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Category: Barack Obama/Joe Biden

  • Go see Baldilocks

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    The other day I wrote about Obama’s inability to follow through on his promises illustrating that point with the school in Obama’s father’s hometown named for the Senator. Of course, all I ever do is yammer…but Baldilocks decided to do something about it.

    Now the senator and his wife make a lot of money, so I’m sure that this is merely an oversight. I’m sure that they meant to set up a fund on their own and/or have their supporters donate to assist his kinsmen. With the campaign and everything, I’m sure that this promise is just one thing that got lost in the shuffle.

    Well. Since I am of the same tribe as Obama, I think that it should fall to me to assist in filling in this gap. I’d like to start a fund to help this village school—and others, if possible.

    She’s gone to the trouble of setting up a not-for-profit organization.

    The school’s principal suggested a minimum of 8.2 million Kenyan shillings which is equal to roughly $129,220 at today’s rate. That shouldn’t be too tough.

    So here’s what we have:

    • Domain name: obamaschool.org
    • Email address: obamaschool@gmail.com
    • Pay Pal Account;

    So, stop by Baldilocks place and flip a coupla bucks in the jar. We have about 1600 visitors a day – TAH can easily put up 10% of fixing that school for a few dollars apiece.

  • The All-American family

    So I was reading the article in People Magazine this week about John McCain and his family. You know, his son who recently  served in Iraq as an enlisted Marine during the “surge”, the other son who is recent grad of Annapolis and is probably headed in that direction soon, his adopted daughter who was given to Cindy McCain while she visited Mother Theresa’s orphanage. That’s real riveting, tear jerking stuff about a real unique American family.

    Oops, my bad. I was reading People, but it was a different kind of story…a boring-ass story about a boring-ass family in whom People thought you’d be more interested. From Michelle Malkin’s “The Brangelina-fication of the Obamas“;

     I lost 15 IQ points reading the slavering profile: Michelle hula hoops with her daughters! They’re just like you and me! The kids have slumber parties! They’re just like you and me! Barack did laundry, but he didn’t fold! They’re just like you and me. The kids get small allowances. They’re just like you and me! The Obamas wear normal clothes doing normal things.

    THEY’RE JUST LIKE YOU AND ME!

    It’s supposed to be an “exclusive” first and last look at life at home with the Obamas.

    OK, so they can pump up these people all they want, but what’s the damn story here? What do they show us about the Obama’s that we couldn’t have guessed for ourselves? Isn’t the story of the McCain family much more compelling than a couple of yuppy Ivy League parents doing their laundry and struggling with paying for piano lessons and summer camp? I see that crap everyday on my way to work on the subway, for pete’s sake. Tell me something I don’t know…that’s why they call it “news”.

  • Voter fraud in VA. Guess who.

    The Washington Times‘ Bob Lewis writes that the Virginia GOP is calling for an investigation into “widespread” voter fraud in the state based on the arrest of several Obama supporters;

    The chairman, Delegate Jeffrey M. Frederick, Prince William Republican, decried a “widespread problem across the commonwealth” after the arrests of three people last week in Hampton on election fraud charges. He urged Gov. Tim Kaine, a Democrat, and Attorney General Robert F. McDonnell, a Republican, to begin a statewide investigation.

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  • Obama’s “social justice”

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    In an excellent (as aways) editorial in the Investors’ Business Daily, the editorial board lays out Obama’s socialist agenda;

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  • Obama still hasn’t learned his lesson

    How soon they forget. Barack Obama and the Democrats have forgotten how we spent billions of dollars in the eighties keeping Saddam Hussein in his box. How many times were our aircraft enforcing the No-Fly Zone attacked by surface-to-air missiles? At least twice, Hussein rattled his saber during the 90s and caused the Clinton Administration to send troops to Kuwait to man the prepositioned equipment we had there to protect the Kuwaitis. Not to mention missile attacks on Iraq proper to punish his assassination attempts or destroy his weapons labs.

    Iraq was the right war, but at the wrong time…Hussein should have been punished in 1991 when COB6 and I sat near the banks of Euphrates poised and equipped to rumble into Baghdad. But, Obama still insists it was the wrong war;

     “Our military is stretched extraordinarily because of trying to fight two wars at the same time, and so my job, as the next commander in chief, is going to be to make a decision what is the right war to fight and how do we fight it. And I think that we should have been focused on Afghanistan from the start,” [Obama] said.

    Two wars? Afghanistan and Iraq are part and parcel of the same war. Remember that some al Qaeda fighters busted ass for Iraq when the Taliban fell – including al-Zarqawi the first leader of al Qaeda in Iraq. All of these motor-mouths who claim we should have focused on Afghanistan instead of Iraq, I’d like them to tell me how we should have focused on Afghanistan more. They easily criticize how our resources should have been in Afghanistan…what resources? How, exactly, would they have done it differently? I’d like to see an alternate plan.

    President Bush criticized the Democrats for shooting off their mouths in the 2004 election without offering any alternatives…they still take the easy path and no one demands from them answers to the questions their empty platitudes raise.

  • An Omen for Democrats

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    Sweetness and Light has an article from the UK’s Evening Standard about Obama’s broken promise to villagers in his father’s hometown;

    At that historic homecoming in August 2006 Obama was greeted as a hero with thousands lining the dirt streets of Kogelo. He visited the Senator Obama Kogelo Secondary School built on land donated by his paternal grandfather. After addressing the pupils, a third of whom are orphans, and dancing with them as they sang songs in his honour, he was shown a school with four dilapidated classrooms that lacked even basic resources such as water, sanitation and electricity.

    He told the assembled press, local politicians (who included current Kenyan Prime Minister Raila Odinga), and students: “Hopefully I can provide some assistance in the future to this school and all that it can be.” He then turned to the school’s principal, Yuanita Obiero, and assured her and her teachers: “I know you are working very hard and struggling to bring up this school, but I have said I will assist the school and I will do so.”

    Obiero says that although Obama did not explicitly use the word “financial” to qualify the nature of the assistance he was offering, “there was no doubt among us [teachers] that is what he meant. We interpreted his words as meaning he would help fund the school, either personally or by raising sponsors or both, in order to give our school desperately-needed modern facilities and a facelift”.

    Of course, that’s as far as it went;

    Granting us access to the school and its records, Principal Obiero, 48, tells us: “Senator Obama has not honoured the promises he gave me when we met in 2006 and in his earlier letter to the school. He has not given us even one shilling. But we still have hope.”

    What has Obama kept his promises on? He promised Code Pink he’d filibuster FISA, but nearly broke his neck to vote for it. He broke his promise to stick to public funding for his campaign. He broke his promise to gay groups about the Defense of Marriage Act. You’d think they’d learn, wouldn’t ya?

    Principal Obiero said “But we still have hope”. We used to have a saying in the infantry “Crap in one hand and hope in the other and sees which hand fills up first.” Democrats should take that advice to heart, too.

  • Images of leadership

    I was watching the Tour de France this morning…the endurance of the athletes and the precision and fragility of the equipment fascinates me. The excitement is sort of gone since Lance Armstrong retired, but it’s still watchable nonetheless. But it (and this post from Ace of Spades) reminded me of these contrasting images. Which one of these bicyclists look like a leader you can respect?

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  • ZBiggy; Long-distance analysis

    Dr. Zbigniew Brzezinski, ZBiggy to those of us who suffered through his tenure as Jimmy Carter’s National Security Advisor, has decided that an injection of additional troops into Afghanistan puts the United States in danger of being like the Soviets in the 80s in a HuffPo interview. Keep in mind, Biggy has never set foot in Afghanistan and he admitted in 1998 that his policies in 1978 may have triggered the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.

    And it’s with a similar perspective that Brzezinski now doubts the that the answer to what ails Afghanistan is more troops. “I think we’re literally running the risk of unintentionally doing what the Russians did. And that, if it happens, would be a tragedy,” Brzezinski told the Huffington Post on Friday. “When we first went into Afghanistan to overthrow the Taliban, we were actually welcomed by an overwhelming majority of Afghans. They did not see us as invaders, as they saw the Soviets.”

    However, Brzezinski noted that just as the Soviets were able to delude themselves that they had a loyal army of communist-sympathizers who would transform the country, the U.S.-led forces may now be making similar mistakes. He said that the conduct of military operations “with little regard for civilian casualties” may accelerate the negative trend in local public opinion regarding the West’s role. “It’s just beginning, but it’s significant,” Brzezinski said.

    This is the same guy whose reticence to support the Shah of Iran brought on the problems that come with the Islamic Republic these days. His reticence to support the Nicaraguan government brought on a communist regime there and fanned the flames of communist insurgencies in Central America. His weakness on basic national defense issues encouraged the Soviets to station a combat brigade in Cuba – ninety miles from our shores. And of course, because he was willing to half-way support the mujahadeen in Afghanistan, the Soviets invaded assured that the weak Carter crew would do nothing to prevent their centuries-old dream of securing warm water ports.

    Now, with an analysis based purely on reportage from left-wing sources apparently, he accuses us of attempting a Soviet-style occupation. He goes on with even more hyperbole about the coming of World War IV;

    “Well, if McCain is president and if his Secretary of State is Joe Lieberman and his Secretary of Defense is [Rudolph] Giuliani, we will be moving towards the World War IV that they have been both favoring and predicting,” he said, calling that an “appalling concept” (and adding that by their lights, the Cold War counted as World War III).

    Well, dumbass, if the Cold War was World War III, why didn’t you act like it was a world war? We faced a modern army in Europe with our own Korean War-era equipment, the military was woefully underfunded and underpaid and every threat was met with surrender and weakness. Acting as if those things never happened, ZBiggy drives on with his yammering;

    Asked who he would like to see in a potential Obama cabinet, Brzezinski said: “I think [Sen. Chuck] Hagel. I would like to see a bipartisan cabinet. I think we need one very badly — and we did well in the Cold War when we had one. I would say Hagel and [Sen. Dick] Lugar would be very good Republicans [for Obama].” He also cited Sen. Joe Biden as a potential Secretary of State, in which case it would also be possible to “keep [Secretary of Defense Bob] Gates in the job for a few months.”

    Any credibility this doofus ever had evaporated in December 1988 when the wall in Europe came down. And when did his “bipartisan cabinet” ever do “well”? Point to one damn thing, ZBiggy.

    And the ignorant HuffPo masses fall right in line begging for Chuck Hagel to be Obama’s VP and lauding the Taliban for ending the opium trade. Crackpots with crackpot views of the world.