What an embarassment

Since we know Barack Hussein Obama is the most intelligent person living or dead, this cannot be excused as a blunder, or an innocent mistake, or lack of experience, or ignorance of proper protocol.  He is intentionally elevating kings and emperors above the President of the United States.

http://www.nytimes.com/1994/06/19/weekinreview/the-world-the-president-s-inclination-no-it-wasn-t-a-bow-bow.html

NYT’s reaction to Clinton inclining his head to the Emperor in 1994:

“It wasn’t a bow, exactly. But Mr. Clinton came close. He inclined his head and shoulders forward, he pressed his hands together. It lasted no longer than a snapshot, but the image on the South Lawn was indelible: an obsequent President, and the Emperor of Japan.”

“Administration officials scurried to insist that the eager-to-please President had not really done the unthinkable.”

Well, so much for the unthinkable.

See some pictures of other world leaders as they have greeted the Emperor of Japan.

Posted:  11.15.09

The Ft. Hood massacre just keeps unfolding in layers, more facts coming out each day and revealing the hearts of grieving Americans as the reality of it really hits us. Today, I was reading this touching post about the 14th victim, and I had not looked at it like this concerning the unborn child that was also killed by Monster Hasan.

While following some links related to the post, I came across this amazing, amazing article about President Bush and Laura and their private visit to Ft. Hood to offer comfort in the midst of this horrific event. It’s been almost a week now, and I think each day another layer is exposed in me as I move from one emotion to another, because honestly it was so hard to believe it was for real, it is taking a while to sink in. I’ve been shocked, numb, angry, and sad, and most of all outraged.

Some Hillary supporters here have expressed their admiration for what President Bush did for the country and for the devastated soldiers and their families at Ft. Hood. Here’s an excerpt and a link.

“”If you have been reading us for any length of time, you know that we used to make fun of “Dubya” nearly every day…parroting the same comedic bits we heard in our Democrat circles, where Bush is still, to this day, lampooned as a chimp, a bumbling idiot, and a poor, clumsy public speaker.

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…..we will always be grateful for what George and Laura Bush did this week, with no media attention,when they very quietly went to Ft. Hood and met personally with the families of the victims of this terrorist attack.

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The Bushes went and met privately with these families for HOURS, hugging them, holding them, comforting them.

If there are any of you out there with any connection at all to the Bushes, we implore you to give them our thanks…you tell them that a bunch of gay Hillary guys in Boystown, Chicago were wrong about the Bushes…and are deeply, deeply sorry for any jokes we told about them in the past, any bad thoughts we had about these good, good people.”"

See the entire post here.  Don’t miss the comments and the Halloween 2009 post.It makes me proud to be an American and so happy to see some genuine bipartisanship, because after all, when push comes to shove, we are “One nation, under God,  indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.”

Posted: 11.12.09

I didn’t happen to see the Lou Dobbs Show last night but saw several video clips of what he said about his resignation.  Each one I saw was cut here and there and did not do justice to what he was saying.  So here is a transcript of the entire statement, and it is unfortunate most won’t know exactly what he did say.

Transcript from Nov. 11 broadcast below:

Tonight I want to turn to a personal note, if I may, and address a matter that has raised some curiosity. This will be my last broadcast here on CNN, where I’ve worked for most of the past 30 years, and where I have many friends and colleagues whom I admire deeply and respect greatly.

I’m the last of the original anchors here on CNN and I’m proud to have had the privilege to helping to build the world’s first news network. I’m grateful for the many opportunities that CNN has given me over the many years. I’ve tried to reciprocate with a full measure of my ability.

Over the past six months it’s become increasingly clear that strong winds of change have begun buffeting this country and affecting all of us. And some leaders in media, and in politics and business have been urging me to go beyond the role at CNN and to engage in constructive problem solving as well as to contribute positively to the great understanding of the issues of our day and to continue to do so in the most honest and direct language possible.

I’ve talked extensively with Jonathan Klein. John’s the president of CNN, and as a result of those talks, John and I have agreed to a release from my contract that will enable me to pursue new opportunities. At this point, I’m considering a number of options, and directions, and I assure you, I will let you know when I set my course.

I truly believe that the major issues of our time include — the growth of our middle-class, the creation of more jobs, health care, immigration policy, the environment, climate change, and our military involvement, of course, in Afghanistan and Iraq.

But each of those issues is, in my opinion, informed by our capacity to demonstrate strong resilience of our now weakened capitalist economy and demonstrate the political will to overcome the lack of true representation in Washington, D.C.

I believe these to be profoundly, critically important issues, and I will continue to strive to deal honestly and straightforwardly with those issues in the future. Unfortunately, these issues are now defined in the public arena by partisanship and ideology rather than by rigorous, empirical thought and forthright analysis and discussion.

I’ll be working diligently to change that as best I can. And as for the important work of restoring inspiration to our great free society and our market economy, I will strive as well to be a leader in that national conversation.

It’s been my great honor to work with each and every person at this wonderful network. I will be eternally grateful to CNN, to Ted Turner, and to all of my colleagues and friends and, of course, to you at home.

I thank you, and may God bless you.

I will be anxiously waiting to see what’s next for Lou Dobbs.

Obermann did a happy dance, see video here. I didn’t see this either, but note it states he “cherry picked” the statements, par for the course.

Posted:  11.12.09

God Bless the Fallen

Murdered at the hands of a Traitor and Terrorist, an Army Major who was in a place of trust, doctor and psychiatrist, assigned to counsel soldiers returning from combat

Can you even think of a more diabolical and evil act of betrayal?

Posted:  11.10.09

All hail the power of Jesus’ Name! Let angels prostrate fall;
Bring forth the royal diadem, and crown Him Lord of all.

There is a lot of discussion about what motivated Hasan in his horrific actions  But…..

Let’s just say that Major Malik Hasan was not a devout Muslim.

Let’s just say he didn’t attend mosque with two of the 9/11 terrorists.

Let’s just say he did not make postings trying to justify Muslim suicide bombings or that he did not consider U. S. forces at war with Islam.

Let’s just say that he didn’t shout “Allahu Akbur” before he began shooting.

Let’s just say that he didn’t tell a neighbor that morning that he was going “to do good work for God,” before he left for work, as was reported by the Washington Post.

All these things most certainly add up to a very good case that he is or was an Islamic terrorist, motivated by his religion and hatred, and that he probably should have been discharged from the Army long ago, but maybe they didn’t want to jump to any conclusions due to his minority status, wanting to give him every chance known to man.  Indeed, if there are those who desire to pity him after he massacred his fellow soldiers, why would these same people not have heaped condemnation of anyone who would have wanted to discharge him.  Lord knows, we wouldn’t want to jump to any conclusions.

But we don’t even have to go there.

Because these things we know without a doubt:

That he was a Major in the U. S. Army, having sworn allegiance to the U. S. Constitution and outranking about 90 percent of soldiers.

That he was a psychiatrist with medical training provided by the military, making him more educated than most and certainly not financially destitute.

That he has a desk job, never seeing any combat.

That he walked into a space filled with fellow soldiers who were unarmed and sitting ducks, in a medical facility on a military base on U. S. soil and fired off I think it was 20 rounds from two weapons, one a pistol and another a semi-automatic pistol, killing 13 and wounding 29 (his own personal weapons).

This makes him a coward.  This makes him a traitor.  This makes him a monster.  And in my mind anybody who wants to try to excuse or minimize his actions are also traitors to this country.

We need to find out if this was a terrorist act, but by damn we don’t need to know that for sure to condemn without equivocation the actions of this lowest of low life, and that goes for all the poor lil Dr. Hasan BS I keep hearing from the dishonest and corrupt media.  We don’t have to jump to any conclusions either to know that he slaughtered U. S. troops and for that he is an enemy of the United States of America and I expect the president to say so.

Posted:  11.08.09

Rep. Anh “Joseph” Cao

Lone Republican votes in favor of the Pelosi healthcare bill (hr3962).

The bill passed 220-215, with 39 Democrats voting no and one Republican, Rep. Joseph Cao (R-La.), voting in favor of the landmark bill.

Rep. Cao’s number is: (202) 225-6636 in DC & (504) 483-2325 in New Orleans

In 2009 August Cao announced his intention to vote against the healthcare bill if it provided public funding for abortion.

Cao was one of only seven Republicans to vote in favor of the resolution of disapproval toward South Carolina representative Joe Wilson for his outburst against president Obama.

And when all is said and done, the bill needed 218 votes to pass so it passed by a measly 2 votes, one of which was this republican.  There is a new CNN poll that indicates that only 26 percent of Americans were in favor of the bill in its present form.  Good news – 2010 is just around the corner.

Posted:  11.08.09

UPDATE scroll down

Just don’t “jump to any conclusions.”

David Gergen [CNN], Jon Meacham [Newswek], Howard Fineman [Newsweek/NBC], Mike Allen [Politico], Josh Marshall [Talking Points Memo], David Brooks [NYT], and Gail Collins [NYT] had an off the record lunch with the president today.   Also: Mara Liasson, who works for NPR and the Fox News Channel that Obama wants to destroy.  (Gawker.)  No connection at all to softball articles such as this from Newsweek trying to make excuses for Traitor Hasan.

Our president lunching with the media as we mourn the murder of American soldiers, executed by an Army Major, Coward, Traitor, and Terrorist.

He later in the afternoon made a visit to Walter Reid Army Hospital, his first visit there since becoming president.  (No photos were allowed because he “wanted it to be private.”)  Completely unrelated, I’m sure, to this Tone Deaf Moment.

See RBO for a video of the initial speech – the entire video  – because what I have seen on tv has been cut down to eliminate the inappropriate jabbering before he finally even got to the Ft. Hood Massacre.

UPDATE: RBO has a few more names of the attendees of the presidential luncheon meeting with the press.

POTUS emerged gloomily to warn not to jump to conclusions about Ft. Hood (above) [see video at RBO] following his afternoon off-the-record luncheon with the Washington elite journalism, CNN’s David Gergen, Washington Post’s Chris Cillizza, Newsweek’s Jon Meacham and Howard Fineman, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution’s Cynthia Tucker, POLITICO’s Mike Allen, NPR/ Fox’s Mara Liasson, Talking Points Memo’s Josh Marshall and New York Times trio David Brooks, Andy Rosenthal, and Gail Collins.

Also interesting to note that the following also attended:

David Axelrod, Anita Dunn, Bill Burton and Robert Gibbs also attended the journalism luncheon.  [The Media Mafia]

Posted:  11.06.09  Updated:  11.07.09 @12:34 p.m.

Some pictures are beginning to show up on the web from the Kill the Bill Rally on the Capitol grounds today.

This could be one of those signs Andrea Mitchell was so sour about.

Posted:  11.05.o9

NIELSEN CABLE NUMBERS FOR LAST NIGHT, 11.03.09 (8-11 p.m.)

FOXNEWS: 4,043,000 viewers (1,130,000 in A25-54)

MSNBC: 974,000 viewers(308,000 in A25-54)

HEADLINE NEWS: 842,000 viewers(341,000 in A25-54)

CNN: 826,000 viewers (227,000 in A25-54)...

These numbers are not surprising – if you wanted to see any coverage at all to speak of, you had to watch FOX.  Corzine was giving his concession speech – CNN was not covering it – MSNBC was not covering it either.  Then when Christie came out to give his acceptance speech, again, only on FOX.  The other two were just going on and on with their little opinions about everything.  That is really not coverage.

But the difference between FOX at 4,000,000 to its nearest competitor, MSNBC, at 974,000 is just stunning.  The public is speaking at the polls and it is also speaking with the tv dial.  And, that, in spite of the fact the White House has declared FOX is not a real news channel.

Okay.  Fine.  And I just read that Pelosi says the dems won last night and they are going headlong ahead on healthcare.   They are not listening.

Posted:  11.04.09

Drudge had an ad up a little earlier placed by a private citizen to call the Capitol tomorrow to protest the healthcare bill – (202) 224-3121.  That is if you can’t be there on the Capitol steps at noon in person.

Here’s a sure cure for obesity and it won’t cost a thing. Keep this picture handy and when you feel hungry, take it out as you try to eat that turnip casserole, or anything else for that matter. The pounds should fall right off.

After the chefs finished foraging for vegetables in the White House garden, the first lady came out to make a cameo in the episode (wearing a pumpkin-orange dress with teal blue shoes and short sweater!) and talked about her crusade to reduce childhood obesity through better school lunches, community gardens, farmers’ markets and exercise. Iron Chef America is watched by over a million viewers, and off-camera the first lady told the chefs, “This is huge. It is going a long way to help change the way this country thinks about food. I want you to come back.”

I think Michelle is recommending the sweet potato casserole, apparently an Obama favorite.

NYT.

Posted:  11.04.09