Please... call me Trench, Lumi.I was refering to talk show hosts, as far as Wayne goes, I am not on a first name basis with anyone here, yet.
Please... call me Trench, Lumi.I was refering to talk show hosts, as far as Wayne goes, I am not on a first name basis with anyone here, yet.
protect him from what? :shrug:
I am much more concerned about O running our economy like he ran his own finances.
From his "supreme being" image they try to project.
As I said in other thread I'd feel he was a little odd if he didn't scope it out--
objective of post in thread was to shead a little light on accusation that Drudge was only one on this story.
I am much more concerned about O running our economy like he ran his own finances.
--and apoligizing to every country he visits and using the word "we".
So far every country is exploiting him to the hilt-
Russia got to consider him the best thing since sliced bread-
July 10, 2009
Our Foreign Policy Neophyte
By Charles Krauthammer
WASHINGTON -- The signing ceremony in Moscow was a grand affair. For Barack Obama, foreign policy neophyte and "reset" man, the arms reduction agreement had a Kissingerian air. A fine feather in his cap. And our president likes his plumage.
Unfortunately for the United States, the country Obama represents, the prospective treaty is useless at best, detrimental at worst.
Useless because the level of offensive nuclear weaponry, the subject of the U.S.-Russia "Joint Understanding," is an irrelevance. We could today terminate all such negotiations, invite the Russians to build as many warheads as they want, and profitably watch them spend themselves into penury, as did their Soviet predecessors, stockpiling weapons that do nothing more than, as Churchill put it, make the rubble bounce.
Obama says that his START will be a great boon, setting an example to enable us to better pressure North Korea and Iran to give up their nuclear programs. That a man of Obama's intelligence can believe such nonsense is beyond comprehension. There is not a shred of evidence that cuts by the great powers -- the INF treaty, START I, the Treaty of Moscow (2002) -- induced the curtailment of anyone's programs. Moammar Gaddafi gave up his nukes the week we pulled Saddam Hussein out of his spider hole. No treaty involved. The very notion that Kim Jong Il or Mahmoud Ahmadinejad will suddenly abjure nukes because of yet another U.S.-Russian treaty is comical.
The pursuit of such an offensive weapons treaty could nonetheless be detrimental to us. Why? Because Obama's hunger for a diplomatic success, such as it is, allowed the Russians to exact a price: linkage between offensive and defensive nuclear weapons.
This is important for Russia because of the huge American technological advantage in defensive weaponry. We can reliably shoot down an intercontinental ballistic missile. They cannot. And since defensive weaponry will be the decisive strategic factor of the 21st century, Russia has striven mightily for a quarter-century to halt its development. Gorbachev tried to swindle Reagan out of the Strategic Defense Initiative at Reykjavik in 1986. Reagan refused. As did his successors -- Bush I, Clinton, Bush II.
Obama, who seeks to banish nuclear weapons entirely, has little use for such prosaic contrivances. First, the Obama budget actually cuts spending on missile defense, at a time when federal spending is a riot of extravagance and trillion-dollar deficits. Then comes the "pause" (as Russia's president appreciatively noted) in the planned establishment of a missile shield in Eastern Europe. And now the "Joint Understanding" commits us to a new treaty that includes "a provision on the interrelationship of strategic offensive and strategic defensive arms." Obama further said that the East European missile shield "will be the subject of extensive negotiations" between the United States and Russia.
Obama doesn't even seem to understand the ramifications of this concession. Poland and the Czech Republic thought they were regaining their independence when they joined NATO under the protection of the United States. They now see that the shield negotiated with us and subsequently ratified by all of NATO is in limbo. Russia and America will first have to "come to terms" on the issue, explained President Dmitry Medvedev. This is precisely the kind of compromised sovereignty that Russia wants to impose on its ex-Soviet colonies -- and that U.S. presidents of both parties for the last 20 years have resisted.
Resistance, however, is not part of Obama's repertoire. Hence his eagerness for arcane negotiations over MIRV'd missiles, the perfect distraction from the major issue between the two countries: Vladimir Putin's unapologetic and relentless drive to restore Moscow's hegemony over the sovereign states that used to be Soviet satrapies.
That -- not nukes -- is the chief cause of the friction between the U.S. and Russia. You wouldn't know it to hear Obama in Moscow pledging to halt the "drift" in U.S.-Russian relations. Drift? The decline in relations came from Putin's desire to undo what he considers "the greatest geopolitical catastrophe" of the 20th century -- the collapse of the Soviet empire. Hence his squeezing Ukraine's energy supplies. His overt threats against Poland and the Czech Republic for daring to make sovereign agreements with the United States. And finally, less than a year ago, his invading a small neighbor, detaching and then effectively annexing two of Georgia's provinces to Mother Russia.
That's the cause of the collapse of our relations. Not drift, but aggression. Or, as the reset man referred to it with such delicacy in his Kremlin news conference: "our disagreements on Georgia's borders."
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Yet u never had those concerns about Bush and his one failed business after another :shrug: . You are so worried about the economy just like u were with Clinton and the :nono: . You have to be the biggest hypocrite on earth. It is actually kind of sad to be witnessing this pathetic show u call thoughts. I mean only a complete jackass wouldn't recognize what a complete hypocrite u are. Im starting to think that maybe u don't know what u post one day from the other. U are the poster boy for hypocrites as Palin is the poster girl for lying.
Funniest part is you have liberal media showing video that is inconclusive trying to protect him.![]()
there was no media corruption in the last white house ?? ? see : NYT's/judy miller & the iraq invation...... scooter, cheney and the boys...... you still need to understand what a present vote is... I know it's hard...... and yes Obama did have debt, shocking in a bush/cheney economy... most did... we lived in a debt driven economy the last 8 yrs... all obama did was listen to bush....."keep spending " our leader told us... "the fundalmentals are srtong " ..... I know you still believe... I was 2 yrs ahead of you on that one.... look it up....over all I give this a (P) for pathetic....The same people that were @ the point of the bush economy are represented in the Obama economy... I tryed to point this out in that rolling stone piece that you scoffed at...yes it did cover cap & trade..... I feel your pain... This is just another case were left meets right... You didn't see the boogeyman under the bed then..... So why now ????GW didn't need politics as mode of income--he had more than he could spend pre politics
Gumby on other hand pre politics consisted of community organizer and acorn affiliate.
Most already aware of this spongie but from your post evidently you don't.
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I told you before election if he got in he'd run gov like he did his own life.
I told you about his voting present and trying play both sides.
He can't vote present as president but he can flop and take both sides of issues.
I told you--he keep similiar associates
Look at his cabinet and czars and Chicago connections--hell bout half of em were tax evaders.
Not Washington as usual?--no lobbyist in his house?
--would you like a list of em just in his cabinet alone. Only diff is you got media added to the corruption and doing the pay to play angle also.
Why the huge spending programs without reading any of the bills.Wonder why stimulus isn't working--(1/3) 267 Billion of it is on welfare programs--how stimulating?
Hmm instead of me continueing list might be easier to let you speak--and anyone else that feels they may have answer--
Please list anything positive Gumby has accomplished--other than doubling your welfare.
GW didn't need politics as mode of income--he had more than he could spend pre politics
Gumby on other hand pre politics consisted of community organizer and acorn affiliate.
Most already aware of this spongie but from your post evidently you don't.
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Gee Spongie -for a minute I though you had some volunteers to help you with some positive accomplishments so far --guess not
Mr B on economy--and last 8 years--I'd be tickled pink if next 8 produced same employment-inflation-and national growth.
Evidently you already forgot--or "didn't get it" before comparisons on GW and Billybob--you didn't have anything to add then--and doubt you do now--just the yada yada gambit till next time
http://www.madjacksports.com/forum/showthread.php?t=343671&page=2&highlight=calculator
Seriously how could you expect anything other than what has occurred with the 3 amigos and a 60 seat dem house--you better hope the moderate dems defect from the liberal base if there is to be any "hope" at all.
but if they don't -are you prepared for the consequences![]()
Gee Spongie -for a minute I though you had some volunteers to help you with some positive accomplishments so far --guess not
Mr B on economy--and last 8 years--I'd be tickled pink if next 8 produced same employment-inflation-and national growth.
Evidently you already forgot--or "didn't get it" before comparisons on GW and Billybob--you didn't have anything to add then--and doubt you do now--just the yada yada gambit till next time
http://www.madjacksports.com/forum/showthread.php?t=343671&page=2&highlight=calculator
Seriously how could you expect anything other than what has occurred with the 3 amigos and a 60 seat dem house--you better hope the moderate dems defect from the liberal base if there is to be any "hope" at all.
but if they don't -are you prepared for the consequences![]()
I really don't see anything wrong with O checking out her azz. O must be tormented with the fact that even though he is very funny looking, now, as president he could get just about any woman. And he is stuck with that grotesque creature who could play center for the Knicks.She is an embarrassment to the WH. Poor guy.
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