Obama down,Sarah up

The Corner on National Review Online: "Obama (Cow)Bellwether? [Jonah Goldberg]

I was in Reagan National Airport this morning and I noticed that the
tourist-souvenir shop has changed its wares. It is now fronting anti-Obama
merchandise. 'Nope' (with the Obama rainbow O) and 'Don't Blame Me, I Voted for
McCain and Sarah Palin' are now upfront. A friend says this has been the case
since early September at least. It's possible that the recent Tea Party crowds
spilling into Washington explain it. Still, given how over-the-top Obama schwag
has been at National for nearly a year, I think it's an interesting change.
Alas, I couldn't find any More Cowbell merch, but give it time."

After being inundated with everything Obama for almost two years now,from the normal fare of T-shirts and coffee mugs,to some of the more unusual,cars that are painted with Obama's image on it,I have personally seen a woman with an Obama tattoo,its amazing how so quickly things that are Obama of fallen out of vogue.I would really love to see what the sales receipts of Obama merchandise are nationally,their probably some great bargains on the sales racks.

On another note Sarah Palin has finished her much anticipated book,"Going Rogue:An American Life".Harper her publisher has already ordered a whopping 1.5 million printing for the conservative megastar.A word of note to Harper,go ahead an order a second printing now,this book is destined to be a best seller.

Keeping His Eye On The Ball

U.S. commander in Afghanistan talked with Obama only once - The Back Story - Washington Times

From the Washington Times:

"I’ve talked to the president, since I’ve been here, once on a VTC [video
teleconferece]," Gen. Stanley McChrystal told CBS reporter David Martin in a
television interview that aired Sunday.
"You’ve talked to him once in 70
days?" Mr. Martin followed up.
"That is correct," the general replied.

Gen. McChrystal must understand that President Obama is a very busy man and his time is stretched seriously thin.He needs to understand that the president's precious time is needed elsewhere.

Obama's time has been needed to saturate the liberal media establishment to push a health care plan,that the polls continue to prove we do not want.Then they was the "Beer Summit",where his presence was much needed to resolve a local issue that he helped create.Also his presence was needed at the U.N.,becuase as we all know what would we do without the U.N.By the way who is Gen. Stanely McChrystal compared to the dictators and tyrants of the World.And not to forget,the president must whisk away to Denmark and save the day and secure the Olympics for Chicago,that the people of that city are not that all crazy about.

The president hasn't forgotten about Afghanistan,not in the least.He has been talking to retired Gen.Colin Powell and seeking his and others advice on exactly what to do there next.Now what exactly could Gen. Stanley McChrystal,the U.S. commander in Afghanistan,possibly tell the president that retired Gen. Colin Powell couldn't.Come on Gen.McChrystal,all you have to draw upon is your knowledge of the situation being the commander on the ground and your expertise in counter-insurgency from Iraq.What is that compared to retired Gen. Powell and all his Washington connections?

All we need to remember is that President Obama has his eye on the ball when it comes to Afghanistan.

If any one believes that,then I may have some waterfront property in Arizona you just might be interested in.

Wagging the Atomic Dawg

DEBKAfile - US giant bunker-buster bomb project rushed since Iran's Qom site discovered



From the DEBKAfile:

The Pentagon has brought forward to December 2009 the target-date for producing
the first 15-ton super bunker-buster bomb (GBU-57A/B) Massive Ordinance
Penetrator, which can reach a depth of 60.09 meters underground before
exploding. DEBKAfile's military sources report that top defense agencies and air
force units were also working against the clock to adapt the bay of a B2a
Stealth bomber for carrying and delivering the bomb.
The Pentagon has
ordered the number of bombs rolling off the production line increased from four
to ten - a rush job triggered in May by the discovery that Iran was hiding a
second uranium enrichment plant under a mountain near Qom - a discovery which
prompted this week's international outcry.
Congress has since quietly
inserted the necessary funding in the 2009 budget.
All this urgency
indicates that the Obama administration has been preparing military muscle to
back up the international condemnation of Iran's concealed nuclear bomb program,
its sanctions threat and his willingness to join the negotiations with Iran
opening on Oct. 1 in Geneva. Tehran may have to take into account a possible
one-time surgical strike against its underground enrichment facility as a
warning shot should its defiance continue. In particular, the world powers this
week demanded that Iran open up all its nuclear facilities and programs to full
and immediate international inspection. Failure to do so could bring forth
further US military action

Wow! Maybe,just maybe President Obama has grown a pair.I wouldn't count on it,but their just might be some hope that our CINC might want do something more than offer an apology for America.


Obama may want to threaten military action to gain some concessions from Iran or opt to do a limited surgical strike,(he will never go all the way and target all of Iran's nuclear capabilities),to keep Israel at bay.


Also,with sagging approval numbers and a war in Afghanistan that seems to be going bad,he just might want to wag the dog to provide a distraction.Don't discount that as a motive for using military force,remember Bill Clinton,he was an expert a wagging the dog.

Bin Laden demands Europe withdraw Afghanistan troops - Yahoo! News

Bin Laden demands Europe withdraw Afghanistan troops - Yahoo! News

Osama bin Laden:

"It is shameful to be part of an alliance whose leader does not care about
spilling the blood of human beings by bombing villages intentionally," he said,
referring to civilian deaths in missile attacks against Taliban fighters in
Afghanistan and Pakistan.

How can someone who is responsible for killing over 3,000 people on 9/11/01 alone,not to mention countless others in terrorist attacks around the world,utter such a statement?If this wasn't so sick it would be ridiculous.

But he is not the only one who has made statements like this.He is only echoing what the far left has been saying since the war terror has begun.

In August of 2007 then Senator Barack Obama said more coalition forces are needed in Afghanistan "so that we're not just air-raiding villages and killing civilians"........................

These accusations didn't begin with bin Laden.They began with the far left and he is now repeating them back to us.

No Soup For You Today .......................

Iran Reveals Existence of Second Uranium Enrichment Plant

Yesterday Benjamin Netanyahu told the U.N. that,"the jury is still out,"on whether the U.N. or the West would do anything meaningful to prevent Iran from acquiring weapons of mass destruction.

Today the jury was given this piece of evidence:

Iran acknowledged the existence of the facility for the first time on Monday, in
a letter to the Vienna-based International Atomic Energy Agency. The letter said
"a new pilot fuel enrichment plant is under construction in the country," said
Marc Vidricaire, a spokesman for the watchdog agency. "The letter stated that
the enrichment level would be up to 5 percent."

But wait theirs more:

White House officials said Western intelligence agencies have been tracking the
facility for years. Obama said officials from the United States, France and
Britain briefed the IAEA in Vienna on Thursday on what they knew about the
facility. The three heads of state decided to publicly disclose the existence of
the facility after learning that Iran had become aware the site was no longer a
secret.

Actually not any new evidence,we fin out the United States have known about this for years.

President Obama said this

:"Iran is breaking rules that all nations must follow," Obama said, detailing
how the facility at Qom had been under construction for years without being
disclosed, as required, to the International Atomic Energy Association.
"International law is not an empty promise."

Yes it is an empty promise.We have known about this for years and yet have done nothing.It is insane to believe that Iran,who has broken the rules for years,that they will now start playing by the rules,because we demand it.Give me a break!

British Prime Minister Gordon Brown does no better:

British Prime Minister Gordon Brown accused Iran of "serial deception" that he
said "will shock and anger the whole international community, and it will harden
our resolve."
"We will not let this matter rest," Brown said. " . . . Iran
must abandon any military ambitions for its nuclear programs."

"Harden our resolve," to do what,Gordon Brown?"Iran must abandon any military ambitions for its nuclear programs,"or what?Will we take out Iran's nuclear facilities?Iran knows the answer to that and the answer is no we wont.

French President Nicolas Sarkozy talks tough

:"How, before the eyes of the world, could we justify meeting without tackling
them?" Sarkozy said. "We live in the real world, not a virtual world. And the
real world expects us to take decisions."
On Friday, he said Iran "is taking
the international community on a dangerous path . . . Everything, everything,
must be put on the table now. We cannot let the Iranian leaders gain time while
the motors are running."

This sounds good but talk is cheap and its what we are prepared to do that matters.

And we are not prepared to do much:

Both Sarkozy and Brown said that if Iran does not come into compliance by
December, it risks the imposition of stringent international sanctions. Obama,
who spoke in more measured terms, did not mention sanctions specifically.

Obama may be planning to get tougher than both Sarkozy and Brown.Obama just may not send a Christmas card to the Ayatollah.

The Soup Nazi approach will not work.Iran is a Islamic fundamentalist regime and they believe they have a mandate from Allah to destroy Israel.They are hell bent on acquiring nuclear weapons to accomplish that,no matter what.

The only way to stop them from acquiring weapons of mass destruction is to destroy their capability to create them.Sanctions,negotiations,or Barack Obama's charm will not stop them.Only the use of force will stop them and if we don't,I hope Israel does.

Netanyahu slams UN, challenges it to confront Iran | Israel | Jewish Journal

Netanyahu slams UN, challenges it to confront Iran Israel Jewish Journal

After a day when a who's who of rogues from across the globe stood up to address the United Nations,finally someone with sanity and courage took them to task,Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel.

Bibi said this to the U.N.:

“Yesterday the president of Iran stood at this very podium and spewed
his anti-Semitic rants,” the premier said. “Just a few days earlier he claimed
that the Holocaust was a lie.”
“Do those who listened to Ahmadinejad’s
speech have no shame, no decency?”

The answer Mr. Prime Minster is no,they have no shame or decency.They only want to bilk billions out of the United States and appease the Islamic Fascist of the world hoping they will leave them alone if they feed them Israel.

Netanyahu addresses this next:

“Perhaps some of you think [Ahmadinejad] and his odious regime only
threaten
the Jews,” Netanyahu continued. “Well, if you think that you are
wrong,
dead wrong.”
Netanyahu warned against the dangers posed by
Iran,
imploring
the West to confront the Islamic Republic’s “religious
fanaticism.”
“The
struggle against Iran pits civilization against
barbarism,” Netanyahu told the
UN. “This Iranian regime is fueled by
extreme
fundamentalism.”
“What starts
as attacks on Jews always
ends
up
engulfing others,” Netanyahu said. “This
regime embodies the
extremes
of
Islamic fundamentalism.”

He is absolutely correct.It never stops with the Jews.It continues on to the Christians,onto women,onto atheist,so on and so on until all submit to Islamic law.

He also said this:

The premier challenged the world body to prevent Iran from acquiring weapons
of mass destruction. Israel and the Western powers believe Iran’s nuclear
program is of a military nature, a charge the Iranians deny.
Netanyahu
said
the progress made in the postwar 20th century could be undone if
Iran
is
permitted to build atomic weapons.
“History could be
reversed if
primitive
fanaticism acquires deadly weapons,” the premier
told the UN. “The
jury is still
out on the United Nations, and the signs
aren`t
encouraging.”

If left to the U.N. and Barack Obama,Iran will get the bomb.If left to the U.N. and Barack Obama,Iran will destroy Israel.Israel must defend itself,because Barack Obama and the U.N. most certainly wont.

Benjamin Netanyahu is the Winston Churchill of our generation.As Churchill warned the world of Adolf Hitler,Netanyahu warns us of the evils of the Islamic regime in Iran.Like Churchill he also understands that appeasement never leads to peace but it always emboldens your enemy and leads to war.