Gobbledegook.

Had to read this headline twice.
Obama seeks fiscal responsibility mantle
He’s seeking it now? I mean, it’s nice, if it’s true, but I can’ t believe that this is about anything except Obama trying to cover his ass after his MASSIVE outlay of irresponsible spending contained in the “stimulus” package. Let’s see what you think.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) [...]

Too comfortable. Too numb.

In 2002, seven years ago this past Sunday, a Jewish American journalist named Daniel Pearl was abducted in Pakistan, held captive, and beheaded. Here’s an op-ed in today’s WSJ written by his father.
Neither he, nor the millions who were shocked by his murder, could have possibly predicted that seven years later his abductor, Omar Saeed [...]

September 20, 2001.

President George W. Bush said this to the American people during his State of the Union address on 9/20/01:
It is my hope that in the months and years ahead life will return almost to normal. We’ll go back to our lives and routines and that is good.
Even grief recedes with time and grace.
But our resolve [...]

An endless stream of cigarettes and magazines…

Guess who’s going home to plot the murder of our children?
CAIRO, Egypt (AP) – A Saudi man who was released from Guantanamo after spending six years inside the U.S. prison camp has joined al-Qaida’s branch in Yemen and is now the terror group’s No. 2 in the country, according to a purported Internet statement from [...]

Taking his eye off the ball?

First he’s closing Guantanamo and now he’s shutting down the “black sites”?
President Obama on Thursday will order the closure of so-called black sites, where CIA and European security services have interrogated terrorist suspects, under executive orders dismantling much of the Bush admistration’s architecture for the war on terror, according to four individuals familiar with a [...]

Conspicuous Consumption.

Barack Obama’s inauguration set to be the most expensive in US history | World news | guardian.co.uk.
President Barack Obama’s inauguration next week is set to be the most expensive ever, predicted to reach over $150m (£102m). This dwarfs the $42.3m spent on George Bush’s inauguration in 2005 and the $33m spent on Bill Clinton’s in [...]

Obama aping the chimp?

Charles Krauthammer : Bush’s Imminent Rehab – Townhall.com.

WASHINGTON — Except for Richard Nixon, no president since Harry Truman leaves office more unloved than George W. Bush. Truman’s rehabilitation took decades. Bush’s will come sooner. Indeed, it has already begun. The chief revisionist? Barack Obama.
Vindication is being expressed not in words but in deeds — the [...]

Do you hear what I hear?

WASHINGTON — A federal intelligence court, in a rare public opinion, is expected to issue a major ruling validating the power of the president and Congress to wiretap international phone calls and intercept e-mail messages without a court order, even when Americans’ private communications may be involved, according to a person with knowledge of the [...]

Maybe they’ll just burn pictures of anyone in Iran?

“Radicals” burn Obama posters in Iran (Wizbang).
The irony for me is that when pictures of any Republican (ie. Bush) were burned in various parts of the Middle East for any one of a number of assumed offenses, it became the media’s symbol that we were not liked around the world and that this was [...]

The Bush legacy.

George W Bush: winning the war on terror – Telegraph.
If superpowers do not demonstrate an ability and a willingness to wield power (as Britain did on numerous occasions at the height of the Empire) their hegemony will be increasingly challenged. President Bush exercised U.S. military power [...]

Bush’s gift to Obama.

Flopping Aces » Blog Archive » The Bush Legacy – gifting Obama with a Muslim world rejecting jihad.
An excellent analysis. Worth a read and a forward to any pals who might be in need of some education.
There is more than just the foul taste in the mouth from jihad that is left to Obama from [...]