I disapprove of many of the things Barack Obama has done since he has been in office, and even more of several things he’s failed to do, but DAMN!, the man has style.
But, it's a dry crazy...
I was thinking about this the other day while reading about the Navy Seals rescuing the two hostages – an American woman and a Danish man – in Somalia the other day. They’d been kidnapped by Somali “pirates” (who can’t be called pirates any more since they got kicked off the ocean, basically, in another one of Obama’s understated military actions).
Of course, it was the Navy Seals who actually carried out this American Entebbe. One can’t expect the president to actually parachute into hostile territory in the middle of the night in a real life version of Call of Duty, and Barry’s not the type to strut across an aircraft carrier wearing a codpiece below a huge banner saying “Mission Accomplished,” but he made the call, after months of quiet, behind the scenes negotiations had failed.
I was reminded of the slogan of Theodore Roosevelt: speak softly and carry a big stick.
I was reminded of that again in the incident with Jan Brewer, Arizona’s governor. They had a little chat yesterday at Phoenix airport. Nobody was close enough to hear the actual conversation, and only Brewer is talking about it. It’s the finger wagging picture that’s got everybody talking.
Brewer wrote in her absurdly titled book, “Scorpions for Breakfast” that Obama, during a meeting at the White House, was condescending. That he’d lectured her like a schoolgirl. Well, what did she expect? He’s the president. She’s a governor. He’s younger, smarter, more eloquent and better looking than she is. It would be condescending if he weren’t condescending.
Obama told her (according to her) that he wasn’t happy with her characterization of the meeting. She said he was thin-skinned.
After watching him for over 3 years now, I must say I have never seen anybody with a thicker skin. He takes nonsense like this from a leather faced, bigoted old crone like Brewer and just moves on.
Speaking softly. He’ll bring down the big stick in November.
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You know what, Willy: that’s spoken by someone who lives comfortably in the Czech Republic: who gets to assuage a lifetime’s worth of white guilt with a little Obama “you go girl” crap. He has done absolutely NOTHING that he promised. All he’s done has been ‘be’ our country’s first (half) black president and that’s good enough for you. Wake up! I say: and smell the coffee. He said, “There are no Americans fighting in Iraq,” to open his BS SOTU speech whenever it was. LIE! 16K over-paid blood-thirsty (American) mercenaries still fighting there and we have no one on the ground to keep tabs any more: now that whistles have blown on deaf ears and troops have gone home. These shitheads make upwards of $1000 / day to murder people and act superior on YOUR behalf.
Reread your post and consider how crazily partisan it sounds: how ‘cult of personality’… Almost one million dead and you talk about a photo-op with two people and some starving pirates. When we attack Iran in less than a month – a country that:
1. Is NOT developing nuclear weapons;
2. Hasn’t attacked ANYONE in centuries;
3. Is surrounded by enemies and failed US-client states; and
4. Has the right to sell its oil for gold or goats or whatever in order to feed its people despite pointless sanctions;
5. THEN you can figure out how liberal (and peace-loving?) YOU and YOUR president think you are. And reconsider: Ron Paul 2012.
Thanks.
Ron Paul is, unfortunately, the odd man out within the Republican party. Jan Brewer is much more typical of them and so, in a conflict between her and Obama, of course I am going to side with Obama.
I don’t think that’s crazily partisan. Just normally partisan.