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Category: Barack Obama/Joe Biden

  • The difference a party makes

    Somehow, I thought when I read this from the Washington Post, this wouldn’t have been characterized as “caves” if the roles had been reversed;

    And then I remembered when the Democrats “caved” last year to Republicans in the battle to extend the Bush tax cuts (and/or prevent the Obama tax hike) the Washington Post called it a “Landmark Tax Bill”.

    Funny how much difference a year makes, huh?

  • White House: Biden’s Taliban statement taken out of context

    Thanks to Aunty Brat who messaged me on Facebook about this Fox News article which reports that Biden comment about the Taliban not being the enemy was taken out of context. Well, and yeah, but they don’t bother to give us any context except a faulty interpretation of recent history;

    “It is a simple fact that we went into Afghanistan because of the attack on the United States on Sept. 11, 2001. We are there now to ultimately defeat Al Qaeda, to stabilize Afghanistan and stabilize it in part so that Al Qaeda or other terrorists who have as their aim attacks on the United States cannot establish a foothold again in that country,” Carney continued.

    Um, the simple fact is that we did indeed strike at Afghanistan because of al Qaeda’s attack on US soil, but the first thing we did was provide support to the Northern Alliance so they could toss the Taliban out and the majority of the fighting has been against remaining elements of Taliban and the Haqqanis. The Taliban has been targeting Afghan civilians with most of their terror attacks,

    In fact, before the attack on September 11th, 2001, al Qaeda targeted the Taliban’s main enemy Ahmad Shah Massoud who commanded the Northern Alliance in an assassination.

    Preventing a resurgence of al Qaeda in Afghanistan means destroying the Taliban. How we do that without recognizing that they’re our enemy is beyond me and probably beyond anyone who puts a moment’s thought into the subject. I guess that would leave Bite Me out of a rational discussion.

  • West: That’s your last race card, AG Holder

    Florida Representative Allen West told The Daily Caller that Attorney General Eric Holder has used the race card one too many times;

    “I think this is absolutely the last card in the deck, and that shows how weak their ground is,” West said in a phone interview. “But, what that means is they want to make white individuals afraid of continuing to put the pressure on Eric Holder because they don’t want to be seen as racist, and that is something that we have got to move beyond.”

    Holder had told The New York Times over the weekend, in a front page Sunday story, that he thinks those who are criticizing him have racial motivations to do so. Holder said some unspecified faction — what he refers to as the “more extreme segment” — is driven to criticize both him and President Barack Obama due to the color of their skin.

    Well, Holder has used that as an excuse to deflect criticism too many times for conservatives to take him seriously any more. It’s like water off a duck’s back.

    Holder uses it now to deflect criticism from the Left and to keep them on the metaphorical and rhetorical plantation these days. The Left are the only ones who chafe from the “racist” charge anymore.

    Thanks to ROS for the link.

  • I’ll miss Joe Bite-Me in 2012

    Ya know, when Joe Biden is gone, I’ll miss the fact that he always makes blog-worthy comments on slow news days. Like this one from Politico;

    Look, the Taliban per se is not our enemy. That’s critical. There is not a single statement that the president has ever made in any of our policy assertions that the Taliban is our enemy because it threatens U.S. interests. If, in fact, the Taliban is able to collapse the existing government, which is cooperating with us in keeping the bad guys from being able to do damage to us, then that becomes a problem for us. So there’s a dual track here:

    The Taliban is not our enemy and the President has never said they were…that might explain why they’re not doing their best to wipe them out. That might explain Joe Biden’s strategy to employ exclusively zombie ninja robots in Afghanistan and why he opposed the surge in Afghanistan. It also explains why they’re negotiating with people who throw acid in the faces of pre-pubescent girls for the crime of attending school and why they think a negotiated agreement would stick.

    I’m glad that Bite Me has enunciated the current administration’s policy finally only eleven months before the election.

  • “Critical juncture” in negotiations with Taliban

    Tman sends us a link to an Reuters article which reports that the Obama Administration has reached a “critical juncture” in it’s negotiations with the Taliban;

    The officials acknowledged that the Afghanistan diplomacy, which has reached a delicate stage in recent weeks, remains a long shot. Among the complications: U.S. troops are drawing down and will be mostly gone by the end of 2014, potentially reducing the incentive for the Taliban to negotiate.

    No shit, Sherlock. First of all, it’s like trying to negotiate with a shark over a slab of meat. There’s no way that negotiating with folks who think it’s perfectly acceptable to lie to infidels. They are not rational actors, nor do they have any intention of adhering to any agreement.

    Secondly, what’s their motivation to negotiate? We’ve already told them that all they have to do is wait us out and they won’t have to deal with us.

    That smart diplomacy bullshit hasn’t worked for us for a minute, yet the Obama Administration is more intent on making themselves feel good than they are in negotiating in our own interests.

    Besides, I remember when I reported that the Obama Administration was negotiating with the Taliban more than two years ago, Caitlin Hayden of the US Embassy in Afghanistan came on This Ain’t Hell and told us that they weren’t in secret negotiations with the Taliban. So I guess the function of an embassy spokeswoman is to misinform the American people.

  • Holder ignores Indiana election fraud

    I’m sure you’ve all read about the petitions to put Obama on the 2008 primary ballot in Indiana that were found to be packed with phony signatures, including “Adolph Hitler” and “Mickey Mouse”. Well, it seems that the state can’t proceed with a legal remedy until the US Attorney general weighs in on the issue, and he’s pretty much ignoring pleas for his help according to the link from Old Trooper from Fox News;

    A criminal investigation is now underway by St. Joseph County Prosecuting Attorney Mike Dvorak into allegations that numerous signatures and names on Democratic Party petitions that put then-candidates Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton on the primary ballot were forged.

    Voters have told Fox News that their signatures and personal information were fraudulent, and that they never signed the petitions that were certified by the St. Joseph County Voter Registration Board.

    U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Indiana David A. Capp has previously declined to investigate the allegations, citing a lack of federal jurisdiction.

    I guess the fact that the malfeasance was used to defraud the American public in national elections isn’t federal jurisdiction? I feel like my civil rights have been violated, don’t you?

  • Was it about the war or about politics

    So I got this email this morning paid for by the DNC;

  • On taking credit

    Over at our parent blog, Blackfive, the namesake of that hallowed place writes that our President has been taking credit for end of the Iraq War.

    Remember, this is someone who voted against funding for our soldiers in combat in Iraq. Also remember that this plan that has now been executed, i.e. our withdrawal from Iraq, was one negotiated by the previous administration before he ever took office.

    But that doesn’t at all keep him from using the event as a campaign ad.

    He also promised 36 months ag0 that we’d be out of Iraq within 16 months after he took office.

    And, oh, by the way, his Vice President famously announced that the “surge” was a failure before it even began.

    So what, exactly, did they have to do with the end of this chapter of our participation in Iraq. And I’m not all that convinced that we won’t be back, like i kind of figured we’d be back on the morning of February 28th, 1991.