Mr. MotO Does the Middle East
Barack Obama is not the Messiah; his new title is Master of the Obvious (MotO). For example, there’s this little nugget of wisdom from Mr. MotO—wait for it—an American president can’t just snap his fingers and erase generations of religious and ethnic tensions in the Middle East. How does the man sleep at night when he knowingly withheld this earth shattering information? If we’d known about this, the whole Middle East thing would have been solved years ago.
And most interesting of all, Mr. MotO dropped a dime on Iran. Did you know a nuclear armed Iran poses “a grave threat”? I’m flabbergasted. All this time I thought one of the world’s largest oil exporters really needed the nuclear energy for peaceful purposes. How wrong was I?
No wonder the media worships the ground Mr. MotO walks on. With pearls of wisdom like this, we’re in for a bright and glorious future under his leadership.
Archived in: 2008 Election, Barack Obama, foreign policy, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Middle East, nuclear, Presidential ElectionJuly 23, 2008 at 9:19 pm | Trackback
19 comments
Mr. MotO is casting those pearls (of wisdom) before swine.
The comment before VW’s is actually the first I’ve ever edited/deleted on the blog. Sorry, but it just wasn’t relevant to the topic in any way, shape, or form.
OP, don’t apologize, exercise.
Pat, maybe you didn’t get a chance to see the several screen pages of his spam and dementia I deleted early this morning.
Yeah, I was going to respond to the one too about Obama having this great weak when he’s actually the blind recipient of election year politics when it comes to the timetable for US force withdrawal.
I generally don’t think we should delete posts as long as they make some semi-cogent point. His link to Republican felons just didn’t make any sense at all though.
Imagine, if Obama in West Germany 60 years ago, declaring the Berlin Airlift a surge policy that cannot work. A seer of his caliber might fit a peashooter.
The Berlin Airlift made the Soviets angry, and that’s why we had a Cold War. Had we just left our zone in Berlin, and turned the place over to the Russians, the world would have been a better place.
Sigh, would life have been so much simpler. Not having choices because there’s nothing from which to choose.
Reagan clearly said it about the grand heights reached by the Soviet Union. We can attain these levels by ripping up 75% of our railroad tracks, tearing up 80% of our roads, ridding our selves of 55% of our power plants and stop producing 65% of our food.
Is that a Obamarxist wet dream or not. The only surge that he gets is in his pants when he hears the International.
The one thing Gorbachev said that made sense..was something like: “My country isn’t a generation behind The West, my country is an epoch behind The West”.
But - seventy years of totalitarian socialism and the serfs did very little to end it, even after de-Stalinization. By that time, they had Darwinized themselves. Anyone with guts and ambition had been killed or left, and the bureaucracy that remained was an idiotocracy on its way to becoming a thugocracy, giving way to today’s kleptocracy.
The most amazing thing occured. Generous socialism made everyone furious to get what was promised to them at any cost. If you want to make everyone greedy at everyone else’s expense, socialize the damn system. It works every time.
Quite, look at CA, MA, VT MI, LA and a host of other states that have rule by Dems for years. All run huge deficits and believe the answer to the shrinking population is more taxes.
See: http://www.vermonttiger.com/co.....he-ob.html
VW, your article asks why these states ignore the obvious. You know the answer. Staggeringly high ratios of state employees to population, a recipient class excluded, because of business regulations, from finding productive work, strong municipal unions, and a wealthy, leftish class generally unaffected by the tax burden. So far, in this country, we’ve never seen the ultimate failure of these dislocations…only the early symptoms, as in Michigan, and California’s prospects are not good. Lefties there will end up washing each other’s clothes for a penny here and there.
Hey Guys,
As from the article you linked VW, “What none of these solutions offer is a response to the systemic problems that caused the deficit to begin with.”
from: http://www.stateline.org/live/.....Id=296844:
The upside of budget shortfalls
Rather than becoming defensive, governors and key policy advisors often view this period as an opportunity to implement efficiency and restructuring measures that could not be contemplated during good economic times. These could include:
Eliminating or making major reductions in programs of marginal benefit to citizens of the state.
Consolidating and reducing funding for duplicate programs.
Streamlining internal processes for the purchase and disposal of property, improving personnel management and similar activities to expedite decisions and make processes more efficient.
Expanding the use of e-government, implementing performance management improvements and enhancing budgeting transparency.
In addition, governors can take steps that may save money both for state government and the private sector, such as:
Streamlining business regulations by eliminating redundant steps or creating a one-stop entry point for small businesses. This also could include consolidating regulatory boards and commissions and eliminating outdated licensing requirements.
Consolidating and streamlining fees and revenue systems.
Improving the worker’s compensation system.”
In my opinion, this is case in point why we need Mitt Romney as part of the solution. I offer the below link to all who would like more information on the political reality in Massachusetts in which he saw the whites of their eyes, daily.
“They will never, ever, ever go away,” Romney told a crowd yesterday at a breakfast gathering of the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce. “(The authority) exists, in my view, because of its friends.” -from “Gov turns guns on Turnpike”, Boston Herald, 02/05/04 (sublinked here):
http://www.cltg.org/cltg/clt2004/04-02-05.htm
Helen, all the states shown in color are controlled by liberals Dems. They are not going to cut programs, reduce state workers (voters) or cut off welfare recipients (voters). What’s left?
Our votes, this fall!
Right!!!!
There isn’t a GOP challenger for congress in Vermont.
For the 153 seats in the house in Vermont, they have 107 GOP running. They’re hoping to get enough seats to sustain a Governor’s veto. They did it last year only because two Dems switched sides on crucial votes. One retires this year.
New Hampshire slipped in to the deficit column this past year after the Donks to control. MA escapees from high taxes decided they can’t do without the amenities that gave them the high taxes.
Maine is not going to give up welfare, earmarks or two RINO senators.
There’s no denying the reality, VW!
Still, I cannot bring myself to believe that voters truly enjoy feeling abused, neglected and forlorn. Here at NER we know very well the socio/political history of the past half century. We know Boston has been it’s epicenter and we’re still being shaken with aftershocks.
We know how painful it has been to see Democrats use the freedom they were given to trample on the Constitutional intent birthed with the blood of Patriots. People are open this half century later to the simple, life force articulation of the original Patriot’s intent.
But it has to be offered. Voters would recognize the gift like nourishment to the starving if only the genuine article could find the courage.
Apparently the metal has not yet reached forging temperature. New England has the capacity to breed the spirit and for all we know, a reader or readers here a NER might be feeling the requisite stirrings of passion.
Say it! We are waiting for you. Tell us you are here to home port this ship on the New England coast, again. Tell us you’ll fight for everything now lost and tarnished and abused. Tell us you’ll fight for the opportunities lost to self-serving behemoth governmental legislation.
Tell us you will give it all back to us as was ours originally. Tell us you’ll lance the beast that stands in the entrance to the cave and melt all it’s icons of gold.
Helen, your comment is the material for a run for office.
The problem with your message Helen, is the people don’t want to hear it. They want the government to give them everything. They are selling their birthright for chains cheerfully.
They’re screeching to keep houses they can’t afford, should never have been allowed to buy and are too stupid to know the difference.
If you tell them that you are a RBSH person.
Paying taxes to a north east state (NJ up) is akin to giving a liter of Wild Turkey and the car keys to a teenager.
When you stop beating your head against the wall, that lump will go down and the pain ceases.