Well that was quick! Nobel for Obama
Friday, October 9th, 2009 | Obama and the Dems
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The Nobel committee announced today that Obama won the Peace Prize due to his “extraordinary efforts” at global diplomacy. They praised him for creating “a new climate in international politics” and for his efforts at nuclear arms reduction.
Interestingly one journalist today wrote, “Obama’s name was rarely mentioned as a potential candidate for the award.”
Here is what the Nobel Committee had to say › Continue reading
What the Russians thought of Obama
Thursday, October 8th, 2009 | Obama and the Dems
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I recently came across a survey from the Levada Center in Russia. One of the questions that was asked right before the US presidential vote was:
“What are your feelings towards the victory of Barack Obama, a representative of the African American minority, in the US presidential elections?”
Here were the options and results (by%):
Admiration 5
Content 15
Surprise 16
Envy 0,4
Irritation 2
Indignation 1
No special feelings 57
Not sure 3
(N=1600)
The categories make for a fun list. Especially since we don’t often get to see the the options of “envy” or “indignation” on political surveys.
In Russian:
Восхищение 5
Удовлетворение 15
Удивление 16
Зависть 0,4
Раздражение 2
Возмущение 1
Никаких особых чувств 57
Затруднились ответить 3
Will Obama’s Olympic Gambit work?
Wednesday, September 30th, 2009 | Obama and the Dems
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On this one he has a bit more public support than on healthcare.
Note to reporter: don’t read from the script it makes you seem like a girltard. Someone once said that “broads don’t belong in broadcasting” — but I saw Anchorman so I know what female reporters are capable of…you can do better.
Don’t Apologize, Act
Sunday, September 27th, 2009 | Obama and the Dems
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Here is a comment published in a British newspaper yesterday (Guardian p26), it was attributed to Judith Miller, but I think it was probably first penned by Clive Stafford Smith earlier this summer in relation to the alleged torture of prisoners:
Obama tells the world that we should ‘look forward, not backwards.’ The slogan is bizarre. How should the victim feel when we tell him that we are going to look only forward? We won’t admit what we did to him, and we won’t even say we’re sorry?
Something about the quote grates against me. On one hand it reads like just another liberal gagging to flaunt their left-wing credentials, but on the other hand it feels like an intentional mis-reading of Obama and American politics.
Often the liberal knee-jerk reaction is › Continue reading
“Obama really a robot”
Friday, September 25th, 2009 | Obama and the Dems
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Barack Obama’s amazingly consistent smile from Eric Spiegelman on Vimeo.
This video was created by Eric Spiegelman, who wrote:
Ladies and gentlemen, your President is a robot. Or a wax sculpture. Maybe a cardboard cutout. All I know is no human being has a photo smile this amazingly consistent.
On Wednesday, the Obamas hosted a reception at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, during which they stood for 130 photographs with visiting foreign dignitaries in town for the UN meeting. The President has exactly the same smile in every single shot. See for yourself — the pictures are up on the State Department’s flickr (link below). And, of course, compressed into 20 seconds for your viewing pleasure.
The Times (of London) is thinking Obama could possibly be a robot
Exit Strategy for Afghanistan?
Sunday, September 27th, 2009 | Republicans
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“PropagandaBuster” questions the war in Afghanistan; suggests that when Obama says the healthcare plan will not cover illegal immigrants it is because the Left will “make all of the illegals legal”; wonders where all the homeless people have gone.
ACORN and Racism
Wednesday, September 23rd, 2009 | Republicans
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“drinkingwithbob” says that Obama, the media, and the left, is losing so they have resorted to playing the race card.
Is McCain misguided on missile defense?
Friday, September 18th, 2009 | Republicans
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This quote is from Voice of America News:
U.S. Republican Senator John McCain calls the change “seriously misguided.” He said the decision is a step backwards at a time when eastern European countries are increasingly wary of what he calls “renewed Russian adventurism.”
Was any one (except McCain) ever expecting that the missile defense system would have stopped a barrage of Russian missiles? Its ostensible purpose was to defend against possible Iranian missiles — a nation that would have significantly less fire power than Russia.
Taxpayer march on DC
Saturday, September 12th, 2009 | Republicans
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Highlights from the 9/12 Taxpayer Tea Party March on Washington, DC — by FrankStrategies
Wilson’s Address
Friday, September 11th, 2009 | Republicans
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Joe Wilson attempts to transfer his new found notoriety into a fund raising opportunity.
DoD Sec Robert Gates on the military option in Iran
Sunday, September 27th, 2009 | TV and text
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Defense Secretary Robert Gates said today on a CNN interview:
“The reality is, there is no military option that does anything more than buy time. The estimates are one to three years or so. And the only way you end up not having a nuclear-capable Iran is for the Iranian government to decide that their security is diminished by having those weapons, as opposed to strengthened.”
Evan Bayh: Iran only respects strength
Sunday, September 27th, 2009 | TV and text
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Bayh says that getting the Chinese on board to sanction Iran could take ages. Bob Corker speaks about the classified material he saw regarding the nuclear site, and also suggests that we try to stir-up “certain movements” in Iran. He does not find the missile test scheduled by Iran tomorrow to be a provocation.
Iran Nuclear Timeline
Saturday, September 26th, 2009 | TV and text
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Timeline of Iran’s nuclear ambitions from 1957 to 2007.
Condensed graphical chronology of Iran’s Nuclear developments 2002-2007
I didn’t realise the extent of US (and European) involvement in Iran’s pre-revolutionary nuclear program (see the first timeline). Between 1957 and the Iranian revolution in 1979 we all but forced nuclear technology down their throats — supplying the uranium, the plutonium, building the enrichment facilities, and even attempting to sell 8 reactors to Iran (a transaction that was only halted because the revolution got in the way). Thankfully, after the revolution, the Iran-Iraq war happened and Iraq managed to bomb many of Iran’s nascent nuclear projects. Of course, during the course of the Iran-Iraq war (1980-88) the US sold Iraq several anthrax cultures (and other pathogens) via the American Type Culture Collection. Then we spent the 1990s onward playing inspection games with both Iran (nuclear) and Iraq (bio-chemical) — which in neither case seem to have effectively curtailed the criminal ambitions of these nations.
Pure Iranian Vitriol
Friday, September 25th, 2009 | TV and text
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Wow — just listen to this Iranian journalist debate with former US under secretary of State, Nick Burns. During the clip (from sept 24th) the journalist even claims that international nuclear inspectors have had complete access to all of Iran’s facilities. With today’s announcement (Sept 25th) we now know that Iran had been hiding a key nuclear facility.
Iran, Secret Nuke Research?
Friday, September 25th, 2009 | TV and text
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In this clip we hear comments from a former key Israeli advisor.
In the clip below we here from Obama at the G20 summit today in Pittsburg - talking about Iran’s newly revealed Nuclear site. Obama says Iran is refusing to live up to its responsibilities and says the facility’s size and configuration is inconsistent with a peaceful program: › Continue reading
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