Obama shoes on Resolute Desk

The first event was unceremoniously returning a bust of Winston Churchill among the first acts after taking the oath of office.

The second event was Michelle Obama fist-bumping hugging Queen Elizabeth and giving her an ipod.

Next was the D-Day dissing where Obama did not invite Queen Elizabeth, is the only living head of state who served in uniform during World War II to last week’s 65th anniversary commemoration of D-Day.

Shoes, as we recall from tearing down the Saddam Hussein statue and the assault on President Bush at the press conference, are highly symbolic to the Muslim world. Putting his shoes on a foremost symbol of US-British alliance is not lost on sensitive observers of US-Muslim relations.

Text on a plaque on the desk reads:
The ship was purchased, fitted out and sent to England as a gift to HER MAJESTY QUEEN VICTORIA by the PRESIDENT AND PEOPLE of the UNITED STATES as a token of goodwill & friendship. This table was made from her timbers when she was broken up, and is presented by the QUEEN OF GREAT BRITAIN & IRELAND to the PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES as a memorial of the courtesy and loving kindness which dictated the offer of the gift of the RESOLUTE

Nothing is accidental in the White House. Photographs that the White House doesn’t want to get out… don’t get out. This is a message. This is symbolism. This is a statement that nothing is sacred or holy to Obama.

But last week there was no end to mentions (ok, at least five) of the “Holy Quran” in Obama’s speeches in the Muslim world.

Maybe someone can explain why editorial boards don’t insist that the word “Holy” always appear before the words Bible or Torah, as it does for the Quran. Must be that failure to do so might result in a too-typical demonstration from the Religion of Peace.

“From the time they get up in the morning and flush the toilet, they’re taxed. When they go get a coffee, they’re taxed. When they get in their car, they’re taxed. When they go to the gas station, they’re taxed. When they go to lunch, they’re taxed. This goes on all day long. Tax. Tax. Tax. Tax. Tax.”

- Arnold Schwarzenegger in 2003

The Governator, who ran as a Republican and governed like a Kennedy, finally gets hoist on his own petard as California voters reject bailing him out of governmental excesses and unemployed citizens flip the bird at legislators who think they should be able to vote themselves a raise while the state is crumbling from the weight of entitlements.

http://projects.latimes.com/elections/2009-05-19/california/results/

Governator on taxes: before and after

The election is finally over, isn’t it?

Source: http://xkcd.com/500/

    The speech George W. Bush might give:

    Normally, I start these things out by saying ‘My Fellow Americans.’ Not doing it this time. If the polls are any indication, I don’t know who more than half of you are anymore. I do know something terrible has happened, and that you’re really not fellow Americans any longer.

    I’ll cut right to the chase here: I quit. Now before anyone gets all in a lather about me quitting to avoid impeachment, or to avoid prosecution or something, let me assure you: There’s been no breaking of laws or impeachable offenses in this office.

    The reason I’m quitting is simple. I’m fed up with you people. I’m fed up because you have no understanding of what’s really going on in the world. Or of what’s going on in this once-great nation of ours. And the majority of you are too damned lazy to do your homework and figure it out.

    Let’s start local. You’ve been sold a bill of goods by politicians and the news media.

    Meanwhile, all you can do is whine about gas prices, and most of you are too damn stupid to realize that gas prices are high because there’s increased demand in other parts of the world, and because a small handful of noisy idiots are more worried about polar bears and beachfront property than your economic security.

    We face real threats in the world. Don’t give me this ‘blood for oil’ thing. If I were trading blood for oil I would’ve already seized Iraq ’s oil fields and let the rest of the country go to hell. And don’t give me this ‘Bush Lied…People Died’ crap either. If I were the liar you morons take me for, I could’ve easily had chemical weapons planted in Iraq so they could be ‘discovered.’ In stead, I owned up to the fact that the intelligence was faulty.

    Let me remind you that the rest of the world thought Saddam had the goods, same as me. Let me also remind you that regime change in Iraq was official US policy before I came into office. Some guy named ‘ Clinton ‘ established that policy. Bet you didn’t know that, did you?

    Now some of you morons want to be led by a junior senator with no understanding of foreign policy or economics, and this nitwit says we should attack Pakistan , a nuclear ally. And then he wants to go to Iran and make peace with a terrorist who says he’s going to destroy us. While he’s doing that, he wants to give Iraq to al Qaeda, Afghanistan to the Taliban, Israel to the Palestinians, and your money to the IRS so the government can give welfare to illegal aliens, who he will make into citizens, so they can vote to re-elect him. He also thinks it’s okay for Iran to have nuclear weapons, and we should stop our foreign aid to Israel . Did you sleep through high school?

    You idiots need to understand that we face a unique enemy. Back during the cold war, there were two major competing political and economic models squaring off. We won that war, but we did so because fundamentally, the Communists wanted to survive, just as we do. We were simply able to out spend and out-tech them.

    That’s not the case this time. The soldiers of our new enemy don’t care if they survive. In fact, they want to die. That’d be fine, as long as they weren’t also committed to taking as many of you with them as they can. But they are. They want to kill you, and the bastards are all over the globe.

    You should be grateful that they haven’t gotten any more of us here in the United States since September 11. But you’re not. That’s because you’ve got no idea how hard a small number of intelligence, military, law enforcement, and homeland security people have worked to make sure of that. When this whole mess started, I warned you that this would be a long and difficult fight. I’m disappointed how many of you people think a long and difficult fight amounts to a single season of ‘Survivor.’

    Instead, you’ve grown impatient. You’re incapable of seeing things through the long lens of history, the way our enemies do. You think that wars should last a few months, a few years, tops.

    Making matters worse, you actively support those who help the enemy. Every time you buy the New York Times, every time you send a donation to a cut-and-run Democrat’s political campaign, well, dang it, you might just as well FedEx a grenade launcher to a Jihadist. It amounts to the same thing.

    In this day and age, it’s easy enough to find the truth. It’s all over the Internet. It just isn’t on the pages of the New York Times, USA Today, or on NBC News. But even if it were, I doubt you’d be any smarter. Most of you would rather watch American Idol or Dancing with Stars.

    I could say more about your expectations that the government will always be there to bail you out, even if you’re too stupid to leave a city that’s below sea level and has a hurricane approaching.

    I could say more about your insane belief that government, not your own wallet, is where the money comes from. But I’ve come to the conclusion that were I to do so, it would sail right over your heads.

    So I quit. I’m going back to Crawford. I’ve got an energy-efficient house down there (Al Gore could only dream) and the capability to be fully self-sufficient for years. No one ever heard of Crawford before I got elected, and as soon as I’m done here pretty much no one will ever hear of it again. Maybe I’ll be lucky enough to die of old age before the last pillars of America fall.

President Nancy Pelosi

    Oh, and by the way, Cheney’s quitting too. That means Pelosi is your new President. You asked for it. Watch what she does carefully, because I still have a glimmer of hope that there are just enough of you remaining who are smart enough to turn this thing around in 2008.

    So that’s it. God bless what’s left of America .

    Some of you know what I mean. The rest of you, kiss off.
    PS – You might want to start learning Farsi , and buy a Koran.

On Saturday, September 13, Tina Fey played Sarah Palin in the opening skit on Saturday Night Live.

Obama will be

• the first presidential nominee known to have a terrorist as a friend and working associate
• the first presidential nominee to vote against a measure designed to prevent a form of infanticide
• the first  Commander-in-Chief nominee  to dismiss as an elitist a veteran who spent 5 1/2 years being tortured by the enemy
• the first presidential nominee to favor giving habeas corpus rights to foreign terrorists
• the first presidential nominee known to have a pastor who exclaimed “God damn America “
• the first presidential nominee to state that he will talk without precondition to the leaders of state sponsors of terrorism
• the first presidential nominee to support giving driver’s licenses to illegal immigrants
• the first presidential nominee to assert that he’s embarrassed that his countrymen don’t speak French or German
• the first presidential nominee to compare the U.S. infrastructure unfavorably to that of a communist country
• the first presidential nominee to have a more extreme position on life issues than NARAL

h/t: National Review

See also:

• Obama Campaign Trying to Silence Discussion of William Ayers
• The Radio Show the Obama Campaign Doesn’t Want You to Hear

JIMMY CARTER: Around the world. Around the world. And I think it already has sent a wave of approbation and admiration in many countries around the world, just knowing that this black boy who grew up with just a loving mother and grandparents — and that was about all he had to start with — does now have a chance to become the nominee of the Democratic Party for president.

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This is right up there with Joe Biden:

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And Hillary Clinton:

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Would the media not exploit it if an ex-Republican president made the same comment?

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