I’m Glad You Finally Made it to Europe, Barack
By SusanUnPC on July 24, 2008 at 1:30 PM in Barack Obama, Foreign Policy, Germany, John McCain, Joseph Wilson
Jake Tapper’s story today is Obama On Tonight’s Berlin Speech: “A Crapshoot”. Last week, the razor-sharp Tapper zeroed in on a story that we’ve covered here at No Quarter many times. Joe Wilson, Larry Johnson and I, as well as other writers, have all noted that Obama has failed to DO HIS JOB as Chair of the Subcommittee on European Affairs (including NATO) — holding no hearings and making no trips to Europe during his tenure as chair because, as he admitted in a primary debate, he’s been too busy running for president:
Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Joe Biden, D-Del., had previously told Meet the Press that "the reason Obama didn’t hold a hearing on NATO, I chair the committee. Every one of those committee hearings are held at full committee."
But today [July 17, 2008] Biden decided to take his defense of Obama one step further, writing to DeMint that there have been plenty of hearings on European Affairs, they’ve just been held at the "full committee level."
"On the particular issue of NATO’s mission in Afghanistan," Biden wrote, "We have held three Full Committee hearings in the last 22 months: one under Senator Lugar’s chairmanship (September 21, 2006: “From Coalition to ISAF Command in Afghanistan: The Purpose and Impact of the Transition”), and two undermine (March 8, 2007: “Afghanistan: Time for a New Strategy?” and January 21, 2008: “Afghanistan: A Plan to Turn the Tide?”). At all three of these hearings, we were fortunate enough to have the expert testimony—in addition to other witnesses, both in and out of government— of former NATO commander and Supreme Allied Commander-Europe, Gen. James R. Jones (USMC, ret.)."
But Biden’s letter brought attention to the fact that Obama did not attend two of those three hearings — and for the third, on March 8, 2007, Obama only asked one question, one unrelated to Afghanistan. …
Don’t miss how Jake Tapper knows that Obama asked only one question, irrelevant to Afghanistan:
How do I know the latter fact? From an August 2007 press release from Biden himself, when he was running for president.
"BIDEN CAMPAIGN CONGRATULATES SEN. OBAMA FOR JOHNNY-COME-LATELY POSITION," it read. Noting that at the March 2007 hearing, "Sen. Obama asked one question that was unrelated to Taliban or Afghanistan."
Thanks, Joe!
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Maureen Dowd notes an unintended consequence of Mr. Obama’s popularity in Europe that will create consternation among voters in the U.S.:
Even if Obama is treated as a superstar by W.-weary Europeans, some Obama-wary Americans may wonder what he’s doing there, when they can’t pay for gas, when the dollar is the Euro’s chew toy, when Bud is going Belgian and when the Chrysler Building has Arab landlords.
“I don’t know that people in Missouri are going to like seeing tens of thousands of Europeans screaming for The One,” a McCain aide snarked to The Politico.
Susan, it’s all photo-op with Barack:
http://www.blackfive.net/main/2008/07/from-gi-in-afgh.html
This is a message to the blog owner at “Blackfive.” The owner had 16 years of military service. If one reads his “about” page he’s a totally convincing person, and he just happens to really care about this country and the military. Read a few of the stories — they are about the heroes one never reads about. I don’t think he had any axe to grind.
Well, what did ya expect? Soldiers are members of the God-and-gun clinging bitter folk that Obama has no time for unless we’re talking about a photo-op. He’s like the phony Hollywood craphead who wants to “thank all the little people” when he/she wins the Oscar but spits on them the rest of the time.
Obama: if it weren’t for sh*t, he’d have no brains at all!
the coverage that obama is getting is laughable! I was from his great state of illinois, just south of where his state senate district was. i must tell you, if he wanted hope he would have to leave the district to see it. he is a fraud, he has done nothing for illinois!illinois, like michigan , is a blue state of depression. the economy sucks, ran entirely by incompetant dems.oh yeah, he says we cant drill our way out of the oil problem, someone should tell this fool that we cant “hope” our way out of it either!big in germany, who cares? so is david hasselhoff!stay there obama..you whiner!
lol…. what a sorry azz site….. this is the best u can come up with? just say he his a traitor and that he is a secret muslim etc…. i find that more appealing as a read, then this crap… how good of a week Obama has had? by the bs you peaple say here on this site, i’d say he’s “100% on the clock” ….. look forward to an “over-achiever” running the free world
Ha Ha. You are funny. How many over-achievers have never held a full-time job?
It won’t be a free world if Obama has his way. Keep in mind, there is no fun in Islam….
Ayatollah Khomeini, 1979
“Allah did not create man so that he could have fun. The aim of creation was for mankind to be put to the test through hardship and prayer. An Islamic regime must be serious in every field. There are no jokes in Islam. There is no humor in Islam. There is no fun in Islam. There can be no fun and joy in whatever is serious.”
You see him flippin people off and dusting off his shoulders and listening to rap… sucker! Bet you think he is a blood?
….. look forward to an “over-achiever” running the free world
Aye, you say that now…
If he is an achiever, why is it you can’t give any examples. I am waiting.
Truth….. Please let us Know when that OVER ACHIEVER Materalizes……..
Obama only cares about people as props. He doesn’t care about them as people. Once he has used you, you can be discarded. If he ever needs you again, you’ll know it sweetie.
Ask Scarlett Johannson…LOL….they used to be text message buddies…
Completely unimpressed by the world tour and angry at his snubbing the wounded vets.
Obama senior adviser Robert Gibbs told us in a statement, “During his trip as part of the CODEL to Afghanistan and Iraq, Senator Obama visited the combat support hospital in the Green Zone in Baghdad and had a number of other visits with the troops.
For the second part of his trip, the senator wanted to visit the men and women at Landstuhl Regional Medical Center to express his gratitude for their service and sacrifice.
The senator decided out of respect for these servicemen and women that it would be inappropriate to make a stop to visit troops at a U.S. military facility as part of a trip funded by the campaign.”
Wait…I thought he was on a Congressional fact-finding mission with Senators Hagel and Reed.
Is he actually admitting that the whole World Tour 2008 is just the big campaign rally the McCain people said it was?
Some amusing smartass posted the very BEST comment at the above cited webpage…summing up BO perfectly:
ICH BIN EIN BEGINNER!
ROFL
That was the best laugh today!! It’s the one to beat on Sports Center’s POD.
CNN reported the McCain campaign’s press release says, ICH BIN EIN HYPOCRITE
LOL. Made me spit on my desk.
Maybe he found some facts about the status of Jerusalem which he seems to think is presently the capital.
http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/07/obama_on_jerusalem_properly_ph.html
I was struck by his comment to Fareed Zakaria “You know, the truth is that this was an example where we had some poor phrasing in the speech.” Not “I”, “we”. Nothing like putting part of the blame on someone else. Of course he has chosen a 26 year-old to be his head speech writer so it is no wonder neither one of them knows what they are talking about.
“The senator decided out of respect for these servicemen and women that it would be inappropriate to make a stop to visit troops at a U.S. military facility as part of a trip funded by the campaign.”
What total BS! The truth, I bet, is that he didn’t want to “waste” so much time with the soldiers when he had a grandiose speech to give in Berlin.
P.S. How many times has Obama visited Walter Reed? He IS on the Veterans committee, after all.
How do you think it would look if that sonofabitch was to extend his hand for a shake and the soldier just stared him in the eye?
He wouldn’t risk being called the things he is by the men and women serving.
Politico just skewered him for this:
http://www.politico.com/blogs/jonathanmartin/0708/Obama_cancels_troop_visit.html?showall
[excerpted]
This is the time for McCain to visit (probably has in the past) a military burn unit. I know he has visited the troops many times before but I think he has to rub it in that he’s there for them and BO is too busy taking bows.
This is kinda like bush having time to go to the ranch and his daily run, but not having time to solve the economic crisis. Rememeber that.
I always predicted that as soon as Bush was out of office that whole ranch schtick would be history. Sure enough they are looking for a house in Dallas. He blames this on Laura, but he only bought the ranch after he decided to run for president. If he really liked that lifestyle so much he would have had a place like that long before. Not like he couldn’t afford a second home.
The media let him get away with pretending to be a cowboy so he could appear Reaganesque. Vincente Fox called him on this when he wrote his memoir. He mocked Bush for not being able to even ride a horse. In fact, he said Bush seemed to be afraid of them.
What a phoney. And what losers are media are for falling for this kind of garbage again and again.
It wouldn’t surprise me if Laura wants that house for herself. She may let him stay at the ranch.
It wasn’t a ranch, it was a pig farm. Ironic when you think how many times he insisted that his Saudi pals come for a little visit and a stroll amongst the bluebells.
Laura, former Democrat that she is, hated the place, and who can blame her? It was a shitty, hot, stage set for Bush. What it had going for it was ACREAGE–made it tough for the media to get close.
If he’d not been afraid of horses (”Hees hand, it was trrrembuling when he had to, you know, pat thee horse!!” said Vincente Fox, when he invited the Horsiephobic George to go riding with him–George declined the offer, and blamed it on the Secret Service not letting him “endanger” himself, though the horse Fox had chosen for him was an old nag and he tells the Secret Service what level of protection he wants, not the other way around) he might have pulled off the “Reagans on horseback” image–but he just didn’t have it in him. Chain saws and pickups do not a cowboy make.
He’s a phony, just like Obama is. They’re easy to spot–their insincerity just oozes out, no matter how hard they try to hide it.
Obama is lazy and never worked hard for anything in his life. He is not going to go socialize or thank anyone. If it doesn’t get him to the next candyland space, he’ll just sit in the free parking of monopoly to rest a bit.
It’s hard work to be a suuupppeeeeerrrrsssttttaaaaahhhhhhh!
Naw. He’d rather have a beer with his network buddies. He’s a self centered, all about me kinda narcissist!!!
He is a lot like Bush in this. I remember being shocked to read that as governor Bush would show up around 9 or so, work for a couple of hours, then take a LONG lunch break to exercise, eat and goof off. Then he would return to work until five. The man actually brags about how efficient he is! He still goes to bed early as president. Like he could get away with this crap if he didn’t have a staff working overtime to take care of things.
I heard the other day that Obama had worked out three times in one day for a total of about 3 hours and was creeped out. That is soooo like Bush. Granted Barack is smarter and not a right winger, but he shows the same excessive self-regard and overconfidence in his own judgment. That’s all we need - another bona fide narcissist running the show.
lmao , what is wrong with being “Fit to do your job”..? or should he be an out of shape elitist? ( look at 90% of the 10%ers in the U.S. ) Bush is a Man-child.. Barrack is real-man. McCain was half -a-man when he was a man…
barack is no man. he is a baby.
“Obama is lazy and never worked hard for anything in his life.”
o yeh!!!! well when you get sweaty , you smell like a wet dog…….
BINGO….NancyA you win an authentic….STUFFED ARMADILLO….Well said
Well you know, the soldiers in a hospital can’t jump up and cheer like fevered frauleins.
Obama never fails to show his dislike of Americans!
Obama’s had like 15 minutes of fame and already overexposed.
Obama is disgraceful. I am definitely moving if Obama becomes president. He is so pompous and condescending, apologizing for the United States. He can go fuck himself. I am so astonished that people are not as outraged as me. God help us!
Oh we’re plenty outraged. We’re not Party Loyalists over here. We see the Dems for Obama as just as stupid as the repugs for Bush.
Maybe one of these days clear thinking American Citizens will actually do something to get our country back. Tea Party anyone?
I’ll help you pack.
In fact, I’ve been looking for a way to get in on some of Will Bowers action — he’s pretty much had the road to himself, scamming you poor deluded creatures out of your cash.
So here’s my chance to get in on the game –
I will be collecting money to buy transportation out of the country for anyone that wishes to leave the country in 2009, when Obama takes the oath of office.
Collect until your hearts content. Since the conception of our country there have always been folks willing to stand up to tyranny and blowhards, why you think we’re going to run is beyond me? Perhaps you ought to keep the funds ready for yourself and the One and his merry band of criminals and petty thugs.
Obama cultist — go back to the hole your crawled out of.
Johnny on the Spot. I think it’s adorable how Obama supporters have picked up their candidate’s gift for ventriloquy.
Did you see where Johnny just got up from his seat? Johnny left a spot!
The only reason the troll is here is to earn the peanuts the Messiah’s campaign is paying to feed their drug addiction.
Oh the haters are back!
Stop the hate!
My guess? You’re not as smart as Will ….
wow GOD plse help u…… but not for the reason u would want god to help u………..
“He can go fuck himself” good job u god loving Andrew u!!!!!!!!!!
I am sooooooooooooo F___ing sick of Obama telling people that America sucks!!!
He is telling the Germans, that number 1, he does not look like other Americans who have been there.
Then he tells them how embarrased he is of us and all of the things we suck at and do wrong.
This guy needs a Dixie Chick reaction. He should be ostracized, and told to shut the Hell up!!
What walls is he talking about?? Reagan stealing hack!! I hated Reagan, but this guy should not even be allowed to say his name.
And the campaign signs at the Western Wall!!!! Just who does he think he is, this is the holiest site in the world and his campaign is plastering it, desecrating it with their God awful anti-american campaign signs.
Has anyone seen an American flag in anything he is doing? I see his sign, and his slogan, but no American flags.
Someone ran out of KY last night and is still feeling the after effects…
Gee, isn’t that one of the states that Barry thinks he can win? His supporters are almost as disgusting as he is.
I’m sorry I didn’t use enough on you. Here’s some Preparation H, sweetie. Same time next week?
Larry Sinclair maybe or Donald Young?
I, too, was annoyed at the “I don’t look like other Americans who have been here…..” As if Colin Power or Condi have never set foot in Berlin. (I know he was trying to imply Reagan and Kennedy but he clearly just wants to act like he is unique among men.) Yet again it is Obama who brings up race.
I wonder if he pissed off any goat herders. Like that is not an honorable way to make a living.
ummm heh? 200,000 germans waiving American flags……………… could McBush , or anyone else for that matter from the U.S. do this.. i think not… so tell me again why u HATE Obama?
You hurry right back here and let us know when they are qualified to vote in the United States, okay?
Obama was expecting a 500 k to a million for his big speech. Not exactly what he thought, but got to give the Germans some credit, maybe they have learned something in the past 65 years. The last good speaker they were in armor of was their leader, oh what was his name again? Oh now I remember HITLER. Think maybe they are wrong now just as they were back when they adored the other “ONE” These two have alot in common, don’t you think?????
They wanted to see the freak show…
Hey the ad poster said no signs, guess the rules don’t matter.
From what I see in the thread, I correct to understand that BO did Rev. Wright Sermon? Now I will have to read the drec that BO spewed on the pew at Hitler’s favorite “POST” …
hat tip to http://marcambinder.theatlantic.com/archives/2008/07/gopers_wait_a_lifetime_for_a_m.php and http://therealbarackobama.wordpress.com/2008/07/24/berlin-model-072408-o-gaffe-matic/
Krauthammer is the consummate right-winger, but he’s frequently brilliant in exposing Barry for the arrogant fraud he truly is. Yesterday he said that the treatment Obama is receiving on the big trip is not so much presidential as “papal”…wanted to know if Backtrack would be giving a speech in Germany, or saying Mass!
Hmmmm….How very GLOBAL of him…..chuckle….
Didn’t somebody else tell them that? Oh say, in the 30s?
Hmmmm….Yeah what was that guy’s name….ummm….Funny hairdo and a chaplin mustache….Who was that guy I can almost remember his name…
Charlie Chaplin?
Makes speech making easier.
Nobama!!!
Thing is BOBO is NOT yet “won” that nomination — that ONLY happens at the end of August.
The media loves to continue the fraud and lie — BOBO is a loser. Hopefully he will win a jail cell next to Rezko.
Dowd can be annoying at times, but she does have a gift for turn-of-phrase:
….when the dollar is the Euro’s chew toy….
O’bamnation is strutting his O’phonie foreign policy creds to those who don’t really know his O’lookilike a president O’bamisona like we do. No O’foolin us PUMAs back in the states.
An important article.
Old, grumpy McCain is catching up on Internet warfare!!!
http://www.alleyinsider.com/2008/7/is-barack-obama-losing-his-youtube-mojo-
How about posting the video of Obama’s Press Conference in Israel yesterday, i think it lasted maybe 15 minutes but the very being was the most telling part about Obama, the person and leader. First thing he said was “See that guy over there, he will be calling on reporters to ask a question, if he doesn’t call on you it’s not my fault, I WANT YOU ALL TO LIKE ME” Said like the perfect “People Pleaser”, can’t even make a decision as to who to call on and he wants the position of DECIDER???
Wanting to be liked is a weakness in a political leader.
He got a double-whammy in there “if he doesn’t call on you it’s not my fault, I WANT YOU ALL TO LIKE ME.”
I want a person of solid principles who is a &*() when required. I don’t care if I like them, just so long as that person knows what they are doing and gets it done.
I am still dumbfounded how BO saw fit to place political banners at one of most important religious locations on the planet. Judgement like has been deadly in the past. How is it he would not think twice to defile a holy place? You think he would do that at the Al-Masjid al-Ḥarām?
igit.
Meanwhile, according to Spiegel:
http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,567821,00.html
++ Visit to US Military Bases Cancelled ++
1:42 p.m.: SPIEGEL ONLINE has learned that Obama has cancelled a planned short visit to the Rammstein and Landstuhl US military bases in the southwest German state of Rhineland-Palatinate. The visits were planned for Friday. “Barack Obama will not be coming to us,” a spokesperson for the US military hospital in Landstuhl announced. “I don’t know why.” Shortly before the same spokeswoman had announced a planned visit by Obama.
There is word for this Obama,it’s chickensh..
Well as early as Monday he told Netenyahu “I could sleep standing up” from all the jetlag (that he revealed that in Israel, where they already think he’s way too soft, surely did not inspire confidence in BiBi Netenyaho.)
“Obama noted that in a break from his whirlwind schedule, “we’ve got some down time tonight. What are you guys (the press corps) gonna do in Berlin? Huh? Huh? You guys got any big. plans? …I’ve never been to Berlin, so…I would love to tour around a little bit.”
http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2008/07/obama-on-tonigh.html
Ibama has no time to see the soldiers and wounded in Berlin because he wants to take in the sites.
I am sending Ibama an empty bottle with a note that reads, “Since I can’t be there in person to piss on you, please pee in the bottle and dump it on your head.” Signed, Citizen of the United States.
roflmao
ROFL! too funny!
…yet Obama draws over 200K in Berlin.
Meanwhile, Grandpa McCain counters with…wait for it…a tour of various midwest towns named Berlin.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/07/24/mccain-plays-catch-up-att_n_114761.html
Who runs that campaign - Jonah Goldberg?
How many of the Deutchevolk will be voting in this election?
The only time to care about what Germans think is when they start with the World Domination stuff. The rest of the time, they just sit around believing they are still the master race.
Zeke….I think Arnold has been working on a plan…chuckle….
Berlin has 3.5 million residents and attracts 90 million day visitors per year.
If Ibama went to New York the Press could write that 11 million showed up. …. no, wait, they already were there.
The pre-Berlin speech hype had us expecting ONE MILLION attendees.
I was under the impression German citizens have better things to do than to spend a fine summer day cheering on an empty suit.
You know, like working really hard and being industrious, or nude sunbathing at some Baltic Sea resort.
Yet his numbers are up. Go Grampa! Americans aren’t impressed…and we are the ones, after all, who will be voting.
That’s FUNNY! More like PJ O’Rourke.
I wonder if this is tfitz from the Political Machine? If it is have you been making any more napalm to come after us with? Like in Bad boy bad boy whatcha gonna do when we come for you? I saw that post.
But wait it could be Tommy Christopher trying to gather more material to trash Larry and No Quarter and PUMA with. To be sure he is upset with the drastic drop off of posters to that site, and he knows all the negatives posted against Obama’s
PPP Tom, Tom Fitz or Tommy.
Just when I think there is no way I could despise that sonofabitch any more, he gives me more reason.
I volunteered for Special Forces during the Vietnam War solely because I could see the awful horror that totalitarian rule could impose on human beings and knew I had to do what I could to stop that from happening. I was a peaceful young man who became a lethal one because I could see that writing on the wall.
Well, the writing is there again and I shall not sit idly by. I am not alone in my beliefs and know that if an attempt is made by a future President Obama to place a military force inside the borders of MY country, that there will be blood. Theirs.
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One blogger said she called the White House and the White House is interested in hearing from us.
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