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Looks like ole’ Winston at the Ministry of Truth is at it again…..
That’s not the surge that I know!
I just finished reading “1984″ for the first time about 3 months ago. Wow! This re-writing of the past is WAY too close to what they did in that novel. Scary, scary, stuff.
I could no longer disown that surge than my own grandmother!
Is this some more of that “Change” I keep hearing about?
Barry Obama the media phenomena still hasn’t quite grasped the wizardly ways of the blogosphere.
Suck it up, Barry. There’s more to come.
Mr. “flip-flop” is at it again. We could sure use another Reagan again. He would tear this “beginner” apart, with another, “There he goes again” comment. McCain should be on the attack and blast him. Sigh. No Reagan in sight.
This is just another example of what a useless tool Obummer is. As a military spouse, I have ZERO confidence in this sock puppet. This man screams “terrorist smypathizer” rather than “commander-in-chief.”
Obummer can just change whatever he says, that way the media can whitewash it (as his enablers) and the American public is never the wiser. However, Obummer underestimates that there are those of us in the country who aren’t nearly as naive as his supporters.
Amazing how much liberals embrace the media for their own ends but then forget that there is always a memory cache that can expose them for the liars and users they really are.
I still have never heard OBAMA utter a word about WINNING the war. I can only conclude is for Losing it.
Another one
bites the dustunder the bus!Alas, good news for everyone else is, once again, bad news for Democrats.
But if your wins are based around everyone else’s losses, that’s the price you pay.
OH if I knew how to photo shop….Mr. Clean Mr. Clean.
“the essential act of the Party is to use conscious deception while retaining the firmness of purpose that goes with complete honesty.”
George Orwell “1984″
First Hillary scrubs any negative comment she made about Barack,
and now Barack scrubs any negative comment he made on the surge ….
As his good friend William Ayers said, “memories are a M Fer, I remember nothing.”
Do and say anything to get power to be president — by any means necessary.
What. A. Poser.
War’s over Obama. It’s all contractors suckin’ off the federal teat now dude. How’s it feel to be getting outflanked by the GOP that’s not worth a damn anyway? Lol.
MikeOK:
But is it *really* good news for everyone? Sure, what he’s saying is good, but will he actually follow through? Obama has “refined” his positions so many times that there’s no telling which ones he’d follow when/if he got elected.
Oh, the audacity!
Paraphrasing John Kerry, I can’t believe this guy is winning. But he is. Kind of.
Actually, I’m going to make a prediction here: that both campaigns are going to fizzle of the next few months leading to (I hope) a record low turnout come November. That may be the only way remaining to send a message.
Elsewhere I made a comment about the American people getting the government they deserve. Personally, I think we as a nation have truly vexed the Lord. It’s as if He is beyond anger and frustration and has concluded: “The Four Horseman of the Apocalypse are too good for them. Two duds from Loserville should do the job just fine.”
It’s just more “change“, right?
Flip-flop implies that a politician has had a change in position to reflect public opinion: “I was against it before I was for it.”
Barack Hussein Obama doesn’t “flip flop.” He blantantly lies, and he will lie and cheat and doing anything jihad of the tongue style to get himself commander in chief of the most powerful military in the world.
Instead of saying “Obama has flip-flopped yet again,” we should be saying “Obama has lied yet again.” You cannot trust a word that comes out of his mouth.
Not only that, but its change you can count on everytime!
Absolutely.
I wouldn’t be surprised if Obama or one of his surrogates attempts to lie that barack was never against the surge, as David Axelrod attempted to lie about something Barack said on Morning Joe not too long ago.
Good point Gabe. Flip/Flop is a euphamism. I don’t know if lie is even strong enough. I would say deceive. He is deceiving the electorate whenever he possible can.
BUT why doesn’t Mc Cain rip Obama for having a losers mentality. He never talks about winning the war and just talks about getting out. He then needs to attack Obama on his idea of winning in Afganistan. At what point is it a civil war, and at what point will he just get out of Afganistan? I think Mc Cain is a bit of a stooge when it comes to criticizing Obama.
Does Obaba not know that his speeches and writings are recorded for posterity? I guess this is a good way to know when he is lieing, when he says, “As I have said in the past” … LIE, LIE, LIE. This is nothing more than the old clintonesque form of rewriting history and rewriting speeches. The real problem with these type of liars is that they do not really believe their words mean anything. As Rush would say, “Words mean something.”
It would take more than one delete to delete the Bush/McCain mistakes on Iraq. There’s the intelligence “failures”, firing the general who said how many troops we would need, . . .
If you’re looking for judgement, Obama’s track record is way better than Bush/McCain.
I’m certain D’ohbama thinks the war in Afghanistan can be won by sending in several brigades of community acka-vists to shake down the Taliban. Word.
You gotta love democrats.
If 2005-2007 Iraq was a “Civil War,” what was 1994 Rwanda…a Civil Annihilation?
Repeat, “words don’t mean things, words don’t mean things…”
For Senator Hopenchange in particular, but the left in general as well, the problem with having only ambition unchecked by any principles is that every position you take becomes “tactical:” what you said yesterday becomes the opposite of what you’ll say tomorrow, based solely on the needs of the immediate time and place. There’s no larger vision, no carefully thought out in advance policy, no sense of over-arching right and wrong.
The first problem with having nothing but tactical positions is that your political rhetoric devolves into nothing more than populist demagoguery. You become loath to promise specifics, because you know that at some point you’ll have to promise some contrary specifics to a different group of people. Instead, you seek to bamboozle the electorate with a “This, that, and the other thing” wish list that’s muddled in lofty-sounding yet substance-free speechifying. Sound familiar?
The second problem with unprincipled rudderlessness is that you never know who you’ll end up standing shoulder-to-shoulder with. Just like the “Raging Grannies” and the “Gay, Lesbian, Bi-and-Transgendered Alliance” will march in the same anti-Western Civilization parade next to the “Jihadi Brotherhood,” so Obama ends up in awkward solidarity with the people who want this country to lose a winnable war.
The third problem is that without principles of your own you end up developing a sort-of “Stockholm Syndrome” with the wrong kinds of people: e.g., “I hate George Bush; the Jihadi Brotherhood hates George Bush; so, they must hate George Bush for the same reasons I do, and that means that they must be decent-enough folks, after all.” Hence, Senator Hopenchange’s refusal to take the threat of foreign terrorism seriously, coupled with his eagerness to meet “unconditionally” with the sworn enemies of America.
When, as with Obama, you are completely unmoored from any motivation higher than personal ambition and you have an over-developed sense of self-pride, the result is typically confusion mixed with hubris. You’ll make sudden, 180-degree switches in policy not only because you don’t see anything inherently wrong with that, but also because you think that your natural “superiority” to the hoi polloi that is the American people lets you get away with it.
An old political saying goes, “There are stupid Americans, but Americans are not stupid.” We’ve already seen the millions of Hopenchange supporters proving the first half of that statement; with any luck, his failure to win the presidency via some chameleon-like cult of personality will demonstrate the second half.
Yup. His track record of voting “present” is really an amazing accomplishment that illustrates his “judgement.”
When does Obama ever do the job he was elected to do and gets paid to do. He (and McCain) should resign their jobs in the Senate since they are not doing them. How we allow this is beyond me. It demonstrates the arrogance of politicians. The only voting record Obama has is “absent”.
He hasn’t scrubbed this, yet. (Accessed 2008-7-15 13:27.)
The other page is still in Google’s cache so far.
Let’s ignore the seagull.
He’s the opposite of the party one-upper. You know, that guy that always tried to top your story with one even better.
Except, in his case, it’s stuck in reverse. No matter what you might say, he’s got a one-downer for you ready and completely off-topic.
wise_man said (#30):
Read why he used to do that. It’s called consensus & bipartisanship.
Mister P said (#31):
If you’re looking for judgement, Obama’s track record is way better than Bush/McCain.
Actually, Obama has voted much more often than McCain during the campaign. If you choose the more frequent voter, that would be Obama.
lgm
How can you possibly say that without citing the specific judgment he rendered on a specific issue on a specific date? He has circled just about every major issue in politics with his “judgments”.
What is his judgment on the war in Afghanistan? Based on the hearings of his subcommittee on the war? What’s that you say – he can’t be measured by that standard since hasn’t held A SINGLE HEARING! Sure is taking a firm stance there and showing his stalwart judgement eh?
Obama is a sleazy say anything to get elected pol. End of story.
Your right and that’s just un American.
Thomas “Mr. Timely” Sowell has a relevant column out today. To the left, facts are obsolete.
Jerry Burns was the coach of the Minnesota Vikings who had to follow Bud Grant after he re-retired in 1985. When Burnsie had trouble winning a reporter pushed him saying he lacked ‘killer instinct’. Burns just went off on one his 4-letter filled tyrades that made for great morning radio show fodder. I think McCain is the same way in this presidential race. He has no ‘killer instinct’ needed to finish off an opponent and just as Jerry Burns, this will be McCain’s screaming-out-loud-obvious weakness.
Our future, with a President Obama:
In Obama’s first One Hundred Days, the Congress will his initiatives, and with the aid of Democrat majorities in congress, he signs them into law as he said he would.
He repeals the Bush tax cuts, and increases capital gains taxes.He enacts a windfall profits tax, and institutes price controls on gasoline and diesel fuel.
He passes universal health care, which adds an additional 10 percent tax increase on all working Americans.
He signs the Immigrant Amnesty bill which creates 12 million new
citizens instantly, each with entitlements.
He closes the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, and summarily
releases all the detainees into the United States, because their countries of origin would not take them back.
He repeals the Patriot Act, and cuts funding for espionage, and eliminates the monitoring and wiretaps of all terrorists.
Most importantly, he begins the complete and immediate withdrawal of all American troops from Iraq.
He ignores the advice of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, who want to
retain bases in Kuwait and Qatar. Instead, he goes with the
recommendation of Secretary of Defense Dennis Kucinich, and orders all troops back to U.S. soil.
Viola! In One Hundred Days, by May of 2009, it is all done, and his em>vision for America was complete. He does exactly what he said he would do.
Of course, the economy needs a tax cut, not an increase, and unemployment will quickly rise to 12 percent. Even attorneys and economists will be put in the bread lines.
Price controls on gasoline will immediately led to shortages and gas lines.
The global cooling trend we have seen for the past 25 years will first become obvious in 2009, exposing the CO2 global warming fraud.
Federal deficits will increase massively because thousands of baby
boomers, facing job loss and much higher taxes, will simply give up and take social security.
The superb U.S. health care system will be thrown into disarray. President Obama will create the Federal Department of Health Care, and appoint Senator Hillary Rodham, Secretary. She will immediately authorize the hiring of 250,000 administrators, inspectors and auditors, unwittingly making it the only job growth in any economic sector in 2009.
By February 2010, the U.S. military withdrawal from Iraq will be
complete. It will be a very expensive undertaking.
By March, the once gradual Shiite insurgencies from Iran turn into a true Iraqi civil war. By May, Iranian Qud Force tanks cross the border and
quickly take Baghdad. At least
230,000 Sunni Iraqis die as the Obama administration stood by, requesting face to face meetings with Mahmood Ahmadinijad (who repeatedly denies that Iranian troop are in Iraq.)
Iran also quickly moves into an undefended Kuwait.
After two weeks of high level talks, President Obama agrees to allow Iran to retain Iraq and Kuwait in order to create stability in the middle
east, with the understanding that Israel would not be disturbed.
President Obama announces on August 13th, that he
has finally achieved “peace in our time” in the Middle East.
President Obama will show some surprise at the rocket attacks on Tel Aviv on
August 14th, stating on national televison, “This is not the Mahmoud Ahmadinejad I know.”
The Obama administration decides it would be destabilizing to take
sides in the conflict, and approximately 29,000 Israeli civilians die during the summer and fall.
American Jews are appalled at Obama’s inaction. In 2010 most
American Jews were Democrats, but because of 2010, they become solid
Republicans.
As awkward as it seems, everything might have turned out all right for
the Obama administration going into the fall mid-term elections of 2010,
if it hadn’t been for the dirty bomb in the Port of Long Beach.
The Obama administration will cut funding for the inspection of containers, because they feel it shows a “lack of trust” in the international trading community.
It won’t be a very big bomb, and thank goodness, not a real
nuclear device, but nonetheless it will contaminate some expensive real
estate – Newport Beach, Palos Verdes Estates – and it ultimately causes the
death of 14,000 Americans. People will be most annoyed that Disneyland has to be closed for decontamination.
And so, in the midterm elections, Republicans regained control of
both the House and Senate, and the rest is history.
The impeachment proceedings against President Obama for “failure to
protect and defend” will be swift and nearly unanimous. Vice President
Sibelius resigns. Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi is also successfully impeached, is removed from office, and faces federal charges of Treason during a time of war. A newly elected Speaker of the House, yet unknown, will become the 45th President of the United States.
Republicans finish the war on Islamic fundamentalists, largely by targeting ICBM’s at Mecca and Medina.
The once vocal Democrat Party leadership will be strangely quiet, fearing their own possible trial for treason.
Politicians don’t “lie”. They “flip-flop”. That’s the terminology today to protect oneself (ex: MSM) from damage. Accusing a politician of “lying” would create an uproar (usually liberals), so now the PC way is “flip-flop”. Yeah…makes no sense to me either. But, we live in a…pardon the expression…flip-flop world, these days.
I am not certain how any of this help’s Michelle O’s children.
right_ on – nice job, I think your on to something there…
As is progressive is the new terminology for socialist.
Yes, lgm the concensus here is that you are a TROLL.
Years of service in military?
BHO – zip
Years of service in senate? Winner McCain
Oh, voting record is the measure of who is “better”.
You are the king of idiots you know?
You left off he will sign a federal abortion bill allowing aborting for any reason up until birth thus taking away states rights to legislate the issue which will set precedence for a federal law banning legal gun ownership by individuals. Good bye second amendment.
nice.
“Present Votes Are an Accepted Legislative Strategy in the Illinois Senate”
I thought that Obama was about “change,”and not politics as usual.
Also,
Reading the page that lgm linked does not provide any proof that voting “present” is anything more than a co-out.
Reading the page that lgm linked does not provide any proof that voting “present” is anything more than a co-out, said wiseman, a commenter of conservative issues and denouncer of the fraud that is Barack Obaam on the Michelle Malkin web page. [Michelle Malkin webpage, Wise_Man, July 15, 2008
[CRAP!!]
“cop-out”
[Michelle Malkin webpage, Wiseman should spend more than a few moments profing before he submits, Wise_Man, July 15, 2008]
It’s not nice to make fun of the mentally-challenged, but in lgm’s case, as long as he’s here, he is depriving a village someplace of a perfectly good idiot.
Here’s a special one for Mister P
I would be loathe to admit that Bush has done a splendid job over there. I think he’s done well enough with what he has to work with…i still dont think we should have gone, but now that we’re there, we should finish the mission and get it done.
If i’m looking for pure judgment, then Obama would be the last place i’d look…kind of like the Senate floor, where Obama should have been voting all this time, but he’s one of the most absentee senators ever. What’s his voting record at for things he’s actually voted on? Lack of judgment?
How about wanting a civilian force that he wants to have as large and as well funded as our military? Do you know how laughable that is? I mean, seriously…that’s as idiotic as it gets.
How about his socialist policies in general? Where are ANY of those good judgments?
I think my dog can make better judgments than Obama.
I just dont think those judgments would be good for his kids.
What McCain mistakes were those? Oh – that’s right, McCain is Bush III, I haven’t been drinking the kool-aid. That would make Obama Carter-Kerry I guess.
But judging them simply as Obama and McCain, McCain said the surge would work, it did. Obama said it was a mistake, he was wrong, and now he’s covering up. Sure, I can see why you’re for Obama…
…and where is the mistress to defend her zero?
Headlines:
Obama’s BS is already coming around to bite the world in the a$$.
You know, lgm, I think the point of this post was to illustrate that BO realized he made an arrogant assumption some time ago, and is now trying to cover his tracks.
By simply removing his original comments about the surge, which were in fact made quite prematurely, and not even addressing the fact that he was wrong, hasn’t BO acted just like a typical liberal politican of the past?
Where’s the hope and change?
BTW, attempting to change the subject and deflect criticism toward Booooosh is getting kind of old. Can’t you address the core issue?
The candidate of “change” (changing his mind every other week, that is…) strikes again!
My God, you had the same nightmare/dream that I did! The nightmare is the first part. The dreamy part was all that stuff about impeachment.
The real scary part? None of your prognostications are implausible.
Your new handle is now Claire_Voyant.
The new Messiah is not the King in his new clothes.
The Robes the anointed sports are
TAPIOCA, not white, not brown, more the color of a Chameleon (species Changerson), on a road apple.
I certainly hope I can keep some pocket change.
On July 15th, 2008 at 1:36 pm, lgm said:
You may choose to call that stuff apple butter if wish, in which case, all I can say is bon appetit; but pardon me if I choose not to partake.
I and my family are so proud. I have finally realized that lgm is my Brother. He has improved to such a degree I first thought he had been released and we weren’t notified, but understanding modern technology it would seem he’s able to communicate via the internet sometimes in the morning before his meds are forced down his throat.
This is an astounding, unexpected sign of progress. Years ago we were forced to accept the ‘loss’ of our dear brother and the prognosis of ‘total disassociation’ from any relevant social reality.
It’s obvious that lgm has progressed at least to an awareness of the 19th Century Progressive movement. We can only hope for more progress.
I guess I should mention that adage that some adhere to; ‘A Conservative is a Liberal that’s been mugged’.
I perceive a sea change beginning in Rusty’s rap.
So you admit the “infallible” B Hussein Obama is capable of deletes?
Hey, lgm! Summer’s Eve called. They don’t like the bad image you’re giving their product.
Ah yes, getting ready to (pardon me) whitewash his presidential activities with the aid of the media.
As for judgment, are you really defending his “sound” judgement on advisors, both religious and political? Or are you just going on his ability to read from notes and teleprompters? I guess you would have to, since his track record is really nonexistent. A community activist for ACORN? Gee, I guess a track record of helping voter fraud is a qualification for the Democrat candidacy anyway.
I know, you will vote for him for the reason the press keeps repeating: the first black president. That and black group identification and the ridiculous “white guilt.”
That would really make him the first “affirmative” action president.
One thing I can say about the anointed ones for POTUS they are both flipping faster they a team of acrobats. The Obamessiah makes the “grumpy old man” look fairly consistent and stable considering how much he has flipped and flopped and misstated himself in the past couple of weeks.
Our own Emily Litella, Editor-in-Chief of the latest edition of “Encylopedia of Liberal False Knowledge”, told us, sweetly:
Errr.ummm… John McCain didn’t gather the intelligence. He (like Bush) relied upon intelligence from a CIA run by a Clinton hold-over.
wikipedia says this about lgm’s latter claim:
“Contrary to Democratic candidate John Kerry’s claim, in the first debate of the 2004 presidential election, Shinseki was not “retired” for his testimony before Congress. His official term as Chief of the Army ended four months later and he retired as scheduled.”
Nevermind……
Why are conservatives so bad at capitalizing on liberal gaffs? The fact that Obama opposed the war in Iraq should by all logic indicate that Obama can’t make reasonable decisions. All intelligence organizations from around the world believed that Saddam had WMDs. Republicans and Democrats alike believed he had WMDs. Saddam had refused to allow inspections indicating he had something to hide. At one time, he had WMDs and had used them. It was a fact that Saddam wanted WMDs. There was no rush to war; the United States waited for years for Saddam to allow inspections. So based on all the info we had at the time, no reasonable person would have concluded that there were no WMDs. So what do you say about a person who ignores all evidence when making decisions. If you are accidentally right because you totally misunderstand the available data, that doesn’t mean you have superior logic or insight. It’s called dumb luck–a broken clock. In this case, you can tell it’s dumb luck because of the fact that he has been wrong about everything else (the surge). So do you want to elect a president whose only claim to fame is dumb luck?
What’s more amazing is that, as far as I know, up to the beginning of the war, Obama never claimed that he believed that Saddam didn’t have WMDs, so there’s every reason to believe that he did believe it. So why exactly did he oppose the war? Dumb luck.
So why can’t conservatives make that stick. Why can’t they present Obama for what he is, a broken clock, a guy who relies on dumb luck. Do you really want the security of the country based on the decisions of a person who can’t comprehend the evidence?