Classic lines from Twitchy:
Q. Why does Massachusetts insist on inflicting the worst of their politicians on the rest of the country?
A. To get them out of the state.I remember when John Kerry once said something intelligent. No wait, that was someone else. Never mind!
Who ever thought John “Swift Boat” Kerry and Hillary “What difference does it make?” Clinton would be good choices for Secretary of State? Oh right … that would be President Barack “Don’t do stupid shit” Obama.
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Filed under Barack Obama, Iran, John Kerry, Syria
The scale of the horror in Iraq is hard to fathom. Here are two personal stories to put a human face on it. Below the graphics is a timeline. Note: IS, ISIS and ISIL are all the same people.
TIMELINE: JUNE 2014
TIMELINE: JULY 2014
TIMELINE: AUGUST 2014
August 29: OBAMA says we don’t have a strategy.
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OBAMA’s statements on IRAQ:
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Filed under Barack Obama, Christianity, Iraq, ISIS, Islam
Best comment at Twitchy: “At least the commies and we agreed on one thing. We knew and they knew that we could live in a stand off because if it escalated it was mutually assured destruction. For the Middle East today … death is what they want. Taking the kafir out is what counts and dying in the process is not a deterrent, it is a feature. So no, the world is not safer.”
Neither is the economy …
1984: National Debt: $1.5 Trillion.
2014: National Debt: $17.7 Trillion.
Sources:
http://twitchy.com/2014/08/29/holy-cow-i-cant-believe-he-said-that-obama-drops-another-bombshell-of-stupid/
http://twitchy.com/2014/08/29/forget-it-hes-rolling-obama-makes-another-promise-hes-already-broken/
Filed under Barack Obama, Democrats, Economy, Middle East, National Debt
This ought to be interesting.
Noting that Hamas is officially designated by the U.S. government as a Foreign Terrorist Organization, the attorney in the case, Larry Klayman (founder of Freedom Watch) said Obama’s actions “were calculated to harm the nation of Israel.”
“This money has been foreseeably used to buy rockets and construct tunnels to attack Israel and terrorize and kill American and dual American-Israeli citizens who reside or are located in Israel,” Klayman said in a statement.
“The nation and the world have increasingly come to see that Obama views himself primarily as a Muslim and acts accordingly in favoring Islamic interests over Judeo-Christian ones, and the complaint lays out Obama’s history in documented detail,” he said.
“His facilitating and ordering financial and other material aid to Hamas, along with his equally anti-Israel Secretaries of State Kerry and Clinton, and the U.N. Secretary General, is just the latest deadly chapter in what amounts to criminal activity which has logically resulted in harm and death to Jews and Christians and threatens the continued existence of Israel,” he said.
EXCERPT: Plaintiffs sue the Defendants [Barack and Malik Obama, HAMAS and the Secretary General of UN, and SecStates Clinton and Kerry] as individuals and foreign states in their official and unofficial capacities, for violating Plaintiffs’ (U.S. citizens in Israel) and decedents’ [family of same who have been killed by Hamas] rights, for engaging in racketeering and other prohibited activities, for engaging in international terrorism, for harboring and concealing terrorists, for providing material support to terrorists and terrorist groups, for directly and proximately causing the deaths of Plaintiffs’ decedents … Plaintiffs, on behalf of themselves and their sons, Plaintiffs’ decedents, respectfully demand a jury trial on all issues so triable. Dated: August 28, 2014.
See full text of lawsuit @ http://www.freedomwatchusa.org/pdf/140828-HamasComplaint16FINAL.pdf
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Filed under Barack Obama, Hamas, Hillary Clinton, Israel, John Kerry
August 26, 2014: USA Today reported that the joint DOJ-FBI-Veterans Affairs task force has issued a report on its investigation of 93 VA health care sites across the country.
Investigators found thousands of instances of deliberate VA fraud that directly impinged on care for veterans. Not mistakes. Fraud … including falsifying records to hide delays in care and deliberate attempts to obstruct investigators.
August 26, 2014? Can we just say … it’s about damn time and what the hell took so long?!?!?!
It’s not like there weren’t people EAGER to step forward! When the news media finally broke the story, the Inspector General’s office was flooded with allegations by whistle-blowers at VA hospitals and clinics across the country! And the very people who were most responsible for finding and fixing problems like this were AWARE that there were problems as far back as 2007.
Okay. Before you buy into Obama’s usual “Booosh did it!”, let’s look at HOW MUCH responsibility Barack Obama has SHIRKED on this issue.
Bush’s second term covered the 109th (2005-2006) and 110th (2007-2008) sessions of Congress. During both sessions, Senator Barack OBAMA was a member of the Senate Veterans’ Affairs Committee, a group that is DIRECTLY RESPONSIBLE for monitoring the quality of care our veterans are or are not getting at VA facilities.
However, it would be a mistake to say he “served” on the committee, since even the liberal blog Daily Kos noted that Senator Barack Obama MISSED MORE THAN HALF of the meetings!
Sadly … or perhaps I should say typically … his lack of attention to his own responsibility to monitor veteran health care did not stop him from blaming the Bush Administration for “deplorable conditions at some VA hospitals.”
Are we clear on this? Senator Barack Obama KNEW in NOVEMBER 2007 that some of the VA hospitals had serious problems AND he was PART of the oversight committee charged with INVESTIGATING and FINDING LEGISLATIVE SOLUTIONS to said problems.
Before I continue, I need to recap another bit of historical truth about Bush’s second term, which is that while Republicans held the majority in both the Senate and the House of Representatives during the 109th Congress, Democrats held the majority in both the Senate and the House of Representatives during the 110th Congress.
Our federal government cannot pass a single law unless the Senate and the House vote it through and the President signs it. That means whichever party holds the majority of TWO (or three) of these three entities HAS MAJORITY CONTROL OVER POLICY and legislation.
In other words, it would be entirely fair to blame Republicans for VA problems PRIOR to January 2007, since they had held the majority in DC continuously from January 1995 to December 2006.
But DEMOCRATS took over in January 2007 and among those Democrats was one Senator Barack Obama on the Senate Veterans’ Affairs Committee who claimed to be well aware of problems in VA hospitals.
So what exactly did Senator Obama DO to try and address the problems he claimed he saw so clearly in November of 2007?
Not much.
In the November 2007 Obama campaign press release in which Senator Obama blamed President Bush for “deplorable conditions at some VA hospitals,” it says:
“As a member of the Senate Committee on Veterans Affairs, Senator Obama has successfully reached out to Republicans and Democrats to pass laws to improve care for troops recovering from injuries, combat homelessness among veterans, and make the disability benefits process more equitable.”
I was curious how true that statement might be and actually looked up every piece of legislation sponsored by Senator Barack Obama on behalf of veterans. As it turns out, Senator Obama did what he’s so often done – i.e., he mangled the truth to make himself look good.
As you look at these lists, pay particular attention to the facts behind his claim to have “successfully reached out to Republicans to pass laws.”
- Obama’s “outreach” to Republicans was limited to just three centrists.
- None of his seven bills ever even made it out of committee, a step that is still very far removed from a bill becoming a law.
Surprisingly, none of the Republicans Obama got to co-sponsor included the pro-military, but very centrist Senator John McCain.
One has to wonder … if the bills were actually any good, wouldn’t McCain have signed on, particularly to S.713 (2007) which was referred to the Armed Services Committee where Senator McCain was a ranking member? And if that particular bill had had any merit whatsoever, how did it manage to DIE in a Democrat-majority committee without even one day of hearings when it had had 32 Democrat sponsors?
Also in that November 2007 campaign press release, Obama said, “America’s veterans deserve a President who will fight for them not just when it’s easy or convenient, but every hour of every day for the next four years.”
I totally agree. So let’s take a look at how well Barack Obama kept his alleged resolve after he became the President of the United States and the Commander in Chief of the American Armed forces in January 2009.
One: President Obama’s election gave the Democrat majority a trifecta for the two years of the 111th Congress (2009-2010).
In fact, the Democrats had large majorities in both the Senate and the House of Representatives, so essentially during those two years, Democrats could virtually write and pass any law they wanted.
Two: President Obama’s own nominee, Eric Shinseki, took over control of the Veterans Administration in January 2009.
If ever there was a prime time to FIX those “deplorable conditions”, 2009-2010 was it.
Three: In January 2011, Republicans won back the House of Representatives, but Democrats still controlled the Senate and the White House.
Democrats have had majority control over policy and legislation continuously since January 2007.
When the VA scandal broke in May 2014, DEMOCRATS had held the MAJORITY for more than SEVEN years, with OBAMA in the White House and his hand picked leader running the VA for more than FOUR years.
So let’s just put to rest any lingering “Booosh did it” and “Obama cares” baloney, mkay?
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Filed under Barack Obama, Democrats, Republicans, U.S. Congress, VA, Veterans
This was Obama’s first appearance in front of the group since the VA scandal broke in May 2014. The crowd came to life to honor fellow veterans, not Obama’s speech fell flat before the audience of thousands of military veterans who learned early on in their careers what the stench of political BS smells like. Some applause lines met with awkward silence while others earned only three seconds of feeble clapping from what a legionnaire reported was from “a small group of Obama’s admirers [who] sat near the front and tried to generate applause for him about 10 times.”
Weak Applause – Obama American Legion, Reno, NV – August 23, 2014
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Filed under Armed Forces, Barack Obama, VA, Veterans
August 22, 2014: The Obama administration issued a revised version of the HHS mandate. Under the guise of “filling out forms”, the new rules require people of faith to violate their religious beliefs or face fines of as much as $36,500 per year, per employee.
Father Frank Pavone, National Director of Priests for Life, explained the new rules like this:
“Let’s use a simple example. The government comes up with a plan to arbitrarily imprison children between 2 and 4 years old, and imposes on businesses the obligation to inform them of such children among the families of their employees.
“Any employer with a conscience is going to say, ‘I want nothing to do with this. If you’re going to imprison these children, you’re going to have to find them yourself. I won’t be sending you any information.’
“We want a full exemption from this mandate, so that we have nothing to do with this scheme. … Our religion requires no less.”
Just a thought from CtH …
Yesterday, one of my Facebook friends reported hearing a young man say there’s no reason to give a crap if a cop gets shot. “That’s what they signed up for.” I’m guessing he votes Democrat, so it just crossed my mind today that the same could be said of women who accept jobs with Christian non-profits and family-owned companies. There’s no reason to give a crap if they have to pay for their immoral practices out of their own pockets. “That’s what they signed up for.”
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Filed under Barack Obama, Christianity, HHS, Obamacare, Religious Liberty
Well, only according to President Unicorn, who told us over and over and over that the death of Osama bin Laden and removal of U.S. troops from Iraq meant that Bush’s “stupid” Global War on Terror was over, Over, OVER.
Those of us who have been PAYING ATTENTION have known disaster was inevitable … just like we know the economy is headed for a great big, possibly fatal crash because of the Obamacrats’ out-of-control spending. But that’s another story.
“The analogy we use around here sometimes, and I think is accurate, is if a jayvee team puts on Lakers uniforms that doesn’t make them Kobe Bryant. … I think there is a distinction between the capacity and reach of a bin Laden and a network that is actively planning major terrorist plots against the homeland versus jihadists who are engaged in various local power struggles and disputes, often sectarian,” Obama said in an interview with The New Yorker.
“As the Syrian civil war spills across borders, the capacity of battle-hardened extremist groups to come after us only increases,” Obama said at West Point. “And the need for a new strategy reflects the fact that today’s principal threat no longer comes from a centralized al Qaeda leadership. Instead it comes from decentralized al Qaeda affiliates and extremists, many with agendas focused in the countries where they operate.”
“We don’t have people embedded in those [Iraqi] units, and so obviously nobody knew that,” Kerry said on Fox News.
“It is al Qaeda in its doctrine, ambition and, increasingly, in its threat to U.S. interests. … In fact, it is worse than al Qaeda,” McGurk told the House Armed Services Committee. “[ISIS] is no longer simply a terrorist organization. It is now a full-blown army seeking to establish a self-governing state through the Tigris and Euphrates valley in what is now Syria and Iraq.”
“We do have a strategic interest in pushing back ISIL. We’re not going to let them create some caliphate through Syria and Iraq, but we can only do that if we know that we’ve got partners on the ground who are capable of filling the void,” Obama told The New York Times. (IS, ISIS, and ISIL are all the same group.)
Those former allies that Obama has systematically ignored and disrespected since Bush retired? Those partners that Obama left hanging when he pulled our troops out so he could do his “I killed Osama” end zone dance again and again?
Isn’t this like a doctor who ignored your symptoms until they had grown into a Stage 4 malignancy?
“ISIL is as sophisticated and well-funded as any group that we have seen. They’re beyond just a terrorist group. They marry ideology, a sophistication of strategic and tactical military prowess. They are tremendously well funded. This is beyond anything that we’ve seen. So we must prepare for everything. And the only way you do that is that you take a cold, steely, hard look at it and … get ready.”
Sources:
Obama’s evolution on ISIS threat By Kristina Wong – 08/24/14
http://thehill.com/policy/defense/215812-obamas-evolution-on-isis
Woods and Baldwin tweets
http://twitchy.com/2014/08/24/brutal-youre-about-to-see-why-james-woods-thinks-obama-is-mt-rushmore-level-and-we-agree-photo/
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Filed under Al Qaeda, Barack Obama, George W. Bush, Iraq, ISIS, John Kerry, Osama bin Laden, Syria
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bluebirdofbitterness.com/2014/08/22/par-for-the-course/
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