Syria’s ‘reformer’

Charles Krauthammer  "And it’s not just the words; it’s the policy behind it. This delicacy toward Assad is dismayingly reminiscent of President Obama’s response to the 2009 Iranian uprising during which he was scandalously reluctant to support the demonstrators, while repeatedly reaffirming the legitimacy of the brutal theocracy suppressing them.
"Why? Because Obama wanted to remain “engaged” with the mullahs — so that he could talk them out of their nuclear weapons. We know how that went."

Obama in 2012; DON'T CHANGE!

Obama's First 2012 Election Stunt: Military Trials for KSM and Four 911 Muslim Terrorists
"Mr. David Beamer spoke eloquently! The man is thoughtful and has a great command of his spoken word. He trusts himself. He knows the enemy and he knows the material at hand. He was solid and straight forward! This man needs to be in the forefront of this trial as a public speaker every chance he can get! I loved his attitude and fortitude and it's no wonder his son reacted the way he did that fateful date, as they say about the apple!
Tim did a great job too, but I think he knew there wasn't much more to add to Mr. Beamers great commentary! God Bless America!"  From the comments to this article.

Obama's bizarrely discouraging pep talk  "Keep your eyes on the president's mental state. It all looked so easy when he was a candidate. He'd close Gitmo, try the 911 terrorists in New York, and take of everyone's health care. But now that he has executive responsibility for the first time in his life, it turns out the be a lot harder than he thought.
"Obama sounds to me like a man who is fighting off depression, and that would be understandable. In the past, all he had to do was sound good, and nobody would hold him responsible for outcomes. The Chicago Annenberg Challenge he chaired spent scores of millions of dollars with no positive impact, and nobody cared. He was president of the Harvard Law Review and failed to write a signed article, as was always the responsibility of presidents, and he got a big contract for an autobiography. He failed to deliver the manuscript, and nobody cared."

http://townhall.com/political-cartoons/bobgorrell

Neal Boortz  "As the election gets underway and the levels of support are counted, the Democrats can tally up the majority share of black voters, school teachers, single women, union members, government employees, and women who want the government to butt out of their private lives .. see where that leaves them, and then promise enough government spending and wealth redistribution to the rest in order to gain their majority."

Dick Morris: No way Obama wins in 2012 "The combination of high oil and gasoline prices, rising food costs, higher health insurance premiums and the likelihood of future inflation has jarred consumer confidence, creating a major crisis for the Obama administration.  The collapse has been sudden and dramatic."
The real deciding factor will be conditions in the nation at the time people vote, not now.

Jennifer Rubin: Obama, never demonstrating character, to run on it  "Really, what character is displayed by doing nothing in the face of a looming debt crisis and simply hanging back to demagogue your opponent?" Because it's what liberals-oops, progressives do.

http://townhall.com/political-cartoons/lisabenson

Special Report Panel on Obama's Reelection Announcement  "Steve Hayes, with Mara Liasson and Charles Krauthammer, last night on Fox News:"

Team Obama's Wyoming Howler

Wall Street Journal  "Under fire for rising gas prices, the Obama administration has been taking steps to promote a pro-energy policy. President Obama gave a speech Wednesday on "energy security," while Interior Secretary Ken Salazar spent last week in Wyoming boasting about the administration's new interest in coal mining. Or at least that was Mr. Salazar's intention, in an announcement that has since become a PR embarrassment."

http://terrellaftermath.com/

Thomas Sowell: Political Statistics

Townhall  "When someone gives you a check and the bank informs you that there are insufficient funds, who do you get mad at? In your own life, you get mad at the guy who gave you a check that bounced, not at the bank. But, in politics, you get mad at whoever tells you that there is no money."

http://www.nationalreview.com/ Mike Ramirez



A Commendable Budget Proposal  "Today House Budget Committee chairman Paul Ryan unveils his plan to save America’s future. I expect that three aspects will get a lot of attention: the proposal for Medicare, the reform of Medicaid, and the ten-year budget numbers. However, I think the most important feature of the budget is a vision for the role of government that restores the promise of long-term fiscal sobriety, economic growth, and intergenerational fairness.
"Imagine this: It will pay off the national debt by 2050."

Immaculate Intervention: The Wars of Humanitarianism

STRATFOR  "The doctrine becomes less coherent in a civil war in which one side is winning and promising to slaughter its enemies, Libya being the obvious example. Those intervening can claim to be carrying out a neutral humanitarian action, but in reality, they are intervening on one side’s behalf. If the intervention is successful — as it likely will be given that interventions are invariably by powerful countries against weaker ones — the practical result is to turn the victims into victors. By doing that, the humanitarian warriors are doing more than simply protecting the weak. They are also defining a nation’s history."

Immaculate Intervention: The Wars of Humanitarianism is republished with permission of STRATFOR.

http://townhall.com/political-cartoons/jerryholbert

Foxworthyish:Obama might be a socialist

Washington Times  "If [you] want to lower the cost of health care but left out tort reform, you might be a socialist lawyer.

"If you're a Columbia University professor and gave a student named Barack Obama an A in economics, you are definitely a socialist.
"And finally, in the eighth year of the Obama presidency, if Bangladesh is hosting "Aid America" concerts or you're standing in line for toilet paper, you have a socialist president.
"It's time to stand up and loudly call a socialist ... a socialist!"
Via Lucianne

Smearing Ryan's Medicare Plans

Paul Ryan

Washington Examiner  "It's also important to note that Medicare as we know it won't be around for future generations anyway, because it's financially unsustainable. So the real policy debate we need to having is whether we want to move in the liberal direction, which relies on higher taxes and more centrally-imposed cost controls, or a more free market approach in which taxes are kept low and health care costs are contained by creating a real consumer-driven market for health care. That debate is beyond the scope of this post, but the important point is that Medicare won't survive in its current form no matter what."

Obama Announces Reelection Bid

Drudge

National Journal  "For all of these problems, though, Obama has enduring strengths. Americans like him, and they like the idea of him. They believe he has their best interests at heart. They seem to understand that he surrounds himself with people who genuinely want to search for solutions, even if they get them wrong. And he has significant accomplishments to his name: the New START arms control treaty with Russia, the advancement of civil rights for gays, an education policy that is promising, a financial reform bill that shows signs of being tougher than expected."

Why Hillary Clinton must run in 2012  "To be fair, Hillary voters never fell in love with Obama, they just fell in line. Their relationship is less like a Julia Roberts chick flick and more like a Bengali arranged marriage.

"Because of their arrangement, Hillary-loving Obama voters are quick to jump ship whenever Mr. Hope-and-Change looks like he's getting played again by his political opponents, is in over his head or is dissing their girl." Remember that Clinton is still a socialist; Obama just has a way of making her look like William Buckley.

Who Still Supports Obama?  "One other interesting thing to note about the study is how students plan to get information about the 2012 campaign. Their first source is major national newspapers, which I assume means the New York Times and I assume they read online. But their second source of information about the 2012 campaign will be Facebook and friend statuses. "

Stamp of approval?

American Thinker  A civilization that exalts and celebrates its rock-stars and movie actors over its soldiers and important leaders has forgotten obvious things and is beyond decaying...it has but mere decades left. If a country has lost its collective memory, it cannot know what it was that made it once great.

Have you looked at U.S. postage stamps recently? They are childish, silly, and racist."
....

USPS

 "It's almost as though a law had been enacted to prevent the intelligent representation of American History through its postage stamps."

TIME Mag Editor: Burning the Koran Is Worse Than Burning Bible

Ghosh/ Charlierose.com

Gateway Pundit  "Time Magazine world editor Bobby Ghosh told host MSNBC host Chuck Todd on Friday that burning the Koran is worse than burning the Bible. According to Gnosh, the Koran is directly from God, while the Bible isn’t."

Wikipedia on Ghosh

Ghosh the Haditha "massacre" reporter  "Regular readers will recognize the name of the Muslim-born Aparisim ‘Bobby’ Ghosh.
"Mr. Ghosh, along with Tim McGirk gave us the ‘scoop’ libel that Marines had killed civilians in Haditha Iraq in cold blood. A report that turned out to be completely fabricated."  Hat tip to Rush Limbaugh

Obama draws the line on Libya

http://terrellaftermath.com/

Afghan mob kills at least 12 UN workers in protest over Terry Jones’s Koran-burning

Hot Air  "“Wait,” you say, “since when did Terry Jones burn a Koran?” Turns out he did it 12 days ago after some sort of kangaroo court/mock trial. I didn’t know about it until today; apparently, after being savaged last fall for condemning Jones’s provocation while devoting saturation coverage to it, most of the national media wisely decided to ignore him this time. Most, but not all: Someone must have picked up the story because, by last Thursday, our “friend” Hamid Karzai had formally denounced Jones’s act. "

Koran-burning pastor says murders of UN staff aren’t his fault  "Should Jones have burned the Koran? No. But not because doing so might incite some evil people halfway around the world to commit atrocities against innocents. Rather, he shouldn’t have done it was needlessly hurtful without adding any value to the debate. Indeed, aside from generating publicity for himself, he’s likely generated sympathy for Islam and disdain for churches of his ilk."