President’s speech muddles nation building and national defense

By Lee Cary,American Thinker

President Obama’s speech at West Point aimed to walk the line between nation building and national defense. But he muddled the two concepts.

Americans look to their wartime leaders for clarity,not ambivalence. The President began his Afghanistan war speech by implicitly [...]

ObamaCare at Any Cost

Wall Street Journal

 Obama wants healthcare no matter what the cost and logic

We have now reached the stage of the health-care debate when all that matters is getting a bill passed,so all news is good news,more subsidies mean lower deficits,and more expensive insurance is really cheaper insurance. [...]

President Obama’s Secret:Only 100 al Qaeda Now in Afghanistan

By RICHARD ESPOSITO,MATTHEW COLE and BRIAN ROSS,ABC News

 Obama would rather keep that little fact hidden

As he justified sending 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan at a cost of $30 billion a year,President Barack Obama’s description Tuesday of the al Qaeda "cancer"in that country left out one key [...]

Rumsfeld Cries Foul on Obama Claim Troop Requests for Afghanistan Were Denied

FOXNews

 Cheney and Rumsfield are not amused by Obama’s baldfaced lies

Former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld on Wednesday lashed out at President Obama for claiming the Bush administration rebuffed commanders’repeated requests for more troops in Afghanistan.

In a rare break in his public silence since leaving the Pentagon,[...]

Obama’s False Speech

By Gabor Steingart,Der Spiegel

 Obama’s Speech left a bad taste in many mouths

Never before has a speech by President Barack Obama felt as false as his Tuesday address announcing America’s new strategy for Afghanistan. It seemed like a campaign speech combined with Bush rhetoric —and left both dreamers [...]

Obama Approval on Afghanistan,at 35%,Trails Other Issues

by Jeffrey M. Jones,Gallup

The greatest decline occurred when Obama started dithering

Americans are far less approving of President Obama’s handling of the situation in Afghanistan than they have been in recent months,with 35% currently approving,down from 49% in September and 56% in July.

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Obama’s Strategy for Defeat in Afghanistan

Floyd Brown,Expose Obama

This horrible war is destined to end badly

Last night before an audience of Cadets at West Point,the Commander in Chief,Barack Obama,displayed his gross ignorance of strategic affairs and inexperience with military affairs. In a speech in which Americans were eager to hear a plan [...]

Barack Obama’s war:the final push in Afghanistan

By Ewen MacAskill,UK Guardian

 It’s Obama’s war now as he initiates a surge of his own

Barack Obama is to set an ambitious timetable for the withdrawal of US forces from Afghanistan,with the first troops pulling out by July 2011. The announcement is aimed at countering US public fears [...]

Afghanistan Drawdown to Begin in 2011,Officials Say

By DAVID E. SANGER and PETER BAKER,New York Times

 Obama sets a specific timeline for withdrawl

President Obama will announce on Tuesday night that he will begin to draw American forces out of Afghanistan in July 2011,barely two months after the deployment of some 30,000 more United States troops there [...]

‘Overexposed’Obama begins to duck the WH press corps

By Joseph Curl,Washington Times

 Obama has been hiding from press Conferences

After months of what some critics called overexposure,President Obama has of late avoided questions from the White House press corps at large,closing the Oval Office to traditionally informal question-and -answer sessions with reporters and pulling back from [...]

Obama and the CRUddites of Britain

By James Lewis,American Thinker

 Gore say oh no,the data is off,bring in Obama

The CRU crew of liars and scientific frauds in the U.K. have been driving the climate fraud campaign for years. They shaped the corrupt and ridiculous IPCC U.N. report,designed to empower the Green corruptocracy as [...]

Dick Cheney slams President Obama for projecting ‘weakness’

By MIKE ALLEN &JIM VANDEHEI,Politico

 Cheney wants Obama to be a man and lead

On the eve of the unveiling of the nation’s new Afghanistan policy,former Vice President Dick Cheney slammed President Barack Obama for projecting “weakness” to adversaries and warned that more workaday Afghans will side with [...]

Obama asks for up to 10,000 European troops

AP

 Obama is hoping that these European leaders will help out

President Barack Obama is asking European members of NATO to contribute up to 10,000 additional troops to the international force in Afghanistan,officials with the military alliance said Tuesday.

A diplomat from a European nation said the troop [...]

The Unmasking of Barack Obama

By PETER WEHNER,Commentary Magazine

Obama’s Ineptitude is being revealed

The overseas reviews for President Obama’s foreign policy are starting to pour in — and they’re not favorable. Bob Ainsworth,the British defense secretary,has blamed Obama for the decline in British public support for the war in [...]

Help Wanted,No Private Sector Experience Required

By Nick Schulz,The American

This Chart and Obama’s reliance on Career Bureaucrats is Astounding

A friend sends along the following chart from a J.P. Morgan research report. It examines the prior private sector experience of the cabinet officials since 1900 that one might expect a president [...]

7 stories Barack Obama doesn’t want told

By JOHN F. HARRIS,Politico

Certain storylines are taking shape about Obama:1 is that he’s playing with monopoly money

Presidential politics is about storytelling. Presented with a vivid storyline,voters naturally tend to fit every new event or piece of information into a picture that is already neatly framed in their [...]

Obama’s About Face on Honduras

By Rick Moran,American Thinker

Obama now supports the elected Honduran leader

What can you say? How often does the United States stake out a clear,unequivocal position on a major foreign policy event and then,over the course of a few months,slowly walkback from their original position to come around [...]

Iran’s Latest Nuclear Plan Tests Limits of Obama’s Wait-and-See Approach

FOXNews

 Obama’s approach has yielded no results

The Obama administration on Monday said Iran’s plan to build 10 more nuclear enrichment facilities and expand to a half-million centrifuges was "unacceptable"—but once again,in the face of yet another deadline,it offered no specific response beyond wait-and-see.

On [...]

CBO:Senate bill would increase individual insurance premiums

By Jeffrey Young,The Hill

Senate Democrats and Republicans seized on the report,issued Monday by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) and the Joint Committee on Taxation (JCT),to bolster their arguments on the same day the floor debate formally commenced.

To Democrats,the report affirms the [...]

Climate change:this is the worst scientific scandal of our generation

By Christopher Booker,UK telegraph

 The big lie is being exposed

A week after my colleague James Delingpole ,on his Telegraph blog,coined the term "Climategate"to describe the scandal revealed by the leaked emails from the University of East Anglia’s Climatic Research Unit,Google was showing that the word [...]