Brutally Honest

Obama as Antiochus?

Simcha Fisher, after seeing Obama's Hanukkah statement in the Weekly Standard, gives what I believe is the quote of the week:

Big words from a guy who doesn’t seem to realize that, in the Hanukkah story, HE IS ANTIOCHUS.

She's right.

Michael Bloomberg; idiot extraordinaire

Guest posted by tim, The Godless Heathen

Hot Air:

New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg has been on the receiving end of a firestorm of criticism lately, particularly for his ham handed handling of the Hurricane Sandy recovery. But this story is almost too stupid to check.

Mayor Bloomberg has snubbed Borough President Markowitz’s impassioned plea to bring the National Guard to Hurricane Sandy-scarred Brooklyn — arguing that approving the Beep’s request would be a waste of federal manpower and turn the borough into a police state.

“We don’t need it,” Mayor Bloomberg said on Wednesday during a press update on the city’s ongoing Hurricane Sandy cleanup. “The NYPD is the only people we want on the street with guns.”

I’m not sure, but I think we’re witnessing the complete implosion of somebody who was once considered a pretty influential politician on the rise. Yes, Bloomberg doesn’t much care for the Second Amendment and doesn’t want people to have guns. We get it. But we’re talking about the National Guard here. Has this guy completely lost his mind?

This is a time when leaders up and down the east coast are loudly singing the praises of the National Guard for their rapid deployment and efficient rescue, recovery and security work. It’s also a time when people out on Staten Island are hanging on by a thread, with looting and violence being a serious threat on top of the hurricane’s destruction. Who in their right mind even suggests that Guardsmen carrying their weapons is an issue at a time like this? I understand wanting to express your support of and confidence in the police department and the firefighters, but even some of the finest first responders in the nation are completely swamped by the magnitude of this disaster. They could use the help and the Guard stands ready to provide it.

The rest. 

Not letting a crisis go to waste

Guest posted by tim, The Godless Heathen

Chronicling the never ending, ad nauseam ability of those of a certain political persuasion to exploit a situation for political gain...

First, let’s juxtapose the emails of Romney and Obama on the eve of the Storm Sandy -

Via American Thinker 

After all Barack has done in office, and after all you have done to build this campaign, we can't afford to watch everything slip away on Election Night.

But the other side has out-raised us-our opponents have $45 million more than we do for the Final Stretch.... And none of us has ever seen what a barrage of money like that will do.
That's why we need to do everything we can in the last days, and why we still need your support.

And, until, tomorrow night, any donation you make will automatically enter you to meet Barack on Election Night!

We can either give it our all in these final days, or wake up on November 7th wishing we'd done a little more.
Don't wait!

Supporting this campaign once more will move us closer to victory, and enter you to win a trip to join Barack on Election Night.

Thanks, Michelle

Now from Romney -

Tonight, Ann and I are keeping the people in Hurricane Sandy's path in our thoughts and prayers.

I hope that if you can, you will reach out to your neighbors who may need help getting ready for the storm-especially your elderly neighbors.

And if you can give of your resources or time, please consider supporting your local Red Cross organization - visit www.redcross.org to get involved.

For safety's sake, as you and your family prepare for the storm, please be sure to bring any yard signs inside. In high winds, they can be dangerous and cause damage to homes and property.

Stay safe and God bless,

Mitt Romney

One wants your money, the other wants you to be safe and give to the Red Cross. Yeah, tough choice on election day.

Now here’s (my) Governor of NY State, Andrew Cuomo, making a ridiculous statement that either hints at global warming and or is political cover to use for even more delays on allowing fracking in NY. (Full Video, NBC News) 

“We have to come to the realization that we are dealing with extreme weather patterns that we haven’t seen...probably ever.”

Over to Bubba who just can’t help himself and tries to slam Romney by suggesting Pres. Obama would be better at combating (the fallacy of) climate change.

Via Hot Air 

To Andrea Mitchell at MSNBC who actually questioned the sincerity of a “storm relief” event by Romney.

Via The Blaze

To finally back to Pres. Obama who seems to be using his campaign slogan of “Forward” while giving a press conference on the hurricane.

Go to The Blaze for the video.

By the way, Mr. President, when is the press conference on Benghazi?

Oh what a tangled web we weave, When first we practice to deceive

Guest posted by tim, The Godless Heathen

Fox News -

A series of internal State Department emails obtained by Fox News shows that officials reported within hours of last month's deadly consulate attack in Libya that Al Qaeda-tied group Ansar al-Sharia had claimed responsibility.

The emails provide some of the most detailed information yet about what officials knew in the initial hours after the attack. And it again raises questions about why U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Susan Rice, apparently based on intelligence assessments, would claim five days after the attack that it was a "spontaneous" reaction to protests over an anti-Islam film.

Ansar al-Sharia has been declared by the State Department to be an Al Qaeda-affiliated group. A member of the group suspected of participating in the Sept. 11 attack in Benghazi has been arrested and is being held in Tunisia.

The emails obtained by Fox News were sent by the State Department to a variety of national security platforms, whose addresses have been redacted, including the White House Situation Room, the Pentagon, the FBI and the Director of National Intelligence.

Fox News was told that an estimated 300 to 400 national security figures received these emails in real time almost as the raid was playing out and concluding. People who received these emails work directly under the nation’s top national security, military and diplomatic officials, Fox News was told.

The timestamps on the emails are all Eastern Time and often include the subheading SBU, which is shorthand for “Sensitive But Unclassified.”

The third email came at 6:07 p.m. ET and was sent to a different email list but still includes the White House Situation Room address and a subject line of “Update 2: Ansar al-Sharia Claims Responsibility for Benghazi Attack (SBU).”
“Embassy Tripoli reports the group claimed responsibility on Facebook and Twitter and has called for an attack on Embassy Tripoli," the email reads.

Read more the rest of the damning evidence here.

"He's all about playing a role he never lived"

Lex Communis, describing Lawrence O'Donnell:

He makes Chris Matthews look stable.

This is the socialist putz who berated the late Cathy Siepp - then dying of lung cancer - for insulting teachers and who had to be walked off the set for calling a Vietnam Veteran "creepy" for objecting to John Kerry's smear of Vietnam Veterans as war criminals.

...

What is it with these Liberal Irish fake and former Catholics and their need to display faux-toughness? My old man was authentic Irish Catholic from Brooklyn, and a former Chief Petty Officer, and he was tough and he never had to talk about his toughness in order to intimidate the panty-waste liberal teachers he worked with after he retired from the Navy.

They knew better than to even think about getting physical with him.

...

And a little research nails the fact about these wanna-be tough guys. He didn't grow up on the mean streets of Boston; he went to aprivate Catholic all-boy prep school, his father was an attorney, and O'Donnell went to Harvard.

He's all about playing a role he never lived.

O'Donnell is a despicable representation of all that is wrong with leftists today.

But don't take my word for it... go read the rest of Lex Communis' post and see more of how despicable he truly is.

Taggart Romney is, I guess, supposed to be skeert... so skeert

Lawrence O'Donnell took offense that Taggart wanted to punch the President after Obama implied his Dad is a liar at the last debate.

And O'Donnell calls him out... literally:

Asshattery at its finest.

Biden goes after the smug, arrogant, jerk vote

Apparently Obama internal polling is showing that there's a large number of undecided louts out there and it was high time they appealed to them so out they sent Biden with the charge to be a complete asshole during last night's VP debate.

I don't think I've ever seen a more condescending boorish butt munch in my life.

The GOP was quick to put together a highlight reel but really, it doesn't do justice to what a complete jerk Biden was last night.

How I hope the American people come to their senses and vote these people out here in a few weeks.

Noise? Seriously, noise?

The President of the United States continues to say and do (or not do) that which keeps our allies at arms length and emboldens our enemies.

Transcript of Obama's interview last night on CBS' 60 Minutes via The Weekly Standard:

STEVE KROFT: "How much pressure have you been getting from Prime Minister Netanyahu to make up your mind to use military force in Iran?"

PRESIDENT OBAMA: "Well—look, I have conversations with Prime Minister Netanyahu all the time. And I understand and share Prime Minister Netanyahu's insistence that Iran should not obtain a nuclear weapon, because it would threaten us, it would threaten Israel, and it would threaten the world and kick off a nuclear arms race."

STEVE KROFT:  "You’re saying, you don't feel any pressure from Prime Minister Netanyahu in the middle of a campaign to try and get you to change your policy and draw a line in the sand? You don’t feel any pressure?"

PRESIDENT OBAMA: "When it comes to our national security decisions—any pressure that I feel is simply to do what's right for the American people. And I am going to block out—any noise that's out there. Now I feel an obligation, not pressure but obligation, to make sure that we're in close consultation with the Israelis—on these issues. Because it affects them deeply. They're one of our closest allies in the region. And we’ve got an Iranian regime that has said horrible things that directly threaten Israel’s existence."

That piece goes on to chronicle Iranian President Ahmadinejad's use of noise to also describe Israel in an interview with the Washington Post.

Couple this with Obama's continued refusal to meet face to face with Netanyahu this week while planning to take time to go on The View and meet with Whoopi Goldberg and you have all you really need to have to cement a decision to ensure Obama does not get re-elected.

Or do you?

It is becoming increasingly more difficult to respect any person who decides Obama should get another 4 years.

Increasingly more difficult.

Obama Campaign: No red states, no blue states, just the United States

One nation, under... Obama:

A poster to say there are no red states or blue states, only the United States: OFA.BO/gfHgXM

— Barack Obama (@BarackObama) September 20, 2012

Via the folks at Twitchy who have an additional picture adding fuel to the bad optics fire.

It's just all incredible.

Obama is “among the most sophisticated consumers of intelligence on the planet”

That's the message being put out by administration officials explaining away Obama's lack of interest in daily intelligence briefs.  In other words, Obama's intellect removes the necessity for face to face meetings with the intelligence community.  

Raise your hand if you're buying this crap:

When I asked National Security Council spokesman Tommy Vietor if the president had attended any meetings to discuss the Presidential Daily Brief (PDB) since Sept. 5, he repeatedly refused to answer. He noted that Obama had attended a principals meeting of the National Security Council on Sept. 10 and reiterated that he reads the PDB. “As I’ve told you every time you ask, the President gets his PDB every day,” Vietor told me by e-mail, adding this swipe at Obama’s predecessor, George W. Bush: “Unlike your former boss, he has it delivered to his residence in the morning and not briefed to him.” (This new line of defense was echoed this morning by my Post colleague, Dana Milbank, who writes thatBush was briefed every day by his intelligence advisers because he “decided he would prefer to read less.”)

Vietor’s reply is quite revealing. It is apparently a point of pride in the White House that Obama’s PDB is “not briefed to him.” In the eyes of this administration, it is a virtue that the president does not meet every day with senior intelligence officials. This president, you see, does not needbriefers. He can forgo his daily intelligence meeting because he is, in Vietor’s words, “among the most sophisticated consumers of intelligence on the planet.”

Truly sophisticated consumers of intelligence don’t see it as a sign of weakness to “be briefed” by the experts. Most of us, if we subscribed to a daily report on, say, astrophysics, would probably need some help interpreting it. But when it comes to intelligence, Obama is apparently so brilliant he can absorb the most complicated topics by himself in his study. He does not need to sit down for up to an hour a day with top intelligence officials, or hold more than 100 “deep dives” in which he invites CIA analysts into the Oval Office and gives them direct access to the commander in chief to discuss their areas of expertise. Such meetings are crutches this president does not need. Written briefings, questions and comments are enough. Obama has more important things to do — such as attend Las Vegas fundraisers.

The mere fact that this man became President is disturbing enough.

Yet more disturbing is the notion that this man could be re-elected.

God help this country.