Keep in mind again, federal candidates, this was a war of Obama’s choosing. This is not something the United States had actively prosecuted or wanted to engage in. […] It was the president who was trying to be cute by half by flipping a script demonizing Iraq, while saying the battle really should be in Afghanistan. Well, if he’s such a student of history, has he not understood that you know that’s the one thing you don’t do, is engage in a land war in Afghanistan? All right, because everyone who has tried, over a thousand years of history, has failed. And there are reasons for that. There are other ways to engage in Afghanistan.
RNC Chair Michael Steele
And only slightly less well known is this: never go against a Sicilian when death is on the line!
(Also? The war in Afganistan started in 2001, when Obama was a state senator in Illinois.)
Posted: July 2, 2010 at 5:52 pm.
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© John Sherffius
Posted: December 1, 2009 at 11:58 am.
HOPE IS FADING FAST
Posted: November 24, 2009 at 1:04 pm.
© Mike Luckovich, October 09, 2009
Posted: October 12, 2009 at 10:56 am.
Through no fault of his own, Obama presides over a massive war-making state that spends on its military close to what the rest of the world spends combined. The U.S. accounts for almost 70% of worldwide arms sales. We’re currently occupying and waging wars in two separate Muslim countries and making clear we reserve the “right” to attack a third. Someone who made meaningful changes to those realities would truly be a man of peace. It’s unreasonable to expect that Obama would magically transform all of this in nine months, and he certainly hasn’t. Instead, he presides over it and is continuing much of it. One can reasonably debate how much blame he merits for all of that, but there are simply no meaningful “peace” accomplishment in his record — at least not yet — and there’s plenty of the opposite. That’s what makes this Prize so painfully and self-evidently ludicrous.
Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com
Posted: October 9, 2009 at 4:59 pm.
I’m always amazed — even though I know I shouldn’t be — at people’s capacity simply to block out events, literally refuse to acknowledge them, when they are inconsistent with their desire to believe things.
Posted: September 6, 2009 at 11:53 am.
Cheney Obama refuses to release visitor logs showing which energy health care company executives visited the White House.
Posted: July 22, 2009 at 8:10 pm.
It’s a press cliché that “gay supporters” are disappointed with Obama, but we should all be. Gay Americans aren’t just another political special interest group. They are Americans who are actively discriminated against by federal laws. If the president is to properly honor the memory of Stonewall, he should get up to speed on what happened there 40 years ago, when courageous kids who had nothing, not even a public acknowledgment of their existence, stood up to make history happen in the least likely of places.
Frank Rich - 40 Years Later, Still Second-Class Americans
Posted: June 28, 2009 at 2:43 pm.
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