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The Obama Watch
Last Slap Around the Bush
A deconstructed transcript of Mr. Obama’s Iraq & Economy speech.
A deconstructed transcript of Mr. Obama’s Iraq & Economy speech.
Good news from the Crescent… er, Oval Office. Well, not exactly good, because good news about wars is inappropriate by definition, inasmuch as all war is regrettable at best and often reprehensible, and calling it “good” is insensitive to boot. The not-so-good news is that we won the war in Iraq. Well, not exactly won, because winning is a flawed construct based on concepts borrowed from other fields of endeavor.
And on third thought, even those other fields of endeavor like sports and commerce should not refer to winning either, because it presents a false view of human superiority based on episodic rather than essential criteria. Furthermore, it feeds into a psychology which generates models of human interaction based on promoting gaps between levels of performance rather than achieving mutuality and symbiosis.
So, to review, the not-so-good news is that we not-so-won the war. Well, not exactly war, because the United States has no interest which is opposed to the intrinsic interest of any individual or group of individuals in the Middle East or elsewhere. The notion of war cannot be rightly applied to a military action engaged in for the purpose of securing a democratic result within a country which we intend to neither occupy nor dominate.
Additionally, even to the extent that manifestations of conflict emerge between our forces and local militant activists who perceive a contradiction between their interests and ours, the language of “war” is inflammatory. It has the effect of identifying particular civilian or quasi-military forces as an “enemy,” which communicates to American citizens a sense of demonization while entrenching a spirit of resistance in those opponents whom we have ostracized by this process.
Once again, the not-so-good news is that we not-so-won the not-so-war. One thing we clearly did was accomplish the mission begun by President George W. Bush. Now, don’t take that as a compliment to him, but as a slap, since he — ha ha ha, wait for it — announced in 2003 with a funny sign that the mission had already been accomplished. And on second thought, this is not even the mission begun by George W. Bush, since that was a mission we opposed at the time.
Then again, although combat is over, we have not fully accomplished the mission even yet, since we still have 50,000 men on the ground holding things together. Thus, we have not-so-accomplished the ill-defined mission which George W. Bush started for some stupid reason, so that the tangential advantages we are touting tonight should not rightfully accrue to his credit. But in all fairness we should note that I called former President Bush to tell him that we all agree he loves the country and the troops.
Make no mistake. We are definitely leaving Iraq, except for the soldiers we left behind. And we are surging now in Afghanistan to clear things up so we can definitely leave by 12:01 a.m. of July 1, 2011. This decisive message should strike terror into the hearts of the Taliban (who will not get their free Slurpees in 7 Eleven unless Joe Biden sponsors their emigration to Delaware.) Let no one harbor any doubt about the determination of this administration to lead this military of this country in this conflict until the not-so-enemy collapses under the weight of all the heavily emphasized usages of “this.” We will not-so-defeat the Taliban, including their newly formed and oddly named July 2 Committee.
Which reminds us about the economy. The economy is struggling despite the wonderfulness of the stimulus, due to the scandalous mismanagement by former President George W. Bush, who everyone can agree loves the country and the fatcat bankers. Our administration will continue fighting the sluggishness of the economy, although we do not like the connotations of the word “fighting.” We will not rest until every trouble spot in the country has a sign trumpeting the American Remuneration and Retribution Act or whatever the heck Ol’ Joe is callin’ it this week. And this, my friends, is a big f***ing deal.
At this point, we will have a moment of silence to ignore the Tea Parties and the Glenn Beck rally.
My fellow Americans, now that you know my views with utmost clarity, I ask you to help me recover our lost American values, other than the value of a dollar. These are special times and history will judge us for how we answered the major questions of our times like: is the golf better at Martha’s Vineyard or Pebble Beach? Oh, and one last thing. If a pollster from Rasmussen and the vast right-wing conspiracy calls, will you stop saying you strongly disapprove? That is racist.
Thank you and good night.
About the Author
Jay D. Homnick, commentator and humorist, is a frequent contributor to The American Spectator. He also writes for Human Events. Here he speaks at the Rally for Religious Freedom in Miami on June 8, 2012.
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Ret. Marine| 9.3.10 @ 6:50AM
Thank you for clairifing the no-so-president, I thought he was suppose to represent We the People but, I just realized I am not one of those types, I'm just a racist. Thank you very much, and yes it is a very big *uckn' deal that I hate the content of his character.
arlo price| 9.3.10 @ 9:59AM
The obamagedon PIMP thugocracy chugs along.....
After the pimp recruits his ho's, he methodically brutalizes them mentally, emotionally and physically so as to 'put her in her place'. As the ho changes her outlook to one of desperation and survival the pimp lightens up on her and she is treated 'not so badly', she succumbs to the pimps view of her new lifestyle.
We will now have 60 days of non-stop, Madison Avenue, lame stream media promotion of the usurper-n-chief and selected dhimocrats in a concerted effort to stave off a possible landslide victory by the G O O P on Nov. 2nd. Unfortunately, a large percentage of the electorate will buy into this boogie-woogie which, when coupled with the inevitable voter fraud initiated by the ruling class will result in, basically, little or no change in the political direction of these once great United States of America.
Quite frankly, I'm bored with this bloodless coup, LET'S ROLL!
AMENBRO| 9.3.10 @ 6:47PM
GD right. They are systematically taking what they want, aren't they. Shouldn't we or are we gonna be BITCH SLAPPED HOs. I'm with ya brother.
Problem is ,as this RAG of late often exemplifies, theres a hell of allot, frankly far too many BITCH SLAPPED eunuchs in this country already. Long as their ass isn't gettin gored they are not gonna stick their necks out.
As I type allot of em are quite busy making sure their liquidity remains solvent while the liquidity of you & me takes the hit.
Call em REPUBLICANS. WUBBBYA & HIS PAPPY are a great place to start right. Along with the entire NEO-CON DADDIE's MONEY CLAQUE. Barry Goldwater where are you sir?????? Ronald Reagan was not a Republican he was a RHINO, not of the Arlen Specter type either. Republicans sure as hail walked away when it behoooved em & ran back to RONNIE when it needed him .
We flat need to tear the rails off the fan tail & schuffleboard all their elephant & jack asses off the Titanic before the stern hits 45 degrees MATEYS AAAAAARRRRRRGGGGGGGGHHHHH.
If we KEIL HAUL enough of them in NOVEMBER. The rest are PUSSSSEYS. They will go along to get along. Spineless asses have my entire Adult Life. Any of you smart asses remember Bob Michel??? LOL
J Rich | 9.3.10 @ 11:54PM
You sir, are a jack-ass of the nth degree. I suppose all those dumbocrats are poor running things of late just poor folk tryingto do there best. They sure are not very competant at rinning a country but they are good destroyers. Take a long walk off a short pier.
AMENBRO| 9.4.10 @ 12:33AM
Reading Comprehension deficit JUNIOR??? An elephant is a Republican, A Jackass is a Democrat, Jackass. There isn't a taints width of difference between a Progressive of either party just pet gov project . Maybe try hooked on phonics, better still what I taught my son to read with McGufffey's Reader. Do you know what TAINT IS LOL. Thanks for making my ending point in my post SMART ASS. HI-LARRY-ASS
Alan Brooks| 9.4.10 @ 10:44PM
These days are similar to 1994, glad a Bush has left office, worried about the Midterms. Some of you appear to think November will solve your problems.
Not one bit, the elections wont, no more than November '94 did.
AMENBRO| 9.5.10 @ 12:14AM
Alan, i have to admit I agree with you. A nation eat a FORKING ELEPHANT & A JACKASS one mouthful at a time. Gotta start somewhere.
The FOUNDING FATHERS did hot create our NATION overnite.Took a good 100 years to FORK it up.Remeber AL, prior to 1994 DIMS controlled both house of the legislature for FORTY YEARS. that's 4--O YEARS. If live to see a 25% improvement I will die with a smile. They'll have to break me freakin codpiece in 1/2 to shut the damn coffin lid.
Alan Brooks| 9.5.10 @ 9:06PM
You are more optimistic than I, Amen
Just don't to Newt and his conservative futurist palaver, it's the most sophisticated rope-a-dope one could imagine. I only fell for it 20 years ago because the Cold War ended, the atmosphere was a bit chirpier in anticipation of the peace dividend.
The main lesson I learned in the last 2 decades is: a friend can give you even worse advice than an enemy will
Alan Brooks| 9.5.10 @ 9:08PM
PS,
if the Cold War didn't really end, then perhaps I'm not pessimistic enough!
AMENBRO| 9.6.10 @ 10:26AM
Well put. Exactly why I trust nobody no more. Especially if they have been in Washington more than 2 terms. Its gonna take 10 years or the largest JFK, R. REAGAN, Bush style tax cut in history to flush this latest's claque's turd outta the economic drainpipe. at 53 I am scared shitless
For my kids & grandkids, in a strange way I'm actually glad this OBAMA Theater of the Absurd foray into Academia Intelligentsia Elitest Socialist attempted take over happen, if only for the reason that three generations of dipshit College Graduated Liberal/Moderate/Independent/I"M SO SCARED YOU MIGHT THINK I'M INTOLERANT ASSHOLES got a real education in reality in less than 2 years. The entire world's GDP can't buy that kinda education. Not even if Sorros spends his entire fortune can they kill the American Free Will, Values, Spirit, Basic Decency, & Liberty.
Who died & made these assholes GOD anyway???
Achilles Toejam| 9.6.10 @ 5:43PM
arlo, I hear your Let's Roll! Be careful what you wish for you just might get it. I'd like to be more optimistic about restoring our constitutional republic but the awakening I've been seeing maybe a little too late. With the revelation of Ken Mehlman the top man in the GOP coming out of the closet and admitting to working against the party platform and its base for all this time outing others that felt the same way and getting back slaps and kudos for being true to himself from a lot of Republicans should open your eyes to why our agenda never gains any traction and it never will with this bunch!
I'd like nothing more than to give the whole bunch the Jonah toss but unfortunately there is still too many conservative Republicans that think that the party will save us.
Palin spoke at a tea party rally in the South sometime ago and said we needed to reject the good old boy Republican establishment but then what is she do? Come to Iowa before the primary and endorses the good old boy Republican establishment candidate former four term governor Terry Branstad instead of Bob Vander Platt constitutionalist with the stones to take on the activist court here in Iowa that usurped authority and legislated from the bench regarding Iowa's DOMA law. Here we go again another Republican (Palin) the darling of the conservatives doing the same old crap saying one thing and doing another just another two-faced Republican politician, while she shot herself in the face with me I can't vote for her now.
Robin Boies| 9.3.10 @ 7:13AM
Ouch, that gave me a headache. Sadly, that's precisely what we heard the other night. Whenever this president opens his mouth one has to question his earnestness and truthfulness. As depressing as that is to us here think how even more frustrating it must be for those fighting in Afghanistan. God forbid we should hear the word Victory from our commander in chief.
Mike| 9.3.10 @ 10:18AM
If Obama used the word Victory, he would have been lying.
If Iraq was a victory, I would hate to see defeat.
Spyder308| 9.3.10 @ 10:50AM
There is no victory in war. Everyone looses. That is why intelligent leaders would never take their nation to war unless there is no choice.
We went into Iraq for two simple reasons. First, to get Sadamn because he was the guy who tried to kill Bush's Pa. Second, the US is reluctant to change leaders in time of war. Starting a war with Iraq was insurance that Bush would be reelected, and the worst insult to a President is not to get reelected. Bush needed to out do his Pa.
Both of those objectives were accomplished so in a way it was a victory.
Matt| 9.3.10 @ 11:20AM
Spyder--you are truly a moron.
Dustoff| 9.3.10 @ 12:02PM
O-brother...
Quite an opinion there, to bad you have no real proof.
Charles Martel| 9.3.10 @ 12:05PM
Spyder's post buried the needle on my Idiot-o-meter.
+++
SpiralArchitect| 9.3.10 @ 1:42PM
What did he say, I stopped reading at : "Everyone 'looses'."
Chalkdust| 9.3.10 @ 2:13PM
Spyder:
Dude..... I hate to pile on but call the FD, I smell wood burning.
J Rich | 9.3.10 @ 11:58PM
Right down there with Amenbros.
Steve A| 9.3.10 @ 1:47PM
Spyder Spyder, Just when you start to display some level of rational thought, you decide to sweep it away with nonsense like the above. Come on man, tell me you do not actually believe any of what you just said...
John II| 9.3.10 @ 3:52PM
My dear Spydie,
Your feeble attempt to plagiarize Mr. Homnick's send-up does reflect the moral condition of the Left, but you need to consult with Associate Professor Biden on the techniques of disguising plagiarism.
Thank you nonetheless for sharing.
John II
Algonquin J. Calhoun Professor of Classical Rhetoric
Campus
C.K. Amos | 9.3.10 @ 3:11PM
If Obama used the word "victory"? First guess: He'd gag, spit, then puke publicly and privately--if, that is, he could even say that word.
Alan Brooks| 9.5.10 @ 9:11PM
I surmise Spyder just doesn't like Israel, but he wont admit it publicly.
Appleby| 9.3.10 @ 7:14AM
MEGO, as we said in 1968 when people started spouting this stuff. My Eyes Glazed Over and I started thinking of Tom Lehr singing National Brotherhood Week.
Bill Hussein O'Stalin| 9.3.10 @ 7:19AM
The picture you paint is of a whirling dervish.
We didn't win the war, but we didn't lose the war. We are pulling the troops out but we are leaving 50,000 troop behind.
The contradictions paint a picture of a cynical president, steeped in lies and surrounded by disingenuous entanglements with reality.
Turn the page.
drgene| 9.3.10 @ 12:13PM
"Steeped in(his love of his own) lies and surrounded(encircled?)by(his own enslavement to)
disingenuous entanglements with(a narcissist's
view of)reality.
I love it. Your way with words! I hope my
minute modifications add, not detract, from
the flavor of your rhetoric. Spot On!!
Bill Hussein O'Stalin| 9.3.10 @ 6:14PM
I should have you proofread my stuff.
That was perfect!
J Rich | 9.4.10 @ 12:05AM
Sounds to me like the O is trying to vote "present".
fbom0724| 9.3.10 @ 7:53AM
That speach could have come straingh out of 1984.
hardcard| 9.3.10 @ 8:27AM
FU bo
Big J| 9.3.10 @ 8:29AM
You forgot to mention the most important part of the speech:
"We will disrupt, dismantle, and defeat the free-market economy of this nation. Capitalists have engaged in acts of terror that will not be tolerated. We will not rest until every job creator is weighted down with so much regulation and taxation, they won't be able to breathe, let alone hire."
There. Fixed it for ya.
Ret. Marine| 9.3.10 @ 7:07PM
Pretty much sums it to a t (taxed) e (explicit) a (*sshole) that is much of nothing just like the metrosexual obhla, bhla bhla. .
Louis Jenkins| 9.3.10 @ 8:34AM
Absolutely funny. A good article. Paints the One to a tee.
Michael L. Hauschild| 9.3.10 @ 9:14AM
"Crescent Office"..........That my friends, is communicative composition at its best.
Anthony| 9.3.10 @ 10:09AM
Indeed Michael, and bravo Jay, "Crescent Office" , yep, I'd call that a 5 star literary illusion that's spot on.
I wonder if the recent "Crescent Office" redecoration includes footbaths as well a pricy prayer rug, or did King Fasil of the House of Saud, present one to one of his favorite subjects?
Anthony| 9.3.10 @ 10:16AM
I forgot to add that if the decorators are still on the premises, that perhaps, in order to relieve our dear leader's heavy burden of having his birth certificate plasterd on his forehead, that a tastefully framed origional copy be placed on the credenza where the Churchill bust once stood.
gerald skey| 9.3.10 @ 9:36AM
Several years ago, I had a discussion with my ultra liberal 30ish year children about Iraq. I asked them to think hypothetically. What if, I suggested, at the end of the day, we left Iraq after establishing something of a democratic government - albeit at the mercy of various tribal/religious disputes - representing the various interests in Iraq. What if, Iraq became an example for the rest of the middle east in respecting the views of others and the rights of women? Their collective answer was, "That'll never happen!". So much for hypothetical analysis. But the point to be remembered is that at the time, it was the Democratic Party's mantra that the "war" (not-so-war) had already been "Lost" and there was no point in pursuing it. I then told them that if my hypothetical came to fruition, would their views of George Bush change? "Dad, what you are suggesitng will NEVER HAPPEN, so don't ask about our views of George Bush." Well, to me, and to my libeal friends, strike me unconscious, but George Bush can take pride in having had the incredible courage to bring out the improbable. Will Iraq survive as such an example in the middle east? Noone knows, but the seeds are there and I would bet that in a few years, Iraq will be viewed as an amazing success story. To President Obama, all I can say is "you were wrong as a Senator and how dare you even begin to suggest that you had a hand in anything positive that Iraw achieves in the future."
Mike | 9.3.10 @ 10:16AM
Iraq was a loss the minute we set foot in the place.
Even if Iraq does become the example for the rest of the middle east, women's right and all that other do-gooder touchy feely liberal junk - who cares? It's not the USA's job to ensure women's rights in this world. As a tax payer I resent many expenditures foreign and domestic. I don't like paying nearly 40 percent of earnings for elusive Iraqi democracy. In truth, women had more rights under Saddam than they will under the Shia theocracy.
The ultimate question - knowing what we know now, would we do it over again?
GW| 9.4.10 @ 2:26AM
Yes. At least still get rid of Hussein. We didn't need to stay in Iraq for 7 years, but to say we didn't have tactical reasons for going in makes me think you're just a pussy who uses higher taxes as a crutch for saying we should never use force.
Clinton nee Publius| 9.3.10 @ 9:39AM
Whew! I'm glad a I watched the real estate channel instead of the musics of America's own version of Hugo Chavez. Yes, that's what we are down to here in Texas: when you are a president who sucks so badly that we would rather watch the real estate channel than listen to the latest round of politically-correct liberal-progressive treacle, you know you have arrived at full mediocrity. Congratulations, Mr. Obama; you have made Mr. Carter appear to be a decisive and bold leader who dealt with the economic issues of his time with plumb and alacrity.
Now that's change you can believe in.
Bill Hussein O'Stalin| 9.3.10 @ 8:06PM
In the future it would be more in keeping with your post to tell us what you actually observed on the real estate channel.
There would have been some clarity of truth for us to hear about as opposed to the murkiness of the lies of a political weasel.
Bill Hussein O'Stalin| 9.3.10 @ 8:06PM
In the future it would be more in keeping with your post to tell us what you actually observed on the real estate channel.
There would have been some clarity of truth for us to hear about as opposed to the murkiness of the lies of a political weasel.
Pete| 9.3.10 @ 10:22AM
Thanks for this article. Naturally, I didn't watch the speech as I don't care to be lied to straight to my face, but this appears to be an accurate summary.
Claudia| 9.3.10 @ 10:34AM
My Dear Jay,
I am choking with what I must say is justifiable pride. I never lost faith in you, even with your use of that oh so very mucho "SMARMY" with which you have two times besmirched columns.
No, not I to jump a a sinking ship....semper fidelis!
I rush to say that you have completely de smarmed yourself with this bit of word mastery. Byron? Dante? Al Kapp? nahhhhh It's My Jay who is the titerary muse of eternity..or as they say in the Crescent cumHammer cum Sickle Office...obviously the work of a fringe bigot..
My eternal love,
Claudia N. T. M.A (ETC) Monteverdi
Mad Hatter| 9.3.10 @ 3:22PM
Down from her Green Mountain comes Claudia,
Blogging in ways that get naughtia,
She may sometimes alarm me,
When objecting to "smarmy",
I can tolerate but warn, "Don't get bawdia!"
John II| 9.3.10 @ 4:32PM
Er--Maddie, I'm not sure the syntax works on this one. Perhaps I'm just not getting it in the Friday afternoon haze, but for the sake of syntactic cogency, I think the diction needs to be tighter and the punctuation more assertive. Mightn't this work better for the last three verses:
Her penchant to alarm me
With objections to "smarmy"
I can tolerate, but warn: "Don't get bawdia!"
And now back to my viewing of "Omar Khayyam" (1957), one of the sillier flicks of the fifties, despite a strong cast: Cornel Wilde, Debra Paget, Michael Rennie, Raymond Massey, Sebastian Cabot (who plays Wazir in the 1955 film version of "Kismet," rather a let-down too when measured against the fabulous Broadway production: Hollywood has always tended to be cloyingly sentimental about the Middle East).
Mad Hatter| 9.3.10 @ 4:56PM
While John II peruses Khayyam,
I, responsive to his critical slam,
Say, Hat's off! The word penchant,
Is so much more trenchant,
Then to Popeye's "I yam what I yam!"
VDon | 9.3.10 @ 11:59AM
This truly is a praise-worthy work of literary genius. The crescent office is apropos in another sense - given that the occupant of same is about to be "rolled" by the electorate on November 2.
The hoopster Prez, who is primarily conflicted about whether he loves the big roundball more than the little (dimpled) roundball, is seeing his bubble burst by his own (predictable) self-serving, ideologically bankrupt view of a country in which he did not grow up. Just to clarify, conceding that he was born in Hawaii, he clearly did not "grow up" (in any sense, but particularly not) in America - not the America that most of us in this nation love, and for which many have died.
Best wishes for a great Labor Day weekend, particularly for those who are sufficiently fortunate to have employment, and in gratitude for those who provide that employment opportunity - the latter excludes all levels of government, who receive their resources from the rest of us.
Respectfully,
VDon
drgene| 9.3.10 @ 12:23PM
A speech for the ages: spoken by our own Undocumented President to the Ummah of his
beloved co-racist disciples of Black Undocumented
Christianity and his rightly -guided Muslim brothers
of the world!
May the peace of Allah be upon him!
May his voice be heard as the sublime echo of
the voice of Muhammad, the Prophet to whom even Isa(Jesus)surrendered!
May the cry of Jihad be heard everywhere:
jihad against all things American, all things
white or Asian, and all those diligent ones who are affluent or (God-forbid)rich:for we know God
hates the whites, the kafir Asians, the ho America, and the rich!!
All praise be to the newest and greatest
Rasul of Allah:Barak the Magnificient One!!
Barry "Big 'O' " Obummer| 9.3.10 @ 1:51PM
Drat! There was something else I was going to say.
Will someone please plug the telepromter back in for me so I can continue with my revisionist version of history. Thus afforing me the ability to continue changing the direction of this nation as though it was always as such.
Insincerly Yours,
The Statist
Mad Hatter| 9.3.10 @ 2:39PM
Obama says, "Combat troops have been trucked,
Here's a firm speech of mush; deconstruct,
But to say we did win,
Is Libs' Original Sin,
But's it's still a Big Deal - we're all bucked!"
(Note to those who change the last word: If you do, don't quote me!)
C.K. Amos| 9.3.10 @ 2:47PM
How much longer, one wonders, will it be until ambivalent, out-of-his-league and disinterested Obama, deeply contemptuous of the country, its history and its people--and its military--actually calls yet another press conference and, looking into the camera, literally hoists his middle finger and salutes America?
And then, just to ensure that the unwashed non-elitist citizenry understands, then says, "Eff you!"?
This empty suit has been and continues to aid and abet America's enemies by his detachment and revelation of strategic timelines that affect the lives of our soldiers and our allies.
He must be driven, if not removed, from office. Soonest.
C.K. Amos| 9.3.10 @ 2:49PM
"Crescent Office"? Priceless but apparently true. Racist, too. Just kidding.:-)
Mad Hatter| 9.3.10 @ 3:01PM
Obama and Friends could not be leerier,
Of saying we kicked Saddam's posterior,
"Despite his soreness of arse,
Our words we do parse:
'We're no better!' That makes us superior!"
Mad Hatter| 9.3.10 @ 3:17PM
We couldn't fathom Obama's smear pap,
Now Jay says it's for Bush, a Last Slap
The economy faults both,
Though Obama's Green Growth,
Has us fear he's no Tree, just a sap!
David| 9.3.10 @ 5:25PM
Spyder308, you are a moron. I don't like the way Bush handled the Iraq war, but he did not start it for the reasons you so blatantly lie about. The entire world, including Sadam's own generals, believed Iraq had stockpiles of WMD's. And he probably did, but they were moved to Syria before we got there. We know that he had contacts with al Qaeda. We know he paid the families of Palestinian suicide bombers $25,000 each.
After 9/11, if after 12 ultimatums, Sadam did sell a WMD to a terrorist group, and the group used it against America, everyone including me would have been calling for Bush's impeachment for derilection of duty. Bush was correct in starting the war - but was a moron for pussy-footing around with the "soft footprint" BS. He should have flat out won the war. Remember Moqtada al Sadr and how he embarrassed our military by holding up in that mosque. And how we allowed him to move from city to city for how many years. Where is he now? Iran, I believe. But I suspect he will return to the scene soon. Bush should have blown up the mosque with al Sadr and all the other animals in it. Then, the Iraqis and al Qaesda and the other insurgents would have known we were for real.
Ret. Marine| 9.3.10 @ 7:22PM
I have to agree with a lot of what you just posted, as a matter of fact it is still being uncovered as to what extent maddas had in connection to the al-queada outfit and the wmd's. The wmd's were sent to syria as a matter of fact, not fiction . It is also a fact the second in Command of his (maddas) Air Force wrote a book in the spring of 05 that told all to the details. My hats off to you sir for your honesty and education of the matter. All others seem to have their heads totaly up their keesters on the matter, or could sive ah git either way. Nothing like a good education.
Padoux| 9.3.10 @ 8:40PM
When I read accounts how men and women in our History built this country out of the wilderness it astounds me, the deprivations they endured, the risks, the hardship, poor medical care, and on and on. We are the beneficiaries of of this labor blood shed in battle and in working. We are now spoiled, have it easy by comparison, and complain at the slightest inconvenience and now we have a President for the times who holds in contempt all the qualities that built this wonderful country.
Yosemeti Sam| 9.4.10 @ 2:36AM
Does this Resident in the Peoples' White House - babble as he walks its' corridors?
As, putatively, Nixon did?
Rowdy Boots| 9.4.10 @ 2:43AM
You mean to tell me that people actually listened to him and/or watched him speak?
I cannot listen to another condescending word from this man, I actually work for a living.
Rowdy Boots
Donna| 9.4.10 @ 7:43AM
Ditto-didn't watch, but enjoyed the news article above.
Rowdy Boots| 9.4.10 @ 2:48AM
Obama needs above all:
Acting Lessons to try to learn to FEEEEEEELLLL
something.
The amazing thing is that he says all his nonsense with a straight face!
1389AD | 9.4.10 @ 3:23PM
The problem is that Islam is inherently inimical to the interests of America and its people, both at home and abroad. I would go further, to say that Islam is inherently inimical to all sentient life.
Islam is not a religion in the usual sense, but an expansionist, totalitarian political ideology that seeks to rid the world of everything but itself.
The problem here is that Obama is not on our side.
Don't try to tell me Obama is not a Muslim!
B| 9.4.10 @ 6:49PM
I guess the not-so-American (think commie) author of this BS article is not-so-glad we *won* the Revolutionary War.
prestonsbrooks| 9.5.10 @ 3:18PM
everytime that shamwow guy comes on i turn the channel.
wbheff| 9.6.10 @ 12:05PM
"Algonquin J. Calhoun " I wonder how many of the readers of this are old oenugh to "get" this.
wbheff| 9.6.10 @ 12:06PM
Ah, that should be "enough."
PEC| 9.6.10 @ 3:57PM
Well said, all. Uh, I hate to be picky, but I wait, hopelessly, for someone to say that when George Bush posted that Mission Accomplished sign on that ship, he was not talking about the Iraq war, but about his piloting that airplane on that ship's deck. Most Americans, who were watching him do that, surely know that. Got that?
Answers1| 9.6.10 @ 8:03PM
Translation of Translation:
"Vote for me. I'll dump lots of money I stole from white men on you."