Let's not be beastly to Barry

The Ministry of Truth Mainstream Media have had a pretty rough time lately.  Mr Barack Hussein Obama is unable to run on His dismal domestic record, Obamacare faces overthrow by the Supreme Court, His "smart" diplomacy reaped little except derision, His "shiny object" attacks backfired in spectacular fashion, Romeny refuses to repeat McCain's conceding gracefully instead of fighting and the Wisconsin recall ended in a defeat so bad that His supporters are in denial.

With all of that facing the MSM's Messiah, they have come up with a new strategy:  Howling "Stop being mean to The One!" at their top of their voices with appropriate foot stamping.

Next stop: the MSM catching a dose of reality by discovering that their choice is to turn on Mr Soetoro or go down with him.

The US presidential election just got interesting.

Maybe he IS a Socialist

Gateway Pundit

You must love Big Brother

A "social sciences" teacher in North Carolina screams at a student that criticising or even questioning Mr Barack Hussein Obama is a criminal offence.

Education in America in the 21st century.

Julia

Mr Barack Hussein Obama launches another re-election campaign strategy that revolves around a fictional woman named "Julia", whose life is absolutely tickety-boo because the government hands her everything on a platter.

Mr Soetoro's new campaign slogan?  How about, "Line up for your shackles here"?

If this is Tuesday, it must be Denmark

Obama: The man who turned not giving a damn into an art.

Think that the recent lovefest between Barack Hussein Obama and the traitor David Cameron had a grain of sincerity to it?  Think again.  If you're an ally of the United States, Mr Soetoro's saying that you "punch above your weight" and that you're the USA's "closest and strongest ally" and a dollar fifty will get you a cup of coffee.

If the coffee costs less than a dollar fifty (tax included), of course.

"Special" relationship

All tuckered.

There are things you don't admit to, such as this Telegraph headline:

Barack Obama 'tucked David Cameron up in bed' on Air Force One

No doubt gave him his teddy and read him a story as well.  I hope the ghost of Palmerston appears at the foot of Mr Cameron's bed with rattling chains and shrieks at him.

The article also mentions Roosevelt walking in on Churchill in the bath only for the great man to say,

The British Prime Minister has nothing to hide from the President of the United States.

One thing we can definitely say is that Roosevelt never tucked him.  That's because the President was passed out at the time.  It turns out that on Churchill's first visit, he and Roosevelt sat up late drinking Scotch until Roosevelt slid to the carpet.  The next morning, Eleanor left her room and saw Churchill walking towards the President's bedroom with a bottle in each hand to start the party up again.

On his next visit, Churchill discovered that Elanor in retaliation had Blair House across the street turned into the official residence of visiting dignitaries, so no tucking in opportunities there.

Obama tries to stamp out heresy

Mr Barack Hussein Obama's trampling on religious freedom by demanding that the Catholic church pay for the contraceptives it opposes by doctrine is nearly as bewildering as Mr Soetoro's counterattack when he was called on it.  Glenn Reynolds has the best take on this:

It’s as if we passed a law requiring mosques to sell bacon and then, when people objected, responded by saying “What’s wrong with bacon? You’re trying to ban bacon!!!!

Compare and contrast

Better one or two?

And from a year from now.

And they're ungrateful clingers, too.

Maybe they're just following His example.

Mr Barack Hussein Obama says that Americans are "lazy".

Instapundit says that Mr Soetoro turning out to be the next Jimmy Carter is the best case scenario.  Frankly, I think we're in James Buchanan territory now.

Book tour

The US economy is in tatters, the government is in debt beyond any entity in history, and Mr Barack Hussein Obama spends $38,000 handing out free copies of his memoirs to the Egyptians.

Nice one, Barry!  Does Bill Ayers get a cut for doing the ghost writing?

A recipe for failure

Not buying it, Barry.

Mr Barack Hussein Obama declares victory and announces the complete withdrawal of all US forces from Iraq.

I have seen a lot of tin-eared, cack-handed moves, but even for Mr Soetoro this takes the biscuit.  He's desperately trying to spin this as a triumph and the Guardian is boasting that this puts paid to the Neocon strategy, but that will only work if Mr Dunham and company have total control of the media, which they don't.   The fact is that the US commanders asked to keep at least 14,000 troops in the country and that any withdrawal would be offset by maintaining US bases in country.  However, an inexperienced US president and his inexperienced Secretary of State executed negotiations with the Iraqi government that were so inept that the Americans were lucky not to lose the homeland in the bargain and were asked to leave in toto.

None of this is surprising.  In fact, it's quite to form for Mr Obama.  He's already played the same song in Libya.  Look at his record: Refusing the go after Colonel Khadaffi, then trying to hide behind the pack, violating US law by refusing to seek congressional approval, failing to provide any US interest to justify his actions, claiming that it was purely a humanitarian mission and that removing Khadaffi was never the goal except that it turns out that it was, having "days, not weeks" become eight months, and then ending up with NATO acting as the air support for a load of rebels we know nothing about–except that they've just adopted Sharia as the law of the land.  Now that Khadaffi ends up with the 9 mm pension and Iran has the Best Christmas Present Ever to look forward to, The One has the gall to strut about with his a tinfoil sword and a cocked hat three times too large as if he was the Duke of Wellington.  More than that, his supporters have abandoned any pretence of legality and declare that Might Makes Right.

I was never too fond of Mr George Bush's penchant for nation building.  I thought it was an unnecessary  distraction from the more vital task of destroying the enemy.  It would have been far better if the Coalition had appointed military governors, gone after Iran and Syria in force, and told the Iraqis and Afghans in private that, as with the Germans and Japanese, they'll get self rule when we're convinced they can be trusted and not before.  For all that, Mr Obama makes Bush's strategy look Churchillian by comparison.  If I was this lot, I would stay very quiet because this is all going to come back to bite Barry very hard in some place very soft and sensitive.

Update:  Smart diplomacy reaps its dividends.

How's the revolution going, Barry?

Glen Reynolds has a very good piece on the crybabies Occupiers demonstrating that Mr Barack Hussein Obama is a phenomenal lightweight as a politician.  He threatened to set the mob on Wall Street unless they did what he said.  Three years later, Wall Street made it clear that they were sick of him, so Mr Soetoro unleashed the mob, which turned out to be a load of goalless hippies without an endgame.

Never bring a nappy to a gun fight.

Not surprised

Having decided that his job is too tough, President Barack Hussein Obama quits and hits the road and a snag when his "not really a re-election campaign" campaign bus was burgled and his Teleprompter stolen.

Mr Obama was left speechless.

Update:  Maybe they should look here for the culprits.

Update:  While we're on the topic of those archetypes of civic virtue, Mr Soetoro, maybe before you endorse them, you should see who else is on their side.  I guess our Barry is a uniter after all.

And who are they when the MSM isn't sanitising their image?

Our research shows clearly that the movement doesn’t represent unemployed America and is not ideologically diverse. Rather, it comprises an unrepresentative segment of the electorate that believes in radical redistribution of wealth, civil disobedience and, in some instances, violence. Half (52%) have participated in a political movement before, virtually all (98%) say they would support civil disobedience to achieve their goals, and nearly one-third (31%) would support violence to advance their agenda.

And, of course, there are gems like this. And this. Not quite the Tea Party.

This is what the Political Class has sunk to supporting.  Is Mr Dunham so desperate and out of touch that he truly believes that he can march to re-election by running out ahead of a load of Marxist hippies and pretending that he's their leader?  While being the biggest recipient of Wall Street donations?  That his backers won't notice?

We are deep into Downfall video territory here.  I give it a month before the first one hits Youtube.

Update It looks like his support isn't appreciated.

Update: Gah!  They got the wretched things back!

The apology that never was

Not so much bowing as mooning his own country.

Mr Barack Hussein Obama not only bowed to the Emperor of Japan in flagrant violation of diplomatic protocol, but it turns out that he also wanted to apologise for the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

What's interesting here is that since 2009 we have learned how little Mr Soetoro thinks of his country.  At least he didn't try to apologise for the US Navy shooting back at the Japanese during the Battle of Pearl Harbour.

Even they admit it

Always was one and always will be.

How the empty suits mighty have fallen.  At Newsweek, Mr Barack Hussein Obama goes from a "god" to "he wasn't ready".

Took them long enough.

Update:  Obama's "malaise" moment:

Seriously, in 2008 we elected a community organizer, state senator, college instructor first term senator over a guy who spent five years in a Vietnamese prison. And now he’s lecturing us about how America’s gone “soft”? Really?

Fact check

Really earned that prize.

Reuters needs to do its homework.  In a story where it tries valiantly to portray The One as something other than an utter failure on the diplomatic front, we have this interesting tidbit:

Obama's vision of multilateral diplomacy helped him earn a Nobel Peace Prize after only 11 months in office and made him wildly popular in Europe and elsewhere.

That was 11 days in office when He'd done bugger all about anything except preen His feathers and ask His aides ten times an hour how awesome they thought He was.  

Time must operate differently on Reutersworld.

Ambiguity at the Gray Lady

From the New York Times:

Democrats are expressing growing alarm about President Obama’s re-election prospects and, in interviews, are openly acknowledging anxiety about the White House’s ability to strengthen the president’s standing over the next 14 months.

Given Barry's record and what it did for them in 2010, I'm beginning to wonder if they're worried that he won't be re-elected or that he will.

When the safeties come off

Après moi, le déluge

Mr Barack Hussein Obama urges the Pentagon, which says that it might be able to cope with only 10,000 troops in Iraq, to make do with, not a typo, 3,000.  That's hardly enough to guard the bases.

What is significant about this is that it's the first proof I've come across that Barry Soetoro doesn't expect to be in the White House in 2013.  Up until now, his policy toward Iraq and Afghanistan has been one of benign neglect of the US armed forces.  He doesn't give a monkey's flatulence about either campaign and regards the military as a piggy bank that he'd raid in a blink if he could get away with it, but The One knows that it would be political suicide to end up labelled as the man who lost the war.  This is why things have gone as well as they have for the past three years.  Barry doesn't care, so, for want of any actual foreign policy,  he follows the old Bush strategy and lets the generals do as they feel best.  That is, until now.  If the Light Worker thinks that he's out of a job after the election, then why hold back?  Let's have some sweet revenge served up piping hot.

The Republicans had better be ready for some major barricading over the next year because I can't think of anything more dangerous than a lame duck Barry.

Call my bluff

If you're bluffing, it's usually wise not to tell your opponent that.

It's even wiser not to then dare him to call it.

Put the pipe down, Steve.

Mr Stephen Marche over at Esquire makes the best case ever against legalising drugs.