Obama facing crisis over incompetence

Hot Air    ...."The Obama administration has been damaged by the scandals of the past two months, but it’s still too early to see if they will cause the kind of long-term damage Bush suffered from those two chapters in his presidency.  It may well be that incompetence is the better option in terms of perception for Obama and his White House, depending on what the investigations find."

The administration is facing a crisis of competence. At a time when trust in government is already at an all-time low, the events of this past week illustrate the limits of this president’s power. The White House seems more comfortable stage-managing the news than dealing with the uncomfortable crises that inevitably crop up. (If there’s anything to learn from the Benghazi crisis, it was the administration’s attentiveness to detail in how to avoid blame in the aftermath of the crisis, but a lack of focus in how to react as the crisis was occurring.)

In the above National Journal article, Obama's Crisis of Competence,

"For months, as the Morsi government has taken steps to consolidate power, quash critics and marginalize independent civil society groups, President Obama and his top aides have been largely silent in public. No effort was made to use the leverage of U.S. aid to compel a change of policy."

Quoting Bloomberg News: John Kerry’s Bid for Mideast Peace Is Doomed:  "It’s a testament to U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry’s grit, determination and self-assurance that he refuses to give up in his quest to bring Israelis and Palestinians back to the negotiating table. But I wish that he would, during the long slog toward renewed talks, ask himself one question: Why didn’t his predecessor, Hillary Clinton, apply herself to the problem in the same manner?"

Related: Which is in worse shape, Obama’s domestic agenda or his foreign policy?    "Encouraged by the president, the notion is rampant that America can take a holiday from history. In the real world, we and our allies face an upsurge in instability, violence, Islamic extremism and contempt for human rights — which is what one gets when the United States takes the left’s advice and stops being the “world’s policeman.” " 

July 4, 1976--> Remembering Entebbe- When Leaders Stood Up To Terrorists

Yid With Lid  "On America's two hundredth birthday it was Israel who showed the world the "Spirit of 1776."
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"Thirty-seven years ago it was a different world.  Israel stood up to terrorists and their daring raid was celebrated across the world. Today it is the terrorists who are celebrated, that is if they are mentioned at all.

"Much of the intervening years was filled with Western appeasement of terrorism.  We negotiate, we give in to their demands, we refuse to call them terrorists, we celebrate terrorists like Arafat and Abbas, we even blame terrorist acts on the victims. 

"Entebbe was the almost a final act of Western defiance, with every act of appeasement, with each acquiescence to terrorist demands, terrorism is suckling at the teat of Western lack of resolve. In the end, the west is feeding the monster that will cause its destruction."

Yonatan Netanyahu,  the Prime Minister's older brother

 and team leader was the only Israeli commando killed

 during the operation. 

 

Hat tip to Jeffrey Dunetz at Conservative Bloggers on Facebook

We must all have skin in the game

http://netrightdaily.com/2013/07/sacrifices/

Alan Caruba: Wind Power Lunacy

Warning Signs

"Can you love nature when it is covered with wind turbines? Or solar panels?"
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"My personal objection to wind power is the sheer ugliness of these devices. The notion of covering hillsides and plains with them is an offence to the land—to the nature Greens profess to love—and to the many thousands of birds they slaughter every year."

Sounding The Alarm - New Regulations On The Way From The EPA

FreedomWorks  "Last week, President Obama marked the next step in his second term agenda in a speech about global warming and the EPA. The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) began sounding the alarm immediately about the current regulatory nightmare that has removed local control over environmental decisions, and the new regulations that are on the way out of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). When you start digging into the ALEC report on the actions of the EPA under the Obama administration, a bleak and troubling picture emerges. The EPA has been charged with expanding its role in regulating almost every aspect of American life. This will result in less individual freedom, less local control and more power being consolidated at the federal level, and the economic impact will be nothing short of devastating."
Hat tip to Jeff Reynolds at Conservatives Network

 

Librarians Heed The Call, Will Be Trained To Sell Obamacare…

Weasel Zippers…

This is an update to this story.
 

The story: The Sellout: American Libraries to Promote Obamacare
"The American Library Association announced on Sunday that public libraries
across the country will be partnering with the Department of Health and Human Services to help millions of uninsured Americans sign up for Obamacare."

Obama and the crumbling of a liberal fantasy hero

The Financial Times

"It has taken a long time, but the world’s fantasies about Barack Obama are finally crumbling. In Europe, once the headquarters of the global cult of Obama, the disillusionment is particularly bitter. Monday’s newspapers were full of savage quotes about the perfidy of the Obama-led US.

"Der Spiegel, the German magazine that alleged that America’s National Security Agency has bugged the EU’s offices, thundered that “the NSA’s totalitarian ambition . . . affects us all . . . A constitutional state cannot allow it. None of us can allow it.” President François Hollande of France has demanded that the alleged spying stop immediately. Le Monde, Mr Hollande’s home-town newspaper, has even suggested that the EU should consider giving political asylum to Edward Snowden, the NSA whistleblower.

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This article does support Obama with these words:

"Mr Obama was living in a real universe, full of hard choices. It was his overheated critics who lived in a fantasy world."

Ironic that Europe condemns Obama for several of the things I feel he does right. As far as I'm concerned, he needs more of Dick Cheney's qualities.

 

One of the comments in this article:

"It has gradually dawned on President Obama’s foreign fan club that their erstwhile hero is using methods that would be bitterly denounced if he were a white Republican"

Video links about the Battle of Gettysburg

Gettysburg: A Battle Summary

Computerized Battle of Gettysburg

Gettysburg Movie the best part - Battle of Little Round Top

Gettysburg and Stories of Valor - Part 1

Rare Footage of Civil War Veterans Doing the Rebel Yell
"Thank you Smithsonian for uploading this! Most thought the rebel yell was lost to a memory. The sound still gives this northern born boy a chill up his spine. "

GETTYSBURG BATTLEFIELD DIORAMA

History Channel's Battle of Gettysburg

Gettysburg Reunion,1913

In 1913 participants of the GETTYSBURG battle get together.

Little did the Platters know in 1955 that their song would be so appropriate today, 58 years later

The Great Pretender

Hat tip to Bill Smith

West Goes Nuclear On Obama: “The Time Draws Near To Teach This Usurper And Charlatan The Lesson Our Forefathers Taught King George III”…

Weasel Zippers " “Teens trained to be messengers to family members.” Covered California spokeswoman Sarah Soto-Taylor said staff have not questioned this goal. She stated, “We have confidence that the model LA Unified brought to the table will be successful in reaching our target population, which includes family members of students.” LA Unified will also use tax-paid staff to promote ObamaCare through phone calls to students’ homes, in-class presentations, and meetings with employees eligible for ObamaCare’s taxpayer-covered healthcare, the grant award says."

 

Trayvon Martin case: How Rachel Jeantel went from star witness to 'train wreck'

The Christian Science Monitor "To be sure, in the scathing commentary about what some called her puzzling demeanor and alleged lack of education was lost her singular background and her youth: A black and Creole girl growing up in a segregated Miami community, she represented part of the problem of the case – an America so divided, that many can’t “code-switch,” or move between the gauzy racial, cultural, and socioeconomic divides that have become hardened with the nation’s first black president, and which have helped fuel political polarization.

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Krauthammer; Nationalized gay marriage, now inevitable

Charles Krauthammer   "Under the Defense of Marriage Act, the federal government does not recognize same-sex marriages even in states that have legalized it. This week, the Supreme Court ruled DOMA unconstitutional.

"There are two possible grounds, distinct and in some ways contradictory, for doing so. The curious thing about the court’s DOMA decision is that it contains both rationales.

"The first is federalism. Marriage is the province of the states. Each state decides who is married and who is not. The federal government may not intrude. It must therefore recognize gay marriage where it has been legalized."....