Most of the coverage of James Mattis’s new book, Call Sign Chaos, co-authored with Bing West, deals with the former defense secretary’s relationship with President Trump. The Atlantic‘s pre-publication interview with Mattis was headlined, “The Man Who Couldn’t Take It Anymore.” The New York Times editorial page ran a column about Mattis called “The Man Trump Wishes He Were.”
Both articles establish that Mattis doesn’t have much to say right now, in either the book or in interviews, about President Trump. Neither piece, though, mentions another president about whom Mattis is more than willing to dish. That would be Barack Obama, who was Mattis’s commander in chief when the then–Marine general led Central Command. Mattis’s critique of Obama isn’t just harsh. It’s blistering.
My Obama-Is-Actually-A-Space-Alien Theory
Gains credibility with every passing day.
AN Oxford University professor has claimed aliens are already breeding with humans to create a new hybrid species that will save the planet. Dr Young-hae Chi, an instructor in Korean at Oxford’s Oriental Institute, part of the prestigious university, thinks this new species will save Earth from annihilation from climate change.
It seems the best explanation for that lean and hungry look.
Now Is The Time At SDA When We Juxtapose!
Not A Muslim
“On March 23, 2015, President Obama himself took the unusual step of releasing a video message directly to Nigerians all but telling them how to vote… In that video, Obama urged Nigerians to open the ‘next chapter’ by their votes. Those who understood subliminal language deciphered that he was prodding the electorate to vote for the [Muslim-led] opposition to form a new government.”
Not A Muslim
Five members of the Afghan Taliban who were freed from the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay in exchange for captured American army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl have joined the insurgent group’s political office in Qatar, Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid said Tuesday.
Was There Nothing That Obama Couldn’t Do?
Not A Muslim
The Obama administration secretly sought to give Iran access — albeit briefly — to the U.S. financial system by sidestepping sanctions kept in place after the 2015 nuclear deal, despite repeatedly telling Congress and the public it had no plans to do so […]
The report by the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations revealed that under President Barack Obama, the Treasury Department issued a license in February 2016, never previously disclosed, that would have allowed Iran to convert $5.7 billion it held at a bank in Oman from Omani rials into euros by exchanging them first into U.S. dollars. If the Omani bank had allowed the exchange without such a license, it would have violated sanctions that bar Iran from transactions that touch the U.S. financial system.
The effort was unsuccessful because American banks — themselves afraid of running afoul of U.S. sanctions — declined to participate. The Obama administration approached two U.S. banks to facilitate the conversion, the report said, but both refused, citing the reputational risk of doing business with or for Iran.
This is big. Thus, you’re not going to hear about it.
Was There Nothing That Obama Couldn’t Do?
It’s strange that a president who had such a transformative effect on our national discourse will leave such a negligible policy legacy. But Barack Obama, whose imperial term changed the way Americans interact and in some ways paved the way for the Trump presidency, is now watching his much-celebrated and mythologized two-term legacy be systematically demolished.
He chose the form of his destructor.
Related!
Wow. Full page ad in @nytimes signed by @stephenharper and former Australian PM John Howard pic.twitter.com/ABNQdCe4Pf
— Norman Spector (@nspector4) May 10, 2018
The Apprentices
Think of it as a reality TV trade deal, with Team America coming out ahead.
Obama and former first lady Michelle Obama are in “advanced negotiations” with streaming video provider Netflix to produce and appear in shows that will chronicle their lives after the White House, the New York Times reported. Financial terms were not disclosed.
Name That Show in the comments, and I’ll send out a free book from the free book library to the one I like best (closes Sunday night at midnight).
When The President Does It, That Means That It’s Not Illegal
Why Susan Rice wrote an email to herself;
Susan Rice is far from the brightest bulb on the tree, but she was well aware that by concealing facts ostensibly relating to national security from her counterpart in the new administration-General Michael Flynn-she was, at a minimum, violating longstanding civic norms. If she actually lied to Flynn, she could have been accused of much worse. So Rice wanted to be able to retrieve her email, if she found herself in a sticky situation, and tell the world that she hid relevant facts about Russia from the new administration on Barack Obama’s orders.
What were the secrets that Obama wanted to keep from the new administration? We can easily surmise that the fact that the Steele memo was paid for by the Democratic Party; that the FBI had to some degree collaborated with Steele; that the Clinton campaign had fed some of the fake news in the dossier to Steele; and that Comey’s FBI had used Steele’s fabrications as the basis for FISA warrants to spy on the Trump campaign were among the facts that Obama and his minions didn’t want Michael Flynn and Donald Trump to know. Susan Rice, we can infer, was told to keep these secrets, and if anyone ever asked why she had failed to disclose them to Michael Flynn and others on Trump’s team, or even lied to those people, she would have the defense that President Obama ordered her to do it.
Related — The bodies are piling up
Obama Portrait Unveiled At Smithsonian Museum
Not A Muslim
NOOOnonononono……
Photojournalist Askia Muhammad released a photo this week showing former President Barack Obama and the controversial Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan from Obama’s years as a state senator — and the photographer revealed Thursday that the Congressional Black Caucus had pressured him for more than a decade to keep it hidden.
Obama’s Chicago office was staffed by Nation of Islam members
The secret backstory of how Obama let Hezbollah off the hook
I didn’t venture into this story when it surfaced a few days ago. I read it this evening.
The campaign, dubbed Project Cassandra, was launched in 2008 after the Drug Enforcement Administration amassed evidence that Hezbollah had transformed itself from a Middle East-focused military and political organization into an international crime syndicate that some investigators believed was collecting $1 billion a year from drug and weapons trafficking, money laundering and other criminal activities.
Grab a coffee. And a barf bag.
I TOLD YOU HE WAS AN ALIEN. NOBODY WOULD LISTEN.
Was There Nothing That Obama Couldn’t Do?
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NOW they’re junior varsity.
ISIS defeated in last major stronghold
Pro-government forces defeated the Islamic State group in its last major stronghold in Syria, state media and a monitoring group reported on Sunday, leaving the militants to defend just strips of desert territory in the country and a besieged pocket outside the capital, Damascus.
Since curtailing Operation Empty Chair, the anti-ISIS forces have done remarkably well. Odd that.
Fusion GPS
The panned, opposition funded, “dossier” was the basis for the Russian excuse which lead to the Mueller witch-hunt. Was the fiction also the basis for Obama using the agents of the federal gov’t to target Republicans?
I mean, it’s not like there isn’t a history of the D’s weaponizing federal agencies, or anything.
Oh…Clinton still isn’t POTUS.
Guilty
More Angry old women
I guess she’s no longer proud of her country.