Obama Your Failure As Head Of The Subcommittee On European Affairs Again!
By NancyA on August 1, 2008 at 10:21 PM in Barack Obama, Commander in Chief, Intelligence, Obama, POTUS Eligibility, Presidential Candidates, Steve Clemons, Terrorism, Tim Russert, counterterrorism
Major Eric Egland, a major in the United States Air Force, former lead intelligence specialist in Iraq focusing on terrorist networks and improvised explosive devices (IEDs), in Allies Obama Overlooked, once again reminds us of Obama’s uninspiring inexperience. He even says that Obama wouldn’t have overlooked our allies if he had held just one meeting, yes, one meeting, of his Subcommittee on European Affairs, he would have never made such a mistake.
Egland had this to say:
Last weekend, Barack Obama dazzled crowds in Europe. Discussing international security, he spoke eloquently about the need for an American-European partnership to defeat terrorism.
In Paris, he said that “terrorism cannot be solved by any one country alone”, and that America should establish partnerships. In Berlin, he expressed hope that Europeans and Americans “can join in a new and global partnershipto dismantle the networks” of terrorists worldwide.
Eglin outlines a problem with Obama’s speeches, we already have a counterterrorism partnership with the European Union.
Obama only needed to hold one meeting, yet he hasn’t. Senator Obama said this during a debate hosted by MSNBC with Tim Russert and Brian Williams. Here is Russert’s question and Obama’s answer:
MR. RUSSERT: Senator Obama, I want you to respond to not holding oversight for your subcommittee. But also, do you reserve a right as American president to go back into Iraq, once you have withdrawn, with sizable troops in order to quell any kind of insurrection or civil war?
SEN. OBAMA: Well, first of all, I became chairman of this committee at the beginning of this campaign, at the beginning of 2007. So it is true that we haven’t had oversight hearings on Afghanistan.
Eglin has more on the partnership, one that was so urgently needed, post 9/11. Here are his thoughts on that:
The urgency of this partnership became clear after investigators discovered that a cell in Hamburg, Germany, had helped in Al Qaeda’s attacks against America on Sept. 11, 2001. After bombings in Madrid and London, the partnership expanded.
Since then the number of attacks and plots aimed at our European allies has dropped. And here in the United States, of course, Al Qaeda has been unable to attack since 9/11.
The major continues by discussing the challenges the intelligence community and others had in finding the source of the “new” bombs. He says the following on those challenges:
One challenge we had was to find where the research and testing of new bombs was taking place. Eventually, American intelligence and European law enforcement officials discovered together that much of the work was being done outside Iraq with the results transmitted via the Internet.
Acting on this information, the police in France arrested electrical engineering students at a French university who had been recruited by their local mosque leaders. After these arrests, American tactical countermeasures and improvements in technology became more effective and the number of casualties from certain types of explosives declined.
Such close collaboration between the United States and France against terrorist cells in Iraq may surprise those accustomed to digesting easy sound bites of “cowboy diplomacy” and “unilateralism.” But the partnership is real, and not just with France.
The partnership does indeed include other countries in the European Union (EU). One of these other countrie is Germany. Eglin said this about Germany and its efforts to combat terrorism. Here are his words:
The Germans contribute as well. I also worked on counterterrorism operations in southern Europe to stop a plot against American interests there. Thanks to German intelligence and law enforcement officials, a planned attack modeled on the 1983 truck bombing against U.S. marines in Lebanon - but several times larger - never happened.
Major Eglin tells us about diplomatic efforts at the highest levels:
Such tactical success is only possible after effective diplomatic engagement at the highest levels. Agreements between the United States and Europe, like the Declaration on Combating Terrorism and the Extradition and Mutual Legal Assistance Treaty, have helped enormously. And for years, NATO, the Group of 8 industrialized nations, and other multilateral organizations have contributed as well.
The major has this to say about testimony that was given prior to Obama entering the US Senate:
In 2004, J. Cofer Black, the State Department’s coordinator for counterterrorism, testified about the success of these partnerships before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee’s subcommittee on European affairs.
He has this criticism to offer about Obama. His criticism once again points out either, 1) his inexperience or 2) his lack of interest and inability to educate himself on his job as a senator. Eglin said this:
Had Obama, who now heads that subcommittee, read the transcripts from the meeting, which took place before he came to office, or had he held a similar hearing, he might have known that the partnerships he called for last week already exist.
The major says it best about Obama’s credibility as a potential commander-in-chief. He says this:
After years of investment and sacrifice, Americans and Europeans deserve accurate information about our efforts to defeat international terrorism, especially from a prospective commander in chief.
And another voice speaks out questioning Obama’s “qualification” to be our next president.























epic FAIL
where’s a LOL cat when u need one?
The Messiah is not fit to lead a pack of dogs either.
Lemmings, yes. Dogs, no.
That’s true. They can all fall off the cliff.
“Had Obama, who now heads that subcommittee, read the transcripts from the meeting, which took place before he came to office, or had he held a similar hearing, he might have known that the partnerships he called for last week already exist.”
WOW. That sums it up right there. This man is more lazy than a Sunday afternoon.
This certainly does make one wonder about those 300 advisors. Who the hell are they? It’s one thing that no one told him about gift giving when meeting dignitaries at international locales; but that he did not even know that these partnerships existed, yet he is the head of the subcommittee for European Affairs?? That’s some scary on the job training all of this nation, and the world for that matter, should VERY AFRAID of.
They can advise around the clock but he’s not advisable - he thinks he already knows everything. And he needs another nap.
Oh come on, it is hard being the Obamessiah. His brain starts to hurt when it gets hard…just like my 3 yr old nephew.
I think the American people are seeing more clearly that Barack Obama is simply and wholly unqualified by any measure to be President.
He’s a Do Nothing anyhow. What’s the big surprise.
thank you so much for breaking this down.
I don’t see why the measurement to evaluate a potential POTUS has moved away from examining what they HAVE DONE with the power and responsibilities they already have.
Obummer and Pelosi fail this test.
That is why both Obummers nomination and Pelosi’s book (purporting to set herself as an example to girls), are both pure farce.
the only thing Nancy Pelosi is suited for anymore is as a retired lawmaker, and shortest-lived Speaker of The House in History. Go Cindy Sheehan!
Help……. And sorry to be out of context. My MS explorer will no longer launch the no quarter site. Just spent two hours with spyware etc and couldn’t fix the problem. The page would load then an error would come on the screen saying explorer could not launch the page and needs to abort. When you hit ok page shows you are off line. What was interesting was the the error message showed there was a different web address on the bottom of the page than what was in the browser. I had to download foxfire in order to view no quarter. Anyone know what this is all about? This is the only page I could not get to load via explorer.
Internet Explorer is garbage. If you *have* to run Windows, use Firefox. I find Firefox so much better than IE anyway.
Skip trashing Microsoft and IE, this is not a problem with IE except that an advertiser (most likely culprit) is throwing in bad code. For 99.9% of web browsing both browsers are perfectly fine–each has good and bad points that are subjective to each user. I test web-based software with both, plus with Safari find that well-written software code is the key ingredient.
Now, back to Obama…
I’ve been noticing the same problem periodically today. My guess is that it is a bad link or some irritating code/content from an advertiser that is randomly being displayed. Washington Post used to have a similar problem which I found caused by advertising links; they’ve since resolved it.
i had the same problem. downloaded firefox and seems to be working.
i also posted the problems i was having to get in at texasdarlin’s site. avid reader told me how to download firefox.
i also wrote an email to MS Explorer Customer Service telling them of my difficulties and expressing my right, especially as a shareholder, to read and blog freely without disruption or Big Brother looking over my shoulder. i’ll share their lame response when i receive, if i receive
I had to do the same thing. I tried everything for over two hours Checked for Hijacks etc. I just recently downloaded updates so was wondering if that was the problem.
Mac’s rule… I used pc’s from the Tandy days … until my #1 Daughter, she who speaks the all the tongues of the ether, convinced me to go with Mac. I got it for its sound capabilities, but its been a year almost and the web has become a much safer place. I’ve even opened pages you guys were warning about due to its possible ‘ware issues.
Keep it to yourselves but so far, so good.
I dig this Mac
Tks all. Using foxfire and all is well… sure gave me the creeps!
I had the same problem, I just rebooted and everything seems fine now..
This post is an eye opener…I sure hope McCain can bring these issue out in Debates so Americans can get the real grit of his inexperience…He is a Fraud..
Bad video code with the Hillary on the Ballot posting. They removed it, but it’s still messing with my IE. I cleared the cache and no change. Using a different browser for now.
I have the same problem.
I have the problem with certain pages only. Sometimes I can read, sometimes it kicks me out.
I just ignore it, hopefully the rest of the pages are good.
Apparently it’s Sitemeter, which is no surprise– they’ve been garbage for months, adding all kinds of cookies and crap to their free stats service. Shut it off, problem solved.
This has happened to me several times tonight.
Is the site being hacked?
God gave Obama brains but Obama never read the operating instructions.
They’re on the heel of his boot….
No… wait!
Let me see if I can get this correctly: On the day Obama was conceived, he was chatting with God, God said let’s give him some brains, when Obama heard this, he thought God said trains and said no thank you!
Shameful!!!
metro ny a free newspaper distributed in NYC has an interesting opinion piece by Elliot Kalan, entitled “Barack Obama: kindergarten president” .
Kindergarten President! (LOL) This is a fitting title for him… He is really a big joke. DNC leaders, Superdelegates, haven’t you gotten it yet? Better think it over or you’ll be responsible for the embarrassment and the diminishing Democratic Party…
I read the following this past winter … you’d think Obama would have done a LITTLE work in this area since then. Guess it doesn’t bother him. Or his Magical History Tour was enough:
Jackson Janes, director of the American Institute for Contemporary German Studies in Washington, arrived at the annual Munich Conference on Security Policy in late ‘07 curious what Europeans would be saying about the recently revealed news that despite having taken over as chairman of the Senate Foreign Affairs Committee’s subcommittee on Europe after the 2006 elections, Obama had not made a single official visit to Europe or otherwise made a mark with the subcommittee. “He has not, to our knowledge, done anything with that committee,” Janes said. “I spent the weekend with 400 people here from the security community, and nobody knew about that. Rather strange, isn’t it? In dinners and over drinks I casually mentioned, ‘Did you know Obama’s the chairman of that subcommittee?’ and they all said, ‘Really?’ “
Time is not Obama’s friend. I just hope there is enough of it to expose this fraud. Very scary.
I went through the list of sites on the left and a lot of them are still affected. For instance, http://thedenvergroup.blogspot.com/
As Morgan noted above, the apparent culprit was SiteMeter. I notice that TheDenverGroup.Blogspot.com is now back up and when you look at their code they’ve removed sitemeter.
i get the feeling something else is going on.
hope we learn the truth sooner rather than later.
Obama has never left a paper trail for any work. His transcripts from Columbia and Harvard haven’t been released. No evidence of submission of work for publlicaiton as President of the Law Review (I believe a first. No record of any work he did as community organizer out side the asbestos suit, and there are conflicts about his role in that case. No record of his time in IL. State Senate, multiple “present” votes, no tax returns for those years. On income reported in his position as a member of a law firm did not list his own clients seperately. 40% votes missed since becoming US Senator. It isn’t supprising he held no hearings as chairman. He may not have known how plus, a record would have been made and there would have been witnesses to everything he said.
For shame.
Oblowme bottom of his class at Columbia, Harvard AA legacy, non-writing law review President is LAZY?!!
Oblowme failed community organizer, non-practicing attorney, disqualifying opposition politician is INEXPERIENCED?!!!
GWB - Fooled us once.
Oblowme - NEVER AGAIN!
Why not require Obama to demonstrate some ability as a Senator before trying to push him into the White House? Isn’t that a novel idea.
I’d rather watch him ride a unicycle…
Probably the only thing he’s ever published are his autobiographies. I think he was in his early thirties when his first one was written. I guess that’s appropriate for someone so full of themselves.
Off topic, sorry… but a good read by Frank Salvato below. It gives hope for Hillary 08
Full article …
http://www.newmediajournal.us/staff/fsalvato/2008/08012008.htm
Do you think Obozo might be starting to feel like the fool that he is? Or maybe that he was set up?
I mean, who fanned the flames to make him think so highly of himself, that he could actually pull this ‘being president thing’ off? With so little in the way of nuts and bolts experience to work with or to back him up.
I remember a song from Sunday School, with lyrics to the effect that a wise man builds his house upon a rock and a foolish man builds his house upon the sand. (Obozo isn’t the one with the strong foundation to build upon.)
Hey, maybe Ludacris could write a new song with these words!
I went to Barnes and Noble tonight to buy Jerome Corsi’s “Obama Nation”, released today. After a lot of searching, I found three copies of it buried under other books on the bottom shelf in the Current Affairs section, with books by the likes of Huffington, Obama, etc. prominently displayed on the same shelf. I had to do a little rearranging. The O-Squad will find every way to hide the truth.
Good job!
Before The One came to us, there was no one to divine such ideas as international cooperation. What would we do without such words of wisdom?
If only he could be put in charge of a subcommittee right now which could begin such a noble purpose. Surely his shining leadership would open new vistas of flowery unicorns dancing in harmony to defeat global terrorist networks. What’s that you say? He’s already been in that exact job role in congress since he was elevated to high office and has done exactly nothing and shown zero leadership up to now?
But lest we forget, words matter.
Jerome Corsi Book exposed the fact the Barack Obama favorite author in college was Frantz Fanon. He is the author that wrote “The Wretched of the Earth and “Black Skin, White Mask.” Frantz Fanon was instrumental in the Algerian revolution. He was a born in Martinique and studied medicine in France. Obama seems to love all these Anti-White, Black liberationist, nationalistic men of the 1950s. It was Frantz Fanon who believed that true revolution can only occur if it is violent and must come from the peasants.
Obama is vague on his belief because he knows he supports a far, left ideology of socialism and marxism.
who wrote The One Dimensional Man?
The Google provided. Marcuse. Maybe it’s time to re-read that book.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-Dimensional_Man
oboy! repressive desublimation. I have been bitching about that for a while now, but did not have a term for it. In politics it is expressed as the Id of Ideology.
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