Obama's Middle East problems (Updated 2/7)

IRANIAN OFFICIAL LAYS OUT ATTACK PLAN TO DESTROY ISRAEL IN NINE MINUTES
"lireza Forghani, an Iranian politician and staunch ally of the regime, recently released an article titled, “Iran Must Attack Israel by 2014,” according to the Middle East Media Research Institute.
"....“When the outrageous rhetoric from Ahmadinejad and people like Forghani is coupled with the capability, with nuclear weapons, to actually destroy the Jewish State of Israel, we can’t afford to dismiss what they are repeatedly telling the world,” said a Capitol Hill aide who tracks Iran. “The Hill is taking the threat from Iran very seriously.” "    Rick Moran comments on this source.


Update: Obama, Democrats Own Syria Failure  "In pursuit of the war on terror, the Obama administration has been willing to give up its sanctimonious moral posturing in the fact of military and political reality. Yet on foreign policy writ large, it still clings to its fantasies. Syria’s impending collapse presents both dangers and opportunities–but the administration is ill-placed to confront either, having diminished the American power that Obama never understood, and still bitterly resents."


Heritage: Morning Bell: Middle East Crumbles Around Obama’s Foreign Policy  "Thousands are dead in Syria, with more blood spilled each day. Iran is within arm’s reach of a nuclear weapon, threatening Israel’s very existence. And in Egypt, 19 Americans are banned from leaving the country, making them veritable hostages in an unfriendly land. All indications are that the Middle East is crumbling, and President Barack Obama’s foreign policy is collapsing right along with it."


Alan Caruba: Taking Hostages: Tehran in 1979 - Cairo in 2012  "Just as Jimmy Carter was seen as weak, so too is Barack Obama and, for America and the world, that is very bad news. I don’t care if the Iranian leadership and other militant Islamists don’t like America. I want them to fear us."
...."Our present problem is that Obama does not like America any better than our enemies do."


Ron Paul with Megan Kelly Discusses Iran Threat and Nuclear Scientist Assassinations  "Watch Megan try to get an answer out of Paul. Basically he says Iran isn't dangerous-they just want attention."

Rick Santorum's Big Night

Video: Santorum’s Victory Speech in St. Charles   "Last night was not only a great night for Rick Santorum, it a great night for conservatism. Although he was massively out-spent by the front runner, Santorum managed to win by huge margins in Missouri and Minnesota.
"The final numbers in Colorado, where Mitt was projected to win:"...

Althouse: Santorum one point over Obama in one poll  Comments to this post are mostly anti-Santorum since they appear to be Democrat commenters.

donkeyhotey

What to Make of Santorum’s Hat Trick and the Return of the Social Issues  "But Santorum understands something that few of the other candidates can put into words: that the power to mandate is the power to compel and compulsion must be grounded on something higher than the mere will of the sovereign. This is a very effective argument against Barack Obama, but it it also a very effective one against Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich...."


Romney dealt punishing blow by three-pronged defeat to Rick Santorum  "Santorum’s sweep of all three states also lent new credibility to questions about whether Romney’s appeal among conservatives is strong enough to win him the nomination."

Don't change horses... yada, yada, yada

There is a gold mine of meaning in this Rich Terrell, um, cartoon.

http://terrellaftermath.com/

Discussion forum on Obama's campaign strategy choices


This says about what you would expect: The Progressive Professor   "FDR chose to emphasize the progress made, and the idea why would anyone want to revert to the policies that had failed under Herbert Hoover.

"He would use the concept of “Don’t Change Horses in Mid Stream” as the argument to re-elect him.

...."Now in 2012, Barack Obama is using the same appeal: that with unemployment skyrocketing in 2009, and the rate raising to almost ten percent before declining, that great progress has been made in job creation, about 3.7 million jobs, with the chance of regaining ALL of the lost jobs by the time of the election, and with the rate now 8.3 percent, it could go down below 8 percent by November."

The sly bit of misinformation is that electing ANY Republican is a return to Bush policies. It is well to remember that most Republicans disagreed with President Bush over many of his policies and said they would not do things the way he did.

Remember also that the collapse of the economy was in large part of the housing crisis caused by Democrat policies. President Bush warned the Democrat- controlled Congress of this, yet Maxine Waters, Barney Frank, et al all said there was no housing crisis. 

What does it say about the ignorance of Democrat voters that the Democrat Party can cause all this damage, yet successfully campaign on the fact that a Republican president was in office when they did it?

Mr, Terrell's illustration hits the bulls-eye.  TD