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Obama once dressed as
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The Obama Doctrine |
Col. Ralph Peters
says
that after a mere 100 days, the "Obama Doctrine," of hugging foes and
hurting friends, for our foreign and security policies has emerged. And
it's terrifying.
The combination of dizzying naiveté, dislike of
our allies, disdain for our military, distrust of our intelligence
services and distaste for our own country promises the worst foreign
policy of our lifetimes.
That includes President Jimmy Carter's
abysmal record of failure.
The core tenets of the Obama Doctrine
to date would make a charter member of the Weather Underground cheer:
We're to blame. If there are problems anywhere, they're
America's fault. This central conviction of leftist ideology appears to
have soaked so thoroughly into our president's consciousness during his
lengthy friendships with extremists that it's now second nature to him.
Problems can be negotiated away. From Somali pirates to Moscow's
belligerency, Obama and his Cabinet see a good chat as the best response
to a challenge. Our president got to the Oval Office by talking, not
doing, and his faith in his powers of persuasion is unlimited.
An acquaintance who may have our government's best grasp of the Russians
shakes his head at the tone in Washington. The current mantra: "We have
to get over our Cold War thinking." Great -- except that it's the
Russians who've revived Cold War hostility.
The Taliban devours
Pakistan, and we want to talk. President Hugo Chavez destroys
Venezuela's democracy, and we want to talk. Iran pursues nuclear weapons
with refreshed enthusiasm . . . and we want to talk.
Problems
that can't be talked out can be bought off. Pakistan, a nuke-armed state
of 170 million Muslims seething with anti-Americanism stirred up by our
"friends," faces a crack-up as its once-monolithic military splinters. Obama's answer? Send billions of dollars that will disappear and weapons
that may soon be used against our troops.
Secretary of State
Hillary Clinton thinks the solution to piracy is a generous program to
rebuild Somalia. (Been there, done that.) She'd also like to hand Hamas
a billion bucks.
The "Las Vegas law" applies: You can buy sex
but not enduring love. We can't defeat terror with welfare checks. |
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Here's A Surprise |
Congress
signed off on Obama's $3.6 trillion budget largely along party lines
Wednesday night, handing him a legislative victory that paves the way
for a health care overhaul.
The Senate cleared the plan by a vote
of 53 to 43 after the House passed it 223 to 193. Not a single
Republican in either chamber voted for the measure. Democratic
defections included Sens. Evan Bayh of Indiana, Robert C. Byrd of West
Virginia, Ben Nelson of Nebraska and Pennsylvania's former Republican
Sen. Arlen Specter, all of whom joined 17 House Democrats in voting no.
The budget -- a nonbinding resolution meant to guide congressional
spending -- includes a fast-track provision that would block a Senate
filibuster on Obama's bid to transform the health care system, as
well as his plan to change student lending.
the blueprint
preserves many of Obama's initiatives and tees up efforts by
congressional committees to expand government-subsidized health care. It
also implements an administration-backed plan to cap greenhouse gas
emissions, though it stipulates that the final budget specify how to
finance both reforms. Because health care was included under a
procedural mechanism known as "reconciliation," Obama's health care
plan will require only 51 votes to pass the Senate.
It appears that socialized
healthcare is now a fait
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Delay And Deny |
Government lawyers defending
President Obama and Congress in a lawsuit alleging that he's ineligible
to occupy the Oval Office and that members of the House and Senate
violated the constitutional rights of citizens by refusing to
investigate want still
more time to respond to the accusations.
The case raises many of the same arguments as dozens of other lawsuits
that have flooded into courtrooms around the nation since the November
election.
It was filed in January by attorney Mario Apuzzo of
New Jersey on behalf of Charles F. Kerchner Jr., Lowell T. Patterson,
Darrell James Lenormand and Donald H. Nelson Jr. It names as defendants
Barack Hussein Obama II, the U.S., Congress, the Senate, House of
Representatives and former Vice President Dick Cheney along with House
Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
Even though extensions had been granted to
an initial round of requests to delay the proceedings, the government
now says it needs even more time to prepare a response to a question
that could be answered with a five-minute telephone call from Obama to
Hawaiian officials asking that his birth documentation be made public.
Instead, a request submitted by Ralph Marra Jr., the acting U.S.
attorney, and Elizabeth Pascal, the assistant U.S. attorney in New
Jersey, explains that the Department of Justice, operating under Obama
appointee Attorney General Eric Holder, still is working on a decision
on representation for the defendants.
"The failure to file an
answer, move, or to otherwise respond before the expiration of the time
specified is not the result of any neglect on any of the Defendants'
parts," the court filing submitted yesterday said.
"Representation decisions are made by a specialized group of individuals
in the Department of Justice in Washington, D.C. In order to provide a
fair opportunity for the Department to review this matter and to
complete the representation determinations, Defendants respectfully
request an extension of twenty (20) days from the date of this Order in
which to answer, move, or otherwise respond," the court filing said.
Continue reading
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Obama's Gaffes And Gimmicks |
Obama has
delivered on his promise of real change in at least one respect: The
volume of gaffes and miscues sputtering forth from his Oval Office is
unprecedented. For those who just can’t wait to hear what the
president’s teleprompter will say next,
here’s a NewsMax
recap of the Obama gaffe machine’s most remarkable-- and disturbing --
utterances.
NewsMax.com's
compilation is
worth taking a look at -- very well presented. |
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