Posted on 03/29/2011 8:49:46 AM PDT by opentalk
President Obama gave an impassioned, sometimes eloquent, defense of his policies in Libya tonight. But when it came to justifying the limited goals of the military mission, his speech was fundamentally dishonest. Obama presented himself as standing between two extremes — those on the one hand, who want to do nothing in the face of a humanitarian catastrophe, and those on the other who want to invade Libya the way George W. Bush invaded Iraq.
... This is a straw man, and the president knows it. No serious person is arguing that we should “repeat in Libya” what we did in Iraq. No serious person is arguing that we should send hundreds of thousands of ground troops to march on Tripoli and topple Moammar Gaddafi they way we marched on Baghdad and toppled Saddam Hussein. What serious people are suggesting is that we help the Libyan resistance topple Gaddafi’s regime — not by sending American ground forces to do it for them, but by providing them with arms, training, intelligence and air support.
...Another moment of dishonesty came when Obama described the “transfer” of the mission to NATO:
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
Obama is in deep doo-doo now if both the Washington Post and NPR are taking issuing with him.
A sock puppet says what the puppet master tells him to say.
Seems that everything he said last night has been scattered to the wind with the news this morning.
He is not ‘dishonest’ IMO, he is just plain stupid. He has no idea what he is doing or why he is doing it.
He is just responding and doing what ‘someone’ told him to do. He, himself, doesn’t have a clue what is really going on.
Thiessen's criticisms are largely valid, but I say that the President flat out lied to the voters last night. A-10's and AC-130's opening up on every tank or rocket launcher in the government forces is not a "no-fly zone" for humanitarian reasons. We are taking sides. Discussing how to get Ghadafi into exile is part and parcel of this. Why can't the President and his slimy suppporters just "man up"--and tell us what they want to really do (and then apologize to George W. Bush)?
Words are used for a reason.
He is far from stupid. We are the stupid ones for allowing this usurper to aid the rebels in their quest for a caliphate.
Go see 61 @http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2696128/posts
But now that the Crazy Texan is out of the White House, our Post-Modernist, Post-American, Marxist Messiah won't talk about "victory."
So just what would "victory" in Libya look like? And is everyone prepared to pay the price for it?
see # 8
Obama does not care what anyone thinks or says. His mission, in concert with his fellow travelers, Farrakhan, Wright, Allen, Power, Jarrett, Axelrod, Ayers, Soros, Qaddafi, Iran, Jordan, Egypt, Libya, Suden, Yemen, etc., is the destruction of the United States of America. If you cannot figure that basic fact out, you are far from the sharpest knife in the drawer.
Qaddafi, with the usual Arab hyperbole, declared he was going to destroy the opposition when his forces retook Benghazi. How is this any different from the usual savagery that occurs in any civil war?
Last night, on Anderson Cooper, a panel of sycophants praised this speech to the skies. Have these so-called experts completely lost their minds?
This is a dishonest, wrong-headed war being waged by dupe of president.
“Obama is in deep doo-doo now if both the Washington Post and NPR are taking issuing with him.”
You got that right! He already had his senstive ego hurt with all the criticism. His speech was supposed to demonstrate his strong leadership. All it got him was more criticism. He could be be heading to a meltdown.
I read the Obama’s speech on Libya. The short version:
He congratulated himself for preventing a massacre in Benghazi. Kudos where due. There is no further plan. “Now what?” at best remains unanswered, and at worst was answered by “To be blunt, we went down that road in Iraq. ... That is not something we can afford to repeat in Libya”. Beyond a halt to heavy arms, fact is: Daffy is still in power, his military is still on the move, we know little of the opposition, and nobody is willing to put boots on the ground.
Libya is a repeat of Iraq: to protect a domestic population (Benghazi / Kurds), the UN authorized a US-dominated no-fly zone to give rebels a chance against a brutal dictator in a country where our only viable interest is oil, and the only viable resolution is regime change. Iraq took 18 years to resolve. 9 days into the same thing for Libya, the Obama is abdicating further leadership.
If Obama cared about people so much, he should be helping Japan more.
Marc A. Thiessen (born 1967) is an American author, columnist and political commentator, who served as a speechwriter for United States President George W. Bush (2004–2009) and Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld (2001–2004).
OweBama was basically trying to talk his base into not jumping off a tall building. He was saying ‘I have to act like Bush, because people will be killed and tortured, but don’t worry, I’m nothing like Bush because I say so.’
(he always says the word I 3 times per sentence. He can’t help it)
Everything about him from his false birth story to his phony biography is fundamentally dishonest. His stories about being born in two different hospitals, his mother and father living living together until he was two, how he got into the most exclusive and expensive prep school in Hawaii and who paid for it, how he got into Columbia and Harvard and who paid for it, he didn't meet Bill Ayers until Ayers held a fundraiser for him even though Ayers had previously gotten him onto foundations, Bill Ayers was just a guy from the neighborhood and their kids went to school together, Obama wrote Dreams of My Father himself, who supported and funded his early political career, his relationship with Rezco, etc.
Everything said by and about Obama is fundamentally dishonest.
The media ball-washing of Obama was at full-speed maximum effort.
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