Category: President Obama
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The Norwegian Mulligan
The Nobel Prize Committee is having very public, very angry second thoughts about giving The Lightworker a Nobel Peace Prize to kick off six years of expanded warfare. Skal Norge.
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Credentials
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: In the olden days, honest Democrats praised expertise: Dennis DeConcini (D-Ariz) wrote this about “Terrorism” by Benjamin Netanyahu, released in 1986: “Few are as well equipped to bring us this message as Netanyahu. He currently serves as Israel’s permanent representative to the United Nations. Netanyahu not only distinguished himself…
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Compare And Contrast
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Who’s better qualified to talk to Congress about the risks of terrorism posed by a nuclear-armed Iran? Books written by Benjamin Netanyahu. Books written by Barack Obama. Joe Doakes Or to put it another way: Either way… .
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Trial Balloon
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Obama Administration wants to ban popular rifle ammunition on the grounds it could be used in handguns. We saw this under Clinton, too, with the “cop killer” bullet craze and fear of Thompson Center pistols. Then, as now, it was all cover for a ban they wanted all along.…
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Of Hats And Clowns
The liberal noise machine that largely spent eight years calling George W. Bush “Bushitler” is worked up into a lather because a St. Paul Pioneer press reporter referred to the practice of constantly taking “selfies”(using a snap of Sselfieaddict Pres. Obama as his example) as making one look like a “assclown.” Sports reporter Kevin Cusick,…
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They Also Serve, Who Suck Up
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: it appears true heroism in the Obama era consists not of bravely facing the enemy in combat, but in kowtowing to the party line. joe doakes If Obama could run for a third term, we’d see the IRS running the militiary.
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Heh
It’s both utterly true, and a fart joke. What could go wrong?
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Above All That
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: President Obama isn’t Un-American, he’s Post-American. Before the Constitution, people living here were subject to the whims of the British Crown. While we’re living here, we’re supposed to be citizens of a democratic republic; but that’s too confining for a person who has the vision and power to stop…
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Compare And Contrast
In the State of the Union, President Obama poo-poohed the jobs that would be created by the Keystone XL pipeline as “temporary construction jobs”. Yet six years ago, his “economic recovery plan” relied on “shovel ready” “infrastructure” jobs that were also “temporary construction jobs” (except for the “permanent government management” jobs, which would go as…
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So In Other Words…
…our semi-retired President is going to propose paying for “free” communithy college for everyone… …by taxing peoples’ savings to put their own kids through college? Two points, here. Face Value: If we take the President at his (ostensible) word, that means the nation’s community college system will inherit the worst of both worlds; the government…
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Pick Your Staging
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Why wasn’t President Obama in the photo of world leaders at the massive Paris march protesting the Charlie Hebdo killings? Maybe he was at the REAL march and missed the fake photo staged at a completely different place? No, he wasn’t, but I can’t blame him. I wouldn’t have…
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Sense And Insensibility
Barack Obama is highly unpopular in the military. And yet many of his policies are going over just fine among the troops: The long-term effects of Obama’s social policies on the military remain unknown. But one thing is clear: He is a deeper unpopular commander in chief among the troops. According to a Military Times…
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Do You Remember…
…when Barack Obama was going to “restore respect for this nation” abroad? Either does he. The US was absent, in body and spirit, from a rally that even had Mahmoud Abbas and Benyamin Netanyahu walking together. He really, really is a terrible president.
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Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: If you still needed proof that Establishment Republicans were just as committed to status quo as Democrats, this would be the clincher. Joe has a point – although I’m going to wait to see how the GOP conference votes on actual policy issues, rather than internal niggling. If they…
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Misery
Young people are more miserable than ever under Obama, according to the “Young America Foundation” misery index: Youth unemployment in 2014 was 18.1 percent (18.1 on YMI), with almost six million young people between the ages of 16 and 24 not in school or work. Many young people are simply giving up on finding employment.…
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Mission Nearly Accomplished
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails to urge us to “pretend”: Pretend for a minute that President Obama doesn’t believe the United States ought to be a superpower, that it ought to be equal with other nations (not a big stretch – that belief motivated the Atom Spies to give nuclear secrets to the Russians…
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Diminished Expectations
In 1981, Ronald Reagan had to deal with a fairly sharp, intense recession, with some fairly intense “negative growth”: 1981 Q04: -4.5895 1982 Q01: -6.5220 1982 Q02: 2.1923 1982 Q03: -1.4300 For those of you who weren’t around back then? It was a nasty little downturn, especially coming on the heels of the sluggish, stagflation-addled…
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Replay
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Rush Limbaugh said, about President Obama: “I hope he fails.” Naturally, he was ripped for it by every liberal and by every mushy RINO trying to make nice with the press. Read the linked transcript. It’s surprisingly prescient. Looking back on what Obama has wrought these past six years,…
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Connect The Dots
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Obama is relaxing the Cuban Embargo. Why? Why now? As always – cui bono? One of the first items changed is that telecommunication companies can do business in Cuba. The richest man in the world is Carlos Sim who owns the Mexican phone system, is behind the whole “Obama-phone” fiasco and also is…
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When Leaders Were Leaders
33 years ago today, Eastern Europe seemed to be spiraling from crisis into deep crisis. Poland’s communist government cracked down on the “Solidarity” movement. In response, many Poles fled across the friendliest borders they could find. And Poland’s ambassador to the US, Romuald Spasowski defected to the US – a capital offense in that…
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Numero Uno!
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: We’re number One – in presidential motorcades. And room service tab. Absolutely un-blinking-believable. As my buddy quipped: “For that kind of money, we could have bought Port Au Prince and held all future meetings there, for free!” Joe Doakes It’s all getting just a little bit banana-republican.
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Letting Slip The Dogs Of “Blech”
That which does not kill us makes us stronger. So those of you who follow this post through to the bitter end will be ten feet tall and armor plated in about fifteen minutes. There’s an election in two years – and the Democrat Party has decided to try to kick off the battle via…
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Perverse Incentives
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Obama is a lame duck with delusions of royalty. He’s going to issue whatever Executive Orders he wants, knowing his hand-picked Attorney General won’t let Republican lawsuits affect his actions for years, if ever. Republicans could impeach The First Black President, but Democrats have been slavering to be thrown…
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Ted Nugent Speaks
Rock and roller and conservative icon Ted Nugent tweets about Obama’s response to Ferguson: Obama’s empty neutrality, moral bankruptcy and political cowardice is now undeniable to even his most loyal cheerleaders and boot-lickers! — Cornel West (@CornelWest) November 25, 2014 Well, Ted Nugent saying that sort of thing about Barack Obama barely rises to Dog…