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The Messi-Uh Press Conference: "Uh, Uh, Uh, Uh, Uh, Uh, Uh, Uh"
Rush Limbaugh, EIB Network.com
RUSH: Grab audio sound bite number 26 first, Mike. I didn't know we'd get to this this early. I asked Cookie to put together a little montage here of all the stuttering around that Obama did in his press conference today and I want you to hear this because -- and we didn't repeat anything here. It goes 46 seconds, and we're doing this because we hear constantly, "What a great orator and a great communicator! Ohhhh, this man is smooth!" Just listen. This is a great illustration here of what happened when you take the teleprompter and your prepared remarks away from the dude.
OBAMA: Uh, uh, are, uh, uh, uh, um. That's -- that's a bunch -- so -- so let me tick these off. Deh. Uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, um, uh. So the issue is not a perception that, uh. Weh, weh, let me put it this way. Uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, We're -- we're trying to -- you know, we've got a bipartisan group here and -- and -- and, uh, uh, uh, uh, um, uh, uh, uh. READ TRANSCRIPT HERE.
Obama's Berlin Moment
James Lewis, American Thinker.com
Obama's Premature Inauguration Syndrome is still giving him trouble, witness the mass Obama rally scheduled for Berlin's SiegessSaeule or Victory Column, to celebrate his penetrating insight in foreign affairs. Google's top listing of this Ueberphallic Prussian monument has to be seen to be believed: It is a favorite Berlin gay newspaper, as you can see. You have to admit those Germans have a sense of humor.
What superficial American tourists never understand, of course, is that just about all those magnificent European monuments stand for historical massacres. Even the big cathedrals symbolize the religious wars of the Reformation, which killed more people than anything before Napoleon and the World Wars. The Arc de Triomphe in Paris commemorates Napoleon's imperial invasions of just about all of Europe (with 41 million dead).
The Prussian Victory Column in Berlin, before it became a gay icon, was a proud celebration of Prussian victory against Napoleon's invasion of Germany, Spain, Russia, the Low Countries, Sweden, and Egypt. It reminds Germans of the Prussian victory over Napoleon at Waterloo (with Lord Wellington playing a minor role), plus the Franco-Prussian War of 1870, and of course World War I. It all adds up to tens of millions of dead people. Read article.
The GQ Statesman
Tony Blankley, RCP.com
Watching Obama glide through his foreign trip so far, nervous Republicans and other patriots have to hope that American voters will not view Obama through the eyes of a Hollywood casting director. That's because one could not cast a man who visually can portray a worldly statesman better. We all must envy his ability to effortlessly drape his tall, imperially slender form in gilded Louis XV chairs in foreign palaces. Mixing just the right combination of worldly bonhomie and serious mien, his presentation (conveniently presented to the world with video but no audio) make, by comparison, Henry Kissinger, FDR and Winston Churchill all look like clumsy provincial oafs.
And he tops it all off with making what looked like a 40-foot 3-pointer in a military basketball court, surrounded by positively disposed American troops. Of course, we don't know how many times he had to try the shot before making it once.
As NBC's veteran foreign correspondent Andrea Mitchell -- in an act of admirable candor -- said Monday: "Let me just say something about the message management.
"He didn't have reporters with him; he didn't have a press pool; he didn't do a press conference while he was on the ground in either Afghanistan or Iraq. What you're seeing is not reporters brought in. You're seeing selected pictures taken by the military, questions by the military, and what some would call fake interviews because they're not interviews from a journalist. So there's a real press issue here. Politically it's smart as can be. But we've not seen a presidential candidate do this, in my recollection, ever before." Read article.
Obama’s Advisors – A Source For Concern
Yoran Ettinger, NewsNet.co.il
Senator Barack Obama, the Democratic presidential candidate, is not a key member of the Senate committees on foreign relations, armed services or intelligence, has not initiated-led any significant legislation and has not devoted himself to national security issues.
He surged into the Senate and the presidential race from the Illinois local-political-social arena. Obama relies on a battery of experienced advisors, who influence/shape his world view and maybe even US policy and US-Israel relations for the next 4-8 years. However, the record of his advisors – most of whom served in the Carter and Clinton Administrations – constitute a source of concern.
For instance, Tony Lake, served as the influential Director of Policy Planning under Secretary Cyrus Vance and President Jimmy Carter. He played a lead role in the policy, which stabbed the Shah of Iran – a most loyal ally of the US in a most critical area to US interests - in his back, catapulted Khomeini to prominence and constituted a tailwind to the Islamic Revolution.
Susan Rice served as John Kerry’s senior foreign policy advisor in his 2004 presidential campaign. She wanted to appoint Jim Baker or Jimmy Carter – the most anti-Israel Secretary of State and President since 1948 - as the Special Emissary to the Arab-Israeli conflict. Rice was an Assistant Secretary of State under Secretary Albright and President Clinton, representing a world view, which blames the West for the predicament of the Third World, identifying Israel with the West and the Arabs with the Third World. Read article.
Obama: Milking His Failures
David Limbaugh, David Limbaugh.com
Isn't it enormously ironic that Barack Obama now finds himself the unintended beneficiary of the Iraq surge that he so vocally -- and wrongly -- opposed?
It seems that Obama's untimely calls for a withdrawal timetable have lingered long enough to have some merit in the eyes of Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki.
Al-Maliki told Der Spiegel, a German magazine, that U.S. troops should withdraw from Iraq "as soon as possible, as far as we are concerned. U.S. presidential candidate Barack Obama talks about 16 months. That, we think, would be the right timeframe for a withdrawal, with the possibility of slight changes."
Assuming al-Maliki said it, and there has been some dispute, it doesn't make Obama right -- even now. But it's hard to imagine al-Maliki would be saying anything helpful to Obama's campaign today if the United States had followed Obama's disgraceful surrender policy instead of implementing the surge in 2007 -- over his strenuous objections.
Obama Democrats have been adamantly opposed to our intervention in Iraq from the beginning, including when they voted for it for political expediency and then later claimed they were duped into it. Read article.
Andrea Mitchell on Obama Trip: 'What Some Would Call Fake Interviews'
Mark Finkelstein, NewsBusters.org
Andrea Mitchell might be a doyenne of the liberal media, but she has her reporter's pride and principles, which have been trampled by the way the Obama campaign has managed the media during the candidate's current trip to Afghanistan and Iraq. Mitchell let loose on this evening's Hardball, speaking of "fake interviews," and decrying that she was unable to report on pertinent aspects of the trip because the media has been excluded and that the video released is unreliable because it's impossible to know what has been edited out.
MITCHELL: Let me just say something about the message management. He didn't have reporters with him, he didn't have a press pool, he didn't do a press conference while he was on the ground in either Afghanistan or Iraq. What you're seeing is not reporters brought in. You're seeing selected pictures taken by the military, questions by the military, and what some would call fake interviews, because they're not interviews from a journalist. So, there's a real press issue here. Politically it's smart as can be. But we've not seen a presidential candidate do this, in my recollection, ever before. Read article.
Mr. Obama in Iraq - Did he really find support for his withdrawal plan?
Editorial, Washington Post.com
The initial media coverage of Barack Obama's visit to Iraq suggested that the Democratic candidate found agreement with his plan to withdraw all U.S. combat forces on a 16-month timetable. So it seems worthwhile to point out that, by Mr. Obama's own account, neither U.S. commanders nor Iraq's principal political leaders actually support his strategy.
Gen. David H. Petraeus, the architect of the dramatic turnaround in U.S. fortunes, "does not want a timetable," Mr. Obama reported with welcome candor during a news conference yesterday. In an interview with ABC, he explained that "there are deep concerns about . . . a timetable that doesn't take into account what [American commanders] anticipate might be some sort of change in conditions."
Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, who has a history of tailoring his public statements for political purposes, made headlines by saying he would support a withdrawal of American forces by 2010. But an Iraqi government statement made clear that Mr. Maliki's timetable would extend at least seven months beyond Mr. Obama's. More significant, it would be "a timetable which Iraqis set" -- not the Washington-imposed schedule that Mr. Obama has in mind. Read article.
The Obamafication of Obamamania: A 50-foot wall of media breaks over Europe.
Denis Boyles, NRO.com
It’s only Wednesday in Europe, but it’s already difficult to put into perspective the cultural significance of the visit starting tomorrow of Barack Obama, with his backup band, the three network anchors, fresh from the Middle East.
It’s huge. Think of Walt Disney arriving in Berlin, with mouse, duck, and dog. The excitement has been building for weeks ahead of the Berlin apparition. The entire continent is ga-ga for Obama, but nobody loves him more than the press, Euro- and otherwise, including the wires, who seem to be writing for each other.
“Europe is about to give Barack Obama one of the grandest of stages for statesmanship,” the Associated Press reported in a dispatch headlined “Obamamania in full flight ahead of tour of Europe.” Here’s a quote at length, since it pretty well says what most of the media here are saying: Read article.
Obama Heads to Europe
Lowell Ponte, NewsMax.com
Asked this week about the political nature of this trip, an Obama senior foreign policy adviser traveling with the candidate told reporters, “When the president of the United States goes and gives a speech, it is not a political speech or a political rally.”
“But [Mr. Obama] is not president of the United States,” a reporter reminded the adviser, unnamed by Politico.com in recounting this incident.
The ancient Greeks had a word for Obama’s attitude — hubris, an overweening pride and arrogance that usually leads to a smackdown from the gods. As an old saying puts it, “Pride goeth before a fall.”
Both Obama and his mainstream media boosters clearly want the Illinois senator to be perceived as presidential, indeed as the virtual president-elect. Read article.
McCain vs. Obama, Substance vs. Emptiness
Col. Bob Pappas, USMC Ret., Gulf1.com
John McCain may not be my favorite person for a variety of reasons which I will not spell out here, but John McCain is a giant of a man compared to his mental, psychological, moral, moron of an opponent. John McCain is a man of integrity, a man of valor, a man of experience, that his eloquent but infantile opponent cannot imagine much less emulate.
Like so many of his ilk, Obama is a gutless, witless, infantile punk unworthy to walk in McCain’s shadow, much less on the same platform. Obama has been given, - repeat given - every opportunity, while the so called, “mainstream” media are doing every thing possible to give him, repeat, give him victory in the forthcoming general election, but it is not to be, and will not be. It will not be because there is a man whose shoes Obama is not worthy to lick and that man is John McCain; and despite the starts and fits of the McCain campaign, Americans will pick a real President not an empty suit.
Obama the Democrat “Messiah” is on a European and Middle East vacation while the nation is in crisis. Obama, a pied piper leading, as it were a mesmerized group of empty headed reporters eager to announce that the trip has made him an expert in foreign, military and national security affairs. If it weren’t so serious it would be comical. In fact, it is comical. Read article.
President-Elect Obama
Editors, NRO.com
When Barack Obama arrives in Europe this week, the senator will be greeted as a president-elect. His election in November is regarded as a mere formality — and in Europe it would be one. Obama’s margin of victory over John McCain in opinion polls is 51 percent in France, 49 percent in Germany, and 30 percent in Britain. What some skeptical European governments call “Obamania” is sweeping the continent.
Two factors largely explain this opinion tsunami: race and George W. Bush.
Taking their cue from America’s Obamaniacs, Europeans see the Illinois senator as a healer bringing absolution for the Republic’s original sin of racism. He shall overcome. But that blinding confidence is as far as the argument goes. How Obama will overcome is largely left unstated. Obama’s election, achieved in part by white votes, would itself mark a defeat for what remains of anti-black racism. But once an attempt is made to take the argument further, doubts set in.
If Obama follows the sort of race-conscious policies he has faithfully supported for the last quarter century — racial preferences and set-asides, now made more burdensome and complex by immigration — then racial divisions will continue and perhaps sharpen. If he is true to the “post-racial” rhetoric of his campaign, however, and seeks healing indirectly by helping the poor lift themselves out of poverty, then he would have better chances of long-term success. Short-term, though, he would invite noisy denunciations of betrayal from the Jacksons and Sharptons of this world. Read article.
The Truth Takes a Beating
Crane Durham, One News Now.com
"Without God there is no virtue because there is no prompting of the conscience."- President Ronald Reagan responding to Daniel Webster’s quote regarding the profound importance of the accountability to God.
The truth takes a beating in the summer of a presidential election. Where else can you have Barack Obama be lauded for moving to the right on abortion, Iraq and faith based organizations while John McCain has to throw his chief economic advisor under the bus for giving an honest assessment of American economic views. Meanwhile you have a supporters of libertarian convert Bob Barr claiming he is the true conservative due to a new found desire for government to stay out of drug use, abortion and marriage; please note that this candidate was once a proud social conservative. Most recently, a famous Reverend talking about making Obama a eunuch because he dared to invoke personal responsibility when referring to a community where seven out of ten children are born out of wedlock. Yes, the truth is certainly taking a beating.
Barack Obama is not turning into a conservative; he is using willing accomplices in the press and his ability to parse language to fool people who do not want to accept that he is a liberal radical from a church that espouses a racist ideology. Read article.
Change? Looks Like More of the Same
Chip McLean, NMJ.us
I haven’t checked to see if their sales are up, but the makers of Dramamine should be experiencing record profits this campaign season. Why, you ask? Simple – the word “change” has been thrown around so much in recent months that it undoubtedly is causing many to buy massive quantities of the anti-nausea medicine.
Indeed, the word “change” has moved well beyond being a simple, hackneyed slogan and has now become the mantra of the day. One could even say that “change” has achieved a religious stature, with its adherents solemnly pronouncing the word, eyes glazing over as they achieve their version of nirvana. Their “savior”, one Barack Hussein Obama, has proclaimed that we need “change” – and he is the anointed one who shall deliver it unto us.
So what “change” would this messiah bring? To his followers, it matters not – as the only thing that matters to them is change itself, even if it is only talking about “change”.
For all his talk of “change”, the only things that seem to change where Obama is concerned are his positions on issues – which seem to be changing daily. Flip-flopping is of course a long-held tradition with poll-driven politicians. Change? Sounds like more of the same to me… Read article.
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The #twittergulag saga continues: @gopfirecracker suspended, others still trapped
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Cory Booker tweets #IStandWithObama; Hashtag hijackers flood the zone
May 21, 2012 11:39 PM
Newark, N.J., Mayor Cory Booker, the Democrat who defended Bain from the Obama campaign's attacks yesterday morning, has been backpedaling more furiously than a clown on a high wire. Tonight, in an effort to mollify his critics on the Left, he posted four tweets that included the hashtag #IStandWithObama. Conservatives immediately took over the #IStandWithObama hashtag to mock President Obama, and within an hour it became a trending topic.
Cory Booker tries to clear up his position on Bain attacks
May 21, 2012 10:25 PM
Cory Booker continued his quest to run screaming away from the apparently too candid comments he made on Meet the Press on Sunday. Despite attempts earlier today to #FreeCoryBooker from those trying to force him to apologize Booker went on the Rachel Maddow show to do everything he could to walk back what he said. Que the mockery.
Obama's 'When you're president' picture spawns hashtag
May 21, 2012 09:59 PM
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Cue #WhenYouArePresident
Obama takes anti-Romney rant to Twitter
May 21, 2012 09:49 PM
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