Is a Quran Summit in order?
The Apologizer-In-Chief was at it again a few days ago.
And no, President Barack Obama was not apologizing to the American people for:
- ruining the economy
- a government power grab of the health care system (Obamacare)
- dissing America to any other country willing to listen
- attacking the Catholics with his mandate that Catholic institutions provide health care plans which cover birth control to their employees, which goes directly against Church Doctrine
- snubbing American allies in favor of our enemies
- ignoring the fact that 13 million Americans are unemployed
- gas prices that are rising faster than ever
- nixing the Keystone Pipeline, thus eliminating the possible creation of tens of thousands of real jobs as well as the opportunity to make the United States less dependent upon oil from the Middle East
- weakening the military by severely slashing the defense budget
- putting more people on food stamps then ever before (45.8 million!)
- getting a DEA agent killed due to the"Fast and Furious" program which had the United States supplying Mexican drug cartels with weapons
- prohibiting offshore drilling in many key areas of the United States, including the east and west coasts
- encouraging the "Occupy" protesters
- being the most polarizing and divisive president ever- actually encouraging class envy with his obvious desire to make people more reliant on government and promoting an "entitlement" mentality
- suing the state of Arizona for a bill that enforces U.S. federal law
- the Solyndra disaster and subsequent failures of other "green" businesses that have no business even being in business - and handing such companies millions of taxpayer dollars in the process
- employing dozens of "czars" to help promote his socialist agenda, with little accountability required
- a government take-over of General Motors, including a $60 billion dollar taxpayer-funded bailout
- the Stimulus Bill (aka "generational theft act") which did not create any "shovel-ready jobs" and saw unemployment levels rise above 9% (the true unemployment level is much higher today, in spite of Obama's manipulation of the numbers to forget about the millions of people who are not counted in the unemployment statistics, due to the fact they have stopped looking for a job)
- supporting a mosque two blocks away from Ground Zero
- strong ties with ACORN, Reverend Jeremiah "God Damn the United States" Wright, former members of the Weather Underground: Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dorhn, Tony Rezko (currently in the slammer), and many others in the socialist/communist, anti-American crowd
...and so on. There are just so many things that President Barack Hussein Obama could apologize to the United States for, but don't hold your breath.
No, the most recent apology from the Apologizer-In-Chief was directed at Muslims in Afghanistan.
The White House issued an apology on February 21st (Tuesday)* because a few Qurans were accidentally burned after they had been removed from the shelves of a detention center library, near the Bagram Air Base. A United States military official acknowledged that the Quran's and other Islamic reading materials were removed from the detention center because they contained inflammatory rhetoric promoting extremism, and that detainees were writing on the documents to exchange extremist messages. Several hundred Islamic publications, including Quran's were taken off the shelves. U.S. General John Allan stated that the books were mistakenly given to troops to be burned in a garbage pit. During the course of the burning, Afghan laborers noticed the Quran's and took them out of the fire, saving almost all. Initial reports stated that four Qurans were burned.
Well, even after the White House Apologizer-In-Chief said America was sorry for this grave mistake, it looks like all hell has broken loose in Afghanistan. Two American soldiers were gunned down during the first protests. Demonstrators in Afghanistan protested outside of the air field, yelling "die foreigners, die!," shooting rifles into the air, throwing rocks at the gates, and setting tires on fire. Numerous American flags have been burned. The outrage continues to grow, as the week goes on - with demands that the United States leave Afghanistan. Mohammad Qasim Sediqi, leader of the Khosi district council stated that "Apologies are not enough. The culprits have to be put on trial and culprits should face the law."
As for President Obama handling the situation, perhaps a "Quran Summit" at the White House is in order. Get the troops who accidentally burned a handful of Qurans to sit down over a beer....(oops, that wouldn't work - sorry!) ...to sit down over some non-alcoholic beverage, and meet with some of the leaders of the Afghan protests. Obama can serve up some peanuts, apologize again, make the troops apologize, (give the Afghans a free pass about burnt American flags/wounded and killed American soldiers, etc.) and hope for the best.
On the other hand, maybe Obama should nix the "summit" and stop apologizing to extremists who wish to kill us. Let the American military do its job without having to worry about "offending" extremists, and Afghans - who the United States is protecting with the troops and taxpayer dollars.
(*As a side note, the Milwaukee Journal/Sentinel finally saw fit to run a story on this 2/24/12, when the Quran burning and subsequent apology from the White House came out on 2/21/12).
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151 Comments
yert49 - Feb 26, 2012 7:59 PM
Eegads! Perish the thought!
jman99 - Feb 26, 2012 8:17 PM
jhayett - Feb 26, 2012 8:23 PM
"Isn't It Ironic? The food stamp program, part of the Department of Agriculture, is pleased to be distributing the greatest amount of food stamps ever.
Meanwhile, the Park Service, also part of the Department of Agriculture, asks us to "please do not feed the animals" because, “the animals may grow dependent and not learn to take care of themselves
jhayett - Feb 26, 2012 8:24 PM
WFB resident - Feb 26, 2012 9:09 PM
religion ! Hopefully anyway .
MGarber - Feb 27, 2012 8:07 AM
jhayett - Feb 27, 2012 8:31 AM
On the other-hand, your pal jmann and jmark "cut and paste" bloggers comments, like jmann has done repeatedly here with Amy's and other posts, and used their comments to distort and lie as to what they have said or meant. His anti-American ideology and his complete hate for anyone that doesn't follow his hate-filled liberal ideology is what normally follows all their "cut and paste."
Grow up MGarber. I didn't know libertarians also had two sides to the truth. I thought that was reserved for liberal democrats.
MGarber - Feb 27, 2012 8:35 AM
When someone references "facts" you do like, it's "*powerful* facts", and when someone references "facts" you dont like, it's "distortions and lies".
Thanks for clarifying.
MGarber - Feb 27, 2012 8:54 AM
History is littered with people who claimed to know "the truth", and it often wasnt pretty.
jhayett - Feb 27, 2012 9:04 AM
When, or if, they ever bring up a fact or the truth, I would be more than glad to acknowledge. If they can do it without the typical liberal lies and smears that go with nearly every post that is. Now you know why?
MGarber - Feb 27, 2012 9:40 AM
Ahhhh........ no. Why?
immigrant5 - Feb 27, 2012 9:55 AM
Great points.
I think it's safe to say that we have elected a president who hates the founding principles of the country in which he was elected.
The one principle that Obama has brought to light is that some people prefer to believe a lie than face truth. They don't know or understand truth and therefore are prone to believe anything.
MGarber - Feb 27, 2012 10:41 AM
Light. Is it a particle, or is it a wave?
jman99 - Feb 27, 2012 11:25 AM
Like I said, the finest right wing commedy can be found right here in Wisconsin on Hemmer's and Hayett's blogs.
(BTW: Light is both a particle and a wave and is able to act as both, it can also move through a solid medium or be reflected by that same solid. It can also take more than one path and yet reunite at some point of observation.)
MGarber - Feb 27, 2012 11:50 AM
Both???? Thats crazy talk!!
What further proof does one need to know that you must be one of those liberal democrats that "also had two sides to the truth". You clearly are "prone to believe anything".
jman99 - Feb 27, 2012 12:24 PM
And when it happens – you just know it is going to be all Obama’s fault."
Well, at least he'll have some form of Obama care to help him through it.
immigrant5 - Feb 27, 2012 1:43 PM
From the internal memo that Walker has; the total recall signatures were about 813,000. Only about 400,000 signatures have been verified so far and the due date is today. There is no possible way to comb through the remaining 413,000 signature to prove they are legitimate in only a few hours. (The GAB had refused to provide the Walker campaign with 2 more weeks that were requested.) But based on the review of the 400,000 they found that about 20% of them were either duplicates, vacant lots, deceased, etc.
If that percentage holds true for the full number of signatures received, the recall effort will have in excess of the 540,000 needed for a recall.
Despite the rampant fraud, it appears that a significant number of valid signatures remain.
The GAB has obstructed the Walker campaign at every step. While allowing the signature gatherers extra time, they refused to validate the signatures and held the Walker campaign to an unrealistic expectation and then did not give Walker adequate time to verify the signatures. The GAB publicly announced that it would be acceptable to list Mickey Mouse or duplicate names and that it would be up to the Walker campaign to find these fraudulent names and then challenge the names in front of the GAB.
Thus; the reason that Walker can not or will challenge any of the signatures. There is no point in challenging a highly biased GAB.
Throughout this process, the GAB has proven themselves to be an arm of the Democratic Party.
jman99 - Feb 27, 2012 1:48 PM
"Despite the rampant fraud, it appears that a significant number of valid signatures remain."
Now that's going to leave a mark for sure.
Rules is rules as you republicans like to say. I'm positive you would have given the dems and extra 2 weeks to gather signatures if they had ask for it.
immigrant5 - Feb 27, 2012 2:21 PM
When finding more than 80,000 signatures (over a 400,000 sample size) that are either duplicates, fake names, cartoon characters, Adolph Hitler, vacant lots and non existent addresses, I would consider that rampant fraud and corruption.
There is no other term for it. Of course, I think this number is much higher than it would have been under ordinary circumstances, but the GAB encouraged this activity and thereby got much of what it had asked for.
jman99 - Feb 27, 2012 2:41 PM
"Walker's campaign managed to look through only about 400,000 of them, campaign spokeswoman Ciara Matthews said. She said the campaign determined that 10 percent to 20 percent of those 400,000 were erroneous, "
So it could be as low or lower than 40,000 in question.
And they did give Walker a 20 day extension he wanted another two weeks on top of that.