Apparently there is no crisis, no threat to national security -- nothing -- that will stop President Obama from playing golf.
Four American diplomats slaughtered in Benghazi? He played golf. A terrorist attack in Boston that killed four, including a young child? He still played golf. Holy hell reigning down in Egypt? A vacation to Martha’s Vineyard to play lots of golf.
Well, so what? We all know you never let a serious tee time go to waste.
And on Saturday, literally within minutes of announcing he had decided the U.S. should engage in a military strike in Syria and asked Congressional to approve that strike, Obama and Vice President Joe Biden hightailed it out of the Rose Garden to, yes, go play golf.
NBC News’ Carrie Dunn was tweeting on the president’s remarks regarding Syria Saturday afternoon and quoted Obama saying Syria’s chemical attack “is an assault on human dignity. It also presents a serious danger to our national security.”
Not long after, Dunn tweeted:
“They played at nearby Fort Belvoir with regular Obama golfing partner Marvin Nicholson, the White House trip director, and with Nicholson’s brother, Walter Nicholson, rounding out the foursome,” Fox News reported.
On Fox News Sunday, an agitated Chris Wallace asked Sec. of State John Kerry:
“Mr. Secretary, what message are we sending to Iran and Hezbollah and North Korea when the president announces he thinks we should take military action, but he’s going to wait nine days for Congress to come back before he takes any action, and then he goes off and plays a round of golf? What message does that send to the rebels on the ground whose lives are in danger and to our enemies who are watching?”
It wasn’t so long ago when we had a president with enough human dignity and compassion, forget political savvy, to understand that there comes a time when the commander-in-chief must lead, instill confidence, and at least give the impression of caring that people are dying or will die during military action.
You can kiss that kind of thinking, "Adios."Read the rest of it here.
I’m going back over to Bob Mack’s post ‘cause he’s gotObama Goes To Congress-- otherwise entitled Breaking Stupid -- going on over there. Bob pulled a really good quote from the TV series, Breaking Bad. Bathhouse Barry would do well to take the quote under advisement: “Sitting around, smoking marijuana, eating Cheetos and masturbating do not constitute ‘plans.’” -- Walter White / Breaking Bad.
Shall we compare George W. Bush’s track record on national security to that of Down Low Bathhouse Barry’s? Since the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq, the number of terrorist attacks on U.S. soil under the watch of George W. Bush = ZERO Since taking office, the number of terrorist attacks on U.S. soil under the aiding and abetting of Bathhouse Barry = SIX, that I can remember * -- and that’s not even counting American embassies.
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*June 2009 –Little Rock, Arkansas: Abdulhakim Mujahid Muhammad, an American Muslim opened fire on a U.S. military recruiting office. Private William Long was killed and Private Quinton Ezeagwula was wounded.
*September 2009 –New York, New York: Attempt to detonate bombs in NYC subway system by member of al-Qaeda.
*November 2009 –Fort Hood, Texas: Nadal Malik Hassan conducts mass shooting at Fort Hood killing 13 and wounding 30 others.
*December 2009 –Detroit, Michigan: Nigerian Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab attempts to detonate an explosive on an aircraft enroute from Amsterdam to Detroit.
*May 2010 –New York City, New York: New York’s Times Square was evacuated after the discovery of a car bomb.
*April 2013 --Boston Marathon bombing (see above.)
Whatever Down Low Bathhouse Barry wants, Down Low Barry's gonna get.
The only GOP support Chucky was going to get was from Cochran, Shelby and Johanns since they wussed out and announced earlier that they were going to support him. That fourth vote came from Rand Paul. Why?! I had some hope for Rand Paul. Until someone can come up with a REAL GOOD explanation about why he caved, I don't know that I have that much goody-goody feelings for him right now. That's two down and one to go. We've got John 'Commie' Kerry, who is stupid; Chuck 'I've Been Drunk Since 1968' Hagel, who is dangerous and the only other one left is John 'The Stooge for Jihad' Brennan to head the CIA, who is both stupid AND dangerous.
Former U.S. Navy SEAL, (and Unite In Action Director), Benjamin Smith releases an open letter to the President -- calling Obama on the carpet once and for all.
May 7, 2012
President Barack Hussein Obama,
STOP using the Navy SEALS as a campaign ploy, because with all due respect, (what little I have for you), you do NOT speak for me.
We SEALs do not even seek the credit that you claim for yourself. We do the tough jobs that no-one else can, it is hard to do and we never look for any accolades; that is why we, like all the other Special Operations Forces are termed “SILENT Professionals.” And it is certainly NOT in our job description to help your campaign and improve your polling numbers. Your LACK of silence regarding the killing of Osama Bin Laden is all a sham designed to hide a weak un-American man desperate to claim the victories of others for his own re-election.
You Sir are trying to take the credit for what the American People have achieved in killing Bin Laden. Your use of the SEALs’ accomplishment as part of a slanderous campaign ad is nothing less than despicable. I, as a former Navy SEAL do not accept your taking credit for Osama Bin Laden’s death. The American Military accomplished that feat. The American People killed Osama Bin Laden, NOT YOU, President Obama.
Memos from then CIA Director Leon Panetta show that it was not you but rather three star Admiral and former Navy SEAL William McRaven who made the decision to get Bin Laden. But now that it is useful, you Mr. President continue to refer to the event as if it were YOU and you alone -- your great leadership -- which accomplished the worthy task of slaying one of America’s greatest enemies. When you addressed the country your language revealed your egotism -- “I directed”, “I Continued”, “MY Intelligence Community”, “MY national security team”, “I determined that I had enough....”, “My direction....” I, I, I, my, my, my -- words of a narcicist laying claim to a prize that is not his own.
To make matters worse, Retired General Jack Keene recently informed the world that you knew of Osama Bin Laden’s location since 2010, yet you did nothing. Other reliable sources continue to report that not only did you attempt to stop or delay Bin Laden’s demise, you did not even leave the golf course for the situation room until 20 minutes before SEAL Team 6 took out Osama Bin Laden. Even the clothes you wore in the situation room betray this fact. This is a Commander in Chief? A man who takes credit for actions largely taken while he was out golfing?
We men who have taken the military oath say ENOUGH. You do not speak for me, a former Navy SEAL, or any one of the league of men whom I have earned the right to be among. You are simply a man running for an office. Yet you behave as a glory hoarding ruler. You campaign to be our leader, yet in reality you wish to be our Master.
The American people are the ones who got Bin Laden... You did not! We have fought wars and slugged it out with Vast Terror Organizations to get to the man you say YOU killed. The United States of American has won you a title sir and you have spent the last three years trying to beg, borrow and bow it all away. You just happened to be president of the USA when WE THE PEOPLE got Osama Bin Laden. We do not see you as heroic or stoic, we see you as the guy who let America Go -- fat and weak. That is your credit -- you bow to foreign leaders and pander to the press. You do not represent me as a Military Man. You do not represent me as a SEAL. You do not represent me as an AMERICAN!
You do not speak for me or any American military man because though you may now be Commander in Chief, you are not the man to whom we can point our sons and say “This is the American dream, this is American Exceptionalism, this is what I wish for your future”, because you Sir are NONE of these things.
You Sir are the antithesis of American Exceptionalism. Your idols are Saul Alinksi and Karl Marx and your revolutionary dreams and anti-American ideals poison your every policy. Your every action betrays the fact that in your soul you do not understand what it is to be an American, or even know what America truly is. Your agenda from the beginning as been to get rid of and kill everything that is and ever was American. You who so easily dismisses America’s greatness and bows to foreigners... YOU DO NOT SPEAK FOR ME. YOU DO NOT SPEAK FOR THE NAVY SEALS. YOU DO NOT SPEAK FOR THE MILITARY MAN AND you SHALL NOT claim as your prize that which you have not earned. The Navy SEALS are NOT a campaign slogan to be bantered about for play. Nor are our accomplishments, including the demise of Osama Bin Laden, yours to claim -- especially as a narcissistic campaign ad.
Go back from whence you came Sir, for not only do you not speak for me, you do not speak for AMERICA.
("Go back from whence you came Sir,..." From whence nobody has really come up with a good answer, yet.)
Former Navy SEAL Benjamin Smith took an oath to defend our Constitution from enemies both foreign and domestic. That oath has no expiration date.
Yep! A crawl just popped up on my computer announcing Russia's Prime Minister Vladimir's ascension to president. So, now, his placeholder for the past four years can go back to the salt mines from whence he came. And, like, I wouldn't have bet the farm that the (rigged?) voting would have been any different?
Let's keep this in mind:
Vladimir Putin spent 17 years with the Soviet KGB. He didn’t get to where he is today by helping little old ladies across the street. On Putin’s watch, during his KGB days and after, a LOT of people are spending their time in Siberia (if they’re lucky) or have come up dead or missing. Communism in Russia may be history; but the gosbezopasnost (the Kremlin’s political police) has taken over the Kremlin itself, and a gang of over 6,000 former KGB officers are now running the country. I guess you know what that means. During a press interview with President Putin, a reporter referred to his career as an ex KGB agent, Putin laughed and said there is no such a thing as an ex KGB, “Once KGB always KGB.” (Something about that quote rings a bell with me.) There are a WHOLE LOT of ‘Vladimir Putins’ out there. I just use him as an example because there are others that come from different races, different cultures and different countries and they all have one objective in mind -- bootheels on the neck of America. This is life, folks, and only the strong survive. Or, only the strong survive along with the well-heeled... as long as the money holds out. The ONLY thing that I’ve known that ever insured peace was having superior fire-power. Look at the pictures and compare the men (well, at least one of them is a man) and tell me which one is going to win in a hand-to-hand combat situation. Look at the pictures and compare them as if they were America and some other foreign power(s).
The pictures become not so humorous, but scary, huh? It's "our gay... uhh, guy" that's determined to dismantle our nuclear arms and it's "their guy" that's JUST AS DETERMINED to build up THEIR nuclear arms. Look at the pictures and compare them again. Sleep well tonight, America -- Israel is about the only one that has our back.
The Iranians have an American drone they say they shot down. If it was shot down, how come the hell it’s not spread all over the desert? How did it just MAGICALLY land in the desert in one piece and how was it that we just “lost control of it?”
With early knowledge that the aircraft had likely remained intact, the senior U.S. official also told Fox News that President Obama was presented with three separate options for retrieving or destroying the drone. The president ultimately decided not to proceed with any of the plans because it could have been seen as an act of war, the official told Fox News.
One official told Fox News on Thursday that the incident is a huge loss and makes the top-secret helicopter tail lost during the Usama bin Laden raid in Pakistan “look like a pittance.” The official said there are real fears the Iranians will share this technology with the Russians and the Chinese, in addition to using it themselves.
“... there are real fears the Iranians will share this technology with the Russians and the Chinese ...” Riiiight. The Iranians GET their technology FROM the Russians and Chinese! Then, Obimbo opts out of EVERYTHING because he’s afraid that the strike would be seen as an “act of war?” Yeah, well, I think Obimbo “gave” the drone to them -- that way he could act like he has this great love for his country but the whole time he’s openly and actually undermining it. My guess would be that they jammed its radio controls and stole it in THEIR OWN ACT OF WAR. What’s your guess?
Just about the time when I think I’ve heard it all from the Chief Idiot of the United States...
Anything that I could possibly add would be anticlimactic.
The Fort Hood massacre that took place on November 5, 2009 at Fort Hood, the most populous U.S. military installation in the world, located just outside Killeen, Texas, was the worst shooting ever to take place on an American military base. In the course of the shooting, Nidal Malik Hasan, a U.S. Army Major serving as a psychiatrist and a Muslim, killed 13 people, one of whom was pregnant, and wounded 29 others.
Hasan is an American-born Muslim most likely radicalized by other American-born Muslims. Internal Army reports indicate officers within the Army had discussed what they characterized as Hasan’s tendencies toward radical Islam since 2005. Additionally, investigations before and after the shooting discovered e-mail communications between Hasan and Yemen-based cleric Anwar al-Awlaki, who quickly declared Hasan a hero, as “fighting against the U.S. army is an Islamic duty.”
According to U.S. government officials Anwar al-Awlaki was a senior talent recruiter and motivator who was involved with planning operations for the Islamist militant group al-Qaeda. Al-Awlaki was considered to be such a threat that the U.S. deployed unmanned aircraft in Yemen to search for and kill him. He was finally killed in a drone attack in Yemen on September 30, 2011.
Now we learn that the Defense Department has reclassified the Fort Hood massacre as “workplace violence.” We know that Maj. Hassan shouted “Allahu Akbar” (Arabic for “God is Great”) after firing a total of 214 rounds at his fellow soldiers. When the shooting ended, he was still carrying 177 rounds of ammunition in his pockets, contained in both 20- and 30-round magazines.
The act was premeditated. A senior law enforcement official said that a review of Hasan’s computer and his multiple e-mail accounts revealed that he visited websites espousing radical Islamist ideas.
Hank Williams Jr., the voice famous for asking millions of viewers if they’re ready for some football, has been [was] pulled from Monday’s broadcast of “Monday Night Football” over a comment he made on Fox News ...
“While Hank Williams, Jr. is not an ESPN employee, we recognize that he is closely linked to our company through the open to Monday Night Football. We are extremely disappointed with his comments, and as a result we have decided to pull the open from tonight’s telecast.”
I guess, in all reality, ESPN had no choice but to do what they did... I mean, really... can you IMAGINE comparing Obimbo to Hitler?! Who woulda' thought?! I’M WITH YOU, HANK! I hope Attack Watch (the joke of the Internet) has a bead on my site, ‘cause Hank was just tellin’ it like it is! And, by the way, Hitler’s not too happy with Attack Watch, either.
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The next one is for all the bleeding hearts out there. It's from just one of the many Web sites that are getting their panties all in a wad about the killing of al-Awlaki.
America Assassinates its Own People and We Don’t Care
What if al-Awlaki was engaged in his terrorist activities in the United States? Unless he was engaged in the act of murder would we have just blown up his house?
Those accused of treason are still required to be put on trial and either convicted or found non-guilty. That is what should have happened to al-Awlaki if we were able to capture him. We may never have captured him, but we sometimes don’t even capture our own murderers. We even re-elect some to political office. The Constitution places some strict limits on the government before it can declare someone to be a traitor:
“No Person shall be convicted of Treason unless on the Testimony of two Witnesses to the same overt Act, or on Confession in open Court.”
This idea that there are exceptions in the Constitution to what limits are placed on our Federal government is a dangerous, slippery slope.
Where do the assassinations stop? What defines a legal right to murder a U.S. citizen? Who defines that? It seems right now the Obama administration has defined it. But what happens when our country accepts this assassination as one of those Constitutional “exceptions” we must act upon in certain situations? We become no better than the Liberals who are trying to destroy our Constitution. What happens when the definition of legal assassinations becomes more broad?
For a government that couldn’t outlaw alcohol without a Constitutional Amendment, we sure do allow it to do some pretty heinous things all in the name of “national security.” What happens when political opponents are targeted in the name of “national security” and assassinated because they are homegrown terrorists? What if TEA Partiers are labelled as enemy combatants against the United States?
The dangerous precedent this assassination has created is very real.
My attitude? Sorry, Bud, but Mr. Alphabet just gave his life for ‘The Cause.’
All of these “pretty heinous things all in the name of ‘national security’” weren’t brought on by our government. The cowards that hide behind children and women’s skirts (or whatever the hell they wear,) don’t wear a uniform and who call themselves ‘terrorists’ were the scumbags who started all of this. Whether or not you like it, the rules of engagement have changed.
If he had been in New York City (thank you, he wasn’t) we would’ve sent in a SWAT team and ‘probably’ would’ve taken him alive and then we’d have spent about as much as the national debt guaranteeing him his ‘rights.’ It may not be the way the Constitution looks at it, but the way I look at it is, Mr. Alphabet gave up his ‘rights’ as a U.S. citizen when he ran, tried to hide on foreign soil, continued to do his thing with his terrorists buddies and then got himself blown up. HE MADE THAT LIFE CHOICE (thank you, FOR THAT!)
A drone that’s flown by a guy in Las Vegas that drops a guided bomb, or boots on the ground that put a 7.62mm or .50 cal. round through the middle of his beady, little horn-rim glasses -- it makes no difference to me. Mr. Alphabet is dead and I’ve got the ‘right’ to take solice in knowing that there’s one less coward walking the face of this earth.
So, if America is assassinating its own people and we don’t care -- you’re right, I DON’T CARE about the maggots that are in America. Just because they have a U.S. birth certificate (unlike one certain individual's that's STILL in question,) when they cross the line into terrorism, they're NOT our own people as far as I'm concerned.
Hope you’re enjoying your 72 Virgins, al-Awlaki. But, I kinda #@?#ing doubt it.