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Barack Obama: historically ignorant AND astoundingly hypocritical!

Take a look at this picture, in all of its alleged ‘glory.’

Two things that jump out about this.

If Barack Obama wants to do something about wage inequality, he should start with… the White House itself. Or does it not count when it’s his own staff? – That’s a rhetorical question, of course: Barack Obama clearly thinks that it doesn’t count when it’s him doing it.
As my teachers (but apparently, not Barack Obama’s) carefully taught me, we didn’t have anybody on the Moon in 1963. We went there in 1969. Here, let me show the President how to check things like this.

…Truly, this man is a veritable and literal icon of the Democratic party.

As we say over at @redstate: embrace the healing power of ‘And,’ @julia_azari…

…there is nothing stopping Barack Obama from being both a would-be* tyrant AND a weakling. Indeed, one can argue that the two states of mind are not even remotely incompatible. One is based on one’s willingness to do certain things; the other measures one’s competency and ability to do those things. Put another way: just because Barack Obama allegedly wants to emulate the worst qualities of a spoiled brat all the time doesn’t mean that he’s actually any good at getting his way.

This is not hard to understand, honestly.

Via Hot Air Headlines.

Moe Lane

*’Would-be’ because there are sharp limits to how much foolishness we will tolerate from a President before the spanking commences. Obama’s admittedly kissed that line a few times; then again, he got awesomely spanked in 2010 for it.

Permit me to make a public service announcement.

Contra David Plouffe, Barack Obama will not “go down to the fire fighting.” That would imply that Barack Obama knew how to fight in the first place, instead of finding somebody who would do that for him. Which is something that David Plouffe should know very well, given that he was there when Barack Obama used that strategy to get elected*.

Ah, David: the lies that they tell, in this business! – Especially the lies that they tell themselves.

Moe Lane

*It’s going to be hysterical when somebody goes ahead and assumes that Plouffe and his fellow power-gamers can go back to that particular well any time that they like.

New USA Today/Pew poll: Veterans hate the Bergdahl/terrorist swap.

Mind you, the country in general also dislikes the swap (43/34). But that’s nothing as compared to how veterans feel both about Bose Bergdahl, and the deal that Barack Obama made to bring him back: “Veterans are much more harsh in their assessment of the 28-year-old sergeant. Only 6% of veterans who responded say they sympathized with him, while 33% say they were angry. By 68%-16%, veterans say Obama made the wrong decision.” A couple of other things:

The Pew poll found a two-to-one ratio in favor of having the President inform Congress before he does this sort of thing.
The Pew poll also found that this story was tied with the ongoing Veterans Affairs meltdown – and the meltdown is only getting worse – as being the most important thing that Americans were paying attention to right now. Third thing? The economy*.
This poll is of adults. How all of this is playing out among likely voters… well. Glad I’m not the one who has to worry about that!

Continue reading New USA Today/Pew poll: Veterans hate the Bergdahl/terrorist swap.

Quote of the Day, Really. Yes. EVERYBODY Is Counting The Days Until 01/20/2017 edition.

The Washington Free Beacon gets it right on the first try:

According to Politico, Obama’s Italian dinner party illustrates the paradox of his second term. “Stymied at home and abroad, Obama recognizes that he is less in control of the Washington agenda than ever in his presidency,” write Budoff Brown and Epstein. “Yet his newfound realism has also given him a palpable sense of liberation.” I find nothing paradoxical about Obama’s recent pattern of behavior, nothing mysterious about the golfing, partying, traveling. It is quite obvious: Obama has given up.

Which is not the worst thing in the world, frankly. We’ve all seen what happened when the man attempted to actually run things…

White House accuses military veterans of ‘Swift-Boating’ them.

This is as nasty as the Left can get:

Chuck Todd told Matt Lauer on Wednesday that the White House was “caught flat-footed” on the backlash against the prisoner swap for Sergeant Bergdahl.

“I’ve had a few aides describe it to me as ‘we didn’t know that they were going to Swift Boat Bergdahl’,” Todd said, “And Matt, of course, that’s a reference to that political fight back in 2004 over John Kerry’s military service which became so controversial in that campaign. So there’s some fighting words there.”

Remember, to Democrats ‘Swift-boating‘ doesn’t mean ‘Telling people accurate, yet inconvenient, details about a candidate’s military record.’ To them that term means ‘lying.’ Which is an absolutely fascinating thing for the White House to say about what appears to be a nigh-universal reaction from the US military. The relevant video footage is below… Continue reading White House accuses military veterans of ‘Swift-Boating’ them.

Barack Obama hides behind signing statements to justify #Bergdahl / Taliban swap.

So, it turns out that the Obama administration was legally required to at least notify Congress before it actually traded Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl for five Taliban terrorist commanders*:

Lawmakers were not notified of the Guantanamo detainees’ transfer until after it occurred.

The law requires the defense secretary to notify relevant congressional committees at least 30 days before making any transfers of prisoners, to explain the reason and to provide assurances that those released would not be in a position to reengage in activities that could threaten the United States or its interests.

Continue reading Barack Obama hides behind signing statements to justify #Bergdahl / Taliban swap.

A quick poll: which would be worse?

Regarding Barack Obama’s apparent default excuse for everything – to wit: I had no idea that this was going on, and I’m just as shocked and angry as the rest of you about it- which would be worse:

That he’s lying?
Or that he’s telling the truth?

Think about the answer before you reply: the more I did, the less sure I was of mine.

So what should the President do about the CIA officer his fumble-fingered staff outed?

I got a real easy answer to this one.

The White House has launched an investigation into who is responsible for mistakenly outing the top U.S. spy in Afghanistan over the weekend.

Chief of Staff Denis McDonough has asked the White House counsel Neil Eggleston to look into what happened and report back to him with recommendations on “how the administration can improve processes and make sure something like this does not happen again,” according to White House National Security Council spokeswoman Caitlin Hayden.

Continue reading So what *should* the President do about the CIA officer his fumble-fingered staff outed?

Quote of the Day, No Apologies For Calling Barack Obama Incompetent edition.

Because, as Byron York notes, he is:

There are lots of reasons Republicans oppose Obama’s initiatives. But the issue of executive competence alone would be reason enough to oppose; why should GOP lawmakers entrust far-reaching new authority to a president who is struggling to run the executive branch as it is?

Honestly, at this point the incompetence is almost an endearing thing about the President. At least he can’t actually do anything to harm the country that’d be remotely as bad as the stuff that he and the Democrats did in 2009 and 2010. Not much of a balm, I know, but I didn’t cause this situation. Continue reading Quote of the Day, No Apologies For Calling Barack Obama Incompetent edition.