Barack the Aloof

"This week the original 9/11 Commission put out an update on global terrorism. The report says the 'complacency' that led to 9/11 'is happening again.'

How, then, to explain someone who claims he can run the country and a troubled world out of his back pocket while he flies from fundraiser to fundraiser? Barack Obama is the most provincial U.S. president in at least a century. The progressive Democrats who displaced the Clinton machine in 2008 and came to power with Mr. Obama have no interest beyond consolidating political and electoral power inside the U.S. Not even the White House of Lyndon Johnson, the ultimate pol, was so purely politicized.

The fundraising is a frantic effort to protect this new Democratic voter machine. The world doesn't vote, so the world doesn't matter. Unless, of course, the American people in November decide that a world defined by events like Flight 17 does matter."— Daniel Henninger, The Wall Street Journal

Sorry I'm a Failure...but Thanks for the Cash

Barack Obama told a group of Democratic 1%s that they’re “chronicling the slow deterioration of Barack Obama” at a Wednesday event in California.

The luncheon, sponsored by the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, was hosted by real estate mogul George Marcus at his home in California’s Los Altos Hills. Tickets started at $10,000, with a VIP option available for just $32,400 — the maximum amount an individual can contribute to the DCCC in one year.

“I’ve got so many friends, so many people who have supported me for so long. As I look back, I realize how many of you have pictures of me with no gray hair."  

“...politics doesn’t work in Washington because we have one party that has no agenda other than making government not work; whose primary function, primary purpose right now, if you distill their ideology, comes down to saying no to any efforts to help ordinary families get ahead.”

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I find it much easier to get people to work with you when you're not calling them names and blaming them for you own short falls and incompetence. Barack Obama and his party have raised buffoonery to an art form. Every thing they touch turns to mold. Health care insurance, the economy, immigration, the IRS, foreign policy, etc.  

It could not be because he is headlining the most inept corrupt administration to ever cross the Potomac.  Nope, he's a victim. 

Six Years Wasted

Americans are amazingly patient with their presidents, but Obama has pushed them beyond scandal fatigue. The “final straw” appears to be the illegal alien invasion masterminded by Obama.

The cliché is that “the fish stinks from the head” and it is clear now that the Obama administration reflects the corruption and incompetence of Barack Obama, a Chicago politician who leapt to power despite not even having served a full term as a U.S. Senator. He was elected to be the first black President of the United States and it is no small irony that even African-Americans know he has done little or nothing to address their needs and concerns.

He will not be impeached as he should be, but he will increasingly lack any power other than executive orders. The constitutional system will work, but it will take decades to repair the damage."

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Barack Obama: Our Ultimate Embarrassment

Barack Obama is fiddling while the world burns. Iraq, Pakistan, Ukraine, Nigeria, Kenya, Syria. These foreign wildfires, with more surely to come, will burn unabated for two years until the United States has a new president. The one we've got can barely notice. 

The big Obama bet is that Americans' opinion-polled 'fatigue' with the world (if not his leadership) frees him to push his progressive domestic legacy. Meanwhile, Iraq may be transforming into (a) a second Syria or (b) a restored caliphate. Past some point, the world's wildfires are going to consume the Obama legacy. And leave his successor a nightmare."

Obama Adds Award to His Prestigious List of Accomplishments

h/t Odie

On to Baghdad....

"The black flags of al-Qaeda are flying over Mosul, Iraq’s second largest city, just as they do over Fallujah. Al-Qaeda affiliated militants are now pressing their offensive into other parts of western Iraq and possibly beyond. This growing threat to our national security interests is the cost of President Obama’s decision to withdraw all of our troops from Iraq in 2011, against the advice of our commanders and regardless of conditions on the ground.

Unfortunately, the president is now making the same disastrous mistake in Afghanistan, increasing the risk that al-Qaeda and its terrorist allies will return there just as they are in Iraq...."

"The president needs to explain to Congress and the American people how he plans to address the growing threat to our homeland and our national security interests posed by the rapidly expanding al-Qaeda safe haven in Iraq and Syria" - Bridget Johnson, PJ Media 

When Teleprompters Go bad......

Homo Destructus out of natural habitat 

Liz is Still as Sharp as Ever......

Let's Just Sum Up this Week and Be Done With It......

Legend in His Own Mind

"On Wednesday, our commander-in-chief stood before some of America’s most selfless men and women. It was an opportunity to inspire these young West Pointers with a speech about national security — and their vital role in a dangerous world. Instead he opted for a campaign speech once again contrasting his own brilliance with a childish caricature of his critics."

"When John Kennedy addressed West Point’s Class of 1962, he told them the burden of defending freedom 'will require more from you than ever before in our history.' ...

How different from Barack Obama’s adolescent address Wednesday. Here the long gray line was reduced to a backdrop for a president shouting to the world: I’m not the weakling you think!" — New York Post Editorial  

His Job Description Comes Pretty Close to Being the Exact Opposite of His Skill Set.

He Has a Strange Habit of Acting Like Somebody Else Has Been President These Past Years.

And Nothing Will Convince Me Otherwise....

Commander Zero Swoops in to Europe

Making a dramatic entrance, Commander Zero touched down in Amsterdam in a military helicopter, flanked by a squadron of battle-green gunships to tell a meeting of Europe's leaders that more needs to be done to prevent the region from descending into all-out war Putin from embarrassing him any further. 

Obama's first visit to Brussels to cost
Belgium more than €10m

As Belgium's capital and host to the EU and Nato, Brussels is used to deploying heavy security when big names pop by. But US President Barack Obama's visit on Tuesday will strain the city like never before with €10m (£8.4m) of Belgian money being spent to cover his 24 hours in the country.

The president will arrive on Tuesday night with a 900-strong entourage, including 45 vehicles and three cargo planes. Advance security teams orchestrating every last detail have combed Brussels already, checking the sewers and the major hospitals, while American military helicopters were last week given the green light for overflights.

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Barack Obama: (Unintentional) Man of Liberty

Shades of Thomas Paine

Obama may not realize it, but he is doing more for the cause of liberty in the United States than any president in recent history. Uninspiring and ineffective, he hasn't lately been able to do much of anything to actually curtail liberty as much as he'd like. However, like a chained dog, growling and foaming at the mouth, biting isn't necessary to tell everyone just how risky the institution of government is with fascists at the helm wielding enormous power.

* Obama has ensured that stocks of guns and ammunition in the hands of Americans are at all-time highs. He has motivated millions of Americans to get their concealed carry permits. If they weren't allowed to in their state, many changed the laws so they could.

* Obama has demonstrated the frantic ineptitude of government more clearly with his signature Affordable Care Act than ten thousand pages of postulation by the Cato Institute ever could.

* Obama has drawn into sharp focus the real nature of US foreign policy: make it up as you go, hope no one notices. American support for foreign adventures is at a historic low.

* Obama has best revealed the nature of US crony-capitalism more starkly than any other president. While cronyism has been around since before President Grant, never have the people been so aware of the self-dealing Solyndras and CGI.  

*Obama has taught everyone a lesson in the dangers of fiat currency. Never before has the money printing of the Fed been so overt and so well publicized. Many are making the connection between prices, wages and the Fed that never had before.

* Obama helped highlight the link between the military and the police by placing thousands of conspicuous, otherwise useless MRAP armored vehicles at neighborhood police stations across the country. * By beating the dead climate-change horse all through the worst winter in living memory for many Americans, Obama helped demonstrate the enormous gulf between politician's interests and the interests of the people.

* We all got a lesson on the lesser-known amendments with the IRS scandal, Lois Lerner and Obamacare. Who was paying so much attention to the 5th, the 9th and 10th before all this?

* With numerous well-publicized golf outings and lavish vacations, Obama, with the help of Joe Biden has ensured that the American people are well aware of the plush life of politicians enjoyed at citizen's expense. No phony GW Bush photo ops showing Obama with a chainsaw clearing brush in Texas. This man is all "let them eat cake", and he's not about to hide it.

* Obama discredited the IRS, CIA and NSA more handily than any dissident ever could.

Can you name a guy who has pushed more people into action and outrage over the disgusting US political machine?  I can't.
Can you name a better promoter of the 1st, 2nd and 4th amendments? I can't.

Let's all take a moment to be glad we don't have a more capable president who can wear the mask and fool the people more effectively.  

A legacy for Barack Obama

Commander Zero's Red Line Community Get Together

It looks like the Boy King's leadership on the world stage is about to face its most serious test as Russia and China appear ready if nessary to physically challenge Obama’s controversial plan unload a few on Syria.

Agence France-Presse News reports three more Russian warships crossed Turkey’s Bosphorus Strait Thursday en route to the Eastern Mediterranean near the coast of Syria. Based on a diagram posted by Zero Hedge, Russia now has six vessels in the eastern Mediterranean versus 13 US ships and two US submarines.

If that’s not enough, Russian news source Telegrafist reported Wednesday that at least one Chinese vessel is en route to the Mediterranean. It appears (at least publicly) China is only coming to “observe” the situation and catch some sun, although it’s clearly sending a message for the US to back off.

Juxtaposition: The Situation Room

 Situation Room - August 31, 2013 as Obama meets in council with advisors 
to plan strategy to extricate his ass from the box to which his ego put 
him in over blustering threats to Syria.

*Note- Eric Holder is in attendence - there must be a lie in there somewhere.

The Situation Room as it would have appeared the night of September 11, 2012  as the U.S. Embassy in Benghazi was under attack

and 6 Americans were being killed.

h/t The Velvet Hammer

MSNBC Report: Obama Attacks Syria!

by Bargis Tryhol

MSNBC reports the first salvo of cruise missles have been fired toward Syria in the opening round of reprisals for last week’s suspected chemical attack against the civilians. The Obama Administration has placed the blame on the Assad regime in Damascus. The limited engagement or as some are calling a ‘Shake ‘n Bake’ attack in the sense that the President promised a wrist-slapping ‘narrow attack’ which will cause minimal damage but hopefully send a meassage to regime leaders that future attacks targeting civilains will not be tolerated.

Aboard the USS Buggerall, a guided missle destroyer stationed in the Red Sea, sailors strapped the President onto a Predator drone, wearing his bicycle helmet, along with a hand held camera linked to an overhead satellite. The bright white drone had the Obama campaign symbol hastily painted on the side along with personal scripts from sailors onboard who wrote messages to the Syrians much like military men have done in past wars on bombs and missles about to be delivered to the enemy….’have a nice trip’…’You keep him!’… ‘Now this is diversity!’…’Free EBT card aboard’…’Blame Bush’…’Next week it’s Jumpin’ Joe!’

At precisely 1600 hours the President left the Buggerall on a rush of crimson flame heading toward a target in Damascus. Vice President Biden was onboard the ship to offer support and trade a few knock-knock jokes with the crew.  

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