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Steyn Online ^ | 5/11/14 | Merk Steyn

Posted on 05/11/2014 10:56:24 PM PDT by Impala64ssa

t is hard not to have total contempt for a political culture that thinks the picture at right is a useful contribution to rescuing 276 schoolgirls kidnapped by jihadist savages in Nigeria. Yet some pajama boy at the White House evidently felt getting the First Lady to pose with this week's Hashtag of Western Impotence would reflect well upon the Administration. The horrible thing is they may be right: Michelle showed she cared - on social media! - and that's all that matters, isn't it?

Just as the last floppo hashtag, #WeStandWithUkraine, didn't actually involve standing with Ukraine, so #BringBackOurGirls doesn't require bringing back our girls. There are only a half-dozen special forces around the planet capable of doing that without getting most or all of the hostages killed: the British, the French, the Americans, Israelis, Germans, Aussies, maybe a couple of others. So, unless something of that nature is being lined up, those schoolgirls are headed into slavery, and the wretched pleading passivity of Mrs Obama's hashtag is just a form of moral preening.

But then what isn't? The blogger Daniel Payne wrote this week that "modern liberalism, at its core, is an ideology of talking, not doing". He was musing on a press release for some or other "Day of Action" that is, as usual, a day of inaction:

Diverse grassroots groups are organizing and participating in events such as walks, rallies and concerts and calling on government to reduce climate pollution, transition off fossil fuels and commit to a clean energy future.

It's that easy! You go to a concert and someone "calls on government" to do something, and the world gets fixed.

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KEYWORDS: bokoharam; hashtag; marksteyn; nigeria; steyn
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Until recently, Nigeria was associated with those silly cash advance scams. Now they've been invaded by muzzies doing what they do best. And this is the best this balless administration can come up with:

1 posted on 05/11/2014 10:56:25 PM PDT by Impala64ssa
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2 posted on 05/11/2014 10:59:26 PM PDT by ObamahatesPACoal
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Southern Alpha Male here

balls and vertical lift are 90% of my body mass

Figuratively


3 posted on 05/11/2014 11:04:52 PM PDT by wardaddy (we will not take back our way of life through peaceful means.....i have 5 kids....i fear for them)
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4 posted on 05/11/2014 11:25:31 PM PDT by RightGeek (FUBO and the donkey you rode in on)
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5 posted on 05/11/2014 11:30:28 PM PDT by RightGeek (FUBO and the donkey you rode in on)
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Love it!

And the mooch ought to know..she had a glance of what is in his pants during the conception of their two daughters. So you know she know what she talkin’ about.

6 posted on 05/12/2014 12:45:30 AM PDT by itssme
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it is so stupid for the First Moose to be playing the hashtag board game. No class. Could we exchange The Moose for the girls?

Just curious. Are those girls American citizens? I’m just wondering why they are considered “OUR” girls. If they aren’t, then, wouldn’t we be kidnapping kidnapped girls?

Shouldn’t the hashtag be “return the girls to their parents”?


7 posted on 05/12/2014 2:18:26 AM PDT by 1_Rain_Drop
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Do you really believe that bozo fathered those girls?
I think The Moose did a hillary. twice.


8 posted on 05/12/2014 2:20:38 AM PDT by 1_Rain_Drop
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It’s the Duck Face that is so hilarious. When I first saw that picture, I honestly thought it was photoshopped. Because who would do that in seriousness? The Obamas would, apparently.


9 posted on 05/12/2014 2:54:16 AM PDT by ponygirl (Be Breitbart.)
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10 posted on 05/12/2014 3:23:36 AM PDT by sauropod (Fat Bottomed Girl: "What difference, at this point, does it make?")
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bttt


11 posted on 05/12/2014 4:08:38 AM PDT by petercooper ("I was for letting people keep their health insurance, before I wasn't". --- Barack Obama)
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Naw,those pampered gals look nothing like Webb Hubble.


12 posted on 05/12/2014 4:53:32 AM PDT by BTCM (Death and destruction is the only treaty Muslims comprehend.)
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How many photo shoots did it take to get the perfect “frown?”

Furthermore, they aren’t “our girls” they are Nigeria’s girls.


13 posted on 05/12/2014 6:46:13 AM PDT by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal the 16th Amendment)
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To: ObamahatesPACoal

Ol’ Andrew is getting uglier all the time...


14 posted on 05/12/2014 6:50:04 AM PDT by TXnMA ("Allah": Satan's current alias... "Barack": Allah's current ally...)
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You’re brilliant. :-)


15 posted on 05/12/2014 6:50:18 AM PDT by ottbmare (the OTTB mare, now a proud Marine Mom)
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" I’m just wondering why they are considered “OUR” girls."

They's OUR people...

Just ask Holder...

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No racism in 0bozo's world! Nossuh...

16 posted on 05/12/2014 6:55:19 AM PDT by TXnMA ("Allah": Satan's current alias... "Barack": Allah's current ally...)
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Web Hubble?

Again?

Nah...

17 posted on 05/12/2014 6:57:16 AM PDT by TXnMA ("Allah": Satan's current alias... "Barack": Allah's current ally...)
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Come on! Bad/sad looks and hashtags can accomplish anything.


18 posted on 05/12/2014 7:48:41 AM PDT by sheana
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“There’s no point winning an Oxford debate if the other side win everything else.”

That’s what we’re doing. Trying to show how hypocritical the left is, while they continue to actually do things to strip us of freedom. “What does it matter if we’re hypocrites? We own your future.”


19 posted on 05/12/2014 8:20:07 AM PDT by demshateGod (The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God.)
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To: ObamahatesPACoal; All
BRING BACK OUR COUNTRY

Ain't going to happen until Americans realize this is not incompetence, it's not America's first black moron playing POTUS, it is much more serious than that.

Decades ago, the US government openly lied to Americans to hide the dirty truth. But what they really found out from that dark tragedy in history is that it is easy to lie, cheat and steal. It is only necessary to fool the press, who cares what ordinary Americans think? It is because the public will be beaten into shape and will accept the lies if the presstitutes repeat them often enough. Of course Hussein is a Muslim, of course he gave US weapons to Muslim terrorists who killed Americans in Benghazi. Of course Hussein-O-care is an open attack on Americans that is meant to cause economic and social havoc. Of course Hussein's EPA is shutting down power plants under the cover of global warming when actually it is meant to seriously hurt America economically.

FOOLING AMERICANS IS EASY, YOU ONLY HAVE TO FOOL THE PRESS

Ann Coulter doesn't have a clue, do YOU?

20 posted on 05/12/2014 8:39:04 AM PDT by politicianslie (To fool Americans, you only have to fool the presstittues. Hussein Obama cares less what YOU think.)
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