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Barack Obama, Pantywaist Obama has recently completed the most successful foreign policy tour since Napoleon's retreat from Moscow.  You name it, he blew it.  What was his big deal economic program that he was determined to drive through the G20 summit?  Another massive stimulus package, globally funded and coordinated.  Did he achieve it?  Not so as you'd notice.

Obama is not the first New World ingénue to discover that European leaders will load him with praise, struggle sycophantically to be photographed with him and outdo him in Utopian rhetoric.  But when it comes to the critical moment of opening their wallets -- suddenly it is flag-day in Aberdeen.  Okay, put the G20 down to inexperience, beginner's nerves, what you will.

On to NATO and the next big objective: to persuade the same European evasion experts that America, Britain and Canada should no longer bear the brunt of the Afghan struggle virtually unassisted.  The Old World sucked through its teeth, said that was asking a lot -- but, seeing it was Obama, to whom they could refuse nothing, they would graciously accede to his wishes.

So The One retired triumphant, having secured a massive contribution of 5,000 extra troops -- all of them non-combatant, of course -- which must really have put the wind up the Taliban, at the prospect of 5,000 more infidel cooks and bottle-washers swarming into the less hazardous regions of Afghanistan.

Then came the dramatic bit, the authentic West Wing script, with the President wakened in the middle of the night in Prague to be told that Kim Jong-il had just launched a Taepodong-2 missile.  America had Aegis destroyers tracking the missile and could have shot it down.  But Uncle Sam had a sterner reprisal in store for l'il ole Kim (as Dame Edna might call him): a multi-megaton strike of Obama hot air.

"Rules must be binding," declared Obama, referring to the fact that Kim had just breached UN Resolutions 1695 and 1718.  "Violations must be punished."  (Sounds ominous.)  "Words must mean something."  (Why, Obama? They never did before, for you -- as a cursory glance at your many speeches will show.)

This pantywaist is hopping mad and he has a strategy to cut Kim down to size: he is going to slice $1.4bn off America's missile defense prograe, presumably on the calculation that Kim would feel it unsporting to hit a sitting duck, so that will spoil his fun.

Watch out, France and Company, there is a new surrender monkey on the block and, over the next four years, he will spectacularly sell out the interests of the West with every kind of liberal-delusionist initiative on nuclear disarmament and sitting down to negotiate with any power freak who wants to buy time to get a good ICBM fix on San Francisco, or wherever.  If you thought the world was a tad unsafe with Dubya around, just wait until this pantywaist gets into his stride.
Obama Stymied By Pirates A ragtag band of pirates has put Obama in a bind.   He commands overwhelming firepower in the form of a growing flotilla of U.S. warships, but he doesn't want to use it.
 
Obama, choosing to say nothing about this "annoying distraction," has decided to turn a military situation over to FBI hostage negotiators, as Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton incorrectly identified the pirates as common criminals, saying, "These people are nothing more than criminals."

They are not criminals, they are pirates, and the distinction is thousands of years old.

Our problem with pirates is the same as the one with al Qaeda et al.  We have extended legal rights to people who do not deserve them.  We need to return to an important distinction first made by the Romans and subsequently incorporated into international law by way of medieval and early modern European jurisprudence, e.g. Grotius and Vattel.

The Romans distinguished between bellum, war against legitimus hostis, a legitimate enemy, and guerra, war against latrunculi -- pirates, robbers, brigands, and outlaws -- "the common enemies of mankind."

The former, bellum, became the standard for interstate conflict, and it is here that the Geneva Conventions and other legal protections were meant to apply.  They do not apply to the latter, guerra -- indeed, punishment for latrunculi traditionally has been summary execution.  Until recently, no international code has extended legal protection to pirates.

So first, we should revive that distinction.  When they are caught, pirates, and al-Qaeda, should be summarily hanged or shot -- not tried in open court.
Obama Reaches Out to Moderate Pirate Community Jon, at Exurbanleague.com reports that after maintaining his silence for two days, Obama will soon make his first public statement about the pirate attack upon an U.S.-flagged vessel off the Horn of Africa.  After several inquiries and a few well-placed bribes, Exurban League has received an early transcript of the Obama's remarks:

 

Good evening.  As you know, early yesterday, Somali-based pirates attacked the Maersk Alabama, a freighter carrying relief supplies to Kenya.  While we do not yet know all the details, the Alabama's crew re-took control of the vessel and forced the pirates off the ship.

Since the pirates are still holding the captain, I have sent FBI negotiators to facilitate his safe and speedy release.  I assure his friends and family that I will not stop until this man-made disaster is resolved in a peaceful, tolerant and ecologically-sound manner.

Obviously, this incident has raised many concerns among Americans.  There have been calls for justice and even violence against the misguided perpetrators.  But such an emotional reaction has led to the disparagement of entire groups with which we are unfamiliar.  We have seen this throughout history.

For too long, America has been too dismissive of the proud culture and invaluable contributions of the Pirate Community.  Whether it is their pioneering work with prosthetics, husbandry of tropical birds or fanciful fashion sense, America owes a deep debt to Pirates.

The past eight years have shown a failure to appreciate the historic role of these noble seafarers.  Instead of celebrating their entrepreneurial spirit and seeking to partner with them to meet common challenges, there have been times where America has shown arrogance and been dismissive, even derisive.

Some of us wonder if our current Overseas Contingency Operation would even be needed had the last administration not been so quick to label Pirates as "thieves," "terrorists" and worse.  Such swashbucklaphobia can lead to tragic results, as we have seen this week.

To address this issue, I have instructed Vice President Joe Biden to create a cabinet-level Czar of Pirate Outreach and Buccaneer Interrelation.  In addition, June 1-7 has been designated as Pirate Awareness Week, during which all federal buildings will fly the Jolly Roger and sponsor sensitivity training.  Thankfully, my American Recovery and Reinvestment Act will fund free grog and hard tack for all attendees.

Finally, to all pirates listening to international broadcasts, shortwave services and ship-to-shore radio, let me say this:

Ahoy, me regret arr relationship has set sail in a scurvy manner.  Arr people share many mutual 'alues and concerns on t' raging main.  Perchance, could ye handsomely release the cap'n o' the ship and I assure that no harm will come t' ye or ye hearties.  Let us smite t' reset button and launch our seabond on a new pegleg.  Savvy?  Godspeed t' ye and t' ye beauties.  Aye, me parrot concurs.

 

Since this is so highly believable, I feel obliged to identify the above as humor.
Obama Says America Enriched By Islam Obama, who made a point of being introduced to the Turkish Nation as "Barack Hussein Obama," was quoted as saying that, "the United States has been enriched by Muslim Americans," including his ancestors.

The following is a list of the Muslim accomplishments that have enriched America:

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Obama Defends Warrantless Wiretaps The Kansas Citian reminds us that the Bush administration took much heat for their secret plans to conduct warrantless wiretaps on calls initiated from outside of the United States.  NSA and communications carrier systems scan phone calls, emails, and who knows what else for the purported purpose of uncovering terrorist plots to attack America.

Using evidence from a whistle blower within At&t, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) filed a lawsuit against At&t for liability in the unconstitutional and illegal spying program.  Obama, US Senator at the time, was one of the most outspoken Democrat critics on the issue.  While campaigning for the office of the President in August 2007, he had this to say:

"I will provide our intelligence and law enforcement agencies with the tools they need to track and take out the terrorists without undermining our Constitution and our freedom."

"That means no more illegal wire-tapping of American citizens.  No more national security letters to spy on citizens who are not suspected of a crime.  No more tracking citizens who do nothing more than protest a misguided war.  No more ignoring the law when it is inconvenient.  That is not who we are.  And it is not what is necessary to defeat the terrorists."

But in summer of 2008, with moment on his side, Obama realized he was destined for the White House and his opinion on warrantless wiretaps and their constitutionality reversed.  He, along with the Democrat majority in the Senate and House, voted in favor of and passed a bill that not only legally authorized warrantless wiretaps, but gave At&t immunity.

This law brought the EFF's lawsuit to an abrupt halt. Democrats defended this by saying that the real culprit is the US government and the correct defendant should be the government and not At&t.

The Obama Administration, now in power, has not only fully embraced the practice of warrantless wiretaps, but they've moved to assert that not only does the government have the right to commit warrantless wiretapping, but the People have no right to sue the government for violating their constitutional rights.

Then there's the  Cybersecurity Act of 2009, which goes far beyond anything ever contemplated by the Bush administration.  The most controversial provisions are Sec. 18 (2), which gives Obama authority to shut down all or any portions of the internet that he may designate as "critical infrastructure information systems and networks," and Sec. 14 (b)(1), which gives the Secretary of Commerce access to "all relevant data concerning such networks without regard to any provision of law, regulation, rule, or policy restricting such access."  Critics have interpreted this clause as giving the Secretary the ability to access, without any sort of search warrant, any internet communication.  That looks like a reasonable interpretation, as long as Obama has designated the network "critical infrastructure," which he has unfettered (and unguided) discretion to do.

There is no doubt in my military mind that Obama will use this power against his domestic enemies, unlike Bush who applied this power only to our foreign enemies.
Doubt About Obama Eligibility Spreads The concern over Obama's eligibility to be president under the U.S. Constitution's demand that the office be occupied by a "natural born" citizen is spreading, with additional writers conceding questions remain about the dispute.

"Yes, there were ambiguities about Obama's birth certificate that have never been satisfactorily resolved.  And the embargo on Obama's educational records remains troubling," wrote Camille Paglia, a progressive author and columnist at Salon.com.

"The buck stops with the top executive. But we all know how little executive experience Barack Obama has had.  At a certain point, however, Obama will face an inescapable administrative crux.  Arriving at the White House, he understandably stayed in his comfort zone by bringing old friends and allies with him …. But these comrades may not have the practical skills or broad perspective to help Obama govern," wrote Paglia.

Citing "one needless gaffe after another," including the "embarrassing incident" in which Obama bowed to the king of Saudi Arabia, she wrote about the "ambiguities" about his birth certificate and the "troubling" status of Obama's concealed educational records.

Salon's Alex Koppelman wrote, "You might think these rumors would have died off... Instead, they've intensified."

Talk radio host and Newsmax columnist Barry Farber said, "Watergate was Nixon's 800-pound gorilla everybody talked about, who sat there until he broke the sofa," he penned.  "The location of Obama's birth is an 800-pound gorilla that gets fatter every day and nobody -- at least nobody in major media -- likes to admit its existence.  There's never been a coming-together of factors resembling this one in America's entire political history.

"The question of Obama's birth place threatens to undermine his very eligibility to serve, and to toss America into a constitutional crisis of unfathomable proportions," he said.

"The American people may not be all we used to be, but we're not yet ready to roll over and smile at the sight of a confection designed to masquerade as a birth certificate while we're being angrily denied a look at the real thing," he wrote.

More here . . .
Hollister Case Appealed Philip J. Berg, Esq. is the first attorney who filed suit against Barack H. Obama challenging Senator Obama's lack of Constitutional "qualifications/eligibility" to serve as President of the United States.  His cases are still pending.  Berg  announced today that an appeal has been filed in the Hollister case for several reasons.

The decision by Judge Robertson in dismissing Berg's case showed further his bias as he made statements that were totally untrue and no evidence thereof had been presented.  Specifically, Judge Robertson stated how Obama’s citizenship has been "vetted, blogged, texted, twittered" during the two years of his campaign.  This statement regarding Obama is  outrageous as Obama was never vetted or otherwise questioned.

Further, Judge Robertson keeps referring to Obama being "native-born," a new term in the efforts to justify Obama’s "natural born" citizenship.  The Constitution and all lawsuits attempting to discover the truth about Obama refer to the words in the Constitution, that being "Natural Born."

Without testimony being presented, Judge Robertson decided Berg's Interpleader case was "frivolous," a decision that he completely differs with.

Judge Robertson referred to attorney Joyce and Berg as "agents provocateurs."  Berg says he is honored by this designation because it shows that his team determined to expose the HOAX of Obama, the greatest HOAX upon the citizens of the United States in the history of our country, over 230 years.

Update on Berg's three pending cases here . . .

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