Primary season is in full swing and while the Republican front runners are busy exposing each others uniquely unelectable qualities, sooner or later a winner will emerge from this mess and turn their sights on the true foe of all that is right and good about Real America. Then once they're done with Michael Moore, I'm sure they'll get around to the obligatory attempt to “Swift Boat” President Obama's rather healthy, some would say historic, list of accomplishments.
Watching the endless Republican debates has been like watching the longest season of Big Brother ever. From Wikipedia: “Despite derision from many critics, the show has been a commercial success around the world. The voyeuristic nature of the show, in which contestants volunteer to surrender their privacy in return for minor celebrity status and a comparatively small cash prize, has attracted much scorn.” Sounds to me like an apt description of this debate season although the cash prize is no doubt much more lucrative.
With all of that in mind it is next to impossible for us health care loving, food stamp eating, environmental Marxists not to get a bit over confident in President Obama's chances for reelection. Me? I'm still enough of a Capitalist to not be above cashing in on the situation so I've written what may be the perfect Republican campaign song for the general election. In the tradition of all politicians everywhere, I am open to the highest bidder:
Mr. President Please Don't Kill Grandma (as performed by The Waterboarders)
Intro:
The President waived from the podium
The crowd gave a triumphant cry
As he turned to step from the platform
A sad little girl caught his eye
The little girl tugged at his coat sleeve
The President bent lower to hear
On her tip toes she pulled herself closer
And whispered these words in his ear.....
Chorus:
"Mr President, please don't kill grandma
Keep your socialist hands off her guns
You're a Moos-i-lum, terrorist Nazi
You smoke and you dress like a bum"
"My teacher thinks you might be Satan
She says you kill babies with glee
And you're building camps in the desert
So you can re-educate me"
Chorus
"You apologized for being an American
You bowed to that Arabian Prince
You told the whole world we're not Christians
You even suck up to the French"
Chorus
"You were born in a foreign country
Like Hawaii, or maybe Japan
You tell lies about Global Warming
And ACORN is your biggest fan"
Chorus x2 (Everybody sing!)
It is well documented that Obama over rode the recommendations of his advisors who wanted to simply bomb Bin Laden's compound. The President had faith in the SEALS tactical ability to get the job done and he deserves credit for a courageous decision. Those are historical facts. Why can't you just say, "job well done".
John, that simply isn't true. Obama has never had a super majority in the senate. In fact the 111th congress set a rather notorious record for the use of filibusters. They wouldn't even allow votes on routine appointments. http://www.nationaljournal.com/daily/majority-does-not-rule-in-filibuster-filled-111th-congress-20101216
I love wild speculation as much as the next guy, but how can you possibly conclude that? One thing for sure though, we wouldn't have bankrupted ourselves in Iraq while cutting taxes for the wealthy. Now THAT was insanity.
John, you simply don't have your facts straight. At no time were there 60 Democrat votes in the Senate during Obama's tenure. That is a stone cold fact.
Once again John, there is no truth in any of that. Obama was never opposed to taking Al Qaeda to task. Find one quote. He was opposed to the war in Iraq which had nothing to do with Al Qaeda. He called it a stupid war and he was correct. He said during the campaign that bringing Bin Laden to justice would be a top priority and that's exactly what he did. Tactical drone strikes have decimated Al Qaeda during his administration. If that were Bush you would have declared him Caesar by now. You called me a liar earlier today in another forum. I don't think you're a liar John, I just think you are tragically misinformed.
Obama - Afghanistan flip flopping - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGB_jQziUBU When it was Bush making those SAME decisions as President, Obama was outraged. Then he got in office and followed suit. Deny that.
The second video is intentionally misleading as the Senate testimony Obama is giving is against the war in Iraq, not Afghanistan. You'll notice they edited out any mention of which country he was talking about. There is no flip-flopping going on. This is a great example of the dis-information campaign being waged against Obama.
While I think TARP was probably a necessary evil due to 30 years of Republican economic policy that resulted in "too big to fail", it is important to note that TARP was a Bush program and that oversight was virtually non-existent until Obama took office and immediately put his foot down. Since that time not only has much of the money been recovered there have been numerous prosecutions of TARP fraud.
The original intent behind the Afghan War was to bring the perpetrators of 9/11 to justice, primarily Bin Laden, and to cripple Al Qaeda's effectiveness. This has been accomplished despite the surge and counter insurgency efforts. Everybody agrees it's time to come home, the sooner the better. As long as we have soldiers desecrating corpses and shooting civilians for sport, regardless of how isolated, we are only making relations with the Muslim world that much worse.