The Not Ready For Prime Time President
Author | joe | Posted on | April 5, 2009 | 86 Comments
Like a 12-year-old who has snuck into the Senior Prom, in the past week the President of the United States has drawn sniggers from around the world for his immature behavior during the current tour of Europe and meetings with world leaders.
The Obama Administration’s official gift to the Queen of England was an iPod. Reports are sketchy as to whether it was purchased at Amazon or Costco. On the plus side, it did contain recordings of speeches by Barack Obama.
His now well-recognized mental deficiencies in the “public thinking” department were on full display when he was “flummoxed” by a question from a British reporter. Ouch. I’m not sure the Republicans need a new Contract with America. I think all they need is the transcript of that answer.
The President revealed who-the-hell-knows-what-but-it-sure-was-weird by greeting with a deep bow to the Saudi king, as other world leaders laughed somewhat uncomfortably all around him. (As a point of reference, when Bill Clinton merely lowered his shoulders to the Emperor of Japan, the New York Times took him to task for it.) And this shall henceforth be known as The Submissive Era.
He asked our European allies for more troop support in Afghanistan and received a resounding “No thanks.” On the plus side, he agreed to allow our grandchildren to send $1 trillion to the International Monetary Fund.
Then today, the President responded to North Korea’s launch of a long-range missile with a stern notice that
I urge North Korea to abide fully by the resolutions of the U.N. Security Council and to refrain from further provocative actions.
The President also stated he will…
…call for the elimination of all nuclear weapons across the globe in a speech later on Sunday that he hopes will lend credibility to his message in atomic disputes with Iran and North Korea.
In other words: “To all of you who want to kill us, I tell you now, we are prepared to lay down our arms.”
There is a word for a negotiating position like this. I know what you are thinking. You are thinking “asshat.”
That may be true, but I think the word that best describes the leader of the United States as he is now seen by the rest of the world is “lightweight.”
As in “Jimmy Carter – how did that work out for you?”
UPDATE: Uh, yeah. How do ya think WE feel buddy?
UPDATE II: Carter’s stillborn second term continues to unfold…
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April 5th, 2009 @ 3:57 am
The white house giving those poor unsuspecting journalists the phone number of a phone sex line instead of Hillary’s conference really took the cake, apparently the call intro was very naughty, I didn’t hear about it on the evening news.
Some AKA quotes this week:
“In America, there’s a failure to appreciate Europe’s leading role in the world. Instead of celebrating your dynamic union and seeking to partner with you to meet common challenges, there have been times where America has shown arrogance and been dismissive, even derisive.”
“America is changing, but it cannot be America alone that changes. We are confronting the greatest economic crisis since World War II. The only way to confront this unprecedented crisis is through unprecedented coordination.”
“In my own country, what I think is very important is that we finally get a health care system that is reliable and cost-effective. That’s something that — (applause) — you know, that’s a social safety net that exits in almost all of Europe that doesn’t exist in the United States.”
“I know there’s some other Americans in the crowd. (Applause.) But do me a favor, Americans, wait till we get back home and I’ll do a town hall there — (laughter and applause) — because I want to hear from my French and German and European friends”
“And it is in that spirit that America and Europe must reach out to the vast majority of Muslims in our nations and in all nations”
He has a habit of never praising the US, we are just a bunch of arrogant, spoiled and selfish people living beyond our means or hiding our money in Swiss bank accounts, who have no use for Europe because I don’t appreciate Europe’s leading role, I need to spread the wealth because we are Changing and need a social safety net that we never had in this egomaniacal country.
We need to reach out to people that want to kill us and we can only ask questions at townhall meetings so the arrogant, egotistical, vainglorious Usurper can spew some hollow, frivolous crap from his teleprompter with his questions pre-screened to avoid questions about the pending lawsuits filed against Barry Soretoro AKA Barry Dunham, Barry Obama, Barack Obama, etc.
April 5th, 2009 @ 11:27 am
Had Enough AKA Bobby Fontaine II
April 5th, 2009 @ 12:47 pm
Joe, you stole the title to my next post.
“I was going to use “The Not-Ready-For-Prime-Time Players” to describe his whole staff. You know..the one’s who are supposed to inform these barney Fife wanna-bees about protocol. Like: You don’t drape your arm around the Queen….
You don’t bow to the King of Saudi like one of his $#%^&damned subjects…
Stuff like that.
April 5th, 2009 @ 5:48 pm
You suck, Joe. You couldn’t find a You-Tube in English? That wasn’t very funny!
April 5th, 2009 @ 11:37 pm
i thought this was an english only site?
April 6th, 2009 @ 1:40 am
Joe is just anticipating and preparing for “amnesty.”
April 6th, 2009 @ 4:29 pm
Speaking of foreign languages. I just finished reviewing videos of Obama’s speeches in Europe. Teleprompters or no teleprompters, you have got to admit that he has the “Hope and Change” spiels — his own or someone else’s — down pretty pat.
Then, following a blog lead to MSNBC, I caught the press conference in Strasbourg where he called upon a female journalist from Austria. Maybe these things are totally scripted and maybe he fooled me, but I didn’t see how he could have depended totally on a teleprompter in that particular instance. Our self-touting Europhile admitted in his response that he didn’t know the translation of “wheeler and dealer” into “Austrian.” Interesting that. I suppose when he visits Geneva he will regret not being able to speak “Swiss” and in Brussels it will be “Belgian” and in Abuja it will be “Nigerian” and in Kinshasa it will be “Congolese.” The possibilities are endless. That fella has a lot to learn. Looks like it didn’t help an awfully lot to go to Columbia U. and to Harvard Law. Oh, well kiss it off to a slip of the tongue.
BTW, I see the Austrians are refusing, in their German language, of course, to take any prisoners from Gitmo. As the Austrian Interior Minister said: if those Gitmo guys are so safe and harmless, why don’t we just keep them in America? Besides, the European Union now has a no-passport deal for travel. You can imagine what that will do for the individual national security forces there.
France has really jumped on the band wagon. They have agreed to take one Gitmo guy. Spain gave some initial signs of cooperation in that regard. Fascinating. The country which still hasn’t completely solved its own Basque terrorism problem and where the Madrid interurban rail system was bombed by al Qaeda and where they have just agreed to send 300 Spanish troops to Afghanistan. Should be interesting over there. Wonder how long it will be before the Spaniards run out of Afghanistan like they ran out of Iraq? One more bombed out commuter train will probably do the trick.
April 6th, 2009 @ 4:36 pm
Wolve,
“I just finished reviewing videos of Obama’s speeches in Europe.”
Which raises the question; How did you get your hands on the Queen’s iPod?
April 6th, 2009 @ 4:40 pm
Pamela Geller of Atlas Shrugs http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/ is keeping track of Hussein’s AKA Soretoro’s ongoing loyalty to Islam and the countries that he is insulting among other important articles.
In the past few days since departing France BHO has manged to turn Sarkozy against him since suggesting that Turkey join the EU. OBAMA TO EU: EMBRACE ISLAMIC TURKEY INTO EU, SARKOZY WARNS OBAMA: STFU & MYOB
This is just a few of the Usurper quotes from his trip, you can find many more along with supporting video’s on Pam’s blog:
“All nations must come together to build a stronger global regime”. Hmmm…………Regime?
“Let me say this as clearly as I can: the United States is not and will never be at war with Islam,” he said, to applause. “In fact, our partnership with the Muslim world is critical in rolling back a fringe ideology that people of all faiths reject.” Obama said the U.S. has been enriched by Muslim Americans, including members of his own family.”
“The United States and Europe must approach Muslims as our friends, neighbours and partners in fighting injustice, intolerance and violence…..”
Obama promised to nuclear disarm America in response to North Korea and Iran building nuclear weapons.
“Rules must be binding”
“Violations must be punished? Words Matter”
Obama has signed off on international legislation the-Financial Stability Board-that would regulate ALL firms, including those within the USA and places them under the responsibility of an international governmental agency.
“OBAMA SENDS ENVOY TO SEEK “FRIENDSHIP AND COOPERATION’ WITH MURDEROUS SAVAGE ISLAMIC REGIME IN SUDAN
So now Obama is seeking “good relations” with Sudan’s Islamic regime in Khartoum, which has systematically committed jihad and slaughtered two million in Sudan and Darfur over the past two decades.”
Obama plans to lift longstanding U.S. restrictions on Cuba, a senior administration official said, allowing Cuban-Americans to visit families there as often as they like and to send them unlimited funds.
During a lunch at the Group of 20 summit in London, Obama shook hands with President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva of Brazil and said: “This is my man, right here. I love this guy.” Obama followed the comment by saying Silva is “the most popular politician on Earth” and that it is because of “his good looks.”
Silva had previously remarked: “This crisis was caused by the irrational behavior of white people with blue eyes, who thought they knew everything and now show they know nothing,” Lula da Silva said after a meeting with the UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown in the country’s capital of Brasilia.
BHO made this remark to businessmen in the US: “My administration,” the president added, “is the only thing between you and the pitchforks.”
On and on and on and on.
China wants collateral on their loans, I don’t believe the Usurper and the beltway gang know that the country belongs to us, not the government. They are selling our highways and lotteries to foreigners.
Soon there will be nothing left, sadly that is what the rest of the world always dreamed of and now they have their ignorant puppet to speed up our demise with the assistance of the incognizant people that voted for the Usurper.
April 6th, 2009 @ 4:54 pm
The Queen and I are thick as thieves. The first time I took the better half to London, we saw Her Majesty five times in three days, once on horseback during her official birthday celebration. To show you what a great cameraman I am, all I got in that instance was a photo of her horse’s rearend. The better half was cetainly impressed with my London connections but she still holds that photo over my head and says: “And you call yourself a professional?!!”
I’m willing to bet that the iPod in question will show up eventually at some cheap souvenir stand in Chelsea or Covent Garden. The Queen gave the Obamas signed portraits of herself and Prince Phillip. Wonder how long before those are shipped back to London like the bust of Churchill was? Nah, I’m being mean here. But there does seem to be a distinct weakness in the White House Office of Protocol.
April 6th, 2009 @ 5:39 pm
#9 Such “elite”/I’m sooo in the know/ remarks.
Austria speaks German but their German is different from the hoch or platte Deutsch in the country of Germany proper. Might be compared to the difference between American and British (the Queen’s) English. – (if you’ve had a couple of strong beers with an Australian who also speaks English, you’d have trouble knowing that it’s English).
Wolverine – What would you say in a city in Switzerland? Sorry I can’t translate that into French, German, Italian or Swizzedeutsch?
What would you say in Brussels? Sorry I can’t translate that into Dutch, Flemish or French?
I don’t know much about African languages except for names like Bantu, Swahili, Zulu, and Afrikan.
To tell you the truth, I’d have trouble translating “wheeler and dealer” into my native language.
Anecdote: I worked for an import company in Calif. My boss wanted to get a lower price for something fr a Japanese company or he’d “lose his pants”. I tried to tell him that the recipient in Japan wouldn’t understand what he meant. He might take it literarely.
Anyway the word “Austrian” language is OK.
April 6th, 2009 @ 6:55 pm
NoVisa,
Ever live in Germany or Austria? I have and I have been all over Europe for years. Do you know what you are talking about or did you get this from Wikipedia?
April 6th, 2009 @ 8:10 pm
To all the Obama apologists, from encyclopedia britannica:
http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/44183/Austria
Official language German
get a grip. The messiah, genius that he is, thought there where 57 states as well. He gives good teleprompter, that does not a statesman, or president make.
April 6th, 2009 @ 10:05 pm
Wolv -
Did you notice that I said I’d have trouble translating “wheeler and dealer” into my native language? And I’m not Asian or African. So I’m an immigrant from Europe.
Europe is a small continent. The countries are small and the languages very fluid; don’t obey official borders.
Und, ja, ich kann Deutsch ganz gut sprechen. But I can’t yodel, neither in German, nor in Austrian!
Aussi, je parle un peu francais (don’t have the “tail” on the “c”). No east European languages though (except “da” and “nyet”)
Schlafen Sie wohl, Herr Wolverine! Bis morgen.
April 7th, 2009 @ 12:38 am
Now, Lovisa, be truthful here. Have you ever in your life heard anyone say that they spoke “Austrian”? High German, low German, yes. Swiss German, probably. But “Austrian”?!! Come clean, girl.
“Elite/Im sooo in the know”?!! Mon Dieu, cherie, il s’agit de la geographie qu’on fait au niveau de l’ecole secondaire!! At least that used to be the case. With the current state of our educational system, who knows?
Actually, you appear to be smarter than Obama. Bet he would never have gotten the quiz question about Belgium. Perhaps he should take the time to study that situation. He might find some illumination as to what can happen in a country without a single unifying language and culture and apply that lesson to the potential results of coddling his precious illegals.
Translation of “wheelers and dealers”? I’d have trouble finding a way to put that accurately into French but I would at least know the language to which I was referring.
April 7th, 2009 @ 1:03 am
The Puppet Usurper who is a master manipulator, hasn’t a clue that he has been manipulated, but at our expense. The good old boys and the rest of the world saw their chance, his inexperience and need to rely on information from others whether that information is reliable or not. He doesn’t have the skills or knowledge to prove them right or wrong, so he takes their word.
As usual, the media has swept the wheeling and dealing under the carpet. Whether you realize it or not, the entire financial situation was engineered in addition to the fraud. The timely collapse, before the election when McCain was holding the lead. Once again any republican was going to bear the burden of another so-called Bush inflicted disaster.
When it appeared that McCain had no chance to win the nomination or otherwise the media focused on him, his time as a prisoner, etc. because they knew McCain was one of the weakest of all the candidates and a better choice to run against the democratic candidate no matter who they were.
The federal reserve knows more than they will admit. But one of the empty suits inside the beltway some information spill. I posted his interview awhile back.
—————————————-
A ‘Truly New World Order’ Emerges; Global Currency Closer
http://worldmeets.us/lemonde0000197.shtml
A New World Order… for some
http://www.france24.com/en/20090403-G20-economy-imf-summit-crisis-blog
Obama Begins Turnover of USA Sovereignty to International Body
http://www.canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/9908
U.S. takes back seat as power balance shifts
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20090403.G20ANALYSIS03/TPStory/TPBusiness/
Economist: US collapse driven by ‘fraud’; Geithner covering up bank insolvency
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Economist_US_collapse_driven_by_fraud_0404.html
Obama Preparing For New World Order
http://www.opednews.com/populum/diarypage.php?did=12780
Obama Helps China in Preparation for a Dollar Collapse
http://seekingalpha.com/article/129496-obama-helps-china-in-preparation-for-a-dollar-collapse?source=article_lb_articles
LOU DOBBS TONIGHT
New World Order; Geithner Grilled; State of Emergency
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0903/03/ldt.01.html
London Telegraph Admits Plan For Bank Of The World, Global Currency
http://www.prisonplanet.com/london-telegraph-admits-plan-for-bank-of-the-world-global-currency.html
Most of what they are doing in DC is strictly against our constitution.
April 7th, 2009 @ 1:12 am
Gadzooks!! We may just have gotten a little closer to solving Lovisa’s most closely held secret. She has admitted to being a European immigrant. In the past, she spoke about her king. Barring the possibility that she still holds an allegiance to some deposed monarchial roue currently living it up in Paris, this could narrow the search considerably. Only four European countries have kings at present: Norway, Sweden, Belgium, and Spain. The rest have queens, princes, or grand dukes. Funny how she knew so readily the languages in Belgium but claimed an inability to speak good French. Flemish perhaps? My better half would keel over on the spot!
Keep on talking , Lovisa. We’re listening.
April 7th, 2009 @ 1:25 am
Wolverine, who had a king approximately around 1960, that would narrow it down pretty good?
And….she stated once that her king said he needed her here, that was her response once when I told her maybe she would be happier if she went back to her country since she always referred to the mystery country as her country, not this country.
April 7th, 2009 @ 2:10 am
Hmmm, interesting observation, HE. Could she be speaking obliquely in all of this? If the “king” truly does need her here, she might be some sort of missionary who is making reference to the “King of Kings” of Biblical significance. That’s a thought. If that is the case and given the fact that the U. of Maryland is now including porn films as part of its approved curriculum, I for one might just be inclined to agree with the king.
Oh, the heck with it. Lovisa, Obama laid a neophyte verbal egg in Strasbourg. Now, admit it. If George W. Bush had done that, you would have been all over him for it; and he would have deserved it. And all we would have heard from Kevin in that case would be: LOL — or maybe “hilarious.”
April 7th, 2009 @ 8:18 am
I LOVE LANGUAGE !!!!!!!!!!!
And, yes, I’ve heard people say they speak “österreichisch”, however, only Austrians themselves. The Austrians are very, very patriotic.
I agree, different languages in one nation can cause problems. Belgium has such a small land area, it’s hard to believe that there’d be more than one language. The Canadian “double speak” is clumsy and I don’t like the now ubiquitous English/Spanish on everything fr cake mixes to instructions for zapping frozen foods and the store signs. What can be done? Nothing!
April 7th, 2009 @ 4:07 pm
NoVisa,
Stop using Wolverine as a crutch. You can talk directly to me like a big girl.
“Und, ja, ich kann Deutsch ganz gut sprechen. But I can’t yodel,” Therein lies the problem. We must first learn to yodel before we can learn to speak.
“I’ve heard people say they speak “österreichisch”, ” I have never heard anyone use that term-not even Austrians. I have heard of speaking Tyrolean but it is more an attitude and different than speaking Bayrische.
What is your ancestry again?
April 7th, 2009 @ 5:16 pm
Oh my gosh, ACT! Feeling a little snubbed there, huh?
You know, Wolverine comes over as sooooo much nicer than you, no matter how much we disagree. You, on the other hand, pounce at most of what I write.
FYI – My father’s ancestors were Wallones; my mother’s Finns; a combination that produces the most beautiful females in the whole world. I kid you not!
Happy now?
April 7th, 2009 @ 5:40 pm
NoVisa,
Thanks for your ancestry. No, I am not feeling “snubbed”. It’s okay if you like Wolverine better because no one ever said I was nice. I’m not. What I am is direct and most people can’t handle it but since I’m not a touchy, feely kinda guy…..who cares.
P.S. With that type of mix I should propose marraige. First I need to see a picture of your boat.
April 7th, 2009 @ 6:31 pm
Lovisa — Do you mean Daddy was “Walloon”? I just knew it!!! You are “Belgian”, at least in part! My better half says “congratulations”, even though she is part Flemish (you know what that means in terms of Belgian history).
Finn isn’t half bad either. Like me, your Norse blood authorizes you to become a “berserker” every once in awhile, even on a blog.
ACT — Wolverine is NOT a “crutch.” Try “crotchety” and you will be closer.
April 7th, 2009 @ 11:20 pm
Lovisa,
“don’t have the “tail” on the “c””
Just so you know, the “tail” is called a cedille..
April 8th, 2009 @ 9:57 am
Thank you, dans! I knew that but didn’t want to addle my readers’ minds with a “fancy” word.
April 8th, 2009 @ 8:09 pm
“Why Barack Hussein Obama, president of the biggest civil democracy of the world, does incline itself it as a servant in front of Abdallah II, king théocrate of Arabia?
The scene was filmed by all the television, and broadcasted in the entire world. But no one wanted itself there to delay. Especially not in West. That happens to London, April 2, during the G20. The heads of state and of government greet themselves, congratulate themselves and kiss themselves. Barack Obama, the American president, greet its peers with his good habitual grace. But when it arrives in front of the king Abdallah II of Saudi Arabia, it does not be satisfied any a handful of hand. It inclines himself deeply. As a subject. As a slave.
When Obama inclines itself as a slave in front of a sovereign pro-slavery one, it does not do therefore that to resume an old American national tradition. Unless it be not the one that it claims to be. Unless his middle name, his name median, Hussein, be not the key of his personality. And that it be not necessary to see in him a secret Moslem, constrains to feign for a time an adhesion to Christianity. A marrane, if you want. Or exactly, according to terminology Hispanic that done faith in the matter, a melanchon.”
The entire article can be found here (In French):
USA/ El Melanchon
PAR Michel Gurfinkiel Dimanche 5 avril 2009
http://www.michelgurfinkiel.com/articles/228-USA-El-Melanchon.html
I presume BHO is oblivious to his actions, but it is obvious to the rest of the world.
April 8th, 2009 @ 11:27 pm
HE,
I think the bow says to the world that the United States, with Obama in the White House, makes no claim to being a world leader.
This was not a bow as a slave, but a bow as a dhimmi ?
April 9th, 2009 @ 12:45 am
Dans, BHO groupies say leave him alone.
Now it appears that the white house is outright lying about the bow because they are catching so much flack.
White House: No bow to Saudi
http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0409/White_House_No_bow_to_Saudi.html
In the posts that follow, someone said that he definitely had his hand on his thigh at approx 55 seconds on the tape. They should have looked at the tape before anonymous made the statement.
Oh, they also said (in another article) that the queen requested the ipod from him.
April 9th, 2009 @ 9:22 am
HE, the Obamaists are in a serious case of denial..
April 9th, 2009 @ 9:33 am
I cannot tell what is worse, bowing, or lying about. How pathetic. Not being able to admit to so obvious a mistake belies just how petty and thin skinned this administration is.
Bush is supposed to get fighting a war right without mistakes. Which is truly mission impossible. Then Bush is supposed to publically admit to all of his mistakes in the war.
But this jerk(messiah?) can’t admit to a breach of protocal?
April 9th, 2009 @ 10:03 am
jacob,
“I did not have sex with that women”
“I did not bow to that man”
see a trend ?
April 9th, 2009 @ 11:55 am
Dan,
men have been denying ‘having sex with THAT women’, ever since there have been women. While wrong, at least there usually is no picture of the act.
Obama was photographed and filmed bowing to some mysogynistic, antisemitic beduoin refuge from a pirate movie.
What makes it far more pathetic is the evidence AND in effect, the smallness of it. The guy should have admitted he was ignorant of protocal, and taken his lumps like a man. He is not a man, but a boy, men admit to mistakes, especially those that are the result of ignorance.
April 9th, 2009 @ 1:30 pm
Missed my point, which was the last Dem president was not impeached for the act, but the lies that followed..
April 9th, 2009 @ 2:36 pm
Ah, come on, people. I wouldn’t read too much into that bow. Looks to me like the guy was just flumoxed by his foreign affairs inexperience — being his first big official trip and all. He was meeting an honest-to-God king and didn’t quite remember what he was supposed to do. He probably forgot for a moment that he was now an American president and got temporarily celebrity struck. Kind of dopey but certainly not fatal.
We can rant all we want about the tradition that Americans do not bow to royalty, but dollars to donuts many of us would be flumoxed in the same way if we were introduced to a real live king. Read social history and see how many American women of wealth and power have worried to no end about how to curtsy properly to the King and Queen at a Buckingham Palace garden party.
Same thing with the recent Obama laying of hands on the Queen of England a la the American style. “Ooopps, darn, forgot that we’re not supposed to do that sort of thing here!!!” (Happens frequently to inexperienced American travelers in many situations.) Fortunately the Queen was smart enough to put her own hand on Michelle Obama’s back in an obvious effort to squelch any negative Brit press reaction. Bet you, however, that this touchy-feely stuff does not gain further traction at the Court of St. James.
Take a look at the reaction of the Saudi king to the bow. He seemed as surprised and shocked as anyone. He obviously was not expecting it as the homage of a “subject” to his ruler. Bet he himself was a bit embarrassed by it all. I doubt if the king’s reaction was to assume that he had Obama in his royal Islamic pocket. It was probably more like: “Hoo, boy, this kid has got a lot to learn yet about being an American president!”
We are getting too quick to read too much into things. I remember George Bush being photographed holding the hand of the Saudi king. “Ooooh, lookeee at that!!! How absolutely weird!!! What is THAT all about?!!!”
Well, after awhile abroad, you will understand that, in some cultures, men do hold hands simply as a sign of friendship and trust. Guy takes your hand, and you know you are his friend. Nothing more to it.
Admittedly it can be a bit of a shock the first time. Happened to me with a male Asian friend…in the early 1960’s…on New York Avenue in D.C. Man, you should have seen the looks we got from passersby in that era!! My first thought was “Oh,oh! What are these other people thinking?!” My Asian friend, a dedicated lover of the female sex, didn’t have a clue about it all.
The only real dumb part in all this is the White House denial that the bow was a bow. Are they kidding? What a stupid bunch of asses. I have told you many times what I thought about that White House staff. They screw their own boss left and right. Unless Obama is really as dumb as they are, he had better start winnowing out some of the locoweed in that pasture.
Now, don’t get the idea that old Wolverine is going soft on Obama. I think many of his policy proposals are nuts, and I especally fear that he is making a major, major mistake with counterterrorism. But I would much prefer to nail his behind on those policies rather than play around with his human faux pas — although I must admit to an occasional, overwhelming desire to tweek his combination of arrogance and inexperience. Now, how do I translate that into “Austrian”?
April 9th, 2009 @ 3:19 pm
Ah, Wolverine, a voice of sanity! I like you! Most of the time anyway .
Ich weiss nicht wie man “arrogance and inexperience” auf Austrian sagt. Genug! Enuff! OK?
I lived in Southeast Asia a few years and men holding hands wasn’t unusual at all. In Europe one used to see fathers and sons walking arm in arm on their Sunday promenade. (mother and daughter were home cleaning up after the early Sunday dinner, most likely). I don’t think that’s the case now, though. Americanization perhaps?
April 9th, 2009 @ 4:37 pm
Jacob,
“He is not a man, but a boy, men admit to mistakes, ”
I just wanted to bust your chops before zimzo got to you, you racist! Ha, HA!
April 9th, 2009 @ 4:39 pm
Wolve,
“He was meeting an honest-to-God king and didn’t quite remember what he was supposed to do.”
Curtsy, of course!
April 9th, 2009 @ 7:27 pm
wolv,
‘Looks to me like the guy was just flumoxed by his foreign affairs inexperience — being his first big official trip and all. ‘
agreed, but the lying about it is what kills me.
April 9th, 2009 @ 10:01 pm
“but the lying about it is what kills me”
Yet, this guy has been 100x more willing (”I screwed up”) to admit his mistakes than the previous clown. I mean, that guy (Bush) had plenty of mistakes in the last 8 years (and plenty of good decisions too) but he never ONCE apologized for a mistake. He never ONCE admitted he might have been wrong about anything. How come the lying THEN didn’t kill you? I mean, I admit, it’s pretty silly to say it wasn’t a bow.
But, kinda, go ahead and STHU. Seriously, you have it in you to get all sanctimonious after the last admin? Seriously?! Those goofballs were downright delusional (reminiscent of Kim Jong Il) about their inability to make a mistake. The last admin might as well have told us Saddam had ties to Al Qaida and that the Iraq War was part of the War On Terror and that the economy wasn’t in a recession and THEN refuse to admit they were wrong! Oh, wait. . .
A bow is nothing like an Iraq War; I’m with Woof on this one.
April 9th, 2009 @ 10:55 pm
You are absolutely right, a war is not like a bow. It is a whole lot more difficult, and I was hearing the word ‘quagmire’ in DECEMBER OF 1991. Yeah, STHU is a real good idea. We are winning bigtime in Iraq. DESPITE the DEMOCRATS. DESPITE the press leaking Top Secret information. DESPITE the left wanting us to lose, we got the upper hand. Yeah. I like that – S.T.H.U. You got that right. Sanctimonious. You got that right too. STHU? K-M-A.
As for getting on the previous administration, go read some of the post you buffoon.
April 10th, 2009 @ 4:32 pm
Why is Hillary laughing? Barry & Hillary at recess, there are mic’s that can pick up that conversation from quite a distance. Images and video. Maybe it was a cig break.
http://michellemalkin.com/2009/04/09/why-is-hillary-laughing/
April 10th, 2009 @ 4:50 pm
H E,
Were you ever a child? Don’t you remember when you were so scared over a situation the only recourse you had was to laugh? That is what this administration is all about. They are so scared all they can do is laugh about it and HOPE it goes away so that they don’t have to keep CHANGEing their shorts!
April 10th, 2009 @ 7:44 pm
That Indian Ocean standoff with the pirates is most interesting. Four goons with AK-47’s in a powerless small boat. Looming over them a US Navy destroyer, with more Navy ships on the way. Their ace-in-the-hole? The life of one courageous American merchant captain. All the world is watching. The current rumors? A big ransom payoff to save the captain’s life.
Sounds a little familiar in a way. Like about 15 or so years ago. A group of Americans held hostage in Lebanon. An American president trying to figure out a way to save them, knowing that any glitch in a rescue attempt could well result in the slaughter of innocents. His solution? He got scorched for it during the rest of his administration and long thereafter. Smaller in scale, certainly; but let’s see how the current president does with the problem.
April 10th, 2009 @ 9:59 pm
4 SEAL snipers, and the game’s over.
April 10th, 2009 @ 10:53 pm
I think Hillar is loosing it, the laugh track on the pirates and then the recess photo are too much. Maybe pimping Bill out to pay off her campaign debts is getting to her, or maybe Michelle is threatening to beat her up.
April 10th, 2009 @ 11:08 pm
God awful comment, Cathymac! Be damn glad you’re not in charge of saving the captain’s life.
jack – What would the 4 SEAL snipers do?
It’s easy to be on the sideline making snide remarks. YOU figure out what to do!
April 10th, 2009 @ 11:12 pm
Michelle Malkin
VICIOUS VIXEN !!! Beautiful! Tough talking!
April 10th, 2009 @ 11:21 pm
Oddly enough Lovisa we are hearing more from jack and cmac on this than we are from Obama aren’t we ? When it is over, he will be standing at the teleprompter telling us how this was all America’s fault, and the result of 8 years of a previous administration.
We just saw above how seriously Clinton thinks the kidnapping is..
What do you think 4 SEAL snipers would do ? Play Bridge ?
April 10th, 2009 @ 11:37 pm
“What do you think 4 SEAL snipers would do ? Play Bridge ?”
No — that would require 3 SEALs and a Marine (the dummy).
April 11th, 2009 @ 12:36 am
Four SEAL snipers? Not so sure, Jack. The SEALS are very good, but you have: (1) five men clustered in a relatively small boat; (2) the hostage is probably being used as a shield; (3) the other four have automatic weapons, meaning you would have to down all four simultaneously and no wounding or the hostage could get a burst in pure vengeance; (4) a small boat over 300 miles out in the Indian Ocean can pitch and yawl severely in an unexpected direction just as you pull your shots. Tough call with a lot of potential for misses, no matter how good the snipers.
In the news today: French naval troops boarded and took back a French private yacht which had been seized by Somali pirates. One fatality on our side in the shootout: the owner of the yacht. Undecided yet whether he was felled by a shot from the French or the pirates.
April 11th, 2009 @ 1:09 am
There have been no complete reports of what the Usurper agreed to, signed or promised while overseas.
He believes that he is above the laws of this country to begin with, he believes that we have no right to question his birth, background, adoption, passports, school records, college funding, clients, medical, or anything else.
His social security number is now in question, a private investigator has reports that contain more than a few social security numbers and addresses for him. He found the same on his mother (in addition to name use discrepancies like her son).
The Financial New World Order: Towards a Global Currency and World Government
Following the 2009 G20 summit, plans were announced for implementing the creation of a new global currency to replace the US dollar’s role as the world reserve currency.
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=13070
April 11th, 2009 @ 8:10 am
What are you talking about Lovisa, my comments were about Hillary and her horrible cackle (kackle? can’t spell this morning) and her money problems, plus the recess photo of her and Obama is just strange. That she thought the pirate situation was so “funny” is also disturbing. People laugh when they are nervous, what is Hillary so nervous about??
April 11th, 2009 @ 4:24 pm
Just saw a good interview on VOA with John Patch, former USN surface warfare officer and now a professor at the US Army War College. He cautions not to go at this Somali piracy thing with emotion but to sit back and calculate some productive, overall strategy for the long run. He seems inclined to believe that the use of naval strength that far out into the Indian Ocean is not going to work very well. He also feels that there are a lot of potential problems with anything but a strong multi-unilateral and UN-sanctioned attack on the coastal pirate bases. He seems to have some good points. The naval approach seems to be working in the more confined Gulf of Aden, which is why the pirates are going out further into the Indian Ocean and stretching the naval forces almost to a point of ineffectiveness.
He did have one suggestion which does appeal me: an armed Coast Guard-style patrol closer in and all along along the Somali coast. Object: to confront and destroy the pirate ships before they get very far out to sea. Shouldn’t be too hard to pre-identify those pirate ships through aerial and satellite recon.
I think Obama ought to take a serious look at that suggestion. I had some experience with this sort of thing in Vietnam, to wit a coordinated USN Swiftboat and Coast Guard cutter effort to interdict the landing of enemy armaments on the coast of the Mekong Delta. Sort of like chasing pirates on the Bounding Main. I think it’s worth a try.
April 11th, 2009 @ 4:37 pm
Wolve,
Our Navy could get by with blasting pirates in international waters. We couldn’t do that within coastal waters without invite and permission. A coastal Coast Guard would have to be sanctioned by the Somali govt I would think.
April 11th, 2009 @ 4:54 pm
ACT — Right now there is no real government in Somalia. That’s the big problem. What passes for a government has been reduced largely to only one part of Mogadishu. The rest of the place is virtual anarchy.
I wouldn’t have a problem with a unilateral or multi-lateral coastal patrol in Somalia any more than the US was inclined to wait for the approbation of the Ottoman Empire when we went after the pirates in Algiers 200 years ago. In fact, that desperate rump of the Somali government would probably give us their approval anyway. Their hands are thoroughly tied, and they have all they can handle just to protect their own shrinking turf.
April 11th, 2009 @ 5:20 pm
Oh, this is a funny one. I sent in a Neighborhood Watch report to the HOA containing some moans and groans about the power company being too slow to repair a couple of streetlamps on one of our more vulnerable streets. The answer I got back was that I ought to be thankful that I’m not patrolling the waters off the Somali coast!!!
April 11th, 2009 @ 7:04 pm
Wolverine, I don’t find that funny at all. What’s the chance of being pirated off the Somali coast compared to being pirated or terrorized in your neighborhood?
It’s another example that people aren’t taking our crime situations or safety seriously.
April 11th, 2009 @ 7:27 pm
HE,
According to a DOJ study, streetlights reducing crime is a myth perpetrated by GE, Sylvania et al. The study also raises the possibility that they increase crime as they have the effect of making dark spots even darker.
April 11th, 2009 @ 7:34 pm
It was purely tongue-in-cheek, HE. The guy who sent the message is one of the best supporters I’ve got in all this. He’s the one who fields and acts on all my complaints and requests for action. Couldn’t get along without him.
Come to think of it, maybe Cathymac is right. A chuckle in the midst of a crap pile sometimes helps to keep you from going totally bonkers.
And HE has opened the door for another war story from old Wolverine. I’m in an American mission under seige. An angry crowd is outside blaming America for something we never did and calling for revenge. The rocks are smashing windows and flying into the rooms. The US Marines are on the roof with shotguns and teargas trying to keep the main door from being breached. I, along with other people, am prone on the floor with my head covered to keep from getting hit by the rocks and flying glass.
In that room was a secretary who had been born and raised in England. She stood up suddenly and, in the sweetest voice you will ever hear, asked if any of us would like a cup of tea. I mean, the entire room broke into gales of laughter.
Afterwards, she was asked why she had done that. Turns out that she and her family were in London during the worst of the Blitz. As the bombs rained down on that city and she and her family cowered in abject fear in their cellar, her father always asked that very question. She said it never failed to raise their spirits.
April 11th, 2009 @ 8:36 pm
Ha, ha, ha, Dans — in the best Staypuft tradition. Please don’t take away my streetlights!! Big help when I am trying to spot and get a useful description of those yo-yo’s hanging around among the parked cars on the streets most vulnerable to the smash-and-grab. Also a big help when trying to capture the license plate number on a suspicious vehicle. (Very strange how we have this sort of disease which seems to be killing some of those little lights above the plate holder in the rear of our vehicles.)
April 11th, 2009 @ 11:51 pm
Wolv, I spent a few years myself on neighborhood watch. Street lights are a placebo. Getting the residents to leave their front porch lights on is much more effective.
http://www.newsobserver.com/978/story/1432350.html
I’ll see if I can find the actual studies and post them. My HOA brought streetlights up a few years back, I did a lot of research and gave my findings to the board. It was nixed.
Do you have a good tactical flashlight ? Or a decent set of binoculars ?
Per the pirates, a long term strategy does not help the hostage, nor does a coastal patrol. The UN sanctioned actions is a great idea, bet it will work as well as UN involvement did in Iraq, and presently Iran..
One thing that sticks in my mind, after steering clear of U.S flagged vessels for all these years, why attack one now ? Hard to not recognize the Stars and Stripes for what it is. Is it possible this was designed to test the metal of the new administration ? I believe this should be considered as a possible motive, and for this very reason we must act decisively so these terrorists know not to f with is.
Is it conceivable that the Somalis were put up to this by other groups, such as Al Queda ? We do know that Bin Laden has deep ties to Somalia, Mogadishu emboldened him, and served to rally support for he and his cause. Could this incident with the Somali pirates serve this purpose yet again ?
Food for thought..
April 12th, 2009 @ 2:24 pm
Dans, don’t disagree on the porchlights as a defensive tool for each residence. However, the streetlights are for me and what I do out there. The particular problem I have is street parking for all vehicles, often a ways from the residence. No garages and no personal driveways on your property. Also a lot more foot traffic than one would see in, let’s say, a Lansdowne or Brambleton or even some other parts of the Park. Foot traffic and parking lots — I need the streetlights.
Yep, got both the flashlight and the binoculars. However, things often happen too fast to employ them, especially in a congested environment as opposed to a more spread out surburban setting. The binocs are good on static foot or mobile patrol. Not so good when you are on the move in the cramped confines of a vehicle. What I really need is a good camera system similar to what a LEO has in his patrol car. Oh, well, you make do with what you got and hope for the best.
Good news. American captain rescued. He did about the only thing that would facilitate Jack’s suggestion of SEAL snipers. He jumped overboard again. This time the shooters took advantage and killed three of the pirates, capturing the fourth. Just a nostalgic taste of the good old USN on the Barbary Coast.
Now, back to the issue of how to keep this from happening again. I still say aggressive coastal patrols with a shoot-to-kill mandate. The Somali government, such as it is, would probably welcome a thinning out of those pirates anarchists along the coast.
I have indeed seen some speculation that the chaos in Somalia might present an opportunity for Al Qaeda if both Afghanistan and Pakistan get too hot for them. Not so sure about it though. The Taliban were somebody Al Qaeda could work with. This thing in Somalia seems to be in many ways almost total anarchy. It might be much more difficult for Al Qaeda to work with…unless they themselves established some primacy of control over the situation there.
April 15th, 2009 @ 11:46 am
Like Yogi once said: “It’s deja vu all over again!”
THEN: Mogadishu, Somalia, in murderous chaos, with people on the verge of starvation. Send in the US Army Rangers with their Black Hawks. What? Nah, they can handle it. They won’t need any ground armor to back them up.
NOW: Somali piracy regnant on the Indian Ocean. In the midst of the Maersk-Alabama affair, the pirates seize an Italian freighter and try to capture yet another American vessel. Estimates of pirate hostages rises to over 200. From SecDef Robert Gates: We are mulling over the problem but we don’t think any substantive increase in military strength in the area will be needed.
April 15th, 2009 @ 1:08 pm
Wolv, flashlight or a tactical flashlight ? world of difference…
Agree on Somalia, the first time was an Al Qaeda ambush, how can we be certain, if we attack their bases, this is not as well ?
April 15th, 2009 @ 1:54 pm
#54
Sure would be interesting to see how they’d “test the metal of the new administration”.
April 15th, 2009 @ 2:11 pm
Dans —
Somalia is currently such a mess that it is hard to figure out exactly who’s who in that place. My judgement at present is that the coastal pirates are just that: people who have found a way to make big bucks in a national economy that was never much to begin with and has been subsequently destroyed by civil strife.
The situation in Mogadishu, however, seems to be something else again. The so-called government is fighting at this time just for control of the capital city. As I understand it, the major foes in this battle are Islamic radicals somehow allied with al Qaeda. I’m not up on just how that alliance works — whether al Qaeda is there in significant numbers or this is just a philosophical alliance. However, if the radicals succeed in taking over and if al Qaeda plays a real role in the place, we will be facing an entirely different situation with regard to the pirates and everything else there. Would the indigenous Islamic radicals and al Qaeda fight the pirates to establish the primacy of political control? Would they give the pirates a free hand and the benefit of their assistance as another weapon against us? One thing is sure. Somalia is truly a can of worms.
April 15th, 2009 @ 2:32 pm
“Operation Atalanta”
European naval group to protect food shipment in the waters off Somalia.
April 15th, 2009 @ 2:55 pm
These freighters/cargo ships already have radar. All they need is a case of grenades. When the intervening vessels pull up along side, lob said grenades over the rail. Problem resolved. I really can’t see the threat or intimidation from these pirates. It isn’t like they have a missle cruiser or destroyer to do their handywork.
April 15th, 2009 @ 3:05 pm
There are scads of national laws against having weapons of any kind aboard merchant vessels. Non-naval vessels with weapons aboard can and have been turned away from ports of destination. That is precisely why you see so many merchant crews fighting back against the pirates with no more than high-pressure fire hoses at best. Probably the only way this could change would be wide acceptance of an emergency UN maritme action to create a sort of temporary “armed merchant marine” a la World War II.
April 15th, 2009 @ 3:13 pm
I’m still kind of amazed these larger freighters aren’t arming themselves; A pair of M2’s w/incendiary rounds, a Mk19 just for fun, and 3 mercs to run them would take care of these guys.
Of course, they’d actually have to open up on the pirates, and not simply warn them away – when enough pirate ships don’t come back, the problem will quickly solve itself.
Show weakness, predators come. Show strength, predators leave.
April 15th, 2009 @ 3:32 pm
“Operation Atalanta” was a good move. The French are certainly trying to do their part. Given the recent successes of the pirates, however, and despite a few winning counterattacks, it looks to me like this operation needs a tactical rethink. We need a fully integrated task force to include such as the Indians and Chinese, who are also out in the Gulf of Aden to protect their own shipping.
Moreover, the US Navy is already stretched because of worldwide obligations and two simutaneous wars. The European navies are small in comparison. There just may not be enough capital ships available to establish an effective watch at sea.
I still think the answer is to set up a tight coastal guard with smaller, faster ships and orders to sink all pirate vessels. The larger ships would be a safeguard to patrol the principal sea lanes, escort merchant vessels headed to African ports, and serve as an emergency backup to the smaller gunboats. To my mind, you would do better with a sort of “blockade” rather than depending on the capital ships to arrive in time at the site of high seas attacks. That’s a big stretch of ocean out there; and those capital ships, as modern as they may be, do not move with the speed of NASCAR racers.
There will be some who think that airpower may be an answer. Well, put yourself in the front seat of a fighter jet or Black Hawk bearing down on a helpless cargo ship with pirates climbing up the hull or already on the deck. What do you shoot at? The ship you are there to save? Do you try to place commandos on the deck? Turkey shoot for the pirates before the commandos place boots on steel. Ditto for the chopper. Tough patch, to be sure.
April 15th, 2009 @ 3:44 pm
Wolve,
I’ll take your word on it. If we are to leave the ships unarmed, I fall back to my previous statement of molotov cocktails. I was thinking of scotch to keep dans from becoming arrogant. We could also use tequila since the Yuppies have moved on to Jagermeister. Regardless, days of old allowed a “rum” ration in lieu of pay for the hands and we could just allow the same now. Or just use gasoline and carry plenty of quart Mason jars. There are work-arounds for these vessel’s protection.
April 15th, 2009 @ 4:12 pm
ACT — You want to throw a Molotov cocktail at a boat soaked in sea water and probably with at least an inch or so of deck water which has leaked through the draincocks, not to mention pirates soaked in sea spray? Maybe, if you’re a good enough pitcher to throw a strike at the outboard motor. Just don’t take too much time to aim and then get shot first with your arm raised to throw. Hmmm…maybe if the cocktail fizzled out in the sea water, you could get the pirates drunk and have them fall overboard, where they would provide a meal for the Great Whites which also patrol that patch of sea. Well, if you want to go that way, I would suggest a touch of class in honor of Dans: Haig & Haig pinch bottle.
April 15th, 2009 @ 4:23 pm
Okay. I will amend my concoction. How’s about we add some laundry detergent. Would that satisfy you Mr. Salty? And we wait till the pirates are along side the ship-that way you don’t miss (it’s just a drop). besides, I’ve seen them do it in the movies and movies are TOTALLY accurate! (the napalm would really work even with sea-water. Been there-done that!)
April 15th, 2009 @ 4:28 pm
ACT — stick to the gas in mason jars. It just occurred to me that a bunch of seadogs with a couple of bottles of Haig & Haig…yeesh, the battle would be over before it started. The Navy would arrive to find a wild party on the poop deck, with pirates and seamen dancing arm in arm singing dirty sea chanteys.
Let me tell you about those days in Vietnam. Ship would arrive at a Marine base half full of ammo and half full of beer. Beer so tightly packed in pallets on the cargo deck that a cockroach couldn’t get in there. Start moving the pallets, and beer cans fell out of the holes all over the place. Had to search the ship from stem to stern to find that beer. Haig & Haig? I don’t think so.
April 15th, 2009 @ 4:51 pm
The history of the molotov cocktail is interesting. During the 1939 winter war between Finland and Russia the Finns, all dressed in white to blend in with the snow, skied through the woods and attacked the Russian tanks/ Talk about David and Goliath!
The Finns didn’t last long – lost Karelia in the end and were under Russia’s thumb for many, many years. They were tough and much admired.
April 15th, 2009 @ 5:10 pm
A point we can truly agree on, Lovisa. The Finns, an almost forgotten people known mostly today for their sauna rituals. What a 20th century those people had, along with the Poles and the Baltic states …. caught between the German wolf and the Russian bear. It is a wonder they survived at all. The Finns as a people have a place in my personal pantheon of heroes.
April 15th, 2009 @ 6:39 pm
Not quite forgotten Wolv, some most excellent gunpowders are made in Finland. It is the only powder that I use now…
http://www.lapua.com/index.php?id=851
February 3rd, 2010 @ 12:05 pm
Obama – 2nd anti-Vegas remark
“Las Vegas Mayor Oscar Goodman said during a hastily called news conference that Obama is no friend to Las Vegas and would not be welcomed here if he visits.
“I’ll do everything I can to give him the boot,” Goodman said. “This president is a real slow learner.”
“He has to step up right away and say, you know, he wasn’t thinking,” Goodman said.
“Sometimes when he’s not using his monitors and reading what he says, he doesn’t think.”
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_obama_las_vegas
…and he bows to the mayor of Tampa with his eye closed in the same week.
Ha, everyone knows he can’t talk coherently without his teleprompter’s.
February 3rd, 2010 @ 12:30 pm
HE
Guess you didn’t see and hear the President when he had the televised discussion with a republicans. No teleprompter in sight.
February 3rd, 2010 @ 4:59 pm
Low, The Dipshit used TWO teleprompters at Graham Rd. Elementary school on 1-19-10, he couldn’t even speak to 6th graders without a written speech and his security blanket teleprompters. He chose a school that is basically all anchor babies and illegals.
http://www.eutimes.net/2010/01/us-president-obama-uses-teleprompters-during-speech-at-elementary-school/
The Dipshit didn’t give a speech to the Republicans, it was a Q&A photo-op where he apparently acted like a smartass jackass
February 3rd, 2010 @ 5:30 pm
“Everyone knows he can’t talk coherently….”
“…he apparently acted like a smartass jackass?
Just shows that you didn’t watch, consequently don’t know what you’re talking about.
You with your constant Dipshit sh^t are the one who can’t write coherently.
February 3rd, 2010 @ 6:26 pm
You didn’t watch it. I suppose that you will never admit that the Dipshit is a empty puppet in over his head, as is his entire staff.
Obama-GOP meeting turns testy
President Barack Obama wound up debating Republican House members during a meeting whose intent was to foster bipartisan cooperation.
http://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics/story/1453996.html?storylink=mirelated
Everything with the Dipshit is me, me, me, just a photo-op for a fake meeting so that he could pretend to be doing something, he would have rather been on a jet on his way to his next teleprompter me, me. me farce.
I wonder if he bowed to any of the republicans when he arrived, he cowers, apologizes and bows to everyone else?