Sunday, October 11, 2009
Saturday Night Live Mocks Obama Winning Powerball on First Try
Gateway Pundit "Saturday Night Live sides with the terrorists--Obama: "I won the Nobel for not being George Bush."Sad but true. That's what the Europeans believe.It doesn't matter that George W. Bush liberated 50 million Muslims from two of the most violent regimes in history."
Chinese dissidents let down by Obama Nobel Breitbart "Some in China's democracy movement are outraged at what they see as a weak stance on rights by Obama, who the same week as Friday's announcement avoided a meeting with Tibet's exiled Dalai Lama that would have upset Beijing."
Saturday, October 10, 2009
Charles Krauthammer: Young Hamlet's Agony
Townhall On March 27, ...the president said this: "Today I'm announcing a comprehensive new strategy for Afghanistan and Pakistan." He then outlined a civilian-military counterinsurgency campaign to defeat the Taliban in Afghanistan. And to emphasize his seriousness, the president made clear that he had not arrived casually at this decision. The new strategy, he declared, "marks the conclusion of a careful policy review. Conclusion, mind you. Not the beginning. Not a process."
Hispanic Caucus Calls for Ending Program That Identified 100,000 Illegal Aliens, Many With Criminal Records
CNS News Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) “This is just another ploy by amnesty advocates to open our borders and stop enforcing the rule of law. This program has been an effective tool in cracking down on illegal immigration and enforcing our laws. We should make it a nationwide effort instead of shutting it down.”
The Styrofoam President
American Thinker "Receiving the so-called Peace Prize will not help. Mr. Obama will feel compelled to accomplish something big to fill the shoes he’s been handed. As we have already seen, alas, Obama’s goals are driven by ideology and are not good for the country." Other Awards Obama Deserves to Win David Haas, AT ;
Will Obama's Peace Prize hurt him politically? Ed Lasky;
Noonan on Obama’s Nobel
World Magazine "Noonan says that Obama can deflect the attention off himself when he accepts the award, by explaining the U.S. to the world – including a reminder that in order to have peace, you often have to kill the killers:..." h/t to Pete Smith
So, How Did They Explain It?
Powerline Blog "This is unintentionally self-revealing: the Norwegian Nobel Committee has been working at its left-wing task for 108 years, but just now, with President Obama's election, has the committee found a hero--someone whose liberal foreign policies line up "precisely" with the committee's own prejudices. How could the committee wait, when the very exemplar of its left-wing, trans-national foreign policy is at hand?"
Who Really Won? / In diminishing American power abroad, Obama and the U.S. choose decline.
Mark Steyn= "Why squander your presidency on trying to turn an economically moribund feudal backwater into a functioning nation state when you can turn a functioning nation state into an economically moribund feudal backwater?"
So Far, Media Quiet on D.C. Gay-Left Activism/Protest Weekend
Newsbusters "As expected, a cast of Hollywood liberals are official endorsers of the march for what they call "gay marriage":
What happened to global warming?
BBC "[ This scientist] claims that solar charged particles impact us far more than is currently accepted, so much so he says that they are almost entirely responsible for what happens to global temperatures. He is so excited by what he has discovered that he plans to tell the international scientific community at a conference in London at the end of the month.
If proved correct, this could revolutionise the whole subject. "
Barack Obama's peace prize starts a fight
UK Times online "In a clear swipe at his predecessor, George W. Bush, the committee praised the “change in the international climate” that the President had brought, along with his cherished goal of ridding the world of nuclear weapons." Breitbart h/t to Drudge.
Iran: Israel's threats inexplicable
YNET "Iran's ambassador to UN demands Security Council take steps against comments made by Ephraim Sneh, who said Israel would attack Iran if sanctions weren't in place by Christmas."
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