Hillary Clinton once said, during her run for President against her current boss, that the Presidency was no place for on the job training. She said she would be ready to lead from day one and that she would know what to do when that 3 am call came to the White House. Whether or not true of Hillary, we have learned these last 12 months that it is certainly not true of Barack Obama; Obama was NOT ready to lead from day one and he has failed to lead ever since. His own 3 am calls are going straight to voice mail (he’s out shooting hoops you see, or working on that birdie putt on Maui) and his on the job training continues with very little acquired knowledge to actually show for the troubles he has caused Americans.
Today’s entry in the “Epic Fail Diaries of Barack Obama” leads us to consider Al Qaeda in Yemen. The Al Qaeda he is sending 30,000 American troops to fight against in Afghanistan is the very same Al Qaeda he promises to inflict justice on in Detroit and ALSO just happens to be the Al Qaeda he means to tuck tail and run from in Yemen. And, to give AQ the leg up they need in the propaganda war, he (along with a host of other countries that have vowed to “disrupt, dismantle, and defeat” them) has now closed America’s shining beacon of freedom out of fear that some bad guys might do a bad thing to us there… the very same place he keeps insisting on sending GITMO terrorists to. Yes, Al Qaeda terrorists.
Not what I call Presidential.
With so many failures – be they derived from inaction or ambivalence – Obama is creating for himself the least “presidential” legacy of any President in recent memory. His won’t be borne of health care, or saving the planet, or bailing out (and taking over) the private sector. It won’t even be found in immigration reform or jobs “created or saved.”
It will be George Bush.
Most of his campaign promises, and much of his agenda since being elected, have been based on a commitment to being “un-Bush” whenever, wherever, and however possible. From economics to war, Obama has built a Presidency based on undermining and undoing as much of his predecessor’s work as possible and blaming all the world’s troubles on former President Bush under the auspices of bringing the American people hope and change (as if the 8 previous years in America were fraught with hopelessness and stagnation). In promising to end a war in Iraq because the enemy is (and always was) in Afghanistan, Obama assured us that the fight is with Al Qaeda, yet he has done nothing more than capitulate America’s strength and position around the world to those very same people who have worked diligently over the past 8 years to kill us.
Very un-Bush of him.
George W. Bush’s predecessor gave us the new and improved Somalia. Ronald Reagan’s predecessor gave us the new and improved Iran. And now, Obama means to give us some twisted new version of Yemen we can’t even fully comprehend yet. With any luck, Obama’s replacement will have the means and national will to undo Obama’s damage before it can’t be undone.
If nothing else, there will be no arguing that Barack Obama is NO George W. Bush.
Dan Spencer
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Surrender first doctrine
JLenardDetroit (Diary) Monday, January 4th at 3:40PM EDT (link)(Surrender Doctrine (Democrats ALWAYS cut/weaken U.S.Defense)) as they, at least temporarily, lower the US Flag and raise the White Flag of Surrender yet again in the US Embassy in Yemen. Rather than send some RDF’s in to bolster Security and DEFEND US SOIL (the Embassy) they announce a Holiday and draw yet MORE ATTENTION TO IT and make it an EVEN BIGGER TARGET!
Business as usual, and as America was warned it would get with this Keystone-Administration if elected, Retreat first, then formulate an apology or DODGE ex post facto when their decisions backfire or they just out discover the MSM can’t sufficiently cover their hind-sides for just how STUPID and without any thought their actions are.
As you pointed out… You can’t CLAIM we are working with Yemen (and we have been for a long time without it being Front Page news, as with some countries in Africa), say you think they can handle things with just a little extra help from us, YET close the Embassy sending the complete opposite signal of NO CONFIDENCE!
Regards from NoMoTown (the MOTORlessCITY)
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“You can lead a Liberal to the Truth/Facts, but you cannot make them THINK!”
“Romney [No, not my first choice] does NOT have a MORMON problem. He has a, far too many Americans; these days; are MORONS problem!”
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Not really.
Jochanan (Diary) Monday, January 4th at 5:29PM EDT (link)Except for Reagan and Clinton, Democrats usually outspend Republicans on the military, and just about everything else. You’re mixing up aggressive foreign policy with defense spending.
What good does it do if you spend money on weapon systems that sit in a shed? Some vague deterrence thing, maybe? I doubt it.
Personally, I don’t know why anyone cares what the latest schizoid who claims to be a follower of OBL does or where they do it while Iran is trying to build a bomb and Pakistan has one.
nice SPIN/try.... The Left hates the Military and that it is ever needed to be used....
JLenardDetroit (Diary) Tuesday, January 5th at 2:40AM EDT (link)but it isn’t even that, but the underlying DISDAIN Liberals/Democrats have (and we’ve covered many/plenty of it during the last Campaign see: Recommended reading with plenty of related sub-topics that speak to this) ….
Many understood and seen for what it was the supposed “CARING” they had for the Troops while declaring the War lost, and the like, while trying to claim Cash=Caring in trying to out-bid Republicans on Military spending during the Bush years to play up the Strykers, Body-Armor, Walter-Reed, etc…. was all for show. Carter, immediate Defense cuts; Clinton, immediate Defense cuts, in the name of the “Peace Dividend” and showing weakness and invitations to our being attacked; Obama is just playing the “Defense Projects” gimmicks games; etc…..
Democrat/Liberal Politicians have it both ways, as they do on everything else with the MSM covering for them, while undermining the Military behind the scenes (especially with their Surrogates in/from Hollywood (Hollywood2009 – Movies and Politics — The Hollywood Hate-fest AND ‘The Greater Good’ — “The needs of the many out-weigh the needs of the few, or the one.”) showing how they really feel) they try to put on a good front — usually, but hadn’t done much of a good job the last 8 years being able to even PRETEND to care with their comments and actions.
Regards from NoMoTown (the MOTORlessCITY)
“Liberals, looking to do for? America what they’ve done for? Detroit! which is DESTROY IT!”
“I think, therefore I am Conservative”
“Conservative by choice, Republican by necessity”
“You can lead a Liberal to the Truth/Facts, but you cannot make them THINK!”
“Romney [No, not my first choice] does NOT have a MORMON problem. He has a, far too many Americans; these days; are MORONS problem!”
Follow @JLenardDetroit
(RS:Help) (JLD) (Hollyweird) (Brain-deads) (SPIN-cycle) (Obamaocare) (Party of kNOw) (Conservatism) (TEApeats) (respectful) (message) (Warning: Children Will Die!!)
Heil “O” Hell No Obamao is NOT MY PRESIDENT! “No U won’t”
I want “O” to FAIL (here, here, & whole Diary (Ofail) here, is why)
“The first Liberal was Satan” – a Rush caller (other Quotes)
testing
wbb1950 Monday, January 4th at 4:20PM EDT (link)testing
Grade: Incomplete
JLenardDetroit (Diary) Monday, January 4th at 4:38PM EDT (link)I’ve graded your “test” and gave it that obvious conclusion.
lol
Welcome newbie to RedState…. If you’re a Liberal, check here.
Regards from NoMoTown (the MOTORlessCITY)
“Liberals, looking to do for? America what they’ve done for? Detroit! which is DESTROY IT!”
“I think, therefore I am Conservative”
“Conservative by choice, Republican by necessity”
“You can lead a Liberal to the Truth/Facts, but you cannot make them THINK!”
“Romney [No, not my first choice] does NOT have a MORMON problem. He has a, far too many Americans; these days; are MORONS problem!”
Follow @JLenardDetroit
(RS:Help) (JLD) (Hollyweird) (Brain-deads) (SPIN-cycle) (Obamaocare) (Party of kNOw) (Conservatism) (TEApeats) (respectful) (message) (Warning: Children Will Die!!)
Heil “O” Hell No Obamao is NOT MY PRESIDENT! “No U won’t”
I want “O” to FAIL (here, here, & whole Diary (Ofail) here, is why)
“The first Liberal was Satan” – a Rush caller (other Quotes)
You're too generous JLenardDetroit
Dave Poff (haystack) (Diary) Monday, January 4th at 4:51PM EDT (link)in line with the theme of this post, I would have given “epic FAIL” as a grade!
“It does not take a majority to prevail … but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men.”
~Sam Adams
Carrot and Stick...
JLenardDetroit (Diary) Monday, January 4th at 5:18PM EDT (link)offering a “friendly” Welcoming handshake while holding the Stick in the other to pound with if he/she shows Troll/Moby qualities with the next post
lol. That yours (pretty easily can be called Troll bait for anyone suffering ObaMania and/or BDR) was the first chosen to Post in does make me less than optimistic, but we’ll see soon enough.
As for the Diary itself, again (stated in my comment above where I was responding directly to your content) obvious how Obama has NO CLUE in when he ACTS one way he shows his true self (Surrender First) despite his new-found “tough talf” and pretending to finally discover that this really is a War after all their “man caused disasters” and the like BS.
I guess I should be preparing my usual EIT’s are NOT torture Troll/Moby response just in case he/she is as it always goes back to that.
Regards from NoMoTown (the MOTORlessCITY)
“Liberals, looking to do for? America what they’ve done for? Detroit! which is DESTROY IT!”
“I think, therefore I am Conservative”
“Conservative by choice, Republican by necessity”
“You can lead a Liberal to the Truth/Facts, but you cannot make them THINK!”
“Romney [No, not my first choice] does NOT have a MORMON problem. He has a, far too many Americans; these days; are MORONS problem!”
Follow @JLenardDetroit
(RS:Help) (JLD) (Hollyweird) (Brain-deads) (SPIN-cycle) (Obamaocare) (Party of kNOw) (Conservatism) (TEApeats) (respectful) (message) (Warning: Children Will Die!!)
Heil “O” Hell No Obamao is NOT MY PRESIDENT! “No U won’t”
I want “O” to FAIL (here, here, & whole Diary (Ofail) here, is why)
“The first Liberal was Satan” – a Rush caller (other Quotes)
Who's afraid of the big bad terrorist
sharonmcp (Diary) Monday, January 4th at 6:06PM EDT (link)Obama: Let me make this clear, we are not afraid of the terrorist in Yemen and will in an unprecedented act by my administration, prove it.
Reporter: How do you plan to do that Mr. President?
Obama: Close our embassy in Yemen.
“Above all, we must realize that no arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women.” ~ Ronald Reagan
Agree with the post, but one quibble
douglast Monday, January 4th at 7:44PM EDT (link)Nitpicking a President for playing golf or being on vacation is a pointless and unfair waste of time. We all hated it when Libs used to scream about how much time W spent in Crawford, and it’s just as unbecoming when conservatives do the same thing now that the tables are turned.
The reality is, Presidents are on duty 24/7 and they have access to all the information they need to do their jobs no matter where they are – Washington, Hawaii, Texas, or anywhere else. Let’s focus on the real complaints here.
That said, you nailed it.
I'll take the quibble with a caveat, douglast
Dave Poff (haystack) (Diary) Monday, January 4th at 8:03PM EDT (link)I am not over Obama spending more hours playing golf than hours spent in direct war council meetings (10 according what I can find) in the run up to actually making a decision on McChrystal’s report. Bush, and most other Presidents, would have stopped everything to react and decide while the casualty rate was doubling as he dithered.
Otherwise, much appreciated.
“It does not take a majority to prevail … but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men.”
~Sam Adams
Good Point.
douglast Monday, January 4th at 10:10PM EDT (link)though most of the time that should have been spent on war council meeting likely was spent instead on other policy initiatives (healthcare, etc), rather than on recreationial activities.
the underlying problem however is exactly right – such a ridiculously low amount of time (roughly 1 working day) on such an issue of enormous import is absolutely ludicrous.
Its not OJT
wennejunk (Diary) Monday, January 4th at 8:11PM EDT (link)If it were, he would show signs of actually learning something along the way
There are only two kinds of people in the end: those who say to God, ‘Thy will be done,’ and those to whom God says, in the end, ‘Thy will be done.’ -C. S. Lewis
It is hard to get a government decision wrong.
Achance (Diary) Monday, January 4th at 10:27PM EDT (link)Thought that would get your attention!
Government managers like to portray themselves as spending long hours pondering weighty matters; they don’t. A question come up and they call whoever has interests in it and ask them for briefing memos. They get them in a few days, somebody reads and digest them for them if they’re high up enough, otherwise they read all the briefing memos and ask all the same parties for decision memos and recommended courses of action, usally setting out interested and effected parties, expected opposition, legal issues, who’s screwing who, etc.
By the time it gets to the Head Chief In Charge HCIC (those of you who’ve been in government or the military know ALL the variations of that acronym) the decision is six to one, half dozen to the other.
The place where wrong decisions are made is when you decide who gets to make the decision and in this case I think We The People have made One Big Assed Mistake Obama.
In Vino Veritas
When the phone rang at 3 AM obama put it on hold for 72 hrs.
bobojake (Diary) Monday, January 4th at 10:37PM EDT (link)What kind of incompetent ACORN do we have? I think it is a chestnut instead, all chest and completely nuts.
Consider for a moment
whimsley (Diary) Tuesday, January 5th at 10:49AM EDT (link)that you are President and have a plan and an agenda for the destruction and socialization of America. Now, would it serve your purpose better to have everyone think that you don’t have a clue, that you are stupid, that you are inept, and that you just don’t get it OR would it serve your purpose better for everyone to realize that you know exactly what you are doing and that those actions/inactions are actually the means to your treasonous ends?
He is not as dumb as he would like us to believe.
trouble in america
sarge324 Tuesday, January 5th at 7:27AM EDT (link)with all obamas pass relationships with with the underworld of american life.everyone who voted for heaith,cap and trade ,stimulus,and what ever obama wants is not american.we must as a country do the right thing and vote them out of office.pelosi,reid,dodd,and shumer in office for another term will destroy the country.we must stay mad all through 2010 and get rid of the enemies of america.
Let's play the obama stripping game
wyllyness Tuesday, January 5th at 10:20AM EDT (link)Every time Obama does something to “un-Bush” our country, or every time he blames something he has done on President Bush, let’s strip him of a czar!!And yes, we can be retroactive about it.
Let’s see, what are we up to by now?
I believe
olddog Wednesday, January 6th at 1:19AM EDT (link)the ultimate goal, is to take our system down, by destroying our financial institutions, and leave us at risk, open, vulnerable, or whatever other kind word, you could think of, these tactics have been used before in history by other egocentric men, who caused terrible harm to their people.
Destroy a people’s hope and they look to Savior’s, hopefully there are enough Americans with “TRUE GRIT” who will help get the rest through this mess, and not go, on bended knee, to any that may follow. for those, in Washington, now appear, not to, fear the people and the consequences of what they do.! IMHO, they may have other options offered, should they lose their seat, which could still have deleterious results for the free people of this nation.
Support our Troops, our prayers go with them!
One Old Dog