Obama: “The buck stops with me”
posted at 5:44 pm on January 7, 2010 by Ed Morrissey
John Ziegler says in an e-mail that Barack Obama sounded a lot more like Dick Cheney than himself in this crisp and broad statement. This was an all-business, no-nonsense rundown that gave a solid impression of action, as opposed to the low-key approach to the terrorist attack attempt over the last two weeks. Obama dispenses with the “system worked” excuse to emphasize the obvious, which is that having to have airline passengers dive onto Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab to keep him from detonating a bomb on the plane is a failure. And that failure, Obama said, is one for which the man in charge has to accept responsibility. This is longish, but the statement begins at about the 1:40 mark:
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“I am less interested in passing out blame than I am in learning from and correcting these mistakes to make us safer. For ultimately, the buck stops with me. … When the system fails, it is my responsibility.”
Exactly. Most people don’t care about Rs and Ds when it comes to making the nation safe. They just want the job done competently. When things go wrong, they want to see action and a sense of responsibility for the breakdown. On that score, Obama did well by stating the obvious very firmly, although it would have been better to hear that kind of approach on December 25th, not January 7th.
The part where Ziegler thinks Obama channeled Cheney comes immediately afterward, where Obama states explicitly that we are a nation at war, not a nation facing a crime wave. Perhaps now he will approach terrorists as unlawful combatants rather than criminals captured on the streets.
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I watched the speech live and before the “buck stops” line he did some buck passing of a fashion. While admittedly from that line on he sounded stronger than ever it didn’t impress much because he doesn’t have a history of showing he really understands it. In fact,when I started watching he was already talking, camera tight on his face but I could tell he was using TOTUS due to that head swivel and his very fast delivery (undermining that he truly got what he was saying even though he tries to pause with his serious face on from time to time to try and act like he’s in charge).
I will say this, the fact the he finally—and to a lesser extent Brennan a short while later, though I’d expect him to do so before Obama—articulated the threat as Bush always correctly did, as Muslims acting out their twisted beliefs, DID impress. Dragged kicking and screaming, practically, but for our safety I’ll take it for the moment.
At any rate, this was just brought to my attn via Twitter:
Also, Bill O’Reilly, one inclined to give Obama the benefit of the doubt, just got through really tearing today’s speech apart.
KittyLowrey on January 7, 2010 at 8:32 PM
He got all gussied up for this speech. He wore a tie, and he told another lie.
mobydutch on January 7, 2010 at 8:41 PM
Here is an exercise in trying to find some good in a president who I believe, so far, to be the greatest failure since Ulysses S. Grant – and with not one nth the character:
Maybe, just maybe, ironically, the one thing that may save him, and us, from total disaster, is his Ego.
Obama cannot have ignored the wave of revulsion sweeping America in reaction to the first year of his presidency. Above all else, Obama wishes to be revered. I think that yes, this may even trump his left-wing ideology. In this respect, he and Bubba are much alike.
Hoping against hope, what I hope to see is Obama finally realizing that all his artsy-fartsy Chicago crap is not cutting it. And I hope to see him finally buckling down to the hard slog of the presidency and busting some chops around the world that need busting. Let this be the first step.
Yes, I want him gone in 2012, if not before. But still – we all have to survive until then! In that respect, I wish Obama well…. I wish him an epiphany – a realization that Bush and Cheney weren’t so full of it when it came to the War on Terror.
cane_loader on January 7, 2010 at 8:43 PM
“When the system fails, it is my responsibility.”
If Obama means what he says, responsibility would require that Obama fire someone. We’ve had THREE terrorist attacks (the attack at Ft.Hood and the underware bomber involved the SAME AQ leader, Alawki; and no one in this admin caught the connection??!).
“The buck stops with me” is just another lie straight from Obama’s “C-Span cameras will roll” campaign slogans.
TN Mom on January 7, 2010 at 8:45 PM
And here is someone who is totally p*ssed at the lawyerly spin of the latest ObaMao shamwow speech. ObaMao is totally clueless.
http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=Yzk3NGZmNjBkZmVlZDY2YTBmY2Q1NThmM2RjMDZlODc=
onlineanalyst on January 7, 2010 at 8:48 PM
TN Mom-
You make a good point. If Obama would make a big statement by firing Janet Napolitano and whatshisname who kept skiing after the bombing attempt, he would send a message to the bureaucracy. This would gain him some credit with me. I just want to see the buck stop SOMEwhere, and until he fires some people for this, yes, he’s full of it.
cane_loader on January 7, 2010 at 8:48 PM
OK so if we’re at war why are these enemy soldiers being tried in a civvie court?
Also, your strategy for fighting a war has to be more than just prosecuting the enemy if you catch them, and then letting them go to kill again.
Alden Pyle on January 7, 2010 at 8:49 PM
I can’t believe I find myself rooting for Obama at all, but he needs to succeed somewhere, somewhen. This never-ending Mr.Toad’s-Wild-Ride of a presidency is scaring me.
cane_loader on January 7, 2010 at 8:50 PM
Too nice. I want the little pretty boy gone, STAT, and his little dog, Boo, too.
Alden Pyle on January 7, 2010 at 8:54 PM
cane_loader on January 7, 2010 at 8:48 PM
Words mean something! Where are the “deeds” to back up his slogans??
TN Mom on January 7, 2010 at 8:55 PM
Obama: Man of Words.
reaganaut on January 7, 2010 at 8:56 PM
Ooops. So much for his speech in Cairo…
TN Mom on January 7, 2010 at 8:57 PM
We all know what this speech was about. We’re a little over a month away from the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize Award nomination deadline.
Left Coast Right Mind on January 7, 2010 at 9:00 PM
President Pantywaist, set to pounce! He officially refers to these unfortunate vacation interruptions as “terrorism”. Bravo! I feel so much safer now. Now I understand – Maobama inherited this terror attack from George Boosh because the crotch bomber and other Yemeni AQ suspects have been under surveillance for years. I don’t understand why this is Boosh’s fault, but I might be a confused RAAACIST for even questioning that logic.
I mean, just because a terrorist never succeeded in detonating a crotch bomb while Boosh was in office has nothing to do with Obama being perceived as weak and a sniveling coward.
Philly on January 7, 2010 at 9:02 PM
Krauthammer was on fire tonight. That man is a genius and is “can’t miss” tv at my house.
-Aslan’s Girl
Aslans Girl on January 7, 2010 at 9:07 PM
I received an e-mail tonight that really hit home. It recounted how Oliver North was being grilled by the Senate in 1987:
He was being drilled by a senator, ‘Did you not recently spend close to $60,000for a home security system?’
Ollie replied, ‘Yes, I did, Sir.’
The senator continued, trying to get a laugh out of the
audience, ‘Isn’t that just a little excessive?’
‘No, sir,’ continued Ollie.
‘No? And why not?’ the
senator asked.
‘Because the lives of my family and I were threatened,
sir.’
‘Threatened? By whom?’ the senator
questioned.
‘By a terrorist, sir’ Ollie answered.
‘Terrorist? What terrorist could possibly scare you that much?’
‘His name is Osama bin Laden, sir’ Ollie replied.
At this point the senator tried to repeat the name,
but couldn’t pronounce it, which most people back then
probably couldn’t. A couple of people laughed at the attempt.
Then the senator continued. Why are you so afraid of this man?’ the senator asked.
‘Because, sir, he is the most evil person alive that I know of’, Ollie answered.
‘And what do you recommend we do about him?’ asked the
senator.
‘Well, sir, if it was up to me, I would recommend that an
assassin team be formed to eliminate him and his men from the face of the earth.’
The senator disagreed with this approach, and that was all that was shown of the clip.
By the way, that senator was Al Gore!
cane_loader on January 7, 2010 at 9:08 PM
Obama did the right thing saying he is ultimately responsible. Obama and all his cronies seemed to thing Bush was faking the war on terror.
Well now he knows–nobody put the thermometer on a light bulb to stay home from school!
The war on terror is real. And if people die it is Obama’s policies and attitudes that allowed it.
Two major attacks since he came into office. And zero for the nearly eight years prior.
I miss Bush.
We aren’t safe with Obama in the whitehouse.
I thought he sounded just like Bush. Only not as sincere.
petunia on January 7, 2010 at 9:09 PM
Something so serious as national security, and Obama ‘borrows’ a phrase from Truman ‘The Buck Stops Here’. Pathetic.
TN Mom on January 7, 2010 at 9:10 PM
I love HotAir, but it’s really, really lame that my whole comment just got eaten because the language filter didn’t like how Oliver North explained to Al Gore about Osama bin Laden in 1987 during the Senate hearings. Now I have to type the whole thing over again. I can understand filtering certain words, but when it’s quoting words from a Senate hearing the filter is getting in the way of the truth.
cane_loader on January 7, 2010 at 9:12 PM
Sorry to say, but it will take far more than this statement to convince people/citizens to believe you, bama. Far too little; far too late! Your great presidential expectations have been truncated by your inept actions and such is your legacy!
jgdp on January 7, 2010 at 9:14 PM
I ain’t re-typing it.
Long and short of it – Al Gore asked Ollie North what to do about bin Laden. North told him straight up, to a$$es$ine8 him.
cane_loader on January 7, 2010 at 9:15 PM
I hope you’re right, but.
He got backed into a corner by the underwear guy and the public reaction.
He had no choice but to speechify in order to stop the bad PR he was getting.
Plus he is trying to immunize himself against massive political fallout from any future successful terrorist attacks.
His only epiphany was that a real terrorist attack is going to make him look very bad.
justltl on January 7, 2010 at 9:16 PM
Like I said before, Bush had a mess inherited to him. He was successful with the War on Terror ONLY because he was committed from day one when we were attached on 9/11 and that he was allowed to treat the war as a war and not a “crime spree” by the courts. Now Obama has the most difficult task of all. To win this war with a newly changed view on how we conduct a war by the courts that his party fought for years to change. I can’t see how this can be done with him in office without Obama “re-inventing” himself.
Electrongod on January 7, 2010 at 9:17 PM
Link the piece and you won’t have that problem. Just state what the link is.
thomasaur on January 7, 2010 at 9:17 PM
Of course, in 1987, no one believed that “Kam0L chockeys” could attack the Pentagon
cane_loader on January 7, 2010 at 9:18 PM
thomasaur,
thanks -I can’t link it, as it’s in an e-mail – corroborated by my own memory watching the hearings
cane_loader on January 7, 2010 at 9:18 PM
Y’all should have heard my 36-y.o. doctor today – he saw me reading the Wall Street Journal and a picture of Pelosi and then spent 15 minutes going OFF on ObamaCare BEFORE we discussed my medical issue! I gave him this website and others – he said every time he thinks about it he gets so angry he doesn’t know what to do. I told him to spread the word at how angry he is and to vote out all Democrats. We both agreed to put on our hoods and throw Mary Landrieu in the bayou
cane_loader on January 7, 2010 at 9:21 PM
A lot of leaders knew it was a time bomb. I distinctly remember Orin Hatch saying that there was real trouble brewing with a guy named Osama Bin Laden, before 9-11 ever happened. It eerily comes back to me… sort of haunting.
petunia on January 7, 2010 at 9:22 PM
Obama: “The buck stops
with mein my pockets.” That’s what he was thinking anyway.ray on January 7, 2010 at 9:23 PM
Roger that.
thomasaur on January 7, 2010 at 9:24 PM
I will believe Obama is serious when he decides to turn the terrorists over to the military, when he shuts down the show trial to be held in NY, and when he says GITMO is a great place to store war criminals.
mobydutch on January 7, 2010 at 9:25 PM
Yeah, in hindsight, Reagan, after seeing the bullet Ollie took for him, should have quietly had the job done January 19, 1989. Woulda saved us a lot of hurt
cane_loader on January 7, 2010 at 9:25 PM
Oh well that’s all made better by an hour they are going to stage for C-span. Obamacare all better.
petunia on January 7, 2010 at 9:25 PM
I understand the sentiment but… the hood thing is kind of creepy.
petunia on January 7, 2010 at 9:27 PM
At least Peloser and Screed and crew should put on a 1-hour musical extravaganza for us. Link arms and kick those legs.
Featured artists:
Tap dancing duo appetizer: Olympia Snowe and Mary Landrieu
The passion of ObamaChrist: Ben “Judas Iscariot” Nelson
Ham-let and matzo balls: Joe Lieberman
Scrooge: Harry Reid
Cruella DeVille: Nancy Pelosi
Closing Act: 535 reps in a rousing rendition of “We’re In The Money!”
Coda: KKK Byrd left alone on stage drooling in a dimming white spotlight, playing the Jew’s Harp as he awaits his minder.
cane_loader on January 7, 2010 at 9:32 PM
I wonder if he was aware of the large cuts that occurred in Medicare reimbursement rates as of 1/1/2010 (and which will undoubtedly soon be followed by private insurance companies).
I think that most docs aren’t aware of that yet.
justltl on January 7, 2010 at 9:32 PM
Petunia:
Forgot the sarc tag – figured most would get the joking reference to liberal caricatures of the South. Sorry!
cane_loader on January 7, 2010 at 9:33 PM
Any doctors on here?
If so, are y’all aware of the reimbursement cuts?
Especially for specialists?
justltl on January 7, 2010 at 9:36 PM
The final failsafe to thwart ObamaCare has to be ALL physicians in America (except E.R. and critical care) going on a one-day strike.
One day’s inconvenience now to the patients could save a lot of pain later
cane_loader on January 7, 2010 at 9:38 PM
Oops, sorry for the unintentional thread hi-jack.
Darn right, the buck stops with the Prez. No looking over your shoulder Barry, we’re looking at you!
cane_loader on January 7, 2010 at 9:39 PM
He waits two weeks to find his compass, and then only after the populace if furious and they know that if something really happens, they’re chickenshit for real.
His ineptness and all of theri incompetence is going to put them under, hopefully before we’re going that way.
Then he says “the buck stops here”
Then “but no one will be held to account and fired”
His pants are full of something of the color and consistency of mustard.
Schadenfreude on January 7, 2010 at 9:57 PM
Now if he had memorized those lines and looked at the camera while saying them he may have convinced someone out there that he meant those words.
agmartin on January 7, 2010 at 10:01 PM
Harry Truman was responsible for the fact that a world war was ended by nuclear power.
And Barak Hussein Obama is on the path to doing the same thing.
logis on January 7, 2010 at 10:05 PM
Well, the filter belatedly let my comment through, some time later. I wonder if it was in mediation? This always seems to happen with certain strong words- the comment disappears long enough for me to say something, then appears 30 minutes later. Didn’t mean to cry about how lame it was that the comment disappeared, but I wonder where I could find a list of unacceptable words, so that I can save Ed and/or AP the hassle of mediation?
cane_loader on January 7, 2010 at 10:06 PM
That would be freakin’ sweat if someone connected Palin’s facebook page directly to his teleprompter.
DrAllecon on January 7, 2010 at 10:08 PM
ON JANUARY 5, SARAH PALIN POSTED IN HER FB NOTE:
“It’s a war, not a crime spree.”
ON JANUARY 7, THIS FAKE PRESIDENT OBAMA PLAGIARIZED THE SAME LINE:
“We are a nation at war, not a nation facing a crime wave.”
GOSH. TOTUS/FAKE POTUS IS TAKING A CUE FROM THE PEOPLE’S GOVERNOR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
GEESH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
TheAlamos on January 7, 2010 at 10:09 PM
We’ve been living with them in Medicare and Medicaid for years now. Every year reimbursement is cut further and further until physicians that have a choice accept Medicare and Medicaid less and less.
It will only get worse.
DrAllecon on January 7, 2010 at 10:10 PM
after being dragged to it. Obama admits he is the head of the government. You want to see a real leader check this out:
Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Pain is turning down an invitation to speak at one high-profile conservative gathering while accepting another.
Palin is declining an invitation to address the Conservative Political Action Conference next month because, a source said, she does not want to be affiliated with the longtime organizer of the traditional movement confab.
At issue is the role of David Keene, head of the American Conservative Union which organizes CPAC. In September, POLITICO reported that Keene asked FedEx for between $2 million and $3 million to get the group’s support in a bitter legislative battle with rival UPS.
A source close to the Palin camp says that request led to a decision to stay away from the upcoming CPAC conference, calling it a forum that will place “special interests over core beliefs” and “pocketbook over policy.”
“That’s not what CPAC should be about and people are tiring,” the source said. “Palin is taking a stance against this just as she did in Alaska.” (emphasis added)
http://www.conservatives4palin.com/ via Politico(not linking them because of malware attacks in the past from politico website)
unseen on January 7, 2010 at 10:12 PM
I bet Obama installed his “Buck-Master 5000″
J_Crater on January 7, 2010 at 10:12 PM
Now I yam a man.
Yeah right
A day late and a dollar short.
Dhuka on January 7, 2010 at 10:14 PM
I had a discussion with a hardcore Dem ex-friend during ~2006-07, how the surge was necessary in Iraq. He refused to see it, so I kept on a line of questioning about what would happen if we had a second, bigger, 9/11.
His opinion boiled down to:
“I don’t want to send more troops to Iraq and it was the wrong war and they should come home and we are evil and killing civilians. But if they set off a dirty bomb we should nuke the whole Mid-East.”
Though I tried to convince his that his prior weakness would necessitate the later harshness, he couldn’t see it.
What frightens me about people like him is that they are squishy and refuse to make any hard decision until pushed into a corner. Then they lash out like a rabid dog.
In the same way, Obama’s weakness may well lead to an attack on America that leads to our launching our first nuclear strike since 1945. Reminds me a lot of Kennedy, Obama does.
Watch the movie, “13 Days,” if you haven’t. I’m no Kennedy lover, but it really portrays the whole 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis pretty well. Also puts Bobby Kennedy in his place. Shows what happens when an inexperienced president is forced to face his own inexperience .
cane_loader on January 7, 2010 at 10:14 PM
Anyone taken in by his line of bullshit is an idiot. Everything he does is with fingers crossed behind his back, and every promise with an expiration date. He lied about transparency in government, he lied about wanting to win the war in Afghanistan, he lied about health care, he lied about taxes, he lied about being a Christian, he lied about being centrist, he lied about being the one to make tough calls, he lied about military tribunals, he lied about the circumstances of his birth (Dr. King’s march), he lied about his rabid, wild eyed, foaming-at-the-mouth bat sh-t craze for abortion. If you people suddenly find this scripted horse sh-t credible, HotAir has gone the way of Little Green Footballs, and I wash my hands of you. Why don’t you just replace Malkin with Garofolo, and get it over with.
Virus-X on January 7, 2010 at 10:18 PM
Haha. He has lied about darn near everything, hasn’t he?
I’m hoping that his regard for his own legacy leads him, however grudgingly, to buckle down.
After all, America does need to survive long enough to vote him out of office in ’12. All the anti-birthers here and in the MSM and everywhere else already threw away the chance to get him out earlier, though it’s obvious that whatever he’s hiding is enough to bring him down.
cane_loader on January 7, 2010 at 10:22 PM
” I am going to give myself a grade , but like the rest of my grades I am going to keep it secret .”
borntoraisehogs on January 7, 2010 at 10:23 PM
I believe NOTHING this liar says. It doesn’t matter if he tries to sound all “buck stops here tough beta”, it’s too little too late. The buck stopped with berri 1-20-09 but the entire year was spent blaming Bush and hating America.
It is not in the nature of our IslamicCommunist Traitor-in-Cheif to be anything but an IslamicCommunist Traitor-in-Cheif. And forget his words. Watch his dark and twisted deeds.
And anyone on this site who thinks otherwise and gives this Benedict Arnold (my apolgies to Benedict) one scintilla of credit for ANYTHING is smoking something that I NEVER want any of.
tigerlily on January 7, 2010 at 10:25 PM
We know that is where he wants our bucks to stop! Will he really do anything, I think not as he already gave himself time before he has to report back on this. He is counting on those 30 days for people to just forget about it. Sadly, knowing MSM and the general public he is probably correct.
bluemarlin on January 7, 2010 at 10:29 PM
DAMNED STRAIGHT.
Virus-X on January 7, 2010 at 10:32 PM
In keeeping with the IslamicCommunist’s statement that this is war and these terrorists are not criminals, let’s see if the Traitor-in-Cheif vows to keep Gitmo open, remands KSM back to the military tribunals along with underwearboy and vows to stop threatening Bush’s CIA agents with prosecution.
Let’s also see if he revokes his own recent executive order that gives INTERPOL the right to arrest US citizens on US soil and detain and try them under global laws. Hmmm. Sounds like Berri is hoping maybe INTERPOL will bag themselves a GW Bush, with a Cheney on the side.
tigerlily on January 7, 2010 at 10:32 PM
Does this mean he’s going to take back the miranda warning from Abdulmutallab and treat this as a terrorist act not a criminal act? Only took a year for him to wake up. Can’t listen, so did he blame Bush or not? Still waiting to hear if all vacations have been canceled.
Kissmygrits on January 7, 2010 at 10:32 PM
Tigerlily-
AT some point one reaches a basic fork in the road.
1. Obama is intentionally trying to destroy America.
2. Obama’s upbringing and associates influenced him to the point where his instincts are almost always wrong, and he has surrounded himself with deluded fellow travelers.
If you believe #1, then Obama will have no regard for his legacy and try to crash America like the Egypt Air 767 suicide co-pilot. If you believe #2, then at some point Obama will see the polls and try to save his “legacy.”
I lean toward #2. I certainly hope that this is the case. To think that it’s #1 means at some point he will have to be dragged out of the White House and tried for treason, and I cringe at the thought of the blood and chaos involved in dragging an unwilling president out of 1600 Pennsylvania who is purposely trying to sink the ship of state. Nixon didn’t put us through that.
cane_loader on January 7, 2010 at 10:33 PM
tigerlily on January 7, 2010 at 10:25 PM
DAMNED STRAIGHT.
Virus-X on January 7, 2010 at 10:32 PM
I’m likin your style, Virus-X
tigerlily on January 7, 2010 at 10:33 PM
Anyone find the telepromter thing weird? Head moving side to side. Who was he addressing? One media camera? The media?
Dpet on January 7, 2010 at 10:38 PM
The buck stops with me…as soon as my vacation is over.
TN Mom on January 7, 2010 at 10:41 PM
Yes, and I notice it never has him looking directly at the camera or at us the public.
bluemarlin on January 7, 2010 at 10:42 PM
The buck stops here, I am completely focused on …. Say, was that a chicken?
rgranger on January 7, 2010 at 10:43 PM
Yeah.
Buck you, Barry.
drjohn on January 7, 2010 at 10:52 PM
He’s a bit wee-wee’d up. Maybe he’s mad they interrupted his vacation.
SouthernGent on January 7, 2010 at 10:57 PM
I don’t get people who are still stuck on this Obama is just wrong/stupid mentality, leading them to approach things like today’s speech with a “bout time” attitude.
THIS IS A DISTRACTION.
This SOB is busy DELIBERATELY collapsing the economy. While most people are still just thinking he’s Bambi and their opinions of him are getting worse, he needs to act like he’s not the terrifying radical that he is so that we don’t tar and feather him and his pals before they’re sure they’ve brought us beyond the point of no return.
Who cares if he plays the “tough” role today, claiming he’s concerned about protecting us. Not only is this BS, it’s irrelevant. We’re inching ever closer to not having a country left to protect.
RightWinged on January 7, 2010 at 10:57 PM
Tigerlily-
AT some point one reaches a basic fork in the road.
1. Obama is intentionally trying to destroy America.
2. Obama’s upbringing and associates influenced him to the point where his instincts are almost always wrong, and he has surrounded himself with deluded fellow travelers.
If you believe #1, then Obama will have no regard for his legacy and try to crash America like the Egypt Air 767 suicide co-pilot. If you believe #2, then at some point Obama will see the polls and try to save his “legacy.”
I lean toward #2. I certainly hope that this is the case. To think that it’s #1 means at some point he will have to be dragged out of the White House and tried for treason, and I cringe at the thought of the blood and chaos involved in dragging an unwilling president out of 1600 Pennsylvania who is purposely trying to sink the ship of state. Nixon didn’t put us through that.
cane_loader on January 7, 2010 at 10:33 PM
cane:
If obama’s mind and morals have been disgustingly polluted from the beginning by family and fellow travelers, and all of his actions as president have been in service of these polluted beliefs and to the detriment of our economy, security and society, then:
1. He IS trying to bring down America, and in doing so he won’t have to worry about 2. the polls and pivoting his beliefs (I think that’s impossible barring a miraculous conversion) to save his “legacy.”
Why? Because of the infrastructure Soros and Co. have him almost finished putting in place with our corrupt Congress: 35 Czars with our tax $$ and policy powers, thousands of slots filled with communists and perverts in hundreds of agencies, trillions of debt, all of our tax $$ used as his slush fund, billions unaccounted for from stimulus (think Acorn and vote fraud billions), fed and Supreme Court judge appointments, a take-over of our lives with the most corrupt process and most corrupt power grab health care bill guaranteed to bankrupt us, takeovers of banks, GM, Chrysler, stranglehold on oil and gas extraction, and on and on and on….
He is not afraid of being deposed or “pulled out of the White House” because he is at this very moment in time insuring a “transformed America” where that can never happen.
And that brings us to #3. The IslamicCommunist Traitor-in-Cheif needs to deliver a shattered and collapsed USA to his masters in the global order. A strong and vital USA is the only thing standing between them and their rabid desire for a One World Government. Berri, who is using the USA in order to destroy her, lusts to pick up what he thinks will be his well deserved reward – King of the World.
But at that point his useful idiocy will have expired and he will no doubt “disappear” from the scene. That will be of no consolation to us, however.
So, you see, this is a game with a goal far beyond berri’s legacy. Because he doesn’t want to be known as just another US President of a country he depises. He wants to be the one who brings us to our knees so he can gleefully shout,
“Top of the world, Ma!”
tigerlily on January 7, 2010 at 11:00 PM
Hell, Barry is aware that he doesn’t have to worry about the buck stopping with him. He KNOWS the treasury is empty.
Yoop on January 7, 2010 at 11:03 PM
That buck will be worth a nickel by the time 2012 comes around!
Fuquay Steve on January 7, 2010 at 11:05 PM
Th BIG question is : What document dump will we receive tomorrow around 9 pm? This could become a drinking game.
Fuquay Steve on January 7, 2010 at 11:07 PM
The IslamicCommunist Traitor-in-Cheif needs to deliver a shattered and collapsed USA to his masters in the global order.
Oh, was this sentence racist? Have to censor myself as a loyal follower of the biggest &^*&()*)(*)(*)(*$#$ EVER!
tigerlily on January 7, 2010 at 11:07 PM
Obama. Is. A. Joke. A very bad joke. He either makes me laugh or ticks me off. As far as our security is concerned, until we start looking for terrorists instead of bombs we are going to continue to get attacked by young Muslim men.
txhsmom on January 7, 2010 at 11:08 PM
“I am less interested in passing out blame”
More dithering.
TN Mom on January 7, 2010 at 11:10 PM
Tigerlily,
Then if it’s as you say, 2010 is our last stand.
I should have put a finer point on #2. You can have someone following path #2 without intention or belief that it will collapse America. If Obama is following #2, he could honestly believe in the great hippie dream, and mean well.
Or, as you say, path #2 could be followed with an intentionally evil end in mind. That would be path 2A or – as you say, path #3.
So I guess I should have given 3 options!
I hope it ain’t your #3 because then something will have to be done outside the bounds of the political system. All those decrying the #2 approach must realize that if your #3 is true then you cannot long sit here on this blog and shout – instead, very soon it’s off to Washington to, in the words of Mario Savio in 1964, throw your bodies on the gears of the machine.
We will have to continue to watch carefully, and meanwhile fight like tigers for the 2010 elections.
cane_loader on January 7, 2010 at 11:12 PM
Mario Savio.
Ironic that the answer comes out of Berzerkely….
cane_loader on January 7, 2010 at 11:16 PM
What’s a buck worth after a year of
?
About 65 cents?
David2.0 on January 7, 2010 at 11:18 PM
“There’s a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious—makes you so sick at heart—that you can’t take part. You can’t even passively take part.
“And you’ve got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the levers, upon all the apparatus, and you’ve got to make it stop.
“And you’ve got to indicate to the people who run it, to the people who own it that unless you’re free, the machine will be prevented from working at all.”
– Mario Savio, Sproul Hall Steps, University of California at Berkeley, December 2, 1964
cane_loader on January 7, 2010 at 11:19 PM
When I was being made to learn all that stuff in college, reading Tom Hayden, etc., I never thought to wonder if it would apply to the Right. But darn it, I think it does. It’s the Right’s turn to physically stop the machine. If only a fraction of the 9/12 marchers returned to Washington and blockaded the Senate, things would change – real fast.
cane_loader on January 7, 2010 at 11:25 PM
Associated Press reported today that two female victims of the 9-11 attacks in NYC were identified by advanced DNA testing not available at the time of the attacks.
I felt that sorrow all over again. May those women rest in peace and their families find closure at long last.
If this administration does not start taking terrorism seriously, we will all feel that sorrow yet again.
I will never ever forget.
koz on January 7, 2010 at 11:25 PM
Cane,
There is nothing of the “hippie” meme in any of obama’s handlers or associates, who range from Islamic sympathisers and America hating racists like Louis Farrakan & Jeremiah Wright to domestic terrorist like Bill Ayers, to grifter and criminal thugs like Tony Rezko. EVERY ONE of his associates, from commie/pornographer/self-confessed pedophile and teenage obama “mentor” Frank Marshall Davis to Nazi collaborator and New World Order globalist George Soros are hard core anti-capitalist, anti-America. And Obama marinades in these associations and is indeed one with them.
So, if we know that there are people in the world who stand for bringing down America, we have to face the fact that we put one of those people in the White House. There is no other explanation for the unbelievable, furious, all-hell-broken-loose frenzy of policy, legislative and economic freefall that every move obama makes fulfills and intensifies. Full stop.
Tax revolt on April 15 will be a good way to throw ourselves on the gears. Everyone should file an extension.
No one should send in a return. Period.
tigerlily on January 7, 2010 at 11:29 PM
I think you have hit on it, he will only take action when they mess up his plans, whether that it is his vacation plans or destroying America from the inside.
bluemarlin on January 7, 2010 at 11:31 PM
FBI controversy
In 1999, it was revealed that Savio had been trailed by the Federal Bureau of Investigation from the moment that he had climbed on to the police car that harbored Jack Weinberg. He was followed for more than a decade ‘because he had emerged as the nation’s most prominent student leader.’[4] There was no evidence that he was a threat or that he had any connection with the Communist Party, but the FBI decided he merited their attention because they thought he could potentially inspire students to rebel.[4]
Even when he had quit the FSM, the FBI called him to their Berkeley office. They told Savio that they had received letters of a threatening nature towards him, but they would not speak with Savio’s attorney present. However, he would not agree, and instead criticised the FBI ‘for failure to make arrests and take action in the South where human rights are being violated every day.’[2] At this point the meeting ended.
According to hundreds of pages of FBI files, the bureau:
* Collected, without court order, personal information about Savio from schools, telephone companies, utility firms and banks and compiled information about his marriage and divorce.
* Monitored his day-to-day activities by using informants planted in political groups, covertly contacting his neighbors, landlords and employers, and having agents pose as professors, journalists and activists to interview him and his wife.
* Obtained his tax returns from the Internal Revenue Service in violation of federal rules, mischaracterized him as a threat to the president and arranged for the CIA and foreign intelligence agencies to investigate him when he and his family traveled in Europe.
* Put him on an unauthorized list of people to be detained without judicial warrant in event of a national emergency, and designated him as a “Key Activist” whose political activities should be “disrupted” and “neutralized” under the bureau’s illegal counterintelligence program known as COINTELPRO.[15]
The investigation finally ended at the beginning of 1975 and at that point an investigation in to the FBI’s abuse of power began. Savio’s ex-wife, Suzanne Goldberg, said that the “FBI’s investigation of her and Savio [was] a waste of money and an invasion of privacy.”[4]
cane_loader on January 7, 2010 at 11:32 PM
Since all his previous statements have come with an expiration date I don’t see why anything he said today is any different.
chemman on January 7, 2010 at 11:33 PM
A prayer for those 9/11 families. This undiebomber stuff has to be giving them nightmares.
cane_loader on January 7, 2010 at 11:35 PM
I wish Obama would give up his security blankey (telepromptor) and speak from the heart. His speech felt insincere and didn’t reveal anything we didn’t already know. It was distracting as heck too, that his head swiveled back and forth between telepromptors. It was like watching a cartoon of a tennis match – everybody turns their head one way then another. Earlier in the day the NSA said they would reveal shocking news about the event. I think the person most shocked was Napolitano, to have discovered what AQ was up to. I can’t believe they have all this intelligence at their fingertips yet it appears they have no imagination or creativity to brainstorm scenarios or actions terrorists might attempt.
GrannySunni on January 7, 2010 at 11:39 PM
tigerlily,
while the tax-return thing would be temporarily disruptive, Obama would just write another IOU to cover it.
what’s needed is physically throwing our bodies on the gears. if one piece of legislation EVER warranted jamming the Senate with bodies until all legislative activity stopped, ObamaCare is it.
not sending in taxes is a non-physical action. but when they have to physically drag hundreds of people out of the Capitol screaming bloody murder and it hits the news, everything changes.
cane_loader on January 7, 2010 at 11:39 PM
Thanks for that trip down memory lane. The Goracle is pathetic.
chemman on January 7, 2010 at 11:39 PM
Yes, I am advocating a peaceful shut-down of the U.S. Senate by Americans invoking their 1st-Amendment right to assemble and demand redress of grievances. And in making this call, I am advocating my 1st-Amendment right to call for such an assembly.
These Senators are stealing money from our future earnings, against our will. This is robbery. This must be stopped.
cane_loader on January 7, 2010 at 11:47 PM
It’s time for a March on Washington that doesn’t end on the National Mall.
We the People need to retake our Capitol.
cane_loader on January 7, 2010 at 11:49 PM
Agreed. We need one million+ to march on and into the Captiol Building. Peacefully, of course. AND the tax revolt.
tigerlily on January 7, 2010 at 11:57 PM
Filling an extension is useless. You must pay any taxes owed with the extension. The only a tax revolt works is if you change your w-2 withholding data so you send nothing in to the monster. I don’t even think this would work because they would just get the FED to print them more money.
A sit-in with loads of railroad ties, tar and feathers on hand would be far more productive.
chemman on January 7, 2010 at 11:58 PM
Nobody should be blamed; it was a system failure. I guess there is nobody in the system… it is all robots now? KEWL!
Danzo on January 7, 2010 at 11:59 PM
Yes. Both. The way things have become these days, I don’t think anything short of a direct barricading of the Capitol will do anything to change the flow of events.
That’s what it has to be. We the People must retake our Capitol. THAT’S what we can do, instead of just going around angry every day. Hell, my DOCTOR was steaming when I visited today! When this anger finds an outlet, all of the world will take notice. We need to stand on the Senators’ cushy chair and leave muddy footprints, break into the private bar and drink whatever dregs Teddy left, and then read the Constitution aloud from the speaker’s chair until dragged away.
This must… and will happen, before all is said and done.
cane_loader on January 8, 2010 at 12:02 AM
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