Don't Call His Bluff (Ongoing)

Obama does not intend to trip over any red lines:

Obama Not Rushing to Act on Signs Syria Used Chemical Arms

WASHINGTON — President Obama said Friday that he would respond “prudently” and “deliberately” to evidence that Syria had used chemical weapons, tamping down any expectations that he would take swift action after an American intelligence assessment that the Syrian government had used the chemical agent sarin on a small scale in the nation’s civil war.

And who among us can object to prudence and deliberation? On the other hand...

But Mr. Obama is also trying to preserve his credibility after warning in the past that the use of chemical weapons would be a “game changer” and prompt a forceful American response.

“Knowing that potentially chemical weapons have been used inside of Syria doesn’t tell us when they were used, how they were used,” Mr. Obama told reporters in the Oval Office. “We have to act prudently. We have to make these assessments deliberately.”

“But I meant what I’d said,” the president added. “To use potential weapons of mass destruction on civilian populations crosses another line with respect to international norms and international law. And that is going to be a game changer.”

Presidential talk should not be so cheap.

Comments

[MarkO]

Duh.

[narciso]

I know they have their shtick, but they've been on point of late;

http://www.rferl.org/content/syria-russia-chemical-weapons/24970417.html

[matt]

If you step over this line, I will be forced to draw another line!

[Captain Hate]

Has he called in Powell yet? Or fat boy Plame and his file clerk? That should work.

[Rick Ballard]

"Presidential talk should not be so cheap."

I suppose I might agree with that as a generality but the instance at hand requires some evidence of the existence of someone, somewhere in the world, who actually relies upon words uttered by President Red Lyin'.

Is further debasement of the office which he holds actually possible?

[narciso]

Well remember Plame was all about misdirection, tantamount to the DIA analyst, who tried to make it look like the Iranians were responsible for Halabja,

[Tom Roberts]

Chemical munitions leak, so just deployment is going to create casualties for people near to transports or distributed storage sites (artillery batteries, etc). The line that should have been drawn was withdrawl from the ammo dumps of the munitions, but that presumes that Assad Alawites actually controlled all those dumps still.

But we didn't draw the right line so some casualties became inevitable, including the US's shortsighted Syrian policies.

[Jim Rhoads f/k/a vnjagvet]

Speak softly and carry a big stick. T Roosevelt

Speak loudly and carry a strand of wet al dente pasta B Obama

[Threadkiller]

He ain't bluffing.

Our first sequester brush fire has begun about 4 miles north of me. 1 hour later and no air support.

They say that the tower in Ramona was spared so this may just be California's patented government laziness.

[Tom Roberts]

in re Plame/Wilson
US policies in SW Asia in the 1990s was all about misdirection, except for USAF trying to enforce the no-fly zone. When GWB got really clear about doing something there, all the wonks in the CIA and DeptState saw their circular arguments go up in smoke.

Ironically, GWB found out that sometimes in the Mideast, circular results are all you can get (Palestinian states, and the like). But that didn't make CIA artifacts like V Plame or her Ambassador hubby right either.

[narciso]

We know when Quaradawi, of Doha, yell, he says how high, but after Libya and events stateside, he has to be a little more circumspect.

[pagar]

http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/54789#.UXvJky89mFs.twitter

"The strange dedication of the George W. Bush Presidential Center and the day after"

"America’s sinking below the waves and the Battle Hymn of the Republic is playing just like the band played Nearer My God to Thee when the Titanic was sinking."

[Cecil Turner]

But that didn't make CIA artifacts like V Plame or her Ambassador hubby right either.

I'm less concerned about them not being right, and more concerned with them spreading enemy propaganda in the middle of a war. Sometimes the means are the ends, and horsewhipping is too good for 'em.

[Frau Edith Steingehrin]

President Bluffer and his wife, Frau Bluffer. (horses whinny)

Dr. Frederick Frankenstein: STAND BACK, FOR THE LOVE OF GOD! BARRY'S GOT A ROTTEN BRAIN!
Frau Bluffer: It's not rotten! It's a good brain!
Dr. Frederick Frankenstein: IT'S ROTTEN, I TELL YOU! ROTTEN!
The Bluffer: [lunging at Dr. Frankenstein] RRAAAAAAAA!
Igor: Ixnay on the ottenray.

[Captain Hate]

Igor Jarret?

[maryrose]

Frau:
You crack me up. Young frankenstein is one of my all time favorite movies.
My fav Quotes:
"Put the candle back" and
"Hump ? What hump? Rumor has it a remake is coming with Daniel Radcliffe playing the Marty Feldman role.
Obama has no intention of honoring any red line statements. He doesn't even know what a redline is. And yes ,I stand corrected. Between 80,000 and 90.000 civilians have been killed We are at the Rwanda stage right now.

[Clarice]

President Shuck and Dither. Is there a person alive still dumb enough to believe a word he says/

[henry]

Is there a person alive still dumb enough to believe a word he says

Only if you count the MSM "journalists" as persons.

[pagar]

"spreading enemy propaganda in the middle of a war."
Meanwhile John Kerry and Jane Fonda honored again in America. Amazing!

http://www.newsmax.com/Newswidget/hollywood-honors-fonda-handprints/2013/04/26/id/501604?promo_code=EACE-1&utm_source=GatewayPundit&utm_medium=nmwidget&utm_campaign=widgetphase1

[anonamom]

JiB--Thanks for educating me re: Berzerkers.
I am thinking that soccer guy who bit the opposing players ear off and Mike Tyson must have had some common ancestor---

[Mark Folkestad]

I really enjoyed Iggy's installment today of his pursuit and conquest of the lovely Susan. The description of his religious awakening was both touching and hilarious.

Nice that the multi-named troll seems to be quarantined on the other thread today. When will the attendants notice that she/he/it has been sneaking unauthorized online time?

[peter]

Carlos Slim's dancing primates magazine section has an article about a disgraced Dutch scientist who faked data, Diederik Stapel. The author refers to the subject as an audacious fraud. The Article is entitled, "The Mind of a Con Man." Wonder if the Slimes will ever wake up to another certain con man?

[narciso]

Here's another interesting piece, from the respectable Oligarch's publication, and what it really means;

http://www.breitbart.com/InstaBlog/2013/04/27/Bad-science-writing-101

[Carol Herman]

Who wants to send American troops into this dog fight? Obama can read the polls. If anything, the war song hurts the GOP even more than it is hurting now.

[Rick Ballard]

Peter,

You're thinking of "The Mind of a Con - Mann". You'll never see it in the New York Skydragon Times.

[narciso]

Well this is awkward;

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/04/27/russia-had-wiretap-on-boston-marathon-bombing-suspect-us-officials-say/

[narciso]

Can't stop embarassing himself;

http://hotair.com/headlines/archives/2013/04/27/seeing-red-what-the-white-house-should-do-now-about-syrias-chemical-weapons/

[Gus]

Narciso, I started reading the story on your link, and it seemed so absurd to me from the get go, that I had a hard time getting through it. Obama has NO CLUE. He isn't weighing various policy options. Much like your aforementioned Solon of Scranton, Obama is a BLOW HARD. Obama's game is control. Marxist power grabbing control. It's 100% internal. He has ZERO CLUE about foreign policy. LITERALLY.

[me.yahoo.com/a/ncRn8_Jniu.j5KYsqKXHML3Hfkt9VoU-]

About the only thing Obama has done right is keeping us out of Syria. Why should we support the throat slitting, head chopping rebels? Because a clown like John McCain says so?