 pmI bet you he’d like to arrest Ted Cruz.
Kevin M (bf8ad7) — 10/18/2013 @ 8:51 pmall that stuff food stamp says should be our focus –
he doesn’t mention health care
and what happened to syria
we were on the precipice of war… was it last tuesday?
i forget
happyfeet (8ce051) — 10/18/2013 @ 8:53 pmMeghan’s coward daddy was juiced for war too
poor demented codger must think Ted Cruz is a Syrian
#theydidsomethingtohisbrain
happyfeet (8ce051) — 10/18/2013 @ 8:54 pmAnd we DO want to grow the economy, cut the deficit and do the other things.
We just feel that sending out swarms of lawyers and bureaucrats with miles and miles of new red tape is not the way to go about it. Nor is adding to the load with whole new administrations and departments to run yet more entitlements when we can’t pay for what we’ve got.
Obama is like a guy who has convinced a majority to solve our energy problems with perpetual-motion machines and magic beans, and does not understand why there’s this group standing aghast, screaming “THIS WON’T WORK!!!1!!” And doing their best to derail this nonsense while we still can.
‘Hoarders and Wreckers’ is next.
Kevin M (bf8ad7) — 10/18/2013 @ 8:59 pmObama is like a guy who has convinced a majority to solve our energy problems with perpetual-motion machines and magic beans,
and actually that’s closer to the truth than I intended.
Kevin M (bf8ad7) — 10/18/2013 @ 9:01 pmProfiting from conflict? Say it isn’t so all ye who wish to never let a crisis go to waste.
He just doesn’t want conflict unless he is in control of it himself.
But this would be beyond belief, if it wasn’t expected:
http://sayanythingblog.com/entry/madison-mayor-domestic-terrorism-over-government-shutdown/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+SayAnything+%28Say+Anything%29
Mayor Soglin at MadCity says the shutdown of government the last few weeks caused more damage to the country than Bill Ayers and the Weathermen did in the 60’s and 70’s,
but Billy was quick to praise the protests in Madison and “Occupy the Capital building”.
You can always tell a leftist 60’s throwback, but you can’t tell ’em much.
MD in Philly (f9371b) — 10/18/2013 @ 9:04 pmObama is a small petulant increasingly smaller person.
JD (181760) — 10/18/2013 @ 9:06 pmIf Barry training pants, tells you to do A. Do B. Obama is emotionally and psychologically damaged goods. He’s as easy to read as Dick and Jane. It’s not intellectual stuff, it’s all ALYNSKY and Obama is a pathetic dysfunctional weasel. Yes, he got elected. So did Ted Kennedy for nearly 50 YEARS. We are fighting the END USERS of Obama’s Marxism. The FREE RIDERS add up to more than the PAYERS. We ALL saw this coming.
Gus (70b624) — 10/18/2013 @ 9:08 pmJD, Obama is a small pathetic wimpish man. WITH POWER.
Gus (70b624) — 10/18/2013 @ 9:09 pmHistory has poured a bucket of reality on him and he’s melting.
htom (412a17) — 10/18/2013 @ 9:10 pmperpetual-motion machines
Some time ago I saw a great one, I think at PowerLine.
We know that if you drop a cat it always lands on its feet,
and if you drop a piece of bread with butter or jelly it lands butter/jelly side down…
so, tie a piece of bread with butter and jelly onto the back of a cat, butter and jelly side up.
When you drop the cat/bread and butter/jelly combo it will just spin in the air as each side tries to hit ground first.
Attach to a generator axle and away you go.
makes more sense than preferring domestic terrorists that bomb buildings to aged WWII vets wanting to visit their memorial.
MD in Philly (f9371b) — 10/18/2013 @ 9:11 pmKevin M. What do fascists do, when they believe that they are above the law??? Obama is a sick puppy.
Gus (70b624) — 10/18/2013 @ 9:11 pmSo, this must be a blog?
AZ Bob (c99389) — 10/18/2013 @ 9:13 pmMD in Philly. Obama is a MARXIST. He has no use for truth nor debate. He is asserting his WILL and AUTHORITY in the MACRO sense. The Washington MALL has NOTHING THAT NEEDS TO BE LOCKED, BARRICADED nor SHUT DOWN. Why are we debating MICRO issues. Obama is a sick freak and a MARXIST. His actions make it obvious. Yet the GOP still thinks that Mister Chamberlain JUST MIGHT GET THROUGH TO HIM and make him REASONABLE.
Gus (70b624) — 10/18/2013 @ 9:14 pmAZ Bob. If this is a blog, you must IGNORE IT. And of course there is NO CHANCE THAT Obama has the NSA, CIA, FBI, DHS, ETC ETC ETC ETC monitoring us. Right?
Gus (70b624) — 10/18/2013 @ 9:15 pmI guess he thinks bloggers are not people who, you know, vote and everything.
I will give him credit, though. He knows how to divide people by making the normal seem strange.
Working hard and providing for your family is now a threat. The middle class is now something dependent on the government for success. Young people need their parents for insurance.
It’s an upside-down world of where right is relative and wrong gets a TV show.
Ag80 (eb6ffa) — 10/18/2013 @ 9:16 pmAg80. It’s a dysfunctional freakish Marxist, with Daddy issues. You and I think there are moral and practical RULES and NORMS. Obama is a worthless pathetic wimp, UNTIL he got POWER. He has no bounds.
Gus (70b624) — 10/18/2013 @ 9:18 pmSt Louis Cardinals 19 time NL Champs, playing for their 12th World Series title.
JD (181760) — 10/18/2013 @ 9:25 pmYou didn’t do that, Barcky.
JD (181760) — 10/18/2013 @ 9:25 pmDoes this apply to bloggers on the left too? How about the activist community organizers? Serious question.
Ratbeach (f5aad4) — 10/18/2013 @ 9:29 pmGive him time, JD. Obama sees himself as a great baseball fan so he’ll figure out a way to take credit for the Cards.
DRJ (a83b8b) — 10/18/2013 @ 9:32 pmratbeach:
Nope. Dog whistles work as well on Rottweilers as well as Corgis.
Ag80 (eb6ffa) — 10/18/2013 @ 9:34 pmI am happy for you and the Cardinals, JD. They are an impressive team. If Boston wins the AL Championship there’ll be a whole lotta red on the World`Series field.
elissa (3961c8) — 10/18/2013 @ 9:46 pmPlease tell me Presient Obama plans to finally pivot towards the economy soon. We could really use a summer of recovery or something……
gahrie (a05ed4) — 10/18/2013 @ 9:47 pmR.I.P. Bum Phillips
Icy (054990) — 10/18/2013 @ 10:17 pmNarcissistic Personality Disorder… the Clown-in-Chief missed his true calling as a comedian. It’s a constant pulling of his thumb out his ass and sticking it in America’s eye.
Worst. President. Ever.
Colonel Haiku (5cd716) — 10/19/2013 @ 3:17 ama lot of dire financial straits and hopelessness out there, which can be laid at his feet. The buck has stopped there and then gone on to line the pockets of his RICO cronies.
Colonel Haiku (5cd716) — 10/19/2013 @ 3:20 amJHMFCA. This turd has hit a nerve.
mg (31009b) — 10/19/2013 @ 4:21 amgritting my teeth in agony.
With the budget war upcoming, will team r even fight?
mg (31009b) — 10/19/2013 @ 4:38 amWith leaders who surrender and conform, team r will lose big.
Deservedly so.
No guts No Glory
But do listen to Chait, Yglesias, Klein, et al, but n’you can’t stop the signal, Mal)
narciso (3fec35) — 10/19/2013 @ 5:32 amWhen the Math Research Center, what was Soglin’s view of it;
Don’t only listen to your fundraisers, appoint them.
http://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavlich/2013/10/18/obamas-dhs-nominee-n1727264
narciso (3fec35) — 10/19/2013 @ 5:37 amThe perpetual motion metaphor is very useful, I think.
I listen regularly to a skeptical podcast, science-based stuff, and they talk a lot about being unbiased observers of science phenomena in order to be aware of and guard against the various biases that humans are prone to. But on occasion, even they fall into error and it’s interesting to see how often their biases and presumptions align with the lefty “reality-based” community.
I don’t hold it against them; after all, they are humans and it’s impossible to entirely eliminate bias.
BUT — they often talk about crazy perpetual-motion schemes, and wonder how they could get investors and buyers involved in such obvious hogwash, since what is being sold violates the laws of physics and is impossible.
But the laws of economics? COMPLETELY MUTABLE, and will conform to one’s hopes and wishes.
Obamacare is a perpetual motion machine in more than one way….
Pious Agnostic (ac89e5) — 10/19/2013 @ 6:11 amHe said much the same thing, before the IRS and NSA
narciso (3fec35) — 10/19/2013 @ 6:47 amscandals came to light.
The Rs won folks. Boehner even got a standing ovation. Do they give standing ovations to losers?
Who’s spinning harder, Rs claiming Boehner is a good leader or Ds claiming that Obama wants to tackle social security solvency, long term debt issues or ANYTHING difficult? He’s in three fantasy football leagues and his lead running back is out for the season across all three teams, folks, so give the man a break.
And I denounce myself for coming to a blog after being instructed not to. And I pre-denounce my intention to record Fox News Sunday tomorrow. I’m assuming Obama is okay with my recording Fareed’s show, though he may not approve of the way I cull the 5-25 minutes of worthwhile content from it.
East Bay Jay (a5dac7) — 10/19/2013 @ 6:51 amWell we don’t really take either seriously, ‘friends don’t let friends’ watch Fareed Zakaria.
narciso (3fec35) — 10/19/2013 @ 6:55 amI skim Fareed’s show because he’s intellectual (a truth seeker, like our host, but coming from a more naive place) and he’s more open minded than most of the mix of liberal and partisan Democrats across all but FNC. Some weeks there’s nothing in the show at all worth watching (last week for one but the previous week was okay) but it’s about the only place I ever see a Brett Stephens or Amity Shlaes directly address someone like Paul Krugnuts (though no longer, alas it seems that Paulie doesn’t like the heat and, therefore, the last few times he has been on it has been one on one with Fareed……Fareed asks the right questions but he never follows up on obvious dumbassery).
The fall of Keynesian Economics starts with guys like Fareed, who can see with his own eyes that it’s not working. He’s still susceptible to the complex explanations (Bush, Bush, and, of course, Bush) but he’s slipping.
East Bay Jay (a5dac7) — 10/19/2013 @ 7:13 amAnd I know this isn’t a ‘homer’ blog. Unless ‘home’ is a place of ideas and not politicians or ‘teams’.
East Bay Jay (a5dac7) — 10/19/2013 @ 7:14 amAnd didn’t mean to imply otherwise. Sorry about that.
East Bay Jay (a5dac7) — 10/19/2013 @ 7:15 amBut on occasion, even they fall into error and it’s interesting to see how often their biases and presumptions align with the lefty “reality-based” community.
That phenomenon is both horribly fascinating and extremely regrettable to me — and is similar to observing a major car crash on the side of the road — and is backed up by various recent surveys I’ve seen done by the Gallup Poll. Simply put, I now detect major symptoms of the US (via the sentiments of a good cross section of its populace) having caught a big dose of Euro-sclerosis and Mexico-itis, with a side infection of Greece-otosis and Argentina Disease. Yea, that’s said in a jocular manner but I mean it quite seriously.
Why the human nature of so many Americans has switched or flip flopped so severely over the past 10 years in particular and the past 20 or 30 years in general — and certainly past 60 years overall — is something that only historians and sociologists (who preferably aren’t biased by “lefty” emotions) might have predicted or will better understand.
The road up ahead likely will be very, very bumpy, and a map to what we possibly (probably?) face in upcoming decades can be found in the continent or nations alluded to above.
Mark (58ea35) — 10/19/2013 @ 7:34 amATM machines and bloggers—the downfall of civilization!
Amalgamated Cliff Divers, Local 157 (f7d5ba) — 10/19/2013 @ 8:16 amO/T….A link for Dana
askeptic (2bb434) — 10/19/2013 @ 8:21 amWorst. President. Ever.
Comment by Colonel Haiku (5cd716) — 10/19/2013 @ 3:17 am
All predicted by many who comment here, in 2008!
askeptic (2bb434) — 10/19/2013 @ 8:24 amaskeptic, he’s been worse than I guessed.
SPQR (768505) — 10/19/2013 @ 8:42 amThank you, askeptic. I’ve been out of pocket for so long, I’ve missed very important matters such as this. Also, this made me laugh,Like Mr. Andrew, Mr. Osorio is intent on making his shoes as comfortable as four-inch stilettos can be. “ How thoughtful!
Dana (6178d5) — 10/19/2013 @ 8:50 amHere is the commentary by Rush on those pesky bloggers:
Sounds about right.
Dana (6178d5) — 10/19/2013 @ 9:03 amComment by Dana (6178d5) — 10/19/2013 @ 8:50 am
Thank You, for that Dana.
askeptic (2bb434) — 10/19/2013 @ 9:17 amI saw the headline at wsj.com and immediately thought of you….but I would never actually read it, as I find most of what the designers are attempting to put on the feet of women these days just butt-ugly (no disrespect meant to butts).
I think we’ve arrived at the point where the obamacare fiasco is so blatant that dumping your employees onto it is a negligent and malicious act for which you should be sued
happyfeet (8ce051) — 10/19/2013 @ 9:18 amThat his number one objective is not to be friends with his enemies and celebrate, not to put his arms around people and have a beer. His objective is to wipe his enemies out, to eliminate them, to get them off the playing field.
Which explains his affinity towards Billy Ayers, who wanted to institute a series of “re-education camps” for Americans who refused to “get the message”.
askeptic (2bb434) — 10/19/2013 @ 9:19 amAll predicted by many who comment here, in 2008!
When he entered office, I had hope that it would work out. He had an impressive economic team (not the Geithners and such, but the Volkers and such) behind him and really things didn’t look like they could get much worse.
His poll numbers were +30. EVERYONE wanted him to succeed. HOPE indeed.
Then he started talking about transformations and creative destruction and how government needed to grow. He told the loyal opposition to go F OFF, “We Won!” HE ignored the economy almost entirely to push his still-horrid medical reform. Which he did over the unanimous objection of Republicans (and no few Democrats), they when he lost his filibuster-proof Senate he rammed the bill through by fudging the rules.
In two years he went from +30 to -20. And to hear him tell it, it’s all our fault.
Won’t be fooled again.
Kevin M (bf8ad7) — 10/19/2013 @ 9:20 am*
Kevin M (bf8ad7) — 10/19/2013 @ 9:21 amtheythenFor the next few months the Republicans should be repeating this refrain:
“The President shut the government down to avoid delaying Obamacare, when it was clear it wasn’t ready.”
This will make it awkward for Obama to delay it, perhaps more awkward than not delaying it. The object, of course, is to make this trainwreck the issue in the Senate elections.
Kevin M (bf8ad7) — 10/19/2013 @ 9:27 am“Why the human nature of so many Americans has switched or flip flopped so severely over the past 10 years in particular and the past 20 or 30 years in general — and certainly past 60 years overall — is something that only historians and sociologists (who preferably aren’t biased by “lefty” emotions) might have predicted or will better understand.”
We have a new generation. Our educational system has left them without logical thinking or much knowledge about geography or math or economics.
These are not the same people who saw where we were headed and elected Reagan. Several of them are my children and are lawyers who I can’t talk to about any of this. My only consolation is that they are responsible for what will happen. Too bad for their kids and my grand children.
I sent all my five kids, except for the oldest, to private school It didn’t help. They absorb this crap by osmosis from facebook and their ill educated friends.
MikeK (dc6ffe) — 10/19/2013 @ 9:29 amI blame it on the feeding of estrogen to meat animals.
nk (dbc370) — 10/19/2013 @ 9:39 amYes, askeptic, many of us did. Look, all of this talk of how Obama reached out early in his first term but was repeatedly rebuffed by Republicans on every front is a load of horses*hit. It was his and the Democrats’ way or the highway.
That’s been the hallmark of his presidency… say one thing, do the opposite, because he banks on a compliant media and a sleepwalking fan base that is constantly on the prowl for the next gimme…
Colonel Haiku (0eb70c) — 10/19/2013 @ 9:44 amBTW, I suspect that folks here might like Dan Simmons’ Flashback, a novel set explicitly in the ruins of Obama’s legacy. Dan Simmons has won a couple Hugos, so he’s no hack; he just doesn’t much care for the President or his policies.
Note the skewed ratings. Mostly 5’s and 1’s.
Kevin M (bf8ad7) — 10/19/2013 @ 9:59 amGood read from Hinderaker…
http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2013/10/barack-obamas-era-of-hopelessness.php?tsize=large
Colonel Haiku (0eb70c) — 10/19/2013 @ 10:26 amThen there’s this Congressman calling the Tea Party seditious.
Kevin M (bf8ad7) — 10/19/2013 @ 10:55 amI sent all my five kids, except for the oldest, to private school It didn’t help. They absorb this crap by osmosis from facebook and their ill educated friends.
What’s interesting to me is that even in this age of modern communication, when getting information and feedback is easier than ever before — and a thousand times easier than it was back during the last great period of economic anomie (ie, the 1930s, early 1940s) — that an extremist like Obama and his ilk still are hoodwinking a large percentage of the American public. That a sappy desire to give a lot of benefit of the doubt to corrupt liberals is no less easy today as it was back when people still relied on the US mail, newsprint, the radio and TV (or not even the latter).
That’s why I think — regrettably — that there’s an intrinsic aspect of human nature that makes people very gullible to the siren song of left-leaning attitudes and biases, regardless of reality, regardless of time and place. From that will be our undoing.
Mark (58ea35) — 10/19/2013 @ 11:36 amWe talk about the LIV – Low Information Voter.
askeptic (2bb434) — 10/19/2013 @ 12:13 pmI think whoever created that term was just being polite.
LIV realistically stands for Low Intelligence Voter, because their performance at the polls could be replaced by a brick (but enough about Barbara – don’t call me Mam – Boxer.
Colonel, the one thing His Excellency did in his first year that stands out for me was that big meeting that he invited Paul Ryan to, and then insulted him from the dais by reminding him that he didn’t want or need his input, because “I Won!”
JD immediately picked up on that giving us the nickname: Teh Won!
askeptic (2bb434) — 10/19/2013 @ 12:15 pmYes, indeed. I also remember the worried look on Obama’s face when Paul Ryan schooled him on free market capitalism and how our economy works.
Colonel Haiku (0eb70c) — 10/19/2013 @ 12:29 pmKeep in mind, with the Alinskyites, there must always be a public enemy to zero in on and to distract our attention.
This is also a poker-tell that our beloved Messiah Barack is not only the Original Gangsta President, but he’s got incredibly thin skin.
How many times have we heard him whining about Fox News, Rush Limbaugh, talk radio, blah, blah, blah.
The man simply cannot take a proverbial punch. He has a glass jaw.
He is inherently the most powerful man in the world by virtue of being President. But despite all his Alinskyite swagger, he is essentially still the hurt little boy who was cast away by his parents.
Elephant Stone (6a6f37) — 10/19/2013 @ 1:19 pmAh, Steve ‘Jesus was a community organizer’ Cohen,
narciso (3fec35) — 10/19/2013 @ 1:24 pmthe one with the coed, who apparently was his daughter or something.
That’s why I think — regrettably — that there’s an intrinsic aspect of human nature that makes people very gullible to the siren song of left-leaning attitudes and biases, regardless of reality, regardless of time and place. From that will be our undoing.
Comment by Mark (58ea35) — 10/19/2013 @ 11:36 am
I think it is theological. Some left-leaning thinking starts out simply by wanting to be kind and compassionate; but instead of accepting the reality that is and being of direct help to the one in need, there is this desire that has a bit of rebellion against “the created order”, an arrogance that thinks the world can be changed so that “the problem” can be solved.
MD in Philly (f9371b) — 10/19/2013 @ 5:05 pmThe original temptation and sin was to be like God. People are still tempted to be like God and think they can rule the world better than He can. Instead of being content to do what one actually can do (but at personal cost), we prefer some scheme that makes everything better, but leaves us getting the credit without doing the work.
God changes people from the inside out, Government imposes its will by blunt force from the outside in, eating out your soul.
askeptic (2bb434) — 10/19/2013 @ 5:25 pm33. Comment by Colonel Haiku (5cd716) — 10/19/2013 @ 3:17 am
I don’t think so, but he’s the running for the…
Most. Partisan. President. Ever.
At least when it comes to arguments and speeches. Truman was pretty partisan, but only around elections.
Sammy Finkelman (ebcaa1) — 10/19/2013 @ 6:01 pmIt’s not a coincidence that he lavishes praise upon Sullivan who sprays contempt not only on the Huntress but on the state of Israel, that he along with every major Democrat of note, has a diary at the Venomous Kos site, that another blogger, which has been dubbed ‘Chaitred’ for his open endorsement of hatred for W, finds favor, not to mention Hamas partisan Yglesias.
narciso (3fec35) — 10/19/2013 @ 6:11 pm“Explanation” for closing the mall:
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/oct/16/park-service-director-blames-threat-terrorism-clos/?page=all#pagebreak
He said he had given instructions for all monuments in the capital to allow people in for First Amendment activities and said his rangers and police were told not to question visitors about their activities — which should have meant, says the article, that the parks were open, period, to any groups.
He said they had closed everything Oct 1 and then decided what they could open.
Sammy Finkelman (ebcaa1) — 10/19/2013 @ 6:25 pmOh dear Allah. Sammy is the anti- Occam.
JD (5c1832) — 10/19/2013 @ 6:47 pmthe anti- Occam
You should copyright that.
MD in Philly (f9371b) — 10/19/2013 @ 6:49 pmI think this is absolutely true.
From Newsbusters: Author Gay Talese, a man the media elite calls a “legend,” worked as a New York Times reporter in the Sixties and then wrote a book about the paper called The Kingdom and The Power, which Fox News president Roger Ailes has called one of the five best books about the news business:
Dana (6178d5) — 10/19/2013 @ 6:51 pm76. Comment by JD (5c1832) — 10/19/2013 @ 6:47 pm
Oh dear Allah. Sammy is the anti- Occam
A 4-year old reaons with Occam’s Razor.
And is often wrong.
Obama uses Occam’s Razor as a weapon aaginst the Republican party.
All you need is limited information.
Sammy Finkelman (ebcaa1) — 10/19/2013 @ 6:53 pmHm… further:
newsbusters.org/blogs/tim-graham/2013/10/18/washington-bureau-ny-times-wimpy-place-too-soft-obama-disaster-says-auth
Dana (6178d5) — 10/19/2013 @ 6:53 pmI think the intelligence information given to the National Parks Service actually existed, but something was very wrong with it. It’s easy to write.
Especially since the CIA laid off lots of people.
Sammy Finkelman (ebcaa1) — 10/19/2013 @ 6:56 pmWell let’s leave out the fact, that he did vote for Obama, or that Halberstam got Vietnam fundamentally wrong, re what Moyar has uncovered, but it is striking that as with James Goodale, there isn’t enough of a reaction
narciso (3fec35) — 10/19/2013 @ 6:57 pmBy the way – important nes. Saudi Arabia not only suddenly cancelled its General Assembly speech back around september 30 – they turned down a seat on the Security Council this week after being elected to it ad after Saudi diplomats had celeberated.
First time ever a country hasd turned down Security Council seat after having been elected to it.
There must be some dispute in Saudi Arabia about what foreign policy positions to take.
Officiallk, this is some kind of protest about the UN is doing about Syria, maybe Iran.
Unofficially, maybe some people in Saudi Arabia want wuiet diplomacy – that is telling different cinutries different things.
Most likely, this is an unresolved power struggle. If this had been a considered decision, Saudi Arabia could have just told the United states and other counntries it as not interested in a Security Council seat.
This has surelky got something to do with a greater role for Prince Bandar in the last year and a half.
Sammy Finkelman (ebcaa1) — 10/19/2013 @ 7:04 pmOccam’s Strap.
Kevin M (bf8ad7) — 10/19/2013 @ 7:19 pmYou see what they did;
http://legalinsurrection.com/2013/10/anatomy-of-how-a-racism-lie-spread-half-way-around-the-world/#comments
I’m rather disappointed, that Megyn Kelly fell for it.
narciso (3fec35) — 10/19/2013 @ 8:06 pmthis idea that *our* propaganda sluts are different doesn’t ring true to me anymore
happyfeet (8ce051) — 10/19/2013 @ 8:21 pm==I think the intelligence information given to the National Parks Service actually existed, but something was very wrong with it. It’s easy to write. Especially since the CIA laid off lots of people.==
Or–my alternate theory about this for your consideration is that the White House and the NPS bureaucracy are staffed with power hungry partisan vindictive cretins.
elissa (3961c8) — 10/19/2013 @ 8:35 pmSum up Ibama without using any words I can!
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Ah, Steve ‘Jesus was a community organizer’ Cohen,
the one with the coed, who apparently was his daughter or something.
Comment by narciso (3fec35) — 10/19/2013 @ 1:24 pm
Jesus a community organizer, He was not! Son of GOD He was and is! When nailed to the Cross, was there I was, or better said, my sins were there!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7KXQEgC5Lc
Yoda (c1890a) — 10/19/2013 @ 10:15 pm“…and get our fiscal house in order for the long haul.”
Haw haw haw.
All talk.
Blacque Jacques Shellacque (425cbf) — 10/19/2013 @ 11:28 pmOf course, it’s an outrage, Yoda, but that was the line they used to affirm Obama, and deride the Huntress, who was compared to Pilate
http://www.americanthinker.com/2013/10/conventional_unwisdom.html
narciso (3fec35) — 10/20/2013 @ 6:30 amWorst. President. Ever.
33. Comment by Colonel Haiku (5cd716) — 10/19/2013 @ 3:17 am
I don’t think so, but he’s the running for the…
Most. Partisan. President. Ever.
Comment by Sammy Finkelman
Combining that with your previous downplaying of the intrinsic ultra-liberal bent of Obama, if there was any doubt that you emotionally and attitudinally lean left, it’s now totally smashed to smithereens with that one posting, Sammy.
Mark (58ea35) — 10/20/2013 @ 6:32 amUmmm… which of those things has he done ANYTHING to promote?
Smock Puppet, Gadfy, Racist-Sexist Thug, and Bon Vivant All In One Package (fc9290) — 10/20/2013 @ 9:39 amOf course, it’s an outrage, Yoda, but that was the line they used to affirm Obama, and deride the Huntress, who was compared to Pilate
Comment by narciso (3fec35) — 10/20/2013 @ 6:30 am
Know that I do! Yoda’s outrage was not aimed at you! Misunderstanding, sorry for I am! Outrage aimed at those who made the original statement it is! ‘Specially for those that denigrate Him and his followers all of the time they do!
Yoda (ee1de0) — 10/21/2013 @ 8:42 pmLiberals think that sedition is the same thing as blasphemy, you Obamacare denier you.
Steve57 (022c57) — 10/21/2013 @ 9:05 pm