Dennis Miller was again at his best tonight on O’Reilly. Topics tackled were Obama’s speech last night at West Point; the White House party crashers, the Salahis; and Nancy Pelosi’s $3K expenditure on flowers.
I think Dennis should not just move to Pelosi’s district to VOTE her out, but should move there to run AGAINST her! Don’t you think that would be a fantastic idea?
Wow… Glenn unleashed holy hell today over several issues, the least of which was Obama’s dithering on his Afghanistan policy decision. No one was spared his wrath, including Congress in general, but specifically Jack Murtha.
Since when have our troops been a budgetary concern, especially since they’re actively involved in a war overseas? Oh, yeah… since Obama decided to consider budgetary items ONLY as it concerns the troops and support for them.
I don’t have family in Afghanistan or Iraq, but I have many friends who are there, and they corroborate Glenn’s outrage. Obama dithers while troops die…all the while he plans yet another party for the White House, where all of Hollywood’s elite stars are invited to attend. What a sham.
To make things worse, I have to ask if you remember the civilian Blackwater contractors who were murdered, burned, mutilated and hung from a bridge in Fallujah. Do you? Well apparently some Navy SEALs found the high-value operative behind that atrocity. But what is the current administration doing? The detainee who is responsible for those atrocities told authorities he was punched in the face during questioning when they were found. Somebody call these douchebags a waaahmbulance.
What do the Navy SEALs get in return? A court martial for assault. Are you freakin’ kidding me? I knew about Hillary’s “testicle lock box,” but since when did it become necessary to pass that lockbox down to the Obama administration and his DoD/DoJ?
This is a travesty of epic proportions. I maintain that Obama will not last a full first term – I think he will be impeached for absolute dereliction of duty and malfeasance in office.
Remember tonight while Hollywood dines on the finest arugula spinich tonight, soldiers in Afghanistan await a decision by the “Chosen One” on Gen. McChrystal’s recommendations.
How much farther can outrage go? I don’t really know…I’m growing numb and that’s a bad thing, but jeebus… when will this insanity stop?
Can’t wait for 2010 & 2012. Our troops deserve better than a “budgetary assessment.”
Like many others, I was disturbed by President Obama’s initial public statement about the Ft. Hood terrorist attack. You know, the one where the mention of that mass slaughter was preceded by a near 2-minute talk with a “shout out” to a group of Native Americans? Does he have that little regard for the soldiers who were slaughtered by an Islamic terrorist?
As I listened to him, I realized that what he was saying didn’t match…what he was saying. I think you know what I mean. It was the same measured tone with which he pretty much discusses anything, reading from the teleprompter or not. He shows no emotion, barely any inflection (unless he’s talking to an SEIU or ACORN crowd), and is just plain cold. I, for one, don’t buy the “soaring oratory” skills others ascribe to him. Anyway, back to my point.
Since he’s gotten the August assessment on Afghanistan from General McChrystal back in September, he has yet to make any other decision about what he’s going to act on, other than decide he wouldn’t decide for several more weeks. Why is he taking such a long time? His supporters are saying he’s being “thoughtful” and “thorough” about making that decision, but what about the guys on the ground now? They are the ones that need the backup! I guess he’s not too concerned about them, much less Gen. McChrystal’s request for 40,000 more troops. According to the assessment, McChrystal said “Failure to gain the initiative and reverse insurgent momentum in the near term (next 12 months) — while Afghan security capacity matures — risks an outcome where defeating the insurgency is no longer possible.” How much more dire of a warning could Obama have received.
Now today, even after his initial “benchmarks” including the election in Afghanistan, as well as much politicking back home about that monstrosity called a health-care bill, we hear that Obama is rejecting all current troop recommendations he’s received from his security team? He’s going to go back to square one? What the hell?
I have friends over there, and they’re getting really pissed off about this. They need help…they need boots on the ground so they can help secure the areas in which they operate, and train the Afghan troops and police so they can eventually handle it on their own.
After hearing an interview Obama did with Jake Tapper of ABC on Monday night, it struck me – I now know how he feels about our troops. He thinks of them as “expenditures.” Yes, think about that and let it sink in. He thinks of our troops as an asset that costs this country money. Money he doesn’t want to spend. What? Don’t believe me? I heard this clip on Rush’s show Tuesday, and Rush expressed his own outrage at it, but I didn’t put two and two together until this morning’s news about turning down all the proposed plans.
Here is a portion of the transcript of that interview. I want you to read and re-read Obama’s second point when answering Jake:
Jake Tapper says, “You are about to make a final decision about the new strategy in Afghanistan and Pakistan. What variables play into your decision making that would cause you to not just take General McChrystal’s recommendation and implement it?”
OBAMA: These are not only eh, enormous burdens that we’re placing on our y-young men and women — and that’s the thing I think most about.
OBAMA: It’s also expensive.
OBAMA: Every thousand troops we spend that’s costing us a billion dollars. Uhh, i-if you send 40,000 troops you’re looking at maybe $50 billion per year above and beyond the costs that we’re already spending.
Are you kidding me? The “enormous burdens that we’re placing on our young men and women” is what he thinks about most? Does anybody believe this? My friends over in Afghanistan don’t believe him, and I damn sure don’t either. His real reason for not sending the troops is actually the cost. Our troops “cost” too much. Their safety “costs” too much. Our national security “costs” too much.
Mr. Obama, how much value do you ascribe to the troops that are already over there, and getting killed in record numbers? Do they have such little fiscal value to you that you won’t “spend” more “troops” (read = money) on them? Our guys are being ambushed, blown up by IEDs, and killed in raging gun battles, all the while you dither and ponder your political future. Obama, you have to know that a lot of Americans see and understand that you fear your political future over our troops, and we are beyond angry at this point. We, like the troops over there, are pissed off. Politics should never be your first order of concern when it comes to matters of our security or the support of our men and women who wear the uniform for this country. I used to think you merely had an abject disdain for them, but now it’s come to this: they’re just an “expenditure” which depletes money from your budget that you’d rather be spending on your Marxist agenda.
Mr. President, although you are the Commander in Chief of the most exceptional nation on this planet, that doesn’t mean you have to be an exceptional jackass. And yet that’s what we’re discovering you to be.
Check HotAir’s post of this for some excellent commentary.
Wow… I’m sorry, but Joy’s ignorance is staggering. How to describe this video? How to explain her thoughts? I absolutely cannot find any words to express how dumb this idiot is.
P.S. Can someone please explain the stem-cell research issue to Joy? What actually happened AROUND that issue? She’s completely clueless. She seems to think that Bush took away ALL stem-cell research and that people have died in the interim because of that. Huh? The research was not dumped, Joy…federal funding (i.e. TAX-PAYER DOLLARS) for EMBRYONIC stem-cell research was what was changed. Get your facts straight. Stupid bitch thinks Obama’s “stem-cell” research policy change is one thing for which he does deserve the Nobel peace prize. Uh… yeah. Why does Joy feel the need to continually harangue the “religious right?” Doesn’t she know a large percentage of the left are religious, as well?
P.P.S. Barbara doesn’t expose herself as a mental giant either. Does Barbara know that Ford made profits because they DIDN’T take bailout money? Guess not.
Tuesday night on the Special Report panel, Charles Krauthammer weighed in on Obama’s dithering on Afghanistan while our troops are left to wonder what their mission is, fighting druglords, and wondering why their Commander in Chief won’t send them backup while they are dying in record numbers.
Obama, you’re really pissing me off with this one. I have friends in A-stan and they REALLY need backup! They dare not speak aloud of their disapproval of you, and that is another factor that feeds their frustration. At least Bush had the balls to stand behind our troops. You, sir, don’t have the nutsack to do what is right and necessary, as requested by your hand-picked commander, Gen. McChrystal. You told a bunch of Navy men & women in Jacksonville this week that you wouldn’t put them in harm’s way until it was absolutely necessary.
Hey, B-Ho… do you even know what our military men and women understand about their service? How many of those men and women at that event that day were secretly dying inside WANTING to be sent over there to help their brothers and sisters? You have absolutely no clue about the American military’s code of honor, and you are selling them short. They WANT to be in the fight, and they want to protect their own – something you obviously don’t. I’m beginning to believe, B-Ho, that you have an abject disdain FOR our troops! If you don’t, it damn sure seems like it. Unfortunately, they are paying the price for your political pandering and indifference for them and their families.
You are not fit to command a troop of Boy Scouts, much less the mightiest and finest military in the world. This is a FAIL of epic proportions, and I’m ashamed you are my president. You have the blood of many of our countrymen on your hands. How have we gotten to the point where our elected commander in chief has become a clear and present danger to this country? Obama voters acted stupidly.
And, no, there will be no ‘beer summit’ for you.
Recently on Fox News, Julie Banderas featured a special segment of wounded warriors who returned to Iraq for a homecoming, of sorts, to try and find some closure of their time in the battle. What a touching story this was, and what a reminder it is that we owe our very freedoms to these men and woman so we may enjoy the lives we are currently living.
Let’s pray we can keep this Republic and keep the enemies at bay. God bless our military men and women, those who’ve served in any theatre, at home and abroad.
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