Artist Jon McNaughton’s Painting Perfectly Captures Obama’s Blundering Foreign Policy

Downtrend

"See the beautiful painting pictured above? Controversial artist Jon McNaughton released it this past Monday as a critique of President Barack Obama’s blundering foreign-policy decisions, reports CBS Local:

McNaughton explains on his Facebook page, “I felt a need to paint a new image to capture the delicate situation we face as Americans. What has happened since he’s been in office? Where is the stability and peace in Egypt, Libya, Syria, Yemen, Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Crimea, Ukraine, Russia, Iran, Israel, Palestine, China and North Korea? How are our veterans doing? Are American citizens safer as they travel abroad?”

"This is certainly not the first time McNaughton has used art to slam the president.

"Back in February 2012, artist Jon McNaughton released “The Forgotten Man,” which depicts Obama callously stepping on the U.S. Constitution:" . . . More

ACLU demands removal of 'Christian' philosophy from school superintendent hunt

Michigan Live

The American Civil Liberties Union of Michigan urges McBain Rural
Agricultural Schools near Cadillac to remove "a strong Christian
background and philosophy" from a superintendent job description posting.

"MCBAIN, MI -- McBain Rural Agricultural Schools' search for a new superintendent who has "a strong Christian background and philosophy" is under scrutiny from the American Civil Liberties Union of Michigan."

. . . "State ACLU leaders wrote a letter to the district on Tuesday, March 3, urging the district remove any reference to religion, saying the requirement violates multiple federal and state laws against discrimination

" 'There is no principle more fundamental to American public education than the requirement that schools be welcoming of all students, employees and administrators regardless of religious or ethnic background," Dan Korobkin, ACLU of Michigan deputy legal director wrote. "Our Constitution wisely requires public schools to remain neutral in matters of religion. When a school favors one religion over another, or religion over non-religion, students and teachers who do not subscribe to the favored religion are made to feel like they do not belong.". . .

"UPDATE: 'Christian' philosophy removed from school job ad, apology offered after ACLU complaint"

Netanyahu responds to Obama: We did indeed present practical alternative to Iran deal (UPDATED)

Jerusalem Post

"Jerusalem - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Wednesday his speech to the U.S. Congress offered a “practical alternative” to a possible Iranian nuclear deal and that lawmakers now “understand better” why the deal is bad.

"Netanyahu’s assertion came after President Barack Obama said the Israeli leader had offered no viable alternative to preventing Iran from getting nuclear weapons.

“ 'There was nothing new” in the speech, Obama said. He said Netanyahu made almost the same speech when he warned against the interim deal reached with Iran, but that the interim deal has resulted in a freeze and rolling back of Iran’s nuclear program." . . .

Update from Dry Bones

Benjamin Netanyahu dismisses Barack Obama’s criticism  "The prime minister told reporters that he got a good bipartisan impression at the U.S. Capitol."

Iran Rejects Obama’s 10-Year Nuke Offer, Leads the attack on ISIS

Patterico's Pontifications   "Back to the drawing board.

"Look for the Obama/Kerry Axis of Stupid to cave in 5. . . 4. . . 3. . . 2. . . .

That’s precisely the rationale the Mullahs have settled on. Especially since the Iranians have seen Obama’s bargaining position slip from obstructing, to containing (remember Hagel’s Freudian slip during his Senate confirmation hearings), to enabling.
The grovelling and begging was never a negotiating position, as some have observed; rather, it was President Jarrett/Obama’s preferred tactic.
Kerry told reporters: “We’re working away. Productively.”

 Obama’s Iranian-nuclear strategy brings dividend: Rev Guards lead military assault on Tikrit

Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani on Tikrit battlefront

. . . "For four reasons, this battle is loaded with ramifications for Obama’s Iran policy and the Islamic Republic’s drive for recognition as the leading Middle East power:

1.   For Tehran it is a high-stake gamble for prestige, Its top military strategist, Al Qods Brigades chief Gen. Qassem Soleimani, was thrown into the Tikrit operation, to become the first high-ranking general Iran has ever placed publicly up front in direct command of a key battle as a guarantee of its success.

2.  However, three days after the offensive was launched on Sunday, March 1, the 25,000 Iranian and Iraqi troops, backed by Iraqi Shiite militias, were still fighting outside its gates, upsetting the high hopes of a swift victory and breakthrough into the city.
Islamist forces slowed their advance by strewing hundreds of mines and roadside bombs on all the roads leading to Tikrit, while teams of suicide bombers jumped out and blew themselves up amidst the invading army – a tactic seen before in the battle for the Syrian Kurdish town of Kobani.
ISIS boasted that one of the suicide bombers was an American citizen whom they dubbed “Abu Dawoud al-Amriki.”
3.  The United States has no military input in the battle - neither US advisers on the ground nor aerial bombardment.  . . .

Lib Rag Slate Outraged: Netanyahu A Big “Bully” For Criticizing Obama…

Bullying? How about a President who spends great sums of money barricading national monuments during a government shutdown to make sure the American people were "hurt"?

Weasel Zippers

The Betrayal Papers, Part III Of V: Obama’s Scandals And Assaults On Freedoms Explained

"The Obama administration’s scandals and domestic policies are often directly linked to the Muslim Brotherhood and their goals for Islamic conquest."

Noisy Room

The Betrayal Papers Part I – Under Obama: U.S. Captured by the Muslim Brotherhood, presented a picture of a conspiracy that is manipulating the American government. Part II – In Plain Sight: A National Security “Smoking Gun”named several people in the Obama administration who have documented associations to Muslim Brotherhood front groups and the State of Qatar. This article will explore the deliberate strategy of the Muslim Brotherhood and the Obama administration to cripple the middle class and to steer the American economy, as well as identify, to the extent possible, their role in many Obama scandals.

. . . "Abu Musab al-Suri had a terrorist superstar with Osama bin Laden. However, when it comes to economically knee-capping the American economy, Barack Hussein Obama has proved far more effective than the cave rat, Sheikh bin Laden." . . .

Maybe Hillary Clinton Should Retire Her White House Dreams

Maybe she doesn't want to run in 2016, top Democrats wonder. Maybe she shouldn't.

Ron Fournier

"Perhaps Hillary Rodham Clinton shouldn't run for president.

"Maybe she should stay at the Bill, Hillary & Chelsea Clinton Foundation, where the former secretary of State could continue her life's work of building stronger economies, health care systems, and families. Give paid speeches. Write best-selling books. Spend time withCharlotte, her beloved granddaughter.

"Because she doesn't seem ready for 2016. Like a blast of wintry air in July, the worst of 1990s-style politics is intruding on what needs to be a new millennium campaign: Transparent, inspirational, innovative, and beyond ethical reproach.

"Two weeks ago, we learned that the Clinton Foundation accepted contributions from foreign countries. Assurances from the Obama administration and Clinton aides that no donations were made during her tenure as secretary of State were proven false." . . .

Related: Clinton's 2016 Gender Play

Democratic NY Assemblyman on Iran Deal: 'I Am Really Ashamed of Obama'

 Fox News Insider

"Democratic New York Assemblyman Dov Hikind today took on the administration and members of his party who boycotted Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s address to Congress today.

"Hikind said that Netanyahu powerfully discussed the implications for both Israel and America if a deal is made with Iran. Hikind slammed Secretary of State John Kerry for “negotiating with the terrorist state of Iran.”

“ 'I am really ashamed of the president of the United States and his administration, that they are pursuing the deal that is dangerous for the people of Israel,” Hikind said.

"Hikind said that the people of Israel “do not trust Obama,” and that America’s strength and leadership have been “missing in action.' ”    Via Lucianne

Wiesel on Iran: ‘When Evil Begins Its Work Don’t Give It Another Chance’

“I learned to rely not on the promises of our friends but the threats of our enemies,” Wiesel said. "

PJ Media

"Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel will be in the House chamber to hear Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech to a joint session of Congress on Tuesday.

"But first, Wiesel stopped Monday at the Dirksen Senate office building — accompanied by his wife, coming straight from the airport — for a heart-to-heart with Israel supporters and a bank of TV cameras to remind America that “silence is not an option.”

"Code Pink interrupted the meeting in the Senate hearing room, brandishing signs criticizing AIPAC and one that read “parking for Palestinians only.” Many of those who showed up to hear Wiesel bore lanyards from the AIPAC megaconference at D.C.’s convention center.

"The crowd chanted “get out” at Code Pink, and organizer Rabbi Shmuley Boteach lectured the protesters after they grabbed hold of a mic. They were led out by Capitol Police before 86-year-old Wiesel arrived.

"Boteach called Wiesel “the living face of the six million murdered in the Holocaust.”

“'The privilege of hearing Elie Wiesel on any occasion is historic,” the rabbi explained, but Wiesel coming to Washington to support the Jewish state on the eve of Netanyahu’s address made it an especially “historic discussion.”

“ 'I learned to rely not on the promises of our friends but the threats of our enemies,” Wiesel said. “When our enemies make threats, take them seriously.”

“ '…If they say so and they repeatedly say so we should take them seriously.”. . .

110,000 Illegal Immigrants Get California Driver’s Licenses In 7 Weeks

Legal Insurrection

"The last time we checked on California’s new rules for issuing driver’s licenses to undocumented immigrants, the Department of Motor Vehicles was so overwhelmed with requests for new licenses that it can take up to three months to get an appointment…even for lawful citizens.

"The new program has been so popular that now over 110,000 illegal immigrants now hold those vital pieces of identification." . . .

Commentary on Netanyahu's speech before Congress

Alan Caruba

"In 1933, approximately 9.5 million Jews lived in Europe, representing 1.7% of the total European population which, in turn, was about 60% of the Jewish world population, estimated to have been 15.2 million.

"By 1945, in the wake of the Holocaust, two out of every three Jews would be dead.

"By 2012 the global Jewish population by had reached 13.75 million. That is less than 0.2 percent of the world’s population.

"The Israeli Central Bureau of Statistics reported that 43% of the world’s Jewish community lives in Israel. Sharing Israel as their home were 1,636,600 Arabs and a diverse population of Christians and non-Jews, numbering around 318,000.

"If the Iranians make good on their threat to “wipe Israel off the map”, presumably with nuclear weapons they would acquire by stealth and deception, the Jewish world population would be cut nearly in half." . . .

How radical and extreme is Obama?  "In a shocking op-ed by the editor-in-chief of the fiercely anti-Israel paper, al-Arabiya, Faisal Abbas admits that Netanyahu is right, Iran must be dealt with. Obama is out-radicalizing the radicals." . . .

Netanyahu exposes madness of a bad deal with Iran in speech to Congress  "Speaking to a joint meeting of Congress, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu showed the world what strong diplomatic leadership looks like in facing the threat of a nuclear Iran.  It was a historic speech, and Netanyahu used the opportunity to make the case that the alterative to the deal under negotiation is not “no deal,” it is “a better deal.”

Pelosi Exits Chamber Before Netanyahu  "House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D., Calif.) made her lack of enthusiasm for Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu’s speech apparent throughout the remarks, applauding half-heartedly and then quickly exiting the chamber after the speech, before Netanyahu did.' . . .

Dennis Prager; Why Obama So Dislikes Netanyahu    "There is no question about whether President Obama — along with Secretary of State John Kerry and the editorial pages of many newspapers — has a particular dislike of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. But there is another question: Why? And the answer is due to an important rule of life that too few people are aware of: Those who do not confront evil resent those who do.

'ATOMIC IRAN' FORETOLD NETANYAHU'S WARNING

WND   "Ten years ago, Jerome R. Corsi, Ph.D., published his first WND bestselling book, “Atomic Iran: How the Terrorist Regime Bought the Bomb and American Politicians,” in which he predicted events unfolding now.

“ 'In 2005, when publishers for whom I had written top-selling books turned down my proposal to write a book warning of the dangers Iran’s nuclear program posed, only Joseph Farah and WND had the foresight and courage to publish a book considered at the time to be enormously controversial,” Corsi said.

“ 'Few people 10 years ago wanted to believe Iran’s nuclear program could be a threat not only to Israel, but to the region and the world.”

"In “Atomic Iran,” Corsi predicted the following:" . . .

. . .

"Corsi wrote of Hitler in describing the hatred the radical Islamic mullahs and their sympathizers in Iran have toward the Jews.

“ 'Hitler revealed in ‘Mein Kampf’ that he intended to commit genocide on the Jews of Germany,” Corsi wrote on pages 40-41. “Many did not take him seriously; the thought was simply too extreme, too mad. Yet he communicated his true intentions, even if only those who knew how to listen to disturbed personalities believed him at the time.

“ 'So, too, the mad mullahs who rule Iran have been clearly telling the world that they intend to use their missiles, and when they have them, their nuclear weapons,” Corsi continued." . . .

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