If the feds keep arbitrarily “picking and choosing” which laws they wish to enforce, the electorate is left with no other option but the same thing: picking and choosing which laws THEY wish to obey. Or not.
BZ
From NationalReview.com’s The Corner, by Eliana Johnson.
With the Obama administration grappling with a crisis in Ukraine, former United Nations ambassador John Bolton took the stage at the Conservative Political Action Conference on Thursday and declared that the country’s “biggest national-security problem is Barack Obama.”
Bolton honed in on the terror attack in Benghazi, Libya, which he described as paradigm of President Obama’s foreign-policy failures because the president “has done nothing to avenge Chris Stevens’s death.”
“That is a terrible lesson for our adversaries,” Bolton said. “Under Barack Obama you can murder his personal representative and get away scot-free.”
Absolutely correct. Having worked around felons for over 40 years, their predominant mindset is “what’s mine is mine and what’s yours is mine unless you’re strong enough to stop me.” Why is it so difficult for Leftists to understand this concept?
He also warned that the matter will come back to haunt Hillary Clinton if, as most suspect, she launches a presidential bid in 2016. “We will be happy to tell Hillary Clinton in unmistakable terms, ‘We know what difference it makes, even if you don’t,’” he said.
I should also care to offer: lack of our energy independence is also a huge — if not greater — threat to our national security.
BZ
On Super Bowl Sunday, in an interview with Fox’s Bill O’Reilly, Mr Barack Hussein Obama continued to LIE, and in a bald faced way, to the American public. His SOTU last week was the lowest-rated in years due to its empty rhetoric. He was unimpressive last week and he was unimpressive with O’Reilly — but, at least, was consistent in his insistence on lying to the American Taxpayer.
Obama doesn’t “prevaricate,” he doesn’t “shade,” he doesn’t “hedge,” he doesn’t make a “falsehood,” he doesn’t “invent,” he doesn’t “fictionalize.” He LIES.
Throughout the interview, Obama consistently tried to overtalk O’Reilly again and again and again. Mr Obama possesses no cogent argument other than to push the issue back into the face of Fox and make it personal and the responsibility of a media network and not the President of the United States.
Obama believes that he is clearly The Smartest Guy In The Room, no matter where he goes. And that is a derailment factor.
Obama promulgates a pattern of deception and outright lies that I haven’t before witnessed from a sitting president in my 60+ years.
The ten minute interview is below; the transcript is here.
Excerpts from the interview:
O’REILLY: And I’m paying Kathleen Sebelius’ salary and she screwed up.
OBAMA: Yes.
O’REILLY: And you’re not holding her accountable.
OBAMA: Yes, well, I… I promise you that we hold everybody up and down the line accountable. But when we’re…
O’REILLY: But she’s still there.
OBAMA: …when we’re in midstream, Bill, we want to make sure that our main focus is how do we make this thing work so that people are able to sign up?
And that’s what we’ve done.
O’REILLY: All right.
A LIE. Obama holds no one accountable, least of all himself.
O’REILLY: All right.
Libya, House Armed Services testimony, General Carter Ham, you know, the general?
OBAMA: Yes. Right.
O’REILLY: Security in Africa.
OBAMA: Yes.
O’REILLY: He testified that on the day that the ambassador was murdered and the three other Americans, all right, he told Secretary Panetta it was a terrorist attack. Shortly after Ham, General Ham, said that, Secretary Panetta came in to you.
OBAMA: Yes.
O’REILLY: Did he tell you, Secretary Panetta, it was a terrorist attack?
OBAMA: You know what he told me was that there was an attack on our compound…
O’REILLY: He didn’t tell you…
OBAMA: (INAUDIBLE)
O’REILLY: …he didn’t use the word “terror?”
OBAMA: You know, in… in the heat of the moment, Bill, what folks are focused on is what’s happening on the ground, do we have eyes on it, how can we make sure our folks are secure…
O’REILLY: Because I just want to get this on the record…
OBAMA: So, I…
O’REILLY: …did he tell you it was a terror attack?
OBAMA: Bill… and what I’m… I’m answering your question. What he said to me was, we’ve got an attack on our compound. We don’t know yet…
O’REILLY: No terror attack?
OBAMA: …we don’t know yet who’s doing it. Understand, by definition, Bill, when somebody is attacking our compound…
O’REILLY: Yes?
OBAMA: …that’s an act of terror, which is how I characterized it the day after it happened. So the… so the question ends up being who, in fact, was attacking us?
A LIE. Obama did NOT characterize it as a terror attack the day after. He and Clinton characterized it as an uprising from a video.
O’REILLY: …but I just want to say that they’re… your detractors believe that you did not tell the world it was a terror attack because your campaign didn’t want that out.
OBAMA: Bill, think about…
O’REILLY: That’s what they believe.
OBAMA: …and they believe it because folks like you are telling them that.
Because, Mr Obama, that just happens to be the TRUTH. And Barack Hussein Obama is the world’s best filibusterer and consistently refuses to answer questions that aren’t the most base of softballs.
O’REILLY: OK, so you don’t… you don’t recall seeing Shulman, because what some people are saying is that the IRS was used…
OBAMA: Yes.
O’REILLY: …at a… at a local level in Cincinnati, and maybe other places to go after…
OBAMA: Absolutely wrong.
O’REILLY: …to go after.
OBAMA: Absolutely wrong.
O’REILLY: But how do you know that, because we… we still don’t know what happened there?
OBAMA: Bill, we do… that’s not what happened. They… folks have, again, had multiple hearings on this. I mean these kinds of things keep on surfacing, in part because you and your TV station will promote them.
And once again Mr Obama tries to bullshit his way out of being pinned down. He LIES once again.
And the greatest, most bald-faced and blatant LIE of all? See if you can get past reading this:
O’REILLY: You’re saying no corruption (about the IRS)?
OBAMA: No.
O’REILLY: None? No?
OBAMA: There were some — there were some bone-headed decisions…
O’REILLY: Bone-headed decisions…
OBAMA: …out of… out of a local office…
O’REILLY: But no mass corruption?
OBAMA: Not even mass corruption, not even a smidgeon of corruption, I would say.
No. Not even a “smidgeon of corruption” by the IRS. Not a molecule. A LIE. A HUGE LIE.
O’REILLY: OK. I got a letter from Kathy La Master, Fresno, California. I said I would read one letter from the folks, all right?
OBAMA: All right.
O’REILLY: Mr. President, why do you feel it’s necessary to fundamentally transform the nation that has afforded you so much opportunity and success?
OBAMA: I don’t think we have to fundamentally transform the nation…
O’REILLY: But those are your words.
Another LIE. How about a little video, Mr Obama:
Dana Milbank from the Washington Post recently took O’Reilly to task in an editorial, here. He thinks Bill O’Reilly was disrespectful and rude.
But this time, O’Reilly gave only a passing pleasantry at the end (“I think your heart is in the right place”) and otherwise was hostile from the start. He leaned forward in his seat, waving his pen and pointing his finger at the president. He shook his head doubtfully at some of Obama’s answers.
Well boo-hoo-hoo, Mr Milbank, Bill O’Reilly actually stood some ground and at least attempted to acquire some answers — which Barack Hussein Obama deflected and filibustered. O’Reilly waved a pen! O’Reilly leaned forward! Heinous! Despicable! Apparently you interpret journalists attempting to do what journalists do as rudeness. Reverse the role. Now insert GW Bush. No objection from you, I’d submit. Bush must pay! O’Reilly as Dick Cheney!
I’ve already written about how Mr Obama lies about his lies. Obama’s deceptive statements were deliberate and were intended to bolster his ability to get Obamacare passed in 2010 and get him reelected in 2012, according to aides cited in a Wall Street Journal article.
As I documented here and here and here and here and here, Obama lies and covers up his lies. And the gullible and the idiots in American continue to sup up his dirty bowl of lies.
Various media forms are saying Bill O’Reilly was “rude” in his interview with Mr Obama. I say that Bill O’Reilly was much more taciturn than I’ve seen him in a while. I also submit that it was, instead, Mr Obama who was rude. Note how many times Obama attempts to verbally steamroller over O’Reilly and interrupts him.
Obama was, once again, a petulant child in his interview with Bill O’Reilly.
And, once again, Obama spewed lie after lie after lie.
BZ
From, of all places, the SFExaminer.com:
On Wednesday, The Blaze reported that nine senior flag officers have been fired by the Obama administration this year alone, leading some to believe that a “purge” is underway. On Thursday, Dr. Jim Garrow, a renowned author and humanitarian who was nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize in 2009, told Examiner.com in an exclusive interview he believes it’s part of the effort to weed out those who won’t swear loyalty to President Obama and obey orders to fire on American citizens who refuse to give up their guns.
Dr. Garrow said the president is looking for officers who will ultimately swear loyalty to him and blindly do as he says rather than follow lawful orders.
From there, he explained, it’s not too much of a stretch for those officers to fire on U.S. citizens who refuse to obey gun confiscation orders.
“Obama is basically saying ‘obey me’ rather than the lawful orders,” he said.
“It all has to do with breaching the Constitution,” he added.
According to Sara Carter, commanders who spoke to The Blaze say the administration “is not only purging the military of commanders they don’t agree with, but is striking fear in the hearts of those still serving.”
Setting up the bowling pins, as it were. Lining up and identifying the generals and admirals whose only interest is sticking up their index digit to see which way the wind is blowing in order to keep their positions, their car, their driver, their government-paid home and the incredible deference shown them due to rank.
The situation with the military is so bad an unidentified Pentagon official told The Blaze that even “young officers, down through the ranks have been told not to talk about Obama or the politics of the White House.”
“They are purging everyone and if you want to keep your job — just keep your mouth shut,” the official reportedly said, asking to remain anonymous because they were not authorized to speak on the matter, Carter added.
In other words, not only gutting our military but gutting its ability to think independently outside of DC. Creating an atmosphere not of respect but abject fear.
In January, Dr. Garrow wrote on Facebook that President Obama wants military leaders who will fire on U.S. citizens.
“I have just been informed by a former senior military leader that Obama is using a new ‘litmus test’ in determining who will stay and who must go in his military leaders. Get ready to explode folks,” he wrote.
And be prepared for decorated soldiers to speak up:
Retired U.S. Army Maj. Gen. Paul Vallely weighed in on the situation.
“Obama will not purge a civilian or political appointee because they have bought into Obama’s ideology,” he told The Blaze. “The White House protects their own. That’s why they stalled on the investigation into fast and furious, Benghazi and Obamacare. He’s intentionally weakening and gutting our military, Pentagon and reducing us as a superpower, and anyone in the ranks who disagrees or speaks out is being purged.”
An interesting concluding sentence to the article:
Perhaps this explains why Obama has recently taken to calling the armed forces “my military.”
“My military.”
Sadly, the American Electorate is no smarter or in possession of a collective memory greater than that of Dug:
Ask yourself a question: if you were a tyrant with NPD, cognizant of the fact that an ill-informed electorate placed you into office — twice — wouldn’t you want to gut the American military so that it reflected your feelings and Communist teachings ranging from your mother, your mentors — think Frank Marshall Davis, Richard Cloward, Frances Fox Piven, Saul Alinsky, Bill Ayers — ?
Let me get down to a few more fundamental brass tacks, if you will.
Obama and his sycophant Leftists want to gut our military and reduce military pensions and care — things the federal government utilized in order to get young men and women to sign up initially. ROE’s are ridiculous. Military men and women with actual honor and courage are being forced to leave. Some civilians are deciding it isn’t worth the effort considering the current treatment of veterans.
Concurrently, the salaries and pensions of cops are being cut with, at the same time, ROE’s becoming more and more stringent.
What happens when you give a war, and no one comes?
What happens when the intruder is coming to your door and no one responds?
Actions have consequences.
SQUIRREL!
BZ
A reminder from BZ: there are still four Americans dead in Benghazi.
From an anonymous Marine:
THE BATTLING BOYS OF BENGAZI
We’re the battling boys of Bengazi
No fame, no glory, no paparazzi.
Just a fiery death in a blazing hell
Defending our country we loved so well.
It wasn’t our job, but we answered the call,
Fought to the Consulate and scaled the wall.
We pulled twenty countrymen from the jaws of fate
Led them to safety, and stood at the gate.
Just the two of us, and foes by the score,
But we stood fast to bar the door.
Three calls for reinforcement, but all were denied,
So we fought, and we fought, and we fought til we died.
We gave our all for our Uncle Sam,
But Barack Obama didn’t give a damn.
Just two dead SEALs who carried the load
No thanks to us — we were just “Bumps In The Road.”
Do not let this administration brush Benghazi callously aside.
BZ