I have always wondered why the Republican Establishment is so scared of Obama. I found my answer out yesterday. Mitt Romney rightfully condemned the US Embassy in Cairo for condemning a film that gave the Islamists a pretext to go crazy. Right away the Obama Regime took on the statement. Then the Media poured on and cried foul. Instead of standing by Mitt Romney the Republican Establishment ran away. Some in the McCain camp even attacked Mitt Romney. The GOP Establishment is afraid of Obama because they are scared of the media.
The murders of US diplomats in Libya and the attempted storming of the US Embassy in Cairo took place 56 days before the election of America’s next president.
Apparently, it is the view of much of the mainstream media and foreign-policy establishment that discussing these horrific events in the course of the presidential campaign is monstrous.
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Cairo embassy personnel put out a problematic statement on Tuesday designed to mollify angry protesters upset by an anti-Islamic movie: “The Embassy of the United States in Cairo condemns the continuing efforts by misguided individuals to hurt the religious feelings of Muslims — as we condemn efforts to offend believers of all religions.”
Nine hours later, the Romney campaign released a statement implicitly linking that apology to Obama’s larger foreign policy: “It’s disgraceful that the Obama administration’s first response was not to condemn attacks on our diplomatic missions, but to sympathize with those who waged the attacks.”
Plainly recognizing the political potency of this line, the White House quickly repudiated the Cairo statement.
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Then, in the middle of the night, came word of just how horrific and deadly the killings in Benghazi had been. And also word that embassy staff had put up the Cairo statement before, not during, the attempted siege.
And so descended from On High the three horsemen of the Apocalypse, trying to bring about Foreign Policy Romneygeddon.
First were the uninhibitedly liberal media, starting with the Web site Talking Points Memo, which called Romney a liar for attacking the statement because he should’ve known about the timing of its release.
It appears the Demo☭rat-Republican Party has come full circle….
Of all of the events of the past week, this places itself at number two of the things which really, really, piss me off. We should email that picture of John Boehner to congress, and bear in mind, I have been one of the stalwarts here who has repeatedly made it a point to defend our current House Speaker.
You will note that those who have allegedly made those statements are, “a high ranking GOP foreign policy expert” and “A foreign policy advisor to the McCain compaign”. So either these wizards of smart were to cowardly to be tied to their statements or the MSM just made up those statements out of whole cloth.
@ AZfederalist:
… that should be “too cowardly”
There was some Dem asshat on FNC alongside Rich Lowry a few minutes ago. Apparently, this morning’s talking point is that Romney’s campaign has now “imploded,” and this signifies the end of the campaign.
What was even more unbelievable was when the Dem mouthpiece responded to Lowry’s recounting of a list of this administration’s obvious failures in the Middle East by saying that we should “bring on” that debate.
When did we move to that alternate universe where Spock had a beard?
http://freebeacon.com/reports-marines-not-permitted-live-ammo/
Ambassador to Egypt Anne Patterson “did not permit U.S. Marine guards to carry live ammunition,” according to multiple reports on U.S. Marine Corps blogs spotted by Nightwatch. “She neutralized any U.S. military capability that was dedicated to preserve her life and protect the US Embassy.”
U.S. officials have yet to confirm or comment on the reports. Time magazine’s Battleland blog reported Thursday “Senior U.S. officials late Wednesday declined to discuss in detail the security at either Cairo or Benghazi, so answers may be slow in coming.”
Seems like myconcerns yesterday were well-placed. Just that this is being reported makes further incidents more likely. If the Muzz know they have nothing to fear, they will likely get more violent.
lobo91 wrote:
That’s because Rassmussen has Romney up a point among likely voters. And that tracking poll doesn’t include Obama’s feckless response to this attack on American soverignty. My bet is Obama’s internal polls are abyssmal, thus, their attempt to frame the campaign as a Romney flub.
H.L. Mencken is disgusted.
How soon we forget…
Everything I’m seeing tells me the Ds are in full-on panic mode. They did a 180 from the DNC platform over the course of 24 hrs.
Israeli Arab Official Warns Of ‘Armageddon’ Over Anti-Islam Film
Un-frickin-believable!
Bring it bitches!
@ Iron Fist:
Reminds me of that line from Aliens…
What are we supposed to use, harsh language?
This is what happens when progressives are in charge. The ambassador is afraid she will offend the muzzies.
@ citizen_q:
so basically, if you don’t stop insulting our peacful religion, we will get violent. How does the media get away with this crap and expect people to believe it.
MikeA wrote:
To the point of her and everyone with her’s death.
@ MikeA:
When the embassy is overrun, she probably thinks that holding up her diplomatic passport is going to keep the mob from raping and murdering her, too.
@ gulfloafer:
Oh, they handled that so adroitly!
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These people are supposed to be geniuses. I’m not seeing it. Obama has handled the crisis in Egypt and Libya as well as he handled the problem with the DonkeyRat Party platform. I don’t see how he can possibly win, but never underestimate the stupidity of the American people…
MikeA wrote:
So far it looks to be like because they can, and they ignore those who try to call them on it.
Peggy Noonan is apparently still streetwalking for Obama. She, and some McCain staffer, were quoted on NPR this morning slagging Romney for his perfectly-reasonable criticisms of the Administration’s actions in the wake of 9/11.
BTW—guess who was willing to criticize a sitting President on foreign policy matters while he was running for President?
@ buzzsawmonkey:
I’ve not had any use for Peggy Noonan for quite a while. She is the quintessential Establishment Republican. I think she wanted Romney when it looked like he would lose well, but the idea that he would actually fight to win the Presidency offends her patrician sensibilities. Fuck her with the horse she rode in on.
The fact that Obama hasn’t even changed his campaign schedule in the face of the implosion of the Middle East is unbelieveable.
He went to Vegas yesterday, and today, he’s here in Colorado. He apparently didn’t meet with his intelligence briefers either day.
I’m sure Air Force One gets MSNBC, though, so it’s okay…
MikeA wrote:
We’ve been buying the BS concept of the “noble savage” ever since civilization came in to conflict with savagery. There’s nothing “noble” about savagery.
@ MacDuff:
This is Civilization vs. Barbarians, and right now the barbarians are winning. We need a little savagery ourselves. We need to treat the savages savagely, or they will treat us savagely.
Apparently, Obama has told our embassies to “do whatever it takes” to protect our personnel.
Well, that is, except having the Marines use live ammo. Or deploying extra security assets. Or looking mean.
Okay…they’re allowed to send out as many tweets as necessary.
If the Marines guarding the embassy in Cairo aren’t allowed to carry live ammunition, why have them there at all?
Let Anne Patterson trust our “ally” to protect her. I’m sure Lara Logan can tell her all about how well that works.
@ buzzsawmonkey:
Alas, they conveniently forget the non-stop snipefest during the Bush administration. As for Noonan, she’s become the Norma Desmond of politics.
Iron Fist wrote:
Snake Department policy is to tweet the savages savagely.
It seems that this Administration wants the embassies guarded on the Beau Geste plan.
Remember the near-final scene? All but a few of the Legionnaires in the fort were dead, and the remnant propped the dead soldiers on the wall so that it would look to the marauding Arabs as if there were more defenders.
lobo91 wrote:
If you consider that the implosion in the Mid East as a feature and desirable, why change your plans when things are working out the way you wanted?
That is why we are only treated to bland perfunctory statements from obama and State. Why cry of the loss of few pawns that were part of your “winning” strategy?
It is sick behavior indicative of the most craven sociopaths.
It has been pointed out that the violent mob was repeatedly shouting “We are all Osama, Obama!” etc. No one mentioned the goddamned movie until the witless wonder running the Embassy issued a statement apologizing for American values.
Romney was right on the money -- and one thing I would hammer home, Governor Romney -- juxtapose the amount of time Obama has spent complaining about your having the audacity to criticize him with the amount of time he’s spent condemning the actions of the mob.
The KILLED OUR AMBASSADOR! You had no protection for him. In fact, you didn’t order any increased protection for any of our mid-East embassies on the anniversary of 9/11 -- or do you remember the way our Muslim Brotherhood buddies CELEBRATED that day.
The piece of crap cannot vacate the Oval Office soon enough.
@ lobo91:
Meanwhile the libturds and the Media still love to proffer that falsehood that Bush went golfing during Katrina. Which is bullshit -- since Bush stopped playing golf when the Afghan War started.
This guy can’t find time for Netanyahu as a region explodes -- but can go on Letterman.
@ Carolina Girl:
Hey, CG—did you see this yesterday?
@ Carolina Girl:
Letterman’s audience can vote for him.
//Priorities
@ Iron Fist:
Start applying a little Machiavellian philosophy to our diplomatic dealings. The fuzzy glove isn’t working.
@ PaladinPhil:
It is like some sick relationship between an abused woman and her abuser. Obama thinks (or professes to think) that if he just loves the Muslims enough, they will love him back. That isn’t how the world works.
WHERE’S RODAN?
You just can’t make this stuff up:
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(NYT)
buzzsawmonkey wrote:
Ummm … that’s racist?
--Chris Matthews
Iron Fist wrote:
Sort of like his thinking that if he is really, really, really “anti-colonial” and anti-American, Daddy and Mommy will come back and tell him that he is loved.
Iron Fist wrote:
I don’t think he cares what they think of him. His interests (bringing down the US) just happen to coincide with theirs.
@ buzzsawmonkey:
Now that I agree with.
Some psychologist could make an entire career out of studying his issues.
This should be chiseled in stone above the front door at the State Department:
Unarmed Marines “guarding” an embassy where the weather forecast is usually “some howling mob activity” is security theater, on a par with pretending that incompetent dullards shoving their fingers in your privates will protect us from airplane hijackers.
@ lobo91:
I think you are right. That is why I emphasised “professes” to think. In reality, I think he is getting exactly what he wants to get out of this. He hates America. The whys of his pathologies don’t really interest me, only the results produced by them. He wants to see America brought low, and if he wins a second term he will probably get what he wants.
The Feds have announced QE3!
We are closer to 3rd World Status.
A question that keeps crossing my addled brain is: Why any Ambassador would leave a secure (?) embassy and travel to a little protected consulate on 9-11? His knowledge or love of the muzzies wasn’t enough to protect him from his stupidity IMO.
@ Rodan:
Hey, if it’s good enough for Zimbabwe, it is good enough for our own home-grown Mugabe wannabe!
Iron Fist wrote:
If a conservative is a liberal that’s been mugged by reality, let’s hope that a lot of liberals realize in November how thoroughly they’ve been Mugabed.
Iron Fist wrote:
Mugabe Lite, less filling!
Osprey knows how to do it!
@ Iron Fist:
Not a lot of difference between the Chicago Way and the Zimbab Way.
Meanwhile, King Putt is raffling off the chance to meet with him and Beyonce and her husband, Joe Camel.
You can’t make this shit up.
Tanker wrote:
My understanding is that he went there with a team to evacuate the consulate staff and take them back to the embassy in Tripoli.
Not sure why he decided to personally tag along, if the situation was bad enough to warrant an evacuation.
Rodan wrote:
perfect
As if CAIR has a right to call anyone else a “hate group”:
@ Rodan:
Rodan, look at #35…..
Rodan wrote:
Isn’t “qualitative easing” a more-palatable way of saying “printing reams of worthless money to buy back our own debt?”
@ The Osprey:
and who is “Drew” ?
Wow…even Kirsten Powers says that the Romney media pile-on is “insane.”
buzzsawmonkey wrote:
Yes…yes it is.
lobo91 wrote:
She has numerous periods of reasonableness….
@ buzzsawmonkey:
In this case I think they are going to be buying mortgage backed securities with at least part of it, so it is another bank bailout without being called that. Lovely. More crony socialism at work.
@ 6 Iron Fist: Any general that fails to arm his troops and defenders is an idiot. Rather at an embassy or not. It puts a huge sense of fail into the mindset. And it is a total absence of leadership. If a person can’t lead a troop to not fire their weapon blindly, then they can’t lead at all. They should step down and get out of the way of someone who can. I believe Panetta had all troops listening to him in Afhanistan neutered so. If someone screws up, deal with it professionally. Don’t be a coward like Eric Holder.
lobo91 wrote:
I also heard that, but also heard that the Marines were still in Tripoli. Wouldn’t an evacuation require a suitable security force and an absence of putting more important personnel at risk. Stupidity seems to be the main requirement in running anything in this administration.
The military attache should have stopped his departure from the embassy or strongly advised against his going, which may have happened but I even question that with the military PC these days!
@ lobo91:
Yeah, CAIR wanted to condemn the murders of the ambassador and his staff, and I am Queen of the May.
No they wanted another chance to yammer about this phony mo-hamhead movie and “religious intolerance” against muzz.
Obviously, any news organization that might possibly see through their facade had to excluded.
@ 11 citizen_q: Michael Totten makes great points about freedoms in the US and why we shouldn’t walk on eggs and babysit the totalitarian methods in these islamic states. It’s our freedom. It’s a cornestone of who we are as a country. When a leader states otherwise and fails to reinforce that freedom he dilutes democracy the world over and favors bullies.
@ buzzsawmonkey:
Oh, I missed that one. But it brings up a rather salient point -- didn’t President “my Christian faith” at one point actually make some dumbass statement about standing with the Muslims in a circumstance of some sort. I’ll have to look that one up.
@ Tanker:
It would if I were in charge of it.
But what do I know…I’m just a lowly sergeant major, not a career foreign service officer.
@ 64 Alberta Oil Peon: That is like an alcholic saying they never liked alcohol.
Guggi wrote:
Drew is the guy who runs Weasel Zippers and known to his blog mates as Zip.
Does anyone think Obama can criticize Islam as tersely as he does Romney?
Carolina Girl wrote:
It was, I believe, in
Composites from Bill AyersDreams from My Father that he is said to have said that.Carolina Girl wrote:
It was in one of his books.
@ 69 huckfunn: Well anyone who can apply a zipper to a weasel has to be one tough SOB. And to do it more than once. Sounds like a calling from G-d
@ Carolina Girl:
He said that if an “ill wind blows in America, I will stand with th eMuslims”. Theoretically talking about when America rounds up all the Muzz and puts them in camps, I guess, but what he really meant was that he stands with the Muzz whenever they are pissed off at America, which is continually. The fucker is on the same side as the enemy.
buzzsawmonkey wrote:
Well, how about buying some silver if you find gold too expensive. You can’t print that either. You (and everybody else I know) are aware of my views. After a decade, I say “So far, so good.”
darkwords wrote:
I think you mean, “Does anyone think Obama can criticize Islam
as tersely as he does Romney?”@ Iron Fist:
No, he is the enemy.
lobo91 wrote:
As I’m just a retired 1SG and it became obvious in my last year I no longer fitted in with any brass above 1LT.
@ darkwords:
Weasel Zippers has a post about some moron that believes we should jail the moviemaker. What scary is she is a university professor -- teaching in AMERICA. Must be related to that Civics-impaired teacher in North Carolina.
Story here: http://weaselzippers.us/2012/09/13/upenn-professor-doubles-down-writes-usa-today-op-ed-calling-for-arrest-of-mohammed-movie-filmmakers/#disqus_thread
lobo91 wrote:
Must be because ‘kissing up to idiots’ is not in your personality profile. /
@ Tanker:
Hi! How are you doing?
@ yenta-fada:
We need a third — because the first two didn’t work out so well. Getting Bernacke away from the money supply will be a real first step on the road to recovery. TARP was his big brainchild.
@ yenta-fada:
Not in my job description, either.
@ Carolina Girl:
Leftism is a mental disease. She shouldn’t be jailed, though. She should be hospitalized. Indefinately…
Interesting new ad. Siegfried’s Funeral March is a nice touch and adds an ominous tone.
@ yenta-fada:
Doing good! Reading mostly, will comment some when my ire is raised!
Hope all is well with you
@ Carolina Girl:
“Jail him” on what charge?
Someone should remind this “associate professor of religion” that this isn’t Pakistan. We don’t have laws on the books against “blasphemy” or “insulting Islam.”
lobo91 wrote:
Oh yeah. He has all the intelligence (when he bothers to check it out)
from the various alphabet agencies. Scary thought in itself.
@ huckfunn:
I liked reading Weasel Zippers, and one of the best parts was reading the comments there. Some very funny, sarcastic comments, almost as good as AOS. But Zip got attacked somehow, and responded by using Disqus as his commenting engine. You have to register with Disqus to comment there. And you have to register with Disqus to comment at a great many MSM sites. That gives the forces of evil a great tool to identify anonymous commenters, doesn’t it? It wouldn’t surprise me to learn that the owners of Disqus arranged the attack on Zip in order to force him into the fold. “Nice little blog you’ve got there, pity anything should happen to it.”
Zip is basically dead to me, now. I’ll follow a link there, to read his headlines, but I can’t even see the comments.
Tanker wrote:
I am still here.
Your ire will not likely fade as events continue to go out of control. Canada has leadership, but we are so small.
@ Alberta Oil Peon:
I follow a couple of other blogs who have had to go to discus. It’s not just WZ. It’s a drag because you can’t easily go back to check earlier comments since you have to keep downloading the new ones.
lobo91 wrote:
I think it’s in invisible ink on every employment contract in the world.
@ Alberta Oil Peon:
I don’t like the Disqus format either, but I don’t comment very often so it’s no big deal to me. I love Zip’s headlines and his comments are always brief but right on the money. I might shoot him an email and remind him that there are quite a few people who don’t like the Disqus format.
@ Iron Fist:
he has lived up that promise!
New Thread.
@ yenta-fada:
How the Hell can you be anonymous, if you have to register with a central vetting authority for commenters? It’s positively Orwellian. I can see how some bloggers would take the path of least resistance, and be assimilated by the Borg.
We need some investigative bloggers to find out what’s behind the curtain. It might be entirely innocent and non-partisan, but the concentration of all that information on commenters’ I.D. will be a tempting treat for hackers to try to exploit.
Question to admins: has Disqus tried to sell their services to you?
@ Alberta Oil Peon:
Bull!
They are just going to whine about a backlash that won’t happen, but is justly deserved.
@ huckfunn:
I did that, never got a reply. I was a rare commenter there; maybe he didn’t think it mattered.
Anthea Butler, the UPenn “professor of religion,” is barely literate, despite her Ph.D; read the tweets she sent out a couple of days ago that brought her to prominence.
It would be interesting to find out how far she “identifies with Islam.” It would be interesting to find out if she buys into the false-flag claim that the film she is decrying was “produced by an Israeli Jew with Jewish money.” It would be interesting to find out what her opinions are of Christianity, Judaism, Christians, Jews, and Israel—and of America, American history, and America’s place in the world.
I’d bet there would be some…interesting revelations.
@ yenta-fada:
Can Canada take over the US please?
@ Alberta Oil Peon:
No.
Benghazi consulate hit by IED in June. No increase in security.
In al-Qaeda stronghold, on 9/11, total security = locked doors, and four Libyan guards (one of whom betrayed the people in the consulate).
@ buzzsawmonkey:
@ lobo91:
That’s blather. It says she’s a moonbat, but we knew that. It’s the specifics I’d like to see.
@ Rodan:
You don’t want that. Our constitution is inferior to yours. It talks about all sorts of soft headed nonsense like “Human Rights”, and stuff like that.
@ huckfunn:
Thanks, huckfunn
buzzsawmonkey wrote:
Here’s her new book:
PaladinPhil wrote:
True, but we’re not actually using ours anymore.
@ buzzsawmonkey:
Just looking at her picture tells me she ain’t no Thomas Sowell. She’s got “angry lesbian woman of color” written all over her.
@ MacDuff:
@ lobo91:
She thinks Christians are dangerous and Muslims are the good guys. Like Buzz said, a moonbat. She shouldn’t be taken seriously by thinking people, though I daresay her students have standing to sue her for fraud for impersonating an educator.
@ Iron Fist:
I’m surprised that MSNBC or Current TV hasn’t offered her a show.
@ lobo91:
If that bigoted anti-American bitch is a “religious scholar”, I’m the fucking Chief Justice of the Supreme Court.
@ lobo91:
I’ll also predict this piece of shit tome goes the way of Mary Mapes’ brilliant expose into Rathergate -- the bargain bin in a week.