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Hillary Clinton- Secretary of State?

The Guardian is reporting that Hillary has accepted the position of Secretary of State.

Now I don't know if that's 100% solid, conditional upon hubby's vetting, or completely wrong.  I will assume for the moment that it's true.  I can tell you that there are a lot worse people Obama could have chosen.  Jean Effen Kerré, for instance.

I figure I'm not going to be happy with anyone The One picks, but Hillary would probably do a decent job.  I'm willing to give her a chance.

VW

You've Been Warned!

There's a nutjob Moonbat that writes for the Guardian (A very leftists Brit Rag) by the name of Jonathan Freedland.  Mr. Freedland is firing a warning shot over our electoral bow telling us that if we don't elect The One, the world will hate us - yawn! (pardon me - couldn't help it!)

He hates Palin and starts off his screed by recanting some lies about her, but then he tells us the consequenses of a loss by the anointed one.

If Sarah Palin defies the conventional wisdom that says elections are determined by the top of the ticket, and somehow wins this for McCain, what will be the reaction? Yes, blue-state America will go into mourning once again, feeling estranged in its own country. A generation of young Americans - who back Obama in big numbers - will turn cynical, concluding that politics doesn't work after all. And, most depressing, many African-Americans will decide that if even Barack Obama - with all his conspicuous gifts - could not win, then no black man can ever be elected president.

". - with all his conspicuous gifts - " Is that like Biden saying :   "I mean, you got the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy,"? Just asking!  Folks are disappointed in every election.  It almost as if he's saying Obam deserves it just because the Republicans had it last time.

I'm sure there will be a myriad of pundits, reporters, whiners, sore losers and community organizers telling us it was racist and mean.  Some will howl that it was rigged and some will just howl.  I'm sure that  there will be some who think it has to do with race and draw the conclusion that a black person cannot win. 

Mr. Freedlander then tells us that the world loves Obama:

But what of the rest of the world? This is the reaction I fear most. For Obama has stirred an excitement around the globe unmatched by any American politician in living memory. Polling in Germany, France, Britain and Russia shows that Obama would win by whopping majorities, with the pattern repeated in Africa, Asia, the Middle East and Latin America. If November 4 were a global ballot, Obama would win it handsomely. If the free world could choose its leader, it would be Barack Obama.

I'm sure they would!  Don't YOU want the Russians voting for our next president?  The world is a stupid place. Most of them don't have sense enough to elect decent leaders in the first place.  You mean to tell me that people who voted for Putin, Medvedev, Chavez, and just about every tin pot dictator in all the places he named.  Hell, most of them probably aren't even literate enough to know the issues!

Ah, but if The One doesn't win, Shame on us for not bowing to the third world!

If Americans choose McCain, they will be turning their back on the rest of the world, choosing to show us four more years of the Bush-Cheney finger. And I predict a deeply unpleasant shift.

Until now, anti-Americanism has been exaggerated and much misunderstood: outside a leftist hardcore, it has mostly been anti-Bushism, opposition to this specific administration. But if McCain wins in November, that might well change. Suddenly Europeans and others will conclude that their dispute is with not only one ruling clique, but Americans themselves. For it will have been the American people, not the politicians, who will have passed up a once-in-a-generation chance for a fresh start - a fresh start the world is yearning for.

And the manner of that decision will matter, too. If it is deemed to have been about race - that Obama was rejected because of his colour - the world's verdict will be harsh. In that circumstance, Slate's Jacob Weisberg wrote recently, international opinion would conclude that "the United States had its day, but in the end couldn't put its own self-interest ahead of its crazy irrationality over race".

Even if it's not ethnic prejudice, but some other aspect of the culture wars, that proves decisive, the point still holds.

Yes, they will hate us mean and nasty racists.  Hogwash.  When are we going to see a black man in Britain as Prime minister?  When are we going to see an Algerian President of France?  When? 

Its's all lip service.  They might talk bad about us, but when they get into trouble, guess who they are gonna come running to?  Us! 

And if they are in trouble, they will be a lot better off if McCain is President then some rookie Senator that doesn't even know how many states there are in his own country.

VW

War Crimes

Remember when we decided to eliminate the regime of Saddam Hussein?  Do you remember the so-called "peace rallies" all over the world?  And even today, the shrill cries of "War Criminal" dominate the left's anti-war crusade.  Part of the argument is that Saddam Hussein posed no threat to us.

I'm no foreign affairs expert by any stretch.  I probably know a little more than most Americans about this mess in South Ossetia.  The Caucasus region is oil-rich and Russia covets it.  It's a region fraught with nationalistic rivalries that go back for a few eons.  In other words, diversity isn't exactly celebrated there.  South Ossetia is one of those little ethnic areas that borders Russia and Georgia and wants autonomy from Georgia.  Georgia attacked the Ossetians and Russia counter attacked the Georgians attacking South Ossetia.

It's a mess and not likely to end well for Georgia.  Although Georgia is now asking begging for a cease fire, Russia will probably keep going until either the Georgians are completely run out of South Ossetia, or until they march into Tbilisi and control both Georgia and South Ossetia. 

Where are the cries of War Crimes or the protests for peace.  Admittedly, this current escaltion is fairly recent, but let me ask you, if this was the US attacking a Mexico though a breakaway Mexican state on our border, what do you think the reaction from the leftists would be? What would be the reaction if we just demolished everything in our path?

Our military does its best to limit collateral damage.  We attack with almost surgical skill, targeting the bad guys while trying not to destroy infrastructure or innocents.  Russia charged into South Ossetia with blitzkrieg brutality, destroying whatever and whoever was in its path.  I might add that Russia was not attacked directly, although they had some "peacekeepers" that got caught in the initial Georgian attack.

The bottom line is this.  In this world today, only Americans commit war crimes.  Almost everyone else gets a pass.

VW

The Dalai Obama?

Every morning here at my hotel, I get a copy of the Toronto Globe and Mail at my door.  Most of the time, it ends up in the recycle basket over by the TV.  This morning, on the top fold on the front page were large color pictures of the Dalai Lama and Barack Obama side by side underneath the headline, "TOUGH WORDS, TRYING TIMES" with large print quotes underneath. They have it on their web page but it is isn't on the main page so I took a picture of my copy.

It would seem that our Canadian friends are trying to put the Dalai Lama and Obama on the same pedestal. 

Of Course, the Canadians are salivating at the thought of an Obama Presidency.

I do have a suggestion.  If The Dalai Lama quits and Obama loses to Hillary, maybe Obama could apply for the Dalai Lama job!

VW

It's In The Star

In the Toronto Star today, I read a column filed by one Isabel Teotonio concerning "justice" for terrorists.  Ms. Teotonio is was in Guantanamo attending a trial for some Jihadis.  To say that she is sympathetic with these murderous bastards is a bit of an understatement with her pro-terrorist rant  but she is either deliberately misleading or very uninformed.   Here's the relevant parts:

For a reporter more accustomed to trekking out to a Brampton court to cover the trial of the so-called Toronto 18, this maiden voyage to Guantanamo highlights some differences in Canada's and America's war on terror. Or, at least, the war waged in the courts against those charged with terrorism. (emphasis added)

In Brampton, it's primarily relatives of the accused who fill the court's body. Many take notes during the pre-trial hearings against those arrested as part of a massive police sweep on June 2, 2006, which netted 18 men and youths. Even the accused, who speak English and seem engaged, scribble notes for their lawyers.

The men, who are all Canadian citizens or have lived there since they were young, are accused of plotting to bomb the Toronto Stock Exchange and Toronto offices of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service.

Do you see what she is doing here?  She is telling you that in Canada, terrorists have rights because they have access to the courts.  I think she is deliberately trying to mislead her readers.  Surely, as a journalist, she would know that statement is not entirely true. 

The terrorists in the courtroom in Brampton are Canadian residents caught in Canada for acts the planned to do in Canada.  The terrorists in Guantanamo are enemy combatants captured in Iraq and Afghanistan.  Suspected terrorists caught in the United States are held in US jails and given access to US courts.  They are not sent to Guantanamo. 

Ms. Teotonio's leftist ideology does not let her print the facts.  She must paint the US as some kind of rogue state that would send its citizens to off shore prisons.

Another thing that should tell you her slant is that if Gitmo was such a horrible place, she would not be allowed anywhere near the base, let alone be allowed to witness a trial.

Ms. Teotonio is no real journalist.  She is a left-wing ideologue with access to a major North American Newspaper where she allowed to spread her purposeful disinformation.

VW

Let's Make A Deal

There are some in Europe and in other places that have this idiotic view that they should have some say in our Presidential election..  This isn't a new idea.  It was raised during the last Presidential election by some British moonbat and it didn't take long into this election cycle for another liberal European to beat the drum.

Some so-called journalist named Evita Neef wrote an opinion in the Brussells  De Standard demanding that we count her vote.

American presidential elections are not “home affairs.” American decisions have repercussions all over the globe. The American mortgage crisis affects banks in Europe. The insatiable American demand for oil makes the Arabian sheiks rich. The American refusal to care for the environment causes the North Pole ice to melt and coastal areas in Asia to flood. A weakened dollar and an immense budget deficit affect the global economy.

Hence, the world should be given the right to vote. Because the current situation is a blatant case of taxation without representation, against which the Americans rebelled in 1776. But of course the world will not be allowed to vote. The best we can hope for is that the Americans choose a leader who is deeply aware of the U.S.’s responsibility, as a superpower, for the rest of mankind.

Ms. Neef's thinking is so shallow it almost qualifies as not thinking at all.  Her reasoning runs more along the lines of a petulant teenager, than anything a reasoned and seasoned adult might contemplate.  It seems to be almost a self parody.

Indeed, our birthright is taxation without representation.  We broke off from our European masters because of their elitist thinking that they owned us and it appears that in the last 231 years or so, their attitudes haven't significantly changed.  They still think of us as children.  The difference today is that they see us not as their ill-tempered off-spring that threw a tantrum two centuries ago, rather now they see us as an eighteen-year-old bully that disrespects their wisdom in their approaching dotage. 

OK, Ms. Neef, We'll make a deal.  You can vote in our election, but like any deal, there has to be some sort of reciprocation.  Since voting for our President would be a huge concession, we need a similar concession from you.

The reason that you can make such outlandish suggestions is because of the generosity of the Americans over the last 100 years.  It's the same generosity that has pulled you out of two world wars.  There are generous, nay, copious quantities of American blood spilled upon your soil.  In your own country of Belgium the bodies of thousands of brave Americans still consecrate your soil for freedom.

Even after the two world wars in which we freed you from the yoke of oppressors, we continued to guarantee your freedom from Soviet domination.  We fed you and clothed you and all of your European brethren and kept you safe to develop into what is now modern Europe.  Indeed, we asked little in return except for your friendship.  It is our navy that protects your shores, our airplanes that free your skies. It was our army that stood on your frontiers during the Cold War facing down the Soviet tanks.

If you want to start voting in our elections, then we need reparations.  We want some payback for all that we've done.  We want you to start helping to pay for the protection that we've offered over the decades.  We want you to understand the threats to your freedom and even to your very existence.  We demand that you switch your loyalty from your European nannies to us and our kind of freedom.

I know, it's a high price, but nothing is free.  We Americans have understood that concept more than anyone else in the world.  And if freedom is to remain, it will be because of a strong America and not a dottering Europe.

VW

Hat Tip:  Blogs For Victory

The Devil Writes Pravda

By way of an email from the eminent MOGS, one of the two writers at the Diary of the Mad Pigeon, comes this "op-ed" in Pravda:

US president orders military to begin jailing all civilian protestors to war

In yet another shocking prelude towards becoming a Total Police State, Russian Intelligence Analysts are reporting today that the American War Leaders have issued orders to the United States Military Northern Command authorizing the jailing, and military tribunals, for any American citizen critical of the 'war effort'.

Either the Russians have been putting something extra in their Vodka, or their warmer than usual winter is cooking their little Commie brains. Maybe it's radiation!  Whatever it is, these guys are definitely hallucinating!

The article, apparently translated into English by the same guys that used to do it under the old USSR, goes on to quote an MSNBC story that the administration isn't happy about judges, with little or no background in national security, reaching a bit too far.  It mostly concerns an opinion of Attorney General Gonzalez.  Fine, but after that bit of fluff, we get into why they think we are about to make the Sheehag and her ilk disappear.

Furthering the complete destruction of the rights of the American people to 'due process' and 'fair trials', the American War Leaders have passed a new law subjecting their citizens to Military, instead of Civilian trials.

According to reports from the United States, this little known law was 'slipped into' a large spending bill unbeknownst to US Congressional Leaders, and though 'seemingly' applying to American contractors in fact subjects all American citizens to Military Arrest and Trials.

Them sneaky American War Leaders!  The Russians found it, but the Democrats haven't yet.  I'm impressed.  They snuck that right by Pelosi and Hillary; the two smartest women in the whole wide world!

Russian Legal Analysts familiar with American Law state in these reports that the significance of these actions being taking against American citizens by the US War Leaders shows the 'complete ascendancy' to 'total power' of the American President, and who now is free to rule his Nation by decree free from interference by either the US Congress, or the American people themselves.

So powerless have the US Congress and American people become, that as outrage continues to build within the United States against the expansion of the war in Iraq, and the planned US attack upon Iran, the spokesman for the American War Leader has stated in response to a US Congressional move to block further war making:

"Presidential spokesman Tony Snow said resolutions passed by Congress will not affect Bush's decision-making. "The president has obligations as a commander in chief," he said. "And he will go ahead and execute them."

Hmmmm...does he mean execute his obligations or critics?  Hard to to tell there.

Russian Intelligence Analysts in these reports to President Putin have asked, "If President Bush feels that he is not constrained by either the elected representatives of the American people, or the American people themselves, we must then consider that he, and his Administration, have become powers unto themselves and that the United States should therefore be considered a dictatorship, not a democracy."

And what is the fate of all these critics?  Well, since we are now a dictatorship, what else?  Their fate is that of all critics of a dictator:

To the American people themselves, they remain in abject denial of the dark Fascist forces descending around them; but soon, and much sooner than they could believe, and with their families and neighbors disappearing into the vast American Gulag, what they once believed in as the American Dream, will soon be shown for what it really is, an American Nightmare.

The "vast American Gulag!"  I don't know where that is, but Gulags, dictatorships and killing your opponents is something that Puty-Pute is familiar with.

As MOGS commented in the email:

"Wow, and I thought our media sucked!"

Amen, Brother MOGS, amen!

VW