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GUNRUNNER: The ‘Blame Bush’ Option Is Out

donttreadonme — Thu, 28 Apr 2011 22:25:19 +0000

With Congressional investigators now on the ground in Arizona, as reported by CBS News and this column , new revelations about the controversial “Project Gunrunner” and its Phoenix off-shoot, “Operation Fast and Furious” are anticipated during the National Rifle Association convention, which opens here tomorrow, but one thing is clear from documents and interviews: This strategy only goes back to 2009, after the Obama administration took charge.

Now that the “birth certificate” distraction has been removed, perhaps reporters will start concentrating on the far more serious questions surrounding the Gunrunner controversy.

AS CBS News reported Tuesday, the strategy of “letting guns walk” out of Southwest gun shops began in late 2009. The Bush administration left in January 2009. The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives had been conducting “Gunrunner” activities on a limited basis prior to that, but the operation was dramatically expanded months after Obama administration officials, most notably Attorney General Eric Holder and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, had been discussing the number of U.S.-origin guns being recovered at Mexican narco-war crime scenes.-[source]

Obama’s assassination program

HGIC — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 14:31:10 +0000

George Bush’s decision merely to eavesdrop on American citizens without oversight, or to detain without due process Americans such as Jose Padilla and Yaser Hamdi, provoked years of vehement, vocal and intense complaints from Democrats and progressives. All of that was disparaged as Bush claiming the powers of a King, a vicious attack on the Constitution, a violation of Our Values, the trampling on the Rule of Law.

Yet here you have Barack Obama not merely eavesdropping on or detaining Americans without oversight, but ordering them killed with no oversight and no due process of any kind. And the reaction among leading Democrats and progressives is largely non-existent, which is why Olbermann’s extensive coverage of it is important. Just imagine what the reaction would have been among progressive editorial pages, liberal opinion-makers and Democratic politicians if this story had been about George Bush and Dick Cheney targeting American citizens for due-process-free and oversight-less CIA assassinations.

The American Prospect‘s Adam Serwer has an interesting post reporting that civil rights groups have issued a joint letter opposing the closing of Guantanamo if it means — as the Obama administration has suggested — that Guantanamo and its defining injustices will simply be re-located to U.S. soil. As part of his reporting, Serwer writes this:

[B]road assertions of executive power haven’t even been limited to the last administration. Instead, we’ve seen the powers of the president expand, with the Obama administration asserting the right to assassinate American citizens without any due process or finding of guilt whatsoever.

From a civil libertarian point of view, we’re in a much worse place than we were during the Bush administration, when Democrats were willing to oppose Bush’s expansive claims of executive authority. Now we have only muted criticism from Democratic legislators and hysterical cries from Republicans that Obama isn’t going far enough.

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Obama’s conference call with our enemies

HGIC — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 17:03:48 +0000

RealClearPolitics obtained the following fake transcript of an utterly fictitous conference call between Barack Obama, Kim Jong-Il, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Hugo Chávez.

[BEGIN TRANSCRIPT]

Barack Obama: Good morning. We have on the phone the Supreme Leader of the DPRK—

Kim Jong-Il: Mr. President, Dear Leader is fine. And I received your letter last week. Thank you for including the Obama “change the world” t-shirt. I’m going to wear it in my latest film. It’s about my epic life. I’ve kidnapped all the best talent in Asia for supporting cast. Did you know that a double rainbow and a bright star appeared over the mountaintop when I was born? I’m the sun of my nation.

Obama: I’ve read that. Ok. Let’s get started. Also on the line are President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran and President Hugo Chávez of Venezuela.

Hugo Chávez: Hello Barack! Did you read the book I gave you?

Obama: Not yet. But thank you. Ok gentlemen, it’s late — 2:50 a.m.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad: It’s only 2:50 in Washington. Imperialist. And that’s not a big deal. I launch Sajjil-2 missiles with my eyes close at that time. Really, I did the other day. Closed my eyes.

Obama: Let’s not talk of missiles. I wanted to speak to all of you before our New Year—

Jong-Il: Yes, you promised to visit us.

Obama: Not exactly—

Jong-Il: No! You did. I watch YouTube! I have the transcript from the 2007 primary debate. You were asked if you’d, “meet separately, without precondition, during the first year of your administration … with the leaders of Iran, Syria, Venezuela, Cuba and North Korea.” You replied, “I would.” But you don’t. You pal around with us terrorists. We cheer your candidacy, and all I have is this lousy Obama t-shirt!

Obama: Look, I screwed up. I changed that statement during the general election, however.

Ahmadinejad: Oh, I hear you. I always talk crazy. I call for the destruction of Israel. Everyone makes a big deal. Luckily, western left does not take me seriously. Except, when I spoke at your Columbia University of how, “In Iran, we don’t have homosexuals, like in your country.” Your political left was upset. But comments about destruction of a nation, not so much.

Obama: Was it Howard Dean who was upset? He’s on my case now.

Jong-Il: You should imprison Dean.

Obama: If only—

Ahmadinejad: Death to Israel! Death to America!

Chávez: Mahmoud! It’s just us here. What are you doing?

Ahmadinejad: Sorry. Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei walked by. I have to sound like a pitbull.

Obama: With lipstick? Nevermind. Let me just say—

Chávez: Mahmoud, I told you when we last saw each other, don’t let Khamenei bully you.

Jong-Il: Saw each other. You always exclude me! I help your nuclear program—

Chávez: Kim, sorry. We’re close friends. I have made six trips to Iran. We walk, hold hands and talk about serving the people by destroying democratic movements. The green revolution!

Ahmadinejad: Ahem, there was no green revolution. Those young people were Zionist agents.

Obama: Look, we know they were Iranians. I publicly held my tongue as a gesture. I’m making gestures. No more “axis of evil.” No more “war on terror.”

Ahmadinejad: Enough already, we get it, you’re not Bush … But you talk gestures. You don’t visit. You never call. You’ve hardly written. And now you wrote Kim a letter.

Obama: You told everyone about my earlier letter. These things must be kept quiet. … We’re off subject. Let me be clear: we need Iran to send 1,200 kilograms of your low-enriched uranium to Russia in one batch. Delays make me look bad. And then you say you’ll enrich uranium to a far higher level. I need change I can believe in.

Jong-Il: That was a good line, by the way. But it’s delay and enrich. Mahmoud learned from me. Now you’re scared of me. Like a little baby. It’s why you’re also afraid of going big into Pakistan to get Osama, because Pakistan has the bomb too. And yes, I helped there too.

Obama: Is that true Mr. Ahmadinejad, are you delaying to get the bomb?

Ahmadinejad: No.

Obama: Cool.

Phone operator: Mr. President, we have an emergency breakthrough from the Salahis.

Obama: Get the Salahis off the line. How do I know I can trust you Mr. Ahmadinejad? I need verification.

Ahmadinejad: You’re just like Bush!

Obama: No I’m not. I trust you. But to get crazy Cheney off my back, I need verification. You must deescalate or we’ll pass another UN resolution. Maybe really push sanctions, cut your ties with banks.

Ahmadinejad: Blah blah. The bomb will change everything. And we have China and Russia on Security Council. You won’t act without the group. Too Bush like. And once we have bomb you will treat us well. Perhaps I will get one of those Obama t-shirts.

Jong-Il: This is why your Afghan war is good. In early 2003, Bush-Cheney was fixated on Iraq to get WMDs. That’s when we made our big moves and got our WMDs. I know strategy. I’ve been doing this since you were a socialist worker in Chicago, Mr. President—

Obama: That’s community organizer.

Chávez: Mahmoud, stop. Remember what Michael Moore told me. We must speak nicely. Say how we are filled with hope.

Jong-Il: Moore wrote your last UN speech, Hugo, and nothing for me? Moore even said on television you two drank tequila in a Venice Film Festival hotel room. Moore never visits me in my hotel room.

Obama: This conversation is going nowhere. I need a firm gesture from you.

Ahmadinejad: Ah. Your end of year deadline for us to show a “good-faith effort.” I thought, no preconditions. I cannot meet your deadline.

Obama: Oh well, not even Democrats sweat my deadlines. But I’m a Nobel laureate now. I’m joking. Hold on. … Bernie Sanders, Howard Dean and Keith Olbermann are outside the White House gates, calling my plan a sellout. They’re actually protesting me. Joe Biden is now tossing eggs at them. And I’m getting nowhere with you Mr. Ahmadinejad. It’s 3 a.m. and cold and this is a mess.

Jong-Il: I told you, imprison them.

Obama: Hillary!

[End Transcript]

The War On Terror

donttreadonme — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 06:28:55 +0000

by donttreadonme, link written by others,

I don’t see the War On Terror ever coming to an end, until all countries eliminate the threat within their own borders. I’m shocked to see Syria become a safe haven for jihadists. For one, Khadaffi, while standing in a puddle of his own wee watching the Twin Towers fall, called President Bush at The White House denying responsibility for that days events, informing Dubya of Syria’s full cooperation hunting down those responsible.

The Syrian leader must’ve remembered Reagan’s wrath, another cowboy Republican that wouldn’t let anyone step on the toes of Americans……….

military.com

When the Press Favors Secrecy

HGIC — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 06:27:50 +0000

When conservatives are wrong, conservatives are wrong. When liberals are wrong, everyone does it, don’t you know?

Here’s a dirty little secret about The New York Times: It likes to leak things. Important things. Things that change the course of the public conversation. From the Pentagon Papers to the ruined terrorist-surveillance programs of the Bush era, the Times has routinely found that secrecy is a danger and sunlight is a disinfectant.

Until now. A troublesome hacker recently released e-mails going to and from the Climate Research Unit at the University of East Anglia in Britain, e-mails that exposed how the “scientific experts” cited so often by the media on global warming are guilty of crude political talk, attempts at censoring opponents and twisting scientific data to support their policy agenda.

The e-mails prove just how dishonest this left-wing global warming agenda truly is. And now suddenly, The New York Times has found religion and won’t publish these private e-mails. Environmental reporter Andrew Revkin, who’s more global warming lobbyist than reporter, quoted — sparsely — from the e-mails, but declared he would not post these texts on his “Dot Earth” blog on the Times website: “The documents appear to have been acquired illegally and contain all manner of private information and statements that were never intended for the public eye, so they won’t be posted here.”

http://patriotpost.us/opinion/l-brent-bozell/2009/11/25/when-the-press-favors-secrecy/

News flash from the year 2035

HGIC — Sat, 04 Dec 2004 04:17:33 +0000

Castro finally dies at age 112; Cuban cigars can now be imported legally, but President Chelsea Clinton has banned all smoking.

Ozone created by electric cars now killing millions in the seventh largest country in the world, California.

White minorities still trying to have English recognized as California’s third language.

Spotted Owl plague threatens northwestern United States crops and livestock.

Baby conceived naturally… Scientists stumped.

Couple petitions court to reinstate heterosexual marriage.

Last remaining Fundamentalist Muslim dies in the American Territory of the Middle East (formerly known as Iran, Afghanistan, Syria, and Lebanon).

Iraq still closed off; physicists estimate it will take at least ten more years before radioactivity decreases to safe levels.

France pleads for global help after being overtaken by Jamaica.

George Z. Bush says he will run for President in 2036.

Postal Service raises price of first class stamp to $17.89 and reduces mail delivery to Wednesday only.

35 year study: Diet and Exercise is the key to weight loss.

Average weight of Americans drops to 250 lbs.

Massachusetts executes last remaining conservative.

Supreme Court rules punishment of criminals violates their civil rights.

Average height of NBA players now nine feet, seven inches.

New federal law requires that all nail clippers, screwdrivers, fly swatters, and rolled up newspapers must be registered by January 2036.

Congress authorizes direct deposit of illegal political contributions to campaign accounts.

Capitol Hill intern indicted for refusing to have sex with congressman.

IRS sets lowest tax rate at 75%.

Florida Democrats still don’t know how to use a voting machine.