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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
jman99 - Feb 28, 2012 4:36 PM
To be seen to be doing something at the risk of destroying the very things you are custodian of for the benefit of all the people takes more justification a presidential whim. The great parks of the USA and the protected areas are there for the reasons they were set out in Teddy's time. they need protection then and they need protection now even more.
There is BTW nothing in US law that keeps the oil companies from dropping prices on their own in the USA so the country could exploit a comparative advantage. The government can't mandate them to do, but it would show some good citizenry if they did.
yert49 - Feb 28, 2012 5:03 PM
Start with your opening sentence. When you can explain what "insufficiently strong demand" is, then we can discuss. All you've done is backed yourself into a wall.
Obama already did exactly what you propose to cure all. It's called the stimulus. And it didn't do S__T! Get your heard outta your you-know what!
WFB resident - Feb 28, 2012 7:06 PM
jman99 - Feb 28, 2012 8:19 PM
" "Norte . You are way off !"
What a profound counter-argument.
I guess that is why you are a conservative, Right?"
You weren't expecting deep thought, scintillating critique, and well executed thrust and parry of knowledgeable, scholarly debate were you?
Give yourself a slap Pierre.
yert49 - Feb 28, 2012 9:41 PM
And yet this president is out in front of the payroll tax cut. Why? because it is the most direct benefit for those that are employed so they can sustain the unemployed. Somehow that must work or Obama would not have pushed for it correct?
For you to suggest that markets are a zero sum game shows your lack of economic sophistication. There are many adjustments that a capitalist can employ in order to manipulate markets. However, in the case of Obama, you he's a clueless socialist and you can take your money out of the ball game and wait on the sidelines until he goes bye bye. Which most of the smart money has done.
Carl Hicks - Feb 29, 2012 12:40 AM
now.to somehow blame Obama for this is simply scapegoating ,same with Florida
coastline drilling. These states do not want oil rigs off of their shores,and for the
party that talks about states rights to whine that the president should shove off
shore drilling down their throats is incredibly hypocritical.
A lack of supply is not what is causing election year gasoline price spikes (in case
you haven't noticed the cycle by now) it is speculation.
jman99 - Feb 29, 2012 5:56 AM
Yes we've seen that out on Wall Street and in the oil and gas business.
"And yet this president is out in front of the payroll tax cut. Why?"
Because if you increase the spending power of the 99% they are more likely to spend it locally and produce an economic multiplier effect for the local economy, (say cheese burgers and a night at the movies).
If you give it to the 1% they are as likely as not to spend it on a bottles of expensive French wine, German or Italian cars or to take a vacation in some far off land. The economic multiplier is tiny and has virtually no benefit to domestic economy at all.
It's all about the size of the multiplier that you can launch that gets the economy moving. An economic multiplier from the 99% is aways going to have a greater effect on the economy even if the individual incentive is small than an equal incentive to the 1%.
ahemmer - Feb 29, 2012 7:07 AM
By the way Pierre Del Norte: you are starting to sound like SPalin/sirlaughsalitte/BruceSpringsteen/etc. when it comes to "school boards." This blog is not about school boards and your opinions of such.
Again, the title and subject of this post is: "Is a Quran Summit in order?"
If you can't comment on the subject, maybe you need to visit another blog and check out other subject matter.
packfan101 - Feb 29, 2012 7:55 AM
Although I agree this blog has gone way off topic and every post I made was on
topic, it's been wildly entertaining. Pierre is literally nurturing an apprentice
(yertie) right before our eyes.
As for this topic, you or anyone on your side has not offered an explanation as to
the difference between Bush's apology and Obama's about the quran other than
to say Bush cared and Obama likes to apologize. Now I am not a narcissist and
certainly don't expect you to read and or respond to every post, but as active as
you seem to be with your blog, I suspect you just don't have an answer.
yert49 - Feb 29, 2012 9:25 AM
You have not answered one thing. Your idea of economic reality tells me you must be someone who is not qualified to be in the private sector. That's it! Do you really work with Art Carney?
ahemmer - Mar 04, 2012 9:06 AM
George W. Bush did no such thing.
By the way, even tho Obama and others in his Administration continue to apologize for the accidental burning of a handful of Qurans, six American soldiers have now been killed because of the incident. In addition, 30 Afghans have lost their lives in the violent protests over an accidental book burning! Crazy and absurd? Yes.
Now, when will Obama get an apology from the Prez of Aghanistan on behalf of those who killed American soldiers over protests? When will Obama realize that continuing to apologize is doing nothing but making the United States looks like fools and weak? The Taliban is probably laughing and sitting back waiting for U.S. troops to leave per Barry's enemy-friendly announced timetable.