Terrorists Do Not Fear Obama
May 3, 2010 Political
“We will kill bin Laden. We will crush al Qaeda. That has to be our biggest national security priority,”—Barack Obama presidential debate on October 7.
Like him or not one thing can be said for George W. Bush and that is the terrorists feared him. Osama bin Laden, as has been recently discovered, underestimated the response from Bush when planning the attacks of 9/11. Bush unleashed pure hell and bin Laden was not prepared for that. After years of Clinton lobbing Cruise Missiles in response to any act against the US, bin Laden was convinced that America would do nothing more than that after 9/11.
That was a very costly mistake on his part.
There can be no doubt that 9/11 was the result of inaction during the Clinton Administration. Bin Laden has told us as much and his refusal to believe that the response to 9/11 would be brutal shows that the impression he formed during the Clinton years was that we would not respond in any meaningful way.
When George Bush unleashed the hounds of war the terrorists were taken aback and many of them died. Bin Laden went into hiding and we were not able to find him. Barack Obama told us he would find and kill bin Laden but he has not done so and he probably never will.
During Bush’s years there were no attacks on us though many efforts were thwarted. Obama came into office with promises that he would extend his open hand and that the world would love us. We would not be targets because Barry is a man of the world. He understands the Muslim world, we were told, because he spent so much time there.
Unfortunately, reality has reared its ugly head and that head shows us that the terrorists do not fear Obama.
We suffered two terrorists attacks in the US involving our soldiers. One was in Little Rock and the other at Fort Hood. Obama refused to see Fort Hood as a terrorist event and has refused to release the study of the incident. Luck and only luck prevented a disaster on Christmas Day when a terrorist was unable to detonate the explosives in his underwear. The inept Obama regime got very lucky that day. If the underwear bomber had been successful a lot of people would have been killed. Only dumb luck prevented that from happening.
Dumb luck was again responsible for preventing disaster. A vehicle rigged to explode was left in Times Square New York and the only thing that prevented disaster was a vendor who noticed smoke coming from the vehicle and alerted police. Pakistani Taliban have taken credit for the bomb (of course, it could have been a TEA Party member or McVeigh wanna be) and a New York station reported that a 911 call around 4 am informed of the bomb and indicated that it was a diversion for a larger explosion.
This is how the terrorists respond to his weakness. This is how the terrorists to whom Obama would extend that open hand answer his offer of an olive branch.
Terrorists do not respect weakness and they will exploit it. The enemy feared George Bush because he said we would attack them and we did and we did it by raining hell down upon them.
Barack Obama, on the other hand is not feared. He is looked at as a weak man who does not have the courage to engage our enemies in battle. His waffling with regard to Iran has emboldened those who wondered how he would respond to adversity. They now know he sets deadlines but allows them to lapse and they also know that he might talk tough but does not back it up.
And to think Hillary said Bush was all hat and no cattle…
The US has had some dumb luck in recent events but that luck cannot hold out. Luck is not proper mission planning but it has been Obama’s best friend thus far. This will not continue and eventually the terrorists will be successful.
I pray that day never comes but the rational part of me says it is only a matter of time before we get hit again.
The Obama regime practically guarantees it.
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Tags: 9/11, car bomb, New York, Obama, taliban, terrorists, times square
Was It His My Pet Goat Moment?
Nov 6, 2009 Political
There was a terrible incident at Fort Hood today where a soldier opened fire with several weapons and killed 11 people while wounding 31 others. The post was locked down as emergency services responded to the scene. A civilian DOD police officer shot and wounded the assailant, identified as Major Nidal Malik Hasan, who was initially reported as killed in the gunfight.
Let me start by saying the thoughts and prayers of the Big Dog family go out to those affected by this terrible incident. May God give you strength and comfort and may he welcome with open arms those brave souls who were taken from us.
Barack Obama was informed of this and he spoke to it at a conference on Native American issues being held by the Department of the Interior. I think the words that he spoke were heartfelt and appropriate but I do have a problem with how he addressed the issue.
He arrived at the conference and thanked people for attending and then he had a “shout out” to someone there. He then discussed how important the issues were blah, blah, blah. Then he spoke about Hood.
Perhaps, and maybe it is just me, he should have mentioned the Fort Hood incident first. Would it have been too difficult to say something like; “Before I address the conference I want to talk about the incident at Fort Hood. By now you have heard about the horrific incident where 11 soldiers were killed by a fellow soldier. Let me say a few words about what has taken place.” Then he could say the words that he spoke and then move on to the shout outs.
It seemed to me that the soldiers involved in this incident and the people of Fort Hood were second in his mind and that he gave the shout outs a higher priority. He is supposed to be the Commander in Chief and that role should have guided him to speak of the issue first. Perhaps he is not as qualified for the job as he led us to believe.
Was this incident Obama’s My Pet Goat moment? He was more interested in addressing the attendees of the event than actually addressing the tragedy at hand. Kind of like when the left said Bush was more interested in reading a book to children than responding to the 9/11 attacks.
In any event, there will be lots of questions over the next few days and weeks and perhaps we can sort out what went wrong.
Particular attention will likely be paid to statements Hasan has reportedly made about Muslims rising against occupiers as well as other statements allegedly made with regard to his opposition to the war. His radical views were of concern to others who worked with him in the past.
I am glad he was not killed. We need some answers from him. I also hope he is the first soldier to get the death penalty in quite some time. Nothing would be better than saving this coward from death only to make him face his accusers and then have to contemplate his demise.
Prayers to Fort Hood.
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With Hussein, **it Flows Downhill at a Heightened Rate
Aug 24, 2009 Political
Oh boy, it just keeps on coming. These traitors that Hussein has in his direct AND indirect employ are at it again, or should I say, they never quit with their sleezy little ploys and asinine games. Now they plan to Hijack (certainly no pun intended here) the day of 9/11 for their own purposes, and to “lessen” the emotional impact 9/11 has on American ideals. This is a gross and repugnant political misuse of a sacred day for America, and Hussein wants to use it for his petty political gain.
The Obama White House is behind a cynical, coldly calculated political effort to erase the meaning of the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks from the American psyche and convert Sept. 11 into a day of leftist celebration and statist idolatry.
This effort to reshape the American psyche has nothing to do with healing the nation and everything to do with easing the nation along in the ongoing radical transformation of America that President Obama promised during last year’s election campaign. The president signed into law a measure in April that designated Sept. 11 as a National Day of Service, but it’s not likely many lawmakers thought this meant that day was going to be turned into a celebration of ethanol, carbon emission controls, and radical community organizing.
The administration’s plans were outlined in an Aug. 11 White House-sponsored teleconference call run by Obama ally Lennox Yearwood, president of the Hip Hop Caucus, and Liv Havstad, the group’s senior vice president of strategic partnerships and programs.
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Yeah, Hussein and his allies, including ACORN, and Color of Change, another “community organizing” huckster outfit, led by Van Jones, one of Hussein’s “Czars”, all want to change 9/11 into a “day of service”, apparently where we serve the great Mess-iah in some way or another. It, like so MANY of his little paltry picayune plans, is not specific- just the overview, as if that alone, coupled with allegedly mellifluous tones, are suposed to convince us that he is right. It just is not so, Mr. Resident.
The plan is to turn a “day of fear” that helps Republicans into a day of activism called the National Day of Service that helps the left. In other words, nihilistic liberals are planning to drain 9/11 of all meaning.
“They think it needs to be taken back from the right,” said the source. “They’re taking that day and they’re breaking it because it gives Republicans an advantage. To them, that day is a fearful day.”
A coalition including the unsavory left-wing pressure group Color of Change and about 60 far-left, environmentalist, labor, and corporate shakedown groups participated in the call. Groups on the call included: ACORN, AFL-CIO, Apollo Alliance, Community Action Partnership, Deep South Center for Environmental Justice, 80 Million Strong for Young American Jobs, Friends of the Earth, Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies, Mobilize.org, National Black Police Association, National Coalition on Black Civic Participation, National Council of Negro Women, National Wildlife Federation, RainbowPUSH Coalition, Urban League, and Young Democrats of America.
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Wow- that’s quite a lineup- all groups I would usher off of my lawn with a shotgun- all extremists, all liberal socialists to the core, and all wrong. These groups are what is wrong with America today, and they give the Democratic party a bad name, in the guilt by association sort of way. And the hits just keep on coming.
With the help of the Obama administration, the coalition is launching a public relations campaign under the radar of the mainstream media — which remains almost uniformly terrified of criticizing the nation’s first black president — to try to change 9/11 from a day of reflection and remembrance to a day of activism, food banks, and community gardens.
“The organizing term is to ‘go dark.’ You don’t tell the press, don’t tell people you think will tell the press,” said the source.
Of course, the annual commemoration of the 2001 terrorist attacks belongs to the entire nation, but President Obama and the activist left don’t see it that way. They view the nationwide remembrance of the murder of 3,000 Americans by Islamic totalitarians as an obstacle to winning over the hearts and minds of the American people.
spectator.org/archives
One day at a time, Hussein and his merry band of traitors seek to transform our country into the “workers paradise” that socialist cant always describes, but always fails at. They will fail again.
They view Sept. 11 as a “Republican” day because it focuses the public on supposedly “Republican” issues like patriotism, national security, and terrorism. According to liberals, 9/11 was long ago hijacked by Republicans and their enablers and unfairly used to bludgeon helpless Democrats at election time.
MSNBC’s foremost left-wing bloviator, Keith Olbermann, summed up this ugly perspective the week after the Republican Party convention last year:
“But 9/11 has become a brand name. A Republican campaign slogan. Propaganda of the lowest form. 9/11 has become 9/11 with a trademark logo. “9/11 TM” has sustained a president who long ago should have been dismissed, or impeached. It has kept him and his gang of financial and constitutional crooks in office without — literally — any visible means of support. “9/11 TM” has made possible the greatest sleight-of-hand in our nation’s history.”
On Aug. 4, the White House offered a glimpse into its plans to desecrate 9/11 for political advantage. Jones appeared in a largely ignored 33-minute video posted on the official blog of the White House to discuss the administration’s plan to flush 9/11 down the memory hole just as it has tried to do by rechristening the Global War on Terror the “Overseas Contingency Operations.”
spectator.org/archives
Yes, sometimes I believe that these people feel no pride in America, no sense of belonging, they do not want to make America great, instead they seek to tear us down.
There has been nothing, I repeat nothing that these people seek to do that is uplifting, that has actually helped the American people to get past these times, instead, Hussein and his little craven minions do everything, and I mean everything they can possibly do to put up roadblocks to recovery.
For as long as they can keep us down and reeling on the ropes, they feel they have a chance at “their share” of the American dream.
Why can’t they dream of actually doing real work , instead of stealing the American Dream away from the rest of us?
Their minds are not right.
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Where Was Sandy Berger When This Was Stolen?
May 20, 2009 Political
In October 2003 Sandy Berger, former Clinton National Security Adviser, stole classified documents from the National Archive. There is no doubt he stole them because he stuffed them down his pants. He stole the documents to cover up any missteps taken by him and Clinton with regard to our security. Berger did not want the documents discovered during all the 9/11 investigations.
He was charged with, and pleaded guilty to, a misdameaner because it was determined he only took copies and that the documents were backed up on a hard drive.
Today it was announced that a hard drive containing a terabyte of information from the Clinton years is missing from the National Archives. The drive contains sensitive information as well as personally identifying information such as Social Security Numbers.
The Inspector General states the drive was stolen sometime between October 2008 and March 2009 after it was left unsecured in an area that is accessed by any number of people including visitors.
Did Sandy Berger visit the Archives during that time frame? Perhaps he was not satisfied with stealing copies and wanted the electronic version as well.
Can you imagine him meeting up with Bill Clinton after stuffing the hard drive down his pants?
CLINTON: Hey Sandy. Is that a hard drive in your pants or are you just happy to see me?
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Tags: 9/11, bill clinton, crime, national archives, sandy berger, theft
A Memo On Crisis
Apr 29, 2009 Political
I read several papers a day, almost all of which are unfortunately liberal in tone, if not content, and I read the Op- Ed columns, many of which are also liberal.
One of these, written by Thomas Friedman, had a screed today on just how good it was that Barama had released (selectively), the memos on enhanced interrogations, saying that he (Barama) had got it just about right when he released the memos, but said he would not prosecute the lawyers who worked to implement the policy.
The president decided to selectively expose the memos to placate those foam at the mouth liberals who were screaming for blood- but he refused to prosecute these people, because he knows that this could happen to him.
The problem becomes a Pontius Pilate One, whereby he can say he (Barama) did nothing to prosecute, but his slavish minions like Pelosi, Conyers, Reid, Soros, and all the other moronic imbeciles who elected this man will gleefully tear at this “wound” in America, all with Barama’s tacit approval, and the cheering of the liberal press.
Thomas Friedman, in his article, does several liberal tricks of the press (probably how he won his pulitzers- or no one else was in competition), in that he keeps referring to Al- Qaida and bin Laden in the past tense, as if the threat is gone. Not once, or twice, but constantly throughout the article does he refer to these terrorists in the past tense.
But then, he writes this- note the use, once again, of past tense- “..Osama bin Laden and Al- Qaida aspired to deliver a devastating blow to America, They ” were involved in an extraordinarily sophisticated and professional effort to acquire weapons of mass destruction, In this case, nuclear material,” Michael Scheuer the former CIA bin Laden expert told 60 minutes in 2004.”
Does anybody think that Al-Qaida has ceased their search for fissile material to do us harm? Thomas Friedman certainly seem to think so, judging from the way he writes. Personally, I believe that even if bin Laden was dead, the search for WMDs would go on, despite Mr. Friedman’s seeming surety that Al-Qaida no longer seems to look for bomb material.
Now, he does say that post 9/11 remains a perilous time, but the one paragraph that really caught my eye in the midst of this diatribe was this: ” We have the luxury of having this torture debate now, because there was no second 9/11, and it was not for want of trying. Had there been, a vast majority of Americans would have told the government( and still will ), ” Do whatever it takes.” ”
I notice that he gives former President Bush no credit, nor does he credit this program of enhanced interrogation with obtaining information, which is disingenuous to say the least, and a flat out lie by omission in fact. All the facts need to be laid out in front of the American people in its entirety, not just selective memos , but as Dick Cheney said, let the American people judge on all the facts. Selective release just confuses the problem and just shows what Barama wants you to see. He doesn’t want you to peek behind the curtain and see the naked process of liberalism. Barama counts on crisis.
Come on Barry, show it all- are you afraid of the truth? I think you are.
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