100 Days, 100 F-Ups

What? Me worry?

Let's hope liberal New Yorkers remember his fly-by stunt in 2012!

Other than that, Rich Lowry has a great essay on the coming hell of days 101 and beyond:

100 Days — a Success, But . . .
It’s the next 1,361 days that should be the worry.

Know Him By the Company He Keeps

HT to long-lost HS friend, Trubador, and his Arbiter of Common Sense blog:

Obama is going to cut national defense, while also boosting his "Youth Brigade". With ACORN funding, no less. In fact, "The Obamessiah" is having so much fun palling around with communist dictators like Chavez, Ortega and Castro, yet won't meet with Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu.

What Did the First Commandment Say Again,...?

Here's the reminder:


The 10 commandments come from Exodus 20:1-17. Here is the verse:

And God spoke all these words, saying: "I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.

1. You shall have no other gods before me.


That said:

Georgetown University Covers Catholic Identity During Obama Speech

Covering The Cross
By ERIN MAGUIRE, The Bulletin
Friday, April 17, 2009

In compliance with a White House request, Georgetown University covered all signs and symbols — including the initials of Jesus — before President Barack Obama spoke there on Tuesday. Georgetown offered no apologies for shrouding its Catholic identity during the speech.

The Cardinal Newman Society, a national Catholic education organization, expressed disappointment in the school.

During Mr. Obama’s speech, the IHS monogram, which symbolizes the name of Jesus, was covered with black-painted plywood. The monogram adorns the stage at Gaston Hall where Mr. Obama spoke about the economy.


So, when the Obamistake meets with His Holiness, will he require Benedict to remove all vestiges of his office in the Holy See, too?

Yep! It's ALL Our Fault!

Obama blames U.S. guns in Mexico
Seeks treaty to fight drug violence

MEXICO CITY | Meeting face-to-face with Mexican President Felipe Calderon, President Obama on Thursday said the U.S. is to blame for much of Mexico's drug violence, and he set up a major congressional gun-control battle by calling on the Senate to ratify a treaty designed to track and cut the flow of guns to other countries.

Mr. Obama said he wants to renew a ban on some semiautomatic weapons but that it is not likely to pass Congress. Instead, he called for the Senate to ratify a decade-old hemispherewide treaty that would require nations to mark all weapons produced in the country and track them to make sure no weapons were exported to countries where they were banned.

"I will not pretend that this is Mexico's responsibility alone. The demand for these drugs in the United States is what's helping keep these cartels in business," Mr. Obama said at a joint news conference with Mr. Calderon. "This war is being waged with guns purchased not here, but in the United States. More than 90 percent of the guns recovered in Mexico come from the United States, many from gun shops that line our shared border."

But the treaty is likely to run into opposition from gun rights backers, and the Senate's top Democrat was noncommittal Thursday about the measure.

More of a Disgrace Than We Thought!

Chavez to Obama: Join My Book Club

Chavez gave Obama a copy of 'The Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent,' a book by Eduardo Galeano, which chronicles U.S. and European economic and political interference in the region

PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad and Tobago - Apparently a handshake and a smile wasn't enough for Hugo Chavez. The Venezuelan strongman followed up a brief encounter Friday with President Obama by apparently trying Saturday at a regional summit to recruit Obama into his book club.

In front of photographers, Chavez gave Obama a copy of "The Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent," a book by Eduardo Galeano, which chronicles U.S. and European economic and political interference in the region.

Later, when a reporter asked Obama what he thought of the book, the president replied: "I thought it was one of Chavez' books. I was going to give him one of mine."

The exchange, on the first full day of meetings at Summit of the Americas on the two-island nation of Trinidad and Tobago, followed a brief grip-and-grin encounter the previous evening, when Obama greeted Chavez in Spanish. Obama exchanged handshakes and pats on the back with Chavez, who once likened President George W. Bush to the devil.

"I think it was a good moment," Chavez said about their initial encounter. "I think President Obama is an intelligent man, compared to the previous U.S. president."

Obama was noncommittal about a possible meeting with Chavez, who criticized past U.S. policy at the summit, but expressed hope that relations between the nations would change.

"I think we're making progress at the summit," was all Obama would say.

At his first meeting with South American leaders, Obama waited several minutes while security officers and members of the media pushed noisily into the room. Somebody accidentally hit a light switch, prompting Obama to ask: "Who turned off the lights, guys?"

In an opening speech to the 34-nation gathering on Friday, the president promised a new agenda for the Americas, as well as a new style.

"We have at times been disengaged, and at times we sought to dictate our terms," Obama said to loud applause. "But I pledge to you that we seek an equal partnership. There is no senior partner and junior partner in our relations."

He also extended a hand to a leader Ronald Reagan spent years trying to drive from power: Nicaragua's Daniel Ortega. The Sandinista president stepped up and introduced himself, U.S. officials reported.

Yet soon after, Ortega, who was ousted in 1990 elections that ended Nicaragua's civil war but who was returned to power by voters in 2006, delivered a blistering 50-minute speech that denounced capitalism and U.S. imperialism as the root of much hemispheric mischief. The address even recalled the 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba, though Ortega said the new U.S. president could not be held to account for that.

"I'm grateful that President Ortega did not blame me for things that happened when I was three months old," Obama said, to laughter and applause from the other leaders.

But perhaps the biggest applause line was his call for a fresh start in relations between Washington and Havana.

"I know there's a longer journey that must be traveled to overcome decades of mistrust, but there are critical steps we can take toward a new day," he said.

In January, Chavez said Obama had the same "stench" as former President Bush after Obama criticized Chavez for backing the FARC (Armed Revolutionary Forces of Columbia) guerillas in neighboring Columbia. Earlier this month during a trip to Iran, Chavez said he doubted relations would improve with the U.S. because Obama was still "president of an empire."

"I hope President Obama is the last president of the Yankee Empire, and the first president of a truly democratic republic, the United States," Chavez said, after declaring a visit to Tehran "is like arriving at one's own home."

Ortega, a frequent echo chamber for Chavez's pronouncements, announced here late Friday that Nicaragua would also veto the declaration.

FOX News' Major Garrett and The Associated Press contributed to this report.

Where's My Land of Milk and Honey?

Pew Poll: Obama Is The Great Divider

By JOE MURRAY, The Bulletin
Tuesday, April 07, 2009

Though he rocketed to fame when he pledged to build a bridge between “red” and “blue” America, a new poll shows Barack Obama is experiencing the greatest partisan divide in modern history.

The partisan gap undercuts Mr. Obama’s claimed mandate and shows the nation is far from being united on the various social and economic policies the president has made a part of his far-reaching agenda. It also shows he has fared worse than former President George W. Bush in appealing to members of the opposite party.

A poll conducted by the Pew Research Center found that while Mr. Obama is experiencing high approval ratings in the first 100 days of his presidency — 59 percent of Americans approve of the president’s job performance — such a rating is the most polarized in modern times.

Out of the 59 percent of the Americans who approve of the president’s job performance, 88 percent are Democrats and 27 percent are Republicans, leaving a 61-point partisan gap. Such numbers show Mr. Obama has not delivered on his promise to reach across the aisle and include Republicans in his administration.

“Ideology is the principal problem Mr. Obama is facing in that he is letting his ideological convictions get in the way of his better political judgment,” said Charles Dunn, dean of Regent University’s School of Government.

With solid majorities in both the House and Senate, the Obama administration has not viewed Republican outreach as a priority and, some feel, made a hard left turn after the inauguration. During the debate over the $787 billion stimulus package, House Republicans unified twice in opposition and Senate Republicans, minus a small number of left-leaning members, opposed the package.

The tensions between the two parties have spilled over to the recent budget debate, where Republicans blasted a budget proposal that would create more than $9 trillion in debt in a decade. The White House, however, did little to include Republicans in the budget negotiations and used its solid majorities in Congress to bypass the minority party.

“The fact that Mr. Obama had a proposal in the House in which every Republican voted against speaks volumes,” Dr. Dunn said, adding it takes great skill to unify your opposition completely.

The economy is not the only issue in which Mr. Obama is letting his ideology trump his political prowess. On the issue of abortion, one the president promised to find common ground on, the White House has nominated two individuals with dubious backgrounds and reversed policies meant to curb abortion on demand.

Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius, Mr. Obama’s nominee to be Secretary of Health and Human Services, has connections with an infamous late-term abortionist and has vetoed laws to make abortion clinics safer. Dawn Johnsen, Mr. Obama’s nominee to head the Office of Legal Counsel, worked as an attorney for NARAL and compared pregnancy to slavery.

Because there seems to be a great divide between what Mr. Obama promises and how he performs, Dr. Dunn explained the poll should not be viewed as a shock.

“Rather than reaching out to people with whom he disagrees, Mr. Obama has chosen to make a hard left turn,” the political scientist said.

Compared to other modern presidents, Mr. Obama is witnessing the largest partisan gap despite the claim his presidency won a solid mandate in the 2008 election.

In 2001, after the controversial Florida ballot recount, Republicans, like Democrats today, rallied behind former Mr. Bush. Eighty-seven percent of Republicans were responsible for Mr. Bush’s then 55 percent approval rating.

Mr. Bush, unlike Mr. Obama, received less criticism from the opposition party. Thirty-six percent of Democrats approved of Mr. Bush’s job performance, as opposed to Mr. Obama’s 27 percent Republican rating, leaving a 51-point partisan gap.

“To have a bigger gap than Mr. Bush is shocking,” Dr. Dunn said. “Conventional wisdom would hold it would be the other way around.”

Dr. Dunn believes the impact of Mr. Obama’s ideological policy pursuits will begin to impact Democratic politics as many conservative Democrats, facing tight re-elections in 2010, may start distancing themselves from a polarizing president. The result could be a bipartisan collation forming to oppose some of Mr. Obama’s more leftist policies.

“Right now Mr. Obama is playing to a European constituency,” Dr. Dunn said. “If he wants to stay political viable, he can’t do that.”

Joe Murray can be reached at jmurray@thebulletin.us

The Obamistake's Ship of Fools Sails Again!

Obama Nominee Compares Being Pregnant To Slavery

By Joe Murray, The Bulletin
Friday, April 03, 2009
When candidate Barack Obama was on the campaign trail last fall, he promised Americans he would find “common ground” concerning the controversial issue of abortion.

But just over two months into his administration, Mr. Obama has nominated two individuals — one who has connections to an infamous late-term abortionist and another who has compared pregnancy to slavery — for key positions inside his administration.

The nominations of Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius to be Health and Human Service Secretary and abortion rights attorney Dawn Johnsen to head the Office of Legal Counsel have called in to doubt Mr. Obama’s credibility on abortion. And they have many in the pro-life community crying foul.

“Dawn Johnsen does not represent mainstream America or the type of common ground abortion policy President Obama promised this nation,” said Marjorie Dannenfelser, president of the Susan B. Anthony List.

Throughout her career Ms. Johnsen has penned a number of radical legal briefs and articles pro-life advocates claim expose her controversial views on abortion.

Some of most controversial quotes come from a friend of the court brief she penned in the case Webster v. Reproductive Health Services.

“Abortion restrictions ‘reduce pregnant women to no more than fetal containers,’” the brief read.

“The argument that women who become pregnant have in some sense consented to the pregnancy belies reality... and others who are the inevitable losers in the contraceptive lottery no more ‘consent’ to pregnancy than pedestrians ‘consent’ to being struck by drunk drivers.”

She also added, “The experience [of abortion] is no longer traumatic; the response of most women to the experience is relief.”

But her radical views on abortion go even further, as she has compared pregnancy to slavery.

“Her bizarre characterizations of pregnancy as ‘slavery’ and mothers as ‘losers in the contraceptive lottery’ expose an unacceptable disdain for commonsense abortion restrictions and motherhood in general. Furthermore, Johnsen’s opposition to existing federal restrictions like the ban on partial-birth abortion casts doubt on her ability to perform her duties faithfully as the head of the Office of Legal Counsel,” Ms. Dannenfelser said.

Pro-lifers are also upset with the treatment Ms. Sebelius has received from a number of Senate Republicans who they feel are not doing enough to expose the Kansas governor’s affinity to extreme abortion measures, such as partial-birth abortion. During her Thursday hearing before the Senate Finance Committee, not one Republican asked Ms. Sebelius about her pro-abortion record.

“Today’s Senate Finance Committee Hearing was an important opportunity to enlighten public debate about Governor Kathleen Sebelius’ egregious record on abortion in her home state of Kansas,” Ms. Dannenfelser said.

“Yet despite the deep bench of pro-life heroes serving on the Senate Finance Committee, not one senator could manage to ask a single question publicly about Sebelius’ blind eye toward women’s health and regulating abortion clinics.”

Ms. Sebelius has connections to Dr. George Tiller, a notorious late term abortionist, and vetoed a Kansas law that would have implemented measures to increase women’s safety in abortion clinics. Ms. Dannenfelser, however, hopes Republicans will wake-up before it is too late.

“Fortunately, pro-life senators have one last chance. They can raise the issue of Governor Sebelius’ blind eye toward women’s health tonight when her nomination comes to the Senate floor for her final confirmation vote,” she said.

Joe Murray can be reached at jmurray@thebulletin.us

Brits Peer Behind the TelePrompter,...

The question that flummoxed the great orator

o John Crace
o The Guardian, Friday 3 April 2009
o Article history

Barack Obama, the World's Greatest Orator (™all news organisations), didn't exactly cover himself in glory when the BBC's political editor Nick Robinson asked him a question about who was to blame for the financial crisis. Normally word perfect, Obama ummed, ahed and waffled for the best part of two and a half minutes. Here, John Crace decodes what he was really thinking ...


Read along,..its absolutely hilarious!

STILL Clueless, Classless,...

Following up on a post by Lisa Mossie at Bluftooni:




If this picture doesn't make you ill, you have serious issues,...


Michelle Malkin says it best here:

I have expressed my disgust many times over the years with the Bush administration’s kowtowing to Saudi Arabia. That notorious image of Bush holding hands with Saudi royalty in 2005 and doing sword dances with Wahabbists in 2008 sparked outrage on both the left and the right. The hand-holding has gotten us nowhere — and in fact, has made us less secure.

So I hope all the lefties who tore into Bush over his Saudi prostration will express equal disgust with President HopeAndChange’s literal bowing and scraping to King Abdullah. When JWF sent a link to the photo with Obama bent down like a serf (further than either he or Michelle dipped for Queen Elizabeth, by the way), I tried to give the benefit of the doubt. Maybe he dropped a contact lens or penny?


So true. It wasn't enough to have the symbolism of America being led by the hand by Wahhabist tyrants for the better part of 8 years, now we have a president who, perhaps once again forgetting political protocol, is BOWING to the same dictatorial monarch in a clear sign of fealty!! Now, we're being led by the nose! At least with the Japanese, BOTH parties bow in a sign of mutual respect and, if carried out properly, looking each other right in the eye.

Is this moron EVER going to get it right???