I was just flabbergasted to read this from the Daily Telegraph:

President Obama was effusive in his praise for the Special Relationship when he visited London recently, but his administration continues to slap Britain in the face over the highly sensitive Falklands issue. Washington signed on to a “draft declaration on the question of the Malvinas Islands” passed by unanimous consent by the General Assembly of the Organisation of American States (OAS) at its meeting in San Salvador yesterday, an issue which had been heavily pushed by Argentina. In doing so, the United States sided not only with Buenos Aires, but also with a number of anti-American regimes including Hugo Chavez’s Venezuela and Daniel Ortega’s Nicaragua.

The declaration calls for Argentina and Great Britain to enter into negotiations over the sovereignty of the Falklands, a position which London has long viewed as completely unacceptable…

And it is viewed as unacceptable because Argentina’s claim to the Falklands is absurd. Leaving aside conjecture that some South American Indians may have been there at some point, by the time the first Europeans – who were Dutch – sighted the islands they were uninhabited. Britain and France both established posts on the islands in the mid-18th century, which were later abandoned and the islands briefly came under Spanish rule…only to be abandoned, in turn, by Spain. A bit of back and forth – including a failed Argentine attempt to establish a presence on the islands – in the early 19th century finally wound up with a permanent, British settlement in 1834. From that time to this, with the exception of Argentina’s two month long occupation in 1982, the islands have been British. The people there are British. There is no connection between the islands and Argentina; none, nada, zilch, zip. To say there is an Argentine claim to the Falklands is absurd as saying there is a US claim to Newfoundland – simply because of proximity and at one time or another, an American had been there.

But here comes Barack Obama – with enemies to curry favor from and allies to insult. And we back a stupid and incendiary Argentine demand in conjunction with communist enemies in Venezuela and Nicaragua. Who the heck is in charge here? Does our President have any sense, at all? Is he trying to encourage the Argentines to have another go at it? What gain is there for us in playing up to the most stupid manifestation of Argentinian nationalism imaginable?

We’ve got wars – three or four of them, depending on how you reckon – all around the globe; we’ve got the Chinese getting aggressive; we’ve got Islamism on the march from Cairo to Damascus; we’ve got Iran a couple months away from a nuclear bomb; our economy is faltering; we’re heading for bankruptcy…and Obama figures it is time for us to stick our nose in to South American politics? Time to insult one of our oldest allies? Just how in heck did we wind up with this dimwit in the White House?

2012 cannot get here fast enough…

UPDATE: Here is the explanation – Argentina’s leftist President has been using Obamunism for years (and entirely wrecking the country in the process)…so, this may be just a bit of mutual admiration.

From ABC:

…The median period of unemployment is now at a historic high; 39.7 weeks according to the May Report. That’s the highest it has ever been in the history of the survey.

A new research report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics dug into this trend to offer new details on how long it takes to make the transition from unemployed to employed and found that 11 percent of job seekers took a year or longer to land a new job. Another off-the-chart reading…

As I’ve said all along, there never really has been a recovery…just some spikes in numbers officially kept and subject to “improvement” by means of printing or borrowing money. In the real economy it has been nothing but a dead loss since 2008.

Unemployment will not come down until we have policies which encourage wealth creation – which means that as long as Obama and his Democrats are in charge, we won’t get anywhere.

Las Vegas leads the nation...in to bankruptcy. Hate to say this about my town, but everything here pretty much sucks at the moment.

Pawlenty would sign a ban on Planned Parenthood funding – for me, this should be a litmus test for all GOP candidates in 2012. Whether or not you are pro-choice, the fact of the matter is that PP is a corrupt organization which exemplifies “wasteful government spending”. If you can’t cut PP, then you can’t cut anything.

1913 – the year our current economic problems began.

We are intensifying our military effort in Yemen…what about all that not getting involved in other people’s war stuff, liberals?

When Obama falls below 50% in a CBS poll, you know he’s got some trouble…if Newsweek comes out with such a poll, then you’ll know he’s doomed.

Are some of Syria’s security goons having second thoughts? Or are they just preparing to join the new, Iranian-controlled masters of Syria, if it comes to that?

Over at The American Catholic, a video round up of GOP candidates on the marriage issue.

For its affront to Obama, reality will be declared racist as will anyone who associates with it.

From Zero Hedge:

…As usual, Rogers saved the best for Bernanke: “Since the first day Mr Benanke went to Washington I knew he was going to be a disaster. He has never been right about anything in the 7 or 8 years he has been there. I hope he doesn’t come back with QE3 but that’s all he knows. The only thing he knows to do is to print money. He doesn’t understand finance, he doesn’t understand currencies, he doesn’t understand economics. He understands printing money. It’s the wrong thing to do but that’s what he’ll do… They’re gonna bring QE back because he will be terrified and Washington will be terrified,” he said. “There’s an election coming in November 2012. Washington’s gonna print more money.”…

As this exactly tallies with my views, it is certainly a work of genius, right?

Seriously, though, there is no indicator that Bernanke has any other trick up his sleeve. There is nothing in his past action which indicates that he will pivot away from quantitative easing and towards a different economic paradigm. Bernanke is not alone in this, but he is the man in charge of the Federal Reserve…he can print us in to oblivion, or think things through and come up with an economic model of hard work and careful savings. But, alas, we will have to go through a pretty steep recession to get rolling on that…and Bernanke is not about to risk that. It would be too dangerous to all of the Ruling Class. Not just that part in DC, but also that part in Wall Street. The “too big to fail banks” will fail – and Bernanke, a bankster’s bankster, cannot contemplate that.

As I’ve been saying for quite some time, our economy based on fiat money and usury has reached a dead end. An inevitable dead end – a dead end any theologian or philosopher worth his salt could have seen coming a mile away. And don’t get me wrong, here – I failed to see it coming, too. I had some inklings over the years that things weren’t right – and I became an advocate of gold currency about 10 or 12 years ago – but I never suspected just how entirely fraudulent our economy had become. You can’t borrow your way to wealth. You can’t print your way to wealth. You can’t live in a world of instant gratification. You can’t allow a substantial portion of your working age population to sit on its collective duff. You can’t outsource the dirty, grimy work which is the bedrock of any rational economy. We were taken in by an economic siren song – but we were willingly taken in. We were happy to be suckered. But now it is time to pay the piper – and the sooner we all recognize this fact the sooner things can be repaired…while the longer we try to put it off (by stimulus and money printing) the worse it will get.

There is no way out of this except through a period of very tough economic times. As I’ve said before, if Obama – and/or Bernanke – would just figure this out, they could be of some real service. But, for such as these, the risks are too high…they, personally, might not survive at the top of the heap, even as they set in place the policies which will lead to our resurgence. For some people who arrive at the top, the worst possible thing is to no longer be on top…and our leadership, right now, is of this sort. We can expect nothing from them…as the ship goes down, all they’ll ever do is re-arrange the deck chairs.

But, no matter: they won’t be in power, forever. The only real question is whether we, the people, will have the courage to select replacement leaders who will tell us the truth and lead us fearlessly through the disaster, even at the cost of their own power and wealth?

From Althouse:

I would have to have been restrained – these kids, these Special Olympics athletes, they aren’t about the fight between the governor and the unions…they are just about hard work, dedication and love. To them, this was their special day…the day to be honored not by Scott Walker, but by the Governor of Wisconsin. I know what these wonderful people are like…because my brother is one of them. And it would have angered me to a white-hot fury had I seen this in person.

There is a time and a place for everything – and when the Special Olympics is being honored by any government official, it is time for everyone else to just shut up and sit the heck down. Trust me on this – this is a promise – if any TEA Party activists were to ever disrupt President Obama while he was honoring the Special Olympics, I would be just as furious. There are some things you just don’t do. And these miserable little shits of the left have just done it…

From UPI:

…”First, the Obama administration fails to do its job on the border. Then it sues Arizona to prevent us from helping to fight illegal immigration. Then it tries to create a false sense of complacency by arguing that the border is safe, when it isn’t,” Arizona Attorney General Tom Horne said in a statement. “Now it argues that persons should be able to register to vote without providing adequate information enabling verification of citizenship, thus enabling illegal aliens to register to vote. This is contrary to the interests of the people of the United States of America.”…

This is just typical of Holder’s “Justice” Department – club wielding thugs at a voting booth? Perfectly ok. Trying to stop illegal votes from being cast? Don’t you dare! I guess Holder is leaving no stone unturned in order to help Obama’s re-election effort.

More seriously, I want an investigation of Holder’s actions – preferably by a new AG under a new Administration in 2013. I want to find out if any laws have been broken by Holder in the way he’s conducted business…if there is one Obama Administration official I think worthy of a prison cell, it is Holder. This isn’t about policy differences – I think the man, by refusing to enforce the laws justly, must be in violation of one or more statutes…and if investigation shows that his actions aren’t a violation, then we need laws created to ensure that any future AG who runs roughshod over American liberties faces the music.

Proof that the Ruling Class is globally stupid:

President Barack Obama on Tuesday urged European countries and bondholders to prevent a “disastrous” default by Greece and pledged U.S. support to help tackle the country’s debt crisis…

…After a meeting with German Chancellor Angela Merkel, he stressed the importance of German “leadership” on the issue – a hint that he expects Berlin to help – while expressing sympathy for the political difficulties European Union countries face in helping a struggling member state…

We’ve got our own debt crisis. Chancellor Merkel’s political party is being hammered in local and regional elections over her involvement in previous bail outs. Greece already cannot repay the debt they have. And here comes Barack Obama – his solution? Offer more money we don’t have while urging Merkel to commit political suicide in order to prevent a Greek default. And all of this because the Greek and other “PIIGS” default risks are already causing economic problems, while an actual default will plunge the world in to recession…and thus plunge Obama in to extreme risk of losing next year.

To nutshell it – President Obama is more than willing to shove America further down the road to financial meltdown in order to prevent the Worst Thing: President Obama’s defeat.

How’s that hope and change thing working out for you?

Seems you can only get so much mileage out of a dead bin Laden – from Life News:

President Barack Obama has lost 20 percent of his approval rating in the course of five weeks in a national poll conducted by the Washington Post. The survey shows that Obama’s bounce he received after Osama bin Ladin’s death has dissipated.

Five weeks after receiving a net positive 18 percent approval rating in the Washington Post poll following the killing of the terrorist mastermind, Obama’s approval rating returned to its pre-bin Ladin status. Obama’s approval rating from the last poll was 56-38 positive versus negative. Now, 47 percent of the American public approves of his job performance while 49 percent disapprove — almost identical to the 47-50 percentage point split Obama saw in mid-April…

Obama’s fate is tied up in two things – how the economy goes and whether or not the GOP nominates a candidate who will go relentlessly after his record and the overall failure of liberalism.

If the economy improves remarkably over the next 12 months, then Obama will have a much easier time of it. Still no guarantee he’d be re-elected, but it would make his narrative work well: “I inherited a lousy economy and thanks to my policies, we’re back on track”. While overall contempt for Obama is growing, it is hard to argue with success…even if that success is mostly an illusion (until we radically change policies, any “improvement” we see in official numbers will be merely masking ultimate collapse).

But even if the economy is in poor shape Obama could still win re-election if we nominate a candidate who won’t fight. If we get someone who wants to be courtly and respectful, then we’ll lose. This is not the time for reaching across the aisle…this is time for revolution. We’re on our side, they are on theirs and one or the other must prevail. We’ll either be a dying, liberal-socialist America or we’ll be a growing, conservative-libertarian America. It is one or the other – they can’t mix; oil and water get along better. But only a real fighter can lay out the case to the American people in a comprehensible way, thus opening up a clear choice – right or left, and for good.

Obama is clearly weakening. The bloom is long off the rose. But victory is by no means assured to us. Only a hard, grueling fight will secure victory for us…and there is that chance that even if we pour out our hearts, we’ll still lose…but even that is ok. If we lose after giving it our all, they we will have done our duty. If the American people really opt – after we’ve given them a fair chance to decide between two radically different courses – for a continuation of the Obama regime, then so be it…the people do ultimately rule in this nation, even if they opt for ruin. But I don’t want us sitting there in 2013 regretting that we didn’t give it our all…leave nothing out, hold nothing back; this is a fight to the finish and for the whole ball of wax.

From Real Clear Politics:

“[I]f you go back to the year 2000, when we had an obvious disaster and – and saw that our voting process needed refinement, and we did that in the America Votes Act and made sure that we could iron out those kinks, now you have the Republicans, who want to literally drag us all the way back to Jim Crow laws and literally – and very transparently – block access to the polls to voters who are more likely to vote Democratic candidates than Republican candidates. And it’s nothing short of that blatant,” DNC Chair Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (FL) told TVOne’s “Washington Week.”

As Wasserman-Schultz is a liberal we can’t rule out the possibility that she’s just a dingbat…so dumb that she really believes all that liberal nonsense about the GOP being secretly racist and just waiting for the day we can propose to re-institute slavery. But if she’s not a complete moron, then we are left with this – liberals are deathly afraid that Obama’s support is eroding among African-Americans and other minorities.

To be sure, Obama will roll up 90%+ of the black vote in 2012 but there’s a difference – a huge difference – if it is 90% of a 60% black turnout (as in 2004) or 90% of a 65% black turnout (as in 2008). In 2008 there was a huge upsurge in minority turnout – black, hispanic and Asian, and most of these voters went for Obama. White turnout, meanwhile, was down slightly from 2004 levels. Essentially, this all played a gigantic role in the 2008 result – not absolutely decisive (Obama may have still won even if minority turnout remained at 2004 levels), but certainly very important. And it will be even more important in 2012 when we’re likely to have a higher turnout among anti-Obama voters than we had in 2008. If Obama can’t get the same sort of minority turn out he got in 2008 his re-election chances become immensely more complicated.

And how to Democrats get minority support? I mean, other than getting lucky and having the first serious minority candidate for President? Well, with Hope and Change wearing thin, it is time to break out the race card…and that is was Wasserman-Schultz is doing (unless, once again, she’s just an idiot). We can expect this song and dance right through the 2012 campaign…and it will get worse as time goes on; especially in those media outlets which are geared towards minority voters…there the gloves will really come off and the Democrat message will be pitched that the most nauseating, hate- and fear-mongering level.

Not too much we can do about it. The regular MSM is mostly on Obama’s side – the minority MSM is even more so. We of the GOP/Conservative camp are starting to make serious inroads among the various minority communities, but it will be the work of a generation before we can well and truly say that our message can compete with the liberal Democrat message. All we can do for 2012 is try to fight off the worst of it – calling the Democrats out when they make the most absurd statements, as well as seeing to it that Obama is made to answer for the race-baiting in his Presidential campaign (he, naturally, will try to stay above it all…pretending he has no idea it is going on…we’ve got to nail him down on it; tie him to the hate-mongering; make sure that the people know that it is Obama’s team which is pulling this nonsense.

We can bank on it that the 2012 campaign will be the longest, most expensive and nastiest political campaign in history. This is just a curtain-raiser here…a slight foretaste of the feces Democrats will spread all over this great nation of ours.