The Other McCain

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‘Kinetic Military Action’: Remember When It Was Simply ‘War’?

by Smitty Fausta was one of the bazillion bloggers mocking the verbal ‘wardrobe malfunction’ of the year week day. It was a sideshow on Twitter, where I got faved by a couple of people for this effort: More at The Sundries Shack. Oh, wait, a breaking terminology update: a time-limited, scope-limited military action is the […]

U.S. Policy On Libya Explained: It Was All An Esoteric Steven Wright Reference

by Smitty Looking at Gateway Pundit’s latest post on Libya, enlightenment struck: the whole apparent disaster is merely a reference to I Have A Pony. Hoft: “Obama Yesterday: Gaddafi Must Go… Obama Today: Gaddafi Can Stay (Video)” Now, quoting Wright from memory: I have a dog named Stay. When he was a puppy, I’d say […]

Multilateral Retardation

What slapped me upside the head in Obama’s press conference yesterday was his insistence that an “international consensus” justified the attacks on Libya, and that multilateralism was a “core principle” of his foreign policy. Nothing could be more harmful, more calculated to infringe U.S. sovereignty. This undermines the proper goal of foreign policy, namely the pursuit […]

‘Too Good a Pleasure to Forego’

The quote in the headline is from Professor Glenn Reynolds about the delicious all-you-can-eat schadenfreude smorgasbord served up by liberals since St. Hopey’s War broke out Saturday. Some people seem to have forgotten the absolute viciousness of liberals during the Bush years. Last night, while doing some research, I ran across a Byron York item about Michael […]

The Truly Pathetic Thing Is …

. . . Obama never could have gotten elected without these kooks: Just a bunch of mainstream moderate American swing voters. Meanwhile, Dennis Kucinich says the president has committed an “impeachable offense.” Apparently, Kucinich has discovered that there is this thing called a “Constitution” for which Obama has no respect. It took more than two years for […]

Press Conference in Chile Gives Obama Chance to Lie in Two Languages

Our Commander-in-Chief’s eloquent insincerity was matched only by his insincere eloquence in a press conference that just ended in Santiago, Chile. I live-Tweeted it, so let me check my notes . . . Yeah. “Complete bullshit,” it says here. “Diplomatic argle-bargle. Political yadda-yadda.” At one point, Obama was just banging out the domestic-politics buzzwords — “jobs,” […]

The Triumph of Raaaaacism: Liberals Get in Touch With Their Inner Teabagger

First it was Michael Moore and now they’re all piling on. Ralph Nader says Obama should be impeached for war crimes, Josh Marshall says the president’s Libya policy is “a mess, poorly conceived, ginned up by folks with their own weird agendas,” and Andrew Sullivan . . . Well, frankly, I’m beginning to feel a […]

About The Only Unused Obama Comparison Remaining: Elric

by Smitty American Power has a jaunty image of a smiling BHO getting his sports on. The post title mentions ‘a disinterested and semi-retired American superpower’. Now that BHO has his Very Own War, though the notion of the Tomahawk missile as Stormbringer and BHO as Elric of Melniboné comes to mind. From Wikipedia: Elric […]

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