Obama commits more troops to War on Fox News, still awaiting Afghan troop surge. People’s Cube

THE WHITE HOUSE – Despite the President’s promise of a swift and decisive victory, Obama’s War on Fox News has developed all signs of an unwinnable quagmire, making the White House even more isolated in its unilateral attempts to crush the growing media insurgency. 

Ha, just a little humour for the day…

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Obama Listens to Generals Just Like Mr. Bush…

Okay, take yourselves back to March 2008.

Obama said that while President Bush has said that he follows the advice of his generals regarding Iraq, when they give the president advice he doesn’t like — cautioning against the War in Iraq, for example — Bush doesn’t listen to them.

Let’s move forward to September 2009.

The top military commander in Afghanistan warns in a confidential assessment of the war there that he needs additional troops within the next year or else the conflict “will likely result in failure.”

And here we are today…

Several weeks worth of war cabinet meetings have not made Obama’s staff and NSC advisers any more comfortable with Gen. Stanley McChrystal’s troop request.
They say that President Obama continues to be skeptical about the true applicability of the Iraq model, even allowing for McChrystal’s insistence that it can be modified enough.

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Is “Green Jobs Advisor” Van Jones for real?

"I met all these young radical people of color — I mean really radical, communists and anarchists. And it was like, ‘This is what I need to be a part of,’" he said in a 2005 interview with the East Bay Express. Jones told the newspaper he stayed in San Francisco, and for the next 10 years worked with a lot of the people he met in jail. Months after the King verdict came down, Jones said, "I was a communist."

Is this really who Mr. Obama needs for assistance in “Green HopenChange”?

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Why So Serious?

Drudge linked to it at Newsbusters, but the links seems dead.  Found this story here at BedlamMagazine…

Folks are getting pretty harsh now.  As his popularity drops, the attacks are rolling out stronger…

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House Democrats Health Plan

House Democrats are preparing to advance legislation that would deliver on President Barack Obama’s promise to remake the nation’s costly health care system and cover some 50 million uninsured by taxing and penalizing the wealthy and employers.

Amazingly simple isn’t it?  And guess what, you and I who are Joe Taxpayer don’t have to be taxed for it, only the rich.  They don’t need all that money do they?  Oh wait, not so easy?

Congressional plans to fund a massive health-care overhaul could have a job-killing effect on New York, creating a tax rate of nearly 60 percent for the state’s top earners and possibly pressuring small-business owners to shed workers.

Here’s the plan for universal health care…

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Your Vote: Will Sotomayor be Confirmed?

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Barack Obama’s Top 10 Apologies from Heritage Foundation…

Great little article that sums up President Obama’s top 10 apologies, while humiliating us as a Superpower…  Grabbed the headlines from Heritage Foundation, you’ll have to link over to read the text…

On several occasions, President Obama has sought to apologize for the actions of his own country when addressing a foreign audience–including seven of the 10 apologies listed below. The President has already apologized for his country to nearly 3 billion people across Europe, the Muslim world, and the Americas.

1. Apology to France and Europe ("America Has Shown Arrogance")

Speech by President Obama, Rhenus Sports Arena, Strasbourg, France, April 3, 2009.[1]

2. Apology to the Muslim World ("We Have Not Been Perfect")

President Obama, interview with Al Arabiya, January 27, 2009.[2]

3. Apology to the Summit of the Americas ("At Times We Sought to Dictate Our Terms")

President Obama, address to the Summit of the Americas opening ceremony, Hyatt Regency, Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, April 17, 2009.[3]

4. Apology at the G-20 Summit of World Leaders ("Some Restoration of America’s Standing in the World")

News conference by President Obama, ExCel Center, London, United Kingdom, April 2, 2009.[4]

5. Apology for the War on Terror ("We Went off Course")

President Obama, speech at the National Archives, Washington, D.C., May 21, 2009.[5]

6. Apology for Guantanamo in France ("Sacrificing Your Values")

Speech by President Obama, Rhenus Sports Arena, Strasbourg, France, April 3, 2009.[6]

7. Apology before the Turkish Parliament ("Our Own Darker Periods in Our History")

Speech by President Obama to the Turkish Parliament, Ankara, Turkey, April 6, 2009.[7]

8. Apology for U.S. Policy toward the Americas ("The United States Has Not Pursued and Sustained Engagement with Our Neighbors")

Opinion editorial by President Obama: "Choosing a Better Future in the Americas," April 16, 2009.[8]

9. Apology for the Mistakes of the CIA ("Potentially We’ve Made Some Mistakes")

Remarks by the President to CIA employees, CIA Headquarters, Langley, Virginia, April 20, 2009.[9] The remarks followed the controversial decision to release Office of Legal Counsel memoranda detailing CIA enhanced interrogation techniques used against terrorist suspects.

10. Apology for Guantanamo in Washington ("A Rallying Cry for Our Enemies")

President Obama, speech at the National Archives, Washington, D.C., May 21, 2009.[10]

Barack Obama’s Top 10 Apologies: How the President Has Humiliated a Superpower

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Cheney and Obama duke it out…

CNN is running a non-scientific poll on whether Mr. Obama was right on stating he want Guantanamo Bay closed or Mr. Cheny is correct in not closing it.  So, here’s my chance to poll my few readers to get their reaction.  Yes, mine is non-scientific too, but lets see what my results are.

By they way, any guesses how CNN’s poll turned out?

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Pelosi was lied to!

Now she’s accusing the CIA of lying. Things are getting pretty hairy for the SOTH.

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O’S AMATEUR HOUR

THE real climax of President Obama’s Spring Apologies Tour wasn’t his photo op with our troops in Baghdad or even his “American Guilt” concerts in Western Europe.

While fans in the press cheered wildly at every venue, the real performance came in Turkey. And it was a turkey.

Ralph Peters, FoxNews Strategic Analyst posts his assessment of President Obama’s visit to Turkey.

Right off the bat, he makes a very salient point…

Obama means well. Just as Jimmy Carter, his policy godfather, meant well. But the road to embassy takeovers and strategic humiliation is paved with good intentions — coupled with distressing naivete.

Read more here: O’S AMATEUR HOUR – New York Post

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The Big Takeover – Taibbi

Just got done reading the Matt Taibbi piece titled "The Big Takeover".  After searching, I found it posted at Rolling Stone plus many, many other blogs.  Seems I’m about a month behind on this article.

The global economic crisis isn’t about money – it’s about power. How Wall Street insiders are using the bailout to stage a revolution.

Lot’s of angst in this article, maybe a little paranoia, but still a must read…  I’ll start it off, but you’ll have to skip over to Rolling Stone to get the rest… (Caution, language warning in 3… 2… 1…)

It’s over — we’re officially, royally fucked. No empire can survive being rendered a permanent laughingstock, which is what happened as of a few weeks ago, when the buffoons who have been running things in this country finally went one step too far. It happened when Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner was forced to admit that he was once again going to have to stuff billions of taxpayer dollars into a dying insurance giant called AIG, itself a profound symbol of our national decline — a corporation that got rich insuring the concrete and steel of American industry in the country’s heyday, only to destroy itself chasing phantom fortunes at the Wall Street card tables, like a dissolute nobleman gambling away the family estate in the waning days of the British Empire.

The latest bailout came as AIG admitted to having just posted the largest quarterly loss in American corporate history — some $61.7 billion. In the final three months of last year, the company lost more than $27 million every hour. That’s $465,000 a minute, a yearly income for a median American household every six seconds, roughly $7,750 a second. And all this happened at the end of eight straight years that America devoted to frantically chasing the shadow of a terrorist threat to no avail, eight years spent stopping every citizen at every airport to search every purse, bag, crotch and briefcase for juice boxes and explosive tubes of toothpaste. Yet in the end, our government had no mechanism for searching the balance sheets of companies that held life-or-death power over our society and was unable to spot holes in the national economy the size of Libya (whose entire GDP last year was smaller than AIG’s 2008 losses).

Read the rest here…

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Developing at Drudge!!!

Obama will call for increased oversight of ‘executive pay at all banks, Wall Street firms and possibly other companies’ as part of sweeping plan to ‘overhaul financial regulation’, NY TIMES reporting Sunday, newsroom sources tell DRUDGE… Developing…

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Obama Administration Affirms Bush Policy on Detainee Rights.

Ouch!  That’s a real poke in the eye for the Dems…

President Barack Obama’s Justice Department sided with the former Bush administration on Friday, saying detainees in Afghanistan have no constitutional rights.

The hope we all had in President Obama to lead us on a different path has not turned out as we’d hoped,” said Tina Monshipour Foster, a human rights attorney representing a detainee at the Bagram Air Base. “We all expected better.”

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Obama’s Administration for Change…

UDATE: 17 NOV 2008

H/T Gateway Pundit

According to the New York Post and Newsweek the president-elect Barack Obama has decided on Eric Holder as his attorney general.

Eric Holder – under President Clinton was the Attorney for the District of Columbia and Deputy Attorney General.  Under President Reagan was an Associate Judge of the Superior Court of the District of Columbia

The Chosen One aka “The President-Elect” is cobbling together his new administration…

Rahm Emmanuel: for Chief of Staff – former Clinton Senior Advisor and Chicagoan.

Gregory B. Craig

: for White House Counsel – former Clinton Impeachment Defense Attorney and Special Counsel for the White House.

Hillary Clinton: maybe for Secretary of State, former Clinton spouse and New York Senator.

Well, what is old is new and the more things “change” the more they stay the same…

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Non-Scientific Poll

UPDATE: 5 NOV 7:24

Thanks for the votes, but I guess we were wrong.  Mr. Obama is now our President-Elect and my future Commander in Chief…

Okay, my turn for another non-scientific poll.  From my loyal and not so loyal readers…  Who’s gonna win????

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