The American Spectator

Louis Jenkins| 5.7.10 @ 8:58AM

Once more the Pretender n Chief sallies forth to fight the bad guys. Netanyahu must have been quivering in his boots, and the Iranian Revolutionary Guards must have been shaking too. (All over the building of a few houses in Jerusalem.) Obama must have been soooo angry. None-the-less, Netanyahu steers the course here. Get used to the sand Obama.

Jack Kinch(1uncle)| 5.7.10 @ 3:34PM

If it was time for the Jews to return to Israel
God will be there-perhaps not here. Pray or prey?

Tenn Slim| 5.7.10 @ 9:33AM

Opine
bt
Sophistry vs Rhetoric. OBNA is great on sophistry talks, with little or no substance.
Aesopian language, sophistry depth.
Amen.
We MUST Prevail
Semper Fi
end

GOLDEN OLDIE| 5.7.10 @ 10:20AM

THERE IS NONE SO BLIND AS HE WHO WILL NOT SEE

davelnaf| 5.7.10 @ 10:46AM

Part of the explanation why a person as unrealistic and as ideologically hidebound as Obama would want to become the leader of the most powerful country in the world must come from the pleasure he would derive from thwarting its power and keeping all its warmongers in the Pentagon and others scattered around Washington in their cages. Saying that Obama does not enjoy being the spoiler-in-chief is like saying he did not understand that once sworn in he would be the military’s commander-in-chief. In the same way ‘supporting’ allies like Israel was something Obama intended to redefine in ways that would uniquely suit his ideological worldview. Of course, Obama’s outreach to the world’s thug regimes has predictably fallen on its face; but the Bamster will pick himself up and continue playing the game his way. What do you expect from a president who would go ahead with multi-party talks with North Korea after they sank that South Korean frigate?

podbaydoors| 5.7.10 @ 12:34PM

In their homes the people wait and watch the plasma screens.
The mindless sitcoms mask the troubles better left unseen.
While outside in the city, the restless future pounds the door.
Sirens wailing, systems failing, nations arm for war.
So when the earth won’t turn and your love runs red,
We’ll let the planet burn. Remember what we said;
Let the planet burn.
Candles in the storm.

We got Bush and we got Obama, we bailed out Goldman too.
This ain’t funny; this is folly, the cannon points at you.
With freedom disappearing, you know what you must do;
Congress serves its interests and change begins with you.
So when the earth won’t turn and your love runs red,
We’ll let the planet burn. Remember what we said;
Let the planet burn.
Candles in the storm.

Jon B| 5.7.10 @ 2:01PM

"According to several senior officers and civilian Pentagon officials who would speak about their incoming leader only on the condition of anonymity, is the expectation of renewed respect for the chain of command and greater realism about U.S. military goals and capabilities, which many found lacking during the Bush years.

"Open and serious debate versus ideological certitude will be a great relief to the military leaders," said retired Maj. Gen. William L. Nash of the Council on Foreign Relations. Senior officers say they were told not to voice misgivings about the Iraq war by the Bush White House or the Pentagon under Donald Rumsfeld.

"The joke was that when you leave a meeting, everybody is supposed to drink the Kool-Aid," Nash said. "In the Bush administration, you had to drink the Kool-Aid before you go to the meeting."

There's no better way to lose a war than to have your on-the-ground decisions be forced through an ideological prism. And it was obvious even to outsiders that this was how Bush was conducting the Iraq war; indeed, it was the decisive factor behind the very decision to invade in the first place. "

Nick| 5.7.10 @ 2:05PM

Pay no attention to Jon B, folks.

He peddles lies and marxist propaganda. Oops! Redundant.

Like the lie that President Reagan gave the Soviets $425 billion.
After 3 days of trying to belittle those of us who called him out on his lie, he finally admitted his fabrication.
Although, he then claimed it was a mistake That it was actually $425 million, but he offered no source. Just his deeply flawed memories.

He also doesn't know that, in America, we refer to it as the Supreme Court Of The United States (SCOTUS), not US SC, or United States' Supreme Court.

What a moron.

Jon B| 5.7.10 @ 2:39PM

I rarely listen to people like you who support baby killers, Nick. But I'll make an exception for today only. Fill your gut to the top. lets see what you've got besides emotions.

Nick| 5.7.10 @ 2:45PM

Where's that source, Jon Boy?

You promised it months ago.
Oh...that's right....you're a liar. I forgot. Dope.

purpleguy| 5.7.10 @ 9:37PM

True to form, folks, Nick never says anything of substance. He engages in name-calling and innuendo to cover his inept attempt at social intercourse. His "don't pay attention to" mantra obviously doesn't work, and it's he that is not paid attention to. But pity poor Nicky and his 12-year old mind. Better watch those airport scanners Nicky, they will show your REAL secret.... Have a nice day!

Liberal Reader| 5.7.10 @ 11:22PM

I used to feel the same way about Nick but after receiving help I realize he makes a ton of sense and frankly always knows guys like purpleguy for what they are. Purpleguy needs to seek help now before he becomes just a bunch of fascist talking points.

Purpleguy| 5.8.10 @ 12:10AM

Fascist or Communist, can't you people make up your mind? But, of course, you all are red-blooded Americans who no one should dare question about patriotism, ethics, and morals. Have you read some of the rotten stuff on this site that is written in defense of Conservatism?

Liberal Reader| 5.8.10 @ 6:33AM

One of the things that I learned at troll rehab was that fascists and communists are not that different. Il Duce (a guy a lot like Obama) was a Marxist first. He left that by making some small changes to his economic thinking. He had a little different angle on economics. Unlike most Marxists he realized he wasn't capable of running anything except managing bribes and kickbacks. He let corporations run the businesses while shaking them down in a major way. Like American Democrats there were all sorts of promises to the little people but there was never much shown for all the promises. Like American Democrats the little people suffered while the politicians lived high off the hog. This gives fascists and Democrats more in common with a crime syndicate than a political party. Roosevelt was so impressed with this "new" way he sent some of his underlings to study it. This of course is what modern progressives in America and Europe do. They are corporatist like Il Duce. In the end the little people killed Il Duce. You really need help. You can't continue this way. You are supporting an incompetent con man. I can get you the name of a good troll rehab if you are interested.

Franklin| 5.8.10 @ 9:59AM

While true that Mussolini studied Socialism in the early 1900's, he rejected it for Fascism, which is closer to Conservatism.

"Conservative influences became a strong factor in Fascism in Italy in spite of differences with other more revolutionary factions of the Italian Fascists.[107] Conservatism in Italy was less of an organized political movement like other ideologies, but involved common social traditions such as the emphasis of family, landownership, and faith in religion.[108] The influence of conservatives in Italian Fascism rose in prominence in 1921, when the National Fascist Party made major alterations to its political agenda, abandoning its previous populism, republicanism, and anticlericalism resulting in the Italian Fascists adopting policies in support of free enterprise, and acceptance of the Roman Catholic Church and the monarchy as institutions in Italy.[107] Fascism adopted policies to appeal to Italian conservatives such promoting family values, including promotion of a woman's role as a mother; Roman Catholicism; and opposition to populism.[109] Conservative nationalism in particular was an important ideological influence upon fascism. Italian Fascism was influenced by conservative nationalist Enrico Corradini, writer of the prominent nationalist newspaper Il Regno and one of the founders and key members of the Italian Nationalist Association.[110]

You have a warped view of history, man. Mussolini, and Hitler to follow, were good to their people, and they truly loved them... until they took the War thing too far. In fact, while they were winning the War, the people were with them. It was only after the War was being lost that the tide turned on both of them. Italy was first, Hitler next, but their own countrymen tried to kill them. Mussolini was killed, Hitler was luckier, and was not by his own people. Fascists hate Communists, Fascism is far right, like Conservativism, and Monarchism, while Communism is far left, like Socialism and Democracy. Why do you think Republicans always follow a Strong Leader (Der Fuehrer) ? They are Authoritarian and Hierarchical in nature, not like the disorganized free-for-all Progressive, Liberal Democrats.

Liberal Reader| 5.8.10 @ 11:37AM

Fascists and communists fight over the same turf so they hate each other. They have stupid followers who can't see that the corporatism of modern Europe and their hopes for America are just like the corporatism of Hitler and Il Duce. With regards to Der Fuhrer type leaders it has been fun watching the "one we have been waiting for" and his faithful legions. Anybody who disagrees is called a racist. Their brown shirts commit acts of violence while the one is accusing the tea partiers of being violent. Franklin needs to check out his mirror. I don't think the mustaches is working for him.

Lullaby's, Legends and Lies| 5.8.10 @ 1:58PM

Is that really you Lib-R? Your almost making sense today (are you off your Meds again?)!! If somebody's is holding a gun to your head, and making you type these things, just type the @ symbol three times in a row, and I'll call the Internet Police for you. If you had a personal epiphany last night, and woke up on the right side of the bed, well good for you. If you're being a wiseass, well then choke on it!!

George F| 5.9.10 @ 4:46PM

Franklin, you obviously do not understand what fascism is so I have provided you with a definition from Encarta that show fascism has absolutely nothing to do with what the right in this country believes.

You are simply name calling.

fas·cist (plural fas·cists) or Fas·cist
supporter of fascism: somebody who supports or advocates a system of government characterized by dictatorship, centralized control of private enterprise, repression of all opposition, and extreme nationalism

Encarta® World English Dictionary © & (P) 1999,2000 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. Developed for Microsoft by Bloomsbury Publishing Plc.

It sounds more like what the left believes doesn't it.

Nick| 5.8.10 @ 1:13AM

Pay no attention to PurpleJackass folks.

He doesn't even know that Virginia governors don't run for re-election because they can only serve one term, then have to wait 4 years to run again.

He also likes to berate others for spelling "hypocrisy" wrong, and in the same post he wrote "hypocrit", like a moron.

He is not worthy of debate with grown-ups.

Eric(OfConservativeMind)| 5.8.10 @ 3:51AM

Regardless of the name calling, I think Jon deserves to be browbeaten if he doesn't provide the direct source of his quotations. I found it here:
http://crooksandliars.com/davi.....-epic-fail

Considering that I hadn't become politically aware until the end of Bush's second term, I missed out on some Bush-bashing. But seriously folks, you're beating a dead horse IMHO. Bush was never a great president(excepting perhaps some efforts at national security), and he was elected over Gore and Kerry because he was the lesser of two evils both times. I hope never to see such a flawed corporatist/globalist Republican run for office ever again.

Obama's following in his footsteps very well, and continues our ascendancy(or is it a descendant path?) into greater Statism. Isn't life grand?

sub| 5.9.10 @ 8:34AM

Anyone that defends Obama, at this point, is a partisan lemming. Just like the folks that defended Bush after he became clear. Neither one of these men have any business near 1600 Pennsy; for different reasons of course.

In the next 20 years this country will complete its descent, no longer to be the world leader in anything but bad pop culture. Entitlement, lack of discipline, lack of excellence at the core.....

JmsA| 5.9.10 @ 2:49AM

The Council of Foreign Relations! Wow! What a source. Would that be the same CFR that JKF referred to as the New York Establishment, including the Rockefeller, Ford and Carnegie foundations and its organs, the New York Times and Foreign Affairs? The same CFR that proclaimed Fidel Castro a non-Marxist, and instead a populist nationalist? Yeah, the very same ones, the biggest bunch of fools there ever was, who argued that Ho Chi Minh's motives in Viet Nam were only nationalistic and not Marxist/Leninist. Is that the same CFR that believed and convinced President Lyndon B. Johnson, Ho Chi Minh could be made to change his mind and not follow the Marxist line? The same one that convinced Jimmy Carter to take in the Shah of Iran after abandoning him, precipitating the hostage crisis? They along with the Federal Reserve and State Department, have done more harm to this country than anyone else. Why not include the U.N. and the E.U. while you're at it?

Bush took out Saddam Hussein and removed the minority Sunnis from power, only to have them go underground and insurgent in league with Al Qaeda, who, through the valor, skill and sacrifice of our military, as well as Bush's steadfast conviction--were soundly defeated.

Bush was far from perfect, but at least he kept two phony morons out of the white house, did away with two dictatorships, and contrary to the maliciously ignorant and/or mendacious rants by some, grew the economy for 4-1/2 years despite, not because of the democrats. Pray tell, who's been running show since 2006, if not the democrats after taking took over the House of Representatives in 2006, and the Senate and White House in 2008? How's all the Hopey Changey and Yes We Can bs working out? The same democrats who kept on telling everyone (see Barney Frank), though many, including republicans continued to warm of the oncoming disaster--that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were doing just fine as they created the derivatives from fraudulent mortgage loans, later packaged and sold by Wall Street, whose contributions to the democrat party outpaced that to the republicans by a ratio of 2:1, including contributions to the Obama campaign over McCain's by a ratio of a least 4:1.

Quite a bit of Kool Aid is being drunk alright, just not by those claimed by you.

DAM| 5.7.10 @ 2:13PM

"Head in the sand"?

Well, that's a kinder euphemism than I was thinking.

Rita| 5.7.10 @ 2:48PM

Fire Hillary, save millions. Note: she hired two MEN to do her job, Mitchell and what'shisname, while she swoops in by plane to hob nob, actually accomplishing what? What does she exactly do for a living? Besides her "women and girls" thing, which amounts to one thing and one thing only - pushing abortion, on a global scale.

Purpleguy| 5.7.10 @ 9:39PM

Guess she was too late for your mother - too bad. If you don't know what she does, you aren't paying attention.

Liberal Reader| 5.7.10 @ 11:24PM

Purpleguy reminds me of somebody but I can't put my finger on it.

Purpleguy| 5.8.10 @ 12:08AM

Let's keep our fingers to ourselves, shall we... ewwwww.

Tim| 5.7.10 @ 3:58PM

Party like it's 1939...

Jon B| 5.7.10 @ 6:47PM

1939? We're partying like it's 1946, actually. But thanks for your misguided and delusional sentiments.

Nick| 5.7.10 @ 6:58PM

Where's that source, Jon Boy?

Eric(OfConservativeMind)| 5.8.10 @ 4:02AM

What was so great about 1946? I see the UN forming, the Bank of England being nationalized, Peron elected in Argentina, and other events...

Hrmm, women in japan got to vote for the first time, war criminals get tried in Tokyo, Italy became a republic and women voted there for the first time, other things happen..

Haha, Bush 43 was born that year...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1946

Sorta hard to follow, but likely mostly factual. It's hard to know with Wiki.

What was your fav part of 1946, Jon?

ACynic| 5.7.10 @ 10:23PM

Obama does NOT have an ostrich strategy. His actions are purposful, deliberate and intentional, consistent with the neo-communist, Marxist ,hate America-firster he is.
He knows exactly what he is doing.
Bankrupt the USA, render it' s military impotent, destroy our capitalist system, and install a govt. of, by, and for the ruling marxist, communist millionaire elites.
It's plain to see , folks

American Eagle| 5.7.10 @ 10:38PM

The whole premise of this article is in question: "Obama WANTS to do what he keeps saying he does---curb terrorism, check iran, 'peace in palestine/israel', 'solve' domestic problems, economy, jobs, ..."

Look at what he is doing.

He is working overtime to PRO-ACTIVELY do the exact opposite of those things.

That includes iran threat, etc. He does not WANT to stop iran (or muslim nutcases, home or abroad). He does not WANT peace in palestine. These are his tickets to world-wide chaos and consequent "solutions" that he will implement domestically. Among other things---collapse of american economy and middle east boiling over (and terroism at home kept brewing) are GOOD for him and his marxist cabal. Why, do you think, are Russia and China are the impedements to sanctions at which obama is dragging his feet, too? Plot the history of Left on a chalk-board and you will see. If we are lucky.

Obama's is not an Ostrich Strategy. Rather, it is the response of american conservatives which should be considered Ostrich-like behavior.

MS office 2007| 5.8.10 @ 10:55AM

Obama does NOT have an ostrich strategy. His actions are purposful, deliberate and intentional, consistent with the neo-communist, Marxist ,hate America-firster he is.

Dennis Matanda| 5.8.10 @ 11:43AM

This article - which should have come off as being well thought out and consistent - does not present any new material about the Obama Administration's Middle East Foreign Policy.

Instead, I think it attempts to present the American President as a weak hawk. In its attempt to be partisan, the worst part is that it tries to undermine the power of the United States and blindly side with Israel without considering that there is a difference between America and Israel. Both are sovereign nations and both has lateral internal and external interests.

If you live in Arizona, why would you decide to look at the aspects around Israel and not consider that the United States has issues of its own? Would you rather not have a safe country? The United States is a target in the Middle East because of certain blind assistance to the Nation of Israel. That is why people in the Middle East are so pissed off with the United States.

Is there a chance that you will stop seeking red meat in the near future? You need to think through your positions of strengths and focus a little on constructivism and not see the world in realist or neoliberal terms.

In essence, this article is more of a disappointment that anything else. I think you were trying to have something to say at a time when there is nothing to say. You could have focussed on Iran which was at the UN this week. But you did not. You went to the March Meeting. This is so sad. You are, clutching at straws just as you accuse the President of hiding his head in the sand.

dt804a| 5.8.10 @ 6:25PM

See my reply below under:

dt804a| 5.8.10 @ 5:06PM

dt804a| 5.8.10 @ 5:06PM

Reply to Dennis Matanda:

The line of the Arab propaganda machine is exactly what our Dennis quotes, "The United States is a target in the Middle East because of certain blind assistance to the Nation of Israel " and it is utterly wrong. The US is considered the Great Satan and Israel is hated because she represents US/Western values of liberty, rule of law, separation of church and state, etc. It's time to reject the silly line of the Arab propaganda machine.

I write as a Canadian under the blessing of a Conservative government. What I have learnt about the One-term Hussein Obama (OTHO) is that he assaults friends (Honduras, Israel, UK re Falklands, Poland, Czech Republic, ...) and "reaches out" to foes (from Venezuela to Iran). As a friend of the US, Canada can expect the OTHO wrath, just like Honduras etc. That is why I joined the Canadian voices who urge our government to withdraw from Afghanistan and let OTHO deal with the broth he brewed on his own. There is no point in supporting the US under OTHO.

valwayne| 5.8.10 @ 7:10PM

Iran is going to get its nuclear arsenal on Obama's watch and the world will become an immensely or dangerous place. We likely have 5 months, not 5 years, that kind of talk is just Obama trying to mitigate the political fallout when Iran starts testing its nukes. Neville Obama's foreign policy of apology and appeasment is certainly raising the danger to levels we haven't seen since the Soviet Union was still in business!

Bernd| 5.9.10 @ 8:26AM

All Obama has to do is manage to stretch out the timeline until Nov 5th 2010. Then he will be replaced with someone who understands our role in the world, and is willing to use that position to put Iran, Syria, and N. Korea in their places.

Ken (Old Texican)| 5.9.10 @ 9:48AM

Hi Bernd,
I hope you meant 2013. A US President is very powerful in international dealings until the day the new President is inaugurated.

I personally think we are going to get hammered from abroad before then, regardless of the congress we can elect in 2010. Our foreign enemies know they have a limited window of opportunity before we push the communist, (pardon the shorthand), America haters out of office and into disgrace.

Oldefarte| 5.9.10 @ 3:10PM

I simply do not understand why Israel would waste their time by meeting with the current American leadership. It's obvious that possibly the Middle Eastern Arab factions have succeeded in trojun-horsing their politicians [or their political philosophies] into a control position within this country!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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