(Links via Legal Insurrection, via Instapundit) Just because Obama said it back in October:
and is now saying something completely different:
Barack Obama last night suggested that removing Osama bin Laden from the battlefield was no longer essential and that America’s security goals could be achieved by merely keeping al-Qaeda “on the run”.
“My preference obviously would be to capture or kill him,” he said. “But if we have so tightened the noose that he’s in a cave somewhere and can’t even communicate with his operatives then we will meet our goal of protecting America.”
…you can’t really hold it against him, right? After all, he’s a Democratic politician, and everybody knows that their most lofty goal when doing national security issues is to sound almost as tough as the Republican; actually trying to sound tougher is a self-evident absurdity. So everybody that mattered knew all along that Obama was just lying, like any other politician: the ploy was of the sort that can be easily seen through by anyone with an IQ above room temperature.
After all, you’re not this guy, right?
No, of course you aren’t.
Crossposted at Moe Lane.com.
Backtracking on bin Ladin
LisaLV Wednesday, January 14th at 11:48PM EST (link)He didn’t suggest nothing of the sort. That’s the Republican’s game. Saying that, why DID Bush not go after bin Ladin when he had the chance? After all, it all happened on his watch. I know, those pesky little oil leases in Iraq. Darn it! Otherwise…..
Why don't you begin
Dan McLaughlin Wednesday, January 14th at 11:53PM EST (link)by telling us what Obama and Biden said during the campaign, precisely what they are saying now, and how they are consistent.
You can’t pretend for very much longer that your guy doesn’t have to govern.
“No compromise with the main purpose, no peace till victory, no pact with unrepentant wrong.” - Winston Churchill
Oh, how you will hate your life a year from now, LisaLV
Moe Lane Thursday, January 15th at 12:00AM EST (link)Somewhere else.
Check out my new blog at http://moelane.com/.
http://twitter.com/moelane
My (blogging-related) wish list.
Oh Moe, why don't you let us toy with the libs
olsmithie Thursday, January 15th at 12:12AM EST (link)before you BLAM them.
It’s great sport, but its really almost too easy.
Nice piece, just keep reminding people their guy is a world class liar and total airhead.
Regards
Because there's a fetishic aspect to some of them...
Moe Lane Thursday, January 15th at 12:31AM EST (link)…that unnerves.
At least, when I’m not getting, you know, paid for it.
Check out my new blog at http://moelane.com/.
http://twitter.com/moelane
My (blogging-related) wish list.
It's good to see she admitted the piece was true.
Brian Simpson Thursday, January 15th at 12:41AM EST (link)Pesky thing those double negatives.
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Hey LisaLV..... Maybe ol' Charlie will help boost up the troop level .....
Kenny Solomon Thursday, January 15th at 12:48AM EST (link)Rangel to reintroduce military draft measure
What a sad mess Rep. Rangel has become.
A Marxist who is about to be anointed as leader of the free world and his congress are so out of control, even former Democrat leaders like Tip O’Neil have got to be spinning in their graves saying, “Huh ? You want to do WHAT to America ?”
On our side of the fence, there’s our favorite RINO’s, increasing in herd density and overall population by the day. They may be more dangerous than some of your folks on the left. But it looks like the real huntin’ season isn’t open again until November of 2010.
Truthfully, I’m exhausted and I DON’T CARE ANYMORE about the political game….. You want to know why ?
BECAUSE IT’S NOT A GAME !!!!!
The stupidity of supposedly educated, supposedly rationally thinking people who are our elected leaders gleefully blowing through each others’ egos in press releases, media appearances, along with abjectly dangerous policies and regulations about to be implemented are going to end up getting thousands if not a few million people killed right here at home by maniacs who are avowed to do just that.
Y’all keep playing the games left-side (and you RINO’s too). Go ahead, have your fun. A bunch of real Americans are watching you and are like spring-loaded rabid dogs ready to pounce.
As for me, I’ll be right here on the front line of stopping whatever attempts coming through my front door to try and take my rights, freedoms, liberties, or even my life because I deeply believe in our country’s freedom, liberty and rights for everyone.
And by the by, LisaLV……. I will defend to my death your right as an American to believe and more importantly voice whatever is on your mind. However, I sincerely “hope” you can “change” and are legally able to still have a voice and more importantly defend yourself and your family when the reality of a world on fire comes a-knockin’ your way.
Of course you can have my guns……. Bullets first.
I didn’t say rounds, shells or magazines……
I said bullets first.
Obama/Afghanistan=JFK/missile gap
septembergurl Wednesday, January 14th at 11:48PM EST (link)in 1960, Kennedy adopted a strategy of claiming that Ike had allowed a “missile gap” to develop between the USSR and the US in the former’s favor, and that JFK would redress that gap. The purpose was to make him look strong on defense and to run to Nixon’s right on this issue (since Dems then as now were seen as weak on defense). after the election it turned out there was no missile gap and JFK dropped it.
Similarly, Obama’s vaunted “toughness” on afghanistan was never anything other than rhetoric, carefully structured to address the issue of Dem weakness on defense. Obama understood that while you could whack Bush endlessly on Iraq, you needed to balance that by pretending to advocate military action in another front. This allowed many supposedly smart people to vote for Obama on the grounds that he wants to fight the WOT correctly, not stupidly, like Bush.
Meanwhile, the Iraq war is won (and it’s the only victory we will have in the Middle east till we put a Republican back in the White House) and Obama is beginning to back off his commitment to Afhganistan, which he had campaigned on.
I suspect by now that Obama has been informed that while Iraq was winnable (proof of that : we won) Afghanistan is not — at least not with the troop levels that Americans will tolerate. Quite the dilemma for Obama. Not that he will be called on it by any politicians or media. But it will become quite clear after the 30,000 additional troops fail to bring about any improvement. What will he do then? It will certainly be the wrong thing, in the tradition of Johnson, Carter, etc.
As the quagmire deepens Americans will foggily begin to think back: hey, didn’t Bush do something in Iraq so we won there? What was that again? The surge? Hey, maybe Bush wasn’t such an idiot after all.
Morons.
I've Said It Before, I'll Say It Again - We'll Be Out of Afghanistan Within 3 Years
IJB Thursday, January 15th at 12:54AM EST (link)NATO. US forces. They’ll all be gone.
The nutter Left will demand it, and they’ll get their wish.
In 3 years...
Jim Thursday, January 15th at 1:05AM EST (link)In 3 years time, that will have been just over 10 years since the attacks on 9/11 and our initial incursion into Afghanistan. If we are still in Afghanistan at that point, then we seriously need to start rethinking some things.
“On the free market, everyone earns according to his productive value in satisfying consumer desires. Under statist distribution, everyone earns in proportion to the amount he can plunder from the producers.”
Murray Rothbard
It is, and will yet be, a long war
1SGinTN Thursday, January 15th at 1:46PM EST (link)Unless we give up short of victory, of course. How long was the Cold War?
The length of the conflict is less important that the necessity of conducting it.
Tu Ne Cede Malis
-Virgil
"Neccessity of conducting it"
Jim Thursday, January 15th at 6:22PM EST (link)Even now, with an apparent increase in forces looking likely in Afghanistan, I am wondering more and more the necessity of our being in that county. There is no coherent strategic goal being advanced beyond “fighting the terrorists.” It just seems vague. We had a purpose when we first invaded, now it seems like we are just lingering there.
I don’t know, I just question what the conditions of “victory” are. When will we know we have achieved it?
“On the free market, everyone earns according to his productive value in satisfying consumer desires. Under statist distribution, everyone earns in proportion to the amount he can plunder from the producers.”
Murray Rothbard
A very sad thought.
kchand Thursday, January 15th at 2:00AM EST (link)How many American civilians will die in the next few years due to the incompetence of this clown act that is coming to town? Apparently, he 61 former Gitmo detainees that returned to terror is just not enough.
What will the re-enlistment rate look like?
Unfortunately, this circus will not be funny.
Two pleas:
1. Republicans … if you can’t grow a spine; borrow one, buy one, do something.
2. God help us.
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Vista really sucks!
You don't get it
bk Thursday, January 15th at 4:43AM EST (link)Any attacks in the future from bin Laden and co are Bush’s fault, because he caused them to hate us. If you don’t believe me, just wait to hear what the lefties say when the next attack on US soil or major terrorist attack abroad comes. It doesn’t matter whether it’s a month from now or three years from now - they’ll say it’s because of Bush/Cheney/Rummy/Rice/
Powell.That Bush is incredibly efficient in generating hate...
6eorge Jetson Thursday, January 15th at 4:51AM EST (link)He inspired the spur-of-the-moment, planning-free 9/11 attack in less than nine months!
Furthermore
bk Thursday, January 15th at 6:09AM EST (link)Bush was about to pull together an intricate plan to steal the 2000 election using local Democratic officials in Florida to design a ballot that tricked other Democrats into voting for Buchanon, and he was able to completely snooker most of the 100 smartest people in the world (aka the US Senate) into falling for his phony Iraq invasion plan.
You might call him a genius if it wasn’t a KnownFact that he’s an imbecile.
Obama's got to realize that one succesful terrorist attack...
6eorge Jetson Thursday, January 15th at 5:28AM EST (link)will unseat Obama and the Democrats at the next available elections.
The self-interested socialist engineer will engage in at least some risk management to protect his true agenda.
No, that would require that he had some connection with reality.
The_Gadfly Thursday, January 15th at 1:27PM EST (link)n/c
We’ve been called racists enough now that it shouldn’t bother us any more.
-AChance, http://www.redstate.com/moe_lane/2009/11/03/what-men-may-do-we-have-done/#comment-24463
If NY23 was a beat down for Conservatives, what do you call what happened to Progressives in NJ and VA?
inspired by ColdWarrior, http://www.redstate.com/hooah_mac/2009/11/04/ny-23-the-agony-of-defeat-not-so-much/#comment-156