Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA) steps in it again, this time using her witless concepts about race. Why does all the fun stuff happen on Thursday when I have obligations?
Help us, Sage from South Central (and run against this genius in 2010)--you're our only hope!
(Thanks to Andrew Breibart)
Good morning. Familial duties take priority but the following image might be better than coffee. It's the House Democrat Health Care Plan.
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(Linked all over but the source is here. Very good, Mr. Boehner.)
Whoa! During the Moscow trip, many Russian officials refused to shake the president's hand!
What was that about, Cold Warriors? I know that the Russians aren't exactly open-minded about race, but come on! It's the president of the United States.
Or perhaps President Obama is too much the Leftist even for Russians. Too weird.
(Thanks to American Thinker)
UPDATE: Did the Russians Really Snub Obama?
Speaking to a group of students, our president explained it this way: "The American and Soviet armies were still massed in Europe, trained and ready to fight. The ideological trenches of the last century were roughly in place. Competition in everything from astrophysics to athletics was treated as a zero-sum game. If one person won, then the other person had to lose. And then within a few short years, the world as it was ceased to be. Make no mistake: This change did not come from any one nation. The Cold War reached a conclusion because of the actions of many nations over many years, and because the people of Russia and Eastern Europe stood up and decided that its end would be peaceful."
The truth, of course, is that the Soviets ran a brutal, authoritarian regime. The KGB killed their opponents or dragged them off to the Gulag. There was no free press, no freedom of speech, no freedom of worship, no freedom of any kind. The basis of the Cold War was not "competition in astrophysics and athletics." It was a global battle between tyranny and freedom. The Soviet "sphere of influence" was delineated by walls and barbed wire and tanks and secret police to prevent people from escaping. America was an unmatched force for good in the world during the Cold War. The Soviets were not. The Cold War ended not because the Soviets decided it should but because they were no match for the forces of freedom and the commitment of free nations to defend liberty and defeat Communism.
Over at Hot Air, Ed Morrissey is running a Caption This contest for the following photo snapped during President Obama's pilgrimage visit to Moscow to mend fences (or whatever) with President Dmitry Medvedev and Prime Minister Vladimir Putin.
I haven't even read the seven pages of comments over there, but at the top of page seven is the winner--there cannot possibly be a better:
Today Georgia. Tomorrow Georgia.
In addition, the wily Vlad saw fit to praise Former President Bush's hospitality--read: class--and wish the latter a happy birthday--yesterday--in a telegram sent right before President Obama's visit.
During the last years we have been working on strengthening Russia-U.S. cooperation. Although there were differences between our countries, I always valued your openness and sincerity," Putin said, congratulating Bush on his 63rd birthday on July 6.
"With special warmth I recall your hospitality in the Crawford ranch and your family estate in Kennebunkport," Putin wrote, referring to their 2007 meeting at the Bush family vacation home when the two leaders went fishing and ate lobster.
Is the timing mere coincidence? "Russians don't take a dump, son, without a plan."
I wonder what the results of a POTUS appearing to be the world's doormat will be. Those on the Left believe that it will make the world love us again (sic). Those on the Right suspect that the supine posture of a POTUS will embolden our enemies. But I can't help but believe that a third result will come from the rude, disrespectful treatment that the president is eliciting from our enemies and frenemies. And as with all "hunches" I get, I'm content to let this one play out--sometimes I don't want to know.
Yes I know. I’m just jumping back in without an explanation. Maybe later.
President Obama seems to have a problem with our closest
ally, the United Kingdom
First there was the bust of Churchill:
A bust of the former prime minister once voted the greatest Briton in history, which was loaned to [Former President] George W Bush from the Government's art collection after the September 11 attacks, has now been formally handed back.
The bronze by Sir Jacob Epstein, worth hundreds of thousands of pounds if it were ever sold on the open market, enjoyed pride of place in the Oval Office during President Bush's tenure.
But when British officials offered to let Mr Obama to hang onto the bust for a further four years, the White House said: "Thanks, but no thanks."
(Rumor has it that the president treated the bust far less ceremoniously than that.)
Obama, breaking with precedent, wouldn't grant the prime minister the customary honor of standing beside him in front of the two nations' flags for the TV cameras. [SNIP]
Still, Brown kept a stiff upper lip as he sat in the Oval Office yesterday as Obama, skipping the usual words of welcome for his guest, went straight to questions from the news services. Brown didn't get to speak for six minutes, after Obama had already answered two questions.
If you recall, before Kenya
Mystery solved. It seems that the president is seeking to humiliate the progeny of those who humiliated his ancestors. Revenge isn’t that complicated a motive.
However, a question remains.
Is this any way for a President of the United States
Read also about the gifts which the Obamas gave to the Browns during the latter's visit, especially this one: a collection of 25 classic American films on DVD. Not exactly special. And even more curiously: Brits can't play American DVDs.
To be fair, Prime Minister Brown was thoughtless in his gift-giving as well. One of his gifts to the president: a seven-volume classic biography of Churchill by Sir Martin Gilbert. One would expect a UK Prime Minister to know the history of his own country, but one could say the same thing about our own head of state.
UPDATE: Welcome, Ace's morons!
UPDATE: Welcome all others. Just to clear up some items, I am half Luo like President Obama (take note of my URL), born and raised in the United States. My father and the president's father arrived in the United States via the same means--the Mboya Airlift.
Comedian Al Franken is running as a Democrat to take Republican Norm Coleman’s place in the US Senate. To that end, the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee is running the following ad:
I feel for these people. They need our prayers.
One problem, however: Norm Coleman wasn’t in the Senate when The Authorization of Use of Military Force against Iraq was agree to on October 11, 2002. Coleman wasn’t sworn in until January 7, 2003.
For using these poor people and lying to them, Al Franken and the DSCC deserve a…stern talking-to.
And...Godspeed to Major Stuart Anderson.
(Thanks to Hot Air)
When I said that Nancy Pelosi's book would probably not make any bestseller lists, I was just going by the few posted Amazon ratings. Turns out that the there have been only 2,737 copies of the book sold anywhere. I can smell *that* stinker from here.
(Thanks to Hot Air)
UPDATE: The Speaker can't even console herself with her advance money.
The sad part for Pelosi is that the practice by which publishers bestow massive donations on their favored politicians via utterly unrecoverable publishing “advances” was barred by the House of Representatives. Therefore she could not get even a fraction of the phenomenal sweetheart advance paid to then Senator-elect Hillary Clinton for her various scribblings — which, while they were bought by many, still did not come close to earning out the advance paid by a publishing industry supposedly beset by economic crisis.I hear you laughing. That's not very nice. :-)
(Thanks to Instapundit)
Timing is everything: Michelle Malkin entertainingly reviews Nancy Pelosi’s cliché laden “Know Your Power
With congressional approval ratings at an all-time low and the Democratic Congress under fire for taking a five-week vacation instead of working on energy policy, perhaps this wasn't the best time to send Nancy Pelosi jetting from coast to coast to tell our daughters how to save the planet, manage our households and run our government.The Speaker is holding an online book discussion today at 3PM EDT/12PM PDT. We'll see how long that gathering lasts.Sorry, Nan. There aren't enough carbon offsets to compensate for this tree-wasting dud and its accompanying gas-guzzling, hot air-emitting publicity tour.
One thing about the book's Amazon reviews: last week there were over 400, with the average rating being one star. Well, for whatever reason, the vast majority of them have been purged.
I'm less than willing, however, to ascribe sinister motives to Amazon's actions; it's their site and we all know how persistent the bum-rushers can be. At any rate, there are only 48 reviews as of this moment and 37 of the reviewers have given the Speaker's advice to our country's young women but a single star, so it's doubtful that the Speaker will make any entity's bestseller list. Just a hunch.
But now we have a clearer view as to what the Speaker's priorities are for the month of August, don't we?
Ed Morrissey points out something I should have noticed, having been in the USAF and having been stationed in Berlin before the Wall-fall: why is Obama even in Berlin when there are no American troops there anymore?
And why is he making a speech before the Germans while skipping a visit to the DOD's Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in southern Germany, to which severely injured US military personnel from Iraq and Afghanistan are evacuated, then stabilized before coming home?
Answer: because talking to his peeps (the Europeans) is of the utmost importance. If he had any advocates in the military, there are probably fewer now.
(Thanks to Bob Owens)
UPDATE: Speech just ended. I have a few comments about it but I'll wait for a transcript.
UPDATE: The transcript is at the campaign site. Also at Drudge.
I thought about nit-picking the speech to death--and there are several places in the very first part of the speech which are easy targets--but changed my mind because, in this case, it doesn't matter what the wannabe King of the World said but where he said it and where he won't be going before his trip to Paris and his return to America.
UPDATE: Read:
Did I miss the part about how he was going to withdrawal all the troops from Germany in 16 months ?Of course, he didn't say this but, likely, only because neither he nor his advisers thought of it.
UPDATE: The Landstuhl Visit That Wasn't
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