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Obama's peace tour has left US a more dangerous place
Scotland On Sunday ^ | 4-26-09 | Gerald Warner

Posted on 04/26/2009 7:34:27 PM PDT by reprobate

THERE is a certain type of political career that has auto-destruction built into its DNA: look no further than the predicament of the pathetic creature pointlessly lingering on in 10 Downing Street, si monumentum requiris. To this category belongs Barack Obama. This, of course, is heresy to the consensus that is still rapturously inhaling the heady fumes of self-delusion - as it did with Tony Blair. What most Obama sceptics would have to concede is some surprise at the speed with which he has launched into self-destruct mode. The President Pantywaist tour on which he embarked, embracing America's enemies, was fairly predictable, even if some of the detail was more grotesque than expected. There was, however, one area where most commentators believed Obama would tread warily: it seemed implausible that he would play politics with America's national security within his first 100 days in office.

Then came his disastrous decision to publish formerly classified legal opinions authorising the use of such interrogation techniques as "waterboarding" on terror suspects.

(Excerpt) Read more at scotlandonsunday.scotsman.com ...


TOPICS: Editorial; Foreign Affairs; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: agenda; antiamericanism; apologytour; bho44; bhovisit; cia; democrat; democrats; first100days; globalsecurity; impeachobama; nationalsecurity; obama; security
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1 posted on 04/26/2009 7:34:28 PM PDT by reprobate
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To: reprobate

Our friends across the pond has Zero pegged big-time. Too bad the butt-smooching U.S. media can’t say the same.


2 posted on 04/26/2009 7:36:14 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist ("President Obama, your agenda is not new, it's not change, and it's not hope" - Rush Limbaugh 02/28)
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To: reprobate

Scotland gets it. He’s a suicide muslim president.


3 posted on 04/26/2009 7:40:10 PM PDT by balls
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To: reprobate

Unfortunately, nothing new on Zer0 here! Shame!


4 posted on 04/26/2009 7:40:49 PM PDT by jws3sticks (Hillary can take a very long walk on a very short pier, anytime, and the sooner the better!)
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To: balls

If the Kool-Aid ever gives out, Obama’s in big trouble.


5 posted on 04/26/2009 7:42:31 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Beat a better path, and the world will build a mousetrap at your door.)
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A little off topic, but other areas of concern too, ON THE INTERNET:

Online.WSJ.com: "THE PRESIDENT TIES HIS OWN HANDS ON TERROR The point of interrogation is intelligence, not confession." by Michael Hayden and Michael B. Mukasey (April 17, 2009) (Read More...)
AMERICAN THINKER.com - blog: "OBAMA FLUNKS THE 3 A.M. TEST" (April 16, 2009) (Read More...)



JIHAD WATCH.org (LOS ANGELES TIMES): "Obama Administration wants to settle Muslims freed from Gitmo in American communities to "set an example, helping to persuade other nations to accept Guantanamo detainees too"" (April 24, 2009) (Read More...)

JIHAD WATCH.org (CHICAGO TRIBUNE): "RELAX: CHINESE MUSLIM GITMO INMATES TO BE FREED IN U.S." (April 24, 2009) (Read More...)

HOT AIR.com: "Good News: Obama to release Chinese Muslim Gitmo Detainees into U.S." (April 24, 2009) (Read More...)

HUMAN EVENTS.com: "THE UIGHURS AND THE 'TORTURE' MEMOS" by Jed Babbin (SNIPPET: "White House lawyers are refusing to accept the findings of an inter-agency committee that the Uighur Chinese Muslims held at Guantanamo Bay are too dangerous to release inside the U.S., according to Pentagon sources familiar with the action. This action -- coupled with the release of previously top secret legal opinions on harsh interrogation methods -- demonstrates the Obama administration's willingness to ignore reality.") (April 20, 2009) (Read More...)
JIHAD WATCH.org (AP): "CHINA WARNS AGAINST PROVIDING ASYLUM TO CHINESE JIHADIS RELEASED FROM GITMO" (February 6, 2009) (Read More...)



WEEKLY STANDARD.com: "PREENING & POSTURING Throwing those who guard us while we sleep to the wolves." by William Kristol (SNIPPET: "The dark and painful chapter we have to fear is rather the one President Obama may be ushering in. This would be a chapter in which politicians preen moralistically as they throw patriotic officials, who helped keep this country safe, to the wolves, and in which national leaders posture politically while endangering the nation's security. The preening is ridiculous, even by the standards of contemporary American politics and American liberalism. Obama fatuously asserts there are no real choices in the real world, just "false choices" that he can magically resolve. He foolishly suggests that even in war we would never have to do anything disagreeable for the sake of our security. He talks baby talk to intelligence officers: "Don't be discouraged that we have to acknowledge potentially we've made some mistakes. That’s how we learn."") (May 4, 2009 Issue) (Read More...)
WEEKLY STANDARD.com - blog: "GOSS: OBAMA DECISION "CROSSED A RED LINE"" -Posted by Stephen F. Hayes (SNIPPET: "Porter Goss, former CIA Director and past chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, blasted the Obama administration for releasing Justice Department memos on harsh interrogation techniques. "For the first time in my experience we've crossed the red line of properly protecting our national security in order to gain partisan political advantage," Goss said in an interview.") (April 23, 2009, 1:53 pm) (Read More...)
CNN.com: Washington - "EX-CIA CHIEF: OBAMA RISKS NATIONAL SECURITY" (SNIPPET: "A former head of the CIA slammed President Obama on Sunday for releasing four Bush-era memos, saying the new president has compromised national security.") (Updated April 19, 2009, 7:44 p.m. EDT) (Read More...)
FOX NEWS.com: "EX-CIA CHIEF CRITICIZES RELEASE OF INTERROGATION MEMOS Former CIA Director Michael Hayden says release of the memos will give terrorists a precise guide for what to expect in a CIA interrogation if those methods are ever approved for use again" (April 16, 2009) (Read More...)
FOX NEWS.com: "OBAMA MAY RELEASE DETAILS OF CIA's INTERROGATION METHODS USED ON TERROR SUSPECTS" by Brit Hume (SNIPPET: "The president's decision will tell us much about him.") (April 15, 2009) (Read More...)

6 posted on 04/26/2009 7:42:48 PM PDT by Cindy
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SNIPPET from the link in post no. 1:

"What most Obama sceptics would have to concede is some surprise at the speed with which he has launched into self-destruct mode. The President Pantywaist tour on which he embarked, embracing America's enemies, was fairly predictable, even if some of the detail was more grotesque than expected. There was, however, one area where most commentators believed Obama would tread warily: it seemed implausible that he would play politics with America's national security within his first 100 days in office."

7 posted on 04/26/2009 7:46:31 PM PDT by Cindy
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To: reprobate
'ferocious vengeance of the American people.'

Brother, we're only 100 days in. You come walk in our shoes about a year from now.


8 posted on 04/26/2009 7:47:22 PM PDT by Viking2002 (This tagline for rent.)
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...The President Pantywaist tour...

If Zero's "apology tour" wasn't so devastating to our country, this depiction of his tour would be hilarious. As it is, it's still funny!

9 posted on 04/26/2009 7:52:00 PM PDT by Road Warrior ‘04 (I'll miss President Bush greatly! Palin in 2012!)
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To: reprobate

Ping!


10 posted on 04/26/2009 7:55:03 PM PDT by Ballygrl
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

Scots love America. The MSM hates America. Pretty easy math.


11 posted on 04/26/2009 7:55:43 PM PDT by Renderofveils (My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music. - Nabokov)
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To: reprobate

2009 Obama/Clinton Apology Tour


12 posted on 04/26/2009 7:57:31 PM PDT by nufsed (Release the birth certificate, school and passport records.)
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To: balls
I wonder when Obama will come out of the White House with a suicide belt on around his waist with TNT, loose screws and no nuts.
13 posted on 04/26/2009 7:59:58 PM PDT by antiunion person ("Do as I say, not as I do" says Nazi Pelosi, head of the socialist party of America.)
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The World doesn’t hate us anymore.......

....Because they are laughing at us.


14 posted on 04/26/2009 8:02:20 PM PDT by Wil H (The most destructive act of Muslim terrorism against the US was paying for 0bama's Harvard education)
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I wonder when Obama will come out of the White House with a suicide belt on around his waist with TNT, loose screws and no nuts.

Sounds like a scene from BLAZING SADDLES II
15 posted on 04/26/2009 8:03:02 PM PDT by Colinsky
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When the world no longer has American power, American idealists and American bravery to stabalize the forces of evil in this world, it won’t be this nation that will turn a lonely eye westward. Even France will muse for the enemy friend they once secretly revered.

This Barry Soeterro will be the death of us all.


16 posted on 04/26/2009 8:17:46 PM PDT by johnnycap
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"This Barry Soeterro will be the death of us all."

An interesting point, with all the recent "familycides".

A quite-possibly, self-loathing creature like Ø, could be on a collision course to destroy himself, while taking all of us with him.

17 posted on 04/26/2009 8:25:02 PM PDT by ChicagahAl (Don't blame me. I voted for Sarah.)
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“The President Pantywaist tour....”

Now THAT’S funny!


18 posted on 04/26/2009 8:48:03 PM PDT by headstamp 2 (Spay or Neuter your liberal today!)
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1) The further they go with it the more people will realize how hard Bush worked to keep them safe.
2) The further they go with it the more people will see that Obama can't rise above the vicious campaign mode to govern all America.
3) The further they go with it the more people will be convinced the Democrats can't be trusted with national security.
4) The further they go with it the more people will doubt Obama’s commitment to America.
5) The further they go with it the more the precedent will be made to really go after the Democrat corruption legally once they are out of office.
6) The further they go with this the more people will consider Obama a lier, controlled by the radical left.
7) The further they go with this the more personally responsible Obama will be for any homeland terrorist attacks.
8) The further they go with this the more emasculated our intelligence services will be.
9) The further they go with this the more a laughing stock we will be to the world.
19 posted on 04/26/2009 8:59:08 PM PDT by broncobilly
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You know, I personally know someone born on the same date and the same year and also born in Kenya. This same person was diagnosed as a socio-path, passive aggressive and here’s the kicker...his psychologist diagnosed him as a sabotour.

The doctor said that innate in his psyche was a subliminal belief that he wasn’t worth the accolades and achievements he sought and gained and therefore set about to destroy everything he came in contact with. That kind of lends credibility to what you are saying about Barry and destruction.


20 posted on 04/26/2009 10:11:30 PM PDT by johnnycap
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