Obama issues orders to begin Afghan escalation
I’m trying to catch up from a great holiday/vacation and put together a column on this topic for tomorrow, but in the meantime, from Fox:
“Top military and diplomatic officials got their marching orders Sunday evening from President Obama ahead of a planned speech Tuesday in which he’s expected to outline his new Afghanistan war strategy and call for about 30,000 more U.S. troops to be sent to the war zone.
White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said Obama issued the orders during a meeting in the Oval Office Sunday.
While offering few details of the contents of Obama’s speech — to be delivered at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, N.Y. — he stressed that the president will discuss the importance of an exit strategy.
“This is not an open-ended commitment,” Gibbs said.”
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josef nix
November 30th, 2009
8:51 pm
PAUL–
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She’s a quick study. Unmentionable made the point that in the election the handlers just didn’t know what to do with her, they being out of touch themselves with the constiutency to which she appealed. Being an ingenue, she put too much trust in them and now free more or less to paddle her own canoe, she’s played her trump card to effect. He says, and I agree, that if she weren’t something of a threat/challenge the anti faction would not keep getting their panties in a wad. He lived in Alaska growing up and views her from the perspective of someone who knows and loves “the last frontier.” Me? Well, what can I say, she wouldn’t have been out of place at my family’s Thanksgiving feast and she did marry an Indian (even if she, like Copy Me Biden and Ima Gonna, doesn’t want me to have the same right!
AmVet
November 30th, 2009
8:52 pm
Midori, I’m still perplexed with the fringe’s fascination with Sister Sarah (But make no mistake, she’s NO Shirley MacClaine! Maybe she too was a lover of the Emperor Charlemagne in a past life though!!)
My gawd Caribou Barbie can’t even top The Manteats in Black, Crybaby Beck or Dickhead’s Got a Gun in neo-conned relevance.
If I was a Republican (perish the thought!) I would be absofrickkinlutely mortified at that cast of clowns!
But when one thinks of the vast rogue’s gallery of losers that hijacked abortion of a party has had lately, I guess it’s to be expected…
josef nix
November 30th, 2009
8:55 pm
AmVet
But it WAS a third-term abortion and it looks like it may have survived!
And there it is again, top of the page, relative to nothing!
Look before I Leap
November 30th, 2009
8:56 pm
Fourth marriage for Rush?
Pre-nup or no, if I were a woman, there would not be enough money in the world to intice me to get naked under the sheets with that bloated, drug-addled boor.
josef nix
November 30th, 2009
8:57 pm
BTW–
Gotta go to the polls tomorrow! Appreciated y’all’s input yesterday…ought to be interesting…
Midori
November 30th, 2009
8:57 pm
AmVet,
when you take their mass orgasms over Bush into consideration, their being in love with Palin makes sense.
they like their leaders dumb, incompetent and hot for tax cuts.
josef nix
November 30th, 2009
8:58 pm
Look before I Leap
eee-www! The mere thought of it! Talk about a definition of pornography!
Midori
November 30th, 2009
9:00 pm
Look before,
some women find money AND power the ultimate aphrodisiac.
and they will do ANYTHING to obtain it (via a drug addled, impotent loudmouth)….
Paul
November 30th, 2009
9:01 pm
Look Before Leap
Thanks for the info. I’m going to have to look further into it – my understanding was she was personally liable, not that it was based on a legal opinion from the McCain camp. And I do not yet know the difference in circumstance what would have her liable, while, as you cited, civilian Hillary Clinton could have a PAC pay her bills.
josef nix
I think that’s about right – the Left sure makes a big deal out of someone they at the same time portray as someone who’s on the margins appealing to only a hardcore few. Doesn’t seem consistent. The “we don’t take her seriously, we just find her funny” seems a bit of of the “I think you protest a bit too much” vein.
Well, dinnertime.
Pleasant evening, all -
Midori
November 30th, 2009
9:01 pm
Keith Olbermann just ripped Obama to shreds over his decision to escalate the Afghanistan War.
Good!!!!!!!
Look before I Leap
November 30th, 2009
9:02 pm
josef nix:
Not sure where that mental image came from, but I am quickly downing shots of tequila in an effort to erase it.
Taxpayer
November 30th, 2009
9:03 pm
Pre-nup or no, if I were a woman, there would not be enough money in the world to intice me to get naked under the sheets with that bloated, drug-addled boor.
If she’s clever, the prenup will allow her to select/hire a stand in as needed.
@@
November 30th, 2009
9:04 pm
Awwwhhhh drat! Obama gets a D+?
“And President Obama is dedicated to enhancing America’s leadership in the fight against global AIDS, with PEPFAR serving as the cornerstone of our global health initiative to promote better and more sustainable health outcomes,” Clinton said today.
Yet the Obama administration is facing large criticism from global AIDS and Africa solidarity organizations – today smacking the White House with a D+ rating on the work President Obama has done so far in office.
PEPFAR…one of Bush’s greatest accomplishments that he rarely talked about.
josef nix
November 30th, 2009
9:05 pm
Look before I Leap
josef nix
November 30th, 2009
9:06 pm
@@
Reckon maybe in HIS mind HIV-Aids is still a “gay disease?”
Look before I Leap
November 30th, 2009
9:06 pm
Midori:
Well, she is 32, so perhaps she (and the rest of the country) will get lucky and he’ll keel over on his wedding night.
Matilda
November 30th, 2009
9:07 pm
“Pre-nup or no, if I were a woman, there would not be enough money in the world to intice me to get naked under the sheets with that bloated, drug-addled boor.
Um… I don’t think that’s in the Mrs. Limbaugh job description. He needs a public prop before his dittosuckers figure out that “Bachin’ it with the Boys” in the Dominican Republic with a bottle of Viagra isn’t exactly congruent with the whole “family values” schtick. Trust me, the man can buy whatever kind of icky gratification gets his bloated carcass off. Hiring a respectable “Mrs.” is more likely a precursor to a career move, if only in his deluded, syphillis-addled brain.
@@
November 30th, 2009
9:07 pm
Oh lawd! Are you guys gonna be discussing someone’s personal life?
I’m outta here.
josef nix
November 30th, 2009
9:08 pm
Look before I Leap
That’s it! She’s a fifth columnist out to rescue the country. A true patriot!
Look before I Leap
November 30th, 2009
9:09 pm
josef nix:
too funny! I was drinking the exact same thing before I made my mad dash to the liquor cabinent. It was a gift from a TG dinner guest last week and I did not feel like opening the Schug.
Midori
November 30th, 2009
9:09 pm
Matilda,
AmVet
November 30th, 2009
9:10 pm
He might blow a gasket but The Manteats in Black will NOT die of Rockefeller Syndrome.
20 over 80.
Look before I Leap
November 30th, 2009
9:12 pm
If Rush Limbaugh comes out of the closet, I am burning my rainbow flag and returning my ruby slippers.
Taxpayer
November 30th, 2009
9:16 pm
It’s probably best that we keep on sending more million dollar men off to war. After all, if we did not spend that 670 billion annually on the war machine, we’d have all that extra money laying around to do stuff like create a hundred 100,000 dollar man jobs per annual soldier expenditure and have enough left over to give every conservative another tax cut to boot. We wouldn’t want THAT now would we. Just imagine what we could do with all that F-22 money.
josef nix
November 30th, 2009
9:17 pm
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Have to disagree with you here. He’s a public figure. No private lives there
“I think very few people are completely normal really,
deep down in their private lives.” Noel Cowardm, “Private Lives”
josef nix
November 30th, 2009
9:23 pm
Look before I Leap
“If Rush Limbaugh comes out of the closet, I am burning my rainbow flag and returning my ruby slippers.”
I’ll be right there with ya!
AmVet–
“And, Ernie, 20 goes into 80 a h*lluva lot more than 80 goes into 20!” — Sophie Tucker
“Kiss my tuchus and plant a tree for Israel!”
Matilda
November 30th, 2009
9:24 pm
Josef, let’s be fair. If Limbaugh had never spoken inappropriately of the personal matters of other public figures, AtAt would have a point. She’s always fair and balanced that way, you know.
AmVet
November 30th, 2009
9:29 pm
Talking about that serial divorcé, Lardass Limberger is all it took?
I’ll have to remember that.
I think I mentioned this to you before josef, but years ago my wife and I went to see the Divine Miss M at the Fox.
What a hoot! What a show-woman! I loved it and I knew I was finally OK with that particular set of demons…
@@
November 30th, 2009
9:30 pm
josef:
You disagree? That’s fine.
The only time I’m interested in a private life is when it’s my representative and he’s fraternizing on my dime. Aside from that, it’s tabloid garbage. Something I have no interest in.
I don’t even know what’s going on with Tiger Woods. Don’t care! None of my business!
Taxpayer
November 30th, 2009
9:31 pm
Matilda @ 9:24 pm,
Amen to that one. And, when another decides to go rogue with what most describe, politely, as tall tales, you gotta expect to get the rouge smeared.
AmVet
November 30th, 2009
9:32 pm
And who could ever forget this gem?
Truer words were never written or sung so beautifully…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5TX-f3X0yU
josef nix
November 30th, 2009
9:32 pm
Matilda–
Heh! Heh! Looks like you’re feeling better…if this blog doesn’t give ya sumpin to chuckle about…!
I Report (-: You Whine )-: Obozo, our little world girlie
November 30th, 2009
9:32 pm
OMG, has everybody seen the hot blond that Limbaugh landed?
Man, do Conservatives rock or what?
USPatriot
November 30th, 2009
9:35 pm
The troops should be increased in Afghanistan by 100,000 and you do this by moving the 50,000 American troops in Iraq and deploy them to Afghanistan and calling up 50,000 more troops, and Congress MUST pay for this war by Raising Taxes on the Wealthy making over 150K a year to over 40% and Raising Capital Gaines Taxes to 40% instead of Borrowing Money from the Communists which Republican Bush Did.
DoggoneGA
November 30th, 2009
9:37 pm
“Man, do Conservatives rock or what?”
“Money can’t buy love…but it sure can rent a good substitute” (unknown)
Jackie
November 30th, 2009
9:40 pm
@I Report
Have you figured out your gender?
Seems that you are still passing out those “meadow muffins” that you use for facts.
josef nix
November 30th, 2009
9:42 pm
@@
Well, I have to confess, I do have a certain, uh, interest, in tabloid journalism. I DO read the AJC!
AmVet–I was there! Guess what, I remember her from, thass right, the Continental Baths! Thanks for that video post, too…I’ve been searching for a good video version for posting here from time to time…that was it! And, believe me, “Friends” got me through some bad times way back when…
I Report (-: You Whine )-: Obozo, our little world girlie
November 30th, 2009
9:42 pm
I am woman’s man, jaggie.
Thanks for asking.
Taxpayer
November 30th, 2009
9:43 pm
Someone tell Sarah not to shoot the moose. There’s more money in milking them for all they’re worth.
Cheese made from moose milk can cost up to $500/lb! This milk is so expensive because it only comes from specialized moose farms in Sweden.
Jackie
November 30th, 2009
9:44 pm
@I Report
A huge “meadow muffin.”
Thanks for the laugh, comedian.
Taxpayer
November 30th, 2009
9:46 pm
“meadow muffins”
Is that a cow patty that has fully baked in the sun.
Jackie
November 30th, 2009
9:47 pm
@Taxpayer
Yes, it is!
Seems that I Report has an ample supply of them.
Taxpayer
November 30th, 2009
9:49 pm
Seems that I Report has an ample supply of them.
Andy’s are self-rising.
josef nix
November 30th, 2009
9:50 pm
Meadow muffin? That’s a new one for me…what is it?
Jackie
November 30th, 2009
9:51 pm
@Taxpayer
It appears that I Report has an oversupply that was over-baked.
Since I Report can’t figure out the his/her gender, it appears the supply is being sold at bargain basement prices.
Wonder if there are any buyers?
Look before I Leap
November 30th, 2009
9:54 pm
@i report:
you are kidding yes?
If Rush Lardbutt were a $750/week radio commentator in Hickville, TN, do you seriously think Ms Kate Rogers would be seen in the same COUNTY as he?
At $20M+/year, she would be after him if he were a card carrying communist wearing Mao Tse Tung underwear.
I see you have a typo in your post tagline:
It SHOULD read: Conservatives rock
josef nix
November 30th, 2009
9:54 pm
Gotta get ready to call it a night…thanks for the good mood…had a serious day at work and needed a break…
josef nix
November 30th, 2009
9:57 pm
Look before I Leap
Mao Tse Tung underwear? Eeeew–gotta polish this bottle off and push the image from mind or I’ll be having nightmares!
Dusty
November 30th, 2009
10:05 pm
Whew…..too many sick people here.
getalife
November 30th, 2009
10:16 pm
You got that right Dusty.
Geaux Saints!
Taxpayer
November 30th, 2009
10:33 pm
Recent studies have shown that cows are happy only if you don’t clean up their cow patties. Further, they are not angered by red as was once thought. As it turns out, the people that would head out into the cow fields to inspect the fungi growth in the cow patties would use red handkerchiefs to temporarily store their harvest of magic mushrooms and it was the theft of the cow’s mushrooms that truly got them riled up. It all makes sense now. Why else would any animal be happy walking around in its own poop all day, every day.
RW-(the original)
November 30th, 2009
10:55 pm
getalife,
Good thing for the Saints that the Patriot coach has lost his freaking mind.
getalife
November 30th, 2009
11:00 pm
Up by 14 but it ain’t over.
getalife
November 30th, 2009
11:11 pm
Make that 21.
Blow out.
RW-(the original)
November 30th, 2009
11:13 pm
Blow out.
Dandy Don is singing in the background and I just placed a red X next to my Pats pick. Final for the weekend was 18-2 in College and 12-4 in the pros.
Tom
November 30th, 2009
11:27 pm
Ahh – the Little GOP People. Playing the PATRIOT CARD again! Filtering ignorance & hatred thru Jessuss. The weak. The terrified. The never-serveds. Yup.
TnGelding
December 1st, 2009
4:33 am
Dusty
November 30th, 2009
10:05 pm
Then you should feel right at home!
Sorry, I couldn’t resist. Hope you are well and in naturally high spirits.
TnGelding
December 1st, 2009
4:35 am
December 1, 2009. How time flies when you’re having fun.
I Report (-: You Whine )-: Obozo, our little world girlie
December 1st, 2009
5:14 am
People who are urging us to do things to win the approval of other countries seem to put an excessive value on other country’s approval, as distinguished from their respect that we can lose by such bowing to “world opinion.” Do the world champion New York Yankees try to curry favor with teams that are also-rans?-Thomas Sowell
It’s not about us, it’s about world girlie, mmm, mmmm, mmmmm!
Rightwing Troll
December 1st, 2009
5:33 am
Yes Conservatives rock.
“Susan Richardson also claims that when she recently took a weekend trip with a new boyfriend and left her children with Glenn Richardson, their father, the House speaker sent her dozens of text and e-mail messages threatening to beat her up, to accuse her of abandoning her children and to use the Georgia state patrol and Georgia Bureau of Investigation to locate her.”
I guess Glenn Richardson confused rocking with stoning when he threatened to beat his ex-wife up…
You reps sure ain’t the smartest knives in the drawer, sending threats in traceable text messages, but they do rock…
ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww
Bud Wiser
December 1st, 2009
7:01 am
Just lookin’ this morning and most all of what I see are the backward looks (of envy, no doubt) at Sarah Palin.
She, like many flashbulbs, are bright for a moment but soon gone. The only ones that seem to keep bringing up her name are the leftist toadies of the bowing bumbler. She is, in my opinion,like AmWet for instance – a has been that never was and never will be, but can huff and puff up a good story on occasion.
You know, yesterday I wrote something in essence that the reason the left keeps bringing up the “it’s all Bush’s fault line…” was because those that use it were so angry that they had been duped by Obowo, and are very angry that their ignorance and continued support of the Kenyan Keystone Kop (KKK) made them look, well, just plain stupid, in retrospect.
After careful analysis of statements made and positions taken behind Mr KKK (I like this new moniker… the irony in it is ironic), I have come to the very studied conclusion that those expressing the most support still are in fact, that stupid after all.
You know, definitions can be very important in discerning differences in labels; for instance, I look at calling someone ignorant as not necessarily an insult, it just means that they are not in possession of the facts, therefore are not totally aware, or are ignorant of the reality.
Stupid, however, is very much an insult. I feel that a stupid person is one that is in possession of the facts, but simply chooses against reason or intellect to maintain that position despite fact to the contrary.
The logical conclusion therefore means that Obowo supporters are just plain stupid … or ignorant, because they simply be hiding themselves from reality, which then leads to being perhaps mentally challenged.
Have a nice day tools, I am off to the golf course (again) to attempt to correct some minor swing flaws. If things go as yesterday, there may be an eBay alert on partially used golf equipment this evening.
Doc Holiday
December 1st, 2009
7:08 am
You all all lost sheep. Afghanistan is a battle front towards war on Iran.
Wake up and smell the napalm….