Obama OK with nuclear energy for Mid-East…Just not the U.S.
In a BBC interview yesterday, Barack Obama reiterated that Iran has a right to pursue peaceful nuclear energy options. 
“Without going into specifics, what I do believe is that Iran has legitimate energy concerns, legitimate aspirations,” Obama said.
Last month in Prague Obama said his administration would “support Iran’s right to peaceful nuclear energy with rigorous inspections.”
In May Obama signed a civilian nuclear deal with the United Arab Emirates (UAE) worth potentially billions of dollars to U.S. energy companies. The plan would make the UAE the first Arab nation with a Nuclear Power industry.
Barack Obama and the Democrats apparently have no problem with selling U.S. nuclear technology to Arab nations or with Mid-East countries pursuing nuclear energy. They just have a problem with building nuclear energy for Americans.
Complements of Barack Obama, the Muslim world gets 21st century nuclear power plants. We get 15th century Dutch windmills.
Why does Lady Justice Wear a Blindfold?
“EQUAL JUSTICE UNDER THE LAW” – These are the words engraved above the main entrance to the Supreme Court Building. The most recognized legal symbol visible in the architecture of the building is the female figure representing Justice.
Blind Justice is the theory that law should be viewed objectively with the determination of innocence or guilt made without bias or prejudice. It is the idea behind the United States Supreme Court motto “Equal Justice Under Law” and is symbolized by the blindfolded statue of Lady Justice which is the symbol of the judiciary.
Describing the sort of “Equal Justice” Supreme Court judge he was looking for, Obama said:
“We need somebody who’s got the heart — the empathy — to recognize what it’s like to be a young teenage mom. The empathy to understand what it’s like to be poor or African-American or gay or disabled or old — and that’s the criteria by which I’ll be selecting my judges.”
Earlier this month Obama said he would nominate a person who combines “empathy and understanding” with an impeccable legal background
“Who understands that justice isn’t about some abstract legal theory or footnote in a case book. It is also about how our laws affect the daily realities of people’s lives.”
That “abstract legal theory” Obama referred to is more commonly known as the United States Constitution, a document he has in the past derided as fundamentally flawed.
A Supreme Court Justice takes the following oath:
- “I, (name), do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will administer justice without respect to persons, and do equal right to the poor and to the rich, and that I will faithfully and impartially discharge and perform all the duties incumbent upon me as (title) under the Constitution and laws of the United States. So help me God.”
Apparently, Barack Obama is seeking a Supreme Court justice who will violate their sworn oath to administer justice impartially. He believes the figure of Justice should lift her blindfold in order to be partial to certain categories of persons.
"USA Today" says Bush focused on Iraq war his first 100 Days
USA Today recently reported on the sharp turn in the first 100 days that Obama has made from the Bush era. Says the USA Today,
In his first 100 days in office, President Obama has not hesitated to chart a different course than his predecessor, George W. Bush. Bush focused on the Iraq war; Obama has placed more of an emphasis on Afghanistan.”
If George W. Bush was focused on the Iraq war in his first 100 days in office, it must have been a war in Iraq started by Bill Clinton. The war in Iraq Bush focused on was the one started March 20, 2003 – some two years after taking office.
Then of course, there is each president’s personal style says USA Today; Obama, “the cool African-American lawyer from Chicago, and the back-slapping white rancher from Texas.” I wonder why USA Today didn’t contrast them as them as Obama, the black community organizer and activist from the south side of Chicago, and Bush, the former governor of Texas and the only president to have earned an M.B.A.
“It’s Mars and Venus,” says Thomas Mann, senior fellow in governance studies at the Brookings Institution, a Washington, D.C., think tank. “It’s hard to find a more different contrast between the presidents.”
I don’t know…let me think about that for a moment. How about the New England patrician George H. W. Bush and the philandering hillbilly from Arkansas for contrast? How about Ronald Reagan, the “Great Communicator” versus the sniveling, whiny peanut farmer from Georgia? How’s that for contrast.
100 Days and Obama is in the Cellar
Today’s Washington Times has this to say:
President Obama’s media cheerleaders are hailing how loved he is. But at the 100-day mark of his presidency, Mr. Obama is the second-least-popular president in 40 years.
According to Gallup’s April survey, Americans have a lower approval of Mr. Obama at this point than all but one president since Gallup began tracking this in 1969. The only new president less popular was Bill Clinton, who got off to a notoriously bad start after trying to force homosexuals on the military and a federal raid in Waco, Texas, that killed 86. Mr. Obama’s current approval rating of 56 percent is only one tick higher than the 55-percent approval Mr. Clinton had during those crises.
As the attached chart shows, five presidents rated higher than Mr. Obama after 100 days in office. Ronald Reagan topped the charts in April 1981 with 67 percent approval. Following the Gipper, in order of popularity, were: Jimmy Carter with 63 percent in 1977; George W. Bush with 62 percent in 2001; Richard Nixon with 61 percent in 1969; and George H.W. Bush with 58 percent in 1989.
It’s no surprise the liberal media aren’t anxious to point out that their darling is less popular than George W. Bush. …The explanation for Mr. Obama’s low approval is that he ran as a moderate but has governed from the far left. The fawning and self-deceiving press won’t go there.
Mr. Obama’s popularity after 100 days is the second-lowest for a simple reason: He is more partisan and divisive than his predecessors – including Richard Nixon.
Useful Idiots Praise Fidel Castro
It is said that Vladimir Lenin called Soviet sympathizers in Western countries “useful idiots” for unwittingly and unknowingly advancing the cause of communism. Cuba’s communist dictator Fidel Castro recently entertained his own group of “useful idiots; or as we are more inclined to call them here in the U.S – Democrat Congressmen.
Six members of the Congressional Black Caucus traveled to Cuba last week to be wined and dined by the fabulous Castro brothers. Brother Raul Castro met with the delegation for four hours. Three of the lucky members got a special invitation to be entertained by Fidel himself in the comfort of his own home.
Rep. Laura Richardson, D-Calif., one of three lawmakers to meet Generalissimo Fidel Castro on Tuesday, said she got the sense that “he really wants President Obama to succeed” in his foreign policy goals. “He sincerely wants an opportunity, I think, in his lifetime to see a change in America.”
Richardson was impressed that Fidel not only her name, but the district she represents. “Castro looked directly into our eyes”, she gushed and he asked, “How can we help President Obama?”
Playing the part of “useful idiot” perfectly, Illinois Democratic Rep. Bobby Rush said he found El Comandante “to be just the opposite of how he’s being portrayed in the media.”
I think what really surprised me, but also endeared to him was his keen sense of humor, his sense of history and his basic human qualities,” a giddy Rush said, adding that at times, the meeting’s participants chatted “like old family members.
“This is the dawning of a new day,” added Rush. “In my household I told Castro he is known as the ultimate survivor.”
Well Congressman, it’s not hard to be the ultimate survivor when your country doesn’t hold elections, anyone who disagrees with you is either shot, hung or sent to Cuba’s equivalent of the Gulag Archipelago; where even a whisper of dissent to your absolute authority results in harassment, beatings and imprisonment.
Unsurprisingly, the Caucus members did not find time to visit any of Fidel’s notorious prisons where since 1959 over 500,000 Cubans have served time for political “offenses.”
Obama Looks at Re-Polluting World to Save It
Let’s hope the good folks in Fargo, Cleveland and Denver are enjoying their winter because the Obama administration announced today that in order to combat global warming it is developing plans to make the world colder.
President Obama’s new science adviser John Holdren told the Associated Press today that one of the options being discussed is shooting pollution particles into the upper atmosphere to reflect the sun’s rays. Holdren said, “It’s got to be looked at. We don’t have the luxury of taking any approach off the table.”
He went on to say he has raised his thoughts on tinkering with the climate in administration discussions.
“Mr. Wizard” did not say whether President Obama also thought tinkering with the climate was a fabulous idea or not.
Holdren said if polluting the atmosphere…wait a minute! Didn’t we just spend hundreds of billions of dollars and thirty or so years to get rid of pollution in the atmosphere? Anyway, Holdren said if polluting the atmosphere doesn’t work, they’re going to cover the planet with artificial trees to suck carbon dioxide out of the air and store it somewhere.
Just curious, but what happens if the Obama administration re-pollutes the atmosphere, sucks all the carbon dioxide out of the air and the next thing you know we’re headed into a new ice age with glaciers advancing on Fargo, Cleveland and Denver? What then Mr. Science Guy?
And I thought the guy who claimed he could turn lead into gold was crazy.
A Kinder, Gentler War on Terror
In a childish attempt to erase “anything Bush”, the Obama administration has reached new heights of asinine liberal political correctness. By executive order the Obama administration has declared the term “War on Terror” will no longer be used. In its place, the administration will now refer to it as “Overseas Contingency Operation.”
At the same time, newly appointed Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano has decreed that acts of terrorism will no longer be called such, but instead will be termed “Man-Caused Disasters.”
If I were one of the family members or friends of the 3,000 slaughtered victims of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, I would be insulted to be told now that they merely died in a “man-caused disaster”
When President Obama briefed Congressional leaders at the White House last week on his plans to send more troops to Afghanistan, Senator Harry “This War is Lost” Reid offered some advice: Whatever you do, he told the president, don’t call it a “surge.”
Last Friday the Obama administration said it would also be abolishing the term “enemy combatant” in describing radical Islamic terrorists who blew up the World Trade Center and are trying to kill U.S. troops in Iraq and Afghanistan. Obama has not thought up a new name yet, but the New York Times did say that the new term would have a requirement that in the future all captured terrorists detainees would have to have “substantially supported” al-Qaeda or the Taliban.
If the only requirement is that a person “substantially supported” al-Qaeda and the Taliban, maybe the new term should be “liberal Democrats”.
The “war on terror” term is obviously not technically correct as “terror” is a tactic. But then no one had any problem recognizing what the “war on terror” meant. “Overseas Contingency Operation” sounds more like some tourist whose luggage got lost while vacationing in Europe.
James Carafano of The Heritage Foundation makes a good point:
By deliberately trying not to use the T word they run a serious political risk. If something does happen, they’ll be accused of taking their eye off the ball and no amount of explanation after the fact will suffice.
The Taliban and al-Qaeda think we’re in a war. Our troops fighting and dying in Iraq and Afghanistan think we’re in a war. Our soldier’s families think we’re in a war. Apparently the only people who do not think we are in a war is the Obama administration.
North Korea Tests Ballistic Missile and Obama
Last Sunday North Korea launched a two-stage Taepodong-2 missile capable of carrying a nuclear warhead. The New York Times called the North Korean missile launch a failure. The Times called it a failure because it didn’t actually blow up something somewhere with a nuclear warhead.
Defense and military analysts however cautioned against calling it a failure noting that the ballistic missile traveled twice as far as any missile the country has launched. The missile traveled over 2,000 miles which places it in striking range of Alaska, Hawaii, California and the West coast.
In one of Joe Biden’s more lucid moments during the last presidential campaign he warned us that “…we’re gonna have an international crisis, a generated crisis, to test the mettle of this guy. They’re going to want to test him, just like they did young John Kennedy. They’re going to want to test him. And they’re going to find out this guy’s got steel in his spine.”
President Obama’s steel-spine response to North Korea’s threatening ballistic missile launch was both swift and bold. He immediately promised begin talks with Russia on cutting back warheads and to seek Senate ratification of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty. Obama then urged the U. N. to pass a resolution condemning the Dear Leader’s irresponsible action. These daring retaliatory actions followed on the heels of slashing the Defense Department budget by over 10% and deep cuts in U.S. missile defense programs.
Kim Jong Il must be quaking in his kimchi.
Gupta Withdraws Name for Surgeon General
Sanjay Gupta says he is no longer in the running to be the nation’s next surgeon general, CNN reported today.
ABC reports that, “Logistical and financial concerns, as well as hiccups in the vetting process, could have played a part, too.”
I wonder how much this guy owes in back taxes?
Different Presidents – A Different Marine Corps
Video of an interesting, but unsurprising, response of United States Marines being addressed by their Commander-in-Chief. When the presidents are leaving, notice the camaraderie and fellowship between Bush and the Marines whereas Obama thanks only the officers and high ranking civilians.
This is reminiscent of the days of Bill Clinton. The military always knows who is “with them” and who is not.
