Hot dogs for Syria and Venezuela!
Grill, baby, grill.
President Obama sheepishly rescinded his July 4 party invitation to Iran’s murderous mullahcracy.
But some dictators and thugs are in luck: Obama’s hot dog diplomacy has returned to Syria and Venezuela. Fire up the grill:
The Obama administration has decided to return an ambassador to both Venezuela and Syria after a diplomatic hiatus with both countries, FOX News confirmed Wednesday.
The United States and Venezuela have been working to reinstate ambassadors to each other’s capitals since Secretary of State Hillary Clinton met with Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez in April at the Summit of the Americas, a State Department official said. The move would reverse a tit-for-tat the countries had last year, when Venezuela kicked out the U.S. ambassador and the United States did the same to Venezuela’s envoy.
“The necessary measures are being taken” to return the diplomats to their posts, the official said. “It’s in the best interests of both countries.”
The diplomatic freeze with Syria dates back much further, and a restoration of ties with the Middle Eastern country is seen as part of a broader effort to achieve a comprehensive peace between Arabs and Israelis in the region.
This diplomatic effort is said by knowledgeable sources to include a quiet campaign by the Obama administration to “bring Hamas into the (peace) process.”
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Grill baby grill!!!
Michelle,
Thanks for a little bit of humor in the morning.
For the record- I would dispute that notion.
Obama’s defining moment.
Not quite “a day that will live in infamy” or ” I can hear you, the rest of the world can hear you and the people who knocked these buildings down will hear all of us soon.”
Ironically, more Seinfeldesque, “No hot dogs for you.”
There is nothing wrong with Diplomacy but to paraphrase Thomas Jefferson, when it is time to think about things, think about them but when it is time to act, quit thinking about it and act … well this administration has been able to master the “quit thinking” part of it anyhow.
For all his vaunted hyper-intelligence, I just cannot find the least evidence of it at work.
Any Arkansas mule skinner could master a carrot and a stick.
This babe-in-the-woods just saunters up and feeds the carrot to the jack-asses, then walks down the road twirling the stick like he’s done something.
Jack-ass laughter is such an ugly sound…
Can I be the first to say:
BULLCHIPS on this.
Arabs want Iarael to be gone off of the planet and nothing will EVER change that.
Yes, that’s what we need. Terrorists at the peace table. What we really need to do is elevate terror organizations to the status of nation states.
Feed them the ‘All Meat Franks’ which usually have beef, turkey and PORK.
Does Nathan’s make pork dogs? I cannot get them here but as I recall, most of the ones I ever bought were beef. The idea of Hamas sitting down to Kosher pork hot dogs is just somehow … poetic?
Yeah…
I can see how that could present problems for Achmed’sDoDad. Having a Bush to deal with instead of this teenage celebrity.
Sort of shows you who they respect, over there on the other side of the fence from the US.
Syria is directly responsible for killing US soldiers in the Middle East, but I guess that doesn’t matter anymore. I’m gonna be sick.
Rags…. I am in absolute agreement with you questioning Obutthead’s vaunted intelligence. I keep waiting to see some evidence of it, even a hint. Despite what the butt smooching, drooling mouth breathers in the MSM have to say, his speeches are both boring, & utterly predictable. Of course, considering the generally low levels of intelligence & analytical thinking skills that abound in this country, he probably does appear intelligent to millions. To paraphrase, “in the land of dumba$$es, the man with a double digit IQ is king.”
Oh, it is – I agree. For Syria and Venezuela.
But not America. Or at least not the America we used to know and love. Obama’s vision is no different from that of the dictator thugs leading Syria and Venezuela, so I can see how he’d be confused by this.
is a great caption for that picture. I bet we can come up with more. What in the world is Michelle Obama thinking?
The wheels aren’t coming off the wagon yet, but THE ONE miscued REAL badly on Iran. That presser the other day was some kind of turning point, or I cannot read people at all.
I think his foreign policy will shortly be recognized as being as bad as his economics…and when you have Warren Buffet slamming you on the economy…well, it just doesn’t get worse than that…
People around the world have a good read on him now. Our best allies know they are inexplicably outre’, and our worst enemies know he’s a plush toy.
Did you guys catch that Nappy Jan is ending domestic satellite surveillance? You can bet our Jihadi friends picked up on that.
Having Ambassadors in Venezuela and Syria are not a bad thing. Inviting others to share in our Fourth of July celebrations is not a bad thing.
It is a step in the direction of “Constructive Engagement” as practiced by Pres Reagan. Moreover, it places us in a better postion to “Trust but Verify”.
Just make sure the dogs are ‘Hebrew National’, because they are hallal, believe it, or not.
Obama really underestimates his enemies.. Oh that’s right, the man of hope and change doesn’t have enemies…
Well, Obama underestimates those who view us as their enemies. They seem to know him better than he knows himself.
Don’tcha all feel so safe.
There is no way in a devil’s hell I would trust an Islamist.
My evil little fetid brain came up with a few good captions–but I won’t
I want to but I won’t. But Syria and Venezuela are just some more Boyz from da Hood doing their Thizzle Thang.
But please do not confuse Hussein Obama’s Marxism/mohammedism with being stupid. All too many people thought Hitler and Stalin too stupid to be dangerous and paid a horrible price.
It is with sad and heavy heart I have decided to not fly Old Glory this Fourth of July as I did not fly Her for Memorial Day. The Gadsden flag of the Continental Army now flys and Old Glory awaits America’s return-IF She does.
Await the knock on the door–William Ayres has plans for you.
Rule .223
We have the real deal… a Manchurian candidate… in the White House. I thought only in the movies could this be played out. But, here it is. A true life traitor leading our country to ruin. He’s going to get so many people killed that the rest of the living will be calling for his skinny butt on a rail and his head on a pike. It’s coming….
Is there such a thing as wagyu hotdogs?
I could make you hotdogs from any form of meat.
I know the Syrians would prefer Hebrew Nationalists….
While Hugo’s thugs would love Capitalist Pig brand.
Upon eating the ONE’s beef sausage, they did fall to thier knees and proclaim, “I have been wrong, I will do as the messiah commands”. And there was much rejoicing throughout the land.
Barack Obama let the superannuated Danny Ortega bully him during the summit in South America last month. Obama sat there politely while Ortega denounced the USA for all the ills in the world and repeatedly accused the US of colonization and imperialism. Never did Ortega mention the billions of dollars of foreign aid that has flowed to South America. When it was Obama’s turn to speak, all he did was say: “I’m glad that President Ortega didn’t blame me for things that happened when I was 6 years old”. Implicit in Obama’s remark was an admission that Ortega was correct in his attacks on the USA. Ahmedinejad listened to Obama’s sycophantic treatment of Ortega and knew that Obama is a paper tiger. He (Ahmedinejad) can do what he wants and Obama will talk only about what the US did in 1953 in restoring the Shah. Obama has already apologized to Khameini for the restoration of the Shah. So why should Khameini worry about the Obama administration?
Errah, “Hot Dawgs Get yer Hot dawgs; get em while there still hot” . . . . “and afforable.” After Crap and Trade and the Al Gwhore Flatulence Tax on Cows, Pigs and Chickens that they are about to ram through, next 4th we’ll be eating soy dogs or possibly guvernmunt cheese sandwiches. Bon Appetite!
Now that was DEFINITELY a visual I did not need.
Please explain to all of us again how a picnic invitation places us in a better position to Trust but Verify. I missed how you made that leap.
I remember something Bear posted before the election about this putz and he described him to the tea. While he struts in front of the camera trying to assume the posture of self assurance, it really doesn’t mask the whimp that lies just beneath the surface. He can talk his basket ball and pretent he’s a manly man but in reality – he isn’t so much. His wife has more testosterone than he does and He will shrink with the continued onslaught of disaproval that is becoming ever more frequent.
Arizona…
Just curious; did the ShellieO caption that leaped to your mind have to do with a harness and “private time” at the Obama house…?
Jest askin’…
Please read the entire post. It isn’t just about picnics.
Having Ambassadors was mentioned, too. Having an Embassy provides a whole host of opportunities that will benefit our knowledge of what is going on in that country. Agreed?
I read this on another thread. It “bares” repreating:
Regarding the photo, absolutely NO ONE should eat a hotdog in public, period.
Egads.
Will this insanity ever end?
Don’t answer-I already know.
Oink – I agree, but unlike most of the population, Obama thinks he can pull most anything off.
Him eating a hot dog is most repulsive. Compound that with sachquatch looking on. Well, just excuse me..I need to throw up now.
And ESPECIALLY not with the Kevin Bacon photo juxtaposed nearby….
On June 25th, 2009 at 9:47 am, zyzzyg said:
Trust but verify worked for President Reagan because he was dealing with generally sane people. Syria has been ruled by a criminal regime for over four decades.
Chavez is running Venezuela into the ground. They could be one of South America’s richest countries, but he is plunging them into poverty. He literally robs Peter to pay Paul. If he continues to nationalize industries and reneg on debt, no one will want to invest in Venezuela. The man’s ego is far more important than the well being of his country.
There are some people that just won’t be convinced. Assad and Chavez are two such people.
Having embassies has nothing to do with an invitation for hotdogs.
Or maybe you were implying that game changing humint will be gathered at the picnic. Blah.
this sickens me!! On a day that we celebrate freedom from tyranny- he invites tyrants to a party?!?! what do you wear to party like that?
he is soooo beyond a fool iI have no words. to borrow a slogan from the aids movement SILENCE=DEATH. His silence on the Iran protests has emboldened Khomeni to crack down on the protestors with lethal force. They know they have nothing to worry about with this waffling putz in the White House. They are reportedly being thrown off of bridges and being chopped with axes. WTF?!?! All they wanted was moral support. A sentence- a few words. He doesn’t want to interfere with Iranian internal politics- but has no problems dictating to Israel what they should be doing. As an Israeli this enrages me and as a human being what’s going on in Iran brings me to tears.
Their first mistake is assuming I care about either Venezuela or Syria.
Secondly, regarding a ‘caption’ for the pic…
Wasn’t there a story floating around in which he played the part of the, ahem, hot dog?
“Hot DOG! When it comes to cookin’, I’m the cat’s meow!”
- Larry (MALICE IN THE PALACE, 1949)
“Sorry folks… dinner’s postponed on account’o rain!”
- Dudley Dickerson (VAGABOND LOAFERS, 1949)
Yeah, because having an Embassy in hell will sure win over the devil. And grilling will make him feel right at home.
“A couple of pip pips, a little barbecue, and what have you!”
- Shemp (WHO DONE IT?, 1949)
“I remember it like it was yesterday. I was eatin’ a hot dog and waiting to be mustered out …”
- Larry (FIFI BLOWS HER TOP, 1958)
It’s because Venezuela and Syria have the decency to beat, torture, and kill its dissidents away from the t.v. cameras.
What Duh One should do is also invite Kim Jong Il. Then, he can squash a fly in front of them. Then he can give them is best Clint Eastwood steely eyed squint, and warn them is his best John Wayne voice, “Now, if y’all mess with ME, that’s whut Ah’m a gonna do tuh YOU!”
Ice cream and NOW hot dogs?!?
What would the Royal Captain of Calorie Consumption think?!?
Oh, yeah…“if it’s my family member, if it’s my wife, if it’s my children, if it’s my grandmother I always want them to get the very best” party food available.
I get it now. We build embassies for Syria and Palestine (Hamas) and then take over Bacon-wrapped hot dogs!!??
Combine all of this with no domestic surveillance and we should be able to get plenty of intel to help keep us informed right?
I do agree that diplomacy is the best possibility when it is feasible but how can you be reasonable with people who are not? Diplomacy is after all based on mutually beneficial communications and compromise right? Not do it my way or else?
hot dogs. for the potentates of the universe for life. isn’t that like an ipod for the queen of england, or movies for the prime minister. and these people mock sarah palin as a rube. obviously an affirmative action harvard education gone to waste, very similar to the last smartest man on the planet’s rhodes scholarship which he pi$$ed away smoking dope and marching in antiamerican parades to get the commie babes.
Liberals always hold forth on the “brilliance” of their leadership, and it’s always a fraud. You can go all the way back to Adlai Stevenson, who was hailed by the donks as some kind of genius but was in fact a third-rate intellect who, like Hope-a-Dope, carefully concealed his academic records to hide the fact.
John Kerry was openly contemptuous of George Bush’s intellect, but actually got lower grades at Yale than Bush did. Dropping out of law school, dropping out of divinity school and taking credit for the work of others didn’t even put the speed brakes on Al Gore’s claims of intellectual superiority over well … everybody.
As far as Hope-a-Dope goes, a key reason for his alarming blend of arrogance and naiveté is that he’s unaccustomed to failure, or criticism. He’s been helped along, all along, by people who see in him an avatar of their own self-perceived liberal superiority; the further he goes, the more smug they feel about themselves:
- He probably caught on quickly in school that by writing in complete sentences and using paragraph structure, not only could he win inordinate praise from his teachers — and later his professors — but that he could also feed them pure, unadulterated BS masquerading as “research” or “analysis” or even truth itself and they’d swallow it whole.
- But instead of taking this God-given gift and applying it to a genuine pursuit of excellence, he succumbed to the temptation to use it to manipulate and fool others. He learned how to exploit the liberal penchant for mistaking wit for wisdom, sophistry for sophistication, passion for persuasiveness, condescension for compassion, arrogance for confidence and cowardice for courage.
- Somewhere along the line, he also figured out that the pigmentation of his skin gave him immunity from any real intellectual scrutiny. Nobody dared question him, not to mention call him out, even when he served up heaping, steaming piles of manure in the guise of academic work. It must have given him much thinly-disguised pleasure to know that he was able to get away with this, and to know that everybody else knew it, too — but they were too afraid to speak the truth.
- At some point he learned that by combining his skin color, his literary/verbal skills and his acquired talent as an faux-intellectual snake-oil salesman, and packaging it all into a post-modern facade of “non-judgmentally” positioning himself as above and between two straw men of his own making — who, conveniently enough, desperately need his wisdom to resolve a false dilemma — he could approach any problem in a way that makes the Cognoscenti, the Glitterati and the Ignorati who form the three classes of modern day liberals swoon.
He’s a political Grigory Potemkin to liberals: able to make them see whatever they want to see, and believe whatever they want to believe, all based on a tacit agreement of, “I won’t upset you with the truth as long as you don’t look behind the facade.”
Hope-a-Dope’s weakness is that to keep benefiting from all the unearned adulation he gets, he can’t stand still. He has to keep moving up the political/social ladder. As soon as he stays in one place long enough to actually have to take real responsibility, make real decisions and accept real consequences — instead of voting “present” while angling for the next-higher position (remember, the four years he’s occupying the White House will be the longest he’ll have ever held any job in his life) — he won’t be able to keep the illusion going.
And that’s what is starting to happen.
The man is a total fraud, blinded to that fact by the fawning treatment he gets from those who egg him on and by his own resultant hubris. He may be “The Great Non-White Hope” for idiotic liberals right now, but he’s going to end up as Humpty-Hopenchange: pretentiously straddling the fence until he crashes and burns, and when that happens then all the king’s media and all the king’s teleprompters won’t be able to put him President Humpty back together again.
War;
If you were THE ONE would it not make sense to look for a concession along the lines of international norms of conduct, with the dangle of resuming diplomatic relations as an incentive?
The carrot/stick approach…?
As I said-”My evil little fetid brain
”
but then again I enjoy it
For you benefit, the original post, with emphasis.
Having Ambassadors in Venezuela and Syria are not a bad thing. Inviting others to share in our Fourth of July celebrations is not a bad thing.
It is a step in the direction of “Constructive Engagement” as practiced by Pres Reagan. Moreover, it places us in a better postion to “Trust but Verify”.
Just make sure the dogs are ‘Hebrew National’, because they are hallal, believe it, or not.
You may have noticed the two distinct sentences. The second paragraph applies to the first sentence far more than it does to any other. As explained and expanded on in the second post.
For your benefit, from my second post, emphasis added -
Having Ambassadors was mentioned, too. Having an Embassy provides a whole host of opportunities that will benefit our knowledge of what is going on in that country. Agreed?
Answer the question.
Does having an Embassy and all that comes with it benefit us? Don’t look for any implications. Don’t infer anything. The question speaks for itself.
I cannot even give you a viable answer to that Rag, as I seriously doubt my capacity to think along the same lines that the one purportedly uses. It seems to me, I would be more concerned about stabilizing the un-balanced power act in the middle east (With the previous check held in place between Iran and Iraq) while figuring out what to do with North Korea’s attempts to play a real life (and deadly game) of Battleship with Hawaii and Alaska as our Battleships … He seems to do fine kow-towing to the powers that be over there but again, I question the capacity for diplomacy to actually work with the situation in the middle east. Best case scenario we have a little intel (which is doubtful with the current situation) and worst case, we now have many more Americans directly in harm’s way to support his seriously questionable policies in the region there.
How he would/should react in his position … I can not even fathom his manner of thinking, much less the logic behind it.
Sorry …
Poor Obie. He just has to do something to beef up his foreign policy credentials and, well, defending this country … That’s been done before and I think it’s overrated. He’s bringing change to Washington, DC, remember? Oh, I know what I’ll do. I’ll open up talks to brutal dictators … yes, yes, that’s what I’ll do. Good plan, good plan, if I do say so myself.
War, completely understand your response.
I just don’t get providing a reward for hostile behavior.
You require civil behavior, according to everything rational that I know.
THEN you provide the award.
Reaganesque.
Diplomacy is the art of war by other means…
http://granitegrok.com/blog/2007/07/diplomacy_is_war_by_other_means.html
The answer to the z-troll question is this…
history teaches us that having a hostile embassy can be a net detriment to our national interests.
This is the reason they are periodically closed down for cause.
See?
Is this a photo of obama practing for his next “America Sucks” tour? Ahmadinejad, Chavez, Castro, Jong,… must be lining up already.
Oh, yes. Do you work in academia? Higher Education?
I have actually seen a PhD in Biology candidate awarded her doctorate even after a major mistake on her study. All in the name of ‘diversity’.
And very likely heavily recruited immediately thereafter by the EPA…
There are enormous differences between millilitres and microlitres.
I don’t respond to commands.
I’d have to do a cost benefit analysis. I can’t know the costs since I don’t know how much Obama is giving away. And the benefits certain don’t include the ability to “verify” as your comment aggressively implied.
LOL.
Whatever.
No, I don’t work in the field but I’ve spent enough time there as a student to see things. And some understandings of what Hope-a-Dope is come from experience, like the ability in junior high and high school to use better-than-average writing and speaking ability to bamboozle my teachers if I felt like it.
The only plausible explanation for how a man like Hope-a-Dope, who has so little real world experience and so few accomplishments in life — and who goes to such lengths to conceal his academic records — can vault so far, so quickly through academia and then politics is by knowingly taking full advantage of favoritism (a.k.a., “Diversity,” “Affirmative Action,” “Inclusion” or “A broad strata of society“).
That he’s cruising for a reality-based bruising is as inevitable as Midway and Stalingrad became to the Japanese and Germans, because he’s making the same mistake they did: confusing the ability to capitalize on fortunate circumstances for an innate and narcissistic sense of “superiority” over others, which leads to hubris, which leads to carelessness, which leads to disaster.
It’s just a question of when.
Yeah, next time try to consider the associated costs prior to touting benefits.
Books really do make great gifts.
Israel must be feeling kinda lonely right now. They should give him two books.
The above picture shows Oblah-blah enjoying a hotdog, San Francisco style…
ROFLMAO
Whatever
A fitting response to virtually every post I’ve seen from the z-troll.
And an example of his mordent repartee…
I’m not wrong.
A sports writer put it well in another way, when he pointed out that his best athlete interviews were with boxers, because most of them had to fight for everything they ever received without a parade of sycophants telling them how “special” they are, and were thus much less likely to cop an attitude in response to questions.
Hope-a-Dope, by contrast, has grown quite accustomed to flattery; you can see it in his body language. The best photo-op I can imagine for the guy is to catch him in a moment when his chin isn’t thrust upward at an angle of 30 degrees or more. Pure, unapologetic, self-satisfied self-regard fairly oozes from his pores.
There’s only one antidote for this kind of malignant narcissism, and that’s a severe butt-kicking delivered by the real world. The sooner that happens, the better — for all of us.
LOL.
Seriously! Ha Ha Ha
Yeah. It’s funny that you applauded an exaggerated embassy benefit without even QUESTIONING the associated costs. You seem predisposed or something.
I vote for the latter…
LOL.
Whatever!?
I’ll bite… (so to speak)
Was the accompanying photo the inspiration for that salacious Burger King ad?