UPDATE, by Mark Noonan: She didn’t quit. Not even slightly. Interesting.
UPDATE, by Mark Noonan: And we GOPers are rarin’ to go:
As Barack Obama wheezes over the finish line to his Party’s nomination, he has failed to convince voters that he has the experience and judgment to serve as Commander in Chief. Just as many members of his own Party refused to support his misguided policies, the majority of Americans will reject Obama’s plans to meet with hostile leaders instead of America ’s military commanders, and raise taxes on families and small businesses. The Republican Party is united behind John McCain, and we look forward to his debates with Barack Obama on how best to create new jobs at home and win the war against radical Islamic extremism. - Mike Duncan, RNC Chairman
Tags: Barack Obama, Jimmy Carter
June 3rd, 2008
…Barack Obama will be Jimmy Carter’s second:
Pitching his message to Oregon’s environmentally-conscious voters, Obama called on the United States to “lead by example” on global warming, and develop new technologies at home which could be exported to developing countries.
“We can’t drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes on 72 degrees at all times … and then just expect that other countries are going to say OK,” Obama said.
“That’s not leadership. That’s not going to happen,” he added.
And from Jimmy Carter on July 15, 1979:
I ask Congress to give me authority for mandatory conservation and for standby gasoline rationing. To further conserve energy, I’m proposing tonight an extra $10 billion over the next decade to strengthen our public transportation systems. And I’m asking you for your good and for your nation’s security to take no unnecessary trips, to use carpools or public transportation whenever you can, to park your car one extra day per week, to obey the speed limit, and to set your thermostats to save fuel. Every act of energy conservation like this is more than just common sense—I tell you it is an act of patriotism.
It takes a Democrat to figure that the solution to our problem is to give up…to start conserving rather than unleashing the productive ability of the American people. Obama doesn’t like us to use his full name, ’cause that is unfair politics…ok, for me Obama is now James Earl Obama. He should like that much better.
While Jimmy Carter was wringing his hands and lecturing the American people about taking the bus and obeying the speed limit, Ronald Reagan was plotting a reborn American economy which would have the freedom from government regulation and taxation required to adjust to the new energy realities…and as we still live in the economic house Reagan built, even the monstrous increases in oil prices - prices which killed the US economy under Carter - have failed to push us over into a Carteresque “stagflation” recession…Obama proposes more handwringing; and John McCain? He proposes actually doing something about it…increasing our energy supplies, including the construction of 20 nuclear power plants. McCain = Do Things. Obama = Worry About Things.
Tags: Barack Obama, Defeaticrats, Jimmy Carter, John McCain
May 19th, 2008
Interesting report:
A question submitted from the online audience asked Bush whether he felt he had been misled about Iraq as he made the decision to go to war.
“‘Misled’ is a strong word,” he said. “Not only our intelligence community, but intelligence communities all across the world shared the same assessment. And so I was disappointed to see how flawed our intelligence was.”
“Do I think somebody lied to me? No, I don’t. I think it was just, you know, they analyzed the situation and came up with the wrong conclusion,” he added.
He acknowledged concerns about leaving the unfinished Iraq war to a Democratic successor. Both Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton have said they will bring troops home if elected.
Bush said his “doomsday scenario of course is that extremists throughout the Middle East would be emboldened, which would eventually lead to another attack on the United States.”
Also in the interview to an online audience, Bush:
- Said more is known about global warming than when he first took office in 2001. Asked if it was real, Bush said, “Yes, it is real, sure is.” Still, he defended his opposition to the Kyoto treaty on climate change. “I could have supported a lousy treaty and everybody would have went, `Oh, man, what a wonderful-sounding fellow he is. But it just wouldn’t have worked.”
- Criticized the Democratic-led Congress, claiming it had dragged its feet on trade, on renewing surveillance powers and failing to respond appropriately to the housing crisis. “And so I would call them stalled. I would call them, so far, good at verbiage and not so good at results.”
- Said his Christian faith increased while in office, saying he sought to understand his weaknesses, better himself “and get closer to the Lord.”
- Criticized former President Carter for advocating what he called a “blame-Israel-for-every-problem” mentality to the Middle East.
President Bush also expressed sympathy for both Obama and Hillary over their gruelling primary fight, and opined that race will only be a factor in the fall if the MSM makes it so - something I agree with; especially if Obama is slipping in the polls by October, the MSM will try to guilt trip America into voting Obama by claiming in polls and surveys that anti-Obama sentiment is actually anti-black sentiment.
I’m telling ya, good people, we’re going to miss this man once he leaves office - he has been the most honest, most dedicated and most kind-to-his-opponents man we’ve ever had in office. I know those who hate him will disagree with this, but that is just one of the sadder aspects of the past 8 years that as we’ve been confronted with challenge and President Bush has risen to it, some people made it their business to turn Bush into the enemy.
Tags: Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Iraq, Jimmy Carter, pre-war intel, War on Terrorism
May 14th, 2008
Hitting him hard:
U.S. Senator John McCain today issued the following statement on former President Carter’s plans to meet with Hamas:
“It is a grave and dangerous mistake for an American leader to meet with a terrorist organization like Hamas. Engaged in a campaign that deliberately targets innocent Israeli civilians, Hamas is dedicated to the destruction of Israel . President Carter is wrong to meet with Hamas, a terrorist group that has also killed innocent Americans.
“The very idea that a former President of the United States and Commander-in-Chief would meet with a terrorist organization demands a clear stance from all presidential candidates. Refusing to take a stand, as Senator Obama has done, is not the strong leadership we need today. If Senator Obama is not decisive enough to condemn former President Carter, how can he be strong enough to deal with the threat they pose to America and to our allies?”
Jimmy Carter - mostly on the strength of his genuinely good work for Habitat for Humanity - has generated a reputation as a great ex-President and while no one can take away the good that he has done, the plain fact of the matter is that the net effect of Carter’s life has been negative for the world. From his disasterous stewardship of the Presidency in the 1970’s right on through to the present day, Carter’s continuing failure to understand that evil is to be confronted, not coddled, has led to one dangerous error after another. The worst example of this will always be his dangerously foolish handling of the 444-day long Iranian hostage crisis, but when he does things such as lend credibility to Hamas, he’s nearly equaling his worst. To take Hamas as other than a barbaric organization at war with all that is decent is to, de-facto, play the role of evil doer in the world. Carter would never strap a bomb on and blow up an Israeli, but he’s making it certain that more, rather than less, people will do such a thing.
Meanwhile, Obama’s unwillingness to straightforward condemn this foolishness, as well as his own foolhardy promise to meet with our enemies with no pre-conditions, indicates his fundamental unfitness to be President of the United States of America. While Obama makes efforts to liken himself to John Kennedy, there is a fundamental difference between the two men - Kennedy was inexperienced but with a fund of knowledge about how the world works; in other words, Kennedy could learn on the job, and did so. Obama, on the other hand, is inexperienced and his knowledge of the world is a hodge-podge of leftwing lies and half truths which makes the chances of his actually learning from his mistakes nil - and that means grave danger for the United States. An unteachable President is a disaster in the making (as we saw from 1977 to 1981 with Carter - who was also unteachable, and remains so to this day - so off he goes to meet Hamas).
Some have said that a President Obama would be like President Carter, and they are right - but keep in mind that the terror sponsors were in their infancy when Carter played blind-man’s-bluff with them…now they are an ace away from WMD’s, and the ability to get them into the United States. It was bad enough when Carter allowed the Iranian mullahs to jerk our chain and humiliate us for 444 days when they had no ability to either withstand us, or attack us…what will Carter II do when the mullahs are holding millions hostage via ballistic missiles, and have the ability to attack us?
Tags: Barack Obama, Defeaticrats, Hamas, Jimmy Carter, John McCain
April 14th, 2008
