IT IS ALL ABOUT"SPIN"!

As could be expected from the sycophants of the Obama administration, the mantra was "triumph" when they were asked about the results of president Obama's first trip to the EU since being elected president.
His press secretary was effusive about the love that Europeans heaped on Obama, and all in all it was a successful trip. But was it really a success for the president? From my vantage point he bowed and scraped, apologized and generally deprecated Americans to satisfy the mobs of American hating people who thronged to see the new president.

But did he accomplish anything substantive for the war effort in Afghanistan, or the economy of the World? The following article posted on the London Telegraph web site by Gerald Warner explains one man's opinion of the failure that Obama wrought on the USA.

"President Barack Obama has recently completed the most successful foreign policy tour since Napoleon's retreat from Moscow. You name it, he blew it. What was his big deal economic programme that he was determined to drive through the G20 summit? Another massive stimulus package, globally funded and co-ordinated. Did he achieve it? Not so as you'd notice.


Barack Obama in Prague on his astonishingly successful tour

Barack is not the first New World ingenue to discover that European leaders will load him with praise, struggle sycophantically to be photographed with him and outdo him in Utopian rhetoric. But when it comes to the critical moment of opening their wallets - suddenly it is flag-day in Aberdeen. Okay, put the G20 down to inexperience, beginner's nerves, what you will.

On to NATO and the next big objective: to persuade the same European evasion experts that America, Britain and Canada should no longer bear the brunt of the Afghan struggle virtually unassisted. The Old World sucked through its teeth, said that was asking a lot - but, seeing it was Barack, to whom they could refuse nothing, they would graciously accede to his wishes.

So The One retired triumphant, having secured a massive contribution of 5,000 extra troops - all of them non-combatant, of course - which must really have put the wind up the Taliban, at the prospect of 5,000 more infidel cooks and bottle-washers swarming into the less hazardous regions of Afghanistan.

Then came the dramatic bit, the authentic West Wing script, with the President wakened in the middle of the night in Prague to be told that Kim Jong-il had just launched a Taepodong-2 missile. America had Aegis destroyers tracking the missile and could have shot it down. But Uncle Sam had a sterner reprisal in store for l'il ole Kim (as Dame Edna might call him): a multi-megaton strike of Obama hot air.

"Rules must be binding," declared Obama, referring to the fact that Kim had just breached UN Resolutions 1695 and 1718. "Violations must be punished." (Sounds ominous.) "Words must mean something." (Why, Barack? They never did before, for you - as a cursory glance at your many speeches will show.)

President Pantywaist is hopping mad and he has a strategy to cut Kim down to size: he is going to slice $1.4bn off America's missile defence programme, presumably on the calculation that Kim would feel it unsporting to hit a sitting duck, so that will spoil his fun.

Watch out, France and Co, there is a new surrender monkey on the block and, over the next four years, he will spectacularly sell out the interests of the West with every kind of liberal-delusionist initiative on nuclear disarmament and sitting down to negotiate with any power freak who wants to buy time to get a good ICBM fix on San Francisco, or wherever. If you thought the world was a tad unsafe with Dubya around, just wait until President Pantywaist gets into his stride".

I think this man can see from afar what apparently a majority of Americans cannot see up close!

ACCOMIDATION NOT ACTION IS THE MESSAGE WE SEND TO THE WORLD

While we are getting indications that Defense Secretary Gates is cutting back on so called "old weapons systems", like the f-22 fighter jet that was slated to replace the aging F-18, and cutting back on the production of a new nuclear aircraft carrier.

The State Department has reported that Iran's has charged that a US journalist is a spy and will be tried as such! This is disturbing news. There is no action even being considered to force Iran to release this lady who has been held in jail since January,2009!

Ms.Saberi, an Iranian/American, has lived in Iran for six years, reporting for BBC and other networks.
Hillary Clinton, Secretary of state, said on Wednesday that the US was "deeply concerned" about the news and called for Roxana Saberi's immediate release.

"We are deeply concerned by the news that we're hearing," Clinton said. "We wish for her speedy release and return to her family. Note, she did not say "we demand her immediate release", she said "we wish"!

Clinton said that the US, which is embroiled in a long-running dispute with Iran over that country's nuclear program, had asked Swiss diplomats in Tehran for the "most accurate, up-to-date information" on Saberi.But she failed to report that she and the Obama administration have agreed to meet along with five other nations who have disputes with the USA, to discuss with Iran their nuclear program! The operative word is "discuss"!

alJazeer.com has this report on their web pages today:
"The US government has said it is to regularly(?) join in talks between Iran and other states over the Islamic republic's nuclear programme.

Washington will participate in the talks, held between Britain, China, France, Germany, Russia and Iran, the US state department said on Wednesday, marking a shift from the policies of George Bush, the previous US president.

"We believe that pursuing very careful engagement on a range of issues that affect our interests and the interests of the world with Iran makes sense," said Hillary Clinton, the US secretary of state.

The other members of the "P5+1" group said they welcomed the US decision to join the talks.

The group had announced earlier that it would invite Iran to attend a new session aimed at breaking a deadlock in the talks"

It appears to me that the tack and modus operandi of the Obama administration is accommodation not action, as was the mast head of Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush
Apparently Obama thinks he can talk those who hate us into doing what is best for us.
Or does he really care? Barack Obama, the US president,and commander in chief of the armed forces, has signalled a willingness for US officials to hold talks with Iran and other powers(China,Russia and France) with poor relations with the US.

In March, Obama recorded a video addressed to the Iranian people in which he appealed for better relations between the two nations, which have not had diplomatic ties since 1979.Better relations with no mention of the nuclear program cannot exist!

It would seem that the message the World is getting from the White House is one of accomidation not action. This brings to mind a quote from Winston Churchill. "Danger - if you meet it promptly and without flinching - you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!...Winston Churchill

In another intersting develeopment, Nato's incoming chief has said that he would carefully consider religious sensibilities in his new post, as he seeks to allay Muslim concerns over his appointment.

Speaking in the Turkish city of Istanbul on Monday, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, Denmark's former prime minister, called for a balance between free speech and a respect for religion. What this sounds like is that freedom of speech will be curtailed if a person says or writes anything disparaging about Muslims!

Turkey had threatened to veto his appointment due to his support for a Danish newspaper after its decision to print cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad in 2006 prompted protests across the Muslim world.

The dispute was resolved after Barack Obama, the US president, guaranteed that Turkish commanders would be present at the Nato's command and that a Turk would be appointed as one of Rasmussen's deputies. You did not read this or hear it on TV did you?

ADULATION, BUT NO SUBSTANTIVE RESULTS

The eight day trip to Europe was a fine example of the Presidents narcissism. He bowed, scrapped, apologized and the Europeans cheered! But all the adulation did not produce any substantive results from my vantage point. Even though Obama publicly scaled down his expectations before he left on his marathon "love fest" with the socialist Europeans.
His deep bow to the Saudi leader and his visit to a mosque showed he is in tune with the Muslim world. He did not attend a Christian Church at any time , but I guess he did not have time to give a nod to the faith he claims to have adopted.

Lets look at just what he accomplished on this multi-million dollar trip. He pledged to contribute more of the taxpayer money to the IMF, even as they are printing "monopoly" money in the basement of the treasury department to cover the 11 trillion dollar debt we have already accumulated.

President Obama returns to the United States with few demonstrable results to show for his tireless efforts to woo Europe and rebuild relations after President George W. Bush by apologising for American "arrogance" and declaring at every turn that he wants "to listen, to learn and to lead".

In a deft attempt to manage expectations, he scaled down what he was asking for even before he stepped on Air Force One bound for London. This meant that even though the G20 summit yielded a fraction of the economic stimulus measures he could claim a historic success.

The same pattern followed at the Nato summit when allies came up with a paltry 5,000 troops for Afghanistan, including 3,000 that will be just a temporary election force and 600 that the Germans had already promised Mr Bush, compared to the 21,000 Mr Obama had just committed.

President Nicolas Sarkozy of France lavished praise on Mr Obama at every turn and said that the American president's fresh approach was "starting to bear fruit".

Not a single additional French soldier will be sent to Afghanistan, however, and in Prague, Mr Sarkozy publicly berated Mr Obama for having the temerity to call for Turkey to be admitted to the European Union.

Perhaps the most tangible achievement of the trip was an agreement in principle with Russia to reduce nuclear stockpiles and negotiate a new arms control treaty.

But the Russian aspirations were similar to those expressed to Mr Bush at the Sochi summit a year ago and Moscow, with its ageing nuclear arsenal, has more to gain from strategic reductions than Washington.

Even one of Mr Obama senior adviser conceded that the "deal" with Russian could amount to nothing. "To establish an ambitious agenda does not mean we're going to fulfil it, and we have no illusions about that," he said.

Similarly, minutes before Mr Obama outlined his utopian vision of a nuclear free world, Gary Samore, a White House arms control adviser, admitted that this was "not a near-term possibility" and the speech was an attempt to exert pressure on Iran and North Korea by occupying "the moral high ground".

Hours before Mr Obama's Prague speech, Pyongyang launched a rocket over Japan – a clear test of the new president. Two days later, the United Nations Security Council had yet to agree on a response.And while he was visiting a few chosen few troops in Bagadad, Iraq the Somali pirates hijacked a ship with American sailors manning it.

The danger for Mr Obama is that his message often seems to circle back to himself and while there is little doubt that he has won European hearts much of the affection is for his persona rather than his policies. Does he aspire to be the President of the USA or the head of the new world state the "USA of the World Union"?
Source: London Telegraph

THE ENEMY IS INSIDE THE GATE!

Government’s view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.” —Ronald Reagan

“Owners of capital will stimulate the working class to buy more and more of expensive goods, houses and mechanical products - pushing them to take more and more expensive credits, until their debt becomes unbearable. The unpaid debt will lead to bankruptcy of banks which will have to be nationalized and the state will have to take the road which will eventually lead to Communism” – DAS KAPITAL, Karl Marx, 1867.
The enemy is not a FOREIGN POWER, Nor is it the radicals Muslims, Obama told us we are not at war with Islam even though the terrorists who destroyed the Twin Towers AND Pentagon WERE Muslims!
the ENEMY IT TURNS OUT IS OUR OWN ELECTED Congress AND THE POTUS. who THE PEW research Institute identifies that is the most divisive President elected in most Americans life times!

It appears to me that the tact he and a complicit Congress are taking is the direct application of a self described Communist steet fighter, Bill Ayers. He calls for the overthrowing of the free enterprise system in America in his text books and those of his fellow travelers in academia. He advocates violence when necessary, hatred and class warfare at all times. And the Obama administration is following this line to a tee except for the violence. But wait! The Federal government is training over 80,000 troops here in this country to quell any disturbance (social unrest) by Americans who oppose the Federal government.

The speech that Obama gave to the Parliament in Turkey in which he said; "The United States is not and will NEVER be at war with Islam. In fact our partnership with the Muslim World is critical in rolling back a foreign ideology that people of all faiths reject". This speech discounts the fact that the Muslim country of Iran has vowed to destroy Israel and the United States, and in fact rumors are coming out of the White House that Obama is considering allowing Iran to proceed with their nuclear program.

While Obama makes nice to the Muslims, the Defense appropriations committee is seriously considering scrapping the "Layer Defense Missile Intrcept" program that is designed to intercept and destroy incoming missles per Obama administration directives.

On the economic front, the Congress has committed billions to take control of GM and their Volt car, while ignoring the fact that Americans do not want to drive cars that are limited to 120 miles and cost 50 to 75 thousand dollars!
Congress passed the Edward Kennedy Serve America Bill last week that will spend an additional 1 billion dollars to employ 250,000 "paid volunteers" that will add a quarter million more workers to the Federal bureaucracy without designating what they will do!

While Obama and Congress has committed over 10 billion dollars to be spent on welfare programs that will turn this country into a Socialist tyrannical country. The Congressional budget office has declared that they were wrong in predicting that in ten years the Social Security fund will be broke. It now says this will happen next year!
In 1935 when Roosevelt forced the social security system tax through a willing Democrat Congress there were 40 Americans contributing to the fund via taxes. Today the ratio has been reduced to a ratio of 3 to 1 !!
The Congressional Budget predicts that the social security tax must at least double the present rate to survive. Most of the funds in the so called trust fund is composed of IOU's from the Federal govt. that robbed the fund for social welfare programs out side the SS system!

That is why I say like "peanuts" said, "we have met the enemy and the enemy is us"!