The Hypocrisy and Idiocy of Obama

I have not writ­ten about our Dear Leader in some time.  I’ve been bit­ing my tongue.  Now, with his com­plete and utter screw-ups that he has engaged in recently, I can’t hold back any longer.

If you thought George W. Bush was an idiot and a “war crim­i­nal”, just look at what Obama has done in the past month.    He has engaged the United States in an ille­gal war.  (No, it’s not a “kinetic mil­i­tary oper­a­tion”.)  Barack Hus­sein Obama sent in our troops with­out so much of a hint of approval from Con­gress.  To make mat­ters worse, there is quite a bit of con­fu­sion as to the endgame.  From Hillary Clin­ton to Barack Obama to Sec­re­tary Gates, not one of them gives the same answer as to what the pri­mary objec­tive is.   Also, as I have said before, we have no man­date to be in Libya.  By con­trast, the Iraq War, believe it or not, was not an ille­gal war.  At least Bush had Con­gress’ approval.

He also is speak­ing out of both sides of his mouth regard­ing energy pol­icy.  First, he stated on March 19 while on vaca­tion in Brazil (also while the ille­gal Libyan War is going on): 

By some esti­mates, the oil you recently dis­cov­ered off the shores of Brazil could amount to twice the reserves we have in the United States.  We want to work with you.  We want to help with tech­nol­ogy and sup­port to develop these oil reserves safely, and when you’re ready to start sell­ing, we want to be one of your best cus­tomers.  At a time when we’ve been reminded how eas­ily insta­bil­ity in other parts of the world can affect the price of oil, the United States could not be hap­pier with the poten­tial for a new, sta­ble source of energy.

Then he says just the other day:

I talked about reduc­ing America’s depen­dence on oil when I was run­ning for Pres­i­dent, and I’m proud of the his­toric progress that we’ve made over the last two years towards that goal, and we’ll talk about that a lit­tle bit. But I’ve got to be hon­est. We’ve run into the same polit­i­cal grid­lock, the same iner­tia that has held us back for decades.

That has to change. That has to change…When I was elected to this office, Amer­ica imported 11 mil­lion bar­rels of oil a day. By a lit­tle more than a decade from now, we will have cut that by one-third. That is some­thing that we can achieve. (Applause.) We can cut our oil depen­dence — we can cut our oil depen­dence by a third.

Cut­ting our depen­dence on oil — by expand­ing our depen­dence?!  How idi­otic is this?  We have so many more oil reserves right here at home than Brazil has.  Yet when approached with the idea of open­ing up drilling here in the U.S., Obama makes a joke about “Drill, Baby Drill”.  Let’s just pose this ques­tion:   Why is Obama more inter­ested in Brazil­ian oil than he is Amer­i­can oil?

I truly hope that Obama doesn’t win another term in 2012.  I hon­estly don’t think our coun­try can take any more of this.

We should not be in Libya

Don’t get me wrong.  I want to see Muam­mar Al-Gaddafi ousted from power.  He is a ter­ror­ist; he appar­ently ordered the Pan Am 103 bomb­ing in 1988 that killed 190 Amer­i­cans.  How­ever, our cur­rent lead­er­ship obvi­ously has no clear strat­egy or man­date for what they’re doing now.  It’s not our place to be the police force for the world.  As good as it sounds, we can’t install democ­ra­cies in every coun­try around the world.  We have to take care of our own house first.

Also, Iraq and Afghanistan.  The Iraq War of 2003, although it was done with good inten­tions and with coali­tion sup­port, was based off of flawed intel­li­gence.  All of the lead­ers of this coun­try, both Repub­li­can and Democrat, at the time appar­ently had the same intel­li­gence — Sad­dam Hus­sein had weapons of mass destruc­tion and must be removed from power.  I have no doubt he did have WMDs.  It’s widely known that he used mus­tard gas on his own peo­ple in 1988.  How­ever, as much as I agreed with Saddam’s oustal and sup­ported it at the time, it was han­dled wrongly.

Afghanistan in 2001 was the war we should have fought and should still be fight­ing.  We have to make sure that the Tal­iban is routed and Al Qaeda can never go back there and use Afghanistan as a base of oper­a­tions.  It is para­mount that Al Qaeda, and par­tic­u­larly Osama Bin Laden, never see the light of day again.

Those two con­flicts, in which we are still engaged, should be our pri­mary focus still.  Libya is yet another front we can ill afford.  This is one case where I say let our allies (Great Britain, France, et. al.)  han­dle it for once.  Let’s get our sol­diers in Iraq and Afghanistan through with their mis­sion and home before we open up another war front.

The Truth on the Reactors in Japan

I have been try­ing to read as much as I can about the after­math of the Japan earth­quake and tsunami that hap­pened last week and its effects on the nuclear power plants north­east of Tokyo.  It’s been hard to do, as there as been much mis­in­for­ma­tion and out-and-out lies from the news media, whether it be Fox News or CNN.

How­ever, I did find an arti­cle yes­ter­day that quite suc­cinctly sums up what most likely is occur­ring with the Fukushima plant.  There is no way I can sum­ma­rize or add to it, so please go here and read it.   Hope­fully it will make more sense to you once you do.

The Nation Must Get Its Debt Under Control–Or Else

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Yes­ter­day, Stan­dard & Poor’s and Moody’s – the top two credit rat­ings agen­cies — came out with state­ments say­ing that if the United States gov­ern­ment doesn’t get its finan­cial house in order, they may report neg­a­tively against the U.S.’s AAA credit rat­ing.  If the finan­cial issues like pen­sions and health­care sub­si­dies are not brought under con­trol and the debt ceil­ing of $14.3 tril­lion is hit, the U.S. could default on its loans to for­eign countries.  debt

I think the fol­low­ing quote says it all:

The national bud­get must be bal­anced. The pub­lic debt must be reduced; the arro­gance of the author­i­ties must be mod­er­ated and con­trolled. Pay­ments to for­eign gov­ern­ments must be reduced, if the nation doesn’t want to go bank­rupt. Peo­ple must again learn to work, instead of liv­ing on pub­lic assistance.

Can you guess who said it?

A Jared Loughner Guide

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Very apro­pos.

 

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Tucson Shooting: Sarah Palin Responds to Left’s Attacks

Sarah Palin: “America’s Endur­ing Strength” from Sarah Palin on Vimeo.

The Loughner Family Releases Statement

 

Just break­ing from Fox News, the Lough­ner Fam­ily has released the fol­low­ing statement:

This is a very dif­fi­cult  time for us.  We ask the media to respect our pri­vacy.  There are no words to express how we feel.  We wish that there were, so that we could make you feel bet­ter.  We don’t under­stand why this hap­pened.  It might not make any dif­fer­ence, but we wish we could change the heinous events of Sat­ur­day.  We care very deeply about the vic­tims and their fam­i­lies.  We are so very sorry about their loss.

Thank you,

The Lough­ner Family

The Snows of Tennessee: December 29, 2010

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I’m try­ing to get caught up on upload­ing past pho­tos to my web­site.  Here’s some pic­tures of the snow we enjoyed at the cabin.  Unfor­tu­nately I didn’t take any­more – I was too busy enjoy­ing the scenery!

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Glenn Beck’s Challenge to America

Glenn Beck issued a chal­lenge to all Amer­i­cans tonight to denounce all forms of vio­lence – regard­less of where it comes from.   Glenn, I accept:

  • I denounce vio­lence, regard­less of ide­o­log­i­cal motivation.
  • I denounce any­one, from the Left, the Right or mid­dle, who believes phys­i­cal vio­lence is the answer to what­ever they feel is wrong with our country.
  • I denounce those who wish to tear down our sys­tem and rebuild it in their own image, what­ever that image may be.
  • I denounce those from the Left, the Right or mid­dle, who call for riots and vio­lence as an oppor­tu­nity to bring down and recon­struct our system.
  • I denounce vio­lent threats and calls for the destruc­tion of our sys­tem – regard­less of their under­ly­ing ide­ol­ogy – whether they come from the Huta­ree Mili­tia or Frances Fox Piven.
  • I hold those respon­si­ble for the vio­lence, respon­si­ble for the vio­lence.  I denounce those who attempt to blame polit­i­cal oppo­nents for the acts of madmen.
  • I denounce those from the Left, the Right or mid­dle that sees vio­lence as a viable alter­na­tive to our long estab­lished sys­tem of change made within the con­straints of our con­sti­tu­tional Republic.

Signed,

R. Eric Lee

Progressivism Hatred: A Decade in Review

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Michelle Malkin has done what I was going to do today.  She has com­piled a list of hatred and vit­riol that comes from the lib­eral side of the polit­i­cal aisle from 2000 to 2010.  It is in response to all of those (e.g. Keith Olber­mann, Jane Fonda, Bill Maher, et. al.) who imme­di­ately jumped on the band­wagon to blame Repub­li­can and Con­ser­v­a­tive polit­i­cal fig­ures like Sarah Palin for the shoot­ing that took place this past week­end in Tuc­son, instead of where it really belongs – squarely on Jared Lee Loughner’s shoul­ders.  Go take a look – it’ll turn your stomach.

 

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Remem­ber this?