Obamatopia should learn a lesson from this when dismantling our military. Our opponents will be emboldened and new opponents will feel confident to move aggressively. Obama is about to be swallowed by the wolf pack. Too bad America has to suffer for it. But that’s what we deserve for electing an apologist in chief.

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Higher taxes, check.
Apologize to our enemies, check
Higher fuel prices, check
Hostage crisis, in which he does nothing, check.

All he needs is a sweater.

the store is open - take what you want and nothing will happen.
Kinda like the Community Reinvestment Act. This time it is the
WRA - World Reinvestment Act. And you thought Barry O was going to redistribute the wealth to only Americans.

If Barry O was on the GONG show he would long gonged……

GOD what I would not give to have a real president in office. We should raze Somalia to the ground. Right now. Sink that ship, and have helicopters hanging around to shoot all survivors.

That is my idea of negotiating with the terrorists.

Would this not constitute a terrorist attack from Islamic terrorists? The president said we are not at war with these fine folks, he forgot they are always at war with us.

and have a town hall / listening tour to gather input on the issue. Meanwhile he will issue a press statement, that if handled properly, could inflict paper cuts on the pirates (if they bother to read it).

What an embarrassing indecisive fool.

Seriously. They’re big cargo ships, and the pirates attack in little speedboats. Surely there’s space aboard for a deck-mounted autocannon or some hand weapons?

untill we see images of a pallet of cash being lowered on to the ship from a US military chopper. Don’t these pirates realize the dollar just won’t buy what it used too? Maybe they should demand the ransom in Euros . . .

Let’s hope Obama can learn from his betters, but somehow I don’t expect a whole lot.

Paying the ransom would only lead to further demands, Jefferson argued in letters to future presidents John Adams, then America’s minister to Great Britain, and James Monroe, then a member of Congress. As Jefferson wrote to Adams in a July 11, 1786, letter, “I acknolege [sic] I very early thought it would be best to effect a peace thro’ the medium of war.” Paying tribute will merely invite more demands, and even if a coalition proves workable, the only solution is a strong navy that can reach the pirates, Jefferson argued in an August 18, 1786, letter to James Monroe: “The states must see the rod; perhaps it must be felt by some one of them. . . . Every national citizen must wish to see an effective instrument of coercion, and should fear to see it on any other element than the water. A naval force can never endanger our liberties, nor occasion bloodshed; a land force would do both.” “From what I learn from the temper of my countrymen and their tenaciousness of their money,” Jefferson added in a December 26, 1786, letter to the president of Yale College, Ezra Stiles, “it will be more easy to raise ships and men to fight these pirates into reason, than money to bribe them.”

– http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/collections/jefferson_papers/mtjprece.html

Just print up however much they want. SOP

Such piracy should long ago have been dealt with swiftly and surely.

Somali pirates are rag-tags in speed boats, and Somalia is a cesspool.

Level it.

That was darned funny… Literally, I laughed out loud.

The press would not cover a money drop off… Redstate, stay on the story.

American Flag ships on contract to the government usually have union crews. In which case the amateur pirates from Somalia have had their first encounter with the professional pirates from the US.

a stern one. Forget the UN, our last best hope for peace, go to the top, Jay Leno at 11:30 pm. Turn this over to the brutal tough guy Rahm Emanuel, if he can handle Republicans, pirates should be no problem. A parachute rescue mission using ACORN commandos, fresh from stunning victories over AIG execs and their wives and children, might be considered. And don’t forget David Axelrod, a guy who knows how to follow the path the media has laid down for him.

Above all Mr President, the ultimate weapon, your teleprompter, show no mercy ! And remember to keep turning your head from side to side, that physical punctuation mark that suggests gravity.

And don’t poo your pants, it ain’t all taking over the economy.

I was right, it is a union ship. Engineering is the Marine Engineers Beneficial Association. Deck Officers are the Masters, Mates, and Pilots. Unlicenced deck is Service Employees International Union (unlicenced deck is ordinary and able-bodied seamen, stewards, etc.) Now THAT my friends is a group of pirates!

All foreign issues shall be under the “close monitoring” of the White House.

That’s now the official and very”astute” doctrine of the Great Leader.