A Mood Brightener - Time For An Obama Surge?

Sean Davis delivers an if-only tweet:

On the verge of defeat in Iraq in 2006, Bush admitted error & changed his strategy. Is Obama man enough to do the same w/ his ISIS strategy?

Well, the Broncos benched Manning. Last year the Pats benched Brady. I know when I think of resolute, successful leaders I think of Manning, Brady and Obama, so sure, anything is possible.

FOOTNOTE: You got me - Up above I left out "Whenever the topic is leadership and I am playing 'One of these is not like the other' ...

Comments

[Jack is Back!]

Happy Birthday, TM.

Do we really think this guy will reconsider any thing his goat is tied to?

[glasater]

¸¸.•*¨*•♫♪ Happy Birthday, Dear TM! ♪♫•*¨*•.¸¸
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[Buckeye]

Reggie Love is looking forward to the Obama Surge.

[Jack is Back!]

OT.

Huma: "[Hillary] is often confused".

http://www.judicialwatch.org/press-room/press-releases/judicial-watch-email-reveals-top-aide-huma-abedin-warning-state-department-staffer-that-hillary-clinton-is-often-confused/

No shit.

[Dave (in MA)]

¸¸.•*¨*•♫♪ Hillary is often confused ♪♫•*¨*•.¸¸♥

[Rick Ballard]

Aren't brain damaged drunks usually confused? Is Red Witch more confused than most brain damaged drunks?

What is Huma trying to say?

[Jack is Back!]

ISIS may have used PlayStations to plan Paris attacks.

http://thehill.com/policy/cybersecurity/260265-isis-terrorists-may-have-used-playstations-to-plan-paris-attacks

Saw this before and Frederick showed me how its done. Also, YouTube videos of games like Minecraft. They use a special software (Frederick has it) that video's your Minecraft experience as you play it. You can build your own structures and memes that send message.

[Janet]

"*Abedin: Have you been going over her calls with her? So she knows singh is at 8? [India Prime Minister Manmohan Singh]
*Hanley: She was in bed for a nap by the time I heard that she had an 8am call. Will go over with her
*Abedin: Very imp to do that. She’s often confused."

Monica Hanley was who had to remind Hillary about TV show times too.

Why were U.S. taxpayers even paying Hillary or Huma....we should have just hired Monica Hanley as Secretary of State. She seems like she was the only one actually paying attention & DOING things.

[henry]

What is Huma trying to say?

use the shock collar.

[Rick Ballard]

That would only trigger a lunge for the bottle, Henry. Sometimes it's just better to let drunken hags lay.

[Rick Ballard]

or lie, depending..

[Thomas Collins]

The only Obama surge would be an increase in arrests of YouTubers posting videos slandering The Prophet Mohammed.

[jimmyk]

Ack, posted these on an old thread.

This is a good catch:

@iowahawkblog: 2 weeks after dismissing idea of terrorists among refugees as "fantasy" French newspaper article quietly edited https://t.co/6Z4OW8aLlu

[Old Lurker]

Rick, please don't use "lay" and "Hillary" in the same thought.

[jimmyk]

This, on the other hand....

@sallykohn: Y'all realize ISIS wants to provoke a war, right? If we go to war, we're doing exactly what the terrorists want.

Someone should ask her if that logic applies to Pearl Harbor. [update: Naturally about 100 people have.]

[Buckeye]

Sure as hell hope Zero doesn't live to be as old as Carter.

Can you imagine having to listen to his shit for decades?

[henry]

IL gov also blocking refugees

[Old Lurker]

Didn't Obama bypass the governors when he settled all those walk-in school kids last year? Why would he care what they say this time?

[Rick Ballard]

OL,

OK but I'll make an exception if 'to rest' pertains.

I'm trying to understand why, after seven years, anyone would think the molecular bond between Obama and stupidity could be disturbed.

[Jack is Back!]

The Bataclan has been a target since at least 2008. narc, noted their Jewish ownership last night.

http://www.therebel.media/islamists_sent_chilling_message_to_the_bataclan_back_in_2008

[Old Lurker]

How's all that government spending working?

https://ca.news.yahoo.com/japan-relapses-recession-july-sept-blow-abenomics-004103007--business.html

[jimmyk]

And the ZIRP, OL. Soon to be the NIRP?

[Thomas Collins]

Well,this is the MassGuv's initial position (from State House News):

"STATE HOUSE, BOSTON, NOV. 16, 2015....Gov. Charlie Baker said Monday morning he is not willing to agree to accept Syrian refugees in Massachusetts until the federal government tells him "a lot more" about its plan for screening refugees who enter the country. "No, I'm not interested in accepting refugees from Syria," Baker told reporters. "I would need to know a lot more than I know right now before I would agree to do anything.""

I'm sure the progocracy in the Bay State will attempt to get Baker to open the jihadist spigot.

[Buckeye]

Markets here seem to think Fed will be forced to leave rates alone.

[Buckeye]

or go negative as our resident expert observes

[Dave (in MA)]

Sure as hell hope Zero doesn't live to be as old as Carter.

Can you imagine having to listen to his shit for decades?

Is there something like Habitat for Humanity that builds country clubs for the needy?

[glasater]

Dave (in MA).. Hey! ;-)

[Buckeye]

Dave in MA

My gearhead buddies often joke about guys that "don't know which end of the wrench to hold".

Can't imagine Zero knowing how to use a hammer.

[glasater]

Oil's going up and the DOW is going up in response.

[Captain Hate on the iPad]

Buckeye, judging from the lifespans of his alleged parents along with 404's lifestyle choices, I'd like to believe that I'll outlive the worthless POS.

HB TM.

Sally Kohn, rocket surgeon.

[lyle]

HB, TM! Thanks for letting us hang out here.

A bright spot on a sad day: just put down Gracie, our golden Retreiver this morning. Sweetest dog ever and already achingly missed. Give all your pets some extra love today, everyone.

[Stephanie]

Happy Birthday, TM!

[Buckeye]

Hang in there lyle, is rarely an easy thing to do.

[matt]

John F'ing Kerry was on CNN yesterday morning touting our several plans for ISIS without giving a single idea of what they are. This is consistent with Obama's current ME policy of complete disorganization and telling the people at the Pentagon to STFU.

Thousands of people are dying because of this arrogant bastard's policies.

In the meantime, Christians, Yazidis and Kurds are being massacred for their faith. Wasn't this country built as a haven for those being persecuted? Screw the Syrian Sunnis and the rest. Let the Christians and other peaceful peoples in. That includes our Afghan and Iraqi interpreters. What Homeland Security has put them through is a damned disgrace.

[Old Lurker]

Sorry, Lyle.

[Beasts of England]

Sorry to hear that, lyle.

[Stephanie]

No one here has mentioned it, but didn't the mayor of Paris threaten Fox with a lawsuit and didn't Fox fire someone for reporting on the no go zones after the attacks last January?

http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2015/01/20/paris-wants-to-sue-fox-news/22062179/

[James D]

So sorry to hear that, lyle.

[Captain Hate on the iPhone]

Gracie left this world surrounded by the people who loved her. Doing the right thing is often the most difficult path to take.

[daddy]

Bummer, Lyle. Sorry about that sad news.

[henry]

glasater, a note from our Chicago friend:

Tell glasater it looks like a short squeeze in both. Because they're (hot money) taking off flatteners in the yield curve too

[jimmyk]

Sorry, Lyle. Sounds like you had many good years with her.

[cindyk]

Happy Happy Day Mr. Mc...🎼🎶🎂🎊🎉❗️

Special condolences for your loss Lyle. Our animal companions touch our heart and souls like no other...it takes time for that broken sadden heart to heal...

[Buckeye]

Just read an article about BLM protestors assaulting some people studying in the Library at Dartmouth.

Is that where daddy's daughter has a part-time job?

[Beasts of England]

http://dailycaller.com/2015/11/15/dartmouth-protesters-assault-students-while-screaming-racial-threats/

Here's a link, Buckeye. I forgot about daddy's daughter being there. Good grief.

[jimmyk]

I am deeply skeptical:

https://www.thefire.org/president-obama-student-protests-should-embrace-free-speech/

Sure enough:

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/president-obama-praises-university-missouri-protesters-activist-citizenry/story?id=35203826

So free speech apparently doesn't mean that you can't pressure a university president to resign over . . . speech.

[Jeff Dobbs]

@sallykohn: Y'all realize ISIS wants to provoke a war, right? If we go to war, we're doing exactly what the terrorists want.

Yeah, that was a big thing after 9/11....

If we do (or don't do) _____________, the terrorists have won.

Became quite a joke. As in ridicule the person using that line of argument...

Here, here's one example long after it became a joke...

http://hotair.com/headlines/archives/2010/02/10/first-lady-if-you-dont-lose-weight-the-terrorists-have-won/

[Dave (in MA)]

Sorry Lyle.

We lost our Phaedra in September, so I can relate.

[Janet]

Here's what Gov. Terry McAuliffe is up to -
https://twitter.com/GovernorVA/status/666298643897556994/photo/1

Good Lord. Maybe he could ask His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum to take some Syrian refugees instead of having the refugees come to Virginia.

[jimmyk]

Even by their logic, maybe the terrorists want us to think like Sally Kohn (which one should not contemplate if there are sharp objects in the vicinity), and not respond, so therefore we should respond.

[Buckeye]

Beasts

I ask him about her least week and he said that so far the protests at Dartmouth had not impacted her.

He said she had a couple of different part-time jobs on campus and I think one was at the library.

Got a sneaky suspicion that a kid who has grown up dealing with grizzly bears isn't going to take to much crap from some punk-ass malcontents.

[Beasts of England]

I'm sure she can handle herself, Buckeye. I just hate the thought of a young person being confronted by these idiots. The irony is them creating an awful environment - in a library of all places - while protesting an unsafe learning atmosphere.

[Buckeye]

Yes the irony of that didn't escape me.

Of course these protests really aren't about safe spaces, they are about safe democrat votes.

[clarice]

Lisa Schiffren
25 mins ·
Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't the Whole Point of the Global War on Terror-- fought in Iraq, Afghanistan, wherever-- to keep Arab&/or Muslim radicals off of US soil? We fight them there so they don't come here. Now we are flying them in? And giving them welfare forever...

[Cecil Turner]

Yet again, when racial violence rears its ugly head in America, the perpetrators are overwhelmingly African American.

Remind me: what am I supposed to be learning from this?

[James D]

I saw the Dartmouth article, and all I can say is that I hope the parents of the students who were physically assaulted are on the phone to their lawyers right now.

I imagine there might be some grounds for lawsuits against the school for allowing these animals (and that's being kind to them) to roam freely, to disrupt the studies that parents/kids/loans-subsidized-by-us are paying for, and to actually commit assault and battery.

I also imagine there might be lawsuits against the individual protestors, especially the ones who committed assaults.

And there certainly ought to be criminal charges pressed. And obviously expulsions.

Of course, none of that will actually hapeen, I'm guessing.

[Beasts of England]

It's no coincidence that this agitprop begins a year before the election. And it's well-coordinated. Our front page yesterday had an article about how bad racism is at Alabama. The SGA president being interviewed had lots of SJW verbiage but no concrete examples of racism. And it's such a hot bed of racism that they elected this guy - he's black.

[henry]

Clinton, charity, and felons. Yes they go together. (ht our lurking unit).

[Stephanie]

A Krugman article for TM for his birthday. Don't say I never gave you anything...

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/16/opinion/fearing-fear-itself.html?smid=tw-share&_r=0

FTA: Take, for example, Jeb Bush’s declaration that “this is an organized attempt to destroy Western civilization.” No, it isn’t. It’s an organized attempt to sow panic, which isn’t at all the same thing. And remarks like that, which blur that distinction and make terrorists seem more powerful than they are, just help the jihadists’ cause.

[Beasts of England]

Wouldn't Title IX apply, James D?

[Jack is Back!]

IIRC, daddy's daughter works in the research section of the library at Dartmouth. We really like the campus and Hanover and it is a shame that the BLM malcontents under the direct support of our POTUS are taking advantage of their ability to attend such a great school. None fo them are paying their way, you can bank on it.

[Marlene]

lyle,so sorry about Gracie.

[Jane]

OMG Lyle I'm so so sorry. My heart breaks for you.

[rse]

So charlie sheen is the a-lister with hiv?

My. My. Never watched his show, survivor, or bought a lottery ticket. Boy am I boring.

[James D]

Good point, Beasts!

[Rick Ballard]

"what am I supposed to be learning from this?"

The value of Speech Free Zones at Indoctrination Centers.

Now sit down and STFU.

It almost seems as if the Fascists might be acknowledging they've lost.

[jimmyk]

"And remarks like that, which blur that distinction and make terrorists seem more powerful than they are, just help the jihadists’ cause."

Ah, so Krugman is on the same page as Sally Kohn.

[Jack is Back!]

Looks like Mr. Chaos, Abdelhamid Abaaoud, who is on the run may have been the handler for or have connections with Ayoub El-Khazzani, the attack devised on the Thalys Amsterdam-Parijs on 21 august, and Mehdi Nemmouche,e at the attack on the Jewish museum in Brussels in May 2014.

[Marlene]

A quick perusal of NH newspapers and WMUR 9 gives no reports of BLM assaulting white students. If a townie in pick-up had driven by and yelled something? Breaking news!

[GUS]

Kerry on TV again, says FRENCH are our FAMILY.

When you're down and troubled....blah blah blah blah.......You've got a friend!!!

Fucking retard.

[Marlene]

Governor LePage calls Obama's decision to accept refugees irresponsible but will consider action after he gathers more information. LePage said,we don't know for certain if Maine has any Syrian refugees at this time. The federal government does not notify states when refugees are resettled. He will be attending the Republican Governor's Association later this week and this is sure to be issue #1 for the governors.

[Jane]

Someone on our side needs to get on TV and tell Obama to man up or step down, and talk about what is coming here.

Or I guess we could just wait til it gets here. But that will suck.

[GUS]

Kerry again. We won't allow these murderers to achieve their violent ends.

By definition these MURDERERS...DID achieve their ENDS.

[Buckeye]

"The federal government does not notify states when refugees are resettled."

So much for State's Rights.

[GUS]

RSE, that was my guess. Charlie Sheen. I had not knowledge and I don't follow pop culture, but it seemed obvious to me.

[henry]

http://walker.wi.gov/newsroom/press-release/governor-scott-walker-releases-statement-federal-syrian-refugee-resettlement

[James D]

Jane @ 3:08

Exactly. That's what I hoped the RNC or the individual candidates might do. Get together and call Obama out, all 10 or 12 or however many of them are still in the race.

There's still time for them to do it. I can't believe that the super-geniuses who are paid hundreds of thousands of dollars can't see the opportunity (and the crying need), especially in light of the hideous, frankly evil performance Zero gave at the press conference today.

Just his use of the word "setback" by itself ought to be hammered over and over and over again, to show the contempt Zero has for basically anyone who isn't him.

[Old Lurker]

That's what I thought, Buckeye. So that makes these governor actions just eye wash. Sorta like Congress.

[henry]

Well, the talking horse is in Paris now. Maybe they can test a guillotine on him.

[Old Lurker]

Nice Walker statement, Henry.

But they will be settled inside his state before he even knows they are there.

Obama tested the pipeline with his illegal children and got away with it. So now it is time to cram real enemies of the state through it.

This is why you have to fight the small things.

[henry]

Drudge had a map. There were a few in Oshkosh, none elsewhere. Chicago / Rockford etc have more than Damascus ever did.

[Cecil Turner]

Don't worry, Secretary Kerry is on the job:

The plan calls for a cease-fire among the many warring factions and talks between the government of President Bashar al-Assad and its opponents.

That's a plan? Okay, whatever.

I'll say one thing for him. He actually makes Clinton look good.

[henry]

Who gets the feather first in that plan? Oh we can end a war by having everyone stop this warlike behavior. Idiot.

[Bill O'Really]

Remember when I said President Reagan was babbling and had clearly lost touch with reality and probably should have resigned?

I meant President Obama.

[glasater]

Henry..

Tell glasater it looks like a short squeeze in both. Because they're (hot money) taking off flatteners in the yield curve too

Tell our lurker friend I will do my homework : )

[GUS]

Who is the fuktard on FOX who is telling SHEPTARD that we can't "kill our way out of this"?

We need to get serious Conservatives.

[henry]

glasater. Will do.

[Porchlight]

Happy birthday, Original TM!

[GUS]

Holy Shit, his guy MARK FALLON is the FULL RETARD. He says we cannot kill our way out of his, yet he just told the nation that Al Qaeda was only 200 people at the time of 9/11. So KILLING 200 was not going to stop AL QAEDA??

I cannot watch SHEPTARD Smith anymore, the douchebaggery is hard to take.

[henry]

GUS, watch deer hunting videos with junior. Gun season opens Saturday.

[GUS]

and SHEPTARD is dying his hair.

[GMax]

Shep is probably worrying about that dalliance with Charlie Sheen right about now...

[Buckeye]

henry

Do you get to use rifles, or are you stuck with shotguns like those of us in Ahia?

[Jeff Dobbs]

That Krugman quote from today:

Take, for example, Jeb Bush’s declaration that “this is an organized attempt to destroy Western civilization.” No, it isn’t. It’s an organized attempt to sow panic, which isn’t at all the same thing. And remarks like that, which blur that distinction and make terrorists seem more powerful than they are, just help the jihadists’ cause.

Why, it's almost like ol' Krugs doesn't want anyone to toe anything but the Obama (red?) line...

Krugman in the election year of 2004:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/23/opinion/23KRUG.html

From the day it took office, U.S. News & World Report wrote a few months ago, the Bush administration "dropped a shroud of secrecy" over the federal government. After 9/11, the administration's secretiveness knew no limits — Americans, Ari Fleischer ominously warned, "need to watch what they say, watch what they do." Patriotic citizens were supposed to accept the administration's version of events, not ask awkward questions.

BTW, in looking that up, I came across this Christopher Hitchens piece putting Ari's comments in the proper context to essentially say of Krugman...

And remarks like that, which blur that distinction (between so-called secretiveness and pushing back on intemperate and inflammatory remarks), and make the Bush administration seem more powerful than they are, just help the jihadists’ cause.

Or put another way: If Krugman goes unchallenged, the terrorists have won.

[henry]

Buckeye, rifles ok.

[buccaneer morgan]

Fallon was a jackalope who worked for ali soufan, his last job was coordinating with Qatar.

[Miss Marple 2]

DC Mayor is upping security at major targets.

It must be a serious threat if someone lit a fire under those people.

[Dave (in MA)]

A glimpse into the sewer:

http://www.universalhub.com/2015/baker-walsh-best-shut-door-all-syrian-refugees#comments

[maryrose]

Shep is really unwatchable at this point
I thought he was losing his show to just do Breaking News?
Obama ticked off at Media today for making him answer tough questions on what the heck he is going to do about ISIS.

[maryrose]

Happy Birthday TM and thank you again for this wonderful blog