GAAAAH!
White House aides: No Afghan decision before Thanksgiving
SEOUL — President Obama will not announce his decision on sending more troops to Afghanistan before the Thanksgiving holiday, senior aides said Thursday.
Obama arrived on the base 3:19 p.m. local time (1 a.m. Eastern Standard Time) and received a rousing welcome from 1,500 troops in camouflage uniforms, many holding cameras or pointing cellphones to snap pictures.
“You guys make a pretty good photo op,” the president said.
Standing on a riser wearing a blue suit and red tie, with a cluster of troops and a large American flag behind him, Obama expressed “the gratitude of the American public” and said his meetings in four countries over eight days in Asia will help deliver a “safer, more prosperous world for all of us.”
He got a huge cheer when he told them he was increasing military pay. “That’s what you call an applause line,” he said, before boarding his jet and taking off at 4:11 p.m.
This man makes me sick.
He makes me sick too!
Desert Sage! Whaddup man?!
Hi M!
Just expressing my outrage for our CiC.
It’s all about the O after all.
And isn’t that cute? They like the idea of a pay raise.
Dick.
Is there ever going to be a day where I wake up and this human asshat doesn’t do something to make me want to hurl?
hi kids.
Happy birthday, m!
@ DesertSage:
Well, there you are! Thought you fell off the edge of the planet…
Oh, and happy Birthday M, from one Scorpio to another!
savage wrote:
If Hope-n-Change doesn’t start creating jobs I just might.
@ DesertSage:
He makes it so easy.
>:-[
@ savage:
Thanks Savage! Long time no… read!
To state the obvious, he is deciding by not making a decision. Like voting present, it is deliberate so opponents cannot criticize his actions.
Moreover, he can get what he want, still tell the hippies that he didn’t escalate, all the while telling the folks who support the Afghan War that he is working real hard on it, trying to do what’s best and not make mistakes.
Meanwhile, we must decide NOW NOW NOW for everything else. No time to read it, just PASS IT!
Just wanted to wish you a happy birthday again M. Your new site looks much spiffier. Hope you enjoy your steak and taters tonight!
lol, no droplet of blood from the corner of your mouth, m?
@ DesertSage:
Me too.
As much as I dislike Komrade Zer0, that “photo op” quip was his effort at a sincere joke. I am certain he heard of people being angry at him for using soldiers and their families as a photo-op in the past. So, as lamely and amateurishly as it came off, he was trying to actually not be a pompous ass for a change.
@ m:
I concur!
http://colombiareports.com/colombia-news/news/6955-venezuelan-army-destroyed-two-bridges-in-colombia-ombudsman.html
Haven’t read this yet….but oh shit.
@ DesertSage:
Great to see you here, DesertSage!
He got a huge cheer when he told them he was increasing military pay.
Funny, I got an email from DFAS yesterday tellin me there would be no raise or COLA in 2010.
Maybe that just us retirees though
No biggie, they were foot bridges with demo charges.
It wasn’t a prep airstrike of a highway chokepoint as I feared.
Colombia to go cry to the OAS instead of paying someone to spike Hugo’s drink.
@ savage:
Hiya, Savage!
@ m:
I was going to post on this! LOL!
@ My5princesses:
M5P!!! It’s great to see you too! How have you been?
@ GrandJunctionite:
Military retirement pay works the same way as Social Security when it comes to COLA. They have some “basket” of stuff they base it on, and if the net cost of that stuff didn’t go up this year, there’s no COLA next year.
There won’t be one for Social Security recipients next year, either.
@ Scott Madsen:
Don’t worry, Obama will stop them. No one loves freedom and hates power-grabbing thugs more than he, and no one follows up his words with action like Obama.
/seriously, I crack myself up sometimes.
@ My5princesses:
{{{{My5}}}}
Good to see you!
Vapig,
I’ve been better. If you have M’s email, have her send me yours. Just dropping in quick to wish M a happy birthday. Hope things are going well with your new job.
OT:Just as I suspected, they are going to bumrush this healthscam beast through on a Saturday before a holiday. These miserable scum!
http://thehill.com/homenews/senate/68647-reid-uncertain-of-tally-as-health-bill-heads-for-saturday-vote
Hiya VT, hope things are going well for you too. Looks like that cat of yours is well fed, kinda like my 12 year old’s 20 pounder. She reminds me he’s “Big boned”. He must have an enormous rib cage then.
@ My5princesses:
Thanks My5! ! !
yeah buddy~ steak n’tators! I requested the supper of champions!
We miss you man!
@ Rightside:
I decided to clean up a lil’… bing the b-day and all. (i mean my kids are camera crazy)
Breaking: Rather than pardon this year’s turkey as is tradition, Obama bowed to the turkey, apologized, appointed the turkey a civil rights attorney, and made him the new Vegetarian Czar.
“We aren’t going to be able to just eat what we want and expect other animals to be okay with that,” the president warned.
“I felt that if I pardoned the turkey, I would imply the turkey had committed a crime. I‘m so pleased with how I‘ve furthered freedom, I think everyone should be thankful to me. So what do you think we should call it, Thanksobama or Obamagiving?”
@ PrincessNatasha:
I have to agree with you and give the O a pass on this one.
And I’m glad he made time in his schedule to visit the troops.
Piece of shit, child-molesting, saprophyte motherfucker…
From The Crow. I always wanted to use that line about an appropriate target, and Obama is very appropriate. He is a classless street hood with a little education. Not much taste, though, but discriminating when it comes to race. A low, yellow-bellied, America-hating Alynskiite parasite on the body politic.
And those are his good points. This is classic unscripted Obama, foot firmly placed in mouth, inarticulate (but clean!), displyaing for all his massive sense of entitlement and self-worth. I doubt he could see the problem with what he said if you drew him a map.
@ Silhouette:
ROFLMAO!
@ My5princesses:
I’ll send her a message right away! And I just LOVE my job!
At least other liberals tried to hide their disdain for the military but the first lady showing up to a funeral wearing a cocktail dress and now this! Makes me sick!
DesertSage wrote:
What the…
Look at what the cat dragged in!
@ vagabond trader:
That’s not a vote to pass the bill. It’s a vote to begin debate on it.
@ My5princesses:
LOL, we have him on a diet but it doesn’t seem to be helping. Hey,hes “only” 15 pounds. I’ll be in touch,take care friend.
Ok, I’m glad you’re enjoying your job, hope the rest is going well for you.
VT, if you’re still out there, thanks for your note last month.
@ vapig:
“You guys are a good photo op”
What ever it takes to make me look good…the man can not get over himself.
Take care folks, have a great day!
@ vapig:
Hi kiddo
@ lobo91:
They are putting it on the fast track in order to blindside the public.Debate,yeah like the extensive open one they had in the house///
Obama and his ilk despise the American military.
I don’t know if Desert Sage just joined or has been here for a while, but I am glad to see you here, just about all of the old crew are here now, and that is awesome.
We Rock!
@ davehm:
I think he was honestly trying to make a joke. Of course the joke was all about him. Everything is about him.
I dislike his telling the troops about a pay raise. I’ve never in my life heard a CiC address troops that way, telling them what HE has done for them, instead of the other way around.
Will 2010 Be the Perfect Storm?
@ Silhouette:
That would be funny except that it’s closer to his realty than not!
Xeon wrote:
Still waiting on Ben Hur and tradewind to escape from the asylum.
@ Iron Fist:
Child molesting?
O.T.
1.0 has four threads today, two of them about Sarah Palin.
Seems like the idiots over there are obsessed with her.
DesertSage wrote:
Welcome Desert Sage! Did you tell them to Fuck off or did he ban you preemptively?
@ vagabond trader:
The Senate doesn’t work like the House on these things. Everything in the House just takes 50% +1 (218 votes). And they put a time limit on debate. That’s why you see all the nonsense about someone yielding one minute to another member to speak.
In the Senate, they need 60 votes to start debate on a bill, and another 60 votes to end it. Only then do they get to vote on the actual bill’s passage (which only takes 51 votes).
Reid may not even have the votes to begin debate on this POS, much less pass it. He needs every one of the 60 Dems to vote for it, because none of the Republicans will. Even Snowe won’t vote for it.
tunnelrat wrote:
When was the last time the fool had any Middle East thread or a MEMRI thread? What a damned poltroon he has become. He is obsessed with her.
@ wolfie:
I didn’t hear I just read, if he was just trying to make a joke then fine I’ll give him that and your right, it’s all about him.
@ Silhouette:
Photo op in the veg garden.
@ tunnelrat:
I know Cato the Misogynist is.
Kinda-sorta Related: “Historic” visits to the Great Wall
Totally OT, but hopefully amusing: Bumper Sticker Outrage of the Day
@ wolfie:
All he did was sign it. Maybe he forgot about that fact that Congress passes the Defense budget, from his many years in the Senate.
tunnelrat wrote:
They’re obsessed, she’s like the only girl at a star trek convention.
They weren’t there to bask in your greatness, Zero. And they weren’t there to listen to what you had to say. They were there because there’s just about nothing else to do and they wanted to get a picture for their dartboards.
It ain’t always about you, Oba Mao.
Speranza wrote:
He feels superior to the troops. Imo that is why unlike Bush, Obama wears a suit when he is with them. He is establishing that he is top dog in tthe Managerial class & they work for him.
Bush had his failings, but he is a good guy & respects our troops.
tunnelrat wrote:
Come on. I heard she is a Christian, owns a gun, and has even been said to favor personal liberty. We can’t be too careful or those kind of idiots could take over this great country we founded.
@ lobo91:
I’m concerned they will promise the no votes a compromise just to get their votes then promptly stab them in the back as will be done to those who voted yes in the house only because of Stupak. This should not be a one issue debate on the public option. The entire 2000 plus pages reeks.Lets make a bonfire!!!
Frankly I think that poor Chaz is going through male menopause.
@ snapped shot:
I am soooo getting me that bumber sticker! I sent it to my pastor and he got a total kick out of it!
@ RIX:
Bush was a true patriot while Obama is and always will be -- a post American president.
@ snapped shot:
I’ll bet the tourists who had to wait for the Won to finish posing were pretty steamed!
@ Silhouette:
It is part of the line in the movie. Besides, it fits. Fake, perhapse, but accurate. He is raping little kids of their tax money far into the future of their lives. So I take it you agree with the rest?
@ DesertSage:
DesertSage:
Carolina Girl sends her regards.
@ Speranza:
Poltroon,nice use of an obscure word.
I am in Indianapolis today & Sarah Palin was here for a book signing.
People arrived in the middle of the night to get in a line.
Localnews said that she drew a huge crowd.
The Hippie would of course deny the number when it conmes out, but there you are.
@ snapped shot:
Great message,hope some atheist doesn’t get their panties in a wad and tries to have someone arrested.
@ RIX:
I wonder if the NY Slimes will review her book?
I don’t think they ever got around to reviewing Mark Levin’s last one, even though it topped their best seller list for weeks on end.
Nope…no bias there…
Speranza wrote:
Obama has made itg clear in his past writings , statements & actions that he does not like America or the Constitution.
vagabond trader wrote:
A word that the Colonials used to use a lot. George Washington referred to General Charles Lee as a “damned poltroon!”
At least the soldiers in that photo-op were alive.
I remember another 0bama photo-op where he greets the coffins of fallen American soldiers.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/gallery/2009/oct/29/usa-usforeignpolicy?picture=354890415
There’s a major disturbance in the climate science farce. Deep throat is singing about the politicking going on behind the scenes. Wait for a very significant story to emerge in the next few days.
lobo91 wrote:
If they would review Levin’s book it would only be to trash it. NY Times readers would not buy Levin’s book anyway. No big loss.
Speranza wrote:
That’s called manopause.
@ RIX:
If it’s a small number, he will say that’s proof she’s a failure.
If it’s a large number, that’s proof that the creationist wingnuts are everywhere …and ready to come shoot his cheetos.
Gotta go for a while…
Hope all at Blogmocracy have a great day…
Luv This House!!!
@ wolfie:
Oh, noes, not the Cheetos! He hates those Cheetos!
Ace smacks Andrea Sullivan down .
Andrew Sullivan’s Mixture of Weed, X, and Steroids Results in Super-Mutation Rendering Him Immune to Irony
@ Lolly Gator:
Take it easy now…and get over that bug!
Lolly Gator wrote:
Y’all come back now, hear?”
@ davehm:
They’ve taken to calling Palin “Bible Spice” over there. A few SP supporters but most of them have PDS.
That place is scary now.
Hmm, that is odd. Out of the blue my open windows are now in a neat little firefox drop down instead of lined up along the bottom. When did that happen. Weird.
vagabond trader wrote:
Punchinello is a great one too. Lay it on some asswipe and their face doesn’t know which way to contort.
lobo91 wrote:
Her book went best seller before release! Some Magazines are selling her book at a discount for mag subscriptions.
Johnson claimed that , that proves that the book is not selling.
Idiot, they had to buy it to resell it. The publisher did not donate the book.
GrandJunctionite wrote:
It is unrecognizable if you take a look in the LGF archives for any random dated from 2002 -- 2008.
@ vagabond trader:
Did you open one too many windows, so it stacked them?
wolfie wrote:
Johnson is a silly buffon , not to be taken seriously.
It appears the massive “poll” thread has a final word:
Or maybe not.
@ RIX:
He is an angry, increasingly bitter and deranged man.
@ Silhouette:
No doubt,I usually have lots open, but never saw this little thingy before.Just one little strip along the left bottom that says 14 firefox with a drop down arrow.Lets see if I can figure out how to close em, lol.
@ Speranza:
Ace hits that one out of the ballpark!
One of his many good lines:
“Palin’s vagina, in Andrew Sullivan’s telling, is a member of the Bavarian Illuminati. They’re all there — the Bildergsbergers, the Medicis, the Pope and the Jesuits, the Ghost of Richard Milhouse Nixon, and, of course, Sarah Palin’s genitalia.”
@ Speranza:
He is an angry, increasingly bitter and deranged man.
Yes he is & you have to wonder what caused it.
He is as mean as a snake & has the reasoning power of a carp fish.
@ Speranza:
He’s really gone Hard Left. Kos is more to the center than LGF now.
@ snork:
I would love to on Ludwig. This person is a bigot and I don’t get why he/she isn’t called on it.
He has nothing to do with military pay increase, only congress has the authority to do so.
DesertSage @ numba 1:
How’s it going there Devil Dog
@ snork:
For kicks I went to check out that fever infested swamp.
Most of the posters that were all PC about Hasan’s motives in the Fort Hood shooting are to busy eating crow to post in chuckles thread about it today.
35 total posts about Hasan.
Over 500 about Palin.
Not one of the fools is gonna go in and say, “ya know what, I was wrong,
Hasan was and is a jihadist.
Chuckles was all to happy to be one of the fool hardy deniers, along with his merry band of halfwits all harping about being fair to Hasan.
Its easy to see what they hold as important, its also easy to see, they lack the courage and conviction to admit being taken in with feel good self inflicted stupidity.
@ DEZ:
Did something ele come out about Hasan?
@ DEZ:
That certainly is telling of the moonbattishness at Sewer 1.0.
So much interest in Sarah Palin, so little interest in a cocksucking mohammedan mass-murderer of innocent Americans.
Good catch, DEZ.
@ Silhouette:
So what do you think we should call it, Thanksobama or Obamagiving?”
It’s already “Obama-taking”. ‘taking your taxes, taking your safety and security, taking your health care options, taking your FREEDOMS and giving them to murderous scum. And always taking us for granted…..
Power to the Correct People!
(“0″(pronounced zero) is sooooo incorrect!)
Speranza wrote:
ROTFLMAO. Indeed. However, when things got really ugly there last night, and leftist swine were showing their true, despicable faces, he was nowhere to be found.
I’ll bet there are black troops in the Armed Forces who are probably thinking “Who The Fuck does this N*gg*r think he is?”
Actually, this steams me more than his attempt at the photo-op joke.
Behind him are the folks who really take the bullets, and put their lives on the line, but his efforts will deliver a safer, more prosperous world for all.
Arrogant.