Category: Individual pieces

Just “saying”

I opened the Fox News website last night and immediately closed the browser. There is no justification for showing that. Of course considering they have shown the pictures of dead Hussein, Kaddafi and others the precedent was set. Still no need even when it was of those losers. Our country has completed lost – no actually – thrown away the understanding and valuing of modesty and dignity for the human being.

From everything I have read & heard the ambassador was a stand up guy. He really believed he could help and make a difference.

BTW – Romney did nothing wrong in how he handled the whole Cairo, Libya thing. He nailed it on the head both times and the chief empty suit again chose not to be a leader. In fact I thought Hillary did a A+ job with her comments that were about five minutes before Romney’s. And they were only scheduled AFTER Romney announced he would make a statement. She was supposed to speak at 10:30 with the president. Yesterday because of the whole travel thing I was able to watch the whole MSM, press relations and spin unroll in real time. We currently have a vacuum in leadership from the presidential seat. May God have mercy and grace on our nation at the next election and replace him with someone who is a leader.

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if you were in charge

http://www.jpost.com/IranianThreat/News/Article.aspx?id=284682

http://www.debka.com/article/22350/Obama-and-Netanyahu-shadowbox-on-Iran-ahead-of-final-round-Sept-28

“It’s roughly about a year right now. A little more than a year. And so … we think we will have the opportunity once we know that they’ve made that decision, take the action necessary to stop (Iran),” Panetta said on CBS’s “This Morning” program.”

 

2 cents:

If you were the leader of a country or even a group of people who has:

  1. heard repeatedly over the last eight years from another country near your location that they desire to see you wiped off the face of the earth
  2. knew that said country spent millions of dollars if not billions to arm and train terrorists to wreak havoc against your nation
  3. knew that they have a religious practice which advocates lying to get to your ultimate objective
  4. said country then begins a nuclear program which they do their best to be secretive while stating it is for civil/non-military application

 

Would you – the leader of the country put your people’s lives in the hands of someone else who can and does respond to the known 4 points with a comment that is steeped in “if” vocabulary?

 

Another way to think about it – using the same and FACTUAL points – as a career which is based on political philosophy and perception of leadership would you place your career’s future in the hands of such “wavering” precepts? As a political being wouldn’t you own your career and try to get in front of these scary realities so as to not lose points on perceived leadership abilities and strategic thinking misfires?

 

Lets look at it another way. If you were the president of the USA and your nation had just been attacked – lets say in at least four different ways – actually four terrorist attacks – would you try remedy the disagreement and loss of life with going to the UN and asking for them to open diplomatic channels with the terrorists so that we can agree to disagree but stop loss of life? It is 9/11 today and is that what the CES would have done in response to the attacks if he had been president instead of Bush? What kind of leadership would that have been perceived as?

 

Netanyahu has the reality of a 9/11 on a scale that could in one fell swoop eliminate the nation of his people. Just because Ahmadinejad is a leader of a nation does it make him less dangerous the a Bin-Laden was just a few years ago?  After all Ahmadinejad has a large armed military force plus a couple large terrorist organizations in his control.

 

Does the CES disagree with the way Bush handles the terrorist leader? If so – then why did he order the take down of him via military action without Pakistani sovereign support? Why is he using drones to kill terrorists abroad?

 

 

 

Remember CES = chief empty suit = current US president

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Diagnosis and prescription

Krauthammer’s article this week is about the growing Iran nuclear issue and the current SOP followed by the CES and the other nations wearily looking on.

I agree with the fourth (added) option which is the president of the USA securing authorization to use the military against Iran if a well defined list of objectives are not met by the Iranian government. However the unfortunate truth of the matter is that our government has ceased to be a working government whose purpose is the well-being of the citizens of the country to that of partisan politicking full-time in hopes of life-long careers in so-called public/civil service. I will refocus the quote and focus of the Joker to repeat that “our national government is in dire need of an enema”. 

Because of the current state of our government, it is in my opinion that any attempt to work with Congress now will produce posing and grand-standing to puff up our current president and that simply can not be allowed to happen. To make him artificially appear a better man than he is – will not do! To last minute create a public persona of strength and values is hogwash and an insult to all the people who are actually ethically moral principle based people.  That man needs to flushed out of our nation’s policy making, removed from the captain’s wheel and ejected from the cockpit (violently if need be). Once that objective is secured THEN approaching Congress in meaningful, real talks to make the legitimate, legal and permanent line in the sand which to hold Iran’s leadership to can be identified and made. Only then will Israel believe that their nation and people’s existence is protected. 

So – let’s get things moving and get the CES out of office so we can begin the necessary CHANGE that our country desperately needs.

 

CES = chief empty suit = current president of the USA

 

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Churning in Israel

An interesting article published this past Friday.

My takeaways from the article:
1. CES’ actions – as usual – solely based on the politics meaning focusing only on getting re-elected.
2. Netanyahu needs to gain a stronger coalition in his government in order to proceed with what he thinks is the best for his country.
3. If Romney/Ryan ticket would actually gain traction and put CES in the rear view mirror at a far distance Israel might just act before the election.

 

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Looking around and ahead

As for this post there will be no hyperlinks to articles or copying & pasting text from another location. Not that there hasn’t been some interesting events unfurling or breaking through.  In the real world of my own existence and livelihood, things have been also breaking through which has required my attention and consideration. Those kind of events I record on my LJ not here. But as mentioned, much has occurred and with the hands of the sundial and the zodiac getting ready to line up to the eighth month of 2012 I am a bit stunned how much hasn’t happened than what has. Surely the kid plugging the hole in the dyke must have two-score thumbs.

Unresolved or continuing to deteriorate:
Our Congress and the partisan immaturity & noncooperation
Syria
Afghanistan/Pakistan
Iran and the whole nuclear weapon question
Euro and the European financial crisis
US unemployment and economy
Stability in the Middle East
and there is many more stories and events but these are the ones I continue to monitor.

November arrives and hopefully we will see with it the removal of the incumbent occupying the executive branch of government. Of course there is much harm that he can do in those long days of being a lame duck president. Nevertheless their is far greater fear of another four years of damage to our country and standing in the world.

“Leadership from behind” is the strategy and creation of someone who is NOT a leader. It is the result of someone who is doing something that is actually against their convictions and values. I think that sums up the CES’ four years. He is president of America, a country he has no conviction for nor possesses its historical values. We need a leader, someone who will navigate the mess we are in with convictions and values rooted in the exceptionalism of America. Someone who will stand tall with our allies, not blink with our enemies and rally the domestic forces to unite and work together. That is the person our country needs as President of the United States of America.

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