SURE YOU WOULD HAVE, CHAMP. THAT’S WHY HE’S UPSTAGING YOU EVEN NOW, WHILE YOU’RE STILL PRESIDENT.
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Is There Nothing That Obama Couldn’t Do?
This was the moment that the rise of the petulance began to flow…
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Israel knew even before the Egyptian draft resolution that the White House was planning an “ambush” and coordinating it with the Palestinians, said another Israeli official, who requested anonymity to discuss internal diplomatic conversations.
Israeli diplomats believe they were misled by the U.S. during a meeting last week between high-ranking Israeli and Obama administration officials in which the U.S. side offered reassurances about its efforts to support Israel but declined to explicitly state that the U.S. would veto such a resolution if it came up. The Israelis told their counterparts that “friends don’t take friends to the Security Council,” the official said.
The Children Are Our Future
Is There Nothing That Obama Can’t Do?
Bare, ruined choirs: How Barack Obama wrecked the Democratic Party
Hallelujah
It’s Probably Nothing
While Obama uses Putin as campaign punching bag: Nato puts 300,000 ground troops on ‘high alert’ as tensions with Russia mount.
He Heard About It From “News Reports”
THIS IS NOT SATIRE
I repeat: THIS IS NOT SATIRE.
The Obama administration is contemplating an unprecedented cyber covert action against Russia in retaliation for alleged Russian interference in the American presidential election, U.S. intelligence officials told NBC News.
Current and former officials with direct knowledge of the situation say the CIA has been asked to deliver options to the White House for a wide-ranging “clandestine” cyber operation designed to harass and “embarrass” the Kremlin leadership.
When The President Does It, That Means That It’s Not Illegal
Update: “How is this not classified?” (h/t MJ)
Name That President!
The 189 pages the bureau released includes interviews with some of Clinton’s closest aides, such as Huma Abedin and Cheryl Mills; senior State Department officials; and even Marcel Lazar, better known as the Romanian hacker “Guccifer.”
In an April 5, 2016 interview with the FBI, Abedin was shown an email exchange between Clinton and Obama, but the longtime Clinton aide did not recognize the name of the sender.
“Once informed that the sender’s name is believed to be pseudonym used by the president, Abedin exclaimed: ‘How is this not classified?'” the report says. “Abedin then expressed her amazement at the president’s use of a pseudonym and asked if she could have a copy of the email.”
Speculation has already begun…
KenyaKing1 #ObamasPseudonym
— Daniel Brian Hageman (@hageman_brian) September 24, 2016
Is There Nothing That Obama Can’t Do?
Obama should have seen it coming but didn’t. All too frequently he never does. Noting this, Charles Lister, writing at Foreign Policy, headlines his piece “Obama’s Syria Strategy Is the Definition of Insanity.” He says “none of this should come as a surprise, even as the consequences are potentially devastating.” […[
Lister doesn’t accuse Obama of being actually a crazy person, just of acting like a one. Yet the suggestive evidence goes much further than Syria. Whether at social policy (which yielded riots), health policy (which resulted in Obamacare), or economic policy (which has created unemployment), the administration has shown a willingness to double down on failure. In many and varied contexts, it acts like it’s insane.
Just think of him as “Iran’s Man in Washington”, and everything Obama does seems perfectly rational.
Forward!
Obama TODAY: "In order to realize the promise of the UN, the US must give up freedoms"
Why hasn't the military arrested him?#TrumpACandy pic.twitter.com/usB8ZohSIM
— Jared Wyand 🇺🇸 (@JaredWyand) September 20, 2016
The Incredible Shrinking President
While presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump loom horrifyingly larger, can we spare a little horror as U.S. President Barack Obama looms ever smaller?
h/t Maz2
“Which brings us back to the matter of respect”
… and which leaders get the red-carpet treatment in China these days, and which don’t. Xi and his colleagues see an American president who treats his own country’s Constitution, voters and national interests with no respect. For Beijing, that amounts to an enfeebled America. That translates into an opportunity, a wide-open invitation from the White House, to drive home to the world a message that China is on the rise — receiving at its latest summit an American president who arrives with tribute in his pocket. For such an emissary, no red carpet is needed. Of course he can exit from the back of his plane.
Obamacare Death Spiral
As any 6 year-old with simple math skills would have predicted, the basic economics behind Obamacare were not sound and thus the main policy initiative of America’s Modern Messiah was doomed to failure. Richard Epstein, of the Hoover Institution, gives the details in this podcast.
Many more facts about this ill conceived program can be found here:
And what the insurers who have left the program have made clear is that they believe that, absent changes, the losses will go on forever. “The vast majority of payers have experienced continued financial stress within their individual public exchange business,” Aetna CEO Mark Bertolini said about the decision. In a call with investors last year, a representative from UnitedHealth said the company “saw no indication of anything actually improving” inside the exchanges. “We cannot sustain these losses,” UnitedHealth CEO Stephen Hemsley said on that call. “We can’t really subsidize a marketplace that doesn’t appear at the moment to be sustaining itself.”
As with all Leftist failures, expect no apologies or mea culpas. They’re incapable of it. With an endless stream of supporters whose memories are shorter than that of a gnat, they will just move on, setting their eyes on the next part of the economy to destroy.
Just Between Friends
The Obama administration secretly organized an airlift of $400 million worth of cash to Iran that coincided with the January release of four Americans detained in Tehran, according to U.S. and European officials and congressional staff briefed on the operation afterward.
Wooden pallets stacked with euros, Swiss francs and other currencies were flown into Iran on an unmarked cargo plane, according to these officials. The U.S. procured the money from the central banks of the Netherlands and Switzerland, they said.
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Obama administration releases new images showing 9/11 to be a simple construction accident. (h/t @CaptYonah ) pic.twitter.com/rMQEYhdYfI
— Jesse Kelly (@JesseKellyDC) June 20, 2016
Update: DOJ backpeddles.
Forward!
The Mind Of The President: Two recent devastating profiles–one of President Barack Obama by Jeffrey Goldberg in The Atlantic and the other of Obama’s communications chief Ben Rhodes by David Samuels in The New York Times Magazine–have revealed a kaleidoscope of mendacity so sophisticated, creative, consuming, and substantively boundless as to give rise to a sense that something essential has changed in the relationship between truth and falsehood, between the actual policies of an administration and its efforts to sell them.
Grab a coffee. (h/t Peter)