Posts Tagged ‘broken clock’

Pirates and Obama

Posted: April 14, 2009 by datechguy in opinion/news
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There is going to be a very good side effect of president Obama’s pirate speech.

The president is now publicly committed to suppressing piracy. Since the president has publicly done this he has put his prestige on the line. If I’m right that means he will actually do it.

This is a good thing, good for the country and good for the world. I know Rush had a lot of fun tweaking the president on this but I’m with Jonah on this one, suppressing piracy is good. If the president decides he will do this, that is good and I support it.

Grover Cleveland lives!

Posted: March 17, 2009 by datechguy in opinion/news
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Grover Cleveland is one of my favorite presidents and in my opinion one of the most underrated presidents these days. He was one of the most honest men to ever occupy the White House.

One of my favorite quotes by him is “A Democratic thief is as bad as a Republican one.” Apparently at least one diarist at Daily Kos agrees:

House Democrats have been blocking an ethics investigation into this matter. That has to stop now. It was shit like this that helped Democrats lose control of the House in 1994, and Republicans in 2006. I’ve got no interest in giving Republicans easy ammunition.

We have to show we are different than Republicans by refusing to tolerate any corruption in our ranks.

The two paragraphs illustrate one of the things I strongly believe. The right thing is also the smart thing.

Quiz time: Which right wing pundit…

Posted: March 4, 2009 by datechguy in opinion/news
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…said the following about the president today:

Team Obama sounds hollow, chanting that “the status quo is not acceptable,” even while conceding that the president is accepting the status quo by signing a budget festooned with pork.

National Review has the answer. Here is the actual article.

Arthur Carter Watch: Obama on a Roll!

Posted: February 27, 2009 by datechguy in arthur vs carter
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Looks like the president decided he wanted to score some serious points:

White House aides told Jewish leaders on a conference call today that the United States will boycott the United Nations’ World Conference on Racism over hostility to Israel in draft documents prepared for the April conference.

The aides, including an adviser to U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice, Jennifer Simon, and longtime Obama advisor Samantha Power, said the administration will not participate in further negotiations on the current text or participate in a conference based on the text, sources on the call said.

Hotair is impressed:

Well, well, well. I’m not sure whether I’m more surprised to see Obama change his mind or Samantha Power take the side of Israel. Okay, I know I’m more surprised about Power going quietly from Durban II.

Yourish had this to say:

Well, there goes my subject for next week’s SNN. Now I need to find a new one.

Hey I guess Martin Perez a bone sometime.

I can’t help but think of Ken Burns telling us that Nathan Bedford Forest quit the KKK when it became too violent even for him in the last episode of the Civil War Series. I guess the conference is too anti-semitic even for the Obama administration.

We’ll be generous, we will not only give him an Arthur point but we will remove this Carter point for not objecting to a draft as well!

Carter 10 Arthur 5

Now lets see if he acts on the Zombie Unemployment issue!

UPDATE: Accidentally put this under the Amazon reviews catagory instead of Arthur/carter

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