Posted on 01/24/2009 2:15:27 AM PST by JohnHuang2
It's going to take real courage the next four years for Republicans to swim against the tide and oppose Barack Obama -- in whom so many have placed their hopes, almost to the point of idolatry. But if Mr. Obama governs consistently with his promises, the country's future security and prosperity will depend on spirited opposition.
It's bad enough for the liberal media to deify Mr. Obama, but it's almost unbearable for right-wing commentators and politicians to jump on this bandwagon, as well, as if President Obama's personal attributes have blinded them to the policy dangers he represents.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
Obama to Mohammad: Follow our example. Pretty please???
Sooooo, no sooner does Hussein get sworn in (after a do-over, this time with a Teleprompter) than his handlers have him focus on the things that really matter: Phoning the Palestinians and making life easier for captured terrorists.
Thumbing through his checklist of executive orders that'll make America safe . . . Close Gitmo? Check. Close overseas CIA detention sites? Check. End odious practice of treating terror "suspects" as terror "suspects"? Check. Suspend war crimes trials? Check. Containers of deodorant and spacious rooms at Waldorf-Astoria for detainees? Check, check.
Obama's executive orders mark a 'sharp policy shift,' as the media delicately put it, a clean break from Bush's policies, replacing them with losing the war. Feel safer now? When Hussein promised to keep us safe, just who exactly did he mean by "us"?
One of the terror "suspects" being held at Gitmo is Khalid Sheikh Mohammad, who happens to be the chap who masterminded the 9/11 attacks. But even he thinks Obama is going too far! Informed that his trial was suspended because Obama wasn't sure he really did it, Khalid waxed philosophical: "DUDE, I DID DO IT! HELLO? I TOTALLY PLOTTED 9/11!!"
Liberals are convinced the real mastermind behind 9/11 was Halliburton, but there's no proof Khalid ever worked for Halliburton, so ya just never know. We must review his case! We could have the wrong guy.
As widely respected national security expert William Ayers once remarked: "Guilty as hell, free as a bird. It's a great country!"
Michael Dukakis furloughed Willie Horton. Odimbulb wants to furlough al-Qaeda and the Taliban. It's part of his bold Islamic outreach.
Showing that priorities under "your new government" are in the right place, Obama's executive orders say that anyone now in custody for blowing up innocent people -- or, as the New York Times would put it, for "suspicion" of being a "militant" -- can expect to be treated as a POW. 'Militants', who have been trained to withstand Army Field Manual techniques, will be questioned using Army Field Manual techniques. As for getting vital information from detainees to save lives, don't worry -- Islamic fanatics will crack under the nicer treatment!
Obama's executive orders mean that slaughtering 3,000 civilians -- even on U.S. soil -- isn't enough to get you treated as an unlawful combatant or war criminal. Which means that nothing short of being Dick Cheney or Bushitler would. By upgrading these Muslim peace-loving little darlings to POW status (treatment-wise), your new government-in-training-wheels gets to pretend that these unlawful combatants are really honorable combatants -- regular soldiers. Al-Qaeda "fighters" aren't soldiers in an army, don't wear uniforms, don't rumble around in tanks, don't owe allegiance to any country, aren't committed to any treaty -- other than that, they're regular soldiers.
Before the Supremes got busy finding the "right" to jihad as fundamental, even the plain text of the Geneva Conventions -- which liberals love to cite as the reason they coddle terrorists -- would rule out Osama and his chums getting POW treatment. If you're al-Qaeda, to get coverage under Geneva as written, the head-hacking, disemboweling, hijacking, kidnapping and pizzeria-bombing would have to go, which means al-Qaeda would have to restructure its fundamental business practices. But that would mean al-Qaeda ceasing to be al-Qaeda. The beloved Geneva Conventions also figure that detainees have really surrendered, but with all the Islamo-butt-kissing mush from president pantywaist this week, any Pashtun goat herder will tell you it's now the fully emasculated Great Satan doing the surrendering.
And with Hopeyland descending into full-on give-Neville-Changeberlain-a-chance, expect a torrent of the following: The case of Said Ali-Shihri, who was formerly held at the Guantanamo vacation club, but was released to the Saudis in 2007. No sooner had the chap passed through the Saudi rehab program for "former" jihadists than the recovering al-Qaedaholic was back at it again, bombing the U.S. Embassy in Yemen's capital last September. He's now emerged as deputy honcho of al-Qaeda's Yemeni branch.
But this case isn't some isolated snafuroo, with a good chunk of ex-Gitmo jailbirds, in Gitmo for terrorism, shockingly returning to terrorism. With Barack Obarney Fife's announced catch-and-release approach to these poor, misunderstood little Mother Teresas, gird your loins because ex-Gitmo prisoner '372' was just the warm-up act.
Or maybe there's hope! Dana Priest of the Washington Post, in an article entitled, "Bush's 'War' On Terror Comes to a Sudden End," announced that, "with a stroke of his pen, [Obama] effectively declared an end to the 'war on terror'"! Isn't that just wonderful? I'm sure al-Qaeda got the memo. Terrorists can now put their suicide bomb-belts away. Muslim savages will cease being Muslim savages because of Obama's executive orders, according to Dana in Wonderland.
The nuts in the White House believe that we can "reject as false the choice between our safety and our ideas," as Hussein's speech writer put it in Tuesday's inaugural address, following the oaf of office. "Our security emanates from . . . the force of our example, the tempering qualities of humility and restraint." In other words, show al-Qaeda you've got a fetish about the legal rights of Muslim savages, charm 'em with the emanations of the penumbra of the Due Process clause, and you'll sweep Mohammad off his feet. Al-Qaeda will love you for it.
Bush's approach of whacking the enemy on his home court got breezily dismissed as too "idealistic" but Jimmah Carter II's breeziest 'play patty cake and do sing-alongs with al-Qaeda for peace' passes for "realism". The problem with the moral high ground argument in this case, other than it being insane, is that it's hard to see the moral high ground when you're down in the soft, wet dirt, six feet under the ground. Come to think of it, gird your loins.
Anyway, that's...
My Two Cents...
"JohnHuang2"
What's this almost bull$hit ? Jesus Himself never had that kind of full-tilt unhinged sycophantic worship this False Messiah does. It's time the public got a collective slap 'cross the face to disavow them of that insanity and wake them the hell up.
Hah! With the likes of John McCain and other RINOs on our side, that will be tough. But it must be done.
We have to ask ourselves, "What would the dems do if the roles were reversed?"
Of course they would be going berserk at each of Barky's actions and heading off for all the talk shows and newshows announcing "the honeymoon is already over and do you realize what he his trying to do?"
And the answer is. The Crats would do what they did the last 8 years. The RINOS must be sent packing. Hopefully Arizona will lead the way although I doubt McClame will run again. He will probably join the Obama team.
Sorry. Easily 25-50% of the Republican Party are RINO's. Just figure out the percentage of Republican's who voted for the Amnesty a few months ago and that will give you a clue. Think it was like 30 repubs AND the President?
Ain't NO way the RP is going to fight the Dems. Leadership are all a bunch of gutless idiots.
Sorry. Meant FOR the Amnesty.
I have long held the belief that the RP is most comfortable as the minority/opposition party. During the period the GOP held power it never used it to the extent that the Dem's have in the past and will now do again. A couple of examples; both State and Justice are packed with the same elitist liberals that it was the day that Bush took office. Bush and the GOP never purged either as they should have. You can bet your bottom dollar that if by some remote act of chance there are any Republicans in either branch, they will be booted out very shortly.
Ken Blackwell (our last best hope) for RNC Chairman or I will walk away from this party forever. Sad because a third party will never work and America does not have the TIME (hussein and the sharia party are either put down in 2010 and 2012 or it is over people), money, inclination or fortitude to do the hard work required to launch a successful national party.
I have little faith in the republicrat party and the ability for it to return to sanity. A GREAT DIVIDE may be all that keeps the Light of Liberty burning. I see two Nations where once there stood one. I pray that I am wrong.
LLS
Conservative’s provide most of the money, most of the workers, and most of the votes. Liberals have most of the GOP/RNC positions and elected offices.
If we form a Conservative Party, we will have all the conservatives, a lot of the fence sitters, a clear, consistant message or ‘brand’, improved moral, non-voting conservatives, more donations.
The down side is we will lose most politicians that have a R after their name. Althoug Sissy Grahm will “sthwear, sthwear I thell you” that he always been a conservative. McCain will keep showing up at the shuttered GOP HQ, wondering why the doors are locked.
They're not gutless at all. They are ON the other side. We are going to have to face the fact that the large majority of the government, academia, law, entertainment media, news media, and the voting process have all been infiltrated and taken over by the enemy.
They had to lie and cheat to win, so they didn't really win, but what's the difference?
Great. I see we have another Colin Powell in Michael Steele. He’s lost my respect if that’s what he said and can get lost. The GOP is a bunch of lost souls who are so prone to sell-out principles and hit the panic button too often not standing up to Demonrat demonizations. The Demonrats are about to destroy this nation and any Republican that signs on and joins them can go to hell with them. The party chairman will be a telling story on what the GOP faces becuase conservatives need to leave permanently if they slap us in the face yet again. This is not the time to roll over to Demonrats because our country is in dire straights.
LLS
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