Posts with the tag 'President-Elect Obama'
Even if Obama and his minions would prefer otherwise:
OSAMA bin Laden is planning an attack against the United States that will “outdo by far” September 11, an Arab newspaper in London has reported.
And according to a former senior Yemeni al-Qaeda operative, the terrorist organisation has entered a “positive phase”, reinforcing specific training camps around the world that will lead the next “wave of action” against the West.
The warning, on the front page of an Arabic newspaper published in London, Al-Quds Al-Arabi - and widely reported in the major Italian papers - quotes a person described as being “very close to al-Qaeda” in Yemen.
The paper is edited by Abdel al-Bari Atwan, who is said to be the last journalist to interview Osama bin Laden in 1996. According to the report, bin Laden is himself closely following preparations for an attack against the US and aims to “change the face of world politics and economics”. The operative is quoted as saying that “this will be shown by the fact that we now control a major part of the south of Somalia”.
Given the fact that I think bin Laden is dead - killed in the Tora Bora in December of 2001 - I take this report with a large grain of salt. On the other hand, I post it because (a) it might turn out to be true, even if we never see it due to disruption by our side and (b) because it is a dead certainty that our terrorist enemies will want to test Obama’s mettle early on to see what they can get away with from the new Administration. This would also have happened had McCain been elected - the whole world, indeed, wants to get the full measure of the new President. The problem with al Qaeda is that they usually get the full measure of something by killing lots of innocent people.
We can stick our heads in the sand and think that France and Iran will save us the trouble of fighting this war, but our enemies hate us for what we are, not what we do and they will keep coming at us until they are taken or destroyed. The central fact of our life is this: the enemy hates President Bush, but they also will hate President Obama. The only difference will be whether they’ll hold Obama in the awed and fearful respect they show to Bush, or whether they’ll run wild convinced that Obama has pulled the plug on the war and its only a matter of time before evil men take control.
Tags: Global War on Terrorism, President-Elect Obama
November 10th, 2008
Just wanted to note that Obama’s response to Iran via his press conference on Friday was a good start - now the President-Elect needs to get his advisors together and work out the exact language necessary to tell Iran, “you be damned”.
The Iran situation is a good chance for Obama to prove us wrong about him - we on the right feel certain that Obama will flub the issue. In an urge to get US troops out of Iraq as soon as possible and cobble together something which can be presented as a nuclear agreement with Iran, our fear is that Obama will give away the store. The lunatics who run Iran also see this - though they are delighted with the prospect.
Obama supporters can say what they will about it, but the plain fact of the matter is that our enemies around the world view the election of Obama as a signal for American withdrawal. They see a weak man who will refrain from using real US power against them. They may be right, but if they aren’t - if, that is, Obama is determined to assert himself as the leader of the most powerful nation in the world - then there is no place better for him to demonstrate it than Iran.
The Iranian government is in quite a fix right now. The economy was a basket case when oil was $140 a barrel and is just more so now at $65 a barrel. The cash from oil is the only thing the Iranian government has to pay for their military build up (including their nuclear program), support their surrogates Hamas and Hezbollah and provide just enough to the Iranian people to prevent revolution. Right now, Iran is the softest of soft targets and just a bit of firmness on the part of Obama will bring them genuinely to the negotiating table.
The best course of action remains what I’ve figured all along - a blockade against Iranian gasoline imports (Iran imports the majority of its gasoline) to be emplaced until the Iranians agree to a verifiable dismantling of Iran’s nuclear program. Working with Obama Administration policy, our withdrawal from Iraq can be made conditional upon Iran’s surrender of its nuclear option. Do this - or something similar to it - and Obama will prove he’s got guts, weaken Iran’s strategic position and reassure nervous allies in the region that our withdrawal from Iraq does not mean an abandonment of our friends.
Obama has a host of troubles to deal with, but he also has plenty of grand opportunities to cement the advantages we have gained through much effort and great cost. President Bush has left victory in Iraq and the larger War on Terrorism for Obama - it will be up to Obama to use this victory wisely.
Tags: Global War on Terrorism, Iran, Iraq Campaign, President-Elect Obama
November 9th, 2008
From CBS:
How Obama Can Win Over The Media
Next headline: How Obama can win support from African-Americans….
Tags: liberal lies, media bias, President-Elect Obama
November 8th, 2008
The news story:
Benedict XVI is encouraging the president-elect of the United States to “build a world of peace, solidarity and justice.”
The Pope said this in a telegram to Barack Obama, who won Tuesday’s presidential election. The papal telegram was sent through the U.S. ambassador to the Holy See, Mary Ann Glendon.
The Holy Father promises Obama his prayers so that God assists him in his “weighty responsibilities at the service of the nation and the international community.”
The Italian-language message expresses the Pontiff’s wish that the abundant blessings of the Lord “support you and the people of the United States in your efforts, together with all men and women of good will, to build a world of peace, solidarity and justice.”
The Pope’s secretary of state, Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, also sent a telegram to the future president, announced Jesuit Father Federico Lombardi, director of the Vatican press office.
Father Lombardi also commented that “the task of the president of the United States is an immense task with very great responsibility, not only for his country, but for the entire world, given the weight of the United States in every field on the international scene.”
For the good of the world and the United States, we really do have to pray for the success of the Obama Administration. Of course, we don’t want it to be so successful that we’re shut out forever, but as I noted earlier, I don’t want us to come roaring back on a wave of discontent. I’d rather win on our much superior ideas. So, I hope it works - I hope Obama can finish Iraq and Afghanistan with victory, tame Iran’s mullahs, cage the Russian bear, right our economy and keep us safe from terrorist attacks. The track record of liberalism in these areas is one of universal failure, but there’s a first time for everything, right?
Tags: Christianity, President-Elect Obama
November 8th, 2008
The Orwellian nature of the Obama regime becomes clearer:
Obama will call on citizens of all ages to serve America, by developing a plan to require 50 hours of community service in middle school and high school and 100 hours of community service in college every year.
There once was a nation where the government called upon people to work for free on government projects - and reports are that throughout the USSR people did just that…amazing what you can accomplish when you are a socialist who leads a great nation. However, I believe that the President-Elect might want to pay heed to a rather dusty, old document:
Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction. (emphasis added)
If you are requiring a kid to do community service as part of his “free and compulsory” primary education, then I think that fits right into the definition of “involuntary servitude”. The shocking thing is that our liberal friends - starting with Barack Obama - simply will not recognize this as a threat to freedom. For our liberal friends, “freedom” seems to mean merely the freedom to get laid, smoke dope, dress like a freak and not have anyone know what porno sites they visit - in the liberal mind, there is no incompatibility between liberty and requiring someone to do government work.
Its going to be a long four years of fighting for freedom, fellow conservatives - get ready for it!
UPDATE: It appears that from this point forward I will have to save a screen shot each time I quote an Obama website - what I have quoted is a “copy and paste” from what I found on Obama’s website, and I wasn’t the only person who quoted that. It has been changed now - naturally, the Obamaniacs are saying that I’m lying…as if I didn’t think anyone would click the link I provided to prove what I was saying.
Tags: conservative truth, liberal lies, liberty, President-Elect Obama
November 8th, 2008
And let me tell you, ladies and gentlemen, I’m finally inspired by the guy - inspired by how badly we can beat him once the headwinds of 2008 are out of our GOP way.
This is the guy who’s gonna save the world?
Q Mr. President-elect, do you still intend to seek income tax increases for upper-income Americans? And if so, should these Americans expect to pay higher taxes in 2009?
PRESIDENT-ELECT OBAMA: The — my tax plan represented a net tax cut. It provided for substantial middle-class tax cuts. Ninety-five percent of working Americans would receive them. It also provided for cuts in capital gains for small businesses, additional tax credits. All of it is designed for job growth.
My priority is going to be, how do we grow the economy? How do we create more jobs?
I think that the plan that we’ve put forward is the right one. But obviously over the next several weeks and months, we are going to be continuing to take a look at the data and see what’s taking place in the economy as a whole. But understand the goal of my plan is to provide tax relief to families that are struggling, but also to boost the capacity of the economy to grow from the bottom up.
All right? Thank you very much, guys.
He didn’t answer the question! He must have thought he was having a fourth debate with McCain. The possible answers were, “yes, because its integral to my plan”, “no, at this time that would be unwise” or “we are reviewing that as part of our overall economic plan given the rapidly changing circumstances”. Couldn’t get it out - couldn’t get past a mindless repetition of the talking points.
Of course, the printed text doesn’t give the full flavor of the incoherence and meaninglessness of what the President-elect said. For 8 years now we’ve been told that President Bush is a dunce - and this is the smarter guy who’s going to fix everything?
Right now Obama still has the gleam of victory and the MSM bubble to protect him - but we’re going to flatten him as his liberal policies start to fail and the American people wake up to the fact that we’ve elected what appears to be a indecisive, liberal automaton…
UPDATE: Obama apologizes for his tasteless joke about Nancy Reagan. Forgiven and forgotten, as far as I’m concerned.
Tags: President-Elect Obama, recession, taxes
November 7th, 2008
The One better get into office quick and start issuing some pardons:
A former Illinois real estate specialist says FBI agents have questioned him about a Chicago property that had been bought by convicted felon Tony Rezko’s wife and later sold to the couple’s next-door neighbor, Sen. Barack Obama.
The real estate specialist, Kenneth J. Conner, said bank officials replaced an appraisal review he prepared on the property and FBI agents were investigating in late 2007 whether the Rezko-Obama deal was proper.
“Agents and I talked about payoff, bribe, kickback for a long time, though it took them only a short number of minutes of talking with me while looking at the appraisal to acknowledge what they already seemed to know: The Rezko lot was grossly overvalued,” Mr. Conner told The Washington Times Monday.
“Rezko paid the asking price on the same day Obama paid $300,000 less than the asking price to the same seller for his adjacent mansion,” he said. “This begs the question of payoff, bribe, kickback.”
It doesn’t really beg the question - this is just par for the course in Chicago politics. The way things are done is via payoffs, bribes and kickbacks, and President-elect Obama has been hip deep in it. Perhaps a full airing of what went on will show that Obama was just an innocent bystander in all this, but I doubt it - and thus we’ll see this investigation fizzle out very shortly after January 20th.
I wonder, though, if Obama will pull a Clinton here and fire all of the US Attorneys in order to get rid of the one he really wants gone, Fitzgerald in Chicago? What will the liberals say, then? And don’t any of them want to rise to the defense of the “Merry Fitzmas”?
Tags: President-Elect Obama, Tony Rezko
November 7th, 2008
A congratulations, and an earnest prayer:
Cardinal Francis George sent a message of congratulations to President-elect Barack Obama on the occasion of his win in the presidential election Tuesday.
The archbishop of Chicago and president of the U.S. bishop’s conference referred to Obama’s win as “historic.” He is the first African-American to be elected president of the United States.
“Our country is confronting many uncertainties,” Cardinal George said, speaking on behalf of all the U.S. bishops. “We pray that you will use the powers of your office to meet them with a special concern to defend the most vulnerable among us and heal the divisions in our country and our world.
“We stand ready to work with you in defense and support of the life and dignity of every human person.”
For us on the pro-life side of the aisle, it is clear we need to re-tool our message. One would think that protecting unborn life would be a no-brainer, but we must admit at this point that a different tactical campaign is needed to advance the cause of life. I haven’t worked it all out at the moment, but I’m going to hang my pro-life hat on something I’ll call the “Choice for Life Act” and a push for a National Endowment for Life. Details to come.
Tags: abortion, Christianity, conservative truth, culture of death, Culture of Life, liberal lies, President-Elect Obama
November 6th, 2008
Indeed:
Earlier this year, 12,000 people in San Francisco signed a petition in support of a proposition on a local ballot to rename an Oceanside sewage plant after George W. Bush. The proposition is only one example of the classless disrespect many Americans have shown the president.
According to recent Gallup polls, the president’s average approval rating is below 30% — down from his 90% approval in the wake of 9/11. Mr. Bush has endured relentless attacks from the left while facing abandonment from the right.
This is the price Mr. Bush is paying for trying to work with both Democrats and Republicans. During his 2004 victory speech, the president reached out to voters who supported his opponent, John Kerry, and said, “Today, I want to speak to every person who voted for my opponent. To make this nation stronger and better, I will need your support, and I will work to earn it. I will do all I can do to deserve your trust.”
Those bipartisan efforts have been met with crushing resistance from both political parties.
The author goes on to note that Harry Truman was even more unpopular at the end of his term than Bush is now - and how Truman has risen in public esteem since that time. As I’ve mentioned before, I will be writing a retrospective on the Bush years some time next month, but I’ll put in right now my opinion that history will be kind to President Bush and rather contemptuous of the left which hated him and those elements of the right which denigrated him. No one likes a hater or a back-stabber and a lot of people have a lot to answer for.
Obama has now said that he, too, wishes to be President of all Americans - and in that wish, he’s got my support. God help us all, Barack Obama is to be my President. Got that, lefties? He’s mine - not just yours; and this makes him ours. Just as President Bush is ours. You can’t opt out of parts of America - its all or nothing: America, love it or leave it.
UPDATE: Some good Bush and Palin gear here.
UPDATE: Confidence about Iraq rises high. Thank you, President Bush and the magnificent men and women of the United States Armed Forces. Obama - you’ve been handed a war which is won. Don’t blow it.
Tags: Harry Truman, President-Elect Obama
November 6th, 2008
Stocks took one look at President-elect Obama:
The stock market posted its biggest plunge following a presidential election as reports on jobs and service industries stoked concern the economy will worsen even as President-elect Barack Obama tries to stimulate growth.
Now, macro-economic factors are involved here, but the pre-election surge was followed by a post-election sell off. The Tax Man cometh, and investors are starting to hide - for our economy to rebound, Obama will have to convince them to get back into the game.
Tags: President-Elect Obama, recession, stock market
November 6th, 2008
Mr. Obama, you have won a handsome victory and will have a commanding position in American political life when you assume office on January 20th. Use your power well for the benefit of the American people.
Now I’ll do a very Catholic thing:
O Most Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of Mercy, at this most critical time, we entrust the United States of America to your loving care.
Most Holy Mother, we beg you to reclaim this land for the glory of your Son. Overwhelmed with the burden of the sins of our nation, we cry to you from the depths of our hearts and seek refuge in your motherly protection.
Look down with mercy upon us and touch the hearts of our people. Open our minds to the great worth of human life and to the responsibilities that accompany human freedom.
Free us from the falsehoods that lead to the evils of abortion, commercialism and pornography and which threaten the sanctity of family life. Grant our country the wisdom to proclaim that God’s law is the foundation on which this nation was founded, and that He alone is the True Source of our cherished rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
O Merciful Mother, give us the courage to reject the culture of death and the strength to build a new Culture of Life. Guide your son, Barack Obama, in his duties as President of the United States to use mercy, justice and love as his guiding lights.
I offer my congratulations to Senator John McCain for running the best campaign he could muster in a very hard year for conservatives and Republicans. It is my belief that absent the financial meltdown things might have come out differently, but we play the hands we are dealt and McCain played his very well.
I offer my hopes for the future for Governor Palin - but also take note of Governor Jindal. My prayer is that both these fine servants will draw the correct lessons out of this election and work tirelessly to revive the Republican party for victories in 2010 and beyond.
I offer my congratulations to our liberal friends - you’ve elevated your man to the White House and it will be primarily your responsibility to keep check upon him. It is now for you to defend the government - and I who am now free to attack it.
Tags: President-Elect Obama, Sarah Palin
November 5th, 2008
