Barack Obama -- February 23, 2009

February 23, 2009

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"This was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal"

Barack Hussein Obama

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Obama Will Let Iran Go Nuclear	Obama is working to prevent Iran from building a nuclear bomb, but even his own advisors know the chance of success is slim. So they also have been working on Plan B: What do we do if (when) Iran gets the bomb? Dennis Ross, the former Middle East peace negotiator who is expected to be named as Obama's top Iran advisor, argued for giving diplomacy a chance to work but suggested that containment might have to be the future course of U.S. policy. "We will need to hedge bets and set the stage for alternative policies either designed to prevent Iran from going nuclear or to blunt the impact if they do." Ashton B. Carter, Obama's reported choice as an undersecretary of Defense, wrote in the same report, the alternative "is a strategy of containment and punishment." Most (and maybe all) of Obama's advisors see the costs of attacking Iran as outweighing the benefits. That doesn't mean the United States would do nothing. Instead, Obama aides suggested in their writings, the U.S. should pursue a Persian Gulf version of the containment strategy used against the Soviet Union during the Cold War. What would that mean? For starters, a nuclear-capable Iran would face continued, serious pressure from the United States and its allies to dismantle whatever it had built. (Ha, ha, ha -- LOL! -- how did the pressure put on Iran to prevent them from going nuclear in the first place work out?) Obama might declare that a nuclear attack on Israel would be treated as an attack on the U.S. homeland -- operative word -- might? And there is some optimism among administration officials that a nuclear Iran would practice restraint. -- Oh, save us Jesus, these guys are either naive or don't give a rat's ass about Israel -- maybe both. "If Iran acquires nuclear weapons, it is likely to behave like other nuclear weapons states, trying to intimidate its foes, but not recklessly using its weapons," Samore and Riedel wrote in a report for the Brookings Institution and the Council on Foreign Relations. "As such, Iran will be subject to the same deterrence system that other nuclear weapons states have accommodated themselves to since 1945." -- Yeah, but Stalin and Khrushchev weren't religious nutballs like Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
Obama Plan Rewards Bad Behavior	Fifty-five percent (55%) of American adults say the federal government would be rewarding bad behavior by providing mortgage subsidies to financially troubled homeowners. Among investors, 65% hold that view. The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey shows that, among all adults, just 32% disagree. Seventy-seven percent (77%) of Republicans and 60% of those not affiliated with either major political party believe the mortgage help subsidizes bad behavior. Most Democrats (51%) disagree.
Beyond Arrogance	Obama has never run so much as a corner variety store. Now, we watch him, almost daily, stand in front of the nation and arrogantly tell us that only he knows what's best for our gazillion dollar economy. That's when he's not trying to scare the crapolla out of all of us with his forecasts of fear, doom, gloom and the end of America. Why, he makes Jimmy Carter look like Richard Simmons in comparison. Day after day, we hear Obama's shameful fear mongering, that can no longer hide his lust to open the floodgates filled with our money, so he can buy off Democrat constituencies. So what's it going to be? Are we going to allow this OJT politician from the corrupt city of Chicago bankrupt our children and our children's children so he can turn America into France?
And More Fear	Mike Huckabee says Obama’s early job performance is cause for alarm, and warns his penchant for talking down the economy is the worst possible direction he could take. Obama’s dark portrayal of the U.S. economy -- apparently intended to lower the high expectations stoked by his rhetoric during the campaign -- is on the verge of becoming a self-fulfilling prophecy, he adds. The former Arkansas governor’s criticism followed a week that saw the Dow Jones Industrial Average hit a six-year low. The S & P 500, the index that most trading professionals rely on as a market barometer, closed the week at its lowest level in 12 years. "I think it’s cause for alarm," Huckabee said. Obama seems to be tone deaf to his own music. "I was very, very disappointed to see him abandon his own rhetoric, as it relates to transparency, ethics, about a new way of doing things in Washington." "I mean, on and on he talked about how he wasn’t going to have a Washington run by a bunch of lobbyists, then about every appointment he makes is given the exception clause, [he’s] appointing people who didn’t pay their taxes and then insists they get confirmed." "If a leader stands up and repeats over and over how bad it is and how it is in fact the worst ever, then what we’re going to do at some point is believe him." "So now if he’s out there every day telling us it’s the worst it has ever been, there are going to be a significant number of Americans who are going to say: ‘Well, I guess the same guy who told me, 'Yes we can' is now telling me 'No we can’t.'" Huckabee adds: "It’s the worst possible direction he could take. I think about how polar opposite it is from sort of the classic FDR message, 'We have nothing to fear but fear itself.’'" "With Obama, it’s 'We have nothing but fear.'"
Obama "Very Committed" to Legalizing Aliens	Despite the fact that federal, state and local governments are reeling from a fiscal crisis, Obama is sticking to plans to help an estimated 12 million illegal aliens gain citizenship. Last week, Obama called into Univision Radio's Eddie "Piolin" Sotelo show, and was asked about the immigration issue. Obama said: "Well, as I've said every time I’ve been on the show, Piolín, we're going to make sure that we begin the process of dealing with the immigration system that's broken. We're going to start by really trying to work on how to improve the current system so that people who want to be naturalized, who want to become citizens, like you did, that they are able to do it; that it's cheaper, that it's faster, that they have an easier time in terms of sponsoring family members. And then we've got to have comprehensive immigration reform." Obama added he was "very committed" to move on the immigration issue in the next several months. Republicans now fear that Obama and Congressional Democrats are pushing for amnesty to increase Democratic electoral chances. New immigrants vote overwhelmingly Democratic, studies show.
Fifth Columnist In The White House	In the past four weeks, every single one of Obama’s foreign policy initiatives has appeased and strengthened the enemies of both Israel and the west, whose fates are umbilically linked. The driving motif of Obama’s foreign policy has been "engagement" with the Muslim world. Ostensibly offering the hand of friendship if that world unclenches its own fist, he is actually offering up not just the west’s hand but its entire body to be kicked into submission. And I use that last word advisedly. Now Khaled abu Toameh reports that one result of this approach has been to boost Hamas. As the Independent reported yesterday, European politicians -- including two British MPs – are now openly talking to Hamas despite the fact that it is a banned organisation by the EU (the EU has in fact been talking covertly to Hamas for years). Abu Toameh reports that Egypt’s President Mubarak and Palestinian President Abbas are also now talking to Hamas, having previously refused to do so on the grounds that this would only strengthen it and weaken them. But now they are doing so principally because, according to Egyptian and Palestinian political analysts: Mubarak and Abbas feel comfortable to talk to Hamas because they realize that President Barack Obama's new administration is contemplating a new, conciliatory approach toward Iran and its proxies in the Middle East, namely the Syrians, Hizbullah and Hamas... Sure enough, only yesterday the US Middle East envoy George Mitchell supported the Egyptian call for a Palestinian unity government comprising the Palestinian Authority and Hamas. He dutifully parroted the formula that Hamas would still need to halt violence, recognise Israel and accept previous Palestinian-Israeli agreements. But Hamas has not done so and shows no sign that it will ever do so. What Egypt is proposing, and America has now endorsed, is a Palestinian government comprising people still bent upon a genocidal agenda. Hamas has not been defeated: far from it. And now, far from helping to defeat this genocidal terror organisation, Obama is strengthening it by granting it legitimacy. By strengthening Hamas, Obama also strengthens its puppet-master Iran. So the enemies of America and the west are now stronger, while America and the west are now weaker. The belief that this represents merely naivety on the part of Obama rather than malice towards Israel has taken moreover an enormous knock as a result of his decision to participate in "Durban 2." This is the reprise of the 2001 Durban hate-fest against Israel, which is being held in Geneva in April under the auspices of the grotesquely misnamed UN Human Rights Council, chaired by Libya and with the vice-chairs occupied by Iran and Cuba. The fact is that Israel faces the nightmare scenario that it now stands alone -- and against America. Whether through naivety, ideology or rank malice, there is now a fifth columnist in the White House, delivering (however unwittingly) the agenda of the enemies of the west and undermining the cause of the free world. The vast majority of Americans who staunchly support Israel's struggle to exist in the face of genocidal attack, and understand only too well its role as the front line of defence for the free world, need to become aware of what is being done in their name.