Try a bit of forgiveness today.
Friday, September 21, 2012
Thursday, September 20, 2012
Warning Shots Will NOT Be Fired!
For months reports of massive amounts of ammunition has been bought by various US Government agencies. These agencies try to assure the American People that this is just standard practice and nothing is being planned toward citizens. But now the US Department of Homeland Security has just bought 1.2 billion bullets for counterterrorist snipers.
No I do believe that Barack Hussein Obama will do anything to remain in power, including staging a coup d'etat. Nor when he is defeated on November 6th will he quietly leave office.
There is one burning question in all this:
Once the officers give orders to open fire on American Citizens, will the troops follow the order or turn on their officers? I do believe they will NOT fire on Americans.
U.S. Homeland Security is preparing for an all-out “American Spring” rebellion and has bought 1.2 billion bullets for counterterrorist snipers.Who are these guys kidding? It is very clear that Barack Hussein Obama and the members of his regime are preparing for Civil War. If Romney were to lose, his supporters would NOT take to the streets and riot. Obama supporters showed their displeasure by rioting and looting. But would Obama turn on his supporters? I don't think so.
An additional 200 million bullets are to be purchased, according to Infowars.com writer and author Paul Joseph Watson.
The new purchase is for .223 rifle ammunition, plus another 176,000 rounds of .308 caliber 168 grain hollow point boat tail (HPBT) rounds in addition to 25,000 rounds of blank .308 caliber bullets.
“It is the type of ammunition and not necessarily the quantity that is troubling,” James Smith Prepper Podcast was quoted as saying.
“All of the sniper grade ammunition is being used by trained, or in-the-process-of-being-trained snipers,” wrote Smith. Adding up the number of lethal bullets tallies a potential 135,384 kills for the snipers, based on U.S. Army and Marine figures from the Vietnam War, when soldiers used 1.3 rounds of ammunition for each verified kill.
Homeland Security’s purchases of the huge arsenal “is both worrying and ironic given that Americans are being harassed and treated with suspicion for buying a couple of boxes of ammo at their local gun store,” Watson wrote.
Government officials have refused to comment.
Nearly half a billion rounds of ammunition purchased last March expand on entry into a body to cause maximum wounds. The large number of bullets raises questions if such large quantities are needed only for training.
In addition, 750 million bullets can penetrate walls.
The Homeland Security purchases are in addition to a controversial 174,000 bullets purchased by the Social Security Administration and reported by mainstream media, which has largely overlooked Homeland Security’s huge arsenal or has considered it a result of paranoia.
However, the U.S. Army has been preparing for rebellion in the streets, and a Military Police training manual, entitled “Civil Disturbance Operations” describes how to suppress riots and kill civilians when confronting “dissidents." The manual states, “Warning shots will not be fired,” Watson reported.
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No I do believe that Barack Hussein Obama will do anything to remain in power, including staging a coup d'etat. Nor when he is defeated on November 6th will he quietly leave office.
There is one burning question in all this:
Once the officers give orders to open fire on American Citizens, will the troops follow the order or turn on their officers? I do believe they will NOT fire on Americans.
Wednesday, September 19, 2012
The Threats Against Eric Allen Bell-in His Own Words
Gary Fouse
fousesquawk
http://garyfouse.blogspot.com
Documentary film maker Eric Allen Bell is currently in hiding as a result of being erroneously linked to the anti-Muslim video, "The Innocence of Muhammad". In this posting, which I have linked, Bell describes what has happened to him in the past days since September 11. You can also read some of the threats he is receiving on Facebook.
http://www.globalinfidel.tv/profiles/blogs/death-threats-from-the-religion-of-peace-by-eric-allen-bell
fousesquawk
http://garyfouse.blogspot.com
Documentary film maker Eric Allen Bell is currently in hiding as a result of being erroneously linked to the anti-Muslim video, "The Innocence of Muhammad". In this posting, which I have linked, Bell describes what has happened to him in the past days since September 11. You can also read some of the threats he is receiving on Facebook.
http://www.globalinfidel.tv/profiles/blogs/death-threats-from-the-religion-of-peace-by-eric-allen-bell
Please Forgive!
If at any time I have insulted or offended you over the past year, I apologize and pray not to do it again.
Findalis/Katie
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Cheetah Hijacks A Safari
It was bound to happen sooner or later. Cheetah jumps on jeep, face to face in Masai Mara, Kenya. Sits there for 45 minutes!
I can just read the Cheetah's mind: "I wonder if this will be on I Can Has Cheezburger?" It is. Right here.
Anyone need a change of pants?
I can just read the Cheetah's mind: "I wonder if this will be on I Can Has Cheezburger?" It is. Right here.
Anyone need a change of pants?
Wednesday's Hero: Tyrone Woods & Glen Doherty and Sean Smith
September 11, 2012
On Tuesday, September 11, what appears to be a coordinated attack on the American embassy in Libya took the lives of four Americans. Ambassador Christopher Stevens and two servicemen and one former serviceman. Tyrone Woods and Glen Doherty were Navy SEALs and Sean Smith was a veteran of the Air Force.
You can read more at the links below:
Tyrone Woods
Glen Doherty
Sean Smith
These brave men and women sacrifice so much in their lives just so others may get to enjoy freedom. For that I am proud to call them Hero.
Those Who Say That We're In A Time When There Are No Heroes, They Just Don't Know Where To Look.
This post is part of the Wednesday Hero Blogroll. For more information about Wednesday Hero, or if you would like to post it on your site, you can go here.
Tuesday, September 18, 2012
Update on Eric Allen Bell
Gary Fouse
fousesquawk
http://garyfouse.blogspot.com
As I recently posted, a number of irresponsible voices have wrongfully connected documentary film maker Eric Allen Bell to the video, "The Innocence of Muslims". His Facebook page has been flooded with death threats from both the US and overseas. His name is being bandied about by the crazy clerics in Egypt and else where saying he (as well as the actual producers) must be punished for his "role in the film". (And I'm not talking about prosecution.) Islamic websites are spreading the falsehood that Bell was involved in the film. (Bell is an outspoken opponent of the Murfreesboro mosque project.) As a result of all this, Bell has had to relocate.
One of the websites that is associating Bell with the actual film makers is The American Muslim.org.
http://theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/a-curious-connection/0019357
So here we have an American citizen (Bell), who has exercised his First Amendment rights in his own country, now under countless death threats. Of course, if the people who want him dead had any reason, it could pointed out that Bell had nothing to do with the film. The reality is, however, that the opportunistic Islamists are using the film to catch other fish in their net.
fousesquawk
http://garyfouse.blogspot.com
As I recently posted, a number of irresponsible voices have wrongfully connected documentary film maker Eric Allen Bell to the video, "The Innocence of Muslims". His Facebook page has been flooded with death threats from both the US and overseas. His name is being bandied about by the crazy clerics in Egypt and else where saying he (as well as the actual producers) must be punished for his "role in the film". (And I'm not talking about prosecution.) Islamic websites are spreading the falsehood that Bell was involved in the film. (Bell is an outspoken opponent of the Murfreesboro mosque project.) As a result of all this, Bell has had to relocate.
One of the websites that is associating Bell with the actual film makers is The American Muslim.org.
http://theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/a-curious-connection/0019357
So here we have an American citizen (Bell), who has exercised his First Amendment rights in his own country, now under countless death threats. Of course, if the people who want him dead had any reason, it could pointed out that Bell had nothing to do with the film. The reality is, however, that the opportunistic Islamists are using the film to catch other fish in their net.
This Is The Reason For The Violence In The Muslim World?
Here it is. The Muhammad Movie Trailer. The film that has caused all the riots and the murder of Ambassador Stevens and countless others.
It is all based on passages from the Koran and Hadiths.
Please download this video and upload it back at YouTube, LiveLeak, and other places.
If you are pissed at my placing this video here, you can email me. But be assured that all threats to me or my family will be forwarded to the proper authorities. These threats are felonies in the United States and you will be prosecuted to the full extent of the law.
Find out for your self. Read the Koran, read the Hadiths. Learn the truth.
Monday, September 17, 2012
And You Support Obama Why?
On February 26, 1993, a truck bomb was detonated below the North Tower of the World Trade Center in New York, NY. The 1,336 lb (606 kg) urea nitrate–hydrogen gas enhanced device was intended to knock the North Tower (Tower One) into the South Tower (Tower Two), bringing both towers down and killing thousands of people. It failed to do so, but it did kill six people and injured more than a thousand. The attack was planned by a group of conspirators including Ramzi Yousef, Mahmud Abouhalima, Mohammad Salameh, Nidal A. Ayyad, Abdul Rahman Yasin and Ahmad Ajaj. They received financing from Khaled Sheikh Mohammed, Yousef's uncle. In March 1994, four men were convicted of carrying out the bombing: Abouhalima, Ajaj, Ayyad and Salameh. The charges included conspiracy, explosive destruction of property and interstate transportation of explosives. In November 1997, two more were convicted: Ramzi Yousef, the mastermind behind the bombings, and Eyad Ismoil, who drove the truck carrying the bomb.
Today it has become known that the US State Department (Under the leadership of Huma Abedin.) is negotiating with Egypt to Free The Blind Sheik.
Now this time the US government isn't even going to ask the victims if he should be released. He will just do it. That will stop the riots in Egypt.
How about we start to riot here in the US? If he does. There is no stopping this traitor is there? Imagine what he will do if he gets another term?
Ask yourself this: Can we afford another 4 years of an Obama Regime?
Today it has become known that the US State Department (Under the leadership of Huma Abedin.) is negotiating with Egypt to Free The Blind Sheik.
The U.S. State Department is currently in negotiations with the Egyptian government for the transfer of custody of Omar Abdel-Rahman, also known as “the Blind Sheikh,” for humanitarian and health reasons, a source close to the the Obama administration told The Blaze.We have we heard the line before?:
The negotiations are allegedly part of the ongoing discussions with the Egyptian government to resolve the crisis plaguing the Middle East, the source told The Blaze. Calls to the State Department for comment referred us to the Department of Justice, and nothing has been confirmed.
The Blind Sheikh is serving a life sentence in American prison for his role in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. His release has been called one of the top priorities of the new Islamist administration in Egypt. Many have pinpointed the cause of last week‘s unrest in Egypt to be protests over the Blind Sheikh’s release– not an anti-Islam YouTube video.
Citing the handling of the current crisis in the Middle East, and how the administration’s explanation that an anti-Islamic video is to blame, Beck warned that the administration may be trying to initiate a “Bubba effect.”
“If this is true, and we believe it to be true,” he explained, “I believe this administration is trying to initiate a ‘Bubba effect.’ That is, the average person turning against the government, collectively…because no one trusts them.”
“No matter how bad a citizen may be behaving, the citizen’s reaction is worse in the Bubba effect. We have to be very careful America…because it’s going to get tougher from here on out.”
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For humanitarian and health reasonsOh yes with Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed al-Megrahi. The Mastermind behind the Lockerbie bombing. It was sworn in court that he had 3 months at the most to live. He died 3 years later.
Now this time the US government isn't even going to ask the victims if he should be released. He will just do it. That will stop the riots in Egypt.
How about we start to riot here in the US? If he does. There is no stopping this traitor is there? Imagine what he will do if he gets another term?
Ask yourself this: Can we afford another 4 years of an Obama Regime?
What If There Is NO President by January 20th
A Commentary by J. D. Longstreet
It COULD happen. At least, SOME of the political experts are saying it COULD happen.
I think America should be prepared for every sort of political gymnastics conceivable come Tuesday, November 6th, 2012.
Battalions of lawyers are set to spring into action if there is a hint that Obama may lose. Planning and preparations for such an eventuality have been in progress since the early days of the Obama Administration.
Tying the election up in the courts is the plan. And these people are serious!
So what happens if, indeed the US election is tied up in the judicial system come noon on January 20th, 2013?
"In cases where a President has not been chosen by January 20 or the President-elect "fails to qualify," the Vice President-elect becomes Acting President on January 20 until there is a qualified President. If the President-elect dies before noon January 20, the Twentieth Amendment states the Vice President-elect becomes President. In cases where there is no President-elect or Vice President-elect, the Amendment also gives the Congress the authority to declare an Acting President until such time as there is a President or Vice President. At this point the Presidential Succession Act of 1947 would apply, with the office of the Presidency going to the Speaker of the House of Representatives, followed by the President pro tempore of the Senate and various Cabinet officers." SOURCE: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/President-elect_of_the_United_StatesOK. But how exactly is the President-elect and Vice-President-elect decided, I mean, legally decided. And here it gets cloudy and open to all sorts of legal challenges.
There are at least two schools of thought on that.
"Some commentators doubt whether an official President- and Vice President-elect exist prior to the electoral votes being counted and announced by Congress on January 6, maintaining that this is a problematic contingency lacking clear constitutional or statutory direction. Others assert that once a majority of electoral votes has been cast for one ticket, then the recipients of these votes become the President- and Vice President-elect, notwithstanding the fact that the electoral votes are not counted and certified until the following January 6." SOURCE: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/President-elect_of_the_United_StatesThat's one interpretation.
The other interpretation is a bit different:
"It will be noted that the committee uses the term "President elect" in its generally accepted sense, as meaning the person who has received the majority of electoral votes, or the person who has been chosen by the House of Representatives in the event that the election is thrown into the House. It is immaterial whether or not the votes have been counted, for the person becomes the President elect as soon as the votes are cast." SOURCE: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/President-You can see holes in this process resembling swiss cheese!elect_of_the_United_StatesSee, our constitution along with our electoral process was set up originally by and for honorable people. Our national forefathers never thought their country would devolve into the slick, slimy, legalistic swamp of unscrupulous, power-hungry, power-grabbing, brokers of political influence hell bent on saving America for Marxism.
I don't mean to say our national forefathers were saints. They most assuredly were NOT. But, the sorts of underhanded political shenanigans common today were thought beyond the pale in the early days of the US.
As the days go by and we draw closer to election day, I am beginning to wonder if, perhaps, we ought to be prepared for a slog through the swamp that is the judicial system in America today BEFORE we have a President.
I continue to remind myself that the polls can be manipulated and there can be no doubt that the mainstream media is doing everything it can to hype Obama and make him look good for the voters.
We all saw how the MSM attacked Romney for observing that Obama's response to the Muslim attacks on our consulates/embassies was "disgraceful." Suddenly THE story was not Obama's disgraceful response, but Romney's "attack" on Obama for making the disgraceful response. See how they turned the story on its head? That is the way it is done.
We Americans are in deep, deep, trouble. Something has to give. Americans who actually understand what's going on in America today understand there are two ways this problem may be solved. The first, of course, is the election. If that fails, as some predict, then all bets are off. I don't even want to think about the other option. But -- an observant American can already see that both the citizens AND the government are quietly preparing for option two.
These are, indeed, perilous times for America, times, as Thomas Paine said, "that try men's souls." It has become clear that Americans who love freedom and liberty have no intention of going "gently (nor quietly) into that good night." (With apologies to Dylan Thomas) There WILL be "rage, rage against the dying of the light."
Liberty's light, once outed, may never be lit again.
J. D. Longstreet
Sunday, September 16, 2012
L'Shana Tova
The festival of Rosh Hashanah--the name means "Head of the Year"--is observed for two days beginning on Tishrei 1, the first day of the Jewish year. It is the anniversary of the creation of Adam and Eve, the first man and woman, and their first actions toward the realization of mankind's role in G‑d's world.
Rosh Hashanah thus emphasizes the special relationship between G‑d and humanity: our dependence upon G‑d as our creator and sustainer, and G‑d's dependence upon us as the ones who make His presence known and felt in His world. Each year on Rosh Hashanah, "all inhabitants of the world pass before G‑d like a flock of sheep," and it is decreed in the heavenly court, "who shall live, and who shall die... who shall be impoverished, and who shall be enriched; who shall fall and who shall rise." But this is also the day we proclaim G‑d King of the Universe. The Kabbalists teach that the continued existence of the universe is dependent upon the renewal of the divine desire for a world when we accept G‑d's kingship each year on Rosh Hashanah.
The central observance of Rosh Hashanah is the sounding of the shofar, the ram's horn, which also represents the trumpet blast of a people's coronation of their king. The cry of the shofar is also a call to repentance; for Rosh Hashanah is also the anniversary of man's first sin and his repentance thereof, and serves as the first of the "Ten Days of Repentance" which culminate in Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement. Altogether, we listen to 100 shofar blasts over the course of the Rosh Hashanah service.
Additional Rosh Hashanah observances include:
a) Eating a piece of apple dipped in honey to symbolize our desire for a sweet year, and other special foods symbolic of the new year's blessings.
b) Blessing one another with the words
Leshanah tovah tikateiv veteichateim,c) Tashlich, a special prayer said near a body of water (an ocean, river, pond, etc.) in evocation of the verse,
"May you be inscribed and sealed for a good year."
New Year's Blessings From Latima"And You shall cast their sins into the depths of the sea."And as with every major Jewish holiday, after candlelighting and prayers we recite Kiddush and make a blessing on the Challah.
May this New Year bring you Health, Wealth and Joy.
Leshanah tovah tikateiv veteichateim!
May you be inscribed and sealed for a good year.
Film Maker Eric Allen Brown Receiving Countless Death Threats
Gary Fouse
fousesquawk
http://garyfouse.blogspot.com
Documentary film maker Eric Allen Bell, who has been active against the Murfreesboro mosque in Tennessee, is also being caught up in the furor of a video that is being used as an excuse for all the protests and mayhem in the Middle East.
Now that the video has gotten so much exposure, Bell, who had nothing to do with it in any way, is being associated with the video by people too stupid to know better. Bell reports that he is receiving at least one new death threat per hour.
This is intolerable. This is our country.
Saturday, September 15, 2012
Video Maker Taken Into Custody by Feds and Lee Baca's Sheriffs
Gary Fouse
fousesquawk
http://garyfouse.blogspot.com
Sheriff Sharia
The alleged producer of now-notorious video that is being used by Middle Eastern rioters and our government and media as a convenient excuse for all the mayhem was taken into custody for questioning just after midnight this morning by LA Sheriff's deputies. The questioning is to be by federal probation officials since the man is on federal probation.
http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/09/15/13876716-suspected-anti-islam-filmmaker-questioned-by-federal-probation-officers?lite
Let me be clear; this character, by most accounts, is no model citizen. It is reported that the terms of his probation prohibit any access to the Internet. Thus, he might be susceptible to having his probation revoked.
Robert Spencer has opined that if the man is put back in prison, no matter his record and the legal justification, he will become a "political prisoner" pure and simple. I find it hard to argue that point. Will this turn out to be more appeasement to the barbarians in the Middle East who are attacking our embassies?
It is also necessary to point out that the LA County Sheriff, whose deputies picked the man up is none other than Lee Baca, who is the biggest useful idiot in American law enforcement. Baca repeatedly makes public appearances with the likes of CAIR, and the other suspect Islamic organizations in Southern California. As previously reported, he has spoken at events with the likes of Muzammil Siddiqi promoting sharia law.
http://garyfouse.blogspot.com/2012/03/karen-lugo-on-la-sheriff-lee-baca.html
And now Baca's deputies seem to be actively enforcing sharia law in concert with Obama's Justice Department. What a coincidence.
fousesquawk
http://garyfouse.blogspot.com
The alleged producer of now-notorious video that is being used by Middle Eastern rioters and our government and media as a convenient excuse for all the mayhem was taken into custody for questioning just after midnight this morning by LA Sheriff's deputies. The questioning is to be by federal probation officials since the man is on federal probation.
http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/09/15/13876716-suspected-anti-islam-filmmaker-questioned-by-federal-probation-officers?lite
Let me be clear; this character, by most accounts, is no model citizen. It is reported that the terms of his probation prohibit any access to the Internet. Thus, he might be susceptible to having his probation revoked.
Robert Spencer has opined that if the man is put back in prison, no matter his record and the legal justification, he will become a "political prisoner" pure and simple. I find it hard to argue that point. Will this turn out to be more appeasement to the barbarians in the Middle East who are attacking our embassies?
It is also necessary to point out that the LA County Sheriff, whose deputies picked the man up is none other than Lee Baca, who is the biggest useful idiot in American law enforcement. Baca repeatedly makes public appearances with the likes of CAIR, and the other suspect Islamic organizations in Southern California. As previously reported, he has spoken at events with the likes of Muzammil Siddiqi promoting sharia law.
http://garyfouse.blogspot.com/2012/03/karen-lugo-on-la-sheriff-lee-baca.html
And now Baca's deputies seem to be actively enforcing sharia law in concert with Obama's Justice Department. What a coincidence.
A Nuclear Bomb Is Our Red Line!
That is the word out of the Obama regime. Not any time before, but allowing Iran to gain a Nuclear Bomb. Why stop at one? Let them have 2 or 3 or 50. This is what Barack Hussein Obama said to AIPAC in 2008:
We will pursue this diplomacy with no illusions about the Iranian regime. Instead we will present a clear choice. If you abandon your dangerous nuclear program, your support for terror, and your threats to Israel there will be meaningful incentives, including the lifting of sanctions and political and economic integration with the international community. If you refuse, we will ratchet up the pressure. My Presidency will strengthen our hand as we restore our standing.And this is just out of the Obama Regime today:
US President Barack Obama rejected an appeal by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to define a specific “red line” that Iran could not cross in its nuclear program, The New York Times reported Friday, citing an unnamed senior administration official.Barack Hussein Obama has been stringing Netanyahu along for almost a year. Instead of attacking Iran this spring, Bibi has waited and waited. Now Obama has stabbed him in the back. He will not back Israel in this, nor will he help militarily. In fact he has signaled to Netanyahu that he will attack Israel to grant the Arabs the nation of Israel, every inch of it.
According to the report, in an hour-long conversation on Tuesday Obama deflected Netanyahu’s proposal to make the size of Iran’s stockpile of close-to-bomb-grade uranium the threshold, that, if passed, would trigger a US military strike on the Islamic Republic's nuclear facilities.
While Obama reiterated the assurance that the US won't allow Iran to manufacture a atomic bomb, he was unwilling to agree on any specific action by the Islamic Republic – like reaching a defined threshold on nuclear material, or failing to adhere to a deadline on negotiations – that would lead to military action by the US. “We need some ability for the president to have decision-making room,” said the official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity. “We have a red line, which is a nuclear weapon. We’re committed to that red line.”
Israeli officials have asserted that this guarantee may not be enough for the Jewish state, which Iranian leaders have repeatedly threatened with annihilation. The Israelis say that neither the diplomatic talks nor the economic sanctions have slowed down Iran’s nuclear development.
A day before the conversation, the prime minister told reporters that the Obama administration had no “moral right” to restrain Israel from taking military action on its own if it refused to put limits on Iran. The remarks were followed by reports claiming that Obama snubbed Netanyahu's request to meet during the United Nations General Assembly session in New York this month. The White House denied those reports, citing mundane scheduling problems as the reason the two can't convene.
The wrangling stems from Israel's belief that Iran, having continued to stockpile uranium enriched to 20%, is nearing the point at which Israel will no longer be able to prevent it from making a bomb.
American officials maintain that the US will still be able to detect, and prevent, Iran from passing that point. For now the administration has no evidence that Tehran has made a decision to build a bomb.
Some analysts argue that Netanyahu is trying to use political leverage on Obama in order to pressure him to toughen his stance on Iran ahead of the US presidential elections. Israeli officials flatly deny that Netanyahu is playing election-year politics.
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Dear G-d, please don’t curse us with another 4 years of Obama. I beg of you!
Credit Rating Cut Again, The Fed Just Prints More Money
Ratings firm Egan-Jones cut its credit rating on the U.S. government to "AA-" from "AA," citing its opinion that quantitative easing from the Federal Reserve would hurt the U.S. economy and the country's credit quality.The Fed is just printing money, $40 Billion each month. It won't be long before the US dollar will be worthless and that hyper-inflation will arise. It happened in the 1920's in Germany, recently in Zimbabwe and soon in the United States.
The Fed on Thursday said it would pump $40 billion into the U.S. economy each month until it saw a sustained upturn in the weak jobs market.
In its downgrade, the firm said that issuing more currency and depressing interest rates through purchasing mortgage-backed securities does little to raise the U.S.'s real gross domestic product, but reduces the value of the dollar.
In turn, this increases the cost of commodities, which will pressure the profitability of businesses and increase the costs of consumers thereby reducing consumer purchasing power, the firm said.
In April, Egan-Jones cuts the U.S. credit rating to "AA" from "AA+" with a negative watch, citing a lack of progress in cutting the mounting federal debt.
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Friday, September 14, 2012
Why Does Obama Hate Israel?
Barack Hussein Obama is the most anti-Israel, anti-Semitic US President in modern history. This was first noticed in his speech in Cairo, his treatment of Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, his call for Israel to go back to the 1949 borders, the removal of Jerusalem from Israel and the call to cut the city in 2, not meeting with Netanyahu but going on Letterman, and now this:
If you are Jewish or a supporter of Israel how can you in good conscience vote for Obama, vote for a party that practically started to sing the Horst Wessel. It will be sung soon by them if Obama is re-elected.
Just step back for a moment and think. What American President turns to the head of a most treasured ally, an ally who always backed American policy, and told him to F**k Off. And he wants Israel to hold their hand?What then of Israel? Alone in this wilderness of vile hatred and violence, surrounded by the most vile of extremism that would like nothing better than to snuff it out of existence. Netanyahu has been treated by this Obama regime as a dog. Kicked and cornered, rebuked and reprimanded. And now, on the eve of action, the Man Calling Himself Obama, does so yet again with even more sinister intent. You have likely read the reports of screaming matches between officials of both governments. Those are most certainly true, and tell less than the whole regarding just how fractured the relationship has been. But what of Netanyahu and Obama themselves? Do you recall something I hinted at before – how Obama himself demanded of Israel? How this false president threatened the only true ally America has in that troubled part of the world? Since then you have often asked what it was that was told to the Prime Minister. For my own reasons, both personal and professional, I did not comply with your requests.
I will do so now. And please note, what I tell you is absolutely accurate. This information was delivered to me from sources at the highest levels of the Israeli government.
Prime Minister Netanyahu, when last at the White House and during an extended period of private conversation with “Obama”, implored the president to be far more forceful in his public comments regarding the United States’ devotion to Israel’s safety and protection and its very right to exist. Netanyahu warned the president that his administration’s half-hearted gestures of friendship to Israel were in fact emboldening the more radicalized elements in the Middle East and thus endangering not only Israeli lives, but the lives of everyone in that part of the world. And then he also remarked this condition would further endanger American citizens within the United States as well, that the capitulation policies of the American government in the 1990s were instrumental in forming the attack of September 11th, 2001.
Obama’s reaction to these words were, “agitation followed by derision”. The president then leaned toward the Prime Minister and said:
“You have just as much blood on your hands as they do. They got a right to exist as well. Everybody does. And I don’t want this thing…this back and forth…you and them…I don’t want this turning into an election issue for me, right? I can’t be telling those people how to treat your country any more than you want me telling you how to treat them, right? You see where I’m at in this?Now I must put that statement by Obama further into context to ensure you realize the stunning implications of what he was communicating to the Israeli Prime Minister. Netanyahu had spent considerable effort attempting to detail to the Obama what Israeli intelligence had gathered regarding Iran’s nuclear capabilities. He had also warned of the very real and serious threat of nuclear materials being handed over to terrorists both capable and willing of detonation in other parts of the world, including inside the United States. The Prime Minister indicated his own government was unwilling to take that risk, and was preparing to take very specific measures to try and ensure Iran was not given that option to do so. And to that Obama, this man so tragically elected president, to that he replied to Netanyahu to not make this an election issue for him? To not make it something that might take away Jewish votes from him?
Don’t you turn this into something that might take away Jewish votes for me. That’s what you got going here – I know what you’re up to. Don’t do it. This thing…Iran…don’t try…don’t hurt me politically with it. You need us. We don’t need you.”
Imagine you are sitting in a room with a man who oversees the most powerful military in the world. The most powerful military in the history of humankind. And you are communicating earnestly, based upon knowledge you have from your own considerable intelligence sources, that not only is the Middle East in danger, but citizens living inside the United States as well, and these concerns are met with a self-serving plea not to harm an election. To in essence, simply shut up about it so as to not influence voters? How horrifying that must have been for a man so honorable as Benjamin Netanyahu. How frightening to know that the government of the United States was now being represented by the likes of “Obama” and Iranian-born Valerie Jarrett, two creatures so detached from the rich and proud history of the United States, who view that history with disdain and a desire to punish.
If you are Jewish or a supporter of Israel how can you in good conscience vote for Obama, vote for a party that practically started to sing the Horst Wessel. It will be sung soon by them if Obama is re-elected.
Dear G-d, please don’t curse us with another 4 years of Obama. I beg of you!
Barack Obama Is A Dangerous Leftist of a New Kind
By Barry Rubin
Barack Obama is not a Communist, a fascist, a Muslim, a Marxist, a Progressive (in the pre-1920s' meaning of that word, before it just became a cover for Communists and other leftists), or even a socialist. Obama and those who control much of America’s academia, mass media, and entertainment industry—plus a number of trade unions and hundreds of foundations, think tanks, and front groups—are believers in a new, very American form of leftism. It is very statist, very dangerous for freedom, and economically destructive. But we first have to identify what “it” is. Our difficulty in doing so has been a huge reason why we have not persuaded more people--though goodness knows a lot of people have woken up that there is a huge problem here.
Yet calling Obama those various names doesn’t persuade a large portion of the American population because they sense that these definitions aren’t accurate and can come up valid counter-arguments or be fed by schools and media with phony ones. And all of those who rage in the talk-back columns of websites aren’t persuading anyone anything except, perhaps, that Obama’s opponents are delusional. You may not like hearing that but it’s the truth.
We are in a totally new era. The nineteenth and early twentieth century debates and categories no longer hold. Indeed, when the New Leftists climbed out of the wreckage of the 1960s-early 1970s they realized this and successfully built something very new. (If you are looking for a "prehistoric" founding document in terms of some important themes, albeit very much altered, read the original Weatherman Manifesto and then delete all the hysterical parts. Dress it up in a suit and tie and seat is behind the desk of a professor, foundation director, reporter, or politician. I don’t have the space here to explain this point in detail.)
Let’s start with the word “socialist.” The European socialist, or social democratic, movement was strongly anti-Communist. Did they hate their countries? Remember, these were the people who remained patriots during World War One, that's one of the main reasons they first broke with the Communists. The European Socialists gave up the idea of abolishing capitalism many decades ago. While some parties were further to the left (notably in Spain and Sweden), most had settled into relatively moderate positions. When was the last time they nationalized anything?
Moreover, remember that European statism is as much of conservative as of socialist origin. Consider France, a country whose high degree of centralization goes back to feudal times and Napoleon, not to mention the Gaullists. America is very exceptional all right, but because it broke with both European conservative and leftist models. The welfare states there were the results of multi-partisan efforts.
Have European socialists—I’m not talking here about left-wing academics and journalists—fallen in love with Barack Obama? Not at all. They might like Obama more than George W. Bush but they liked Bill Clinton better than either one. Not only do they not see Obama as a comrade but they could probably give him good advice about why his policies will inevitably fail. They may not have the answers for their own countries but they understand capitalism and how to make it work—and want to make it work—far more than he does.
So here’s a key point: Obama and his ideological comrades—let me call them the New New Left (NNL)—are to the left of almost all of the European Socialist parties.
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Moreover, in contrast to the NNL, Marxists saw the “bourgeois” government as an inevitable enemy. Impossible to change it could only be overthrown. The NNL sought to take over that government and use it to force “revolution” from above. The Marxists focused on the proletariat; while working with some (mostly government workers’) trade unions, the NNL bases itself on certain elements of the upper middle class while trying to buy off crony capitalists and the poor, who Marx called the lumpenproletariat.
Well, of course, the result is a disaster when an anti-capitalist regime takes over a capitalist system. How can the system do anything but crash? The pilots are motivated by something that blends deliberate suicide with incompetence, and an ideology that ensures a crash. And they will never ever get better because they are just uninterested in learning what to do that works.
So what are we dealing with here? A radical leftist movement pretending to be liberal, growing out of the New Left of the 1960s, painfully aware of how the far left miserably failed in American history, and trying to create a twenty-first century stealth leftism. The first step was to gain hegemony in the key institutions that created ideas, rather than the factories that created material goods. They succeeded brilliantly.
The next step was to shape millions of Americans, especially young Americans, to accept their ideas that the United States was a force for evil in the world; a failed society; a place of terrible racism and hatred for women; a country where the vast majority didn’t have a fair chance because the system was unfair. In fact, if you take away the varnish rhetoric, they argue that America is a virtual dictatorship of a small minority of wealthy people who just set everything up for their own convenience. Obviously this parallels both Marxist and non-Marxist historical leftism.
The fact that their description of America has so little to do with the actual country makes it all the more impressive that they’ve been able to sell this set of ideas. Having one of their indoctrinated products become president was a special bonus. That doesn’t mean Obama was backed by some conspiracy or singled out for highest office. There are thousands of such people who are in positions of power, including one-third of the Democrats in the House of Representatives. Obama just perfectly fit the needs of the moment.
Is Obama a Muslim? Of course not and there is no evidence that he is no matter how much you jump up and down and holler about it. On one side, Obama is—like his NNL colleagues--rather obviously a cynical atheist who has no serious religious belief.
On the other side, he certainly had close contact with Islam and functioned as a Muslim in Indonesia. It is worth mentioning that generally speaking Indonesia has about the most moderate form of Islam in the world. Note how in his autobiography, Obama describes his Muslim step-father’s tolerance for “pagan” Indonesian practices. This would be virtually unimaginable in any other country.
Coming from that experience, Obama fancies himself as an expert on Islam with a special rapport and sympathy to Muslims. His policy is a disaster because he refuses to recognize that non-al-Qaida Islamists are extremely anti-American, totalitarian, and anti-democratic. Does Obama want to help Islamists take power? In many cases, yes, but that isn’t because he’s a Muslim but because he falsely believes—encouraged by various “experts”—that this would tame them and they will like America and become democratic.
Has this kind of thinking happened before? Absolutely yes. In the 1950s, the U.S. government decided that Arab nationalists would be anti-Communist modernizers when they turned out to be bloodthirsty anti-American tyrants. In the early 1990s, both the U.S. and Israeli governments decided that helping Yasir Arafat would transform him into a statesman who just wanted to have his own country and settle down to fixing potholes.
Note that even if Obama were to be defeated in the election, the far left's relative monopoly over mass media, academia, many schools, and much of publishing and entertainment would not be affected. The left-wing's control over the Democratic Party might also well not be affected, because that would require a revolt by courageous people, further motivated by disastrous defeat, of which so far there is no sign whatsoever.
Obviously, only so much can be said about these things in 1000 words and these are central themes in a book I hope to complete before year’s end called Silent Revolution. But unless we can persuasively explain what is going on and avoid being labeled—at least by anyone who has been duped but wants to be honest—as a bunch of crazy name-callers, there's just going to be years more of the same.
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Barack Hussein Obama is an amateur in on the scene. His lack of understanding of simple economics has brought the American economy to a stand still. His foreign policy of appeasement has made the United States look weak to our enemies and destroyed the rapport we had with our allies. His "Leading From Behind" shows him to be the coward he is. His lack of a work ethic shows the laziness of the man. A man who spends more time campaigning and not governing.
4 more years of Barack Hussein Obama's policies and the United States will no longer exists as a strong, vibrant nation. It will become a pale imitation of Europe, with the same debt problems and Nanny State programs that is destroying those counties.
Thursday, September 13, 2012
Mitt Romney Remarks on Egypt and Libya – Transcript Video 9-12-12
Stolen From Maggie's Notebook
Listening to the reporters and their juvenile voices, you get the feeling they were members of a co-ed college dorm. They asked the same thing over and over. Now, can you imagine what happened in Egypt happening and nothing happening in Libya – and Romney says nothing? They would have creamed him. Every question was accusatory. Transcript and full video below. Photos of Libyan diplomacy below.
What happened after we knew that at least one unidentified American was dead in the Embassy (as it was reported last night), but actually a Consulate – not that it matters – called for a statement. Our sovereign spot on Egyptian soil had been seized. Imagine Americans doing that to the Egyptian Embassy in this country. It called for a statement, and how unfortunate for the State Department and Obama that that ignorant notice went up on the Government website. Did you miss it? Here it is:
Obama says he wasn’t aware of the statement of his own State Department, just as he said he didn’t know the DNC has taken “God” and “God-given Potential” out of the party platform. What Obama didn’t, and doesn’t know, will fill history books as no other President’s ignorance has in all the years of our presidential history.
Begin transcript:
MITT ROMNEY: Good morning. Americans woke up this morning with tragic news and felt heavy hearts as they considered that individuals who have served in our diplomatic core were brutally murdered across the world.
This attack on American individuals and embassies is outrageous, it’s disgusting, it breaks the hearts of all of us who think of these people who have served during their lives for the cause of freedom, and justice and honor. We mourn their loss and join together in prayer that the spirit of the All Mighty might comfort the families of those who have been so brutally slain.
Four diplomats lost their life, including the U.S. Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens in the attack on our embassy at Benghazi, Libya – and of course with these words I extend my condolences to the grieving loved ones who have been left behind as a result of these who have lost their lives in the service of our Nation, and I know that the people across America are grateful for their service, and we mourn their sacrifice.
America will not tolerate attacks against our citizens and against our embassies. We’ll defend also our constitutional rights of speech, and assembly, and religion. We have confidence in our cause in America. We respect our Constitution. We stand for the principles our Constitution protects. We encourage other nations to understand and respect the principles of our Constitution, because we recognize that these principles are the ultimate source of freedom for individuals around the world.
Possibly the Administration was wrong to standby a statement sympathizing with those who had breached our embassy in Egypt instead of condemning their actions.
Its never too early for the United States Government to condemn attacks on Americans and to defend our values. The White House distanced itself last night from the statement saying it wasn’t cleared by Washington. That reflects the mixed signals they are sending to the world. The attacks in Libya and Egypt underscore that the world remains a dangerous place and that American leadership is still sorely needed.
In the face of this violence, America cannot shrink from the responsibility to lead. American leadership is necessary to insure that events in the region don’t spin out of control. We cannot hesitate to use our influence in the region to support those who share our values and our interests.
Over the last several years we’ve stood witness to an Arab Spring that presents an opportunity for a more peaceful and prosperous region, but also poses the potential for peril if the forces of extremism and violence are allowed to control the course of events.
We must strive to insure that the Arab Spring does not become an Arab Winter. With that I’m happy to take any questions you may have. [Romney calls on 'Steve.']
REPORTER: The statement you referred to was a toughly worded statement last night. Do you regret the tone at all given what we know?
ROMNEY: The Embassy in Cairo put out a statement after their grounds had been breached, protestors were inside the grounds, they reiterated that statement after the breach. I think it’s a terrible course for America to stand in apology for our values, that instead when our ground are being attacked and being breached that the first response of the United States must be outrage at the breach of the sovereignty of our Nation, and apology for America’s values is never the right course.
REPORTER: Governor Romney do you think, though, coming so soon after the events really had unfolded overnight was appropriate, to be weighing in on this as this crisis is unfolding in realtime?
ROMNEY: The White House also issued a statement saying it tried to distance itself from those comments and said they were not reflecting of their views. I had the exact same reaction. These views were inappropriate. They were the wrong course to take when our Embassy has been breached by protestors. The first response should not be to say, yes, we standby our comments that suggest that there is something wrong with the right of free speech.
REPORTER: What did the White House do wrong, then, Governor Romney if they put out a statement saying they disagreed it?
ROMNEY: Their Administration spoke. The President takes responsibility, not just for the words that come from his mouth but also for the words that come from his Ambassadors from his Administration, from his Embassies, from the State Department. They clearly sent mixed messages to the world, and the statement that came from the Administration, and the Embassy is the Administration. The statement that came from the Administration was a statement which is akin to apology and I think was a severe miscalculation.
REPORTER: You talk about mixed signals. The world was watching. Isn’t this assault a mixed signal when you criticize the Administration when Americans are being killed? Shouldn’t politics stop?
ROMNEY: We have a campaign for the Presidency of the United States and are speaking about the different courses we would each take with regard to the challenges that the world faces. The President and I, for instance, have differences of opinion with regards to Israel and our policies there, with regards to Iran, with regards to Afghanistan, with regards to Syria. We have many places of distinctions and differences.
We join together in the condemnation of attacks on the American Embassies and the loss of American life and join in sympathy for these people. But it’s also important for me, just as it was for the White House last night by the way, to say that the statements were inappropriate, and in my view a disgraceful statement on the part of our Administration to apologize for American values.
REPORTER: Governor, some people have said that you jumped the gun a little in putting that statement out last night and you should have waited until more details were available. Do you regret having that statement come out so early before we learned about all the things that were happening?
ROMNEY: I don’t think we ever hesitate when we see something which is a violation of our principles. We express immediately when we feel that the President and his Administration have done something which is inconsistent with the principles of America.
Simply put, having an Embassy which has been breached and has protestors on its grounds, having violated the sovereignty of the United States, having that Embassy reiterate a statement effectively apologizing for the right of free speech is not the right course for an administration.
REPORTER: If you had known last night that the Ambassador had died, and obviously, I’m gathering that you did not know…
ROMNEY: That came later.
REPORTER: Ff you had known that the Ambassador had died…
ROMNEY: I’m not going to take hypotheticals about what would have been known, what and when and so forth. We responded last night in the events that happened in Egypt.
REPORTER: One of your professed reasons for running is your economic know-how and your private sector experience, but now that foreign policy and the situation in the Middle East has been thrust into the Presidential campaign, can you talk about specifically why you think you are better qualified than President Obama to handle these issues?
ROMNEY: I think President Obama has demonstrated a lack of clarify as to a foreign policy. My foreign policy has three fundamental branches. First, confidence in our cause, a recognition that the principles America is based upon is not something we shrink from or apologize for, that we stand for those principles. The second is clarity in our purpose which is when we have a foreign policy objective we describe it honestly and clearly to the American people, to Congress, and to the people of the world. And Number three, is resolve in our might, that in those rare circumstances, those rare circumstances where we decide it’s essential for us to apply military might, that we do so with overwhelming force, that we do so with the clarity of a mission, understanding and the nature of the U.S. interest involved, understanding when it will be complete, what will be left behind us when that mission has been terminated. These elements I believe are essential to our foreign policy and I haven’t seen them from the President. As I’ve watched over the past three and a half years, the President has had some successes, he’s had some failures, it’s a hit-or-miss approach but it has not based upon sound foreign policy.
REPORTER: How specifically does Governor Romney – would a President Romney have handled this situation differently than President Obama? You spoke out before midnight when all the facts weren’t known. How would you have handled this differently than the President did?
ROMNEY: I spoke out when the key fact was known, which was that the Embassy of the United States issued what appeared to be a policy for American principles. That was a mistake. I believe when a mistake is made of that significance you speak out.
End Romney transcript
American Power Blog has updates on the murder of Christopher Stevens.
Mitt Romney Press Conference on Egyptian and Libyan Embassy Attacks (video)
Thanks to MamaBarracuda for the video
Listening to the reporters and their juvenile voices, you get the feeling they were members of a co-ed college dorm. They asked the same thing over and over. Now, can you imagine what happened in Egypt happening and nothing happening in Libya – and Romney says nothing? They would have creamed him. Every question was accusatory. Transcript and full video below. Photos of Libyan diplomacy below.
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| Ambassador Christopher Stevens – September 11, 2012 |
What happened after we knew that at least one unidentified American was dead in the Embassy (as it was reported last night), but actually a Consulate – not that it matters – called for a statement. Our sovereign spot on Egyptian soil had been seized. Imagine Americans doing that to the Egyptian Embassy in this country. It called for a statement, and how unfortunate for the State Department and Obama that that ignorant notice went up on the Government website. Did you miss it? Here it is:
The Embassy of the United States in Cairo condemns the continuing efforts by misguided individuals to hurt the religious feelings of Muslims – as we condemn efforts to offend believers of all religions. Today, the 11th anniversary of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the United States, Americans are honoring our patriots and those who serve our nation as the fitting response to the enemies of democracy. Respect for religious beliefs is a cornerstone of American democracy. We firmly reject the actions by those who abuse the universal right of free speech to hurt the religious beliefs of others.The history of this Administration shows that our Government intended to say exactly what it said.
Obama says he wasn’t aware of the statement of his own State Department, just as he said he didn’t know the DNC has taken “God” and “God-given Potential” out of the party platform. What Obama didn’t, and doesn’t know, will fill history books as no other President’s ignorance has in all the years of our presidential history.
Begin transcript:
MITT ROMNEY: Good morning. Americans woke up this morning with tragic news and felt heavy hearts as they considered that individuals who have served in our diplomatic core were brutally murdered across the world.
This attack on American individuals and embassies is outrageous, it’s disgusting, it breaks the hearts of all of us who think of these people who have served during their lives for the cause of freedom, and justice and honor. We mourn their loss and join together in prayer that the spirit of the All Mighty might comfort the families of those who have been so brutally slain.
Four diplomats lost their life, including the U.S. Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens in the attack on our embassy at Benghazi, Libya – and of course with these words I extend my condolences to the grieving loved ones who have been left behind as a result of these who have lost their lives in the service of our Nation, and I know that the people across America are grateful for their service, and we mourn their sacrifice.
America will not tolerate attacks against our citizens and against our embassies. We’ll defend also our constitutional rights of speech, and assembly, and religion. We have confidence in our cause in America. We respect our Constitution. We stand for the principles our Constitution protects. We encourage other nations to understand and respect the principles of our Constitution, because we recognize that these principles are the ultimate source of freedom for individuals around the world.
Possibly the Administration was wrong to standby a statement sympathizing with those who had breached our embassy in Egypt instead of condemning their actions.
Its never too early for the United States Government to condemn attacks on Americans and to defend our values. The White House distanced itself last night from the statement saying it wasn’t cleared by Washington. That reflects the mixed signals they are sending to the world. The attacks in Libya and Egypt underscore that the world remains a dangerous place and that American leadership is still sorely needed.
In the face of this violence, America cannot shrink from the responsibility to lead. American leadership is necessary to insure that events in the region don’t spin out of control. We cannot hesitate to use our influence in the region to support those who share our values and our interests.
Over the last several years we’ve stood witness to an Arab Spring that presents an opportunity for a more peaceful and prosperous region, but also poses the potential for peril if the forces of extremism and violence are allowed to control the course of events.
We must strive to insure that the Arab Spring does not become an Arab Winter. With that I’m happy to take any questions you may have. [Romney calls on 'Steve.']
REPORTER: The statement you referred to was a toughly worded statement last night. Do you regret the tone at all given what we know?
ROMNEY: The Embassy in Cairo put out a statement after their grounds had been breached, protestors were inside the grounds, they reiterated that statement after the breach. I think it’s a terrible course for America to stand in apology for our values, that instead when our ground are being attacked and being breached that the first response of the United States must be outrage at the breach of the sovereignty of our Nation, and apology for America’s values is never the right course.
REPORTER: Governor Romney do you think, though, coming so soon after the events really had unfolded overnight was appropriate, to be weighing in on this as this crisis is unfolding in realtime?
ROMNEY: The White House also issued a statement saying it tried to distance itself from those comments and said they were not reflecting of their views. I had the exact same reaction. These views were inappropriate. They were the wrong course to take when our Embassy has been breached by protestors. The first response should not be to say, yes, we standby our comments that suggest that there is something wrong with the right of free speech.
REPORTER: What did the White House do wrong, then, Governor Romney if they put out a statement saying they disagreed it?
ROMNEY: Their Administration spoke. The President takes responsibility, not just for the words that come from his mouth but also for the words that come from his Ambassadors from his Administration, from his Embassies, from the State Department. They clearly sent mixed messages to the world, and the statement that came from the Administration, and the Embassy is the Administration. The statement that came from the Administration was a statement which is akin to apology and I think was a severe miscalculation.
REPORTER: You talk about mixed signals. The world was watching. Isn’t this assault a mixed signal when you criticize the Administration when Americans are being killed? Shouldn’t politics stop?
ROMNEY: We have a campaign for the Presidency of the United States and are speaking about the different courses we would each take with regard to the challenges that the world faces. The President and I, for instance, have differences of opinion with regards to Israel and our policies there, with regards to Iran, with regards to Afghanistan, with regards to Syria. We have many places of distinctions and differences.
We join together in the condemnation of attacks on the American Embassies and the loss of American life and join in sympathy for these people. But it’s also important for me, just as it was for the White House last night by the way, to say that the statements were inappropriate, and in my view a disgraceful statement on the part of our Administration to apologize for American values.
REPORTER: Governor, some people have said that you jumped the gun a little in putting that statement out last night and you should have waited until more details were available. Do you regret having that statement come out so early before we learned about all the things that were happening?
ROMNEY: I don’t think we ever hesitate when we see something which is a violation of our principles. We express immediately when we feel that the President and his Administration have done something which is inconsistent with the principles of America.
Simply put, having an Embassy which has been breached and has protestors on its grounds, having violated the sovereignty of the United States, having that Embassy reiterate a statement effectively apologizing for the right of free speech is not the right course for an administration.
REPORTER: If you had known last night that the Ambassador had died, and obviously, I’m gathering that you did not know…
ROMNEY: That came later.
REPORTER: Ff you had known that the Ambassador had died…
ROMNEY: I’m not going to take hypotheticals about what would have been known, what and when and so forth. We responded last night in the events that happened in Egypt.
REPORTER: One of your professed reasons for running is your economic know-how and your private sector experience, but now that foreign policy and the situation in the Middle East has been thrust into the Presidential campaign, can you talk about specifically why you think you are better qualified than President Obama to handle these issues?
ROMNEY: I think President Obama has demonstrated a lack of clarify as to a foreign policy. My foreign policy has three fundamental branches. First, confidence in our cause, a recognition that the principles America is based upon is not something we shrink from or apologize for, that we stand for those principles. The second is clarity in our purpose which is when we have a foreign policy objective we describe it honestly and clearly to the American people, to Congress, and to the people of the world. And Number three, is resolve in our might, that in those rare circumstances, those rare circumstances where we decide it’s essential for us to apply military might, that we do so with overwhelming force, that we do so with the clarity of a mission, understanding and the nature of the U.S. interest involved, understanding when it will be complete, what will be left behind us when that mission has been terminated. These elements I believe are essential to our foreign policy and I haven’t seen them from the President. As I’ve watched over the past three and a half years, the President has had some successes, he’s had some failures, it’s a hit-or-miss approach but it has not based upon sound foreign policy.
REPORTER: How specifically does Governor Romney – would a President Romney have handled this situation differently than President Obama? You spoke out before midnight when all the facts weren’t known. How would you have handled this differently than the President did?
ROMNEY: I spoke out when the key fact was known, which was that the Embassy of the United States issued what appeared to be a policy for American principles. That was a mistake. I believe when a mistake is made of that significance you speak out.
End Romney transcript
American Power Blog has updates on the murder of Christopher Stevens.
Mitt Romney Press Conference on Egyptian and Libyan Embassy Attacks (video)
Thanks to MamaBarracuda for the video
Wednesday, September 12, 2012
MSNBC : Blame Romney
Gary Fouse
fousesquawk
http://garyfouse.blogspot.com
Watching MSNBC today, Martin Bashir's theme on the events in Egypt and Libya is to blame Mitt Romney for his critical comments on the now-infamous State Department statement condemning the makers of some film in the US that mocked Mohammed and Islam. The point, according to Bashir, Jonathan Alter, and Dana Milbank of the Washington Post is that Romney was wrong to condemn the (embassy) statement because it was released prior to the beginning of both protests. According to Bashir et al, Romney was disgracefully politicizing the tragedy. Bashir also had on his show the "Honorable" tax cheat Congressman Charlie Rangel, who blasted both Romney and Paul Ryan. Romney was also criticized for making his comment even before all the next-of-kin had been informed of the four deaths in Libya.
As for the latter point, both President Obama and Hillary Clinton made statements about the tragedy this morning when the identities of two of the victims had yet not been made public. Clinton, in her statement, said that next-of-kin notifications were still pending as to two of the victims. The names of Ambassador Chris Stevens and the other victim were released since their families had been notified.
Here is what Hot Air had to say on the State Department statement:
http://hotair.com/archives/2012/09/11/senior-administration-official-the-cairo-embassys-tweets-do-not-reflect-the-view-of-the-u-s-government/
Commentary Magazine had this take:
http://www.commentarymagazine.com/2012/09/12/walking-back-the-cairo-apology-embassy-attack-obama-speech/
So apparently, the Cairo embassy, knowing that a protest was in the works, put out the much-maligned statement in the form of a tweet. The State Department and the administration apparently stepped back from the statement, and later released a condemnation of the Cairo protest while affirming their condemnation of those who had "offended the feelings of Muslims" (referring to the film).
But Mitt Romney is the bad guy.
Meanwhile, Bashir made reference to Milbank's paper, the Washington Post's editorial blasting Romney:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-death-of-an-ambassador/2012/09/12/ed3b719e-fcfa-11e1-b153-218509a954e1_story.html
Here is the portion of the Post editorial that Bashir highlighted:
"J.CHRISTOPHER STEVENS, the U.S. ambassador to Libya, was a skilled and courageous diplomat who repeatedly placed himself at risk in order to support the cause of a democratic Libya. His death, along with those of three other Americans, during an attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi on Tuesday is a tragedy that should prompt bipartisan support for renewed U.S. aid to Libyans who are struggling to stabilize the country. That it instead provoked a series of crude political attacks on President Obama by GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney is a discredit to his campaign."
(Emphasis mine)
Bashir also showed President Obama at the State Department this morning with Secretary Clinton signing a condolence book and later the both of them appearing before reporters in the Rose Garden. What Bashir did not show was that after the morning events, Obama took off on Air Force One to Nevada and Colorado for campaign appearances. Here is the White House schedule for today.
http://www.whitehouse.gov/schedule/complete
"Anybody home?"
Obama arriving today in Las Vegas for a campaign appearance (Las Vegas Sun)
Maybe the president should start attending some intelligence briefings, which he has apparently missed this week. (Hat tip Breitbart).
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Peace/2012/09/12/Exclusive-Obama-Skipped-Intel-Briefings-Week-Before-Embassy-Attacks
So as our bodies are en route home, another mob in front of the Cairo embassy as I write, Obama is once again on the campaign trail and missing intelligence briefings, and Mitt Romney is the bad guy according to MSNBC-the ones who are truly politicizing the incident.
Shut Up And Do What You Are Told And Arab Winter: Kill The Americans
Is what has been told to Prime Minister Netanyahu by Barack Hussein Obama and the members of his regime.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is making it clear that Israel will not wait to take out Iranian nuclear facilities.I am waiting on the day Iran tests a nuclear bomb and Obama goes "Oops!" What "fun" that will be. When asked to meet with President Obama, Netanyahu was told that President Obama is too busy, but he will be appearing on Letterman that day.
In heated comments toward the United States, the Israeli prime minister said that it’s becoming clear that diplomacy will not work with Iran.
“The world tells Israel, `Wait. There’s still time,’” Netanyahu said Tuesday, according to The Associated Press. “And I say: `Wait for what? Wait until when?’ Those in the international community who refuse to put red lines before Iran don’t have a moral right to place a red light before Israel.”
The Obama administration has consistently stated that they don’t want to go the military route against Iran and give more time for the sanctions to force Tehran to give up its nuclear ambitions.
Netanyahu worries Iran will continue developing nuclear technology without giving the Islamic nation a firm timeline to stop.
“If Iran knows that there is no deadline, what will it do? Exactly what it’s doing. It’s continuing, without any interference, towards obtaining nuclear weapons capability and from there, nuclear bombs,” he said, according to Haaertz.
Defense Minister Ehud Barak tried to downplay the harsh rhetoric, saying in a statement to Haaertz that the tension between the U.S. and Israel should be ironed out “behind closed doors.”
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The White House has turned down an offer by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to meet with President Obama later this month, U.S. and Israeli officials confirmed to Fox News.
Though the White House is citing scheduling conflicts, the chilly reception is sure to be seen as a snub among Israel’s biggest defenders – and it comes amid a state of heightened alert over Iran’s nuclear program and the possibility of Israeli action.
Sources said Netanyahu, though he plans to be in New York City during his brief stay, was offering to travel to D.C. to make the meeting happen. However, the White House apparently said Obama’s tight schedule – the president is in the middle of a feverish campaign run -- would make a meeting difficult.
White House spokesman Tommy Vietor later confirmed to Fox News that Obama is not expected to meet with Netanyahu, though insisted it was just a scheduling problem. He said Obama will be at the United Nations on Sept. 24 and leave the following day, while Netanyahu won’t be in the city until later in the week.
“They're simply not in the city at the same time,” Vietor said.
He also said Netanyahu and Obama are in “frequent contact,” and that Netanyahu has instead been offered meetings with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and other top officials.
In addition, a senior administration official told Fox News that the president will be addressing the U.N. General Assembly and the Clinton Global Initiative when in New York. But he will not be having one-on-one meetings with world leaders so this should not be seen as a snub of Netanyahu.
But the turn-down comes amid increasing international anxiety about Iran’s nuclear program. The U.N. reportedly has found new intelligence showing Iran is moving toward nuclear weapon capability.
And the exchange between the White House and the prime minister’s office is the most recent in what is seen as a cool, if not strained, relationship between Obama and Netanyahu, despite Israel being considered one of the United State’s closest allies.
“I’m astounded that (Obama) cannot find the time,” former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton said. “I don’t see it so much as a snub as a horrible, substantive mistake in American foreign policy.”
One well-placed Jewish-American leader told Fox News that the White House has not yet fully ruled out moving things around on the schedule to accommodate Netanyahu. But as of now, Obama is scheduled to be on the campaign trail during the window of time when Netanyahu can make it to Washington.
“Discussions are ongoing,” the source emphasized.
Asked about relations between the two men, the source acknowledged they “are not warm and fuzzy” and that there is “a lot of tension” between the two governments, given the gravity of the issues under consideration. But overall, the source said the alliance remains strong, particularly in terms of military-to-military cooperation, and even in day-to-day interactions “up to and including the prime minister.”
Republicans were quick, though, to pounce on the news.
“We are surprised and disappointed by reports that the White House has denied a request from Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu to meet with President Obama while he is visiting the United States,” said Republican Sens. John McCain, Ariz., and Lindsey Graham, S.C. “If these reports are true, the White House's decision sends a troubling signal to our ally Israel about America's commitment at this dangerous and challenging time, especially as Iran continues to work actively toward developing a nuclear weapons capability.”
Rep. Ted Poe, R-Texas, tweeted: “How ironic that the #POTUS has time for high dollar $40K-a-head fundraiser with @JayZ and @Beyonce but not for the PM of Israel.”
The prime minister’s office told the White House that Netanyahu’s official visit will be short, starting on a Thursday and ending at sundown Friday because of the Sabbath.
He is staying in the U.S. through Sunday. One Israeli source said he “wouldn’t be surprised if things changed” regarding a meeting by the time Netanyahu arrives.
Netanyahu will still travel to speak at the United Nations headquarters.
Earlier on Tuesday, Netanyahu launched an unprecedented critique of the U.S. government and others over their stance on the Iranian nuclear program, according to the English-language news site Haaretz.
"The world tells Israel 'wait, there's still time,’” the site quotes Netanyahu as saying. “And I say, 'Wait for what? Wait until when?' Those in the international community who refuse to put red lines before Iran don't have a moral right to place a red light before Israel."
Obama has increased economic sanctions on Iran but has yet to define the so-called “red line” -- which, should Iran cross it, would theoretically result in military action.
"Now if Iran knows that there is no red line … what will it do?” Netanyahu asked Tuesday. “Exactly what it's doing. It's continuing, without any interference, towards obtaining nuclear weapons capability and from there, nuclear bombs."
Democrats upset Israel supporters last week when they removed language in the party platform that acknowledged Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.
The president, though, had the words re-inserted and said in his acceptance speech that the country’s commitment to Israel's security “must not waver.”
“And neither must our pursuit of peace,” he continued.
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