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Much has been said and written about the President’s Nobel Prize acceptance speech. It was, to say the least, unexpected. Given the expressions on many of the Nobel Prize Committee’s faces it was totally unexpected by them as well, and in many of its aspects likely unwelcome. The President deserves credit for addressing many of the issues he addressed in this particular setting, on this occasion. It was, in its way, brilliant.
Watching the speech and reading the transcript, there is much to absorb and consider. The President’s recognition of evil in the world is heartening. His reminder to all that America played the critical, indispensible role in securing democracy and his defense of just conflict ring true. While some of the President’s historical context is questionable, that is nothing more than nit picking.
It was good to hear the President speak aggressively to the role of democracy in stabilizing the post war world. It was good to hear him point out that millions have been lifted from oppression and poverty by those ideals.
It was also good to hear him allude to the weakness frequently demonstrated by our partners in securing both themselves and others. I believe I heard a message to our European partners regarding their inherent pacifism and to Iran about the consequences of their actions. The address, scolding the unjustness of knee jerk anti-Americanism is both appropriate and necessary.
The President seemed to be defining a hybrid approach that includes aspects of all the currently dominant schools of foreign policy thinking. Critically, he spoke of consequences and the need for the international community to define and apply them. He, elegantly, castigated the international community for their inaction in Burma, the Congo and the Sudan. The message being that rhetoric associated with a failure of will is a guarantee of empirical failure. The President was clear that a failure to actually address these situations is a demonstration of the inherent and ongoing weakness of current international institutions and their moral grounding. He is right!
The President also, thankfully, addressed religious extremism and rejected the prevalent justifications for that extremism.
There is much more that can be said about the specifics of the speech; mainly supportive, in come cases critical. There are aspects that seem inconsistent and contradictory and yet analysis of those inconsistencies ignores the salient context and change of tone.
The questions are much more fundamental than, for instance, the President recognizing evil and extremism and yet contending that “we’re all basically seeking the same things” or contending that “one rule that lies at the heart of every major religion is that we do unto others as we would have them do unto us”. Clearly evil and extremism are not seeking what the majority seeks and not all religious interpretation is willing to apply the golden rule, but I digress.
The President’s tendency to apologize for America’s role in the world was absent. The criticism of Iraq was absent as he simply ignored it other than a general reference to being involved in two wars. He did not blame the prior administration.
This speech was so far removed from the President’s rhetoric of the past two years. One must ask; has the experience of office, the gravity of that office and the information that comes to a President served to lubricate an epiphany fueled by reality or simply to the perceived need for political triangulation?
Has the President actually come to believe all that he discussed during the speech? Does this speech represent a major evolution of the President’s thinking? Has the frequently valid criticism, broken through and broadened the President’s view to a recognition of the harsh realities that exist in world?
While it is not at all difficult to applaud a majority of this speech, actions will be the only basis for judging it fully. We must wait to see if members of his senior staff and cabinet officers bend to what the President has said both implicitly and explicitly. Will our foreign policy bureaucracy line up with the President? Will the challenge to other nations to act consistently to their rhetorical values continue? Will nations be called out? Will the U.S., once again, lead the way to establishing the consequences the President spoke of? And critically, will the President be prepared to act unilaterally and with courage where justified?
In short, will the walk, bear witness to the talk?
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The President may have stood a little taller in his speech. I think he was standing on a stool. He fled from the party afterwards as well. Not exactly a sign of a solid backbone.
Global warming conference is at hand and I want to see if he promises money that we must borrow from China to help Global Hoax. China is not donating any money themselves. This act and energy surcharge will devastate our economy and jobs. Expelling many jobs overseas as well. Just mentioning tax increases that must come.
Today House passed big government increase bill for financial regulation and consumer protection. Luckily portion that could allow judge to completely overhaul home loans was taken out of bill. All Republicans and like 10% of Democrats voted against this bill.
Of course we have health care hanging over us. 16% of our economy. Harry Reid is closed mouth of that plan. Such transparency.
I am sorry but I have little belief obama has changed. His lowest rating since 1938 when Gallup started of all Presidents may have caused him to stop knocking America. After all GW Bush was nearly twice higher after year in office. That must of in-bedded the screws into obama.
Obama was able to change his mind on a dime during campaign. Right know that is what I see. Self- preservation. Not him changing his ways.
W. Bush came to office under a 100% different situation. You shouldn’t compare Apples to Oranges, Bill, but then again I can’t imagine you doing anything less.
W. Bush came to office under a 100% different situation. You shouldn’t compare Apples to Oranges, Bill, but then again I can’t imagine you doing anything less.
JD_ Non-repentant plagiarist
You make no sense. Steal a comment some where that does.
I’m not guessing at what you mean
JD_ Non-repentant plagiarist
You need to read the poll to know how stupid you comment was. I posted the link.
Inform yourself before opening your mouth. Then you might make sense.
Informed citizens are showing their unhappiness in polls. That is why obama has lowest since begining of that poll.. People were nearly twice more satisfied with GW.
I knew you would hate that. Too bad. Truth hurts.
All polls I am aware of is against ‘liberal angel’ agenda.
December 11, 2009
“Health care loophole would allow coverage limits
Ricardo Alonso-zaldivar
“A loophole in the Senate health care bill would let insurers place annual dollar limits on medical care for people struggling with costly illnesses such as cancer, prompting a rebuke from patient advocates.”
“As currently written, the Senate Democratic health care bill would permit insurance companies to place annual limits on the dollar value of medical care, as long as those limits are not “unreasonable.” The bill does not define what level of limits would be allowable, delegating that task to administration officials.”
“Adding to the puzzle, the new language was quietly tucked away in a clause in the bill still captioned “No lifetime or annual limits.”
“The 2,074-page bill would carry out President Barack Obama’s plan to revamp the health care system, expanding coverage to millions now uninsured and trying to slow budget-busting cost increases. A tentative deal among Senate Democrats to back away from creating a new government program to compete with private insurers appears to have overcome a major obstacle to the bill’s passage.”
“Officials of the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network said they were taken by surprise when the earlier ban on annual coverage limits was undercut, adding that they have not been able to get a satisfactory explanation.”
“We don’t know who put it in, or why it was put in,” said Stephen Finan, a policy expert with the cancer society’s advocacy affiliate.”
Democratic officials of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee would not comment publicly but said the bill contains numerous provisions that will benefit patients with cancer and other life-threatening illnesses, not to mention improvements in preventive care.”
Advocates for patients say they’re concerned the language will stay in the bill all the way to Obama’s desk.”
“The primary purpose of insurance is to protect people against catastrophic loss,” Finan said. “If you put a limit on benefits, by definition it’s going to affect people who are dealing with catastrophic loss.” The cost of cancer treatment can exceed $100,000 a year.
Under the health care bills in Congress, the major expansion of health insurance coverage won’t take place until three to four years after enactment. Democrats have touted a series of consumer protections as immediate benefits Americans will secure through the legislation. Both the Senate and House bills, for example, ban lifetime limits on the dollar value of coverage.”
“But Finan said the change in the Senate bill essentially invalidates the legislation’s ban on lifetime limits.”
“If you can have annual limits, saying there’s no lifetime limits becomes meaningless,” he said. A patient battling aggressive disease in its later stages could conceivably exhaust insurance benefits in the course of a year.”
“It’s unclear how widespread such coverage limits are in the current insurance marketplace. Large employers have moved away from coverage limits, but insurers have wide discretion in designing plans for small businesses and individual customers.”
“In the House bill, neither annual nor lifetime limits would be allowable under an essential benefits package intended to provide comprehensive coverage.”
The Associated Press
http://www.realclearmarke.....imits.html
It is a blessing Republicans are not allowed in negotiations over health care bill in House.
This is Democrat’s baby. Will they abort the child ???
Looks like Sarah was right…
The woman dying in Oregon (State health plan) and was offered pills to kill herself, could be repeated all over America…
Restricting care_ Sounds like Canada and England. Their plans went way over budget. Sounds like history will repeat here to. Although delayed until 2013-2015. But hidden taxes begins when passed.
After all, obama hopes he will be re-elected… Yeah …
Harry Reid keep the revived Senate bill close to your vest. You don’t want public to see it doing your Christmas break do you ???
Obama is an unremitting liar and has not had a change of heart.
Christopher Schwinger
“It isn’t that liberals are ignorant; it’s that they know so much that isn’t so.”
Ronald Reagan
I whole heartily agree with you. May I add he is a diabolical revengeful liar as well. There are too few superlatives to place before his rotten cascading name. ‘Evil is his name’. Destruction is his game.
His self-righteous acceptance, of bestowing upon himself the credit for all good signs in America’s recovery, is hypocritical acrimonious pop·py·cock.
His harm to our Nation is only rivaled by world historic most infamous Dictators.
We must symbolically cut off the head of tyranny. Throw out the mini-me’s of Harry Reid and Nancy Palosi. Rid our Houses of the Franks, Dobbs, and other Blood Sucking Japanese Mountain Leeches
that feed off our blood. Deny it our life’s fluid. Money.
May God have mercy on their souls. I won’t…
http://www.youtube.com/wa.....e4N2ZeJESA
“I believe all these things because freedom is not America’s gift to the world; it is the Almighty God’s gift to every man and woman in this world.”
George W. Bush
“It is impossible to rightly govern a nation without God and the Bible.”
George Washington
“Liberalism is totalitarianism with a human face.”
Thomas Sowell
“Liberals become indignant when you question their patriotism, but simultaneously work overtime to give terrorists a cushion for the next attack and laugh at dumb Americans who love their country and hate the enemy.”
Ann Coulter
For more drops of wisdom:
http://essenceofamerica.w.....al-quotes/
I think Will Rogers would have to make an exception to his famous one line quote, if he met a modern day liberal.
Bill Hedges
Just for you JD…
Obama has lowest rating for president since 1938 according to Gallup. Who would of thunk !!! Congraduation… You earned it.
“Gallup Poll: Obama’s Approval Rating Lowest Of Any President After 1 Year”
December 8, 2009, 3:45PM
“In the history of the Gallup Poll, which began in 1938, this is the lowest approval rating for any president after only 1 year in office. Here is the list of presidential approval ratings after 1 year in office:”
– “Barack Obama, 47 percent
– George W. Bush, 86 percent
– Bill Clinton, 52 percent
– George H.W. Bush, 71 percent
– Ronald Reagan, 49 percent
– Jimmy Carter, 57 percent
– Gerald Ford, 52 percent
– Richard Nixon, 59 percent
– Lyndon Johnson, 74 percent
– John Kennedy, 77 percent
– Dwight Eisenhower, 69 percent
– Harry Truman, 49 percent”
“Things are not looking promising for the Democrats. Their strategy of shutting out the Republicans in the health care debate backfired swiftly yesterday when the so-called Senate Majority Leader, Harry (I’m about to lose my re-election bid) Reid suggested that the Republicans opposing this bill are probably the same type of people who would have fought against the abolition of slavery. Apparently Mr. Reid has never heard the term, “Party of Lincoln.” If the Republican tactics continue to irritate the uncompromising Democrats, I’m sure we’ll hear a Nazi reference before too long.”
“Of course, it would help if the proposed legislation wasn’t comprised of over 2,000 pages; much of it merely ink that nobody in the Senate Chamber has laid eyes on.”
http://tpmcafe.talkingpoi.....ef=reccafe
Gee Bush is neary twice higher than ‘liberal’s angel’.
To be far, ‘liberal’s angel’ has better than a month to drop more so Bush is truely twice higher
“Sarah Palin Gets Back at William Shatner on ‘The Tonight Show’“
By Brian Wallace | Saturday, December 12, 2009, 12:53 AM
“On Friday night, “master thespian” William Shatner stopped by “The Tonight Show With Conan O’Brien” to do a beat-poetry-style reading of selected quotes from Sarah Palin’s best-selling book, “Going Rogue.”“
“It was the same type of performance the former “Star Trek” star delivered in July when he recited parts of the former Alaska governor’s farewell speech and again last month when he read some alleged tweets from Levi Johnston, father of Palin’s grandson, Tripp. (It turned out the Twitter account was fake, and O’Brien apologized the next night … before inviting Shatner out once again, to read some equally hilarious, yet authentic, Johnston quotes.)”
“This time, however, Palin was on hand to turn the tables on Shatner. The former Republican vice presidential candidate surprised the studio audience by emerging from backstage with a copy of Shatner’s 2008 autobiography, “Up Till Now.” Check it out:”
http://tv.yahoo.com/blog/.....–866
So you see Jd, it wan’t “Apples to Oranges” as you said about poll. Was apples to apples.
Tough luck little buddy.
“How Minimum Wage Affects the Job Hunt”
December 14, 2009 – 2:42 PM | by: James Rosen
“The most exhaustive of these is a landmark book published last year called “Minimum Wages.” It’s by two economists, David Neumark of the University of California and William Wascher of the Federal Reserve.”
“They examined sixty years of data and concluded the minimum wage actually cuts down on job opportunities and even wages, over time, for low-skilled workers.”
“Neumark broke down his theory for Fox News in simple, layman’s terms, starting withthe premise of what would happen if the minimum wage were raised again, say,tomorrow.”
“Now, many people, of course, will not lose their job. Many people who were employed at the old minimum wage will, you know, have a raise in their wage, and they will still be employed at the new minimum wage,” Neumark told Fox News.”
“A small number — and it depends how big the minimum wage increase is — will lose their job.”
“Some people entering the labor market for the first time, or, you know, anew, will not be able to find a job because of the higher minimum wage.”
“The last bump for the minimum wage was this past July, a seventy cent increase to $7.25 an hour.”
“In September, three months later, the teen unemployment rate hit 25.9 percent, a full two points higher than in July, and the highest since World War II.”
“Charles Lane, a member of the Washington Post editorial board, recently called for the minimum wage to be rolled back as a way of creating jobs. That would require an act of Congress, and it’s not likely anytime soon. Democrats control both houses of Congress and the issue has become, particularly for Democrats, freighted with emotion.”
“It’s a matter of human dignity. I mean, who amongst us wouldn’t want to be treated with human dignity? And to be paid dirt wages means we’re treated like dirt. And I don’t think that people should be treated like dirt,” said Rep. Patrick Kennedy, D, R.I.”
“We need to have a social safety net in place, whether that’s minimum health care protections, or other items that will help people — unemployment insurance, for example. Those are things that — no one’s questioning that. But what we’re questioning is the artificial setting of a, a level of wage that really has — doesn’t have a relationship to the economy,” said Rep. Dave Camp, R, Mich.”
http://liveshots.blogs.fo.....Headlines)
Let’s see, lower minimum wage, increase employment.
“Humbug“. “Let them eat cake”.
Strip the rich of their money. That will save us, short term.
Accurately article is good common sense. It might mean a unemployed worker may have to take a less desirable job at less pay than use to have. Is better than unemployment.
More employment cost government less and cuts national debt.
In contrast, obama‘s push for unionizing which raises labor cost and causes jobs loss if implemented. Along with all his other radical expensive ideas.
Theory is same as my favorite PhD Professor of economics. Who says lower taxes increase government revenue ( a simplistic summary).
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Attack on Senator Joe Lieberman and wife over health care has been occurring. Is said President wants Joe Lieberman vote.. Get it Harry Reid.
Appears it has been done. Heard adding 55 year old and public plan is out of bill. If I remember right. Don’t worry liberals, it can be added later if bill passes. If liberals are not kicked out of Congress by the voting public for not following their wishes as seen in polls.
Look forward to hidden taxes to increase with no benefits after passage. Our caring President will not start health care you’re paying for now, will not take effect until 2013-2015.
Think of all those poor Americans that will have no health care and families will lose their loved ones. And break the bank acounts of their families.
“In an interview with CBS’s “60 Minutes” programme, he said he did not run for office to be “helping out a bunch of fat cat bankers on Wall Street”.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/h.....411412.stm
Well I don’t know if that is true or not. He is trying to enrich his campaign backers. Such as Acorn, pro abortion groups, and unions. Sure trying to get Democrat Congress members re-elected with all that pork.
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December 15, 2009
“ Obama WH to Announce Tuesday “Limited Number” of Gitmo Inmates Headed to Illinois”
“The statement called movement of detainees suspected of terrorist activities or terrorist collaboration to the U.S. mainland “is essential to protecting our national security and helping our troops by removing a deadly recruiting tool from the hands of al Qaeda.”
“Rep. Lamar Smith, R-Texas, the ranking member of House Judiciary Committee, denounced the transfer plan.”
“The administration has yet to explain how bringing Gitmo detainees closer to home makes the American people safer. This decision changes nothing but geography. The Obama administration is simply naive if they really think that simply changing the location of Gitmo will improve our relations with terrorists.”
“Smith also criticized what he said could be increased access to U.S. judicial protections detainees kept in Guantanamo now cannot access.”
“Bringing Gitmo detainees to the U.S. gives terrorists access to additional constitutional rights,” Smith said. “These new rights may help terrorists avoid conviction and even file civil suits against American officials.”
“Fox has also learned the House Intelligence Committee will meet early Tuesday to discuss whether to allow members of the Illinois delegation access to security reports on the potential threats posed by transferring Gitmo detainees to Thomson.”
http://whitehouse.blogs.f.....-illinois/
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“Terrorist Acts Suspected of or Inspired by al-Qaeda
The following list includes the date, target of attacks, and casualties of attacks by terrorist goup al-Qaeda.”
-”1993 (Feb.): Bombing of World Trade Center (WTC); 6 killed.
-1993 (Oct.): Killing of U.S. soldiers in Somalia.
-1996 (June): Truck bombing at Khobar Towers barracks in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, killed 19 Americans.
-1998 (Aug.): Bombing of U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania; 224 killed, including 12 Americans.
-1999 (Dec.): Plot to bomb millennium celebrations in Seattle foiled when customs agents arrest an Algerian smuggling explosives into the U.S.
-2000 (Oct.): Bombing of the USS Cole in port in Yemen; 17 U.S. sailors killed.
-2001 (Sept.): Destruction of WTC; attack on Pentagon. Total dead 2,992.
-2001 (Dec.): Man tried to denote shoe bomb on flight from Paris to Miami.
-2002 (April): Explosion at historic synagogue in Tunisia left 21 dead, including 11 German tourists.
-2002 (May): Car exploded outside hotel in Karachi, Pakistan, killing 14, including 11 French citizens.
-2002 (June): Bomb exploded outside American consulate in Karachi, Pakistan, killing 12.
-2002 (Oct.): Boat crashed into oil tanker off Yemen coast, killing 1.
-2002 (Oct.): Nightclub bombings in Bali, Indonesia, killed 202, mostly Australian citizens.
-2002 (Nov.): Suicide attack on a hotel in Mombasa, Kenya, killed 16.
-2003 (May): Suicide bombers killed 34, including 8 Americans, at housing compounds for Westerners in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
-2003 (May): 4 bombs killed 33 people targeting Jewish, Spanish, and Belgian sites in Casablanca, Morocco.
-2003 (Aug.): Suicide car-bomb killed 12, injured 150 at Marriott Hotel in Jakarta, Indonesia.
-2003 (Nov.): Explosions rocked a Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, housing compound, killing 17.
-2003 (Nov.): Suicide car-bombers simultaneously attacked 2 synagogues in Istanbul, Turkey, killing 25 and injuring hundreds.
-2003 (Nov.): Truck bombs detonated at London bank and British consulate in Istanbul, Turkey, killing 26.
-2004 (March): 10 bombs on 4 trains exploded almost simultaneously during the morning rush hour in Madrid, Spain, killing 191 and injuring more than 1,500.
-2004 (May): Terrorists attacked Saudi oil company offices in Khobar, Saudi Arabia, killing 22.
-2004 (June): Terrorists kidnapped and executed American Paul Johnson, Jr., in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
-2004 (Sept.): Car bomb outside the Australian embassy in Jakarta, Indonesia, killed 9.
-2004 (Dec.): Terrorists entered the U.S. Consulate in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, killing 9 (including 4 attackers).
-2005 (July): Bombs exploded on 3 trains and a bus in London, England, killing 52.
-2005 (Oct.): 22 killed by 3 suicide bombs in Bali, Indonesia.
-2005 (Nov.): 57 killed at 3 American hotels in Amman, Jordan.
-2006 (Jan.): Two suicide bombers carrying police badges blow themselves up near a celebration at the Police Academy in Baghdad, killing nearly 20 police officers. Al-Qaeda in Iraq takes responsibility.
-2006 (Aug.): Police arrest 24 British-born Muslims, most of whom have ties to Pakistan, who had allegedly plotted to blow up as many as 10 planes using liquid explosives. Officials say details of the plan were similar to other schemes devised by al-Qaeda.
-2007 (April): Suicide bombers attack a government building in Algeria’s capital, Algiers, killing 35 and wounding hundreds more. Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb claims responsibility.
-2007 (April): Eight people, including two Iraqi legislators, die when a suicide bomber strikes inside the Parliament building in Baghdad. An organization that includes al-Qaeda in Mesopotamia claims responsibility. In another attack, the Sarafiya Bridge that spans the Tigris River is destroyed.
-2007 (June): British police find car bombs in two vehicles in London. The attackers reportedly tried to detonate the bombs using cell phones but failed. Government officials say al-Qaeda is linked to the attempted attack. The following day, an SUV carrying bombs bursts into flames after it slams into an entrance to Glasgow Airport. Officials say the attacks are connected.
-2007 (December): As many as 60 people are killed in two suicide attacks near United Nations offices and government buildings in Algiers, Algeria. The bombings occur within minutes of each other. Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, formerly called the Salafist Group for Preaching, claims responsibility. It’s the worst attack in the Algeria in more than 10 years.
-2008 (January): In the worst attack in Iraq in months, a suicide bomber kills 30 people at a home where mourners were paying their respects to the family of a man killed in a car bomb. The Iraqi military blames the attack on al-Qaeda in Iraq.
-2008 (February): Nearly 100 people die when two women suicide bombers, who are believed to be mentally impaired, attack crowded pet markets in eastern Baghdad. The U.S. military says al-Qaeda in Iraq has been recruiting female patients at psychiatric hospitals to become suicide bombers.
-2008 (April): A suicide bomber attacks the funeral for two nephews of a prominent Sunni tribal leader, Sheik Kareem Kamil al-Azawi, killing 30 people in Iraq’s Diyala Province.
-2008 (April): A suicide car bomber kills 40 people in Baquba, the capital of Diyala Province in Iraq.
-2008 (April): Thirty-five people die and 62 are injured when a woman detonates explosives that she was carrying under her dress in a busy shopping district in Iraq’s Diyala Province.
-2008 (May): At least 12 worshipers are killed and 44 more injured when a bomb explodes in the Bin Salman mosque near Sana, Yemen.
-2008 (May): An al-Qaeda suicide bomber detonates explosives in Hit, a city in the Anbar Province of Iraq, killing six policemen and four civilians, and injuring 12 other people.
-2008 (June): A car bomb explodes outside the Danish Embassy in Pakistan, killing six people and injuring dozens. Al-Qaeda claims responsibility, saying the attack was retaliation for the 2006 publication of political cartoons in the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten that depicted the Islamic prophet Muhammad.
-2008 (June): A female suicide bomber kills 15 and wounds 40 others, including seven Iraqi policemen, near a courthouse in Baquba, Iraq.
-2008 (June): A suicide bomber kills at least 20 people at a meeting between sheiks and Americans in Karmah, a town west of Baghdad.
-2008 (August): About two dozens worshippers are killed in three separate attacks as they make their way toward Karbala to celebrate the birthday of 9th-century imam Muhammad al-Mahdi. Iraqi officials blame al-Qaeda in Iraq for the attacks.
-2008 (August): A bomb left on the street explodes and tears through a bus carrying Lebanese troops, killing 15 people, nine of them soldiers. No one claims responsibility for the attack, but in 2007, the army fought an al-Qaeda linked Islamist group in Tripoli.
-2008 (August): At least 43 people are killed when a suicide bomber drives an explosives-laden car into a police academy in Issers, a town in northern Algeria.
-2008 (August): Two car bombs explode at a military command and a hotel in Bouira, killing a dozen people. No group takes responsibility for either attack, Algerian officials said they suspect al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb is behind the bombings.
-2008 (September): In its first acknowledged ground attack inside Pakistan, U.S. commandos raid a village that is home to al-Qaeda militants in the tribal region near the border with Afghanistan. The number of casualties is unclear.
-2008 (September): A car bomb and a rocket strike the U.S. embassy in Yemen as staff arrived to work, killing 16 people, including 4 civilians. At least 25 suspected al-Qaeda militants are arrested for the attack.
-2008 (November): at least 28 people die and over 60 more are injured when three bombs explode minutes apart in Baghdad, Iraq. Officials suspect the explosions are linked to al-Qaeda.”
http://www.infoplease.com.....84893.html
So from my previous link:
“The statement called movement of detainees suspected of terrorist activities or terrorist collaboration to the U.S. mainland “is essential to protecting our national security and helping our troops by removing a deadly recruiting tool from the hands of al Qaeda.”
I ASK YOU OBAMA, DO YOU REALLY, REALLY, REALLY BELIEVE OUR TROUPS AND AMERICA WILL BE SAFER BY MOVING THESE BUMS TO OUR SHORES ? REALLY ?
AT LEAST YOU ARE MOVING THEM TO YOUR HOME STATE…
Under Bill Clinton and before Gitmo there were terrorist attacks. G.W. Bush did not cause nor did he excellerate. I know this goes against liberism ideas.
“The Plum Line”
Greg Sargent’s blog
“Howard Dean: “Kill The Senate Bill”
“In a blow to the bill grinding through the Senate, Howard Dean bluntly called for the bill to be killed in a pre-recorded interview set to air later this afternoon, denouncing it as “the collapse of health care reform in the United States Senate,” the reporter who conducted the interview tells me.”
“Dean said the removal of the Medicare buy-in made the bill not worth supporting, and urged Dem leaders to start over with the process of reconciliation in the interview, which is set to air at 5:50 PM today on Vermont Public Radio, political reporter Bob Kinzel confirms to me.”
http://theplumline.whorun.....nate-bill/
Heard pharmacy companies are raising prices by 9 %. No doubt a plow to shaken public resistance to health bill.
News coming out MRI’s cancer threat.
$ Millions given to States to buy votes for health care bill.
Just heard a base is threatened to be closed if Senator does not vote for bill.
A wife is attacked because Senator husband speaks out saying he is against bill as written.
Republicans requiring bill be read. Sites all polls are against health care bill.
Even ex-Democrat party leader says drop present health bill.
Proceed at your own peril to pass this bill. It’s not just the ‘eyes of Texas (that) are upon you’.
WILL OBAMA VETO PORK FULL BILL… ‘READ MY LIPS’ VIDEO.
“YouTube- Obama vs. Obama on Earmarks”
http://www.politicalforum.....-bill.html
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Democrats_ Gain votes with the illegals
“Democrats resurrect amnesty for illegals”
Dec 16, 2009 7:39 AM
“…the 700-page bill by Rep. Luis Gutierrez, D-Ill., is widely viewed as too liberal to pass.”
http://www.azcentral.com/.....ss-ON.html
“Included in it are: “
“A repeal of the 287(g) program allowing local police and sherrif’s to enforce federal immigration law. Would end screening anyone arrested for local crimes of any severity on their immigration status.”
“Would prevent local law enforcement from arresting known illegals who are previously convicted felons. “
“Would legalize illegals by allowing them to pay a $500 “fine.”
“Would increase oversight of border agencies to protect “civil liberties.”
http://boards.history.com...../520083935