Why does the Obama administration have such disdain for Israel? Next week, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will be in the USA. He asked to meet with Pres. Obama to discuss Iran's goal of becoming a nuclear power. The Obama administration said they do not have time to meet with him --too busy campaigning. BUT, Pres. Obama will have time to appear on the David Letterman Show!
Pres. Barack Obama only attends 44% of his daily security briefings in his first 1,200 days. If you just look at 2011 to 2012 the number drops to 38% !! Pres. Bush almost never missed a daily security briefing. Bush's daily security briefings took place every day at 7 am. Obama's take place at 10:30!
Get your facts straight Mickey (oh, I forgot ... Repubs don't believe in facts)
From the Washington Post:
About the same time, the Republican National Committee and prominent Republicans such as Dick Cheney and John McCain threw another faulty bit of plumbing at Obama: that the president “does not attend his daily intelligence meeting” more than half the time, in contrast to George W. Bush, who “almost never missed his daily intelligence meeting.” This claim was the work of former Bush speechwriter Marc Thiessen, who writes a weekly online column for The Washington Post.
In reality, Obama didn’t “attend” these meetings, because there were no meetings to attend: The oral briefings had been mostly replaced by daily exchanges in which Obama reads the materials and poses written questions and comments to intelligence officials. This is how it was done in the Clinton administration, before Bush decided he would prefer to read less. Bush’s results — Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction, and the failure to find Osama bin Laden — suggest this was not an obvious improvement.
Median Household Income in January 2009 (when Obama became President): $54,983
Median Household Income by June 2012: $50,964
That is a loss of over $4,000 per family.
That is a drop of 7.3% in under 4 years!
That is more than twice the decline of 2.6% that occurred during the recession from December, 2007 until June, 2009.
As the Wall Street Journal summarized in its August 25-26 weekend edition, “For household income, in other words, the Obama recovery has been worse than the Bush recession.”
Except that doesn't scare them. They've created a whole strategy around getting their brains blown out for the cause. In fact, your statement is exactly what they want us to say. It allows them to justify, in their minds, doing what they're doing.
This is why we need someone like Obama in office. He understands the subtleties of foreign affairs. And it's exactly why we don't need a cowboy like Bush or McCain or a bozo like Romney.
Obama understands that this outburst of anti-American protest has nothing to do with the film in question. That's just a convenient excuse for radical groups to instigate new attacks...and on 9/11 of all days...what an amazing coincidence.
Romney, on the other hand, has a strategy of trying to put out fire with gasoline.
Art has a double face, of expression and illusion.
Romney would come from a position of strength. Obama is coming from a position of weakness.
Yes, my "Official statement" was done partly in jest. However, it is showing strength and resolve. The Cairo embassy's statement was a lame attempt at appeasement. Are you SERIOUSLY believing that apologies and appeasements are more effective when dealing with these radical muslims ?? They see that as WEAKNESS.
When I see all those Muslims gathered in front of our embassies, burning our flag and chanting "Death to America", I want to know why we aren't dropping bombs on the mofos! There they are all together in a big group --WIPE THEM OUT! Something tells me that Ambassador Stevens might have preferred THAT to what eventually went down in Libya. These muslims WANT to die for their god?? FINE!! Your wish is GRANTED!! (And that line is right from a Broadway musical!)
A few weeks ago I was challenged to compare the Bush economic record to that of Obama. Instead of doing it all in one massive post, I have been spreading it out bit by bit. Here is my latest
Have you ever had a cactus needle get stuck in your urethra before?
The way you hump that thing, I thought it might be a frequent occurrence.
"TheatreDiva90016 - another good reason to frequent these boards less."<<>>
“I hesitate to give this line of discussion the validation it so desperately craves by perpetuating it, but the light from logic is getting further and further away with your every successive post.” <<>>
-whatever2
"What do you think the consequences of wiping them all out would be?"
A lot of dead American-hating, Jew-hating, women-hating, murderous, radical muslims.
And a lot of living American-hating, Jew-hating, women-hating, murderous radical muslims who are thinking, "Gee, ever tyime we gather to burn their flags and chant our hatred they kill us. Maybe we should stop doing that."
Exactly, Snafu. They don't see death as a threat. They see it as an honor. So threats of death don't work. That's why the Bush/Romney/Mikey mentality fails every time. And the fact that they can't see it is really the biggest failure.
Art has a double face, of expression and illusion.
If death is such an honr, I say we HONOR them by giving it to them. Again, let me ask you in all seriousness, do you REALLY believe that the Obama strategy of "If we are nice to them they'll be nice to us" works?
It seems mikey and Jim have been advocating violence today
Maybe they need a time out.
"TheatreDiva90016 - another good reason to frequent these boards less."<<>>
“I hesitate to give this line of discussion the validation it so desperately craves by perpetuating it, but the light from logic is getting further and further away with your every successive post.” <<>>
-whatever2
Then what IS his strategy?? (BTW, I could easily prove that what I stated in my previous post is indeed Obama's strategy. But if you say it is not, I would really like to know what you think it is.)
"I think the trick is figuring out how do we structure government systems that pool resources and hence facilitate some redistribution because I actually believe in redistribution at least at a certain level to make sure that everybody's got a shot."
Not sure where this "government redistribution" idea is found in the Constitution.
LOL!! Constitution Shmonnstitution! What does it matter?