Tuesday, August 12, 2008
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And Then He Parted the Waters . . .
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Posted by:
Carol Platt Liebau at
12:39 PM
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According to Tim Kaine -- Virginia governor and a top (eager!) contender for Barack's veep slot -- the Russian cease-fire is attributable to Putin and Medvedev adhering to "the senator [Obama's] call for a cease fire."
This has to be the most inane comment out there, except perhaps for that of another aspiring veep, Bill Richardson, who told CNN that "President Obama will have a good, strong dialogue-oriented relationship with Russia, where these kinds of situations would not occur."
These are the people who are hoping to join Barack -- a scant four years out of the Illinois state legislature -- at the top of the Democrat ticket?!
Reality check:
(1) As of this time, the Russians are continuing to shell Georgia. There is no cease-fire, Governor Kaine.
(2) Our relationship with Russia has been nothing if not full of "dialogue," Ambassador Richardson. In fact, perhaps the most embarrassing mis-assessment of President Bush's entire term has been his insistence that he was "able to get a sense of [Putin]'s soul." This preceded years of friendly visits and backslaps in Putin's country and in Crawford.
Look, yet again, where friendly "dialogue" alone gets us with international thugs like Russia and Iran.
Does any serious person really believe that just the charm of the Obamessiah will hold these and other international bad guys at bay? The whole idea is just another symptom of the frightening naivete of the left at home and abroad -- along with its moral hypocrisy, highlighted brilliantly by Victor Davis Hanson:
The Russians have sized up the moral bankruptcy of the Western Left. They know that half-a-million Europeans would turn out to damn their patron the United States for removing a dictator and fostering democracy, but not more than a half-dozen would do the same to criticize their long-time enemy from bombing a constitutional state.
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1. The "gang of 10" bill unilaterally opens up drilling in the Gulf of Mexico, with no state veto. The GOP bill didn't do that, because Mel Martinez and Charlie Crist didn't want it. Non-Gulf states Virginia, Georgia, and the Carolinas can opt-in if they like; the old GOP bill was opt-in everywhere, allowing Florida to block drilling in the Gulf off of its shores.
2. The bill also allows for seismic exploration along the entire continental shelf.
3. The ban on drilling within 50 miles of the coast was also in the GOP bill.
4. Contrary to many commentators' claims, the "gang of ten" bill is not a lifeline for Obama: "What a bunch of C-R-A-P. " (Yes, he spelled it out like that) "If Obama embraced this, he would be the biggest flipflopper ever." A lot of the opposition to the bill is really a case of trying to keep drilling as an election issue instead of getting more drilling.
5. The bill includes a Zubrin-like flex-fuel provision, requiring that 75% of cars by 2015 and 85% by 2020 be capable of running on something besides gasoline.
6. "Our bill also opens up coal-to-liquids. We couldn't have gotten 44 Republicans for that."
7. The bill is "incredibly aggressive" on nuclear power, including accelerated-depreciation provisions like those for solar and wind power, more NRC resources to speed licensing, and an end to the Carter-era ban on nuclear fuel reprocessing. "We couldn't have gotten 44 Republicans on this."
8. The bill also promotes cellulosic ethanol.
http://www.pajamasmedia.com/instapundit/archives2/022864.ph p |
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Arise ye starvelings from your slumbers
Arise ye prisoners of want
For reason in revolt now thunders
And at last ends the age of cant.
Away with all your superstitions
Servile masses arise, arise
We'll change henceforth the old tradition
And spurn the dust to win the prize.
So comrades, come rally
And the last fight let us face
The Internationale unites the human race.
So comrades, come rally
And the last fight let us face
The Internationale unites the human race.
No more deluded by reaction
On tyrants only we'll make war
The soldiers too will take strike action
They'll break ranks and fight no more
And if those cannibals keep trying
To sacrifice us to their pride
They soon shall hear the bullets flying
We'll shoot the generals on our own side.
No saviour from on high delivers
No faith have we in prince or peer
Our own right hand the chains must shiver
Chains of hatred, greed and fear
E'er the thieves will give up their booty
And give to all a happier lot.
Those at the forge must do their duty
And we'll strike while the iron is hot.
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Obama got it right?!?!?!?
Russians issued a cease fire because of Obama?!?!?!?!?
Man, you got it bad, Kimberly, really bad.
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Are not messiahs, they are the farthest thing from it. |
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George Bush is the Messiah, I'm converting to atheism. |
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When they learn the REAL messiah was George W. Bush:
And he spake in parables and ye understood him not.... |
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"We, the (Russian Premier) and The US President and the President of Georgia have had a further meeting today and are agreed in recognizing that the question of Anglo-Russian relations is of the first importance for two countries and for Europe.
Sound familiar??
It didn't work the last time either...
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----aspiring veep, Bill Richardson, who told CNN that "President Obama will have a good, strong dialogue-oriented relationship with Russia, where these kinds of situations would not occur."---
Richardson and Kaine are delusional if they believe their pollyanna gibberish. The Russians will have absolutely no respect for a know-nothing, do-nothing liberal useful idiot like obama.
Obama will be played like the naive leftist dimwit that he is.
I can just see obama telling the Russians "lets just hold hands and sing kumbaya; everything will be ok because I said so." Russians would be unable to respond through their tears of laughter.
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Carol points out some ridiculous statements and you call it political hackery.
Feeling a little froggy, aren't we?
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Turn off your CAPS LOCK. It gives the impression you're shouting.
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BILL RICHARDSON WAS BRIBED, DURING OBAMAS REV., WRIGHT CRISIS TO HELP SAVE "0" FROM HIS DOWN FALL! NO DOUBT, THE GOVERNOR SOLD OUT, SWITCHED FROM ENDORSING HILLARY. HE FIGURED HE WOULD NEVER HAVE A HIGH POSITION WITH BILL IN THE PICTURE. REMEMBER HOW RICHARDSON COMPLAINED IN HIS DEBATE FOR PRESIDENT, "WHATS WRONG WITH EXPERIENCE"? SO WHAT DOES HE DO, HE PROMOTES THE ROOKIE! WELL, WE KNOW WHY, AS WAS SAID, HE IS A JUDAS WHO SOLD OUT HIS FRIENDS,THE CLINTONS, WHO WERE SO GOOD TO HIM! WITH FRIENDS LIKE HIM WHO NEEDS ENEMIES?! RICHARDSON AND OBAMA DESERVE EACH OTHER BUT AT LEAST THE GOV., AS VP, CAN HELP THE WEAK, MISGUIDED OBAMA, WITH HIS FOREIGN AFFAIRS KNOWLEDGE. DISILLUSIONED EX DEMOCRAT
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TIMMY! TIMMMY!!
TIMMMY! TIMMMMY! |
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