I just had a thought. There's already a Vegas version of the Empire State Building, the Statue of Liberty and the Luxor pyramid. Why not a White House casino and entertainment center? It could include Obama animatrons making speeches, apologizing to Islamists, bowing to Arab royalty, and holding beer summits. Well, back to the topic.
Where better to mourn the death of four Americans and plan foreign policy than at a fundraising hip-hop event in Las Vegas? According to another stellar performer, Michelle Obama, the president doesn't need to be at the White House for major world events. She knows that The One dwarfs Thomas Jefferson in intellect and ability to absorb huge amounts of written material without any assistance. So having an encyclopedic knowledge of everything, including national security issues, can be done just as easily in Las Vegas as in Washington DC.
At the rally in Vegas, Barack Obama, foreign-policy-master-in-chief, said a few kind and dour words about the crisis in the Middle East, then joined the crowd in mutual chanting: “We love you.” “I love you.” “No, WE love You.” “No, I love YOU!” I haven't seen that much professed love since I accidentally wandered into the middle of a love-in in San Francisco in the 60s. Much finger-pointing at each other, and big grins and cheers. Apparently the crowd decided the crisis in the Middle East was already over. So did the Big Guy.
President Obama has attended fewer White House daily briefings than any former president in a comparable period of time. But he doesn't need to. The White House staff says that The One doesn't need to waste his time meeting with his national security advisers for the Presidential Daily Briefing (PDB) because “he is one of the most sophisticated consumers of intelligence on the planet.” They took their lead from statements Obama himself made earlier: “I think that I'm a better speechwriter than my speechwriters," Mr. Obama told Patrick Gaspard, his political director, at the start of the 2008 campaign, according to The New Yorker. "I know more about policies on any particular issue than my policy directors. And I'll tell you right now that I'm going to think I'm a better political director than my political director.” Advisers? I don't need no stinking advisers!
That's one of the things I like most about Barack Obama. His modesty. As president, he doesn't need to participate in security briefings because he's so damned smart. Just like he didn't have to participate in any learned treatises while he was the editor of the Harvard Law Review. He doesn't need to communicate with others. He just knows. As the First Lady aptly pointed out, “he doesn't need to meet with the advisers because he reads every word, every memo, so he is better-prepared than the people briefing him.” Then she added “This man doesn't take a day off.” She forgot to add “except when he's golfing, loafing on Martha's Vineyard, surfing in Hawaii, or rapping in Las Vegas.”
Obama and his gang still seem to think that the Middle East riots are being caused by a half-assed video re-released on the internet in Jihadistan just before 9-11 (2012, not 2001). Maybe the daily briefs and memos were accidentally left behind at the White House (along with his advisers), so he hasn't read them all. It's hard to totally absorb a security brief that you haven't seen yet.
President John F. Kennedy once addressed a White House dinner honoring Nobel Prize laureates by saying that the dining room was filled with the greatest collection of human knowledge and talent in history, except for when Thomas Jefferson dined there alone. Well, move over JFK, you never got a load of Barack Obama.
Obama will return briefly to the White House (probably to devour all those national security briefings and ready his plans to save the world), and will then move on to the UN in New York for the latest gathering of cutthroats, dictators, international bureaucrats, and Islamist women's rights advocates. He has such a busy schedule that he simply won't be able to squeeze in a meeting with our only democratic ally in the Middle East, Benjamin Netanyahu, Prime Minister of Israel. After all, as soon as he's done with the UN gang, he has to rush to the CBS studios to meet with his other national security adviser, David Letterman.
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Didn't Beyonce dance or sing for Qaddaffi.....
There would be irony in that somewhere
LawHawk,
I thought Obama was racing to see Bill Maher. You know, the other adviser on everything. Did they change the meeting time? Man, no one tells me anything!
It's about the election, and the mainstream media doesn't plan to call him on anything, no matter how outrageous. How do the mandarins at MSNBC explain why given Israeli concern about the near completion of a nuclear weapon that the Israeli prime minister can't get an audience with the American president because President Barack Obama is booked on the David Letterman show? At the same time, the Obama White House invited Muslim Brotherhood President Morsi of Egypt to meet this coming week.
So the Libyan President says that the attacks were premeditated and planned; our UN US Amb. Rice says they were "spontaneous".
Why do I believe the Libyan President over our own officials?
Oh, and Amb. Rice says "we are not impotent". If she has to say that, then we are...
What they don't want to have to admit they had prior warnings and did not heed the warnings...just like they accuse Bush of doing about 9/11.
And the fact the Obama couldn't give up one night of fundraising while our Embassies are burning says everything. Wouldn't a better fundraising strategy be that Obama had a crisis that he was handling like a true leader so he had to NOT attend, but go ahead and enjoy yourselves anyway. Nope, can't stop the fundraising for a silly international crisis and dead Ambassadors. I think Nero did that too, didn't he?
I still can't believe Obama actually said that. Who has that kind of an ego? More to the point, who's stupid enough to denigrate his own team like that? I mean, while Dubya may not be the most popular guy, can anyone imagine him saying those things? Heck, can anyone imagine McCain saying them? God, save us from the egomaniacs.
You know, T-Rav, a real leader hires people who he considers SMARTER and MORE CAPABLE than he/she is. And it's his job to get the best out of them. What does it REALLY say about Obama because according to him everyone is stupid compared to him. That's a whole lot of stupid.
Again, speaking of stupid, has anyone noticed that Biden has become a non-entity. It's Obama 2012, not Obama/Biden 2012...
LawHawk and Bev, it occurred to me once that Obama aspires to be the Pharaoh in The Ten Commandments, setting policy with a wave of his hand and a "So let it be written, So let it be done." If only, right, Barack?
McCain actually cam to bat for our side on this one.
He said most people don't briong rocket propelled grenades to their political demonstrations......
Scares me that the media can cover up this obvious lie.
Indi, as you know, Mitt Romney opened his mouth to say something about the attacks and to criticize Obama, and thereby kept the media from talking about the attacks themselves. It's really his fault.
Maybe--and I'm just spit-balling here--maybe Barack has his Jeffersons confused. I mean, movin' on up to the White House totally trumps a deluxe apartment in the sky. And let's face it, even though George J. was no dummy, it sure wasn't hard to pull one over on him when the comedic timing was there.
LawHawk,
I think Mark Steyn is right. If a novelist had proposed a situation where the President goes off to a fundraiser in Las Vegas right after an ambassador and three others are killed in a far off country, the editor would have said that was too far fetched. The writer might get away with it if he said Des Moines.
Almost everything the President has done lately is despicable in a fantastic way. If this Presidency was pitched as a movie, the writer would have been handed his head as being a cliched hack writer. I guess reality is stranger than fiction.
Obama not letting the Embassy attacks disrupt the important business of fundraising was pathetic.
Based on my admittedly brief time in Peshawar back in 1995 its plausible that the anti-Islam film is what spurred the violent protests across the region (the makers of the film recently translated it into Arabic and to ice the cake propagated the lie it was backed by wealthy Jews). Also I'm willing to bet diamonds to doughnuts that the media and the clergy in the region has happily poured fuel onto the fire. Possibly the presence of lots of heavily armed men in Benghazi and a consulate which doesn't sound like it was built with defense in mind were a bad combo, but it's also possible Al Queda or an imitator had been planning the attack for a while.
Whether it was planned or not does not excuse the fact that it happened and that it shouldn't have. One doesn't lock one's door only if one knows that someone is going to try to break into your home that night.
Am I the only one disturbed by the government's investigation of the filmmaker? Perhaps he technically violated his parole, but this isn't the sort of thing the government would have worried about in other circumstances. Even the appearance of censorship should be avoided because it just encourages more violent reactions to offenses most others would shrug off.
I have been dismayed with this presidents actions, non-actions and behaviors since he was running for office first time around. I had a feeling he wasn't going to be a good president, yet I thought he would just be amateurish, feckless. I did not believe that this country, and it's associated institutions, would allow someone to embarass and denigrate the office and our country to the extent it has become criminal.
Where is the "opposition party" throughout all this?! Why haven't impeachment proceedings been started? The is more than enough to question the legality of many of this ass-clowns administrations actions.
I never thought it would get to this point though, that a US President would not give a damn about US security, and his own Ambassadors even, that he would act in such a callous, incompetent manner.
Didnt someone say at the beginning of his term that he hopes he fails? Well, they got their wish. He has failed..epically.
Anthony, your comment is the first I heard of the filmmaker being investigated. (Apologies if I missed another comment upthread.) Would you supply a link to more info b/c, yes, that concerns me greatly.
tryanmax,
Where have you been? Obama's brownshirts had the guy arrested shortly after midnight on Saturday. The media were camped out. Didn't you see the picture on Drudge? A guy with his head wrapped in a towel like the invisible man?
Instapundit called for Obama to resign. He gives a really good explanation.
Joel, That's the problem with weekend stories, they sometimes slip by even the tuned-in folks like me. I plead exhaustion related to preschoolers. I even slept* through the Sunday show this week.
(*by "slept" I mean, I allowed my kids to jump on my head while I laid motionless on the couch.)
tryanmax,
Here is one recent(ish) article.
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The probation department is reviewing the case of Nakoula, who was previously convicted on bank fraud charges and was banned from using computers or the Internet as part of his sentence. The review is aimed at learning whether Nakoula violated the terms of his five-year probation.
Karen Redmond, a spokeswoman for the administrative office of the U.S. courts, confirmed Friday the review is under way.
Federal authorities have identified Nakoula, a self-described Coptic Christian, as the key figure behind "Innocence of Muslims," a film denigrating Islam and the Prophet Muhammad that ignited mob violence against U.S. embassies across the Middle East. A federal law enforcement official told The Associated Press on Thursday that authorities had connected Nakoula to a man using the pseudonym of Sam Bacile who claimed earlier to be writer and director of the film.
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/09/15/feds-interview-california-filmmaker-la-sheriff-says/#ixzz26jm5BYPr
Anthony, thanks for the link. I agree that no one would give a wit if there wasn't some connection to the video that allegedly sparked the 9/11 violence.
The full article is long on speculation and very short on facts. From it, all that is certain is that Nakoula is prohibited from using the internet and he has a vaguely defined connection to the production of a film that appears on the internet, but there are no lines between the dots.
tryanmax,
I understand. Such is life. :-) What really is being lost is the way Obama did it may have saved the poor SOB's life. The man says he won't go back to his house, and his current picture isn't very revealing. He still is invisible to the world.
The man has a criminal past which he violated by being on line. He would have fallen through the cracks except for this video.
Andrew said that hating TOTUS was still allowed under the new Commentarama Civility on the Interwebs Rules - so,
Oh, how I HATE that man!!!!!!!!
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