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| Ralph Peters: O'S FOREIGN FAILURES |
| 2009-03-26 |
| AMERICA'S enemies smell blood and it's type "O." All new administrations stumble a bit as they seek their footing. But President Obama's foreign-policy botches have set new records for instant incompetence. Contrary to left-wing myths, I wasn't a fan of the Bush administration. (I called for Donald Rumsfeld to get the boot in mid-2001.) But fair's fair. Despite his many faults, Bush sought to do good. Obama just wants to look good. Vice President Dick Cheney was arrogant. Vice President Joe Biden is arrogant and stupid. Take your pick. Don't worry about the new administration's ideology. Worry about its terrifying naivete. Consider a sampling of the goofs O and his crew have made in just two months: |
| Posted by:ed |
| #16 Darth, last time I checked, you actually need a crime to impeach. How about Theft from the Treasury? |
| Posted by: Redneck Jim 2009-03-26 23:07 |
| #15 Well now...if ain't Ralphie "The Playa Hayta" Peters. Let's see here...the Chi-coms are belligerent, the Paks are duplicitous fuck-ups, Bin Laden is still in hiding, and the Mullah's are two-faced game players. Oh yeah, and The Taliban haven't laid down their weapons and joined the rest of the civilized world yet. Yep...it's gotta be Obama's fault. Christallfridays, didn't we hear enough of this sideline claptrap twoards the last administration? Dude, remember, this is the candidate who blamed the Taliban resurgence on US bombing of civilians in Afghanistan, said we needed to be more understanding of Pakistan, and that we were being too belligerent to the Mullahs, and that all we had to do was elect him and everything would be flying unicorns defecating skittles over the surface of the whole world. |
| Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain 2009-03-26 22:15 |
| #14 They have to risk their lives by saving him from an assasin's bullet or other travail. Crurong Gonque5089, they will risk their lives trying to prevent the unthinkable. But, statistically speaking, at some point there will come at time when they will have tried but failed. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2009-03-26 21:35 |
| #13 It both funny and tragic how the Feds are looking for all those whom conspired in 9-11, e.g. OBL, yet they don't know they call him "Mr. President" and "Commander-in-Chief". They have to obey, serve, and protect the very man they're looking for. Nothing to do with Obama race or background, but everything to do with how he came to power. They have to risk their lives by saving him from an assasin's bullet or other travail. |
| Posted by: Crurong Gonque5089 2009-03-26 19:00 |
| #12 pepto bismol sales up. yoga and meditations mantras saying "i do not hate the stimulus package" forty times not working, time for the big guns like....a big gun might make me feel safer?. |
| Posted by: GirlThursday 2009-03-26 18:49 |
| #11 ...not to mention anal incontinence GT. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2009-03-26 18:07 |
| #10 But President Obama's foreign-policy botches have set new records for instant |
| Posted by: GirlThursday 2009-03-26 17:24 |
| #9 Holy shit…there’s a page two. Ralph’s got more examples of “ US failure”. Ok, the Norks are being run by an insane thug dictator, the Castro boyz still haven’t warmed up to Democracy, Hugo the Toad continues his paranoid rants, and Mexico is damn near a failed narco-state dependant on US trade. But wait…there’s more. Old Europe desperately covets clout and KGB incarnate is running the Big Bear. We demand results dammit…not excuses! |
| Posted by: DepotGuy 2009-03-26 15:22 |
| #8 Well now…if ain’t Ralphie “The Playa Hayta” Peters. Let’s see here…the Chi-coms are belligerent, the Paks are duplicitous fuck-ups, Bin Laden is still in hiding, and the Mullah’s are two-faced game players. Oh yeah, and The Taliban haven’t laid down their weapons and joined the rest of the civilized world yet. Yep…it’s gotta be Obama’s fault. Christallfridays, didn’t we hear enough of this sideline claptrap twoards the last administration? |
| Posted by: DepotGuy 2009-03-26 14:51 |
| #7 Darth, last time I checked, you actually need a crime to impeach. No shit. However, since Obama is deep in the pocket of Acorn and he is a veteran of Chicago politics and he has trouble getting his cronies vetted, I would be very, very, very surprised if he has never done a crime. It is just a matter of time if his opinion rate drops and the rats start jumping ship and they turn on THE ONE. If the is so unpopular that anything he does is toxic to the public and the republicans gain some ground in 2010, I would expect the impeachment option to be kicked around as more dirt turns up on Obama. |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2009-03-26 13:45 |
| #6 Darth, last time I checked, you actually need a crime to impeach. Well, that and a congressional majority. And you'd need one hell of a real crime to actually convict, given the Nixon, Johnson, and Clinton examples. It won't happen. Obama's a coward and a lawyer. The former keeps him from indulging in the cowboy political smacky-face which could get painted by the opposition as actually criminal, and the latter will probably help him skate from any procedural fuckups which could be loosely construed as criminal. |
| Posted by: Mitch H. 2009-03-26 12:59 |
| #5 nah, Ralph's only got four samples, but he did leave off France and the gift gaffe. But if Barry learned one thing on the South Side, it's that there is nothing money can't buy. It may take him a while to figure out the new paradigm. |
| Posted by: Bobby 2009-03-26 12:39 |
| #4 Ouch. At this rate, Obama will be in the 5% approval rate in December. Who knows, maybe he will actually get impeached. |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2009-03-26 11:38 |
| #3 My expectation was the Zero would windup as bad as Carter. I never expect him to hit Carter status within a month and continue straight down. This is looking very bad. BTW the hits on the Dollar certainly seem reminiscent of Soros' attack on the Pound....or am I being paranoid? |
| Posted by: AlanC 2009-03-26 11:37 |
| #2 By comparison, the Carter administration is starting to look like a model of manly strength, courage and patriotism. We all knew that the comparisons between The One and Jimmah were inevitable, but damn! |
| Posted by: Dreadnought 2009-03-26 11:27 |
| #1 "We are so screwed." Rush Limbaugh |
| Posted by: William Marcy Tweed 2009-03-26 11:07 |