The process will get more difficult for those who lost loved ones: Mohammed will attack and denigrate the victims. He will express pride in what he has done. Jihadists around the world will pay him tribute. The foreign and domestic press will dissect every step of the process. And in Manhattan, security will mount, and the alert level will rise, and New Yorkers will undoubtedly read that our intelligence agencies are facing more and more credible threats against the City. This will go on for years.

Even if Mohammed is eventually convicted and executed - by no means a slam dunk - could that result possibly be worth the pain?

What sort of man could fail to take into account the pain he is likely to cause for the 9/11 families, and for the people of New York?

Brian goes on to list a few bits of evidence as to what sort of man could do such a thing. Earlier today I came across another article that provided further evidence. While being greeted by our military members on Osan Air Base in South Korea the President quipped:

You guys make a pretty good photo op

This President can’t bring himself to actually perform the duties required of him by being the Commander in Chief and make a decision on troops levels and strategy in Afghanistan. Yet he can find time to bow to foreign leaders and use the troops for self proclaimed props. The level of hubris the President and his Administration have displayed is simply disgusting.

To me the answer to Brian’s question is easy to see. Obama is the sort of man who looks at everyone else as either an obstacle or a pawn. He will attempt to use the pawns to take down the obstacles. The troops aren’t people, they’re tools. The victims of 9/11 aren’t victims, they’re the perpetrators of a great injustice. Obama displays in his character the nonchalant hubris of your average dictator.

It is amazing how far we have traveled in such a short period of time. While I didn’t agree with every decision that was made in the Bush Administration, I could count in President Bush and his Administration to have a proper level of respect for the troops and humility in the offices they held.

Recently, under the cover of secrecy, President Bush went and saw the troops at Ft. Hood. He didn’t bring an entourage or a fawning press corps. He brought his wife and his deep seated respect for our military.

Aaron B. Gardner

P.S. Yeah, I miss him too.

Obama’s job approval rating fell to 48 percent in the Nov. 9-16 survey of registered voters nationwide by the Hamden, Connecticut-based university, with 42 percent polled saying they disapproved of the job he is doing.

The Quinnipiac Poll also showed a drop in approval of the Presidents handling of the war in Afghanistan. Voters now “disapprove 49 - 38 percent of the President’s handling of the war there”. In October that number read 42 - 40 percent approval.

Now, don’t misread this as support for the war effort losing steam.

voters say 65 - 29 percent, including 68 - 25 percent among military households, that eliminating the threat of terrorists operating from Afghanistan “is a worthwhile goal for American troops to fight and possibly die for,” compared to 65 - 28 percent last month.

So the polls seem to say that the people are tired of the current strategy, or lack thereof. At the same time a large majority still believe that Afghanistan is not only a worthwhile goal for American troops, but also that it is worth possibly dying for. That statement carries some amazing weight to it.

We know that the majority of the people want to win the war, we also know they have the will to win. Additionally, we know that the current strategy, or lack thereof, is a failure. The question then becomes, what do we do?

On that, once again, the people are clear.

Voters say 47 - 42 percent that President Obama should send 40,000 more combat troops to Afghanistan as the military commanders on the ground have requested. Only 27 percent of Democrats want more troops, compared to 68 percent of Republicans. Similarly, 68 percent of Republicans, but only 31 percent of Democrats, think the United States is doing the right thing fighting in Afghanistan.

Let me break that down real quick. 47%, a majority, agree with 68% of Republicans. Does that point of agreement possibly show a sign of growing trust in the GOP?

For the answer to that question I will jump over to Rasmussen, h/t John at PowerLine.

Republican candidates maintain a six-point advantage over Democrats in the latest edition of the Generic Congressional Ballot.

This lead has held for four months now, on top of which you also see independents swinging to Republicans 41% to 24%. All of this adds up to the One’s plunge in the Presidential Approval Index.

26% of the nation’s voters Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as President. Forty percent (40%) Strongly Disapprove giving Obama a Presidential Approval Index rating of -14. That matches the lowest Approval Index rating yet recorded for this President

I know that losing Republican support causes Obama no heartburn. I also suspect he isn’t concerned with the independents, not because they don’t matter, rather because he still thinks he can control them. What may, in fact, be keeping the One awake at night is this.

Just 47% of Democrats now Strongly Approve of the President’s performance. Sixty-eight percent (68%) of Republicans Strongly Disapprove, as do 43% of those not affiliated with either major political party.

Less than half of the Democrats think the Democratic President and the Democratic Congress are doing anything worthy of their approval. That is awesome, but we’re not done yet.

Rasmussen also asked about the KSM trial being held in NYC with the result of 51% opposing the decision. This on it’s face is a clear majority opinion, but it’s even better than it looks.

just 29% of voters favor the president’s decision not to try the suspects by military tribunal at the Guantanamo Naval Base in Cuba

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Only 30% of Americans said suspected terrorists should have access to U.S. courts, while 54% favored military tribunals in July 2008, as the first such tribunal got under way at Guantanamo.

The policies of this Administration are now in a clear minority. The people disapprove of the direction these policies are starting to take us. This has been bubbling up for a while and eventually it is bound to overcome Obama’s personal likability with the voters.

When that happens the Republican party needs to be ready to embrace the more conservative shift that we are about to go through. Right now 74% of Republicans feel as though their representatives in Congress are out of touch. Contrast that with this.

Fifty-nine percent (59%) of Republican voters say that Sarah Palin shares their values. Just 18% see her as a divisive force within the GOP.

A clear majority of Republicans are disappointed with the GOP at the same time as they are identifying closely with the values they share with Sarah Palin. And that may worry the President more than any of the other polls I just mentioned.

Aaron B. Gardner

“The president sees it as a chance to present our points and advance our interests, and you’re not conceding anything,” the official said. “What’s more powerful that the president of the United States making these points to your face?”

That, is an excellent question. What is more powerful than the President of the United States making his case, not his country’s, directly to your face?

Below the fold I shall show you.

Which, oddly enough, brings me back to the original reason I clicked on the Drudge link, VP Cheney:

There is no reason for an American president to bow to anyone. Our friends and allies don’t expect it, and our enemies see it as a sign of weakness.

Once again, VP Dick Cheney beats down the Obama Administration in fifty words or less.

Aaron B. Gardner

Nearly a score of Marxist protesters filled** the office of Sen. Lieberman, chanting “Everyone in and no one out, universal healthcare now!” and “Represent Connecticut, not AETNA!”. That is, until they were arrested.

I wonder if someone will chastise these protesters for their blatant partisanship and urge to purge the independent Senator from the Democratic Caucus. I won’t hold my breath, lest I die of asphyxiation.

Aaron B. Gardner

* Special treat at about 1 minute in. NTTAWWT

** Well, his office is rather small.

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***Apparently 10 people, out of the thousands attending, were arrested for unlawful entry into Rep. Pelosi’s constituent office. I will reiterate that all of the Marxist protesters were arrested.

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I will just note that when you have lost the cover of one of your best attack dogs from the last election cycle, you might be doing something wrong. Also, it’s not that we think Obama will change America into Nazi Germany, it’s that he might change America into what immediately preceded Nazi Germany.

Aaron B. Gardner

* Well they must be Right Wingers, they are critical of the President you see.

Come, sit by the campfire while I tell you a story.

September 2000 I left the U.S. Army confident that Al Gore would be the next President of the United States of America. The next year passed quickly as I scrambled to find my place in civilian life. On Sept. 11th I was driving to work and heard the news. Thus began a fixation on current events that I have yet to shake.

The next spring I quit my job and took a contract in Kosovo as a Systems Administrator. I spent roughly two years living and working in Kosovo. In between trouble tickets, I diligently clicked refresh on Drudgereport, which I had only recently discovered. Once I returned to U.S. soil I began to notice that the country had changed while I was away. Drudge, despite his best efforts, had failed to clue me in to the degree of animosity that was bubbling up from the fairly new fever swamps we are now all so familiar with.

I was a foreigner in my own land.

At first I just kept my head down, not wanting to cause a scene. But as time went on I never really adjusted. I felt alone.

I decided I would leave again, this time for Iraq. En route to Iraq, Providence saw fit to allow me to reconnect with the love of my life, whom I would call my wife less than a year later. But Good is not the only force in this world, Evil also stalks through our earthly realm. While walking home from a party one of my closest cousins was violently struck down by a Neo-Nazi ex-con, abruptly ending his life.

The instinct to reconnect and recommit to a life of Family and Community took hold, and shortly after I left Iraq for good and came home. Upon arriving back in the States I proposed, and quickly married my wife, Beth. My life had changed for the better, but in ways I still felt lost.

By this time I had found Politico.com and had started battling it out in the comments with the riff-raff that seemed to congregate there. It was primary season and I was scoping the field, eventually settling on Fred Thompson as my pick.

The message boards of Fred’s site led me to RedState two years ago. At last, I felt a glimmer of hope that I had found where I belong.

Beth and I started our family, and I dove into the world of RedState. I read everything I could, and wrote when I felt compelled. The 2008 election proved to be an utter disappointment, even if completely predictable considering the choices made by the McCain campaign(save Palin).

I knew then that merely writing about events would not suffice, but what could *I* do?

The answer should be apparent to anyone who has read RedState for any significant period of time. Expand your activism into your offline life.

The first step was to attend a Tea Party; the next to attend a State/County/Town Committee meeting.

Even that, as worthwhile as it is, is not enough.

To affect real change in our nation, to instill true principles to our party, to avoid waking up to find out that your local party just selected a KOS ENDORSED, ACORN APPROVED DEMOCRAT, as the Republican Candidate you must become a voting member of the party. I did.

And who knows, maybe two years from now it will be YOU telling the story of your evolution as an activist on the most read Conservative/Republican blog in the nation. I did … and am.

Aaron B. Gardner

Via Breitbart TV

This is unbelievable.

Speechless.

Aaron B. Gardner

Crossposted at my blog

Breaking the law, breaking the law
Breaking the law, breaking the law
Breaking the law, breaking the law
Breaking the law, breaking the law

So much for the golden future, I cant even start
Ive had every promise broken, theres anger in my heart
You dont know what its like, you dont have a clue
If you did youd find yourselves doing the same thing too**

Breaking the law, breaking the law
Breaking the law, breaking the law
Breaking the law, breaking the law
Breaking the law, breaking the law

You dont know what its like

Breaking the law, breaking the law
Breaking the law, breaking the law
Breaking the law, breaking the law
Breaking the law, breaking the law

Breaking the law

** “We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek. We are the hope of those boys who have little; who’ve been told that they cannot have what they dream; that they cannot be what they imagine. ”

Aaron B. Gardner

“Breaking the Law” By Judas Priest.

Crossposted at my blog

Further exposing the incestuous nature of the modern Progressive Left in America, John Nolte details the soon to be infamous conference call between the White House Office of Public Engagement, the NEA’s Communications Director, Serve.gov Director of Outreach, and a list of hand picked artists/trend setters/just plain “cool” people.

In it he paints a picture of the not so subtle desire of the Obama Administration to have a PR hit squad that even Joseph Goebbels would be proud of.

All evidence points to the fact that the conference call was a ruse, a front for a White House using Skolnik as a kind of beard in order to put an innocent spin on their abuse of the NEA and two non-partisan volunteer organizations (United We Serve – an initiative overseen by The Corporation for National and Community Service – a federal agency, and the White House’ Office of Public Engagement).

The goal: To motivate a group of hand-picked pro-Obama artists (grant recipients or those wanting grants) to push the President’s flagging agenda, especially health care — and to funnel this promotion through the ACORN related- Serve.gov website.

I am not a lawyer and certainly won’t attempt to debate the illegality of this call and the greater relationship that exists. There are others who have already done that and come to the conclusion that “laws were broken”…

All of this – particularly the government-sponsored conference call itself – is in blatant violation of the Anti-Lobbying Act (19 U.S. Code §1913), which explicitly provides: “No part of the money appropriated by any enactment of Congress shall, in the absence of express authorization by Congress, be used directly or indirectly to pay for any personal service, advertisement, telegram, telephone, letter, printed or written matter, or other device, intended or designed to influence in any manner a Member of Congress, a jurisdiction, or an official of any government, to favor, adopt, or oppose by vote or otherwise, any legislation, law, ratification, policy, or appropriation, whether before or after the introduction of any bill, measure or resolution proposing such legislation, law, ratification, policy or appropriation …”

[snip...]

Violation of the Anti-Lobbying Act carries punishment: “Any person who makes an expenditure … shall be subject to a civil penalty of not less than $10,000 and not more than $100,000 for each such expenditure.” And that’s not all: “An imposition of a civil penalty under this subsection does not prevent the United States from seeking any other remedy that the United States may have for the same conduct that is the basis for the imposition of such civil penalty.” In other words, criminal prosecution is available here.

Who am I to disagree. ;^)

I wonder if any of this will be covered by ABC, CBS, NBC, MSDNC, CNN, or any of those soon to be subsidized birdcage liners Bambi is thinking he like to buy and manipulate.

Aaron B. Gardner

Crossposted at my blog

For years we have heard that Global warming is going to drown us all as the glaciers melt and the seas rise. For years we have been told that we are the problem. We have been told that CO2 emissions are the culprit. Our cars are too big, they put out too much CO2. They are killing the planet.

Really?

Well the IPCC and Owl Gore would love us to believe that. Thing is…it just ain’t true.

The hockey stick graph has been debunked, 10-12 years of Global temperature drops have proven it to be a false prediction. The computer models have failed.

The revelation of these facts will not deter those who are committed to the Church of Climate Change. No. The true believers are gathering, as we speak, to perform a concert for Climate Change.

55 Superstars, entourage in tow, plan to sing in order to stop Climate Change.

So, let me get this straight. In order to “save the planet” these idiots want to have approx 51000** people travel on private jets, commercial flights, cars, buses and many other modes of CO2 spewing transportation in order to watch 55 bands spew even more CO2 from their mouths while listening to songs not seen on the top 40 since Global Cooling was a big deal.

Let me be the first to say….GREEN FAIL

Aaron B. Gardner

Crossposted at my blog.

* Maybe it won’t kill us, but stupidity certainly isn’t going to help us.

** Here is how I got to 51000
55*4=220 Full Band
55*10=550 Roadies for Band.
50000 fans in attendance est.
100 promoters est.
50 vendors est.
60 private jets est.