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Our President spoke today. I’ve reviewed the transcript. I count 45 lies, 7 misleading statements and 3 revelations of his hidden agenda. His speech today, as are most of his speeches, was a comprehensive attempt to mislead the American People. Here’s my take on it:
The President of the United States of America speaks: THE PRESIDENT: “Good afternoon, everybody. I just concluded a productive discussion with the leaders of both parties in Congress.” (One lie. One misleading statement) REETZALITY: It was not a productive session. The president failed to set forth a single productive result from the meeting. PRESIDENT: This was one of a series of regular meetings that I called for in the State of the Union because I think it’s important for us to come together and speak frankly about the challenges we face and to work through areas where we don’t agree; hopefully find some areas where we do. (Three lies) REETZALITY: The President does not believe in coming together and he certainly doesn’t have the capability to speak frankly. If he did, he would reveal his agenda to socialize our nation and fundamentally transform us into something we are not. And Mr. President, “find some areas where we do” agree? Couldn’t you just have each side set forth their agenda and check for over-lap? Our president doesn’t believe in “reaching across the aisle” and for that I give him some credit. I wish some Republicans would act likewise like McCain, Graham, Snow, Collins and Brown. You don’t compromise on principles folks. PRESIDENT: “Our conversation today focused on an issue that’s being discussed every day at kitchen tables across this country — and that’s how do we create jobs that people need to support their families.” (One misleading statement)
REETZALITY: Mr. President, you don’t create jobs, the private sector does. And just because you might loosen the noose strangling free enterprise doesn’t give you the right to take credit for what occurs with the limited freedom you’ve allowed. PRESIDENT: “I believe that starts with doing everything we can to support small businesses. These are the stores, the restaurants, the start-ups and other companies that create two out of every three new jobs in this country — and that grow into the big businesses that transform industries, here in America and around the world.” (One big lie) REETZALITY: “Everything we can to support small business?” Really, you shoved your health care down our throats hurting small business. You passed financial reform, hurting small business. You are pushing cap and trade, hurting small business. You are running up debt to the extent that a drunken sailor now seems like a fiscal conservative, hurting small business. You love unions and card check, hurting small business. Thus, you are not doing “everything we can” to support small business. PRESIDENT: But we know that many of these businesses still can’t get the loans and the capital they need to keep their doors open and hire new workers. (One misleading statement) REETZALITY: But a lot of small businesses can get the capital, they just don’t want the risk of increased debt given the ominous uncertainty of your agenda. Also Mr. President, unlike your perception of how things work, small businesses not only require capital, they also require opportunity and incentive. The uncertain and ominous cloak of your agenda is killing opportunity and incentive. PRESIDENT: “That’s why we’ve proposed steps to get them that help — eliminating capital gains taxes on investments, making it easier for small lenders to support small businesses, expanding successful SBA programs to help these businesses access the capital that they need.” (One misleading statement) REETZALITY: Mr. President, American small business doesn’t want help, it wants liberty from excessive regulation, taxation, unionization, and government control. It is not so simple as just throwing money at the problem. I’ll give you a pass on this one Mr. President since you’ve yet to run a lemonade stand or make any sort of bottom line. PRESIDENT: “This is how we create jobs — by investing in the innovators and entrepreneurs that have always driven our prosperity.” (Two misleading statements) REETZALITY: Mr. President our prosperity is not driven by government, it is hindered by government. And for the second time, you don’t create jobs, the private sector does when it is inspired to produce. What inspires production? Profits, and your going to tax them big time. You are killing the inspiration. And do you even know any innovators and entrepreneurs? Didn’t think so, well unless count the Weather Underground and SDS folks as being entrepreneurial and innovative in their anti-Americanism. PRESIDENT: “These are the kind of common-sense steps that folks from both parties have supported in the past — steps to cut taxes and spur private sector growth and investment. And I hope that in the coming days, we’ll once again find common ground and get this legislation passed. We shouldn’t let America’s small businesses be held hostage to partisan politics — and certainly not at this critical time.” (Three lies. One misleading statement) REETZALITY: You just said “cut taxes” while your treasury secretary said, two days ago, that you were going to let the Bush tax cuts expire, thus raise taxes. Small business held hostage to partisan politics? Really, so if you all reach across the aisle and decide your “bi-partisan” expansion will be good for business, it will be? Keep dreaming Mr. President. PRESIDENT: “We also talked about the need to move forward on energy reform. The Senate is now poised to act before the August recess, advancing legislation to respond to the BP oil spill and create new clean energy jobs.” (One agenda revelation) REETZALITY: Great Mr. President. Rush through a bill that will be swarmed in earmarks and hidden agenda items before the August recess and that will help business? Wrong Mr. President. PRESIDENT: “That legislation is an important step in the right direction. But I want to emphasize it’s only the first step. And I intend to keep pushing for broader reform, including climate legislation, because if we’ve learned anything from the tragedy in the Gulf, it’s that our current energy policy is unsustainable.” (Two lies) REETZALITY: It is not an important step in the right direction. It is an awful step in the wrong direction. Cap and Trade, energy reform, what ever faux title you chose Mr. President, has proven every time it is implemented that it hinders free enterprise. As to learning from the Gulf Oil spill, what we have learned is that the government is incompetent in dealing with disasters, even incompetent in exploiting them for self interested nefarious political gain. Ostensibly, the government’s dealing with the Gulf Oil Spill demonstrated that the government can’t even get it right when it’s in their progressive agenda. Also, I don’t think you learned anything from the Gulf Oil Spill other than possibly refined your ability to exploit disaster in order to push your progressive agenda. PRESIDENT: “And we can’t afford to stand by as our dependence on foreign oil deepens, as we keep on pumping out the deadly pollutants that threaten our air and our water and the lives and livelihoods of our people. And we can’t stand by as we let China race ahead to create the clean energy jobs and industries of the future. We should be developing those renewable energy sources, and creating those high-wage, high-skill jobs right here in the United States of America.” (Eleven lies) REETZALITY: So Mr. President, then why are you proposing a moratorium on off shore drilling if you are so adverse to dependence on foreign oil? Why isn’t ANWAR opened for drilling? And Mr. President, this China Challenge, unbelievable. China is the world’s biggest polluter and they will continue to be so even when they do produce your mandated green products due to the shroud your policies have placed upon American free enterprise. What high wage, high skill jobs? Please tell me Mr. President. Just asking? PRESIDENT: “That’s what comprehensive energy and climate reform would do. And that’s why I intend to keep pushing this issue forward.” (One global lie. One agenda revelation) REETZALITY: No it’s not Mr. President. And let us be, to use your word, “Frank,” You have no idea or concern what comprehensive energy and climate reform would do other than this: It would further destroy American enterprise, increase government control, hurt freedom, and after that, again let’s be “Frank,” you don’t care. PRESIDENT: “I also urged the House leaders to pass the necessary funding to support our efforts in Afghanistan and Pakistan. I know much has been written about this in recent days as a result of the substantial leak of documents from Afghanistan covering a period from 2004 to 2009.”
REETZALITY: I can only decipher your desire to continue to nation build in Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan by presuming your desire to bankrupt this country in order to create more need for your progressive government trumps your aversion to waging war against Muslims. PRESIDENT: “While I’m concerned about the disclosure of sensitive information from the battlefield that could potentially jeopardize individuals or operations, the fact is these documents don’t reveal any issues that haven’t already informed our public debate on Afghanistan; indeed, they point to the same challenges that led me to conduct an extensive review of our policy last fall.” (Two lies-he hasn’t read the leaked documents) REETZALITY: Am I getting this right Mr. President, near 100,000 documents and it’s no big deal? PRESIDENT: “So let me underscore what I’ve said many times: For seven years, we failed to implement a strategy adequate to the challenge in this region, the region from which the 9/11 attacks were waged and other attacks against the United States and our friends and allies have been planned.” (One lie) REETZALITY: O.K. Finally, the Bush bashing. Actually, we did get rid of the Taliban for a while, but we didn’t kill enough of them. And Mr. President, your rules of engagement are going to get more Americans killed. And what is your strategy? Counter-insurgency? Oh, I’m sure that’s going to work with a bunch of goat shepherds who grow a ton of opium on the side? Co-exist right? Another question, how do we have a viable strategy when you won’t even properly identify the enemy? You know, forgive me for saying such a reprehensible term, “radical Islamists. PRESIDENT: “That’s why we’ve substantially increased our commitment there, insisted upon greater accountability from our partners in Afghanistan and Pakistan, developed a new strategy that can work, and put in place a team, including one of our finest generals, to execute that plan. Now we have to see that strategy through.” (Three lies) REETZALITY: A couple of things here. You haven’t substantially increased our commitment, you actually low balled the request for troops. Last month 56 Americans were killed in Afghanistan. I hope you don’t consider that working. And again, some more “frank” speak, you don’t know if it will work.
PRESIDENT: “And as I told the leaders, I hope the House will act today to join the Senate, which voted unanimously in favor of this funding, to ensure that our troops have the resources they need and that we’re able to do what’s necessary for our national security.” (One lie)
REETZALITY: Her Mr. President, speaking of national security, how about closing the borders? Sorry, I thought you mentioned National Security. PRESIDENT: “Finally, during our meeting today, I urged Senator McConnell and others in the Senate to work with us to fill the vacancies that continue to plague our judiciary. Right now, we’ve got nominees who’ve been waiting up to eight months to be confirmed as judges. Most of these folks were voted out of committee unanimously, or nearly unanimously, by both Democrats and Republicans. Both Democrats and Republicans agreed that they were qualified to serve. Nevertheless, some in the minority have used parliamentary procedures time and again to deny them a vote in the full Senate.” (One agenda revelation-install judges who are not deferential to the constitution) REETZALITY: Mr. President, why don’t you try appointing folks who actually like and respect our constitution? I suspect this might be the hold up that is irritating you. PRESIDENT: “If we want our judicial system to work — if we want to deliver justice in our courts — then we need judges on our benches. And I hope that in the coming months, we’ll be able to work together to ensure a timelier process in the Senate.” (One lie) REETZALITY: Again Mr. President, appoint folks who adhere to constitutional principles and your problems will be solved. PRESIDENT: “Now, we don’t have many days left before Congress is out for the year. And everyone understands that we’re less than 100 days from an election. It’s during this time that the noise and the chatter about who’s up in the polls and which party is ahead threatens to drown out just about everything else. But the folks we serve — who sent us here to serve, they sent us here for a reason. They sent us here to listen to their voices. They sent us here to represent their interests — not our own. They sent us here to lead. And I hope that in the coming months, we’ll do everything in our power to live up to that responsibility. Thanks very much. (Eight lies when he claims to want to live up to the responsibility) REETZALITY: A great finale Mr. President. First, the noise and the chatter you are hearing is contempt for your policies. Secondly, You don’t listen to folks’ voices unless they agree with your radical agenda. Did you know Mr. President that the majority of Americans were against your health care bill, your financial reform, cap and trade, and your law suit against Arizona? Sure you do, but it doesn’t stop you from pushing your progressive agenda. So folks, that’s my take on today’s propaganda from the Commander of Propoganda and that’s my Reetzality (2nd) for the day. Thanks for the read.
Brett Reetz
What is the common denominator of Obama policies? The Destruction of America is the sole theme I can find in Obama’s policies and in his statements for that matter. Let’s check it out.
TAXATION. Obama is for higher taxation. Already some folks pay more than fifty percent of their income, of their productivity, in taxes. The Bush tax cuts will expire next year and Obama will do nothing to extend the cuts. Take a look at developed countries with high tax rates and then take a look at the entrepreneurial opportunities in those countries. It’s bleak and that’s where we’re headed. The CBO predicts only a two percent growth of gross product at best for the foreseeable future which is not quarters, not years, but decades. His drunken spending will provide a platform for him to raise taxes astronomically, further breaking another campaign promise. This is bad for America.
HEALTH CARE. Notwithstanding the socialistic anti-American theme in Obama-care, the cost alone, which is increasing by the week as we, and Washington, gets to understanding the implications, are going to be a wet blanket on our economy. Obama-care also takes away freedom, which last time I checked, is a bad thing. Companies are planning on eliminating their health care programs and turning employees over to the feds which inevitably fails at almost everything. Obama-care will hurt America. It already is.
CAP AND TRADE. This policy will explode bureaucracy and make business drastically more complex. It will increase costs and regulation and will decrease opportunity and productivity. It will grow the government and shrink the private sector. It will lead us closer to global government. Check out how it’s working in Europe. Not well. Bad for America.
IMMIGRATION. Obama is doing nothing about immigration except condemning Arizona, the one state with the fortitude to be responsible for their problems. Obama has lied about the law Arizona passed. Obama’s view on immigration is simply to, when the time is right, provide amnesty for illegals in order to create more left leaning voters who will vote for more redistribution of wealth, more government and therefore, less freedom. He has lied about the Arizona law. Bad for America.
FINANCIAL REFORM. Obama’s plan will burden the free market and again explode the federal bureaucracy. His plan ignores Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, entirely leaves them out of the “reform” and they are the two biggest culprits in our recent financial woes. Why isn’t Obama addressing the Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac issue? Because they are agents for the government, that’s why. They are his folks. How can you claim to be fixing something when you’re ignoring the biggest cause, the root cause, of the problem? You can’t. And he doesn’t want to fix it. He wants to grow government and the people be damned. Bad for America.
BAIL OUTS. Obama loves a good bail out because it grows government power and influence and it takes care of the Unions in the case of the Auto industry.
GREECE. Obama pushed Europe to bail out Greece. Why? Why when we have trillions of dollars of debt is he borrowing money from China to give to Greece? There are a number of reasons. First, he adores the massive government in Greece. Second, if Greece fails more than it already has, it might reveal the flaws with Obama’s policies. (if they can be any more revealed as being awful). Third, it leads us closer to global government.
UNIONS. Obama is in favor of card check, his biggest ally is the SEIU union chief, he tired to exclude unions from the mandates of Obama-care. Are unions a good thing? Nope, just run down the list of union controlled industries. Auto industry, failed. Post Office, failed. Steel industry, gone. Government, the zenith of inefficiency and waste. Public education, struggling. Government pensions gifted to Unions and driving localities, municipalities, states and the Federal government closer and closer to bankruptcy and yet, Obama loves a union. Unions have proven to be a deadly albatross to so many American principles. Obama’s union policies are bad for America.
THE WARS. Now this is a strange one. Why is Obama breaking his promises regarding the wars on a regular basis, most recently retracting his position on exiting Afghanistan? Why does he continue with apparently no exit strategy in both wars? Here’s why. Wars run up the deficit. They further in debt our nation leading us towards collapse. That’s why. Maybe on the surface he doesn’t like war, but what he likes more is the destruction of America. And wars, especially wars of the ilk we’re in, are good ingredients for an American demise. Bad for America.
ENERGY. He lied about off shore drilling is now, given the gulf crisis, back tracking from his lie during the State of the Union Address. He keeps arguing for “going green” despite the established proof that it costs jobs, hurts the economy, and is a camouflage for more government control, regulation and burden on the economy. If you think “green” is good, check out Spain with its twenty percent unemployment rate. Bad for America.
DEFICITS. Deficits are a looming if not already arrived disaster for America and yet Obama keeps spending, keeps growing government, keeps borrowing. Bad for America.
I could go on with more examples of his policies, i.e. “don’t ask don’t tell, offshore drilling, contempt for profits, contempt for information (he recently said there was too much information and argument on the internet and talk radio which injures emancipation and democracy), his anti-Second Amendment, his belief that the Constitution is incomplete because it doesn’t address redistributive justice, and more. But I’ve said enough. You get my point. Obama doesn’t like America, at least not the America we love and cherish and the one that the world needs so desperately.
So face it folks, the facts of the matter reveal it. He says it. His minions say it. Obama and his minions want to destroy the America that saved Europe from Hitler, the America that is prosperous and generous, the America that has freedom and liberty as its driving force. He said as much when he repeatedly said that he wants to fundamentally change America. I’ve said it before, but fundamental is defined as the origin of existence and that’s what Obama wants to change, our origin of existence which are our god given, not Washington allowed, rights as set forth in our Constitution.
Rush Limbaugh was right when he said he wants Obama to fail. I do too. Any true American should, because his failure means we’ve saved America, the greatest nation in the history of man built on a simple yet exquisite document which our President has contempt, which our President doesn’t even understand. And I have hope and confidence that he will fail, because no man is capable of fighting our fundamentals, they are God given, and regardless of what our main stream media thinks of Obama, he’s nothing compared to God. And there’s nothing wrong with desiring a foe to fail. Just like a sporting event, you want your team to win and the other team to lose and that’s metaphorically what we have here, two competing teams with diametrically opposed philosophies. O.K., I’ll say it another way. I want our side to win. I want it to be a blow out. I want good to prevail over evil but notwithstanding that I believe that our fundamentals are God given and the obvious implication that if you are against our fundamentals you are fighting with God, a bad fight to pick, I’ll save the good versus evil for another blog.
That’s my Reetzality for the day.
Thanks for the read.
A great article by Charles Krauthammer revealing the utter ignorance (correct word, Obama is doing some “ignoring”) by Obama of the real nuclear weapon threat to America. Read on:
April 16, 2010
Obama’s Nuclear Posturing, Part Deux By Charles Krauthammer
WASHINGTON — There was something oddly disproportionate about the just-concluded nuclear summit to which President Obama summoned 46 world leaders, the largest such gathering on American soil since 1945. That meeting was about the founding of the United Nations, which 65 years ago seemed an event of world-historical importance.
But this one? What was this great convocation about? To prevent the spread of nuclear material into the hands of terrorists. A worthy goal, no doubt. Unfortunately, the two greatest such threats were not even on the agenda.
The first is Iran, which is frantically enriching uranium to make a bomb, and which our own State Department identifies as the greatest exporter of terrorism in the world.
Nor on the agenda was Pakistan’s plutonium production, which is adding to the world’s stockpile of fissile material every day.
Pakistan is a relatively friendly power, but it is the most unstable of all the nuclear states. It is fighting a Taliban insurgency and is home to al-Qaeda. Suicide bombs go off regularly in its major cities. Moreover, its own secret service, the ISI, is of dubious loyalty, some of its elements being sympathetic to the Taliban and thus, by extension, to al-Qaeda.
So what was the major breakthrough announced by Obama at the end of the two-day conference? That Ukraine, Chile, Mexico and Canada will be getting rid of various amounts of enriched uranium.
What a relief. I don’t know about you, but I lie awake nights worrying about Canadian uranium. I know these people. I grew up there. You have no idea what they’re capable of doing. If Sidney Crosby hadn’t scored that goal to win the Olympic gold medal, there’s no telling what might have ensued.
Let us stipulate that sequestering nuclear material is a good thing. But, it is a minor thing, particularly when Iran is off the table, and Pakistan is creating new plutonium for every ounce of Canadian uranium shipped to the U.S.
Perhaps calculating that removing relatively small amounts of fissile material from stable friendly countries didn’t quite do the trick, Obama proudly announced that the U.S. and Russia were disposing of 68 tons of plutonium. Unmentioned was the fact that this agreement was reached 10 years ago — and, under the new protocol, doesn’t begin to dispose of the plutonium until 2018. Feeling safer now?
The appropriate venue for such minor loose-nuke agreements is a meeting of experts in Geneva who, after working out the details, get their foreign ministers to sign off. Which made this parade of world leaders in Washington an exercise in misdirection — distracting attention from the looming threat from Iran, regarding which Obama’s 15 months of terminally naive “engagement” has achieved nothing but the loss of 15 months.
Indeed, the Washington summit was part of a larger misdirection play — Obama’s “nuclear spring.” Last week, a START treaty, redolent of precisely the kind of Cold War obsolescence Obama routinely decries. The number of warheads in Russia’s aging and decaying nuclear stockpile is an irrelevancy now that the existential U.S.-Soviet struggle is over. One major achievement of the treaty, from the point of view of Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, is that it could freeze deployment of U.S. missile defenses — thus constraining the single greatest anti-nuclear breakthrough of our time.
This followed a softening of the U.S. nuclear deterrent posture (sparing non-proliferation compliant states from U.S. nuclear retaliation if they launch a biochemical attack against us) — a change so bizarre and literally unbelievable that even Hillary Clinton couldn’t get straight what retaliatory threat remains on the table.
All this during a week when top U.S. military officials told Congress that Iran is about a year away from acquiring the fissile material to make a nuclear bomb. Then, only a very few years until weaponization.
At which point the world changes irrevocably: the regional Arab states go nuclear, the Non-Proliferation Treaty dies, the threat of nuclear transfer to terror groups grows astronomically.
A timely reminder: Syria has just been discovered transferring lethal Scud missiles to Hezbollah, the Middle East’s most powerful non-state terrorist force. This is the same Syria that was secretly building a North Korean-designed nuclear reactor until the Israeli air force destroyed the facility three years ago.
But not to worry. Canadian uranium is secured. A nonbinding summit communique has been issued. And a “Work Plan” has been agreed to.
Oh yes. And there will be another summit in two years. The dream lives on.
Thank You Mr. Krauthammer, and thank you readers.
That’s my Reezality for the Day.
Head Up Ass!
1. Pick a letter. 2. Include the letter in a sentence.
But instead, here’s what our president is doing, care of Joseph Curl POLITICAL THEATER:
By Joseph Curl POLITICAL THEATER
Just after proclaiming October as National Cybersecurity Awareness Month and just before departing for Copenhagen to lobby for his hometown as an Olympics host city, President Obama found the time Thursday to pop by the posh St. Regis Hotel a few blocks from the White House to hobnob with a gathering of Democratic governors and help raise some campaign cash.
But he didn’t find time to say a word about the war in Afghanistan and what he plans to do about it. He didn’t refer to the deteriorating situation there or take questions from the press corps – which he’s done just once in five weeks.
The 125 or so attendees opened with arugula salad mixed with pecans. On golden embroidered tablecloths under giant crystal chandeliers, they proceeded to the baked salmon over risotto, finishing off the meal with small, delicate dessert canapes.
After meeting and greeting the eight governors and VIPs in a private reception, Mr. Obama assured the supportive crowd that the federal government is staying focused on the important issues.
“I know some folks say we should focus on fixing the economy instead of on health insurance reform,” he said before falling into a familiar pitch on health care. He added that America has a “rare moment where we have a chance to seize our future.”
In the past month, the president has found the time to play golf – four times. He’s had links legend Arnold Palmer and other top golfers over to the White House. He’s shot some hoops with friends and yukked it up with hockey’s Pittsburgh Penguins.
He’s celebrated Ramadan at the White House, eulogized newsman Walter Cronkite in New York City, attended several fundraisers (including Thursday afternoon’s luncheon), appeared on David Letterman’s late-night show (one of eight interviews), delivered two speeches to AFL-CIO rallies and dropped by the Washington Monument and the Jefferson Memorial for a visit with his wife and daughters.
And the brief jaunt to Copenhagen to buttonhole members of the International Olympic Committee on behalf of Chicago’s 2016 Olympics bid was Mr. Obama’s seventh trip out of town since Sept. 1.
Yet still no decision on strategy for the war in Afghanistan.
The president was vacationing in Martha’s Vineyard on Aug. 30 when Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal sent Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates a war assessment in which he said more U.S. troops – and a new U.S. strategy – are urgently needed to defeat a growing insurgency in Afghanistan.
Mr. Obama promptly went to Camp David for a five-day vacation (he’s talked to the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan just once since Gen. McChrystal urged swift action). Forty-three U.S. soldiers have died in Afghanistan in the past 30 days.
After exactly a month, the president on Wednesday convened a meeting in the White House Situation Room with his national security team on Afghanistan, his first since the general delivered his report.
And a stark report it is. Like most military brass, Gen. McChrystal didn’t mince words. He said flatly that he needs additional troops or else the conflict “will likely result in failure.” He urges an additional 30,000 to 40,000 combat troops to right the situation.
So, a day after the all-hands meeting on Afghanistan (the White House even sent reporters a list of attendees, a rarity for top-secret Situation Room meetings), Mr. Obama got down to business – raising a half-million dollars for the campaign coffers of the Democratic governors.
The White House bristles when asked whether Mr. Obama is so distracted by domestic affairs and health care that he is unable to focus on Afghanistan.
“Just yesterday I was asked why we were being diverted so much by foreign issues and why we weren’t talking about health care,” White House press secretary Robert Gibbs told reporters at a White House briefing Wednesday. “Maybe you guys should huddle, maybe come up with one premise that we’ll at least test for one day.”
Meanwhile, back in the basement of the White House, the president’s top advisers and military officials are far apart on what course of action to take. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton leans toward a troop increase; retired Gen. James L. Jones, Mr. Obama’s national security adviser, is not so supportive. The ever-helpful Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. favors scaling back the number of combat troops in Afghanistan and targeting more attacks in Pakistan.
In the end, the White House meeting achieved a consensus to hold more meetings, up to five, including two next week. The president will take “the next several weeks to review our strategy,” Mr. Gibbs said.
Meanwhile, upstairs in the Oval Office, the president spent Thursday taking care of more pressing business. He nominated Carolyn W. Colvin to be deputy commissioner of Social Security. He picked Paul K. Martin to be inspector general of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. He issued an executive order demanding federal workers stop texting while driving government vehicles.
And just before jetting off to Copenhagen, he took time to proclaim October as National Information Literacy Awareness Month.
“Every day, we are inundated with vast amounts of information,” he wrote in the proclamation. “Though we may know how to find the information we need, we must also know how to evaluate it,” he said, adding hopefully that modern technology “can help in our day-to-day decision-making.”
Indeed.
Back to Reetzality. Here’s some information Mr. President, your priorities are whacked. You need a life coach. You need to get to work, desk lamp work, not lime light work. Pronto! Get a move on it!
That’s my Reetzality for the Day.
Note: I hesitated to use the chosen image in this blog. Then I thought of this: In the private sector, where things like accountability and personal responsibility are demanded, and where efficiency, efficacy, and proficiency are obtained, folks have been told to get their head out of their arsh for, let’s see, not making a sales quota, or finishing a job. So, given that the job Obama is avoiding is one that our military forces’ lives are dependent on, I thought the image appropriate. I’ll even say it, “Get you head out of your arsh Mr. President.” Forgive me if I offend.
Incompetence
STEP ONE. List your options. I’ll give them to you so you can skip this step.
A. Pull out completely. B. Scale back. C. Keep the status quo. D. Ramp up.
There, you have four options. I assigned a letter to each one so you can refer to them by letter rather than the actual title. This will make it simple for you. Now Mr. President, we’ll go to step two.
STEP TWO. What are the likely outcomes of each option? This will take some data and some analysis from military experts. Surprise! We have the most sophisticated advanced military in the world. The information regarding outcomes is at your finger tips. Don’t worry, you don’t even have to process the information. There’s a secret way to get the likely outcome of each option. Ready Mr. President? Ask the military experts this question: “What are the likely outcome of each option?” Step two – Done!
Now, we go to step three Mr. President.
STEP THREE. Pick the option that has the best outcome. This shouldn’t be a tough one, assuming of course that you want our military campaign and the loss of life we’ve already expended and will expend to be successful and worth while. At worst, you might have to ask an extremely difficult question, like, “which option has the best outcome?” I can make it even easier for you Mr. President. This step can be exercised by simply referring to the letters of the options in step one. That’s why I gave each option a letter, so it will be easier for you. For example, “I pick option B.” See, not that difficult. I’m sure you can do it. If you’re nervous about screwing up, use your teleprompter. What ever letter appears on your teleprompter, say it. If you don’t want to use the teleprompter, Gibbs can hold up a flash card. Just say the letter that appears on the flash card and step three is done.
Time for step four. A key step.
STEP FOUR. Execute the “letter,” I mean option, you have chosen. Now this one you’re definitely going to need a teleprompter because it’s going to require an entire sentence, not a long one, but still, a complete sentence. Here’s the sentence: “Do (insert letter).”
That’s it Mr. President. Four steps. All you have to do is listen, pick the best option (by saying the name of a letter) which will be easy because your military advisers will tell you which one to pick, and then say, “Do (insert the letter).”
Done. Four simple steps. Actually, you don’t even have to be there for the first two steps, maybe even the first three steps. Your military experts can tell you the letter you have to say and then all you have to do is insert it in a sentence. You didn’t read the stimulus bill, why get into the details of picking the best option in Afghanistan? Just tell them to give you a letter to say. Then you can go on Letterman or have a beer with a cop or fly to Copenhagen, whatever, while the military experts are doing steps one and two, even step three. See how easy this is Mr. President. Basically, all you’ve got to do is say a letter, one twenty sixth as easy as reciting the alphabet which I’m sure you know. . . right? How many states are there in the union Mr. President? (Fifty, not fifty seven.) O.K. Just in case, a,b,c,d,e,f,g,h,i,j,k,l,m,n,o,p,q,r,s,t,u,v,w,x,y,z.
But here’s the problem folks. President Obama lacks the courage to make a decision. He has brought politics into the equation and unfortunately, when he did that, brought politics in, he spoiled the soup, he created a situation where there is no “best option.” Of course there is a best option, likely General McChrsytal’s option, but uh oh, this option will anger the left and damn it all, the president brought the political ingredient into the mix which is akin to requiring a stove to make good sushi.
The bottom line is this: President Obama is displaying his lack of leadership ability, his cowardly character, his arrogance, and his indifference to what is truly important by claiming he is “considering his options.” How disgraceful, how pathetic. How disgraceful, how pathetic, you ask? Here’s how disgraceful and pathetic: A ten year old could make a call on Afghanistan given this cheat sheet, and I’m not employing a metaphor here.
But not to worry. There’s no Iran building nukes. There’s no Venezuela searching for uranium. There’s no North Korea testing nukes. There’s no Russia flexing it’s muscle. China will never go military on let’s see, Taiwan. And I’m sure the Taliban and al-Qaida, given their love for our President, have called a time out while he considers his options. So, nothing to worry about right. Wrong. Our President’s conduct in this matter is not only disgraceful and pathetic, it is dangerous, really dangerous.
And that’s my Reetzality for the Day.
