Posted on 05/02/2011 1:25:51 PM PDT by neverdem
I know, I know, if you can’t blog anything real nice it’s better not to blog at all, that’s my advice. Nevertheless:
Personally, I would have liked bin Laden’s death to have been announced by whatever lowest-level official was manning the night desk at the Department of Nondescript Bureaucrats, preferably reading it off the back of an envelope. But, if you’re going to put the head of state on TV to announce it himself, it would have been better to have been all brisk and businesslike – “At 0800 hours American military assets entered an address at 27b Jihadist Gardens, etc” – and finish off with a bit of Churchillian sober uplift about it not being the end or the beginning of the end but maybe the end of the beginning.
Instead, as Stephen Hunter, the novelist and Washington Post film critic, writes:
Any joy one might feel in the intelligence of our analysts and the bravery of our door kickers was significantly diminished by Obama’s malignant narcissism. The first part of the announcement, evoking 9/11, was vulgarly overwritten as per Obama’s view of himself as some kind of gifted orator. The adjective bloated compote was unworthy of the subject, banal and self-indulgent.
I was, I confess, a little stunned by the first part of the President’s speech. It was, as Mr Hunter says, overwritten. It managed to be both overwrought and generic – all that telepromptered overload about cloudless Tuesday mornings was not only tackily over-prettified but came over as unfelt and hand-me-down, like a course exercise in some third-rate creative-writing school’s Soaring Oratory class. Or, at any rate, as if they’d loaded up a first draft of September’s tenth anniversary speech into the machine. The official announcement was delayed for all this? If ever there was a moment for the commander-in-chief to be real, plainspoken and off his glassy-eyed follow-the-bouncing-ball routine, this was it. It’s as if nobody around him knows how to write except in the one tinny key.
Don’t get me wrong. I’m happy to rally round the flag, and rally round the President, but rally round this speech? No thanks.
You want them to breach their own security to satisfy YOU? There’s a very good reason that the people who participate in this type operation are never known. I resent the fact that the unit and its home base were ID’d. IMO, that represents an extraordinary security breach, putting the team members AND their families at risk. The SEALS are not in the PR business, they leave that to the pols.
No one talks, ,they are sworn t secrecy. And there were few in on what happened after the body was delivers aboard the Vincent.
This whole thing is a campaign fodder scam.
I say even the SEALS were grifted into thinking the target was legit.
Fair enough?
I say you are more than probably wrong........>>>>>>>>>>
On what evidence? Buahahahahahahahahahahaha.
All you got is “what Obama says.” Thats not worth a plum nickle.
Fair enough indeed.
Been reading my mind again, Candor7? ;-)
I agree completely.
I don't trust Obama as far as I can toss him....
But you have very little in the way of facts.
i already said that its NOT right to force them, or their families to do so, but the whooooole thing stinks and was designed to stink from the gitgo...
Im simply addressing the several posters that claim that anyone who denies bambams 'truth' is somehow dissing the military in general, and SEALs in particular...
God Bless em all for their sacrifices and jobs well done...but Ive yet to see/hear anyone other than bambam & co. verify the deed, so color me skeptical...
Mark Steyn: If ever there was a moment for the commander-in-chief to be real, plainspoken and off his glassy-eyed follow-the-bouncing-ball routine, this was it. It’s as if nobody around him knows how to write except in the one tinny key.
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No one who writes for The WON knows how to write a pro-military, pro-America speech. That is why they always sound fake - because they are.
Mark Steyn: If ever there was a moment for the commander-in-chief to be real, plainspoken and off his glassy-eyed follow-the-bouncing-ball routine, this was it. It’s as if nobody around him knows how to write except in the one tinny key.
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No one who writes for The WON knows how to write a pro-military, pro-America speech. That is why they always sound fake - because they are.
Here is the link to President Bush’s announcement of the capture of Saddam.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKajq6vBFgc&NR=1
<4 minutes.
President Bush says “I” 3 times.
I have a message for Iraqis..
I thank our forces...
I congratulate all...
He says “our” about 9 times, and never says “my” or “me.”
Well, on a regular qwerty keyboard, if you inadvertandly move your right hand up one row, you get ijpoo. Maybe that’s what she meant. ;o)
Oh! “ijpoo” Of course! Now it makes perfect sense! 8^)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKajq6vBFgc&NR=1
<4 minutes.
Excellent. Thank you for that.
Agree with steyn. The first part was flowery and pedantic, insulting to the American people (we were all there on 9/11, no matter where we were), and overwrought like a paper found in a freshman creative writing class at a community college.
And the second part was so filled with I Me Mine that the dead Beatles rolled in their graves, and Paul and Ringo were overcome with a terrible itch.
It was insane to wait 2 hours for this narcissist to rehearse this cheesy “I did it!” speech. He should have spoken off the cuff in the golf shirt in the oval office with only the barest of notes before him, for one minute, and thanked everyone involved, especially those who gave the ultimate sacrifice from 9/11 to yesterday in the war or terror, and never mentioned his own sorry self. I would have actually admired the man for once.
Omg, did he really say “a small group of Americans?” not troops, not special forces, not navy seals, but a small group of Americans??? Some wandering tourists in Abbotabad, carrying cameras and wearing tennis shoes???
Yes, it was like the prisoners of war, beaten into reading a prepared statement that the united states is an evil empire. That was indeed his delivery, and probably for the exact same reason.
But you have very little in the way of facts.
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Neither do you, ,but my thinking is strategically superior.All you have done is swallowed what Obama says hook line and sinker.
Obama is a traitor and a nationalist socialist. A stained thug killer running our nation. Why would anyone believe him?It amazes me. Thats why he got NO BOUNCE in approval rating over OSB,there is no forensic proof with a body, nor confirmation by NATO allies.
Strictly campaign fodder.
And whats even more precious, all thise pointing to the lack of multiple redundant forensic confrmation are branded by Obamas running dogs as kooks, many the most competent military minds on the planet? LOL.See a pattern there?
What a laugh. We are so hungry for American exceptionalism destroyed by Obama , that we will believe anything he says? No thanks.
Obama and everything he does is a lie. His actions are always diametrically opposed to what he says.
Me too. I thought he looked like someone made him suck a lemon before speaking.
Of course it is..............
At least we agree on something.Buahaahahahaha!
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feast of fools Posted by Richard Tuesday, May 03, 2011
Nothing could have been further from my mind as I scanned the morning’s news yesterday than spending the best part of the day exploring the recent history of Osama Bin Laden’s many deaths.
If, as increasingly seems likely, but not yet proven to any satisfactory degree, Bin Laden has finally been despatched, then all the previous commentators – including heads of state and senior government officials – who confidently asserted that the man had already been killed, were wrong. Further, the journalists who wrote the stories publicising these views were portraying falsehoods. They too were wrong.
As it stands, however – and certainly as it stood yesterday – those, including those in the US government, who were asserting that Bin Laden had now been killed were offering no more or better evidence than those who went before them.
Further, the source of the claim was the US government. And like all or any governments, it is prone to error, to deception and even outright lying. No such organisation has any right to expect trust, and anyone who unconditionally trusts any government is a fool.
Thus, as of yesterday and still, until the US government has proven its assertions, we reserve our position. We do not disbelieve the US government, but nor do we believe it. We simply expect a reasonable level of evidence which translates acceptance of its claim from one of unsupported belief to one of reasoned conclusion, thus also enabling us to reject previous claims as wrong.
Anyone with a modicum of intelligence and sense would, on reading my piece, readily have divined that this was my position. Two, however, did not – one was Tim Montgomerie who used his fool machine to label me an “OBL denier” and the other Tom Harris MP, who on the basis of Montgomerie’s jolly little intervention, decided on the label “nutter”. That Harris is an MP and should know better does not surprise me in the least. We expect very little from our elected representatives these days.
Subsequently, however. we see reported that White House is weighing whether to release photographs of Osama bin Laden’s corpse “amid calls from some key lawmakers to do so to prove the Al-Qaeda chief is truly dead”.
John Brennan Obama’s anti-terror adviser responds by saying: “We are going to do everything we can to make sure that nobody has any basis to try to deny that we got Osama bin Laden.” And that now includes determining whether to release photograph claimed to have been taken.
“It may be necessary to release the pictures - as gruesome as they undoubtedly will be, because he’s been shot in the head - to quell any doubts that this somehow is a ruse that the American government has carried out”, says Senate Homeland Security Committee Chairman Joseph Lieberman.
Senator Susan Collins, the most senior Republican on Lieberman’s committee, declares she has “absolutely no doubt” Bin Laden has been killed, but adds: “... I recognize that there will be those who will try to generate this myth that he’s alive, and that we missed him somehow, and in order to put that to rest it may be necessary to release some of the pictures, or video, or the DNA test.”
House Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike Rogers, a Republican, says US officials are working through whether to release photos of bin Laden’s corpse. “We want to make sure that we maintain dignity - if there was any - in Osama bin Laden, so that we don’t inflame problems other places in the world and still provide enough evidence that people are confident that it was Osama bin Laden,” he adds.
None of them have precisely got the point, but they are closer to it than either Montgomerie or Harris. It is no part of the duty of a responsible and alert citizen to believe unsupported assertions made by governments – and every bit a duty to exercise sensible scepticism. Neither governments nor anyone in authority should ever be given an easy ride. If they make claims, they should be required to support them.
Interestingly, the White House’s original plan had been to bomb the house, but Obama ultimately decided against that. “The helicopter raid was riskier. It was more daring”, an official said. “But he wanted proof. He didn’t want to just leave a pile of rubble”. The president wanted proof – which is deemed reasonable. When we ask for the same, Montgomerie and Harris would have us as “deniers” and “nutters”.
The very fact that clever sophisticates like Montgomerie and Harris could not see this inconsistency, and resorted to their silly comments, tells us we have a problem. For all their cleverness, they are too gullible, too trusting. They are fools at large – dangerous to themselves and the rest of us. And there are far too many like them.
The meaning of the picture, incidentally, may be obscure, but the title of the website from which it comes makes the point. You may chose who is who.
http://eureferendum.blogspot.com/2011/05/feast-of-fools.html
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Tracing Obama’s Muslim Brotherhood Conections through Action
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Egypt Islamists see mass protest at “rigged” vote (Muslim Brotherhood to lead revolt: 12/23/2010)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2666667/posts
First the telegraph of London reports the Egyptian revolutionary radicals at conferences in the USA:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2665250/posts
and then the capers of Bernedette Dorn and Bill Ayers in Cairo:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2664849/posts
Code Pink: Obama, Hamas, Muslim Brotherhood Ally Raising (Tax Exempt) Money to Overthrow Egypt Gov’t
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2668652/posts
Muslim Brotherhood invited to Obamas Cairo Speech 2009
Obama and the Shadow Socialist Group Behind Egypt’s Fall?
http://www.michaelsavage.wnd.com/files/filesSavage/Savage-
ObamaGivingMiddleEastToIslamistRadicals-Rev03.pdf
An Egyptian Warns the United States ( Obama) to Back Off
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2668365/posts?page=1
ex-CIA Agent Reveals: “Muslim Brotherhood” has infiltrated Obama Administration
Obama pals provoked Egypt chaos
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2668238/posts
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Obama...master of manipulation and grift.He destroys our nation. Why should anyone believe information from him unverified? No reason to.
"Deathers", I wish I had thought of that! It is really too bad that FR does not have an "ignore" button, I am really getting tired of "all conspiracy all the time" posters!
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