[obama our lord]

I don’t often have good things to say about former President George W. Bush. But today I want to thank him for the rescue of Captain Richard Phillips, held hostage by Somali criminals and rescued by the U. S. Navy.

The captain was rescued by George W. Bush’s Navy, not Barack Obama’s Navy.


I have never been much of a success as a politician because I insist on telling audiences the truth, even when it goes against popular opinion. The Bush Brothers and I are not friends. And political groups don’t want informed and independent opinion; they want red meat. Life is much more complex. My ultimate loyalty is to the truth, and not to any individual or party. I am a Republican by inclination, but not a Republican “right or wrong.”


That is why today I am alone in all of America’s media in singing the praises of President George W. Bush. He rescued Captain Phillips.

The “Navy” that was able to respond in the Indian Ocean was a navy created by the Bush administration. While Bush may not have maintained as large a navy as I would prefer, he kept our seafaring capabilities at a high level.


Barack Obama wants to devastate the navy, and reduce our fleet to a handful of tugboats and dinghies.


The “navy” that Barack Obama is trying to create with his proposed defense programs would not have been able to rescue Captain Phillips. Think about that for a minute. If Obama had been in office long enough to succeed with his plans for the navy, there would not have been a successful rescue of our hostage captain.


The liberal media, of course, are desperately trying to “spin” the captain’s rescue as a “victory” for the “young commander in chief who had yet to prove himself to his generals or his public.”
www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/04/12/AR20090 ..


Praise is pouring in for “Commander” Obama:

voices.washingtonpost.com/thefix/cheat-sheet/white-house-cheat-s ..


Well, Obama “proved” himself all right. He proved he is an uncertain and unsteady hand on the tiller. Obama wants to gut our defense capability so he can “invest” in welfare checks for illegal immigrants. The navy that he wants to create would lack a global reaction capability.


Obama has said nothing about cleaning out the land-based Somali pirate nests, and he won’t. They are Muslims. He will not become the scourge of the Somali terrorists. Under an “Obamas Navy,” Captain Phillips would have been sitting in captivity for months.


Barack Obama proved he is the new Jimmy Carter.


Obama sent a strong message to both our friends and enemies: when there is a crisis or conflict, he will hide in the White House basement until it is safe to emerge and claim victory. His feckless behavior did not deter future attacks on Americans. He has encouraged them. With each passing day that Obama is in the White House our worldwide military capability is being degraded and decreased.


Congress, are you listening?


And so, today I praise the real hero of yesterday’s victory: President George W. Bush, who kept America militarily strong and left behind a Navy with the capability to rescue Captain Phillips.


Thank you President Bush. Thanks George. During your term in office you took credit for a lot of things that you did not deserve credit for. But today, quietly, you can take credit for leaving behind a U. S. Navy that can respond around the world.


I salute you. And every man and woman in uniform should salute you.
Thank you President Bush for rescuing Captain Richard Phillips.


This is really your day, not Barack Obama’s.

[nobshine]

Post in the Poli forum.

[obama our lord]

http://secondamendmentfreedom.blogspot.com/

oe the Plumber didn't need a teleprompter when he spoke yesterday. If Obama's teleprompters had been there, they would have turned their tails and run away with their cords tucked between their legs, cowering at the sight of 5,000 people who were opposed to Obama policies, and the sight of "Joe the Plumber," who was in Lansing, Michigan to speak at the taxpayer protest tea party. It was on April 15th, 2009, the day that income tax payments were due for everyone who is not a cabinet member of the Obama administration. Governor Granholm said that those who attended tea parties were part of a radical fringe right wing group. Sound familiar? Anyone who has views not those of Obama are in that category.

Tea parties swept the nation, bringing out huge sign carrying crowds nationwide just as Homeland Security tried to discredit the protest the day before with the release of the "report," "Right wing Extremism: Current Economic and Political Climate Fueling Resurgence in Radicalization and Recruitment" by Obama's Homeland Security Department. It was a liberal smear attempt of the day's attendees and an attempt to paint all those who oppose Obama with a wide radical brush.

But it just wasn't "right wing" Republicans who were there. There were Democrats and Independents who believe that wrong is just plain wrong.

People were expressing their rights of free speech and peaceful assembly. They were tired of being pushed around by Obama's big socialist government, pork, and his spending money as fast as he can print it. This mass national turn out coming after just three months of his administration. There has never been such a large protest in the history of the country coming from non liberal gatherings.

It was from the high up on the steps of the Capitol building that "Joe" could see thousands of disgruntled taxpayers. They covered the entire front of the Capitol building grounds from street corner to street corner as they chanted in chorus, "Nobama, Nobama, Nobama," "USA,USA, USA," and "Vote them out, Vote them out." These chants continually interrupted all of the speakers. They couldn't have cheered and yelled louder and more enthusiastically at a Michigan State playoff football game.

One speaker asked all to get out their cell phones as he gave out the main switchboard number of Congress from the podium, and asked he thousands gathered there to enter it and to symbolically push "Send" in unison as they roared their approval. Most people did, and so many people called that many got an error message that said, "Network Busy" as thousands of calls went to Washington simultaneously.

Joe opened his speech by holding up a copy of tax day's USA TODAY and reading this headline to the large crowd, "Most Americans OK with Big Government." He asked the gathering, "Is that the way you all feel today?" You could tell from the crowd's reaction that USA TODAY hadn't asked this crowd their opinion of big government as they expressed their rage and disgust toward Obama policies. Joe also said to the lively crowd that, "I'm here to talk about common sense. Common sense does not die. It does not get old."

One sympathetic Congressmen, Mike Rogers, and State legislators were seen in the crowd in support, but it was not their day. It was the people's day.


Joe the Plumber


Joe motivates the crowd as he speaks from the Michigan Capitol Steps


A small part of the crowd


Another view of part of crowd


The "old" becomes the new

[Brock Landers]

Fuk you

[obama our lord]

The liberal responses to the Tea Party protests can be described as lame, clueless, angry and scared.


First there was the lame attempt to organize a counter protest, but that flopped pretty spectacularly.


When people turned out all over the country in the thousands to attend tea parties, the explanation from critics was that the protests were from "fake" grassroots, not "real" grassroots. Those people didn't get in their cars, take time from work, find parking in downtown cities, show up in the rain, etc. on their own. NOOOOO! Fox News did it all. Fox somehow has control over those people and forced them, against their will, to go to the trouble to make signs, interrupt their normal activities, pack up the kids and their diaper bags and strollers, travel to their nearest tea party site, find a parking space, walk to the protest area and raise their signs and their voices. No wonder they fear Fox so much. Fox's control over their viewers is un-freaking-believable. And Fox is the number one cable channel.



Here's another way Fox opponents are reacting. Lame.

The Teabaggers are convinced that Obama is going to raise their taxes, the result of unsubstantiated Republican claims - repeated over and over again by FOX News anchors - that Obama is going to raise taxes on all Americans.

Obama's Making Work Pay tax cut reduces income taxes for the vast majority of families by $800 this year. The RNC is distorting the truth with the help of ally FOX News, and some misguided Americans are buying it.
Our goal is to let FOX News know that Americans are fed up with their bias and misinformation.
With your help, we will build a coalition which proves that the Teabaggers are not the silent majority but far-right radicals.

Not just lame, but ignorant and uninformed. That is not what the tea parties are about. They are about opposition to our tax money being spent in a reckless, foolish fashion and at an unprecedented rate, tripling the deficit with thousands of earmarks and tons of pork. They are about a bunch of politicians who signed onto a spendulus bill they didn't bother to read and that they rushed through before anyone else had time to read either. They are also about the government taking over private enterprise -- determining the salaries of privately employed individuals, demanding resignations from US executives and even getting into the business of guaranteeing our automobile warranties.

It's not rocket science. Read a few of the signs and you really should "get it." Stop the spending. Get out of our business. Let us keep more of the money we make. Stop the bailouts. Just common sense. Are they really this blind and ignorant or do they just refuse to let their followers know what is really at issue?



Even more lame: Silly, nasty little jokes about "teabagging." If you don't understand the reference you can look it up here where you will also see this definition of a "teabagger:"

2. n. A conservative activist who is so ignorant that they protest against tax cuts (that benefit them) by throwing tea into a river.

Billy Ray cheered while he watched the teabaggers protest on FOX news.

Did any conservatives throw tea into any rivers today? Does any tax that adds thousands of dollars of debt to your grandchildren and gets spent on pork really "benefit" anyone who works for a living? I did an unusual thing tonight that not many people do. I watched Keith Olbermann. He is one of the most clueless of all. He kept trying to make the point that those attending the tea bag protests were stupid because they did not realize that they are really getting so much more for their taxes than they realize. He pointed out that Texans got back a certain amount of cents on every dollar they sent to Washington. This is NOT what the protests are about. Many would gladly turn down those funds coming from Washington (and some governors are doing just that) because they don't want the federal control, or would prefer not to spend their grandchildren's money to bail out Wall Street bankers or people who bought houses they couldn't afford or to make up for the taxes that Obama nominees neglected to pay the IRS. People do like to get government freebies. Heck, they figure they are paying out the rear so they might as well get something to show for it, but I think that mentality is on its way out. Americans are waking up to see the ultimate cost, not just to them, but to their children and grandchildren and to their freedom, is not worth it.


Olbermann is perpetually angry and snide, that's his shtick, but one CNN employee took the cake as the rudest bully I have ever seen masquerading as a reporter. Behold.

Did you catch the recurring theme? The "reporter" tried to tell the protester how much money the Obama administration was giving him. Sigh. They just honestly don't have a clue. It almost makes you feel sorry for them, doesn't it?

[bookie]

Wrong forum.

[ryanXL977]

i guess the army that "liberated" iraq was clintons.

[ATB515]

Obama Our Lord... You and Me. Contest time. You do gamble right?

[obama our lord]

Originally Posted by ATB515

Obama Our Lord... You and Me. Contest time. You do gamble right?

Yes, bet you'd get stiffed for now if you won.

After hitting with Florida on a good underdog on Monday, I proceeded to blow all my money in the Carib Casino.

So I have no gambling funds till next month.

[pimike]

The funny part is 40% of Obama voters are now wishing they didn't vote for him.

[pavyracer]

If McCain and Palin were voted we wouldn't have a country now. Everybody would have boarded ships and planes and gone back to where they came from.