Bloodthirsty Liberal

Has the Absolute Moral Authority on the war in Afghanistan weighed in on The Speech (eech—eech—eech)?

Oh, you bet she has:

I knew that Obama was going to announce that he would be condemning 30-35,000 more troops to Afghanistan(Pakistan): that wasn’t exactly a state secret. I also knew that his speech would be filled with jingoistic propaganda—that’s a given with presidential speeches–and the Pope of Hope is no different. However, I was not prepared for the physical sickness that overcame me while he was speaking. His delivery was wooden and not convincing, but the words tore my heart apart like I was a newby to presidential calumny.

I did not support Obama when he ran for president because he said he was going to send more troops to Afghanistan. He is a rare bird: a president that fulfills a campaign promise. I am not surprised, or disappointed, but I am filled with anger.

I am angry that thousands of more mothers will, without reason or rhyme, be served the unending pain of burying a child.

I was watching O’Bomber’s speech tonight at a bar in Las Vegas after our protest at the Federal Building there and I was punched in the gut with Obama telling the Cadets at West Point that he has:

“As President, I have signed a letter of condolence to the family of each American who gives their life in these wars. I have read the letters from the parents and spouses of those who deployed. I have visited our courageous wounded warriors at Walter Reed. I have travelled to Dover to meet the flag-draped caskets of 18 Americans returning home to their final resting place. I see firsthand the terrible wages of war.”

Just like goddamned George Bush and his evil vice-president, Obama has no freaking idea what the “terrible wages of war,” are. Signing letters, or saluting caskets, or meeting with the wounded are NOT the same thing as receiving one of those letters, lying in one of those caskets or being maimed for the rest of your life. He has only “witnessed” the “terrible wages of war,” from a remote viewing location that is filtered through the gauze of a deep disconnect from the violent pain that he is imposing.

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Obama again uses the attacks on 9-11 to justify this absolutely bat-shit crazy occupation of Afghanistan—no matter what he says, it IS an occupation. Tonight, in the speech he gave in front of his Cadet “props,” Obama said that the attack on 9-11 was “vicious.”

I agree that 9-11 was awful and it’s a day that we surely will never forget, but if that was “vicious” then what does Obama call what America has been doing in Iraq-Af-Pak now for twice as many years as WWII lasted? What’s worse than “vicious?” Genocide, that’s what.

Genocide is the systematic killing of a racial or cultural group and please don’t waste your time telling me that Obama has a “good heart” or “great intellect” because if he had either one of those things, the troops would be coming home by now.

Obama is just another coward that has risen to the highest office in the world and I am tired of having to be shoved by crazy people, chased and shot at by police, tear-gassed, arrested, called names that make even me blush, scrimping for every penny to stay afloat in this peace business, traveling and protesting to the point of exhaustion, etc. Not only did Obama condemn 30,000 troops to horror, with just one speech, he also condemned the real anti-war movement that was opposed to his policies from the beginning, to many more years of our sacrifices.

Well, I am not going to stop protesting and doing all of the above things, but I am not doing them for the rest of my life. If you believe in the mythical “drawdown” that Obama has just lied through his teeth about, then I ask you where did the “one combat battalion per month” out of Iraq go? Remember that promise? There has been no significant “drawdown” of troops from Iraq at all.

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We have to end them as soon as possible. We have to escalate our peace as the War Machine escalates its violence.

Want to go all the way for peace?

Alll the way with you, Cindy? I’m sorry for you loss, honey, but I think I’d rather do Helen Thomas.

Well, somebody would.

Tell me I’m wrong:

Filmmaker Michael Moore urged President Barack Obama on Monday not to expand the war in Afghanistan, as Washington prepares to announce a surge of US troops in the conflict-torn nation.

Moore, visiting Japan this week to promote his latest documentary “Capitalism: A Love Story,” told reporters that he had sent Obama a message from his father, a World War II veteran.

“I passed on to him a personal request from my father and his Japanese friend: ‘Mr. Obama, you do not know war. We both know war and want it no more’,” he told reporters.

Who says President Obama doesn’t know war? He sure talked like he did during the campaign, threatening to escalate the conflict into Pakistan. The delusion on the Left that Obama is an innocent led astray by the big bad world is laughable. He’d drive over his own grandmother if—oh wait, he already did.

Just ask the Elphaba of the Left (cow):

There’s scum that attack and more scum that protect those attackers.

There’s scum that take away our rights to peaceably assemble and to freedom of speech, and more scum that protect those who try to steal those rights.

We the People need to be the ones to vigorously defend our rights and defend peace on earth from everyone from Sgt. Phil Ward to President Obama who think that killing is “right and proper.”

Here’s the video of the “scum” “attacking” Cindy Sheehan. It’s pretty clear she doesn’t mind getting in the face of a decorated American veteran significantly older than she—and it’s equally clear she can’t take anyone who disagrees with her. Watch, and tell me she’s not the bully. Cow.

In Cindy’s defense, she hasn’t changed her tone a bit since Obama’s election. She is just as crude, hateful, and offensive as she’s always been, but now the media don’t want to hear from her. She has to resort to sticking a megaphone in an old man’s face to get any publicity.

Cow.

If disaffected lefties really want to spank President Obama, I suggest they wait until he next bows—won’t be long, Copenhagen at the latest. That’s the best target-rich opportunity:

Ready, aim, thwack!

President Obama is days away from announcing a new Afghan strategy, but his immediate battle could come from liberals within his own party who are vowing to “spank” the president for committing tens of thousands of more troops to the eight-year conflict.

In a prime-time speech Tuesday from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, Obama is expected to announce that he is sending up to 35,000 additional troops to Afghanistan beginning next year.

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“I think there will be some disillusionment within his base,” said Paul Kawika Martin, political director for Peace Action, a grassroots organization, who added that thousands of activists are planning to protest following the president’s announcement.

“We’re going to spank him for sending more troops,” he told FoxNews.com, adding that they may also “thank him” if he announces a quick exit strategy.

That’s a little churlish, don’t you think? Surely other anti-war types are more understanding, more patient, right Cindy?

President Peace-Nik: So you’re going to lay it on us next week, huh? How thankful will our service parents be? How many of our children are coming home in a box? Give us a hint: Is you is - or is you ain’t going to boost up “peaceful” killing in Afghanistan by sending more troops, at $1 Million / year for each individual soldier? How ’bout instead, you give us a real change and just STOP killing people? (I sure am hoping!) Guess I’ll mosey on and go about my own business. What the *bleep* do I know anyway?

Don’t hear about her absolute moral authority as much as we used to. I guess it comes with an expiration date. Somewhere around 1.20.09.

Jonah Goldberg at NRO reads Copepink’s online missive so you don’t have to:

Codepink:

The recent shootings at Ft. Hood and the resignation of top Foreign Service officer Matthew Hoh demonstrate how even our military officers are opposed to US strategy in Afghanistan.

Got that? According to Codepink, Hasan was speaking for the U.S. military officer corps.

Well, Hasan wouldn’t want to threaten his military career by registering a complaint or expressing a dissenting opinion or anything. He simply reacted in the only way a respectable officer in the Unites States Army could: by fragging everyone in sight.

If that’s how Code Pink is thinking these days, how ’bout our girl Cindy Sheehan?

So glad you asked:

This Sunday (November 15th), Cindy (finally) welcomes Noam Chomsky. Cindy asks questions submitted by listeners, and Professor Chomsky provides his usual deep and profoundly meaningful insights. And then Cindy asks another listener question, and Dr. Chomsky does it again! The illumination this man sheds on our situation is so overwhelming - I can’t even write a good enough description!

We are lucky to have such an intellectual star sharing his wisdom with us.

Thank you, Cindy!

The world has long waited to hear the “profoundly meaningful insights” of Dr. Chomsky, not to mention his overwhelming illumination. What’s it been, fifteen minutes?

And you say you don’t write good.

Code Pink now loves the war in Ass-stan, can’t get enough of it, will soon be wearing pink camouflage and pink Mike Dukakis helmets (don’t knock it till you’ve tried it):

If the rumors are true about Biden spearheading a movement inside the administration to scale back in Afghanistan, then we’ve actually reached the point where Code Pink is more hawkish than the vice president of the United States.

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During their weeklong visit here, in which they met with government officials, politicians, ministers, women activists, and civil society groups, the small team of Code Pink members had hoped to gather evidence to bolster their call for US troop withdrawal within two years, and capitalize on growing anxiety back home about the war.

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“We would leave with the same parameters of an exit strategy but we might perhaps be more flexible about a timeline,” says Benjamin. “That’s where we have opened ourselves, being here, to some other possibilities. We have been feeling a sense of fear of the people of the return of the Taliban. So many people are saying that, ‘If the US troops left the country, would collapse. We’d go into civil war.’ A palpable sense of fear that is making us start to reconsider that.”

Clear? Didn’t think so. What I think Ms. Benjamin is trying to say, delicately, is that she and her whole crew are full of pink s**t.

But that’s okay. Whatever it takes to get them to stop betraying their country is okay with us. Welcome aboard, ladies. Strap one on, and smoke ‘em if you got em.

Only I think here you and Cindy Sheehan part company. The girl may be crazy (grief, as opposed to grandstanding, can do that), but she’s consistent.

By the way, President Peace-nik: Where’s that change? I’m still hoping. (But that’s no change.) I began wondering about civilian casualties in Afghanistan and Pakistan. I saw there’s no easily located public informatioon. I found good data on Afghani casualties and very interesting information on Pakistani casualties. So I ask whether ratcheting these casualties up is really what a good litle Nobel laureate peace-nik President should be doing? (Oh well - same as it always was.) Guess I’ll just go away. What the *bleep* do I know anyway?

Don’t you go anywhere, Cindy. With your former compatriots abandoning you in droves, we need you now more than ever.

Don’t expect to see much of the “Peace Mom” on the evening news or the morning papers. You’ll have to go see him in person.

Here’s how:

Her schedule of public events is as follows:

Wednesday, Aug. 26, 11am, Press Conference at Oak Bluffs Elementary School.

Wednesday, Aug. 26, 8pm, Peace Vigil, Ocean Park Bandstand, Oak Bluffs.

Thursday, Aug. 27, Friday, Aug. 28 and Saturday, Aug. 29: Boat trips with Cindy for peace movement leaders, press and public. These ’shipboard peace summit’ meetings will leave Vineyard Haven twice daily on the 105 foot sloop ‘SS Camp Casey’ in the afternoons. Call for details.

Saturday Aug. 29, 9 to 5 Peace Vigil Ocean Park, Oak Bluffs
and Walkabout around the Island

Saturday, Aug. 29, 8pm Cindy Sheehan speaking event “Peace Now, Again”, Katharine Cornell Theater, 54 Spring St., Vineyard Haven.

Cindy is scheduling press and media interviews throughout the week.

Those boat trips on the SS Camp Casey sound like fun—next to a colonoscopy.

The lady may be out of her gourd, but she’s consistent and persistent. As she put it:

No Vacations for Body Bags!

She hasn’t changed, people. Where have all her admirers gone?

Sounds like a Playboy spread, but thankfully not.

One groupie has followed the Obamas to the Vineyard:

Rabble rouser and peacenik Cindy Sheehan is jumping on the Obama vacation bandwagon. The activist, who made headlines when she protested in Crawford, Texas, during former President George W. Bush’s month-long vacation there in 2005, landed on the Vineyard last night to spread her anti-war message to Obama and the media.

Reached by phone from a Boston hotel as she prepped for her trek to the island, Sheehan said it doesn’t matter who’s in the White House - she’s not going anywhere. “First of all, I oppose the policies of the U.S. government in the Middle East. I have since before my son was killed,” said Sheehan, who lost her son in the Iraq war in 2004. “I opposed it when Bush was president and I oppose it now when Obama’s president.”

Quoth the “Peace Mom”:

“We must BE the change we wish to see in our President!” … “The clock does not turn back with a new President. . . We must return all our troops back here immediately. No more waiting will be tolerated. Zero acceptance for keeping them abroad!

“Where’s the change? Did it get lost in all that wonderful changiness we’ve all been swimming in? And what’s up with all this “indefinite detention” stuff anyway? And now we’re starting it within the USA itself? (Well, I guess that is a change.)

I wouldn’t look for this story on the CBS evening news.

Oh, and here’s another woman who will have to crash the party to get anywhere near the Obamas:

She has kept a low profile since her story broke, and some worried it could hurt Barack Obama’s chance to win the White House. But recently, she decided to open up about her life, and famous nephew to me in her first television interview.

Onyango’s immigration lawyer is in Cleveland, and she has come here often from Boston, staying with family.

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The 57 year old Kenyan-born aunt of President Barack Obama quickly flashes a smile, when you mention his name. “Actually, it’s phenomenal. I love my nephew and always pray for him,” Onyango says.

She clutches a double strand of costume pearls she said were a gift from her nephew when he visited his family in Kenya in 1987. He also gave her a book: The Constitution of the United States.

Onyango proudly remembers attending the swearing in ceremony with her mother, Sarah Obama, the President’s paternal grandmother in 2005, as Barack became a U.S. senator. Home video shows them both in full African dress at a celebration party shortly afterwards.

She talks about the current controversy over the President Obama’s citizenship. His administration has refused requests to make public his birth certificate, leaving some to question whether he was actually born in Kenya. The issue of where he was born is important because the U.S. constitution requires the president to be a ”natural-born citizen of the United States”.

Onyango calls those rumors “satanic”.

“It’s not true. And it’s not true at all. Barack was born in Honolulu, Hawaii. Ann (Obama’s mother) never stepped foot on Kenyan soil,” Onyango says defiantly.

Okay, I’m inclined to accept the word of an illegal alien living illegally in Boston public housing.

It’s one thing for President Obama to ignore his half brother half a world away in Kenya. It’s quite another for him to give the back of his hand to his loving auntie who (sometimes) lives in Boston, just a puddle jump away from Martha’s Vineyard. One local radio host even implored his listeners to help get Auntie Zeituni to the Vineyard. A listener responded with the use of his idle yacht for door (South Boston) to door (Oak Bluffs) service.

No word yet from the Obamas or the Onyangos.

PS: Is Cleveland especially picturesque this time of year, or did Zeituni make herself scarce from New England at someone’s suggestion (and expense)?