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Audacity of Truth
Flyswatter in Chief:
"He had this fly that was persistently buzzing around him during the interview...he swatted his hand and he said ‘I got the sucker’...it was a, you know, Dirty Harry ‘make my day’ moment."- The NYT's John Harwood, describing Obama's killing of a fly - 6/16/09
Friday open thread
Had a mild morning, but having a busy afternoon – will be back later tonight to catch up on some blogging.
Here are a couple of quick links: The Politico writes about a week’s full of Democratic failures in trying to get the US to cut from Iraq, including today’s failure to pass the Reed/Levin amendment.
I’ll have more comment on this news later this evening.
TGIF! 
Update 7:31 PM: I was going to add my .02 to the Democrats failed week, but came across Brian Faughnan’s blog post at The Weekly Standard, which pretty much sums up my thoughts:
But this whole episode points up a glaring miscalculation by Majority Leader Reid and Speaker Pelosi. They decided months ago that the best course for Democrats–politically–was to oppose everything the president proposed on Iraq. They staked everything on a September showdown with the president–gambling that the pressure of anti-war groups would lead Republicans to sue for an end to the war. They even took some slings and arrows from the Netroots when they allowed legislation to pass to fund the war–figuring that they could get Republican dissidents to end the war, so there would be no Democratic fingerprints.
But where do the Democrats stand today? The president’s hand is stronger. The surge will run its course and phase down on the administration’s timetable. Moderates in both parties are complaining that they have been lied to. And the moderate Democrats are facing potential primary challengers–challenges encouraged by their liberal colleagues.
How are leaders like Reid and Pelosi viewed by their troops now?
Hmmm. Lemme guess. As miserable failures, perhaps?
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- Looks like the Left/Democrats are determined to go down with the burning ship. The Dem presidential candidates are STILL trying to deflect questions put to them about the NYT Patraeus ad, which of course simply affoeds Republican politico’s the opportunity to keep the public debate going. Legitimate media is riding it hard, while the Dems squirm, nutbag Progessives to the Left of them, the Reps to the right of them, and the mainstream voters stuck in the middle watching the 3 ring circus.
- BBH –
http://rfraley301.blogspot.com/2007/09/nuff-said.html
MIT stupidity of bringing what looks to be a fake bomb to Logan Airport…
But it’s just …..ART!
stupidstupidstupidstupidstupidstupid
She is lucky she isn’t dead right now.
MIT Student Arrested For Fake Bomb At Logan: Police Say Simpson Had Circuit Board, Wiring, and Play-Doh
MIT Coed With Fake Bomb `art’ Arrested
Like I said in another thread…the lacking of common sense……
I was encouraged this week by the Republican vote condemning the George Soros financed Move On ad calling Genl Petraeus a coward. Michael Kinsley was less admiring, writing that the indignation shown by the right was not heartfelt, although he took a lot of space to say so. The left has tried to equate the Move On ad as being no worse than the Swift Boat ads against political Presidential candidate John Kerry and the political ads run by Saxby Chambliss against disabled Vietnam vet Max Cleland. The difference is that both Kerry and Cleland were in a political arena, running their own nasty attack ads against Republicans in general and Pres Bush in particular. General Petraeus is not a politician, he is a soldier under the command of the President of the US. He is not engaging in attack ads against anybody. Hillary Clinton was worse than the ad, calling Genl Petraeus a liar. She also refused to vote censure for the Move On ad. This had to be a bad week for her as well as her leftist admirers.
Apparently John Grisham is getting into the act. He’s taking a swipe at the Bush administration. I wonder if he has a book coming out soon?
Anyway it’s very interesting:
Hosting an event for Hillary Clinton? How absolutely vogue.
Hmmm, somebody should tell John that his guest of honor, “We are the President” Clinton voted to authorize the use of force for that immoral abomination. I guess she gets a free pass.
Oh, my sides. He actually accused someone else of being people with “evil intent” and being incompetent while at the same time raising money for Hillary?? How did he say that with a straight face?
The total hypocrisy and flat out stupidity of Hollywood/Authors never ceases to amaze me.
ruth, while I don’t condone the personal and childish attacks Move On used in their ad, don’t kid yourself that this General – is an impartial soldier in the field, just serving his president.
A former Reagan defense official (and current CAP fellow) Lawrence Korb wrote an Op-Ed piece about Petraeus as a reliable source for an unbiased assessment in the Philadelphia Inquirer. We’ve been getting rosy assessments of the War in Iraq from him for 5 years now! It’s no wonder opinion on the War didn’t budge after the recent Sep dog-and-pony show. We know better.
I kinda doubt that. Personally I will take the word of an honorable soldier who has served this country most of his life. Your article was an interesting one, yet it is only one man’s opinion. I saw Wesley Clark, surely no friend of the Bush Administration or the Iraq war, say in an interview that he did believe Petraeus, because he had known him a long time. So now I have the opinion of an anti-war, pro democrat to tell me that Petraeus will do the right thing.
Oh, I know. With every major news network and newspaper screaming failure, disaster, quagmire, and Vietnam every chance they get, I can’t imagine why the American people view the war unfavorably. Not to mention, it doesn’t matter what kind of good news comes out of Iraq, people like you don’t want to hear it. If someone notes progress in Iraq they are automatically labeled a Bush lap dog or, as in Petraeus case, a “dog and pony show”.
John Grisham is a long time politicaly active democrat lawyer who inserts the liberal line in every book of his I have read. His first several books had some merit. Since then they have gotten increasingly unreadable. Same plots, brilliant under thirty model type girl who solves all legal problems and goes off to an island with millions of bucks. Also dragging along the lead dumb lawyer whom she has bedded. Or the plot is slanted towards injustice against the poor by rich whatever. The last one was a scrambled narrative about injustice to a guy in Oklahoma who loved baseball. I had to return the CD halfway through. I listen to audio books while we travel and get whatever is new and available at the library before we leave. I put Grisham and other “best selling” authors who get promoted and bought by Hollywood into the same catagory as the studio casting couch. They whore themselves out to the liberal machine with cracks about Republicans and George Bush. Stewart Woods is the latest one to do so and his books, once fairly interesting, are now following the Grisham slide into downright stupidity. I will say for those interested, that the latest really good read we had was THE BOOK OF AIR AND SHADOWS by Michael Gruber. I got it because we liked his earlier book, VALLEY OF BONES. Both available on audio. It is tough to find a good book of fiction and a big let down when finished having to settle for less.
tom, you didn’t think we’d let this pass without checking out your sources, did you? For example, this line:
Maybe you figured we’d think CAP stood for Civil Air Patrol and you could embellish Korb’s credentials by slipping that past us. You figured wrong.
CAP is the Center for American Progress, a leftist outfit. On their site you can find this nugget:
For those who didn’t know, John Podesta is one of Hillary’s inner circle.
So, what we have here is an associate of an thinly-veiled Clintonista organization writing a hit piece on General Petraeus. And tom hoped to fool us by calling it “unbiased”.
Consider yourself pwned, tom. Go peddle that nonsense on Kos or DU. ST and the commenters here are smarter than that.
Nicely done, GWR! I went to the CAP website and they claimed they were a “nonpartisan” group. That should have been a dead give away!!
Tom, it seems to me that there was a lot of budging about the surge after Genl Petraeus spoke to congress. This week the Republicans initiated a condemnation to the Sorros Move On ad and the proposal to insert rest periods between deployments of soldiers to Iraq was defeated. I did not need budging but it sure made me feel better, and proud, to watch a clean, steady, well spoken person address congress in a professional manner. Contrast his behavior with that of Hillary who didn’t look him in the eye most of the time she was calling him a liar. I bet she would like to have him on her side. A real man instead of those whipped democrats who curry her favor. As far as I know, Genl Petraeus is not engaged in any political activity, and has not even responded to the Sorros MoveOn ad calling him a betrayer. Given that the militay votes both Republican and democrat, I think that Petraeus is entitled to have a political preference without being accused of being a traitor.
If my memory serves me correctly, good old Mahmoud was one of the “students” who took over the US embassy in Tehran in 1978. Since an embassy is considered the soil of the country it represents, Mr. Ahmadinijad (sp?) aided in the invasion of our country and took hostages who were held for ransom. I’m not sure, but it sounds like he could be arrested and held on kidnapping charges when he arrives in the US(he was not a head of state or diplomat when he helped commit these crimes)