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Category: Barack Obama/Joe Biden

  • LBJ’s ghost

    LBJ’s ghost

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    The Wall Street Journal reports that Lyndon Johnson is alive and well and living in the White House situation room;

    “The U.S. military campaign against Islamic militants in Syria is being designed to allow President Obama to exert a high degree of personal control over the campaign, going so far as to require that the military obtain presidential sign-off for any strike in Syrian territory.”

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    “The requirement for the Syrian strikes will be far more stringent than those in Iraq, at least at first, to assure the Syrian air campaign remains strictly limited, in an attempt to mitigate the threat that the U.S. could be dragged more deeply into the conflict, according to the U.S. officials.”

    The lesson of the 1st Gulf War was supposed to be that the politicians explain their goals to the generals and the generals are allowed to fight the war to attain those goals. The lesson of Vietnam was supposed to be that politicians can’t plan and fight wars as well as the soldiers. But everything old is new again with this administration.

  • 3000 Troops to fight Ebola

    3000 Troops to fight Ebola

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    About ten days ago, we wrote about the President’s intention to send US troops to Africa to help fight the Ebola epidemic there. A few weeks before that, I speculated that would happen, but I never expected that they’d be sending three thousand troops;

    The stepped-up U.S. response includes sending 3,000 troops to the region, including medics and corpsmen for treatment and training, engineers to help build treatment facilities and logistics specialists to assist in patient transportation. Troops would not provide direct care to Ebola patients, White House spokesman Josh Earnest said. A substantial number will be stationed at an intermediate base in Senegal, with others at locations in Liberia, he said.

    Obama also announced that Maj. Gen. Darryl Williams, head of U.S. Army Africa, will head a military command center based in Liberia.

    From AFP;

    Most of the US effort, which will draw heavily on its military medical corps, will be concentrated in impoverished Liberia — the worst hit nation — with plans to build 17 Ebola treatment centres with 100 beds in each.

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    Washington will also send 65 experts from the public health service corps to Liberia to manage and staff a previously announced US military hospital to care for health workers who become sick with Ebola.

    Ebola prevention kits, including disinfectant and advice, will also be supplied to 400,000 of the most vulnerable families in Liberia.

    So we’re raising the costs of veterans’ healthcare while providing free healthcare and building free healthcare facilities in Africa. And, what are the troops who are deploying to Africa going to contract in the various shitholes that they’ll need treatment for in ten or twenty or thirty years from now, when their veterans’ healthcare has been whittled down to nothing?

  • Speaker tells Congress to give President what he wants for ISIS fight

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    Weepy, linguine-spined John Boehner told his colleagues in the House to give President what he wants in order to fight the ISIS/ISIL/Islamic State in Iraq and Syria according to the Washington Times. For once, I agree with him;

    On Wednesday night, Mr. Obama asked Congress for money and authority to aid one faction of Syrian rebels who are battling against the Assad regime, the Islamic State and other Islamic militants. Mr. Boehner said they are “about to get run over” if they don’t get assistance.

    But Mr. Boehner said arming the rebels and continuing U.S. airstrikes on targets is not a comprehensive or quick enough strategy to achieve the goal Mr. Obama laid out, which was to destroy the Islamic State.

    It makes sense politically – if they don’t do that, they’re going to hear about it on the campaign trail – so they probably won’t do it. Republicans hate to win elections, for some reason, so they’ll probably fight the President tooth and nail, even though we all want to kill ISIS folks.

    Also, this is Obama’s Iraq War and he needs to own it exclusively. Republicans shouldn’t give him an opportunity to share the blame with them.

  • Obama’s Looking Up…

    Obama’s Looking Up…

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    At least he was in his speech about dealing with Middle Eastern terrorist organizations. It was a bit disconcerting to those of us who have become accustomed to watching the usual puppet-like, swivel-necked delivery – left to right, then quickly back to left – of past major pronouncements to the nation, delivered in the full glory of this politician’s unusually adept mastery of teleprompters.

    But not this time. Nope, we got the full-face, straight-on delivery, with those eyes boring straight into America’s soul. Well, except when they weren’t – as in when they were shifted upward to read his speech from some other prompting device positioned over the camera, focused on his face. Go back and look at the video, and you’ll see Obama’s eyes flicking up frequently to that electronic miracle of eloquence, that screen that displays the contrived and carefully constructed words and phrases that his administration wants to be heard by this nation and the world.

    You can bet some really clever media advisor suggested to White House staff that another swivel-necked presidential delivery at such a serious moment in history might appear to Americans to be contrived and insincere. Well, then, let’s not have that; we have to project gravitas, and we need an American commander-in-chief who doesn’t have to rely on two teleprompter panels straddling the podium to project his serious determination and his focused intent to deal with world events.

    Nope, we’ll just put one screen up there above the full frontal camera and let him read all his sincerity and determined intent from that screen above the camera. No more obvious swivel-necking for this transparent administration! Nope, these open and transparent liberals have come up with a way to make their exalted leader look straight into that camera as he makes his grand pronouncements…well, with maybe just a few of those frequent eye shifts upward to make sure he’s staying on script.

    Hey, no matter how they set it up, the guy is still reading a script, written for him by the real powers behind the throne. It’s the only way he knows how to communicate – a skillful but empty, soulless orator. When Obama announced that this would be the most transparent administration ever, he didn’t know the half of it:

    Transparent, brother, these turkeys are indeed…

    Crossposted at American Thinker

  • The plan for the third deployment to Iraq

    The plan for the third deployment to Iraq

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    Our President laid out his plan for the war against ISIS last night, our third deployment of troops to Iraq, the fourth consecutive President to deal with Iraq, the first time without Saddam Hussein being the problem.

    He laid out four points – the first is to expand air strikes into Syria, the second is to put 475 more troops on the ground. He emphasized that they don’t have a combat mission in Iraq. But it brings the number of US troops on the ground well over a thousand. He also wants to expand their mission to training Syrian rebels.

    Thirdly he wants to do more to cut off ISIS/ISIL/Islamic State’s resources including the flow of foreign fighters to the battle. He could probably start with the Americans who are joining. His fourth point is to provide humanitarian assistance.

    The President wants the US to lead a “broad coalition” of allies and unfortunately for all of us, that hinges on the success of John Kerry who has been a miserable failure in the past few months. Obama reiterated that this new mission to Iraq will not include ground combat forces and will be completely dependent on air forces and support from advisers on the ground.

    The only encouraging part of his entire little speech is that he used the word “destroy” twice when talking about his plans for the Islamic State. I don’t think I’ve ever heard him say he was going to destroy any of our nation’s enemies before. So we have that going for us. But, then there’s John Kerry and Chuck Hagel, the only guys in the Obama Administration who make Joe Biden look smart. Actually, if Kerry is worth even one small turd, he should be able to convince the Gulf States to provide direct support on the battlefield just to protect their little kingdoms.

    The situation in Syria will be confusing though. He still wants to be rid of Assad, but Assad’s government is fighting ISIS, too. As with everything else with this administration, they dithered too long on the Syria question. How do you fight one group of Syrian rebels while training and equipping another group of Syrian rebels. I suspect that will be the most dangerous aspect of this operation for the US troops.

  • Obama Makes Joe Look Presidential

    Obama Makes Joe Look Presidential

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    This has been a bad year for Barack Obama, and it’s getting continually worse. It has become especially bad when he gets upstaged by the selfsame moron he selected to be his vice president as impeachment insurance. At a time when many of those who voted their hopes for this new messiah twice are beginning to understand the underlying problem of a legislative voting record exceptional only for its “present” votes, up on the stage leaps the Democratic Party’s clown prince, who, with a few fiery words, makes his boss look like a dithering, tongue-tied equivocator of the worst degree, unworthy of his center-stage position in world affairs.

    You gotta hand it to old Joe, an opportunistic pol to his very core: he saw an opportunity to enhance his 2016 presidential chances and jumped right on it. Joe may suffer from chronic hoof-in-mouth disease, but he’s assuredly better at reading the mood of the country than his wavering boss and his shadow.

    Never mind that Joe doesn’t mean a word of his defiant declaration. Like everything else about the guy, it’s all for the news cameras, the networks, and the next two years.

    But for a few hours of the news cycle, Ol’ Joe, the sleazy ol’ pro, has made President Pinocchio and that Persian-borne puppeteer who is finally demonstrating to the world that she is not fit to be the first female American president, which is how she surely views herself, show that they just don’t have the grassroots instincts of a pol who has managed to stay in the Senate for decades with no meaningful accomplishments. Nope, Joe’s a pro; they’re just Chicago community organizers writ large on a stage so expansive that it dwindles them to diplomatic and patriotic speechlessness.

    The growing danger for Obama/Jarrett here is that Ol’ Joe, their carefully planned impeachment insurance policy, may be self-canceling. If he fires up American ardor for military action that the commander of the chiefs is not prepared to satisfy, look out, Hillary. Hey, it’s football season, so look at it this way: the administration fullback just delivered one helluva crack-back block on his own quarterback. And that block is just one of many the fool tool with the ball is getting from all sides in a game he’s simply and honestly not up to playing.

    As everything seemingly heads downhill for this subject of the world’s greatest affirmative action experiment, it must be particularly grating to Obo to realize that compared to him, Joe Biden looks good.

    Perhaps even presidential…

    Crossposted at American Thinker

  • Biden talks tough

    Biden talks tough

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    You should probably set down your drinks while you read this latest statement from Vice President Bite Me as reported by the Associated Press;

    Vice President Joe Biden on Wednesday said America will follow the terrorists who posted videos showing the beheading of two journalists “to the gates of hell.”

    Biden said the Islamic State militant group responsible for beheading James Foley and Steven Sotloff won’t intimidate the United States.

    Yeah, I couldn’t see this administration following terrorists to the gates of Baskin Robbins.

    “We take care of those who are grieving and when that’s finished, they should know we will follow them to the gates of hell until they are brought to justice,” Biden said. “Because hell is where they’ll reside.”

    Meanwhile Secretary Chuck Obvious thinks that the US needs to “maintain military superiority” suddenly according to Associated Press;

    In a speech to members of the Southeastern New England Defense Industry Alliance at a conference on defense innovation, Hagel said that unsophisticated militaries and terrorist groups are acquiring destructive weapons, and Moscow and Beijing are modernizing their armed services, including their electronic warfare and special operations capabilities.

    And unless the U.S. takes these challenges seriously, he said American troops could face advanced weapons and technologies on the battlefield that will put their lives at risk.

    “We are entering an era where American dominance on the seas, in the skies, and in space – not to mention cyberspace – can no longer be taken for granted,” said Hagel. “And while the United States continues to maintain a decisive military and technological edge over any potential adversary, our continued superiority is not a given.”

    And, Hagel and his friends are doing their level best to dismantle the US military.

    I don’t know who they think they’re fooling with this tough talk. If they were serious, there would be thousands of burning bodies along the road from Baghdad to Damascus. Biden must be running for president and Hagel wants to live under his desk.

  • In the End, This Turduck’s Still a Damned Chicken

    In a turbulent world – where we would hope that our commander-in-chief would show some strength in his dealings with the thugs around the world by boldly declaring some no-fly zones to those powers who are aggressively moving their troops to their advantage – we get zip. On the other hand, here in America, we find ourselves with a leading-from-the-rear president who faces no-fly zones created by his own desperate party flacks.

    Why would an American president be denied fly-into privileges within his own nation? Perhaps it can be attributed to the fact that this president has been declared persona non grata in several states, where his Democrat supporters are doing everything possible to disassociate themselves from this clearly incompetent loser, whom they and their Democrat party foisted on the American people twice in eight years.

    What an unprecedented embarrassment that is. The wonder-boy of hope and change, the Democrat Messiah, has become such an embarrassment before this nation and the entire world that Democrats in tough re-election races don’t want this fusion of a lame duck and a turkey anywhere near their turf. Shall we call him a TurDuckey?

    Some people swear turkeys can’t fly, but as someone who recently had a flock of wild turkeys erupt into flight immediately in front of my speeding convertible on a forest highway, I can attest that those birds can damn well get off the ground, thank goodness. But they did all appear to be gliding down to the ditch on the far side of the road. Much like our national leader, they are capable of lift-off for short distances, but then it’s all gliding, and usually rough landings.

    But getting back to the issue at hand, we must ask, “Can our national TurDuckey really fly?” And of course, with the world having watched our national TurDuckey fly from one Democrat fundraiser to another at taxpayer expense, the next question is, why can’t the TurDurkey fly in Arkansas? Or Louisiana? Or any of those other states, like North Carolina and West Virginia, where the TurDuckey party is facing tough election campaigns?

    If you clicked on that hyperlink above, then you know that the Cajun creation of a Turducken involves stuffing a chicken into a duck and then that composite into the cavity of a turkey. I’d say that pretty well sums up our current administration: a true, always vote present chicken stuffed into a no-duck-out job by the all those fool turkeys in his party.

    And after all that effort, the end result turns out to be nothing more than an overstuffed turkey. But wait a minute, because some out there are claiming that this concoction tastes more like lame duck. But then the more perceptive political epicures will say, “You may well take a chicken and stuff it into a lame duck and then stuff that composite into a turkey, but what the hell – in the end, when you get down into the center of the damned thing…

    “What you have left is still a damned chicken.”

    Crossposted at American Thinker