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The Obama Watch
Obama’s Daily Intelligence Brief… Who Cares?
Our president should have studied Ronald Reagan more closely.
The last week has generated many shocking moments, not a few of which involve our commander-in-chief. Conservatives are certainly taking their shots at President Obama. Some of these are justified; others perhaps less so. I say this sympathetically as someone who studies the Middle East, and realize what a damned mess it presents for any policymaker, let alone a president.
That said, the news that President Obama has been absent from so many of his daily intelligence briefings is a stunner. There’s simply no good excuse for it. It comes on the heels of reports from Bob Woodward that Obama doesn’t regularly attend “security briefings.”
According to a study by the Government Accountability Institute, based on the publicly available White House calendar, Obama failed to attend a single Presidential Daily Brief (PDB) in the week leading up to 9/11 and the chaos that erupted in the Arab world. The mere fact that we were approaching 9/11 was itself a crucial reason for attending not one but all of the briefings. Obama attended none.
Worse, this is apparently nothing new. Obama attended only 43.8 percent of his Presidential Daily Briefs in the first 1,225 days of his administration; that’s less than a majority.
Again, this is shocking, and there’s no excuse for it.
Marc Thiessen, who worked for President George W. Bush, pressed NSC spokesman Tommy Vietor for an explanation. Thiessen reported:
Vietor did not dispute the numbers, but said the fact that the president, during a time of war, does not attend his daily intelligence meeting on a daily basis is “not particularly interesting or useful.” He says that the president reads his PDB every day, and he disagreed with the suggestion that there is any difference whatsoever between simply reading the briefing book and having an interactive discussion of its contents with top national security and intelligence officials where the president can probe assumptions and ask questions. “I actually don’t agree at all,” Vietor told me in an e-mail. “The president gets the information he needs from the intelligence community each day.”
Thiessen continued: “Vietor also directed me to a [Washington] Post story written this year in which Obama officials discuss the importance of the intelligence meeting and extol how brilliantly the president runs it. ‘Obama reads the PDB ahead of time and comes to the morning meeting with questions,’ The Post reported. ‘One regular participant in the roughly 500 Oval Office sessions during Obama’s presidency said the meetings show a president consistently participating in an exploration of foreign policy and intelligence issues.’”
Yeah, right. More nonsense from a scandalously biased media that refuses to do real reporting on Barack Obama.
Likewise disputing the PDB report is White House spokesman Jay Carney, who dismissed the charge as “hilarious.” No, no, said Carney, the president “gets it every day.” By “it,” Carney was apparently talking about the briefing papers, not the actual meetings.
Naturally, “journalists” happily accepted Carney’s explanation. CNN helped out by posting Carney’s comments under a photo of a pensive Obama sitting at (allegedly) an intelligence briefing.
Ah, yes. There you go.
All of this is crazy. Simply crazy. Only the most unquestioning dupes and sycophants in Obama’s base (and media) could accept these defenses.
To my knowledge, as a presidential historian, this is extremely unusual — probably unprecedented for a president. Has there ever been a president, certainly in the post-WWII period (when the CIA was established), who has blithely missed so many intelligence briefings? I don’t think so. George W. Bush didn’t. He attended the PDB six times per week, as Thiessen notes.
Personally, I can speak with authority on the case of Ronald Reagan, who liberals, ironically, portrayed as an uninformed idiot who didn’t pay attention in meetings or read anything.
About the Author
Paul Kengor is professor of political science and executive director of The Center for Vision & Values at Grove City College. He is author of the new book The Communist: Frank Marshall Davis, The Untold Story of Barack Obama’s Mentor. His other books include The Crusader: Ronald Reagan and the Fall of Communism and Dupes: How America’s Adversaries Have Manipulated Progressives for a Century.
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Darin| 9.14.12 @ 6:37AM
The difference is that, unlike Obama, previous presidents actually cared about this country. Obama only cares when the camera is rolling.
CJW| 9.14.12 @ 7:55AM
Exactly right. Imagine the MSM if Bush had missed security briefings.
Obama is weak, incompetent, not that smart, and unqualified. Hillary was right, he cannot handle the 3:AM call nor the 3:PM call.
TLP| 9.14.12 @ 9:36AM
So, The Muslim doesn't go to his Intelligent Briefings, and yet we're told by Main Sream Masturbators that Obama is so smart, that he Doesn't need to go to these things, because he already knows what they say, before they're even written.
Perhaps that's why he has NEVER MET with his Unbelievably Important Jobs Commission. Not a Single Time. NEVER.
This might explain why he NEVER meets with his Cabinet, or Congressional Leaders, even as Bernanke is Fundamentally Transforming us in to Zimbabwe, and Hillary Clinton is turning our Embassies into Shooting Galleries, and places where Muslims can go to Rape Men, before killing them.
Why he NEVER meets with his CIA.
Meanwhile, back at the White Mosque - His Blacks Only Black Attorney General tells Congressional Committees that he doesn't read The Mission Briefings in his IN Basket.
Welcome to Today's Contest.
When I se and hear this SH*T, I'm reminded of the Scene in Apocalypse Now. The scene where Charlie Sheen comes upon the Christmas Tree lit Bridge, and he tries to enquire about the whereabouts of that Unit's Chain of Command.
"Who's in Charge, here?"
After many inquiries, the last guy he asks, looks at him bewilderedly and says - "Aren't You?"
The Contest is to Come up, again, with the Best MOVIE analogy of what we are witnessing from this Rocky Horror Picture Show Administration.
And, you can't use Rocky Horror Picture Show.
For obvious reasons.
TLP| 9.14.12 @ 9:47AM
There will be Prizes again, of course.
The Winner gets his choice of An Imaginary Edit App Button - Much like President Frankenfurter's RESET BUTTON - and it will work just as well.
The Loser will receive a 2013 Calender with High Gloss Photos of Purp, Pelleas, and - of course - AlancanyouseemygerbilinthereDoctorandishestillalivebrooks in Various Stages of a Bowel Movement in a Public Bathroom, while a Mysterious foot, taps frantically, from the adjacent Stall.
With Prizes like these?
Everyone's a Winner.
mike 3/505| 9.14.12 @ 2:02PM
Runway scene in "Casablanca." "Round up the usual suspects [TEA Party]."
Eagle Creek| 9.14.12 @ 3:20PM
The Wizard of Oz - "I don't think we're in kansas anymore, ToTo"
Alan| 9.14.12 @ 3:48PM
This is Bagdad Boblike all over the place with his Propaganda minister Carney playing Bob.
Nick| 9.14.12 @ 10:56AM
Heck, I'll play, Mr. Pennell.
I think it is a tie between two movies.
Switching Channels (the umpteenth remake of The Front Page) wherein the guy from Murphy Brown plays the clueless governor of Illinois. He can't make any decisions, takes credit for his advisers' ideas, is more interested in working out than governing, and takes many naps.
The other would be the classic sci-fi thriller The Thing From Another World. The liberal mindset is on full display in the form of the head scientist who believes he can reason with the Thing, a fatal mistake. His belief in the purely rational blinds him to the danger he is putting the rest of the people in.
Sound familiar?
Substitute the radical Moslems for the Thing, and O'Bama for the scientist, and you've got a movie!
If I lose, which is bound to happen if John II plays, keep your loser prize.
I'd rather gouge my eyes out!
MK48| 9.14.12 @ 11:35AM
Count me in Tim......
Seen form the movie "The Professionals" 1966
Bert Landcaster and Robert Ryan are over looking a train robbery by Jesus Raza (Jack Palance).
Bert says..... "Maybe there's only one revolution since the begining, the good guys against the bad guys. Question is who are the good guys".
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v.....re=related
TLP| 9.14.12 @ 3:55PM
You're Cracking me up.
TLP| 9.14.12 @ 4:22PM
p.s.
You're showing your age there, MK.
SUBVET| 9.14.12 @ 6:55PM
What do you know THEY let me back in as SUBVET again...and yes that would be 67 yrs.
MK48
mike 3/505| 9.14.12 @ 4:40PM
Not for this contest...but reminds me of. "Tough Guys."
"Nobody robs trains anymore."
"We do."
Occam's Tool| 9.14.12 @ 8:01PM
The good Mike. Missed you, man.
I always liked "90% of everything is just showing up."
CJW| 9.14.12 @ 12:07PM
I can't think of a movie where the situation is so serious (ruined economy, 16 trillion debt, war in the Middle East, abandonment of allies), and the "leader" is so busy with golf, basketball, beer summits, fundraising, weekly parties at the White House, and vacations that he misses 56% of the presidential security briefings, especially the week of the anniversay of 9/11.
If you gave this script to Hollywood, they would accept only if you made the president a Republican, especially a Bush lookalike.
Maybe the Three Stooges, with apologies to them, where the meet with Hitler and throw the globe around.
TLP| 9.14.12 @ 3:54PM
The three Stooges.
You're killing me.
CJW| 9.14.12 @ 5:10PM
Tim
With apologies to Moe, Larry, and original Curley who acted as the Three Stooges, Joey Biden, Barack Hussein Carter, and Mrs. Clinton are real three stooges, not acting, throwing the globe around.
Can you believe this? We used to have Henry Kissinger and now we have Hillary! whose prior experience is destroying billing records and lie for Bubba.
Albert Constantine Jr.| 9.14.12 @ 11:10AM
I will pander to popular tastes, and go with Animal House. Picture the seen following the road trip from Emily Dickinson College, where they gather in the garage, and look at the beat up wreck of a motor vehicle that was once the pride of Fred Dorffman, Flounder’s brother. As Flounder stands there blubbering, Otter delivers one of the great lines in a film full of great lines:
“Face it. You F@&ked; up. You trusted us”.
Think of Fred’s car as the US, Kent “Flounder” Dorffman as the voting majority in the 2008 election, and Eric “Otter” Stratton in the role of the current POTUS.
( I understand it breaks apart when we realize that Otter is much more like Clinton than Obama, but it’s the relevance of the line rather than the similarity of the character).
mike 3/505| 9.14.12 @ 11:46AM
D-Day is Holder....Leave everything to me (as he lights the torch).
Albert Constantine Jr.| 9.14.12 @ 12:21PM
Your casting works well, particularly with the line before: “It’s gotta work better than the truth.”
TLP| 9.14.12 @ 3:57PM
You guys are Unbelievable!
Albert Constantine Jr.| 9.14.12 @ 1:01PM
"Picture the seen "
My apologies for my incomplete proofreading in not detecting "seen" for "scene".
TLP| 9.14.12 @ 3:58PM
It's okay, Albert.
The Judges are not grading on Spelling, or Penmanship .
chuck| 9.15.12 @ 10:56AM
Joe "BiteMe" Biden is played by Bluto. Comic relief, only Biden is not as intelligent, or likeable.
"7 years of college, down the drain."
4 years of our lives, down the drain.
chuck| 9.15.12 @ 10:57AM
Come to think of it, doesn't Bluto end up as a US Senator?
Albert Constantine Jr.| 9.15.12 @ 7:44PM
Excellent point, Chuck. In addition, like Biden himself, the Deltas were discplined as a result of a cheating scandal.
rightasrain| 9.14.12 @ 11:56AM
I'll go with Duck Soup.
Obama: Why weren't those papers put in my portfolio?
Staffer: I didn't think they were important at this time, Excellency.
Obama: Not important?!!!! Why those papers had my dessert wrapped in them!
Warrior| 9.14.12 @ 11:59AM
Christine : "You can't polish a turd."
Better one. President in his briefing, using the quote from Red Dawn. Briefer: What about the Geneva convention? POTUS: I don't even know what that is!
Nick| 9.14.12 @ 12:40PM
I want to change my answer. Hey, there's no rule against it!
It has got to be Jaws.
There is a deadly threat, just off shore. It is repeatedly killing people. Chief of Police Brody keeps trying to warn Mayor Vaughn of the danger.
And, the mayor wants to KEEP THE BEACHES OPEN!
I've been convinced for a long time that Mayor Vaughn was a lib democrat.
(I can't believe this wasn't my first choice. I've been making this comparison for years!)
Albert Constantine Jr.| 9.14.12 @ 12:58PM
I think what is most difficult about the contest is that there are so many appropriate scenes. Perhaps Mr. Pennell should have limited answers to one specific genre of films, such as comedy, westerns, horror, in order to help focus his contestants.
TLP| 9.14.12 @ 4:06PM
You have to be able to Compartmentalize.
But then again, with so many Genres to choose from?
This should be a piece a cake.
Surely something from F-Troop must apply, here.
I Love Lucy.
Gilligan's Island.
The Munsters?
John Navratil| 9.14.12 @ 2:11PM
TLP,
I'll inject a humorous entry.
Billy Pilgrim and Montana Wildhack on Tralfamadore in Slaughterhouse Five.
"Are you mating, yet?"
Stkman| 9.14.12 @ 3:01PM
Nope, sorry. It's not a movie. It's TV show and it's called Hogans Heroes. Col. Klink is played by Obama and Hillary Clinton would be the see nothing, know nothing, Sgt. Schultz.
The American public would of course be Col. Hogan who is the only one that really knows what is going on.
TLP| 9.14.12 @ 4:07PM
Hilarious.
chuck| 9.15.12 @ 11:00AM
Starring Janet Napolitano as General Burkhalter, and Eric Holder as the Gestapo major. What the hell was his name?
Albert Constantine Jr.| 9.17.12 @ 5:47PM
Major Hochstetter
Minuteman78| 9.14.12 @ 3:11PM
I'm thinking of the Daffy Duck / Bugs Bunny cartoon with the genie in the lamp. Just for the one line Daffy says when walking away: "Consequences schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich." the fact it's a middle east genie adds a nice touch of relevancy.
TLP| 9.14.12 @ 4:08PM
Best bunch of entries, ever.
TLP| 9.14.12 @ 4:19PM
The Contest ends at 7pm.
Prizes will be handed out at 8, or whenever my Kid's Baseball Game gets over.
I can't thank you guys, enough.
Will all of the Bullshit we have to go through, every week, I thought that it might be nice if we had a little Fun, one day a week.
With the response we got today?
I've decided that I'll put this on every Friday.
You guys are UNFCKINGBELIEVABLE .
John.
Expect a Calender.
John Navratil| 9.14.12 @ 7:24PM
TLP,
A Calcndar? A Calendar? What? Was my humour to subtle?
Obama is in a bubble with a woman whose only real assets are here tits - OK, it's a stretch - I really don't want to see Hillary's tits. The atmosphere is cyanide and they will die if they leave the protection of their dome, the world is watching and their only concern is for the irrelevant. Billy knows that he dies, but he just concentrates on the good things and ignores the bad.
It's sublime! It's a perfect metaphor! A Calendar? Indeed ;)
TLP| 9.14.12 @ 8:58PM
It's 8:31 and after reading all of the wonderful Answers, I'm finding this to be more difficult than coming up for a Nom de Plume for AlanBrooks, every day.
First of all, to MK SUB VET, I wanna say: 67? I thought you were 80.
To mike 3/505: I didn't see Casablanca. Sorry.
To John Navratil: I don't remember Slaughterhouse Five. And by making my Brain imagine Hillary's Tits, you might end up with Two Calenders.
How's that for Sublime?
Stkman's ode to Hogan's Hero's was good, and Minuteman 76's Daffy Duck analogy had me cracking up.
I found it odd that Albert Constantine was complaining that I gave him too many choices. And I thought that Nick was just a little too Pretentious in his use of Bold Letters (which I don't know how to do) Showoff.
Warrior and CJW were good.
TLP| 9.14.12 @ 9:29PM
rightasrain? Thisclose.
Occam? Always a pleasure. Welcome aboard, and better luck next time.
Eagle Creek's was okay, for a first try.
And, Alan? We were looking for a MOVIE. A Motion Picture. Cameras, Film, Violence and Tits. Lots of Tits.
Which brings us to why we're all here, in the first place.
The Prizes.
The Winner(s) of the Imaginary Edit app Button, which they can Pretend to use for all their Stupid Spelling Mistakes, and Misplaced Sentences, ?'s and !'s are - Albert Constantine Jr. And Last week's Winner - mike3/505, for their wonderful Collaboration of that Scene from Animal House.
Well done, Gentlemen.
The only thing I would change would be Obama's role, from Otter, to Otis.
As far as the Calenders go?
Navritil is definately getting one, because I really think he wants one. And I'm going to throw in a Centerfold of Hillary - Topless - that my 6 Year old is Drawing with his Crayons, as I'm writing this.
Occam gets one, to use as Shock Therapy on the Patient of his choice.
SUBVET gets one for the Dart Board in the Rec Room at his Retirement Home.
And, Nick gets one for Showing Off.
TLP| 9.14.12 @ 9:45PM
I can't thank you guys, enough.
The shit that you guys come up with, cracks me up like you can't believe.
The first time was really good. (That's what She said) And, to be honest, I didn't really expect the turnout that it got, this time.
This one kicked last one's ass.
On the other hand?
I was hoping for some participation from the Ladies, here at TAS. If for nothing else than to witness Navritil's obsession with Hillary's Tits.
mike 3/505. A Two Time Winner. Congratulations.
You are obviously The Favourite for next week's Contest, and a shot at the Bicycle Seat Collection, discovered in one of Purp's old Storage Containers.
Tell Your Friends.
And, all of you, Have a Great Weekend.
See you Friday.
SUBVET| 9.15.12 @ 11:37AM
TLP..........thanks for the retirement prize but at 67 I am still the owner and running a successful 43 year old contracting company.......Ya know the one I BUILT in CA to boot.
Tim....... may I say it brightens my day to tune in to TAS and read your passion. Some of the terms you use I almost forgot.... you bring my old Navy days back.
To all the vets who post here may I say thank you for your service to our beautiful country. We VETS need to stand up to this EVIL ONE.....remember the oath we all took with one hand over our hearts. We may not be in uniform but we are still solders to spread the truth to protect the innocent and the stupid.
TLP| 9.15.12 @ 4:35PM
Indeed.
SIC SEMPER TYRANNUS!
CJW| 9.15.12 @ 2:45PM
Tim
Cannot use the Hillary centerfold for shock therapy.
The 8th amendment prohibits cruel and unusual punishment.
TLP| 9.15.12 @ 4:47PM
I would agree with you, if I thought, for a minute, that we still had a CONSTITUTION.
rightasrain| 9.16.12 @ 12:07PM
You did hear from one of the ladies.
TLP| 9.16.12 @ 6:53PM
Oops.
Albert Constantine Jr.| 9.14.12 @ 9:56PM
Thank you to Mike and all of those in the Third Battalion who kept him intact, no matter how hard the helicopters landed. The imagery of Bruce McGill and acetylene definitely carried our entry over the top.
To Mr. Pennell, thank you for the opportunity to compare and contrast Hollywood's past imagery to our current governmental crisis.
Subvet, congratulations on having the choice of your original handle or your favorite torpedo nomenclature.
Nick, my thanks on the lesson of how to bold.
Warrior, JN, RAR, Stkman,MM78, thank you for your worthy competition.
EC, Alan and OT, thanks for the color commentary.
CJW, thanks for the closing theme music, following Larry, Moe, Shemp, Curly etc.
Waa Wahn Waa wahn waa wa waa wahn ....
TLP| 9.15.12 @ 10:59AM
Thank you Albert, for that Gracious Acceptance Speech.
Not only was it Succinct in it's Grammatical Composition, it's Soulful Wit, and it's lack of frequent references to TITS. (like some people)
It reminded me to buy some HAM at the Supermarket.
Ladies and Gentlemen: Albert Constantine.
Let's all give him a big hand.
mike 3/505| 9.15.12 @ 12:30PM
Albert....you're a class act.
CJW| 9.15.12 @ 2:28PM
Albert
Congratulations. Jimmy, Rocky, Dennis, Angel, and even Chapman would be proud.
Tim, excellent choice for winner.
mike 3/505| 9.15.12 @ 12:24PM
Ahhhh Tim....Ya gotta see it....Bogy is awesome in that flick....Here's looking at you kid!
TLP| 9.15.12 @ 4:21PM
All right, mike. You won.
You can stop kissing my ass, now.
Even though you've graced our Winner's Circle, two times in a row. You're still gonna have to come up with something on Friday, if want a shot at those Bicycle Seats.
Did I mention that they were Paper Boy Bicycle Seats?
Congratulations on your Victory.
You might not have Made That.
But, you definately EARNED IT.
In fact.
I'm gonna have my 6 Year old draw up one of those Hillary pictures for you, cause I like you so much.
Have a Good Weekend, and GO GIANTS.
gazinya | 9.15.12 @ 10:28AM
My first thought was the movie, 'Being There' with Peter Sellers. Chauncy the Gardener came for nowhere, knew nothing, watched only T.V. commercials and was accepted by 'the best and brightest' as a genius. The only people who knew he was an empty suit were 'the servants' who shook their heads and said, 'Only in America'. Chauncys' famous line.....'I like to watch.'
TLP| 9.15.12 @ 11:02AM
You have got to get in these things.
That is a very good one. Maybe even Imaginary Reset Button Worthy.
Can I assume that we will be heating from you next Friday?
I'm thinking that I can.
Welcome aboard.
TLP| 9.15.12 @ 4:24PM
Can I assume that we'll be HEARING from you?
DAMMIT!
I need one of those freaking Buttons, myself!
gazinya | 9.15.12 @ 8:45PM
I'll get back to you on Friday. Mostly this one was tailor made for 'Being There'.
Gary B| 9.14.12 @ 9:23AM
He's the Vandal in Chief, God's gift to every one of America's enemies, both foreign and domestic.
Appleby| 9.14.12 @ 6:43AM
Obama is scooping up all the goodies he can scoop before he is kicked down the road in a couple of months, to decamp to his $35 million encampment in Hawaii and attempt to escape the Holocaust about to descend on the world. You will not see him doing anything at all but partying hearty from now until the End. Think of the Dot Com bubble and what happened as it was bursting. Think Loot.
Perhaps some of the people who thought voting for President was like calling in to "America's Got Talent" and voting for William Hung, will now start realizing that leaving the Ship of State without anyone at the helm is not such a great idea after all.
And it may, if nothing else, finally PUT PAID TO THE SIXTIES.
Stephie| 9.14.12 @ 7:56AM
But the Sixties won't be over until the Clintons are taking dirtnaps.
spike59| 9.14.12 @ 6:49AM
briefings, schmiefings...he sure can sing Al Green...right?
bison cookie| 9.14.12 @ 7:13AM
PRESIDENT OBAMA SKIPPED HIS INTEL BRIEF THE DAY AFTER THE U.S. AMBASSADOR TO LIBYA WAS MURDERED BY TERRORISTS. Marc Thiessen provides a shocker in his Washington Post column: the day after America’s embassy in Cairo was assaulted and the consulate in Benghazi, Libya fell victim to an armed attack that killed four, including Ambassador Christopher Stevens, the president once again skipped his intelligence briefing, choosing instead to fly off to Las Vegas to fundraise while the world continued to burn... READ MORE: http://bwcentral.org/2012/09/p.....errorists/
TinaB| 9.14.12 @ 4:00PM
Probably took his fiddle, too.
bison cookie| 9.14.12 @ 7:14AM
PRESIDENT OBAMA SKIPPED HIS INTEL BRIEF THE DAY AFTER THE U.S. AMBASSADOR TO LIBYA WAS MURDERED BY TERRORISTS. Marc Thiessen provides a shocker in his Washington Post column: the day after America’s embassy in Cairo was assaulted and the consulate in Benghazi, Libya fell victim to an armed attack that killed four, including Ambassador Christopher Stevens, the president once again skipped his intelligence briefing, choosing instead to fly off to Las Vegas to fundraise while the world continued to burn... READ MORE: http://bwcentral.org/2012/09/p.....errorists/
Mimi | 9.14.12 @ 7:16AM
After having all those Presidents from the time of George Washington ...to George W.Bush who took the JOB dead serious to the very best of their ability....The Democratic Party brazenly put forth a candidate they did not know or...VET. Did they check his WORK ETHIC ?..... or examine his character and INTEGRITY....his abilities?
America does not deserve this and the mistake of 2008 must come to an end.....The man wants to go and play....set him FREE !!!
MK48| 9.14.12 @ 10:44AM
I say GAY man......in a "down low marriage".
TinaB| 9.14.12 @ 4:01PM
Yes, and the reverse for Hillary. I say.
benny havens| 9.14.12 @ 7:18AM
President Empty Chair knows exactly what he is doing. Overload the entire system and it will collapse. And after all, this is what the Marxists have been planing for since the end of WWII.
Gary B| 9.14.12 @ 9:26AM
Yup... they've got a hundred-year plan. So far. so good.
WinnieR| 9.14.12 @ 4:32PM
Find out what was going on under FDR's administration. Check "From Major Jordan's Diary" on utube.
There is also a pdf file for the complete diary; worth reading:
http://arcticbeacon.com/books/.....IARIES.pdf
rjh| 9.14.12 @ 7:21AM
"Conservatives are certainly taking their shots at President Obama. Some of these are justified; others perhaps less so. "...sooo, which ones are not justified? Please tell us, or are you just trying to rise above it all ala Bill O'Reilly?
RFisher66| 9.14.12 @ 9:15AM
Nice sentiment. How about if you enlighten us as to which shots are NOT justified. Just one example would do. Please, I'm sure you have many but just one would suffice.
rjh| 9.14.12 @ 9:35AM
Huh? Please reread my post...slowly.
MK48| 9.14.12 @ 10:46AM
Bill O'R.......is a shill....a POS shill.
MK48| 9.14.12 @ 10:49AM
sorry.......shell
Joellen| 9.14.12 @ 7:23AM
Something I've been wanting to discuss, this is not the right forum, but hey what the heck, times dictate the narrative. DO NOT purchase or read anything that the imposter Peggy Noonan has her hands in. Once again, she took a perfect opportunity to reveal the true going ons in the White House and turns on Governor Romney instead. I repeat, my outrage at this corrupt media has not abated, and it shouldnt. NOONAN is one of the enemy and should hold no creedence. It's bad enough we cant get the truth about the enemy within, but then to have one of our "own" turn traitor..........
Chef Schnauzer| 9.14.12 @ 7:37AM
Noonan is a bleeding heart clown. Nothing worth reading since the early 90s if that. She has been dining out on her association with President Reagan far too long. She wasn't that good then - a conservative affirmative action hire.
MK48| 9.14.12 @ 12:57PM
Ya...........someone ask Jeffery Lord about what HE thinks about Mrs. Noonan.
Ben did you get a new battery ?
Gary B| 9.14.12 @ 9:29AM
"...to have one of our "own" turn traitor..."
It happens with 95% of Republicans we work so hard to get elected to Congress. Betrayal of the conservative base. It's what's for dinner.
MK48| 9.14.12 @ 1:31PM
Gary........blame her parrents
TinaB| 9.14.12 @ 4:04PM
Joellen, she turned left during the last year of W's terms. I stopped reading her then. She is a wolf in sheepskin clothing.
Gary B| 9.14.12 @ 5:31PM
I'm sure she felt she had to do that to maintain her membership in the DC club. Rubbing elbows in the salons in DC is more important to these creeps than the welfare of the nation. And they call business owners greedy and self-centered. Where the hell do these people come from?
SUBVET| 9.14.12 @ 7:03PM
Tina in the dog/wolf world a Noonan would be called a "bitch".
Chef Schnauzer| 9.14.12 @ 7:33AM
Kengor asks a very legitimate end question. I honestly don't know if enough Americans care / pay attention. It is astonishing to me that simultaneous failures: failure of a free press to live up to the very reason we have a constitutionally protected press, the failure of the financial captains to look beyond their own cargo and neglect the horizon, neglect the responsibilities that their stewardship obligates them to, the absolute failure of the political class. All of them. Stunned that the current speaker put down his sob rag and bottle long enough to give the socialist EVERYTHING they wanted. Heaping scorn on these clowns is a waste of time, they ignore and mock the Almighty nothing any of the little people say will even reach their ears. Maybe American need to take a lesson from the Middle East and storm a few buildings here. The pudgy spineless paper pushers that are our government would first mess themselves, then capitulate to the mob.
Von Mises Jr| 9.14.12 @ 7:59AM
Hannah Arendt's book "On Revolution" gives insight on what is happening in the Middle East and America. Over time, war has been virtually replaced by revolution. Revolutions are fueled by "economic motivation - the overthrow of a government by the rich and the establishment of an oligarchy, or the overthrow of the government by the poor and the establishment of democracy."
The Middle East is evolving as the wealthy tyrants Mubarak and Gaddafi were murdered and it appears will be filled by a new oligarchy of the Muslim Brotherhood. The people will gain nothing.
In America, Obama ran on the latter of democracy for the poor, but it is glaringly obvious for those with eyes to see that Buffet, Immelt and GE, overpaid GM and public employees and his buddies at Solyndra are in and the people are SOL. So he golf’s and attends fund raisers while the people are realizing that they have been had. So the oligarchy of the Press Corpse, the regime and their cronies has lost the backing of the people.
We had a revolution in 2008, and it appears the counter-revolution will occur in 2013 in January.
Stephie| 9.14.12 @ 8:03AM
Security briefings?! I ain't got time for dat! I gots to shoot some hoops, chow down wit Beyonce', putt some balls and play cards! Sheeeeet, bro. Let Valerie take care of those boring security briefings.
This bastard gave the 4 dead 40 seconds at his Vegas campaign stop before he went on with his beg fest. "I love you obama!!!" they yell. It's like a freak show, the screaming with adulation as the middle east gears up for war.
On to the next campaign stop! moochelle is needin' a vacation.
Cobalt| 9.14.12 @ 9:01AM
Obama sent a form letter, signed by a machine, to the families of Navy Seals who were killed, yet he took the time to send a personal letter to the family of rapper Heavy D.
http://www.thegatewaypundit.co.....ctric-pen/
Cobalt| 9.14.12 @ 9:03AM
"Navy SEALs"
Purp| 9.14.12 @ 8:35AM
Funny - Reagan took down the Soviet Union ... but Barack Obama didn't kill Bin Laden. Interesting hypocrisy.
Nevertheless, whatever the real truth is about the PDB, Ronald Reagan sorely needed the PDB far more than Barack Obama.
More recently, perhaps GW Bush should have paid more attention and avoided 9/11. Ya think?
And, what to say about the TRAITOR Mitt Romney giving aid and comfort to the enemy, WHILE we were under attack in Libya and Egypt, by criticizing the President and the U.S. Government in time of WAR. He deserved to lose and yep, he is losing BIG ...
Romney's economic plan doesn't add up and his foreign policy position reminds us of Sarah "I can see Russia from my House" Palin .. incoherent, rambling and dangerous.
RFisher66| 9.14.12 @ 9:28AM
Seriously, Purp? You expect to be taken as a thoughtful commenter on this site with those democrat talking points. First off, Reagan had very clear policies that he put in place, one of them being America first and strongest. Second, he let people know, including Russian leaders, that he knew just exactly what they were and the lies they were telling. Third, he never, ever, apologized for the greatness of America. Did anyone at all really have any idea that the Muslim extremists were going to fly planes into the twin towers? Anyone? It's one thing to suspect that someone might attack someplace in a country as large as the United States. Quite another to be able to pin point it on a specific day at a specific time. That idea is so weak as to be not only laughable but also shows the irrationality of anything else you might have to say. Mitt Romney giving comfort to the enemy? Really. How many speeches by your precious Lefties in Congress and the Senate would you like to review during the Reagan and Bush years for comments much more inflamatory than anything Mitt has said? How about comments by John Kerry? Dick Durban? John Murtha? All while our young men and women are dying in Iraq and Afghanistan. And Obama having anything whatsover to do with killing Osama is just ridiculous. He had to be drug off of, where else, a golf course just to be in the situation room to give the go ahead. Which according to reports he only did reluctantly.
benny havens| 9.14.12 @ 10:44AM
Great post.
The CIA was hunting for OBL for close to 20 years, long before the empty chair showed up at the White House. They investigated every lead, collected enormous amounts of data and didn’t give up looking for him. Then they found him and who happened to be in the White House at the time? Before they could take him out, protocol states they needed permission from the head of the government.
For Obama, it was the luck of the draw.
MK48| 9.14.12 @ 10:56AM
RF66........Jack has been on our prayer list for some time.
Just incase you want to participate...... the prayer is that "he gets his head out of his ass".
Amen
Purp| 9.14.12 @ 2:52PM
Let's put a few facts and real truth out here for a change -
1) First, you can't really believe that Ronald Reagan took down the Soviet Union all by himself? It had everything to do with the 1947 containment policy of the Truman Administration (in who's Administration the CIA, Air Force and NSA were created by the National Security Act) that continued through the years followed by every President since? Seriously?
2) No American President apologized for the greatness of America - including Obama. That's right wing mythology - or do you have a link to prove it? I didn't think so. Now, GW Bush apologized to China for the Hainan plane crash, yes he did. Amazing, isn't it?
3) GW Bush, despite repeated warnings - first by the outgoing Clinton Administration and then in the spring and summer of 2001 that something big was going to happen WITHIN the United States - did he put the country on high alert? Ever? No, he did not. He said to his terrorism experts "I don't want to swat at flies" ... and so 9/11 happen while he was shirking his Command duties, asleep at the switch.
Nick| 9.14.12 @ 3:23PM
You blamed Ambassador Stevens for his own death, Burp.
You are a disgusting scumbag.
Purp| 9.14.12 @ 4:55PM
What's a matter Nicky? - you don't like losing?
CJW| 9.14.12 @ 5:13PM
You blamed Ambassador Stevens for his own death, Burp.
You are a disgusting scumbag.
CJW| 9.14.12 @ 5:15PM
Purpie
No, we do not like to have four Americans killed while O is fundraising and preparing for Letterman, when he should have been on the job, instead of missing all the security briefings during the week of Sept 6, and 57% of the security briefings last year.
Say bye to Barack Hussein Carter.
Purp| 9.14.12 @ 9:55PM
Hahahaha ... who cares about your right wing lie machine? America knows your game and it isn't working ... Birther, Truther, now Briefers ... are as fake as Donald Trump's "Real Hair" ...
You don't have enough dumb people to believe you.
CJW| 9.15.12 @ 2:30PM
Purpie
But the Dems do have a lot of dumb people, you as Exhibit A, to elect O and Biden.
Can't answer why O missed 57% of security briefings?
Purp| 9.16.12 @ 10:57AM
Security briefings? You mean the "Presidential Daily Briefing"?
While I don't believe 1/2 of what comes from the right looking for something to complain about - let's assume it's true.
How do you have a "Presidential Daily Briefing" without the President? What's it called without him? How stupid. Without him, there is no Presidential Daily Briefing is there?
When you have to manufacture issues, you really don't have any.
CJW| 9.16.12 @ 3:00PM
Purpe
Can you be this stupid? Answer is Yes. He is supposed to show up, Idiot , every morning. If he does not that does not mean there is not briefing. So if Obama does not say there is a briefing there is not briefing. You are such a suck up sycophant.
What logic, I won't have attend the briefing so there is no briefing so I did not miss a briefing.
You are a moron.
junkyard infidel| 9.14.12 @ 4:15PM
ha ha ... the perp-a-traitor puts forth facts and real truth like i give joe satriani guitar lessons !
SUBVET| 9.14.12 @ 7:11PM
Talk about asleep on watch.... how many times did the Rapist have to capture Osama....if he'd done his job Bush would'nt have had to worry.
They are all grifters...............
Purp| 9.14.12 @ 9:56PM
Bush didn't worry about America - that was the problem Sunshine.
SUBVET| 9.15.12 @ 11:42AM
Again Purp.........no answer......did the Rapist have a chance to capture Osama......just a simple answer YES or NO.
I rest my case...........
Purp| 9.16.12 @ 10:58AM
Bush was a rapist? I hadn't heard...
CJW| 9.16.12 @ 3:01PM
Obamaboy
Are you that stupid that you did not know Bubba twice turned down the offer to capture Osama? Or just pretend it did not occur, Still in denial, moron?
CJW| 9.16.12 @ 3:02PM
You blamed Ambassador Stevens for his own death, Burp.
You are a disgusting scumbag.
Purp| 9.14.12 @ 2:53PM
Part II -
4) Mitt Romney's speech was given WHILE the action was occurring, not after, when all the facts were in. Ronald Reagan and HW Bush did not jump on Jimmy Carter when the helicopters crashed in the Iranian desert attempting to rescue the hostages in 1979. No, they supported the President Carter then, they were Statesmen.
Romney is NO Reagan and certainly no GW Bush.. More like a Sarah "I can see Russia from my House" type. Rambling, contradictory, incoherent and dangerous without all the facts.
5) Reluctant? I would be too if you're betting your Presidency on one mission, which could have easily failed - but it didn't, he gave the order and Bin Laden is dead. And President Obama is a strong, caring, CAREFUL leader - something Mitt the Twit is not.
Nick| 9.14.12 @ 3:22PM
You blamed Ambassador Stevens for his own death, Burp.
You are a disgusting scumbag.
TinaB| 9.14.12 @ 4:11PM
Oh thank you, RFisher66. I feel better just reading that response to the troll. I think I hold my breath sometimes, as I read his shitforposts. You helped me exhale just then.
Purp| 9.14.12 @ 4:56PM
He's been answered and dismembered, piece by piece.
Nick| 9.14.12 @ 5:01PM
You blamed Ambassador Stevens for his own death, Burp.
You are a disgusting scumbag.
TinaB| 9.14.12 @ 11:19PM
Only in your lalaland.
Nick| 9.14.12 @ 10:39AM
The other day, Burp blamed the late Ambassador Stevens for his own death, the death of 3 other Americans, and the attack on the Libyan consulate because they didn't apologize to a Moslem mob (hit squad?) for the American right to free-speech.
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Purp| 9.12.12 @ 4:16PM
"Correct - the Embassy in Cairo released that message BEFORE there was any violence. Obama knew nothing about it - but they were worried for their lives and tried to calm things down.
"Smart, since they didn't get burned down like what happened in Libya."
______________
You are a disgusting scumbag, Burp.
JmsA| 9.14.12 @ 10:40AM
Watch out, Purpleturd, your hypocrisy is showing.
Purp| 9.14.12 @ 4:06PM
So what? YOU don't have a problem with it and I'm not running to be President.
CJW| 9.14.12 @ 5:15PM
You blamed Ambassador Stevens for his own death, Burp.
You are a disgusting scumbag.
JmsA| 9.14.12 @ 7:46PM
Intelligence is quickness in seeing things as they are. -- George Santayana
Your idol told everyone that if elected they would like us in the Middle East. Appeasement, in case you haven't figured it out yet, doesn't work with savages that wish to kill you. You're nothing but a pedantic, self-deluded braggard who conflates what never was with what will never be.
You don't know any more than I do who's winning or losing. And I know, as does everyone else that possesses any intelligence that the ONE and the frumpy one's policy of appeasament begets only further aggression. It just took the lives of four innocent Americans, and the Lord only knows how many more, to show what tragic folly it was and continues to be, to have elected this incompentent fraud. Current polls, in which you take such pleasure, for you have nothing else to comfort yourself at the sight of such abysmal failure, is but statistical slight of hand. The only poll that counts is the one on 11/06/2006. See you then.
JmsA| 9.14.12 @ 7:48PM
The comments above were meant for the sycophant-in-chief, Purpleturd.
JmsA| 9.14.12 @ 9:16PM
Correction: 11/06/2012.
Purp: I do respect the fact that you fight the fight, though at times a bit too tediously in light of the facts.
Purp| 9.14.12 @ 10:03PM
No, sorry, those words were never uttered by President Obama ...
but "The Iraqis will greet us with flowers and candy ... " - Donald Rumsfeld. Yeah, right, that worked out well.
President Obama said he'd end the Iraq War - done
President Obama said he'd kill or capture Bin Laden - done
President Obama said we'd help Libya topple Qaddafi - done
What President says he does. And, he says he will win in November - done.
Appeasers?
Republicans have been appeasing the oil exporters (OPEC) to placate BIG OIL for decades. They are bought off by the oil barons and throw you all under the bus - THAT's why the middle class has been declining for 30 years.
CJW| 9.16.12 @ 3:02PM
You blamed Ambassador Stevens for his own death, Burp.
You are a disgusting scumbag.
Ken (Old Texican)| 9.14.12 @ 1:29PM
Purp,
just what is it in your psyche that compels you to argue endlessly and jump sideways when you are embarassed into a corner?
maam, you are obviously a pychopath with WAY too much time on your hands.
yawn.....scroll......................
Albert Constantine Jr.| 9.14.12 @ 2:17PM
As an MD and mental health professional, I would prefer that OT weigh in on such a diagnosis, but rather than psychopath, it my limited experience I would suggest that he is in fact a borderline personality who is also bi-polar, and we're exposed to his manic phases most days here.
Albert Constantine Jr.| 9.14.12 @ 2:18PM
That should be in my limited experience
Stkman| 9.14.12 @ 3:07PM
in other words, he's a liberal.
Purp| 9.14.12 @ 4:13PM
I see ... I don't agree with you, so I'm BiPolar - hahaha ... no, I just don't need the constant petting from others that agree with me you all are desperately seeking.
Left alone, you wouldn't know what you believe or what you should say - and you know it.
Nick| 9.14.12 @ 4:25PM
You blamed Ambassador Stevens for his own death, Burp.
You are a disgusting scumbag.
Albert Constantine Jr.| 9.14.12 @ 10:16PM
No, your behavior resembles those hyperactive unbalanced disturbed individuals among those I encounter on a daily basis. As such I posit the thought that among your many problems, you're bi-polar, and in addition to the mood disorder, you are also likely a personality disorder(most likely, a borderline personality).
I disagree with others who post regularly on this site, including those on the left. Unlike those like RCV, whom I think is merely wrong on many positions on the issues, you display indicators of mental illness.
As a real mental health professional I respect OT's unwillingness to diagnose someone that he hasn't interviewed face to face. As an interested amateur, I have no professional obligation in that regard, so I can offer my thoughts without regard to the consideration of licensed peers.
My recommendation is that you seek help in the form of therapy, preferably on your own dime, since you've been so successful in your Fortune 100 (or 500, or 50) past.
Purp| 9.16.12 @ 11:06AM
Your judgements fall like snowflakes on a hot summer day --- they disappear long before they hit their intended target.
And, you're right, you have no standing with regard to diagnoses on the INTERNET! Only someone with an agenda to push would think to try.
Nothing you have said discounts my career in multiple Fortune 100 companies, so what's the point?
I neither desire or require your ridiculous advice about anything, let alone mental health therapy, which you clearly know nothing about, but surely could benefit from.
CJW| 9.16.12 @ 3:06PM
You blamed Ambassador Stevens for his own death, Burp.
You are a disgusting scumbag.
Yeah, you had careers in multiple Fortune 100 companies!! Just like Obama did not miss the daily briefings because they did not really occur because he was not there when he was supposed to be there. You have a firm grip on reality, Idiotboy.
Occam's Tool| 9.14.12 @ 8:05PM
Purp is not diagnosable: he's just a Liberal asshole. He also is rude and stupid. In short, he is the Liberal Clint.
"Sometimes a Cigar is just a Cigar."
Purp| 9.14.12 @ 10:04PM
So what?
Occam's Tool| 9.14.12 @ 8:06PM
Albert, thank you for your very kind words. I try not to make diagnosis without face to face. However, my estimate is below. G-d Bless you, sir.
Purp| 9.14.12 @ 4:12PM
Embarrassed by whom? Who on this site could possibly muster a cogent argument that corners anyone? Constant repeat of RightWing Mythology just pleases you ... it doesn't change anyone.
Lies and misinformation is all your side has.
VultureCap and VoucherBoy are losing and you take it out on me - I get that. As long as the President wins, I can take it.
But you need to hear another point of view - you're all SOOOO sure you're 100% correct, but it's 4th down, you have 80 yards to go, and time is running out to score. Neither Mitt the Twit or Lyin' Ryan has enough there there to make up enough ground.
And, if spending on advertising worked - it already would have. It hasn't.
When you have a bad product, you can't sell it... Romney's campaign is amateur hour and Ryan is a fumbling, mumbling fool, not ready for prime time.
Nick| 9.14.12 @ 4:24PM
You blamed Ambassador Stevens for his own death, Burp.
You are a disgusting scumbag.
Alan| 9.14.12 @ 4:13PM
He's a F'ing troll, does anybody with a anything resembling a life spend 12 hours a day five days a week typing messages and responses on the same site over and over and over. The clown needs an intervention.
Purp| 9.14.12 @ 4:15PM
Hahahaha ... Now I need an intervention?
Why? because you're losing? I counter anyone's lies, right wing mythology and "well known situations" whenever I can ... that makes me ill?
Okay, you go with that. Don't bother to think.
Nick| 9.14.12 @ 4:26PM
You blamed Ambassador Stevens for his own death, Burp.
You are a disgusting scumbag.
CJW| 9.14.12 @ 5:12PM
Purpie/jack
Why did Obama miss 57% of the presidential security briefings, and all briefing during the week of Sept 6 leading to the Setp 11 attacks that killed four Americans?
Too busy with fundraising and Letterman.
Purp| 9.14.12 @ 10:04PM
I don't believe it.... now what?
CJW| 9.14.12 @ 7:16PM
You blamed Ambassador Stevens for his own death, Burp.
You are a disgusting scumbag.
Anthony| 9.14.12 @ 9:00AM
So WHO FORGET TO CONNECT THE DOTS????Does anybody think the corrupt whores in the MSM will demand Obozo and Clinton explain this total and complete disaster?
If this was Bush, he be pillared in front of Helen Thomas and the other leftists in the media with Rice by his side.
What total whores the media in this country are.
We are indeed a nation at risk with this moron pretender-in-chief as president. He has got to go!!
CJW| 9.14.12 @ 12:14PM
You cannot connect the dots if you do not attend the daily presidential security briefings because of golf, basketball, beer summits to second guess the police, fundraising, and Letterman/Lenno shows.
O does not know about the dots.
Anthony| 9.14.12 @ 1:40PM
Correct CJW, and somebody needs to tell Jay Carney the carney barker for Obozo, that it wasn't a damn movie that all of 10 people saw, that set these fanatics off!!
It was Obozo spiking the Osama football, along with the whores in the media.
Purp| 9.14.12 @ 10:05PM
How long did it take Fixed News to come up with that delusion?
Purp| 9.16.12 @ 11:08AM
While I don't believe 1/2 of what comes from the right looking for something to complain about - let's assume it's true.
How do you have a "Presidential Daily Briefing" without the President? What's it called without him?
How stupid. Without him, there is no Presidential Daily Briefing is there?
When you have to manufacture issues, you really don't have any.
Nick| 9.16.12 @ 4:20PM
You blamed Ambassador Stevens for his own death, Burp.
You are a disgusting scumbag.
Purp| 9.14.12 @ 4:17PM
Here's some TRUTH for a change:
As The Daily Dolt noted on Thursday, terrorists attacked U.S. embassies 12 times while President George W. Bush was in office. At least eight of those attacks occurred while Rumsfeld was serving as secretary of Defense.
Including the attacks on Tuesday, U.S. embassies have come under attack twice since Obama took office.
Care to answer if you can?
Nick| 9.14.12 @ 4:27PM
You blamed Ambassador Stevens for his own death, Burp.
You are a disgusting scumbag.
chuck| 9.16.12 @ 8:49AM
Raped and murdered Ambassador count:
Obama 1
Bush 0
F&CK; YOU purp!
Purp| 9.16.12 @ 11:08AM
back at ya ... you're irrelevant.
RFisher66| 9.14.12 @ 9:12AM
Could it be that "The One" doesn't want to show his ignorance in front of people who are inferior to him but yet somehow still much smarter? This man is a disgrace and by far the most ignorant president this country has ever had. His smug belief that he is the smartest person in any room is laughable and would stretch credulity if he were in a room by himself.
MK48| 9.14.12 @ 1:27PM
RF66............you call barry the "most ignorant" better watch out you SIR could be called a RACIST.
He or who ever put this POS in office are smart and are putting into play their play book of socialism. We on the other hand are the stupid ones for letting him get away with it from day one.
The signs were there but where was the outrage to vet this POS.....and then stand by and watch IT day after day change our country of power to one of submission.
Adolph Hitler..."what luck for rulers that men do not think".
America need not fear so much the enemy at the gates, but High Vigilance must be paid to the enemys from with in.
And my favorite from the movie.....Rum Diary....A liberial is a communist with a college education with a mind of a Ne*ro or thinking Neg*o thoughts.
This guy is not done if IT'S going down IT will take everyone with him.
Kwan| 9.14.12 @ 9:29AM
Anybody that thinks Obama cares anything about the security of the United States, has a fog-bank floating in that vacuum between their ears. So we're paying this Communist Bum $400,000 a year to do what? Make glowing speeches and sabotage the American economy. Anybody with buyers remorse November 6th will be a good time to make it known.
florin| 9.14.12 @ 9:49AM
Sept. 14th: the fact that Obama did not attend so many intelligence briefings simply means that he has nothing at all to offer and that he simply does not care about the security of the United States and our citizens abroad. Can you imagine what would have happened if Pres. Bush had gone to sleep after 9/11 or if he had gone to Las Vegas to party and to campaign? People should be outraged by the main stream media which props up Obama no matter how low he sinks while collaborating to take down Mitt Romney...
florin| 9.14.12 @ 9:56AM
It's been clear for a long time that Obama has nothing to contribute, that he leaves the running of the country, including the security of the country, to others so why should he attend an intelligence briefing or any other kind of briefing?
Mike G| 9.14.12 @ 10:27AM
Obama believes that CEOs, as a rule, do not do anything. This is obvious because he thinks they are overpaid and under-taxed. Since he sees himself as the CEO of the country, he thinks he doesn't have to do anything. Therefore, he leaves the running of the country to others.
Houdini| 9.14.12 @ 10:43AM
Why attend briefings when your goals of "fundamentally changing Amerika" are being met.
MK48| 9.14.12 @ 10:58AM
Magic Man......read Hope of The Wicked
It's a movie we are in........
Ken (Old Texican)| 9.14.12 @ 1:11PM
Paul,
I care. I spent a year writing a book about it.
www.americaalonesaidno.com
I hope you will read the foreword , reviews, and chapter one at the website.
SUBVET| 9.14.12 @ 7:15PM
Read it Ken.......some good sh*t.
Stkman| 9.14.12 @ 3:14PM
Purp,
Your mindset is going to catch up with you. All the excuses you make for Obama are going to come back to haunt you. You are to close minded to see what is coming, what is being forced upon America.
We are getting ready to have a fight for our survival. It will be both a fight against the Muslim world and fight right here at home against those despise this country. Who gets to decide who it is that despises this country? I'll give you a hint, it isn't you. You really need to study history and understand when a war like the one we are about to have, everything changes, everything will have to be rebuilt. When it gets rebuilt, and it will, you and your type won't be around to see it. Some little hot head is gooing to find some rope, or an extension cord and put it to good use. The plans of your God and Savior Obama are about to create a very very nasty situation. You brought it on yourself.
I don't care to hear your respponse to this. I hope that you will finally understand what it is that people like you have done. You've set a monster lose on the world, and that monster will take everything we have to beat and will take years and years.
Purp| 9.14.12 @ 4:26PM
Well, it's the End of the World on Dec 21st, so why worry about it?
Seriously, scare tactics don't work on me. I know too much about history, politics and human behavior.
Maybe if you all will just shut up and let this crisis die down, and be handled by the professionals who have FAR more information than we do, we can get through this.
There is definitely an weirdness that a cartoon or a short youtube video has the power to bring thousands of people into the streets.
This is orchestrated, the movie, the distribution and the attacks - and has been described in Libya as a professional, military invasion. The militants had riot gear, RPGs and automatic weapons - hardly the normal protester. In a sovereign country responsible for all the diplomats in its borders, this was planned, and it's curious they knew where the Ambassador was, now isn't it?
Osama Bin Laden said he wanted the US engaged in a WAR with ISLAM ... Bush fell for it, you all for for it, waving your big d***ks around, but Obama hopefully is more steady and smart not to fall into the trap. Without us as a target to stir up their people, what else are the militants to do?
Nick| 9.14.12 @ 4:32PM
You blamed Ambassador Stevens for his own death, Burp.
You are a disgusting scumbag.
Purp| 9.14.12 @ 4:18PM
Here's some TRUTH for a change:
As The Daily Dolt noted on Thursday, terrorists attacked U.S. embassies 12 times while President George W. Bush was in office. At least eight of those attacks occurred while Rumsfeld was serving as secretary of Defense.
Including the attacks on Tuesday, U.S. embassies have come under attack twice since Obama took office.
Care to answer if you can?
Nick| 9.14.12 @ 4:28PM
The other day, Burp blamed the late Ambassador Stevens for his own death, the death of 3 other Americans, and the attack on the Libyan consulate because they didn't apologize to a Moslem mob (hit squad?) for the American right to free-speech.
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Purp| 9.12.12 @ 4:16PM
"Correct - the Embassy in Cairo released that message BEFORE there was any violence. Obama knew nothing about it - but they were worried for their lives and tried to calm things down.
"Smart, since they didn't get burned down like what happened in Libya."
______________
You are a disgusting scumbag, Burp.
Warrior| 9.14.12 @ 9:57PM
I hate to answer an idiot, because regardless of what I say, the fool will remain an idiot. I just have to this one last time.
First of all, your "facts" amaze me. There has been a minimum of six attacks during the Occupy White House (OWH) reign. Dumbass, do you understand the difference between isolated terrorist incidents and organized assaults/acts of war? Apologies and appeasement are the responses of the inept and clueless. Do you realize the level of paranoia that the OWH crowd has? While Mr. Stevens lacked the normal marine protection at his post, Valerie Jarrett is vacationing at Martha's Vineyard with a full contingent of Secret Service. Do you realize that marine embassy guards in Egypt were not allowed to actually carry ammo? Do you have the first clue what rules of engagement our OWH/CIC has imposed upon combat soldiers? Do you even minimally comprehend that the intelligence being received warned of embassies being targeted about a week prior to the actual event. Can you explain the difference between planning for the defense and repelling an assault by a hostile force on our sovereign soil and the vulnerabilities that can be exploited by someone who is suicidal?
Please don't answer. You are an asshole of the highest magnitude. Take your Soros troll money and choke on it.
Purp| 9.16.12 @ 11:14AM
There were 12 Embassy attacks under the Bush Administration - And Bush apologized to China, Japan and held hands with the Saudi King. Is Bush gay now?
Your solution is to kill everyone you disagree with? Is that what you're recommending?
Recall that Germany and Britain are under attack too - why is that?
And did you know that the youtube movie maker was an Egyptian? Could it be they want they reaction you're having? Like Bush fell for Osama Bin Laden's ploy to invade in Muslim lands, you are falling for the same ridiculous prodding.
Far more people die from gang violence within the United States than any Embassy ... and?
Nick| 9.16.12 @ 4:18PM
You blamed Ambassador Stevens for his own death, Burp.
You are a disgusting scumbag.
Warrior| 9.16.12 @ 9:40PM
Still an idiot. Triangulation and misdirection. I was wrong for answering a troll, however, it leaves no doubt that you are an asshole. My only hopes for pieces of crap like you is an early and painful death.
Alej| 9.14.12 @ 6:13PM
Going over to "Big Government" now... tired of reading the Purp Spectator.
Occam's Tool| 9.14.12 @ 8:08PM
Man, if I had access to the daily intelligence briefings, you could not GET me on the golf course. I'd be buzzing for data ALL day long...
Alej: don't forget Weasel Zippers, sir...
Alej| 9.14.12 @ 9:58PM
Razor, the point was that both moderators and respondents on this site allow the puerile nonentity to dominate the entire site.
Despite interesting topics, not interested in watching discussions degenerate almost immediately into pissing matches. "Don't feed the trolls " is a request from the site, yet respondents shovel it in and moderstors, if any, look the other way.
Lost interest.
Purp| 9.14.12 @ 10:07PM
Coward. Nothing to say, can't stand the truth, can't fight for what you believe - which is it?
You coward.
Albert Constantine Jr.| 9.14.12 @ 10:54PM
No, I think that he's just saying that he's grown tired of you. I, on the other hand, believe that every time you post, you mobilize conservative opinion in ways that most of us on the right could only hope to do. You accomplish this by demonstrating the bankruptcy of your ideas, which are shared by so many others on the Left.
Thanks for all that you do.
Purp| 9.15.12 @ 6:42PM
Thank you ... my plan is working.
Sadly for you, the ideas are not exclusive to the Left, but you really don't know or believe it, do you?
Albert Constantine Jr.| 9.15.12 @ 7:57PM
I should have used "talking points" instead of "ideas" to be more accurate. You are a petty man without original thoughts who routinely lies, dissembles, contradicts himself and lives to annoy others. You represent your fellow travelers and your organization well, and when left to your own devices, you put forth the type of drivel that Nick has re-posted, which illustrates how loathsome you are.
Carroll | 9.15.12 @ 3:32AM
Delusions can be comforting, of course, and you're entitled to them. But when you're indulging them, you should probably say so, as a courtesy to your readers.
Mickle | 9.15.12 @ 3:35AM
Every bit of my post was straight out of Obama's mouth. Talk about back in reality.
kbs55| 9.15.12 @ 4:15PM
The campaigner-in-chief Barak Obama isn’t running for president to DO the job, but for the perks, social life, title and what he and his friends can do to diminish the United States at home and abroad. Campaigning and fund raising he gets to meet people who wouldn’t give him the time of day otherwise.