Cantcha Take a Joke?

Obama despised, even in Australia?

Liberal National Party member Nick Sowden expelled for Obama 'monkey' slur on Twitter

THE Liberal National Party has kicked out a student member who called Barack Obama a “monkey” on Twitter, an action he defended as a “political joke”.

The tweets, from an account belonging to Griffith University medical student Nick Sowden, began just after 7.30pm (AEST) on Thursday, during Kerry O'Brien's interview with the US President on the ABC's 7.30 Report.

“I'm not sure why they paid kerry to fly to america (sic), if they wanted an interview with a monkey surely a ferry to Taronga would have sufficed,” one tweet said, referring to Taronga Zoo on Sydney Harbour.

“If I wanted to see a monkey on TV I'd watch Wildlife Rescue,” said another.

Queensland LNP state director Michael O'Dwyer told AAP the party did not tolerate such comments.

“I'm disappointed when anybody from the LNP makes comments that put the party into disrepute and of such a personal nature,” Mr O'Dwyer said.

For the record: This blog does not condone the racist statements about the President's race, merely to point out his lack of global popularity.

And the "SS" Didn't Carry out "Nazi" Directives, Either!

Obama Bans Islam, Jihad From National Security Strategy Document
AP

The change is a significant shift in the National Security Strategy, a document that previously outlined the Bush Doctrine of preventative war.

WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama's advisers will remove religious terms such as "Islamic extremism" from the central document outlining the U.S. national security strategy and will use the rewritten document to emphasize that the United States does not view Muslim nations through the lens of terror, counterterrorism officials said.

The revisions are part of a larger effort about which the White House talks openly, one that seeks to change not just how the United States talks to Muslim nations, but also what it talks to them about, from health care and science to business startups and education.

That shift away from terrorism has been building for a year, since Obama went to Cairo, Egypt, and promised a "new beginning" in the relationship between the United States and the Muslim world. The White House believes the previous administration based that relationship entirely on fighting terror and winning the war of ideas.

And yet, the ISLAMIC-based attacks and attempts continue unabated! Nice work, O: fiddle while a skyscraper burns!

Ow-w-w-w-w! And From You're Own People!

ACLU Likens Obama To Bush In KSM Reversal

Posted on March 9, 2010

I hate to defend Obama on this one, but, the ACLU has forgotten that KSM and the other 9/11 co-conspirators are NOT American citizens and have no right to a civilian trial. That said, it must give the Left and the ACLU fits that Obama has pretty much been Bush-lite when it comes to Gitmo, terrorists, rendition, as well as expanding the Afghanistan war (which he said he would do time after time on the campaign trail)

Massachussett's Brown Turns Obama Blue

If you're keeping score: that's THREE, now!!

Brown wins Senate seat in epic upset
M.L.

Boston (AP/WBZ Newsroom) -- In an epic upset in liberal Massachusetts, Republican Scott Brown rode a wave of voter anger to defeat Democrat Martha Coakley in a U.S. Senate election Tuesday that left President Barack Obama's health care overhaul in doubt and marred the end of his first year in office.

The loss by the once-favored Coakley for the seat that the late Sen. Edward M. Kennedy held for nearly half a century signaled big political problems for the president's party this fall when House, Senate and gubernatorial candidates are on the ballot nationwide.

More immediately, Brown will become the 41st Republican in the 100-member Senate, which could allow the GOP to block the president's health care legislation and the rest of Obama's agenda. Democrats needed Coakley to win for a 60th vote to thwart Republican filibusters.

"Reign of Error"

GOP Chief: Republicans 'Screwed Up' After Reagan

In new book, Michael Steele says the GOP should acknowledge where "we most glaringly compromised our principles" in the past decade and hold its elected officials accountable.

In "Right Now: A 12-Step Program for Defeating the Obama Agenda," released Monday by Regnery Publishing, Steele says the GOP should acknowledge where "we most glaringly compromised our principles" in the past decade and hold its elected officials accountable.

Steele focuses much of the book on familiar GOP denunciations of President Barack Obama's overall policies ("a roadmap to failure"), the $787 billion stimulus bill ("a reckless, wasteful, pork-laden spending spree"), liberal views on manmade global warming ("A threat to life on Earth? Depends on whom you ask") and other issues.

To regain the public confidence, Steele says the GOP should, among other things, expose the "reign of error" inherent in liberal policies, contrast conservative and liberal principles, and highlight the damage caused by Obama's policies while explaining conservative solutions.

What We've Got Here is,....FAILURE TO COMMUNICATE!

Obama to Receive Report on Failed Airline Attack
FOXNews.com

President Obama is set to receive a preliminary report Thursday detailing what warning signs were missed before a 23-year-old Nigerian who was already on a terror watch list boarded a plane to Detroit armed with explosives.

The president declared Tuesday that a "systemic failure" on multiple levels allowed the suspect to board and said he should have been on a "no-fly" list. The preliminary report is the administration's first step in trying to reform both airport screening and the terror watch list system to prevent a repeat of the Christmas Day incident.

Officials said it was unlikely Obama would speak publicly about the report, although the vacationing president likely would talk several times throughout the day with his national security team.

Obama has demanded answers on why information never was pieced together by the U.S. intelligence community that could have prevented terrorist suspect Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, charged with trying to destroy a Detroit-bound airliner, from ever getting on the plane.

In August, intelligence officials picked up phone intercepts from an Al Qaeda offshoot in Yemen, discussing a plot involving someone they called "The Nigerian." In November, the suspect's father told the U.S. embassy in Nigeria that he was worried about his son's extremist views.

This warning got the suspect's name on the terror watch database -- but officials did not realize he was "The Nigerian" until the attempted attack.

A senior intelligence official said the CIA's Africa desk was also preparing a report on the suspect, but didn't send it to the National Counterterrorism Center because they were waiting for pictures of the suspect.

There are some concerns about the leader of the review. Current and former intelligence officials told Fox News he could face a conflict of interest, since he basically put together the National Counterrorism Center, the agency that manages watch lists.

Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, an offshoot of Usama bin Laden's group, claimed it was behind the attempt to bomb the Northwest airliner.

The officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss intelligence matters, said the conversations were vague or coded, but the intelligence community believes that, in hindsight, the communications may have been referring to the Detroit attack.

The goal now, officials say, is to do everything the U.S. can to prevent a repeat. Even so, they acknowledge a perfect system is impossible to create and that it will take weeks for a more comprehensive investigation into what allowed Abdulmutallab to get into U.S. airspace.

What Will CLEARLY Define the Administration:

Homeland chief an airhead
Says security system worked

By JENNIFER FERMINO, MURRAY WEISS and PHILIP MESSING

Last Updated: 5:37 PM, December 28, 2009

Posted: 2:52 AM, December 28, 2009

An al Qaeda bomber stashing explosives in his underwear cakewalked onto a US-bound airliner after averting scans on two continents -- but the federal Homeland Security chief incredibly claimed yesterday that "everything happened that should have."

"This was one individual literally of thousands that fly and thousands of flights every year," said Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, who called flying "very, very safe."

"And he was stopped before any damage could be done . . . Once this incident occurred, everything happened that should have."

Napolitano's all-is-well assessment ran counter to that of her boss, President Obama, who called for a total review of procedures at US airports.

White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs told NBC's "Meet the Press" that Obama had ordered a full appraisal of anti-terror flight regulations, "to ensure that there is no clog in the bureaucratic plumbing of information."

Napolitano's astonishing claim in the aftermath of Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab's failed bombing over Detroit led Rep. Peter King (R-LI) to respond, "The fact is, the system did not work."

The latest system failure came last night at La Guardia. The Post learned that the feds questioned a Florida man after ground crew found what authorities called a "pyrotechnic" aboard a US Airways flight from Baltimore. The 4-inch-long, three-quarter-inch-wide explosive was found wedged between two seats. Authorities collared Thomas Ouelette, 67, of Bonita Springs, Fla., before he boarded his connecting Delta flight to Fort Myers, Fla. The feds said is did not appear terrorism was involved, but Ouelette did have two outstanding Florida warrants for "unlawful flight."

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Clearly, the "H" isn't for "Humble..."

Looks like a solid B,..M!

Obama Statue Slammed by Facebook Critics

AP

More than 10,000 people join group on social networking site after statue of President Obama as a boy is erected in Indonesia.

JAKARTA, Indonesia -- A statue of President Barack Obama as a boy erected in a Jakarta park has been targeted in a Facebook campaign by thousands who say it should be removed.

The Facebook group named "Take Down the Barack Obama Statue in Taman Menteng Park" had attracted more than 10,000 members by Tuesday since the 43-inch statue of 10-year-old Obama dressed in shorts and a T-shirt was unveiled in the downtown park on Thursday last week.

Heru Nugroho, the group's creator, said he would use the support on the popular social networking Web site to demand that Jakarta Gov. Fauzi Bowo remove the statue.

"Everybody knows that Obama is a world leader, but he is not our national hero who deserves to be awarded a statue," Nugroho said.

"This has hurt our national pride because there are many Indonesian figures who gave worthy service to this nation but no statue has been built for them," he added.

Many Indonesians are proud of the fact that Obama lived in Jakarta from 1967 to 1971 with his American mother, his Indonesian stepfather and his half-sister.

He went by the name "Barry," attended the local elementary school near where his statue now stands and owned a pet monkey.

Peace: An Opportunity Missed?

As Obama stood today and accepted the Nobel Peace Prize, his chance to cement a real reason to deserve such an award is slipping away.

In Iran, the seething anti-theocracy revolt hasn't died down, but instead has percolated below the surface at a slow, rolling boil.

The Basiji and Revolutionary Guard are backing down from confrontations with the Green's leaders, and the movement teeters on a breakthrough.

And when a few words of support from the Obama administration could rally them to a final victory, he remains silent.

This is not some craven crowd of dissidents! The Persians are highly-intelligent. They're well-organized and tech-savvy. They're plugged into the internet, Facebook and Twitter. They know to hit-and-run often enough to confound and confuse the Ahmedinejad regime.

And the White House silence is deafening!!

Is the Obama administration so overly-engrossed in revamping our healthcare system to pay any attention to Iran (witness his dithering over Afghanistan and McChrystal's request)?

Could it be any regime change in Iran the results in a westward-oriented government would be a vindication of Bush's street-level efforts and the left's hatred for anything Bush-positive has blinded them to an opportunity akin to the fall of the Berlin Wall?

Maybe the Nobel people should have waited a year before giving their golden boy his laurels.

ANOTHER Epic Failure

Not even President for a full year,.....(HT to Wyatt)

Change! Somali Terrorists Use Obama Portraits For Target Practice

Isn’t this racist?
Somali terrorists linked to Al-Qaeda are using portraits of Barack Obama for their target practice.

Radical Islamist Shebab members ride horses in Mogadishu in September. Al-Qaeda and Islamists fighting to topple Somalia’s government provide “mutual support” to each other, the head of the African Union peacekeeping force has told AFP in an interview. (AFP/Mustafa Abdi)

More "O" Oops!

Party Crashers Met Briefly With Obama

FOXNews.com

The controversy over state dinner crashers, Michaele and Tareq Salahi, has prompted the White House to order a "full review" of the incident to find out how the Secret Service allowed such a security breach

A reality TV hopeful and her husband who crashed a presidential dinner met President Barack Obama in the receiving line, the White House said Friday, as a "deeply concerned and embarrassed" Secret Service acknowledged its officers failed to check whether the couple was on the guest list.

The controversy over state dinner crashers, Michaele and Tareq Salahi, has prompted the White House to order a "full review" of the incident to find out how the Secret Service allowed such a security breach.

The White House said Friday it supported the Secret Service and its employees -- but also demanded answers.

"The White House asked the United States Secret Service to do a full review and they are doing that," White House spokesman Nick Shapiro said. "The United States Secret Service said they made a mistake and they are taking action to identify exactly what happened and they will take the appropriate measures pending the results of their investigation."

The White House has insisted that the Salahis were not invited to Tuesday's dinner for Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, despite contrary claims by the couple and their lawyer.

Scenes from the Obama Apologia World Tour

HT to Tony Phyrillas:

Another Global Failure

Emperor Akihito, I apologize that the United States is STILL the greatest country in the world, but I'm working on that problem as we speak.

And The List of Mistakes Grows,...

Obama Compares Fox News to Talk Radio, Says He's Not 'Losing Sleep' Over Controversy
Several top White House advisers have gone on other channels to criticize Fox News' coverage of the administration

President Obama spoke publicly for the first time Wednesday about his administration's portrayal of Fox News as an illegitimate news organization -- only to say he's not "losing sleep" over the controversy.

Obama, in an interview with NBC, at first attempted to deflect a question about the White House's criticism of Fox News, saying "the American people are a lot more interested in what we're doing to create jobs or how we're handling the situation in Afghanistan."

The interviewer then pressed, noting that Obama's advisers have targeted the network openly.

"I think that what our advisers simply said is, is that we are going to take media as it comes," Obama said. "And if media is operating, basically, as a talk radio format, then that's one thing. And if it's operating as a news outlet than that's another. But it's not something I'm losing a lot of sleep over."

Several top White House advisers have gone on other channels to criticize Fox News' coverage of the administration, dismiss the network as the mouthpiece of the Republican Party and urge other news organizations not to treat Fox News as a legitimate news station.

And on Tuesday, Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said White House officials "render (that) opinion based on some their coverage and the fairness of that coverage."

But asked how Fox News was different from other news organizations, Gibbs mentioned the channel's 5 p.m. and 9 p.m. shows, in an explicit reference to "Beck" and "Hannity" -- even though those two shows represent opinion programming.

Informed that those hours are for opinion programming, Gibbs said: "That is our opinion."

Michael Clemente, senior vice president of news for Fox News, issued a statement Tuesday defending the company.

"Hundreds of journalists come to work each day at Fox News all deeply committed to their craft. It's disappointing that the White House would be so dismissive of their fine work and continue their vengeful war against a news organization," he said.

A Truthful Obamessiah?

On winning the now-tarnished Nobel Peace Prize, the Obamessiah said:



"I do not feel that I deserve to be in the company of so many transformative figures that have been honored by this prize," he said.

They Will Judge You By the Company You Keep

Chavez: 'Smell of Hope' Has Replaced 'Smell of Sulfur' at U.N. Dais

After spending the first 20 minutes of his address to the U.N General Assembly asserting that a revolution is under way in South America and promoting an Oliver Stone film that depicts his life, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez began taking political shots at his former rival.

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez obliquely praised President Obama Thursday in an address to the U.N., saying he has replaced the "smell of sulfur" at the world body with the "smell of hope."

"It doesn't smell of sulfur here anymore," Chavez said in a clear allusion to an earlier insult he foisted on former President George W. Bush from the same podium three years earlier.

"It smells of something else. It smells of hope," he said, referencing Obama's presidential campaign.

Chavez hasn't appeared at the opening session of the U.N General Assembly since calling Bush "the devil" several times during his remarks in 2006.