From the no-American-president-would-be-this-dumb file: Iran Official Says U.S. Should Apologize for Drone 'Invasion'

Iran demands US apologize for the drone incident:  Fox News  "Also Tuesday, Iranian lawmaker Hamid Rasaei told an open session of the Iranian parliament that the drone is staying in Iran, calling it a "war booty."  (Is this something Iran should apologize for?)
"Later, 186 lawmakers in the 290-seat assembly issued a statement condemning the "invasion" and urging the international community to take a stance toward the "dangerous act" by the U.S.

"Meanwhile, state TV said Obama's demand for the drone's return puts the U.S. in the role of "the beggar" over the issue.
"There are concerns in the U.S. that others may be able to reverse-engineer the chemical composition of the drone's radar-deflecting paint or the aircraft's sophisticated optics technology that allows operators to positively identify terror suspects from tens of thousands of feet in the air."....
"On Monday, another lawmaker, Parviz Sorouri, claimed Iranian experts were in the final stages of recovering data from the captured drone."

If Mr. Obama can take credit for getting bin Laden, cannot he also be credited with losing this drone? This next, related post looks like it should be in red...and bold.

Obama, foreign policy, and national survival   "Foreign policy is one area that a President of the United States cannot be permitted to fail in, not if the country wants to survive, that is. There is absolutely no doubt that Obama has failed miserably in this area in his first term and that he will also fail miserably in his second should he be re-elected as well given his personality, mentality and ideology...he is simply incapable of change and will continue down the same path he is on to the inevitable conclusion. There are only two things the American people can do to get themselves out of this mortal danger.
"Stymie him at every turn before the next election and then vote him out of office. Obstruct the bum and then get rid of him before he gets rid of us."

What Is An Ex-Iran Guard Commander Doing At The White House?   "If you worry about the growing influence of Iran in neighboring Iraq, look no further than the delegation that visited the White House to proclaim the end of the Iraq War. Standing with Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki during the ceremony with President Obama was Hadi Farhan al-Amiri, who is the Transportation Minister in the Iraqi government. But previously he was a commander in the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps. As the Washington Times points out, Mr. al-Amiri was a commander in the Badr Corps, a battalion that operated in….Iraq.
"Worried yet about the future of Iraq?"

The man of 1000 faces

http://terrellaftermath.com/

Ron Paul, a Conservative on the economy with a liberal foreign policy

DonkeyHotey

Reason #1067 why Ron Paul should never be elected president  by Rick Moran at American Thinker:

"And now he smears George Bush and his administration by making a statement that he just made up out of whole cloth. There is not one shred of evidence that anyone in the Bush administration was "gleeful" at any time, anywhere, for any reason connected to 9/11. It is a lie. Not even Bush's harshest, most unrelenting and unbalanced critics have ever made such a shocking, unproven allegation.

Bush may have been inept and inarticulate but if anything could be said about his and his administration's reaction to 9/11 and contemplation of war with Iraq, there was no "glee" to be found anywhere. Only in Ron Paul's warped imagination could such a thing be so."

 FOREIGN POLICY DOSSIER   "Paul said in an August debate in Iowa that the international effort to keep Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons makes tensions worse, placing himself firmly at odds with the Obama and Bush administrations. He argues it is natural that Iran, surrounded by nuclear-armed states, would want its own arsenal. And if the U.S. “tolerated” the Soviet Union and thousands of nuclear weapons but never went to war, he suggested, the U.S. should do the same with Iran. Paul told Fox News’ Chris Wallace last Sunday that he would end sanctions because he deems them an act of war. Characterizations of Iran as a threat, he said, were “blown out of proportion.”"
"DRONES HURT; SEND TERRORISTS TO COURT; CLOSE GITMO. Paul harshly condemned the U.S. drone strikes that killed two American citizens, Anwar al-Awlaki and Samir Khan, as “assassination” by “a secret government committee not subject to congressional oversight or judicial review.” He called it “an outrage and a criminal act carried out by the president and his administration.” "

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Beck considers Paul as a third party  "This is suicide and it doesn’t get any simpler this: voting third party on our side for whomever guarantees Obama a victory. That’s it. And if Newt’s the nominee and Beck wants to go that road, then I tell him what I tell others: enjoy the hell that will be a second Obama term."

From The Foreign Policy Initiative : Hopefully, the GOP nominee will realize that we focus solely on problems at home at our peril   "Most of the Republican candidates in South Carolina tonight passed that test, with the possible exception of Ron Paul, whose views are so far outside the mainstream that his continued presence at these debates makes the Republican party appear less serious."

Big bettors

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

Rick Santorum Schools Candy Crowley on Obama's Appeasement

Newsbusters   "As NewsBusters has been reporting for days, the Obama-loving media have been doing a collective victory lap concerning the President's appeasement retort "Go ask Osama bin Laden."
"When CNN's Candy Crowley tried this during her interview with Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum on Sunday's State of the Union, she got a much-needed education that would help all her foreign policy-challenged colleagues in the press (video follows with partial transcript and commentary):"

Time for CNN and MSNBC to knock off the blatant campaigning for this traitorous administration. They contantly misrepresent everything wrong and try to pretend it's all coming up roses for America when we are in grave danger from every part of the world.

His so called intelligent diplomacy has left us staggering under constant assaults from those who know they're dealing with a weakling.

From the comments to the above article.

To CNN, The most busted name in news":   “Good Luck In Getting It Right This Time”
"There’s lots to criticize, of course, with the refrains from the center-right as familiar to you as the chorus from “American Pie.” (Please, no more fringe extremists held up as “representing” conservatism generally or Tea Party activists specifically.) While fixing these flaws would increase your audience and your credibility on many issues, these are small points compared with the looming world crisis. What really matters right now is that CNN get the Iran story right and that you not become the *Geoffrey Dawson of the new millennium.
"You no doubt know of [Geoffrey] Dawson and his shameful record of abetting the appeasement of Neville Chamberlain throughout the ’30s from his post as editor of the Times of London, in its day the most powerful news platform in the world. Dawson emerges as a loathsome character in the pages of William Manchester’s “Alone,” the narrative of Winston Churchill’s wilderness years from 1932 to 1940."

*Geoffrey Dawson Dawson began to use the [Times of London] in the same manner as Lord Northcliffe had once done, to promote his own agenda. He also became a leader of a group of journalists that sought to influence national policy by private correspondence with leading statesmen. Dawson was close to both Stanley Baldwin and Neville Chamberlain. He was a prominent proponent and supporter of appeasement policies, after Adolf Hitler came to power in Germany. He was a member of the Anglo-German Fellowship and under his editorship, The Times forbade any mention of German anti-semitism during the pre-war years when Hitler was in power. He was opposed to Zionism. He is considered a major figure in the events that led up to the Munich agreement in 1938. He retired in 1941.

Video: Pat Condell comments on the Osama killing

Condell

Click here:  Sorry not to post the video imbed, but the new Adobe Flash refuses to download properly; an issue that seems to be widespread. TD

"Final confirmation that Osama is indeed dead: his name turned up on the voting rolls in Chicago." Comment to this post

Hat tip to Robert Hope, Sacramento. Thanks, Bob.

(UPDATED) Tim Tebow: God's Quarterback/ Christophobia

 Update: Tis the Season of Christ-o-phobia    "...so belligerent atheists and their left-wing facilitators are abusing Christian humility to try to shove Christianity out of the public square and seize that square for themselves. This year, left-wing Governor of Rhode Island Lincoln Chafee christened, if that’s the word I want, the state’s Christmas tree a “holiday tree” for fear of giving offense — though when questioned about the decision, he ran like a dog. The City of Santa Monica has allowed irritable atheists to take up space usually given to nativity displays. And the anti-American ACLU only takes enough time off from its war against Christmas to produce articles claiming its war against Christmas doesn’t exist."  By Andrew Klavan

WSJ  "He has led the Denver Broncos to one improbable victory after another—defying his critics and revealing the deep-seated anxieties in American society about the intertwining of religion and sports."

 ..."Mr. Tebow manufactured a 95-yard game-winning drive, punctuated by his own 20-yard touchdown dash. He brought the Broncos back from imminent defeat, just as he had done in previous weeks against the Miami Dolphins, Oakland Raiders and Kansas City Chiefs.

"And when the shouting was over, Mr. Tebow did what he always does—he pointed skyward and took a knee in prayer. In postgame interviews, the young quarterback often starts by saying, "First, I'd like to thank my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ" and ends with "God bless." He stresses that football is just a game and that God doesn't care who wins or loses."

....
"Mr. Tebow may or may not enjoy long-term success as an NFL quarterback. His current streak will run its course, and the Broncos might well move on to another quarterback, one who is more obviously suited to the pro game.

"But win or lose, Tim Tebow will compete hard—and when he's done, he will thank God and remind all of us that it's just a game."

Uh, I'm not sure how to take this.

Tim Tebow does it again, leading Broncos to 13-10 win in overtime against Bears  "Tebow drove the Broncos downfield and Matt Prater, whose 59-yard field goal with 3 seconds left in regulation tied it, booted a 51-yarder with 8:34 left in overtime to give Denver an improbable 13-10 win."....
"After failing to score on their first dozen possessions, the Broncos faced the possibility of their first home shutout in the team’s 52-year history. Instead, they erased a 10-0 deficit in the final 2:08 of regulation."

Google "Tim Tebow" and there are a number of sites with his bio. However most choose to ignore or refute his mother's decision not to abort him. This is one exception.

I yam what I yam, says Newt

http://terrellaftermath.com/  

Alan Caruba: America's Communist President

Obama may seem like this,

Warning Signs  "Most threatening, however, was Dr. Kengor’s discovery that “it was nothing short of stunning to research this book during the presidential bid of Barack Obama and hear so many of the names in my research surface repeatedly in the background of the man who became president of the United States of America. The way in which so many names and themes from the Cold War past aligned and made their way into Obama’s orbit was chilling.”



but he's really this.



"Obama’s December 8th speech in Osawatomie, Kansas revealed to anyone paying any attention that the President is a Communist. Speaking of the nation’s economic system that has created the greatest wealth for the most people anywhere, Capitalism, Obama said, “It doesn’t work. It has never worked.” "

....

Communism did not die with the collapse of the Soviet Union. It is alive and well in Russia, China, Cuba, Vietnam and in Venezuela. The soft form, Socialism, has brought a number of European nations to ruin and threatens the U.S.

"In 2010 Americans returned power in the House of Representatives to the Republican Party. We must finish the job in the Senate and in the White House in 2012. If we do not, the America we love will perish."

Obama, the shameless class warrior (updated)

Charles Krauthammer: Obama’s campaign for class resentment (reprise)"This is populism so crude that it channels not Teddy Roosevelt so much as Hugo Chavez. But with high unemployment, economic stagnation and unprecedented deficits, what else can Obama say?
"He can’t run on stewardship. He can’t run on policy. His signature initiatives — the stimulus, Obamacare and the failed cap-and-trade — will go unmentioned in his campaign ads. Indeed, they will be the stuff of Republican ads.
"What’s left? Class resentment. Got a better idea?"

powerwall.msnbc.msn.com/

Michael Barone calls out Obama   "A heavyweight writes bluntly about the shameful speech President Obama gave in Osawatomie, Kansas (see also: Obama's Kansas Declaration).
"Among the most respected of political pundits, Michael Barone occupies a special niche. As the co-author of the Almanac of American Politics, he is conceded to be one of the most knowledgeable and even handed of political writers. He writes a takedown of the unscrupulous rhetoric of the president in The Examiner" 

Democrats like to think of themselves as the party of smart people. And over the last four years we have heard countless encomiums, and not just from Democrats, of the intellect and perceptiveness of Barack Obama. But a reading of the text of Obama’s December 6 speech at Osawatomie, Kansas, billed as one of his big speeches of the year, shows him to be something like the opposite.                                                     Even by the standards of campaign rhetoric, this is a shockingly shoddy piece of work..... 

Those who pride themselves on belonging to the party of smart people should be embarrassed.

Just as ridicule of his sexual issues didn't bother Bill Clinton, neither do columns about Obama's disastrous presidency seem to concern him. Liberals are obtuse. TD

Powerline: Obama’s Osawatomie decree  "The speech is important from a variety of perspectives. Perhaps most significantly, the speech previewed Obama’s reelection campaign themes; insert groans here. To some extent it shows Obama hitching his wagon to the Occupy crowd and provides another case of his leading from behind. It sinks to the level of left-wing tripe. Obama’s heart and mind are full to overflowing with this stuff."

powerwall.msnbc.msn.com/

Update:  What’s the Matter with Obama’s Kansas Speech?  Nothing fair about it.
"Obama takes the easy way out by pretending that the issues have a simplicity and the answers a clarity that they lack, and that he is telling self-evident truths. But what he’s really doing is pandering to a schoolyard mentality of envy that says, “It’s not fair if other people have more stuff than I do; they must be cheating and they should pay me back” — and that government’s just the one to do it."

Update: The president sounds more like a Corleone than a Roosevelt.  By Daniel Henninger, WSJ"In fact, the Osawatomie speech was not given by the President of the United States. It was given by the leader of the Democratic Party. "
....
There is that defining moment when Michael Corleone says to Fredo, his brother, "You're nothing to me now." When even as party leader, a president of the United States gives a major speech in which people get singled out repeatedly as basically enemies of "the middle class," one has to wonder if they are nothing to him."
....
 "What the Democratic base would get out of an Obama re-election is political power, which counts for something. It lets you tell other people what to do. But nothing in that Kansas speech, especially the wealth taxes, will produce real growth in the dry economy America has had for three years. Strong growth is the only solution to the Osawatomie catalog of horrors. If he wins, five years from now, the president's base will be about where it and nearly everyone else is today, trying to stay afloat in Barack Obama's still waters."

What to Watch for in Tonight's Debate

Political Wire  "David Chalian: "First and foremost, I expect to see an inherent tension within Gingrich on stage. He has had such great success trying to stay above the fray and has made his pledge to promise only positive campaigning. It seems to me that will be in direct conflict with being the frontrunner and the likely target of nearly everyone else on that stage."
"The Fix: "Gingrich's tried and true debate strategy -- ignore the question asked, attack the questioner etc. -- may not play as well (or at all) when he is viewed through the frontrunner lens."
"Jon Karl: "Gingrich expects that in this debate and the ones to follow he will, for the first time, be the piñata, bearing the brunt of the attacks from the other candidates. How will he respond? Gingrich has told his aides he will resist the temptation to counter-attack." "

ABC hosts GOP debate, but hires only Dem lobbyists "The Obama administration, the Clinton administration, then-Sen. Hillary Clinton, then-Sen. Tom Daschle, the Congressional Black Caucus, congressman John Dingell, then-Congressmen Byron Dorgan, Sen. John Kerry, and Sen. Ed Muskie.
"Two things they have in common:"

1) They're all Democrats.
2) Their former staffers are all lobbyists for Disney, the parent company of ABC News, hosting tonight's Republican debate.

 
USA Today: Five things to watch in tonight's GOP debate

Have yourself a very PC Christmas

Christmas tree controversy takes root in RI  ""Political correctness has gone too far," said Costa, of North Kingstown. "I don't care what he calls it. Anyone who looks at it knows it's a Christmas tree. That's just what it is.""

niagarawatch ; All signs exactly equal in size and structure. What a country!

Have yourself a politically correct Christmas   "People want to complain and victimize themselves over everything, and now they've extended it to the holidays. It is like the watching the Grinch steal Christmas and never give it back. I remember going to elementary school, where celebrating Christmas was a staple to every school year. If you go to a school now, there is not a trace of Christmas, or any holiday for that matter, covering the school walls."

We wish you a PC Christmas  "Yep, political correctness has wheedled its way into the celebration of Christmas-excuse me, non-sectarian gift-buying winter solstice. "

"Paul writes in Philippians 2:"

Christ Jesus . . . being in very nature God,did not consider equality with God something to be grasped,
     but made himself nothing,taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness.

And being found in appearance as a man, he humbled himself  and became obedient to death—
     even death on a cross!

That is the Forbidden Christmas story

http://agoodchoice.blogspot.com/2009/11/have-yourself-pc-christmas.html