The French have long been the butt of many a joke here in the United States. Typically viewed as weak on defense and foreign policy, I have personally been guilty of making more than a few statements about how we saved their country, and chiding them about their lack of courage. Yet somehow, the tables have turned here all of a sudden. When Chuck Schumer sounded the death knoll on America's "strong foreign policy" it could have easily been dismissed as the rantings of another power mad inside the beltway left wing moonbat. It was not. This is seriously the direction that Obama and his "O Team" in Congress wish to take this Country. It is now their stated objective to make us weak. I will not hold my breath waiting for an apology from you leftists who mocked me when I stated this to be their goal before the election.
Follow me here. Notice this statement from Peter Pham, a national security professor at James Madison University. “This is something that hasn’t happened since the United States Navy and Marines were founded to fight the pirates two centuries ago”. The question becomes, why is it the first in 200 + years? The linked article goes on to state that there has been a heightened level of Piracy since the 90's. There were 7 ships attacked by pirates this week alone (at the time of my writing). Why only one U.S. ship? And why none prior to this? Better yet, why none prior to our President parading around the world apologizing for the United States strong foreign policy? Why none prior to our President declaring that we are not at odds with radical Islam? Now I know what is coming here. Leftist will cry that this has nothing to do with Islaam. Think again. Read this quote. "I believe that the pirates are not wrong to hijack the ships because there is no reason for the international ships to use Somalia's waters,". It comes from Sheikh Muktar Robow, spokesman for Somalia's hard line Islamist group Shebab.
Newt Gingrich appeared on Fox News Sunday with Chris Wallace to address the North Korea Missile launch. Newt took a hard nosed line and he nailed it. But first, let me take you back to before the election. Remember when Joe Biden said that the world would test a young President Obama with a created crisis? He told us that we would find out that Obama has a spine made of steel. So let's take a look at how Obama responded to this act by North Korea. President Obama was in Prague on Sunday pushing for "a world without nuclear weapons" and here are some quotes from his speech.
"As a nuclear power, as the only nuclear power to have used a nuclear weapon, the United States has a moral responsibility to act."
"Now is the time for a strong international response. . . . All nations must come together to build a stronger, global regime. And that's why we must stand shoulder to shoulder to pressure the North Koreans to change course."
"We want Iran to take its rightful place in the community of nations, politically and economically. We will support Iran's right to peaceful nuclear energy with rigorous inspections. That's a path that the Islamic Republic can take. Or the government can choose increased isolation, international pressure, and a potential nuclear arms race in the region that will increase insecurity for all."
"Today, the Cold War has disappeared but thousands of those weapons have not."
The leftist joke propagated upon the Country during the last election has begun to play out on a world stage like a bad comedy with sub standard actors. While the left keeps telling us to wait until 100 days in office to judge the President, I have begun to wonder if this is merely a stalling tactic to come up with some kind of defense for the deplorable embarrassment this Administration has been during its "on-the-job training mode". While Obama's resume left no doubt that he lacked the experience needed to do the job, his actions since taking over give little hope that he has the mental ability to turn this all around.
Let us ignore for a second the fact that in just two months he has added more to the deficit than the grand sum total of all Presidents from the start of the country through George W. Bush. Let us overlook his domestic moments of mental midgetry like his "57 States" comment and his public slander of the mentally handicapped. I won't even bother with the utter incompetence of his nominees. For the leftists who made a living over the last eight years calling Bush an idiot, let's take a look at the global snafus of the new Prisident, Barack Huesien Obama and his Administration.
On last nights show I discussed the fact that Obama and Dodd were the two largest recipients of AIG financial contributions to politicians. Now that the anger of the public has been successfully diverted to AIG employees, the Obama Administration hit the Sunday circuit with their new and thinly veiled AIG bailout. Obama, who just last week seemed so angry about these bonuses being paid out, has come to the rescue of his contributors and is now considering scaling back the attempts to steal 90% of said bonuses. While it should be noted that I feel that the bonuses should be paid out, I would be remiss if I didn't point out the conflict of interest on the Presidents part. While I applaud his effort here, I see right through it to the heart of the matter. While politics in Washington D.C. can be far from clean, I would like to take this moment to introduce the Capitol City to the dirtiest politics north of the Rio Grande. District of Columbia, meet Chicago.
In an interview with the New York Times, Barack Obama showed not only his utter incompetence, but also his total lack of understanding of the issues America faces. He proposed reaching out to "moderate elements" of the Taliban and justified his statement with the following quote.
"If you talk to Gen. [David H.] Petraeus, I think he would argue that part of the success in Iraq involved reaching out to people that we would consider to be Islamic fundamentalists, but who were willing to work with us because they had been completely alienated by the tactics of al-Qaida in Iraq. There may be some comparable opportunities in Afghanistan and the Pakistani region."
While it is nice to see that in at least some instances he is willing to try to learn from history, it is not suprising to see that he totally blows the lesson to be learned. What was done in Iraq was to reach out to Iraqi people who were starting to get angry with the attacks that Al Qaida was launching against their people. We did not reach out to memebers of AL Qaida.There is, however, a longstanding position in the United States of not reaching out to terrorists.
I have some friends and family who supported President Trump from early on in the process. From time to time they will ask me when I will admit that I was wrong about him. "If Trump does x... If Trump gets y... If Trump supports a policy that results in z... will you admit that you were wrong?" My answer is always "no", because I wasn't wrong. To be clear, I could be wrong in practical application, but that isn't what an election is about. Elections are about theory and speculation and, generally speaking about judging records. Trump had no record to speak of, and his history of stances on issues was all over the map. I opposed his candidacy for several major reasons, all of which are proven valid in this single issue we now refer to as the "travel ban". Here were my reasons.
If you're not familiar with Justice with Judge Jeanine, it is a show on the FOX News Network starring Jeanine Pirro. She is known for her over-the-top rants where she serves up gobs of fresh red meat for her largely hard right wing audience. While it's not unusual for her to be a little fast and loose with the facts, she has been known to occasionally return from the break with a correction from her producers. Last night, however, there was no such correction to an outright lie she told on the show, and the matter being discussed should have (at the very least) contained a disclaimer from the host. I would cut her some slack, but as a former prosecutor and judge, she should be well aware of what proper protocol should have been here.
It's not cute anymore, Republicans. The President of the United States is completely detached from reality, and you can't fix that. You can't cover it up, you can't explain it away, and let me make this as clear as I possibly can for you. You cannot possibly undo the damage you are doing to the party brand by trying to pretend this man is anything other than completely unhinged. I'm watching Sean Hannity borrow guests from the Alex Jones show in an attempt to bolster Trump's conspiratorial claims. I'm seeing relatively mainstream conservatives make themselves look like the crazed fringes of the paranoid right wing. Don't believe me? Look at this.
