Abdication has a price

Charles Krauthammer  "Yes, it is true that there was no al-Qaeda in Iraq when George W. Bush took office. But it is equally true that there was essentially no al-Qaeda in Iraq remaining when Barack Obama took office.

 

"Which makes Bush responsible for the terrible costs incurred to defeat the 2003-09 jihadist war engendered by his invasion. We can debate forever whether those costs were worth it, but what is not debatable is Obama’s responsibility for the return of the Islamist insurgency that had been routed by the time he became president.

 

"By 2009, al-Qaeda in Iraq had not just been decimated but humiliated by the U.S. surge and the Anbar Awakening. Here were aggrieved Sunnis, having ferociously fought the Americans who had overthrown 80 years of Sunni hegemony, now reversing allegiance and joining the infidel invader in crushing, indeed extirpating from Iraq, their fellow Sunnis of al-Qaeda." ...
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"Which is what made [Obama's] failure to do so in Iraq so disastrous. His excuse was his inability to get immunity for U.S. soldiers. Nonsense. Bush had worked out a compromise in his 2008 SOFA, as we have done with allies everywhere. The real problem was Obama’s determination to “end the war.” He had three years to negotiate a deal and didn’t even begin talks until a few months before the deadline period."    Emphasis added, TD

My opinion is that Obama wanted to please an idiot electorate. A nation gets the leaders it deserves and he was what his shallow, unaware voters inflicted upon this world. TD

Reprise:

http://netrightdaily.com/2014/06/cartoon-drain/

New Map Shows ‘Most Liberal and Most Conservative Towns’ in Each State — or Use This Online Tool to Find Ones That Most Closely Reflect Your Values

The Blaze   "New data from Clarity Campaign Labs purports to identify the “most liberal and most conservative towns” and cities in each U.S. state. Business Insider then used the data from the political data analytics company to create this nifty graphic:"

 

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... "The tool, released on Tuesday, uses “seven identifiers” to determine each user’s political ideology:

• I identify with the Democrats more so than the Republicans.
• Abortion should be legal and accessible to all women.
• I attend religious services regularly.
• Climate change is an immediate concern that must be addressed.
• There should be more restrictions on purchasing and carrying guns.
• The government should reduce the deficit primarily by raising taxes rather than cutting services.
• I prefer urban areas.

Full Article.
Hat tip to Jeff Hayden; Plano, TX 

"OBAMA INC’s AGENTS FOR SHARIAH:CRIMINALIZING CRITICISM OF ISLAM VIA THE ISTANBUL PROCESS!ITS TENTACLED LINKAGE FROM BENGHAZIGATE’s VIDEO SUBTERFUGE,TO OBAMACARE & MORE"

Adina Kutnicki

Secretary Clinton addresses the “Istanbul Process” for Combating Intolerance and Discrimination

Based on Religion or Belief, Washington, DC

"UNDER the guise of “tolerance”, the truly intolerant and dangerous, Islamists and leftists, are joining hands. They are actual force multipliers, but against liberty! It is under their Orwellian, taqiyya-laden umbrella (via CAIR, the Brotherhood’s American propaganda arm) that the made up out-of-whole-cloth term, Islamophobia, comes into sharp relief."
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... "yes, Muslims are the truly injured/aggrieved party" ...

Hat tip to Conservative Bloggers on Facebook

"Climate Change" at the VA: The sick and halt wait but the solar panels don’t

Washington Times   "The administrators at the Veterans Administration have apparently been busy while old soldiers waited to see a doctor, after all. Serving those who served is not necessarily a priority, but saving the planet is Job 1. Solar panels and windmills can be more important than the touch of a healing hand.

"The department early on set up an Office of Green Management Programs designed to “help VA facilities nationwide recognize opportunities to green VA, and to reward innovative ‘green’ practices and efforts by individual facilities and staff within the VA.” This sometimes means paying more attention to greening the department and saving the polar ice caps than to health care."... 
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"At the Phoenix VA Health Care System, where 20 Americans died from incompetence and cover-up, the department spent $20 million putting solar panels on the hospital roofs."  Read more:

IRS Destroyed Hard Drive Lois Lerner Used at Time of Tea Party Targeting

Heritage  "Lois Lerner’s missing emails are likely gone forever because the Internal Revenue Service destroyed the hard drive she used at the time tea party groups were targeted, according to sources on Capitol Hill."

Darrell Issa, R-Calif., chairman of the House Committee On Oversight and Government Reform said:

If the IRS truly got rid of evidence in a way that violated the Federal Records Act and ensured the FBI never got a crack at recovering files from an official claiming a Fifth amendment protection against self-incrimination, this is proof their whole line about ‘losing’ emails in the targeting scandal was just one more attempted deception. Old and useless binders of information are still stored and maintained on federal agency shelves; official records, like the e-mails of a prominent official, don’t just disappear without a trace unless that was the intention.

denverpost.com 

President Obama's counsellors

http://terrellaftermath.com/

Why People Zone Out on Hillary

We watched the Greta Van Susteren/ Brett Baier interview of Hillary and were fascinated by their interesting and incisive questions. Hillary's answers, however, were, um, well..."nothingburgers", to coin a word.  TD

PJ Media   

 ... "Most people know she’s basically dishonest, a prevaricator.  Even liberals, though they won’t readily admit it, know this.  Who can forget her blaming her husband’s compulsive philandering on the “great, right-wing conspiracy”?  If they only had such power. Or the dim-witted claims of being under fire when she hadn’t been (at least Geraldo makes a show of ducking)  and, more recently, the banshee-cry of “What difference does it make?” concerning the deaths of our people in Benghazi?

 

" The Benghazi lies are actually exponential. (I’m not even going to go back to Whitewater, the miracle quick killing on the stock market, the mysterious Rose Law Firm bill and all the rest.)" ...

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"So Hillary is a nowhere woman, trying to replace a nowhere man, which is saying something given Obama’s recent poll numbers. And no one wants to pay attention to a nowhere woman who has been a serial liar. It’s stupefying."

 

Cartoon and quote below from hopenchangecartoons

 ...By all accounts, the book is a ponderous doorstop of meaninglessness - which is hardly surprising since even news junkies such as ourselves are hard pressed to come up with a single hard (let alone successful) choice that Hillary made as Secretary of State...