Wednesday, June 10, 2009

Obama nonsense I; often it is immediately, and SELF-EVIDENTLY, obvious.

(1) From Jas Taranto BEST OF THE WEB: ...We're in no position to say who's right, but Obama has certainly made a trope of the idea that he "inherited" all the problems in the world from Bush. Sometimes this claim is plainly nonsensical, as when Obama, delivering the Democratic response to Dick Cheney's May 21 address on national security, declared: The problem of what to do with Guantanamo detainees was not caused by my decision to close the facility; the problem exists because of the decision to open Guantanamo in the first place.
In fact, the problem of what to do with the detainees existed even before they arrived at Guantanamo. The use of Guantanamo was the solution, and the problem has arisen anew because Obama has rejected it.
Will the Obama administration be able keep shirking responsibility by blaming everything that goes wrong with their policies on George W. Bush? Maybe. After all, Democrats thrived for decades by scapegoating Herbert Hoover.****That's the big danger of Obama: he seems to skate by whatever stupid things he espouses or does. FDR got elected four times and it's only in recent times that it's generally realized that he did nothing to end the Depression and actually prolonged it. It's a blessing that we won't have to stand O for more than eight.****
(2) From a cartoon by Ramirez: Obama talking to King Abdullah of Saudia, saying
"America is not a Christian nation. If you actually took the number of Muslim Americans, we'd be one of the largest Muslim countries in the world." ...RIGHT AFTER INDONESIA, PAKISTAN, INDIA, BANGLADESH. TURKEY, EGYPT, IRAN, NIGERIA,CHINA, ETHIOPIA, ALBERIA, MOROCCO, AFGHANISTAN, SUDAN, IRAQ, RUSSIA, SAUDI ARABIA, USBEKISTAN, YEMEN, TANZANIA, SYRIA, MALAYSIA, NIGER, SENEGAL, GHANA, TUNISIA, SOMALIA, GUINEA, KENYA, AZERBAIJAN, KASAKHSTAN, BURKINA FASO AND TAJIKISTAN.
(3) Obama gets automobile origin wrong President toots wrong horn in speech By Stephen Dinan February 25, 2009
President Obama misspoke Tuesday night when he credited the U.S. with the invention of the automobile as part of his call for investing in the industry.
"I believe the nation that invented the automobile cannot walk away from it," Mr. Obama said in his address to a joint session of Congress.But the Library of Congress says,...that the honor should go to Karl Friedrich Benz of Germany, who in 1886 received the first patent for what the Library calls the "first true automobile" -- a gasoline-powered engine attached to a three-wheeled vehicle.Other claimants include French and Scottish inventors, who had created vehicles with engines powered by steam or electricity well before Benz...
(4)"Obama criticized pork barrel spending in the form of 'earmarks,' urging changes in the way that Congress adopts the spending proposals. Then he signed a spending bill that contains nearly 9,000 of them, some that members of his own staff shoved in last year when they were still members of Congress.'...this piece of legislation must mark an end to the old way of doing business, and the beginning of a new era of responsibility and accountability,' Obama said." McClatchy, 3/11
(5) "The same politician who proclaimed during his inauguration that 'on this day we have chosen hope over fear' soon warned Americans that the US economy would be forever destroyed if the stimulus bill was voted down.
(6) "Obama thanked CIA employees for their work and said they're invaluable to national security. He explained his decision to release the memos, then told everyone not to feel bad because he was now acknowledging potential mistakes. Theirs, not his. 'That's how we learn,' Obama said, as though soothing a room full of fourth-graders." -- The Oklahoman, 4/2
(7) In their first meeting, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown gave Obama a carved ornamental penholder from the timbers of the anti-slavery ship HMS Gannet. Obama gave him 25 DVDs that don't work in Europe.
(8)"Barack Obama has been embroiled in a cronyism row...make Louis Susman, one of his biggest fundraisers, the new US ambassador in London. The selection of Mr. Susman, a lawyer and banker from the president's hometown of Chicago, rather than an experienced diplomat, raises new questions about Mr Obama's commitment to the special relationship with Britain." -- Telegraph, 2/22
(9) "We have begun to modernize 75% of all federal building space, which has the potential to reduce long-term energy costs by billions of dollars on behalf of taxpayers. We are providing grants to states to help weatherize hundreds of thousands of homes, which will save the families that benefit about $350 each year. That's like a $350 tax cut." -- Obama, describing something that doesn't cut taxes.
(10) "The Obama administration has directed defense officials to sign a pledge stating they will not share 2010 budget data with individuals outside the federal government." -- Defense News, 2/19 ****Psst! Don't tell anyone beyond the millions in the federal government.****

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