Mass SNAFU

About that New Black Panther Party ...

Wow.  Had no idea how f*cked up these idiots are.  Some video from the past:

Mark Steyn: Some thoughts on Afghanistan

Some quotes from Mark Steyn's latest piece on Afghanistan and our unengaged president:

"Stanley McChrystal is a liberal who voted for Obama and banned Fox News from his HQ TV. Which may at least partly explain how he became the first U.S. general to be lost in combat while giving an interview to Rolling Stone: They’ll be studying that one in war colleges around the world for decades."

"To return to [Washington Post's, Richard] Cohen’s question: “Who is this guy? What are his core beliefs?” Well, he’s a guy who was wafted ever upward from the Harvard Law Review to state legislator to United States senator without ever lingering long enough to accomplish anything. “Who is this guy?” Well, when a guy becomes a credible presidential candidate by his mid-forties with no accomplishments other than a couple of memoirs, he evidently has an extraordinary talent for self-promotion, if nothing else. “What are his core beliefs?” It would seem likely that his core belief is in himself. It’s the “nothing else” that the likes of Cohen are belatedly noticing."

"Hey, never mind: Moveon.org have quietly disappeared their celebrated “General Betray Us” ad from their website. Cindy Sheehan, the supposed conscience of the nation when she was railing against Bush from the front pages, is an irrelevant kook unworthy of coverage when she protests Obama. Why, a cynic might almost think the “anti-war” movement was really an anti-Bush movement, and that they really don’t care about dead foreigners after all."

The "worst president ever" label is starting to surface - and stick

And it only took 18 months.

Obama has been one big ass disappointment to say the least, and you just know the Hillary lovers are looking at their intra-party Obot rivals with a look of deep concern as the political carnage continues to pile up around them.

You can already see the Republicans in 2012 circling like vultures over what's left of President Hopenchange.  There is no doubt their platforms will be based on a theme of competent leadership, something we have yet to see from the artist formerly known as the Smartest President Ever. Throw in some economic expertise and a dash of fiscal responsibility and you pretty much have the recipe for your next president - a Republican.

So, how's that Muslim appeasement strategy working out, Mr. President?

Not too well actually.  From National Review:

Barack Obama entered office with high hopes of improving the U.S. image among Muslims worldwide. He hauled out his middle name, gave his first interview as president to Al-Arabiya television, quoted hadith, gave major speeches in Istanbul and Cairo, and talked ceaselessly of “respect” for Muslims. Where has all this gotten him?

Um, predictably not too far:

With the exception of Mauritania, it’s a statistical wash from the Bush years, with every Muslim nation polled trending downward on The One and his Muslim faith approach since mid-2009.

Can we just go back to the old way of recognizing that radical Muslims want to kill us all?  Personally, I felt much safer when we had a government in place that seemed to understand the threat from Islamic extremists as very real.  It would also be somewhat refreshing to have some leaders who also realized it's not possible to make friends with people who want to kill you.

Too bad those Mauritanians can’t vote though, Obama’s could use their support right now.  Although, some of them might be voting in the not so distant future.

Record low!

A new low in the passion index:

The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Wednesday shows that 23% of the nation's voters Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as president. Forty-five percent (45%) Strongly Disapprove, giving Obama a Presidential Approval Index rating of -22. That’s the lowest Approval Index rating yet measured for this president (see trends).

An interesting subset of the poll is the breakdown in support by gender:

Among men, 20% Strongly Approve and 50% Strongly Disapprove. Among women, those numbers are 27% and 40%.

That's some serious dissatisfaction by men with half strongly disapproving.  That does not bode well for The One. Not to mention, that this oil spill – and the lack of a federal response – is going to hurt as we move forward.  If this thing isn’t plugged soon, Obama may surpass Bush’s poll numbers at the end of his 2nd term, and that is not what Team Obama had in mind two months ago.

Obama to be boys with terrorists moderate members of Hezbollah

Deputy National Security Advisor John Brennan talks about how great it would be to be all buddy buddy with a terrorist organization that killed 220 Marines, 18 Navy personnel and three Army soldiers:

Yep, that’s right.  The Obama administration is looking to reach out to “moderate” Hezbollah members that murdered 241 American soldiers in 1983.  That’s like reaching out to “moderate” 9/11 hijackers. 

As we all know, there is no such thing as a moderate terrorist but that is a real world scenario, not something you'd find in a peer reviewed paper by these intellectual idiots who have no clue on real world scenarios.   

The Obama disconnect resurfaces while commenting on the beheading of Daniel Pearl

In the video below, President Obama tells reporters that the death of NY Times reporter Daniel Pearl - at the hands of terrorists -  “captured the world’s imagination.”  Memo to The One – a release of a new iPhone captures the world’s imagination, not beheadings by Islamic radicals:

I watched that video and the last thing it did was “capture” my imagination.  I was horrified at the brutality and literally sickened by it.  If I “imagined” anything it was how the U.S. would “capture” those animals and execute them in a similar fashion. 

Thankfully, they were captured but unfortunately have been living for far too long is U.S. custody and have been granted all the comforts of home as they await civilian trials for an unspeakable war crime.

As always, there was no mention of terrorist, jihad or Islamic radicals from Obama just some comments on his birdie on the 15th yesterday.  With recent history in mind, the only other thing missing from Obama was some sort of apology to Muslims. 

The most politically incorrect thing you'll see all day

Yet so good - and potentially effective.

Dan Fanelli - a Republican challenger to the uber-liberal Representative Alan Grayson (D-FL) - has released a series of campaign ads on his website that will undoubtedly get the panties of those on the left all in a bunch.  A real big bunch.  It's going to be great.

In the ads, Fanelli advocates for the profiling of terrorists and keeping them away from courtrooms once captured.  You know, things that might actually keep Americans from getting mass murdered.  

I can already hear the screams of horror emanating from the MSNBC studio with Matthews, Maddow and Olbermann in catatonic states mumbling something about racist teabaggers.

Click the image to watch:

 

MSNBC anchor bummed terror suspect was a Muslim and not a Tea Party member

MSNBC - a pillar of objectivity:
 

"I mean the thing is is that and I get frustrated and there was part of me that was hoping this was not going to be anybody with ties to any kind of Islamic country because there are a lot of people who want to use this terrorist intent to justify writing off people who believe in a certain way or come from certain countries or whose skin color is a certain way."

Hmmm: TSA wasn't aware of terrorist's wanted status

 

How does a wanted terrorist get by U.S. airport security and board a plane destined for Pakistan, yet 80 year old females are routinely being screened and searched as potential terror threats?  Something is not kosher here people:

[Faisal] Shahzad, who had been the subject of a huge manhunt, almost made it out of the country on a Emirates flight to Dubai, with a planned connection onward to Pakistan, according to the officials.

"He appeared real close to getting away," one federal official said. "The plane was buttoned up. Backed away from the jetway."

Authorities said that despite the manhunt, his passport had not been flagged and he was able to buy a ticket with cash and clear airport security.

Due to some great investigative work, the Times Square bomber was quickly identified at Shahzad, a Pakistani born, U.S. citizen residing in Connecticut.  The system then broke down as Shahzad was allowed to board a plane.

Considering there was a nationwide manhunt – minus the airports, apparently – no one thought to notify the TSA for the remote chance that a wanted terrorist might want to leave the country via airline?  That sounds like some of the same inter-agency communication issues that were red-flagged in the 9/11 investigation.

Now, had this happened in Israel, I can pretty much guarantee that a bearded man with the name Faisal Shahzdad who just paid for a one way ticket to Pakistan with cash would have been - at the very least – questioned in depth.  Something also tells me that their airport security would have been notified of Mr. Shahzad’s freaking wanted status.

This incident - combined with the failed Christmas day bombing -  suggests that we’ve gotten lucky with a couple of incompetent terrorists.  We all know it’s only a matter of time before they correct their mistakes.

So in the meantime, someone needs to wake up Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano and tell her the system is not working.  At all.  And to fix it quickly.