Bloodthirsty Liberal

Can you tell me where she’s gone?
She teed-off a lot of people,
But it seems the good, they fry young,
You know, I just turned around and she’s gone off the reservation.

First, she misses the STFU speech—but with good reason:

When Clinton became aware that her planned trip to London — for separate conferences on Yemen and Afghanistan — would coincide with the State of the Union address, aides approached the White House about it.

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Obama felt it was more important for her to go to London than to remain for his speech, Crowley said.

“She asked the president directly, `What do you want me to do?’ And he was very clear: These (London talks) are priorities, so your place is in London working on Yemen and Afghanistan-Pakistan,” Crowley said.

Her “place”? I was raised in feminist times, and I don’t believe I’d tell a woman—even if she were my Secretary of State—her place.

But if those talks were so important that the highest-profile cabinet member was missing, why no mention of them, or her, in the STFU?

Next, she announces she’s whooped and can’t carry on much longer:

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton says she does not see herself remaining the country’s top diplomat for a full eight years if President Obama is re-elected and asks her to stay on.

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No, I really can’t. I mean it is just … the whole eight. I mean that would be very challenging. It’s a 24/7 job and I think at some point I will be very happy to pass it on to someone else.”

And then she got a little testy about criticism of the US aid efforts in Haiti:

“I deeply resent those who attack our country, the generosity of our people and the leadership of our president in trying to respond to historically disastrous conditions after the earthquake,” Clinton said.

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“Some of the international press either misunderstood or deliberately misconstrued what was a civilian and military response, both of them necessary in order to be able to deliver aid to the Haitians who desperately needed it,” Clinton told a gathering of State Department employees.

Good for you, Madame Secretary. Tell the wogs to go eff themselves. That’s what I’d do (that’s what I do do).

I trust you were just as defensive and resentful over criticism of the federal government’s response to Hurricane Katrina, weren’t you?

We don’t need more of the Bush administration incompetence that turned a natural disaster into a national disgrace and an international embarrassment.

That’s what I thought.

Well, in repayment for your steadfastness and service to your country, let us advance this delicious rumor:

The chatter has increased in recent days about Clinton leaving the cabinet sometime in the first term, likely over some matter of principle, so that she can position herself to challenge Obama in 2012. Perhaps it is just wishful thinking on the part of those Democrats who have already grown tired of Obama. What is true is that Clinton can still mobilize the political infrastructure necessary to mount an effective challenge to the sitting president. A primary challenge against a sitting president whose approval numbers are above 50 percent and one mounted against an incumbent who is below 50 percent are two very different things, a fact of which the Clinton political team is surely aware.

(You were almost right, Kanye.)

You know why Democrats are so popular?

Because they’re “thin-skinned” and can speak in an “ignorant” dialect when they want to.

Everybody knows about Harry Reid on President Obama (and he was a fan!).

Fewer may have heard of President Clinton’s remark:

“A few years ago, this guy would have been getting us coffee,” the former president told the liberal lion from Massachusetts, according to the gossipy new campaign book, “Game Change.”

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After Kennedy sided with Obama, Clinton reportedly griped, “the only reason you are endorsing him is because he’s black. Let’s just be clear.”

And I haven’t heard a denial.

He’s never exactly been a fan:

Of course, the two did kiss and make up eventually:

“He’s saying he’s not going to reach out, that Obama has to come to him. One person told me that Bill said Obama would have to quote kiss my ass close quote, if he wants his support.

“You can’t talk like that about Obama - he’s the nominee of your party, not some house boy you can order around.

“Hillary’s just getting on with it and so should Bill.”

Evidently, “house boy” is exactly what Bill thought of Barack.

And we all remember how Hillary just got on with it.

“My husband did not wrap up the nomination in 1992 until he won the California primary somewhere in the middle of June, right? We all remember Bobby Kennedy was assassinated in June in California. I don’t understand it.”

But that’s all in the past. I’m sure Democrats aren’t like that any more. I guess we’ll have to wait for reporters to publish more books, because nobody will actually write it in the paper.

But while we’re in the past, who can forget these Greatest Racist Hits From the Democratic Party?

“You cannot go to a 7-11 or Dunkin Donuts unless you have a slight Indian Accent.”
- Senator Joe Biden

Mahatma Gandhi “ran a gas station down in Saint Louis.”
- Senator Hillary Clinton

“You’d find these potentates from down in Africa, you know, rather than eating each other, they’d just come up and get a good square meal in Geneva.”
- Fritz Hollings (D, S.C.)

“In the days of slavery, there were those slaves who lived on the plantation and [there] were those slaves that lived in the house. You got the privilege of living in the house if you served the master … exactly the way the master intended to have you serve him. Colin Powell’s committed to come into the house of the master. When Colin Powell dares to suggest something other than what the master wants to hear, he will be turned back out to pasture.”
- Harry Belafonte

(On Clarence Thomas) “A handkerchief-head, chicken-and-biscuit-eating Uncle Tom.”
- Spike Lee

“He’s married to a white woman. He wants to be white. He wants a colorless society. He has no ethnic pride. He doesn’t want to be black.”
- California State Senator Diane Watson’s on Ward Connerly’s interracial marriage

“Rather I should die a thousand times, and see Old Glory trampled in the dirt never to rise again, than to see this beloved land of ours become degraded by race mongrels, a throwback to the blackest specimen from the wilds.”

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“I am a former kleagle of the Ku Klux Klan in Raleigh County and the adjoining counties of the state …. The Klan is needed today as never before and I am anxious to see its rebirth here in West Virginia …. It is necessary that the order be promoted immediately and in every state of the Union. Will you please inform me as to the possibilities of rebuilding the Klan in the Realm of W. Va …. I hope that you will find it convenient to answer my letter in regards to future possibilities.”

– Former Klansman and current US Senator Robert Byrd, a man who is referred to by many Democrats as the “conscience of the Senate”, in a letter written in 1946, after he quit the KKK.

“I’ll have those n***ers voting Democratic for the next 200 years.”

– Lyndon B. Johnson to two governors on Air Force One according Ronald Kessler’s Book, “Inside The White House”

As good a place as any to stop, though there are many, many more to go. But the “plantation” mentality of the party has been in place from the start of the Great Society and before. (Need I remind anyone that George Wallace was a Democrat?)

And I don’t know how many times I will need to remind you that Republicans supported the Civil Rights Act in higher proportions than Democrats (80% to 61%).

Time and space do not allow me to explore the further statements from the likes of Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, and Jeremiah Wright. Democrats, liberals, whatever are obsessed with race—and it ain’t pretty (if that’s not too “Negro” for you).

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

If so, we are governed by a pack of Einsteins.

Idea one:

The US Deputy Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, Janet Holl Lute, met with Public Security Minister Yitzhak Aharonovitch in Jerusalem on Wednesday, as well as senior police officers, to discuss bilateral cooperation on confronting terrorism.

“Unfortunately, Israel is considered a world expert on dealing with terrorism. At the same time, we have an obligation to share information with our friends,” Aharonovitch said during the meeting.

Lute’s visit comes as part of a major US-Israeli effort to increase cooperation on counter-terrorism efforts in order to help avert future attacks.

The US is keen to learn about Israeli counter-terrorism experience, as well as how various Israeli law enforcement agencies work together and share information.

Idea two:

The Obama administration is gearing up for a fresh attempt to relaunch stalled Israeli-Palestinian peace talks after the effort hit a dead end last year.

In a flurry of meetings in Washington and in European capitals this week and next, senior administration officials will explore new approaches to bringing the two sides together.

The new track would include preparing letters for Israeli and Palestinian leaders that would lay out the endgame and guarantee US support for a negotiated end to the conflict.

We acknowledge that Israel is beset by death-cult terrorists, as are we, whose goal is their destruction, their slaughter—and ours.

Hey, sounds like peace!

I guess it takes an intelligence greater than mine to understand this. Earth to Chris. Come in, Chris.

So President Obama is ticked off about security threats to this country, is he? Glad to hear it:

Reporting from Washington - An angry President Obama said Tuesday that there had been “unacceptable” failures in the American intelligence system that allowed an accused terrorist to board a U.S.-bound Northwest Airlines flight on Christmas Day, and vowed changes in security procedures and information gathering to avert future plots.

The president held a lengthy afternoon session with top administration officials, during which agency heads acknowledged their shortcomings and laid plans for corrections.

“This was a screw-up that could have been disastrous,” Obama told the officials, White House officials said later. “We dodged a bullet, but just barely. It was averted by brave individuals, not because the system worked — and that is not acceptable.”

Well, he’s not wrong. But there’s been so much “unacceptable” to Obama in his first year (almost two million hits to a Googling of “Obama” and “unacceptable”), you wonder if there’s any satisfying him. But other than blaming Bush, what’s he going to do about it? (More about this later.)

Administration officials did not rule out the possibility of firings over the incident, although Obama admonished White House staffers and Cabinet chiefs in the closed session not to engage in “finger-pointing” over the failures, White House officials said.

You mean like this?

“Based on what we know now, the State Department fully complied with the requirements set forth in the interagency process as to what should be done when a threat is – or when information about a potential threat is known.”

Thanks, Hill. We knew you had our back.

What I do not want to hear is something akin to the gruel that comes out of his mouth after his absurdist “jobs summits”. (He says he wants to hear all good ideas, but somehow taxes never get cut. Huh.) Profiling people from those oddly similar fourteen countries is a good start, but how far is he willing to go down that road?

More likely we’ll get more of this:

“And so perhaps the biggest change Obama has made is what one former adviser calls the “mood music” — choice of language, outreach to Muslims, rhetorical fidelity to the rule of law and a shift in tone from the all-or-nothing days of the Bush administration. He is committed to taking aggressive actions to disrupt terrorist cells, aides said, but he also considers his speech in Cairo to the Islamic world in June central to his efforts to combat terrorism. “If you asked him what are the most important things he’s done to fight terrorism in his first year, he would put Cairo in the top three,” Rahm Emanuel, his chief of staff told me.”

You see, this is really just sad. If Barack Obama had actually known his father, I don’t believe he’d be quite the narcissist he is. No dad would let his son get away with the crap this guy has become accustomed to getting away with. (”I won” as an excuse to get my way would have earned me a boot in the ass from my dad—metaphorical or literal, as you prefer—and from me to my son.) It is narcissistic enough to think that a speech can change world history (he thinks that of every speech he gives); it is Olympian narcissism to persist in that belief after all the terror plots and threats that emanate from the Muslim world.

Obama turns on Chris Matthews (does he ever!) on the TV, and asks: “Mirror, mirror on the wall, who’s the hottest hunk of all?” And Matthews answers “You are, leg-thriller!” But he wouldn’t get the same answer from Ahmadinejad or Mullah Omar or Osama—or any of the other terrorists and thugs who have targeted us more in the last year than any since 2001.

Your tax dollars—yours!—at work:

Nearly $6 million in stimulus money was paid to two firms run by Mark Penn, Hillary Clinton’s pollster in 2008.

Federal records show that $5.97 million from the $787 billion stimulus helped preserve three jobs at Burson-Marsteller, the global public-relations and communications firm headed by Penn.

Burson-Marsteller won the contract to work on a public-relations campaign to advertise the national switch from analog to digital television. Nearly $2.8 million of the contract was issued to Penn’s polling firm, Penn, Schoen & Berland Associates, according to federal records.

Rush had this story, too, but he remembered in addition that Hillary’s concession in the primaries hinged on Obama paying off her campaign debts. How can we not draw our own conclusions, especially when, as Ed Morrissey puts it:

We’ve pulled capital out of the hands of people who actually create jobs, and handed it to people like Mark Penn, who saved three jobs at a taxpayer cost of $2 million per job.

And President Obama does so for the same reason a dog tongues his testicles: because he can.

Madame Secretary evidently couldn’t tell East Jerusalem from East Jesus—and very likely doesn’t care:

The incompetence of American diplomacy reached a new nadir yesterday in an incident vershadowed by the elections in the US. Hillary Clinton told Al-Jazeera in an interview that the US wants to see an Israeli capital in East Jerusalem. Apparently, the chief diplomat of the United States and the woman who ran on her experience in foreign affairs did not remember that East Jerusalem is primarily Palestinian:

Egypt and other Arab nations reacted with strong concern to remarks Clinton made in Jerusalem on Saturday. She caused a stir when she said with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at her side that his government’s offer to restrain — but not stop — settlement activity in Palestinian areas was unprecedented.

And in a new twist Tuesday, Clinton made what appeared to be an inadvertent slip of the tongue in a television interview with the al-Jazeera network, referring to the goal of “an Israeli capital in east Jerusalem.”

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Two Clinton aides monitoring the interview alerted her to the mistake and that portion of the interview was retaped so she could correct herself.

In other words, she pressed the re-set button.

If it indeed were American policy to recognize the Israeli capital in East Jerusalem, I would be the first to praise the morality and courage of such a decision. But no, they just hit the re-wind button, and erased history.

What a bunch of rank amateurs.

When Secretary of State Clinton praised Israeli flexibility on relations with the Palestinians (specifically on settlement construction), not everyone was pleased to hear the words coming out of her mouth:

“Why, Mrs. Hillary? How much did the Zionists pay you as a bribe?”

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“Words that treat truth with cruelty and wallow in the swamp of lies, especially coming from a person of senior position, are improper… [such are] the words of US Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton.”

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Al-Hayat Al-Jadida also ran a cartoon reiterating a longstanding Palestinian claim that the US is controlled by Jews. It shows an Uncle Sam figure looking into a mirror held by a caricature of a hook-nosed religious Jew, wearing a hat with a Star of David. Instead of seeing his own reflection, the American sees the Jew in the mirror.

I love cartoons. How about a couple more?

Hysterical. And they had their intended effect:

Secretary Clinton delivered the following remarks Monday morning at a camera spray upon meeting with Moroccan Foreign Minister Fassi-Fihri in Marrakech, Morocco:

For 40 years, successive American administrations of both parties have opposed Israel’s settlement policy. That is absolutely a fact.

And the Obama Administration’s position on settlements is clear, unequivocal. It has not changed. And as the President has said on many occasions, the United States does not accept the legitimacy of continued Israeli settlements.

Exactly. His noxious, hostile, biased position is very clear, and I’m sure it’s entrenched. Anti-Semitism doesn’t make much of an impression on him.

But you’d think anti-Palestinianism would:

Israel’s harshest critics claim to champion the rights of Palestinians. So we’re curious about the fallout, or lack thereof, from revelations that the Palestinian Authority regularly brutalizes its own in the West Bank while enjoying a steady flow of dollars and euros.

Senior PA official Haitham Arar was quoted in the Daily Mail more than a week ago openly discussing the abuses. That follows a Mail On Sunday report in January that detailed the Authority’s regular use of beatings, whippings, attacks with electrical drills, and other methods of torture doled out to anyone seen threatening the authority of Fatah, the party of President Mahmoud Abbas. Murder and rape are also commonplace.

As Middle East analyst Tom Gross points out, the only news here is that a Western newspaper has bothered to write about it. At least some ink is spilled documenting Hamas’s blunt methods, but much less has been made of Fatah’s abuses since Yasser Arafat took over most of the territory in 1993. What’s more, Western governments support the internecine violence with ever-increasing aid. As of Sept. 15, the European Union had delivered €268 million to the Authority this year, and in July the U.S. extended an additional $200 million.

The money will not stop now that Ramallah is no longer trying to hide the mistreatment. Westminster’s one response has been to quietly send officers to the West Bank to train Authority forces on how not to torture prisoners.

So here’s the state-of-play in the department of moral outrage. When Britain is accused of abetting U.S. interrogations, lawsuits, investigations, and threats to try Tony Blair for war crimes quickly follow. When Israel attacks Hamas in order to end rocket launches on its soil, it risks a session before the International Criminal Court. But when the West funnels billions to a Palestinian government whose abuses are brazen and ongoing, there is mainly silence.

Maybe back when we started this blog, we hoped we could change the way Israel is portrayed in the media. But we’ve matured. Now, all I want is for Israel to take care of itself and its citizens. Play along with Obama if you must, but do not ever think he has your best, or even second-best, interests at heart. He’d sell you down the river faster than you could say “daily humiliation of the Palestinian people.”

We have been known to ridicule the Nobel Peace Prize Committee for their absurd choices—Jimmy Carter, Yasser Arafat, the other guy, name escapes me, big ears—but they got at least one right: Yitzak Rabin.

And look how he planned to achieve peace:

Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin: Ratification of the Israel-Palestinian Interim Agreement
The Knesset
October 5, 1995

* No Palestinian State: “We view the permanent solution in the framework of State of Israel which will include most of the area of the Land of Israel as it was under the rule of the British Mandate, and alongside it a Palestinian entity which will be a home to most of the Palestinian residents living in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank.

We would like this to be an entity which is less than a state, and which will independently run the lives of the Palestinians under its authority.”

* No return to ‘67 borders: “The borders of the State of Israel, during the permanent solution, will be beyond the lines which existed before the Six Day War. We will not return to the 4 June 1967 lines.”

* Control of Jordan Valley: “The security border of the State of Israel will be located in the Jordan Valley, in the broadest meaning of that term.”

* Gush Katif as model: “The establishment of blocs of settlements in Judea and Samaria, like the one in Gush Katif.”

* All settlements remain intact during interim period: “I want to remind you: we committed ourselves, that is, we came to an agreement, and committed ourselves before the Knesset, not to uproot a single settlement in the framework of the interim agreement, and not to hinder building for natural growth.”

* (During interim period) “The responsibility for external security along the borders with Egypt and Jordan, as well as control over the airspace above all of the territories and Gaza Strip maritime zone, remains in our hands.”

Even if the current Democratic president doesn’t remember the negotiations conducted by the previous Democratic president, it would seem to me he has a Secretary of State who was around at the time and might recall the events.

Unless he doesn’t listen to her.

Rabin might have been willing to seek peace with the Palestinians, but never through weakness and surrender. How long ago that seems.

First, Russia unleashes a vodka-infused belch in Madame Secretary’s pitch for sanctions against Iran.

Now, China drip-drip-drips cold water on the initiative, too:

China praised its growing energy and trade ties with Iran in remarks that further diminished any expectation that Beijing will support efforts by the U.S. and its allies to sanction Iran over its nuclear program.

“The Sino-Iran relationship has witnessed rapid development, as the two countries’ leaders have had frequent exchanges, and cooperation in trade and energy has widened and deepened,” Premier Wen Jiabao said in a meeting with visiting Iranian Vice President Reza Rahimi, according to the state-controlled Xinhua news agency.

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The comments Thursday came a day after Russia also pushed back on any possible sanctions. Russia’s Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, in Beijing for the Shanghai Cooperation Organization summit, said Wednesday it is “premature” to threaten sanctions against Tehran.

Resistance from China and Russia, which can veto sanctions proposed through the United Nations Security Council, could derail attempts to use sanctions to punish Iran. Last week, the U.S. met with 10 allies to explore possible sanctions, such as targeting Iran’s energy supplies or financial system.

This is the change we’ve been waiting for?

I’m going to be more than fair to President Obama (not for long, don’t worry) and say that these commie reprobate poor excuses for world leaders would have given the brush off to President Bush, too. I think that’s a given.

But Bush would have known that, expected it, while Obama, Clinton, and the rest don’t get why the rest of the world (the Nobel committee aside) just don’t dig them. They’re so smart, so charming, so articulate, they hate Bush as much or more—shouldn’t that be enough?

Our readers know how the world works, even if the administration does not. China ain’t our friend, Russia ain’t our friend, the UN ain’t our friend. They all wish us ill. The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results. This administration is stark raving mad.

American gay people who are disappointed that President Obama has words, just words, on their behalf can take solace that words, just words, are all his administration has for gays around the world:

Russia’s leading gay activist said yesterday that he was disappointed that Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton met with an outspoken foe of gay rights during her two-day visit and did not decry homophobia.

Clinton attended a statue unveiling of Walt Whitman at Moscow State University with Mayor Yuri Luzhkov. Luzhkov has blocked all attempts to hold gay pride marches in Moscow, once saying they “can be described in no other way than as satanic.’’

Clinton did not mention of the issue during the ceremony. Some biographers have described Whitman as homosexual and US gay activists have claimed him as a symbol of their movement.

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Gay activist Nikolai Alexeyev said yesterday that he was disappointed Clinton did not discuss discrimination against gays.

“Russia is supposed to be a democracy and she said nothing,’’ he said.

Alexeyev had called on Clinton to denounce what he called entrenched and degrading homophobic attitudes in Russia.

I’m sure she’ll get right on that.

America is supposed to be a democracy, too, Nikolai, and how’s that working out for us?