http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/blameamericafirst/ en-us Thu, 4 Jun 2009 10:25:23 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2264471/posts Dear Leader is now speaking to the assembled Muslims in Cairo. More comments to come. FoxNews http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2264471/posts#comment Thu, 4 Jun 2009 10:25:23 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2264541/posts It is time for President Obama to recognise that his strategy is weakening his country and making the United States more vulnerable to attack, says Nile Gardiner. No leader in American history has gone to greater lengths than Barack Obama to make amends for his own country. From condemnation of American “arrogance” in a speech in Strasbourg to acknowledging U.S. “mistakes” before millions of Muslims on Arab television, Obama has rarely missed an opportunity to apologise for the actions of the American people. President Obama has elevated the art of national self-loathing to new heights, and seems to delight in... Telegraph http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2264541/posts#comment Thu, 4 Jun 2009 12:41:35 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2249444/posts Obama's new budget plan includes a little-noted sea change in U.S. nuclear policy, and a step towards his vision of a denuclearized world. It provides no funding for the Reliable Replacement Warhead program, created to design a new generation of long-lasting nuclear weapons that don't need to be tested. (The military is worried that a nuclear test moratorium in effect since 1992 might endanger the reliability of an aging US arsenal.) But this spring Obama issued a bold call for a world free of nuclear weapons, and part of that vision entails leading by example. That means halting programs that... The New Republic - The Plank http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2249444/posts#comment Tue, 12 May 2009 19:13:47 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2248612/posts Too many American lawyers remained silent while the United States conducted illegal torture and the Constitution was violated by disregard for the rule of law, Ted Sorensen told law graduates Saturday. In a commencement address at the University of Nebraska College of Law, his alma mater, Sorensen urged the graduates to act with courage and embrace integrity in their professional pursuits. “Most of you as new lawyers will soon find it easy to make a buck but find it hard to make a difference,” he said, according to an advance copy of the speech obtained by the Journal Star. Sorensen,... Journalstar.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2248612/posts#comment Mon, 11 May 2009 17:14:29 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2247647/posts La Prensa (Managua, Nicaragua) 5/7/09 (Full translation of speech by Oscar Arias, President of Costa Rica, at the Summit of the Americas meeting in Trinidad & Tobago on April 18, 2009) “I have the impression that every time Caribbean and Latin American countries get together with the president of the United States of America it is to ask for things or to demand something. Almost always it’s to blame the United States for our past, present and future ills. I don’t believe that is at all just. We cannot forget that Latin America had universities before the United States created... NAFBPO- M3Foreign news report http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2247647/posts#comment Sat, 9 May 2009 18:11:39 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2240420/posts *** At G20 .....Obama lent credibility to buffoons and despots. What wisdom did he glean from Daniel Ortega' s hate-filled excoriations? Fidel Castro has already hurled back Obama's olive branch, slamming the door on freeing political prisoners. Rather than celebrate the political legacy that put him in the White House, he breaks the bonds of our political traditions. NAMES REDACTED Westwood, NJ *** .........."righties" made such a fuss over Pres Obama's "World Capitulation Tour".......not simply because he threw the US under the bus in a fit of self-flagellation. It's because he was utterly ineffective....we were treated to the spectacle of... NY POST http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2240420/posts#comment Wed, 29 Apr 2009 15:31:11 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2239043/posts Today's breaking news, same as yesterday, same as tomorrow: Corruption and greed plague DC and Wall Street. Obama taxes, begs, borrows and spends as formerly free markets falter and fail. Unemployment, bankruptcy, despair soar. Swine flu hits Mexico. World Health Organization declares flu pandemic. Schools close in Mexico and Texas. Panic spreads. Earthquake hits Mexico. "Illegal" guns flow from U.S. to Mexico. Illegal drugs, illegal aliens, crime, disease and violence flow back. CO2 emmissions threaten to overheat the earth, raise sea levels, drown millions. War continues to spread in the Middle East. Corruption, crime, violence, greed, plagues, pestilence, drought, floods,... Click here to donate to FR http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2239043/posts#comment Mon, 27 Apr 2009 21:25:15 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2239192/posts The Obama administration has done it again. Now we are sorry for something that hasn't even been proven, man-made climate change. Today Hillary Clinton apologized for the United States at a two day meeting of the world's major polluters. Just what the heck are these people thinking? Maybe it's me, but I am damned tired of the United States leading the world in apologies. We have done more to feed and protect the world than any other nation in the history of this planet. Its about time this Administration show some pride in this country instead of finding something to... Guardian/The Lid http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2239192/posts#comment Tue, 28 Apr 2009 00:30:17 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2236557/posts Obama administration to release Bush-era detainee photos The pictures show Americans' alleged abuse of prisoners in Iraq and Afghanistan. An ACLU lawyer says they prove that Abu Ghraib 'was not aberrational.' By Peter Wallsten, Julian Barnes and Greg Miller April 23, 2009 Reporting from Washington -- The Obama administration agreed late Thursday to release dozens of photographs depicting alleged abuse by U.S. personnel during the Bush administration of prisoners in Iraq and Afghanistan. At least 44 pictures will be released on May 28 -- making public for the first time images of what the military investigated as abuse that took... LA Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2236557/posts#comment Fri, 24 Apr 2009 02:00:42 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2234884/posts The president of the United States has completed another outing abroad in his now standard form: as the un-Bush. At one stop after another -- the latest in Latin America, where Hugo Chávez expressed wishes to be his friend -- Barack Obama fulfilled his campaign vows to show the nations of the world that a new American leadership stood ready to atone for the transgressions of the old. All went as expected in these travels, not counting certain unforeseen results of that triumphal European tour. The images of that trip, in which Mr. Obama dazzled ecstatic Europeans with citations of... The Wall Street Journal http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2234884/posts#comment Wed, 22 Apr 2009 03:09:36 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2234844/posts APRIL 21, 2009, 9:32 P.M. ET Obama Blames America Demonizing Harry Truman may not play well with voters. By DOROTHY RABINOWITZ The president of the United States has completed another outing abroad in his now standard form: as the un-Bush. At one stop after another -- the latest in Latin America, where Hugo Chávez expressed wishes to be his friend -- Barack Obama fulfilled his campaign vows to show the nations of the world that a new American leadership stood ready to atone for the transgressions of the old. All went as expected in these travels, not counting certain unforeseen... Wall St. Journal http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2234844/posts#comment Wed, 22 Apr 2009 01:53:44 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2232557/posts Meeting face-to-face with Mexican President Felipe Calderon, President Obama on Thursday said the U.S. is to blame for much of Mexico's drug violence, and he set up a major congressional gun-control battle by calling on the Senate to ratify a treaty designed to track and cut the flow of guns to other countries. Mr. Obama said he wants to renew a ban on some semiautomatic weapons but that it is not likely to pass Congress. Instead, he called for the Senate to ratify a decade-old hemispherewide treaty that would require nations to mark all weapons produced in the country and... Black Enterprise / The Washington Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2232557/posts#comment Sun, 19 Apr 2009 03:16:30 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2232007/posts SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic — It has become a recurring theme of Hillary Rodham Clinton’s early travels as the chief diplomat of the United States: she says that American policy on a given issue has failed, and her foreign listeners fall all over themselves in gratitude. On Friday, Mrs. Clinton said here that the uncompromising policy of the Bush administration toward Cuba had not worked. That, she said, is why President Obama decided earlier this week to lift restrictions on travel and financial transfers for United States residents with relatives in Cuba. “We are continuing to look for productive ways... NYT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2232007/posts#comment Sat, 18 Apr 2009 02:29:55 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2230872/posts Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano apologized to veterans in a FOX News interview after a DHS report labeled returning troops at risk for embracing right-wing extremism. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano apologized to veterans after a report issued by her department said troops returning from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan were at risk for being recruited by right-wing extremists. "To the extent veterans read it as an accusation ... an apology is owed," she said during an on-air interview on FOX News Thursday, a day after veterans' groups and members of Congress blasted her for the report, which they... FoxNews.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2230872/posts#comment Thu, 16 Apr 2009 19:24:26 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2228660/posts I grew up in a matriarchal household, sandwiched between sisters and presided over by Adolph Eichmann’s ex-secretary, “Klara.” Nobody knows how Klara managed to immigrate to America, but she never set foot on Ellis Island. It was the early ’50s, “Ike” was president, and New Jersey was still notorious for its prewar flirtations with the pro-Nazi, “German American Bund.” My parents were in their early 20s and had no inkling of Klara’s background; they just knew she was a no-nonsense disciplinarian. I learned the wisdom of apologizing for my mistakes in a giddy-up hurry. My father and I had an... The Aspen Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2228660/posts#comment Tue, 14 Apr 2009 11:20:42 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2224316/posts The Obama administration wants to reduce oil consumption, increase renewable energy supplies and cut carbon dioxide emissions in the most ambitious transformation of energy policy in a generation. But the world’s oil giants are not convinced that it will work. Even as Washington goes into a frenzy over energy, many of the oil companies are staying on the sidelines, balking at investing in new technologies favored by the president, or even straying from commitments they had already made. Royal Dutch Shell said last month that it would freeze its research and investments in wind, solar and hydrogen power, and focus... New York Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2224316/posts#comment Tue, 7 Apr 2009 20:20:41 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2221958/posts Charles Krauthammer fires back at Blame America First Barack Obama. What Obama said on foreign soil today about America was disgraceful. http://hotairpundit.blogspot.com/2009/04/krauthammer-slams-obama-europe-been.html http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2221958/posts#comment Sat, 4 Apr 2009 00:47:48 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2219176/posts WASHINGTON, (AP) -- The State Department says the United States will seek election to the U.N. Human Rights Council, the Obama administration's latest reversal of President George W. Bush's foreign policies. The department says the Obama administration wants to participate in the council's activities as part of a new era of U.S. engagement with the world. AP via SFGate http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2219176/posts#comment Tue, 31 Mar 2009 20:27:56 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-rlc/2218577/posts We have recently heard many shocking stories of brutal killings and ruthless violence related to drug cartels warring with Mexican and US officials. It is approaching the fever pitch of a full blown crisis. Unfortunately, the administration is not likely to waste this opportunity to further expand government. Hopefully, we can take a deep breath and look at history for the optimal way to deal with this dangerous situation, which is not unprecedented. Alcohol prohibition in the 1920’s brought similar violence, gangs, lawlessness, corruption and brutality. The reason for the violence was not that making and selling alcohol was inherently... U.S. Rep. Ron Paul, R-Tex., 14th District http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-rlc/2218577/posts#comment Tue, 31 Mar 2009 01:49:14 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2214438/posts http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kADXWXgxKJk New projections from Ron Paul as his prominence in the mainstream media continues to increase. RidleyReport.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2214438/posts#comment Wed, 25 Mar 2009 17:11:15 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2214625/posts Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton arrived here Wednesday with the clearest acknowledgment yet from a senior Obama administration official of the role the United States plays in the violent drug trade racking Mexico.“Our insatiable demand for illegal drugs fuels the drug trade,” she said, using unusually blunt language. “Our inability to prevent weapons from being illegally smuggled across the border to arm these criminals causes the deaths of police officers, soldiers and civilians.” NYT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2214625/posts#comment Wed, 25 Mar 2009 20:29:37 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2208037/posts In an attempt to win sanctions against a former top Bush administration official over brutal interrogations of prisoners at Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib, a lawyers group deployed a strategy Monday that worked against Presidents Nixon and Clinton. Former Defense Department General Counsel William J. Haynes II is the first of several former policy makers the National Lawyers Guild wants reprimanded, suspended or disbarred for their roles in detainee abuse, said Carlos Villarreal, executive director of the San Francisco Bay Area guild chapter that filed a complaint against Haynes with the California Bar Assn. Haynes, now an attorney with Chevron Corp.... Los Angeles Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2208037/posts#comment Tue, 17 Mar 2009 03:54:35 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2203798/posts Remember Ron Paul? Congressman Ron Paul? The long-term libertarian-like representative from Texas who's even older than McCain? The guy with a leased blimp who sought the Republican presidential nomination last year and came within something like 1,000 delegates of upsetting the Arizonan. Paul lasted a lot longer than Romney, who had to write off some $40 million of his own dough. And Paul's hundreds of thousands of dedicated supporters way-outraised that preacher Huckabee who's now all over Fox News, which, btw, is the network that barred Paul from its New Hampshire GOP debate because he had no chance. Although, to... LA Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2203798/posts#comment Wed, 11 Mar 2009 00:14:19 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2203130/posts Imagine for a moment that somewhere in the middle of Texas there was a large foreign military base, say Chinese or Russian. Imagine that thousands of armed foreign troops were constantly patrolling American streets in military vehicles. Imagine they were here under the auspices of “keeping us safe” or “promoting democracy” or “protecting their strategic interests.” Imagine that they operated outside of US law, and that the Constitution did not apply to them. Imagine that every now and then they made mistakes or acted on bad information and accidentally killed or terrorized innocent Americans, including women and children, most of... U.S. Rep. Ron Paul, R-Texas, 14th District http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2203130/posts#comment Tue, 10 Mar 2009 07:34:11 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2195637/posts The United States will not attend a United Nations conference on racism that critics say will be a forum to criticize Israel and will no longer attend planning sessions for it, a U.S. official said on Friday. "We will not attend," the official said. A U.S. delegation attended consultations earlier this month on the World Conference Against Racism, scheduled for April in Geneva, Switzerland, although Israel has called for a boycott and Canada has said it will not attend. Reuters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2195637/posts#comment Fri, 27 Feb 2009 19:32:41 GMT