“The administration is sounding like Baghdad Bob”

Legal Insurrection

 

 . . . "Krauthammer isn’t alone in this view.
" This editorial from the New York Post echoes the sentiment:"

In ISIS fight, Team Obama puts spinning ahead of winning

If Baghdad Bob and Hillary Clinton had a love child, he’d probably be hard at work for the Obama administration, denying the importance of ISIS’s gains in Iraq.

Bob was Saddam Hussein’

s mouthpiece during the 2003 liberation of Iraq. As coalition forces advanced on the capital, he kept insisting, “All is well.”

Hillary, meanwhile, evaded questions about the assault on the US consulate in Benghazi with the infamous line, “What difference at this point does it make?”

Team Obama combines the two tactics.

The loss of Ramadi, the capital of Iraq’s Anbar province, is a distinct sign that President Obama’s anti-ISIS strategy is failing. And all the efforts, from the president on down, to pretend otherwise won’t make it so.

Obama and Hillary Are All Too Happy to Coerce Acceptance of Their Agendas

Rich Terrell

Victor Davis Hanson  "What happens when the public does not wish to live out the utopian dreams of its elite leaders? Usually, the answer for those leaders is to seek more coercion and less liberty to force people to think progressively.

"Here at home, President Barack Obama came into power in 2009 with a Democratic Congress, a sympathetic press, and allies in Hollywood, academia, unions, and philanthropic and activist foundations.

"Yet all that support was not sufficient to ensure “correct” public attitudes about Obama’s agenda on health care, entitlements, taxes, guns, abortion, and cultural issues.

"How, then, do politically correct planners force the people to think and act properly when they push back?

"Extra-legal executive orders can help a president bypass supposed troglodytes in Congress and among the public.

“We’re going to have to change how our body politic thinks, which means we’re going to have to change how the media reports on these issues.”
— President Obama

"Obama granted blanket amnesties, proposed rules that would lead to the closure of many coal plants, and arbitrarily chose which health or labor statutes should be enforced and at what times. A filmmaker was even jailed on a trumped-up probation charge after making a video about Islam that was deemed unhelpful to the official administration Benghazi narrative. The IRS hounded nonprofit groups considered insufficiently progressive.

"In a recent rant about conservative Fox News — which has a fraction of the combined audience of the liberal mainstream networks ABC, CBS, and NBC — Obama warned that the media are going to have change the very way they report news. Presumably, Obama believes that Fox tricks the unknowing masses into thinking wrong thoughts, especially about the relationship between the poor and government assistance.

"As Obama put it: “We’re going to have to change how our body politic thinks, which means we’re going to have to change how the media reports on these issues, and how people’s impressions of what it’s like to struggle in this economy looks like.”

"Given the First Amendment, how can the president “change” the media? Should the Federal Communications Commission pick and choose acceptable news outlets in the same manner that Lois Lerner ran her exempt-organizations division at the IRS?" Full article here.

"Arab Muslims are the most racist people on earth, even using the same Arabic word for ‘black’ and ‘slave.’ So it shocking that so many black people in the U.S. willingly convert to Islam despite how racist it is."

Bare Naked Islam
 "The English anti-Obama signs (some of which are posted below) in Egypt because of his support for now deposed and sentenced to death former president Mohamed Morsi are virtually free of racist language, but apparently not so in the Arabic media. "

 

. . . "So popular is this title, that it is given to Obama in Egypt, which the Jerusalem Al-Qudscirculated, that in one mainstream national television program, Al-Rasd, it did not condemn or censor one interview on the streets of Egypt calling Obama even worse terms than just the ‘N’ word. The scene with posters of Al-Sisi in full view of the camera, one women says that having a military man like Al-Sisi in Egypt is best since he can be a terror to Al-Kalb, El-A’bd Obama, in English: “Obama the Dog the N----r”. . . "    Epithet redacted by TD

. . . "The top ranked Yom7 mainstream TV in Egypt, the view on President Obama from the streets of Cairo using vile terminology is neither condemned or censored, the Muslim woman dressed in Hijab speaks in English, except in the end, knowing that this is only for Arabs, she says a few words in Arabic calling President Obama Jild Al-Hantour Obama, Arabic for “brown skinned carriage mule.”
Video in English: . . .

This lady wants to be the leader of the free world!

The left demonstrates its blinding brilliance (again)   These people vote!

"But one brave collegiate-looking lad straight out of Hillary Clinton for President central casting came to the rescue with this amazing save:

She’s been at a high level in numerous offices for about 25 years now. I mean, it’s either going to be that or it’s going to be Scott Walker and, you know, by taking away, you know, destroying America’s unions, and there’s just, you know. She’s not perfect, um, but she’s been in the eye for a long time, the public’s eye, and you’re going to have some stuff on her. But, you know, she has great policies and she knows how to get stuff done.

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 Much more here.

Clinton's Friday document dump  . . . "State Department Releases First Round of Clinton Emails (All 298 Of Them)"
. . ." The State Department announced plans earlier this week the rest of Clinton's emails, which were hosted on a personal server before they were deleted

Andrew C. McCarthy: Hillary Discussed Highly Sensitive Information, Now Classified “Secret,” on Her Private Email – as We Predicted …

. . . "Within hours, the Obama administration was forced to concede that at least one of the emails contained classified information.

. . . "Yet it is already clear that, as secretary of state, she did business in a way that was, at a minimum, grossly irresponsible … and quite possibly worse. She had to have realized the near certainty that an official of her stature would have been targeted for surveillance of her private emails by foreign intelligence services. Yet, in her determination not to leave a paper trail that might damage her political prospects, she ignored the risks. The Justice Department, which has prosecuted high government officials for mishandling national defense information, should be investigating – and that includes acquiring custody of Mrs. Clinton’s private server."

Mike Ramirez on Memorial Day, 2015; a tribute from the Tunnel Wall

http://www.investors.com/editorial-cartoons/michael-ramirez/753999

"Taliban ambushed US troops near Bagram killing 6 soldiers and wounding many.-Taliban Sources"

OUR FALLEN SOLDIERS TRIBUTE

Tides of War

HopeN'Change Cartoons

 

"On Wednesday, Barack Obama spoke at the commencement of the US Coast Guard Academy to make the graduates aware of the crucial role they'll be playing in his War On Weather.

"Specifically, he declared that "climate change constitutes a serious threat to global security - an immediate risk to our national security. And make no mistake, it will impact how our military defends our country. So we need to act and we need to act now."

"As if this wasn't enough to get the graduating class glancing nervously at the skies, Obama said that failure to embrace liberal climate change orthodoxy amounted to negligence and dereliction of duty. He then linked the raping, murdering, kidnapping, slave-trading activities of pretty much every terrorist organization to the alleged reduction in the world's precious permafrost. Put another way, he's less concerned with ISIS at our doors than ices at our poles..."
 

Mike Huckabee supports Josh Duggar; UPDATE: left's schadenfreude

 We know the family is supportive of Josh and one prays especially that they have done much to heal those whom he molested.  TD

TPM   "The liberal TPM refers to the Duggar family as "ultra  conservative".

 

"Josh’s actions when he was an underage teen are as he described them himself, 'inexcusable,' but that doesn’t mean 'unforgivable,'" Huckabee wrote in a Facebook post. "He and his family dealt with it and were honest and open about it with the victims and the authorities. No purpose whatsoever is served by those who are now trying to discredit Josh or his family by sensationalizing the story."

UPDATE: Josh Duggar and the left's schadenfreude
. . . " Not surprisingly, the liberal media are having a field day with this story.  Remember: if you’re outspokenly conservative and desire to be in the public eye, you’d better be squeaky-clean.  The left will still despise you, but at least they can’t ruin you.

"Former Arkansas governor and presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee released the following statement in support of the Duggars.  It’s quite good." . . .

Read more: However this author has a friend who is totally dissatisfied with the Duggar apology.

"However, Catholic author and speaker Dawn Eden (in the interest of full disclosure, Dawn is a friend of mine) – who’s no liberal – is critical of the Duggars’ statement to the media. She wrote:. . . "

You want hypotheticals? Here’s one: Knowing what we know now, was abandoning Iraq in 2011 the right thing to do?

 George W. Bush was right about Iraq pullout

"At a White House news conference on July 12, 2007, Bush declared: “I know some in Washington would like us to start leaving Iraq now. To begin withdrawing before our commanders tell us we’re ready would be dangerous for Iraq, for the region and for the United States. It would mean surrendering the future of Iraq to al-Qaeda. It would mean that we’d be risking mass killings on a horrific scale. It would mean we’d allow the terrorists to establish a safe haven in Iraq to replace the one they lost in Afghanistan. It would mean we’d be increasing the probability that American troops would have to return at some later date to confront an enemy that is even more dangerous.”

"He had no idea at the time how prophetic his words would be." . . .

Now, on to the article by Mr. Krauthammer.   (Cartoon added by TD)

Displaced Iraqis from Ramadi cross the Bzebiz bridge near Baghdad while fleeing fighting. 

"Ramadi falls. The Iraqi army flees. The great 60-nation anti-Islamic State coalition so grandly proclaimed by the Obama administration is nowhere to be seen. Instead, it’s the defense minister of Iran who flies into Baghdad, an unsubtle demonstration of who’s in charge — while the U.S. air campaign proves futile and America’s alleged strategy for combating the Islamic State is in freefall.

"It gets worse. The Gulf states’ top leaders, betrayed and bitter, ostentatiously boycott President Obama’s failed Camp David summit. “We were America’s best friend in the Arab world for 50 years,” laments Saudi Arabia’s former intelligence chief.

Note: “were,” not “are.”

"We are scraping bottom. Following six years of President Obama’s steady and determined withdrawal from the Middle East, America’s standing in the region has collapsed. And yet the question incessantly asked of the various presidential candidates is not about that. It’s a retrospective hypothetical: Would you have invaded Iraq in 2003 if you had known then what we know now?

"First, the question is not just a hypothetical but an inherently impossible hypothetical." . . .

Read the full article here

Democrats, are you SURE you want this woman as our president?

Another reason why Hillary Clinton does not deserve to be president . . .  What sensitive but unclassified information did Hillary have in her private account? According to the Times, “that information included the whereabouts and travel plans of American officials in Libya as security there deteriorated during the uprising against the leadership of Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi in 2011.' ” . .

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How Bad Spin Works: A Handy Lesson from the Clinton/Blumenthal E-Mails   . . . " The running theme of Blumenthal's missives to his "old friend," the Democratic frontrunner, is that Blumenthal is a gusher of terrible advice. The revelation of these emails is that even terrible advice could pay off, if the media was willing to accept a narrative that made the Clintons' enemies look malicious." . . ....

Clinton 'sex victim' goes full frontal on Hillary "Kathleen Willey, the former volunteer aide to Bill Clinton who claims the president sexually assaulted her in the White House in 1993, went on national television Tuesday night to escalate her new battle against former First Lady Hillary Clinton, considered by many to be the leading candidate for the Democratic nomination for the Oval Office in 2016.

“ 'I think she needs to be exposed for all the terror campaigns she has raised against women who were at the wrong place at the wrong time with her husband,” Willey told Megyn Kelly of Fox News." . . .
. . . 

"Willey told Kelly that, “Hillary Clinton is the war on women,” because of her attacks on women with whom her husband has dallied.

“"She enables him,” Willey said. “She realizes the power he has.' ” . . .
Emphasis mine, TD

Quick links, May 22. Includes Chris Kyle and the Duggars

Bill Passed: Texas Highway to be Named in Honor of ‘American Sniper’ Chris Kyle
 . . . "The Texas Senate passed House Bill 1187 designating a segment of U.S. Hwy 287 in Midlothian, as the Chris Kyle Memorial Highway." . . .

While Obama was quick to host alleged deserter Bowe Bergdahl’s parents at a Rose Garden ceremony that celebrated his release in a highly controversial prisoner swap, he couldn’t even pick up a phone and spend two minutes of his time to offer his condolences to the wife of a real American hero.

 Funeral procession for Chris Kyle in Midlothian, Texas.

 TLC takes 19 Kids and Counting off the air after revelation Josh molested young girls and his parents covered it up 

The family handled the issue as Jesus instructed us to in the Gospels. If I was party to this and was aware it was handled with confession, sorrowful repentance along with hatred for what he had done accompanied by counseling, I would want to keep the issue within our family. We should be vigilant and constantly aware of the presence of temptation.

I see genuine sorrow on the part of Josh and his family, which I did not see in the Clinton sex scandals -the Clintons tried to destroy Bill's victims - nor in that of Anthony Weiner (to name just two). This in no way is to excuse Josh's actions, but to simply express sadness that modern morals have left our culture insensitive to sins such as this, in fact, not even able to understand the the term "sin". I believe that in the eyes of liberals Josh's most egregious "sin" is that of being a Christian and a conservative. 
The liberal media can now, as liberal reporter Carol Costello would say, just “sit back and enjoy” before angrily faking moral indignation.    The Tunnel Dweller

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Special Ops to Obama: Let Us Fight ISIS, Already

 They’re supposed to be at the forefront of the battle against ISIS. But U.S. special operators say the Obama administration’s restrictive rules of war are harming their mission.

The Daily Beast
 
. . . "They were eager to talk about their aggravation over fighting by remote in Iraq and Syria: having to advise Iraqis, Kurdish Peshmerga, and rebel Syrian fighters from afar instead of joining them in battle.

“ 'We are doing everything through cellphones… It’s hard to do much when you can’t go outside the wire,” said one special operator, using the military jargon for the perimeter of a base.

"They blame the hands-off approach on an Obama administration unwilling to risk even small numbers of American lives in battle, burned by the fallout of the loss of four Americans in Benghazi, Libya, and intent on preserving the legacy of President Barack Obama’s troop drawdowns in Iraq and Afghanistan.

“ 'You can’t say ‘We’re with you every step of the way, except when you are going on combat operations,’” said a former senior special operations official briefed on the ISIS campaign." . . .

Halperin Finds Iowa Democrats Can’t Name Hillary Accomplishments as Secretary of State

Mediaite  "Mark Halperin With All Due Respectsat down with a focus group of Iowa Democratic voters to discuss Hillary Clinton‘s prospects for the 2016 presidential election.

"While the group fawned over the former First Lady’s personality and politics (one called her a “bad mama jama”), they were stumped when Halperin asked them to name a single accomplishment of Hillary Clinton’s during her tenure as Secretary of State.

" 'The responses ranged from “I really can’t name anything off the top of my head” to “Give me two minutes” to “I honestly can’t say I followed along everything that was going on” to outright “No.”

"Washington Post‘s “The Fix” blog noted that while it’s stunning that some of her biggest fans cannot name her State Department achievements, “not being able to name specific things politicians have done isn’t that unusual for the average voters. Quick, name something that John Kerry has done as Secretary of State. Right. Think Iowa Republicans could do much better naming significant things Jeb Bush did as governor or Marco Rubio has done in the Senate?”
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