1

Spot on. Dr. Zero's writing is second to none.

2 Ace, you sure do read fast...

3 How can something so simple escape his (theoretically) intelligent mind? Bringing the war to a conclusion is not and does not mean the same thing as victory. This is the righteous war. Say what you want about Iraq, this one has never been claimed to be anything but righteous. We need to win, or get out now, in which case, the next president in 2013 will have to order us back in.

4 Where's TMZofSpades when you need him? Didn't you hear the important revelation about Meredith Baxter?

5

Great article Dr. Zero, and I loved this line: 

"Treating the War on Terror like a lousy headcold Obama caught because Bush forgot to disinfect the Oval Office telephones is a deadly mistake."

6

"ObamaÂ’s Afghanistan speech last night would have been adequate for a department store manager, informing the staff that extra help would be hired for the big Going Out of Business sale next year. "

This right here nails it from beginning to end. Exactly what I thought as I listened last night. We don't have a president, we have a salaried manager running the show.

7 Our President is the National Director of Sensitivity Training.  He isn't very good at hard decision, unless it is to further socialism. Other than that, he really doesn't care.

8 I think the first line is a corker: "ObamaÂ’s Afghanistan speech last night would have been adequate for a department store manager, informing the staff that extra help would be hired for the big Going Out of Business sale next year."

Obama clearly views the Afghanistan war as a chore he must undertake because he can't get out of it, not as a duty to finish a job that has a just cause and a noble purpose.  But that's not at all surprising, because he is what we thought he was: a Progressive.

9

Apparently "Hide the decline!" only goes so far.

 

 

 

10
Fox reporting Golf Digest will feature "10 Tips Obama Can Take From Tiger."

1.  Stop pumping the Wookie and get some good ass like I did. 
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11 Wait, Obama is Steve Carell from The Office?

12 Rhetoric of Failure

13 Is Meredith Baxter really a lesbian? Let me check. I have been wondering what the eff all the jokes were about.

14 the Afghanistan speech made perfect sense to me and is even a smart decision in a lemons to lemonade sense.

If you're intending to cut and run, putting in fresh troops specifically as a rear guard is militarily efficient, esp. as the troops currently there can then adhere to their regular rotations, etc.

The guard that covers the retreat has a place of responsibility and a degree of honor [in an admittedly not-very-honorable situation] and they have my prayers.

What was dishonorable was Obama's phrasing it all as a gosh-wow brilliant plan, of course. He's running, just trying to do the 'cool run', as it were.

There is no other militarily practical use for those troops than as cover for the retreat. Afghanistan is lost.

15

Doc Zero says:

Superior weapons only bring victory when you have the morale to pick them up and use them.

Speaking of superior weapons, Obama refuses to be photographed with an F-22 and orders USAF to replace it with (near antique) F-15 for a recent speech:

Full story & pic:  http://tinyurl.com/ye3eo4x

 

16 2.  It isn't winning if everyone gets a trophy.  And a check.

17 I don't think he doesn't want the Afghanistan situation. I think he views it as a crisis that shouldn't go to waste. He gets to humiliate the US militarily. That's quite an accomplishment, much more than what others have been able to achieve.

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The primary theme of his presidency is governmentÂ’s lack of faith in its citizens. Free people cannot be trusted to handle anything important without tight government controls. This attitude of condescension is coupled with a simply staggering degree of incompetence

This isn't an uncommon correlation, in my experience.

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re 8 

I wish we'd stop calling the left Progressives, and stop letting them call themselves that.  They are not progressive.  They are regressive in every way--stuck in '60s revolutionary mode, and unable to move forward from solved grievances.  Nothing progressive about them.

20 I doubt the cadets suffering through Obama’s speech at West Point will have their spirits broken by the experience, but their parents – and the enemies of America – heard no talk of victory, and in wartime the only alternative to victory is defeat.

And therein lies the mortal sin embedded in last night's horrible address.  

21

The Baxter Wiki page has already been amended. Unfortunately, without photos.

22 Dr. 0 is a god among schlubs.

23 #21

Insty did a word count and victory didn't show up even once, but "I" showed up something like 45 times.

24

Cuffy, that was reported by a local talk show host the day of Obama's speech. A couple of military boys called in and reported the hiding of the F-22 at the request of the Obama administration. No one else picked it up and I'd forgot about it until this article.

I really have no respect for our current President.

25 Baxter, 62, told NBC's "The Today Show" that she discovered she was gay seven years ago, several years after her divorce from her third husband. She said her five children, who range from ages 25 to 42, supported her when she told them.

26
 Americans donÂ’t approve of much that President Obama is doing, but most of all they disapprove of his handling of the Afghanistan war – with support sinking at a startling rate, with 35% currently approving, down from 49% in September and 56% in July.
 Will the PresidentÂ’s  decision to send 30,000 more troops into the war zone, turnaround the slide? (The decline in ObamaÂ’s approval rating on Afghanistan is evident among all party groups, with double-digit decreases since September among Republicans (17 points), independents (16 points), and Democrats (10 points). Not likely. The goal, though, seems to be to secure his unhappy base – aging Vietnam protesters who pushed aside Hillary so that Obama could reproduce the glory of the Woodstock era. While they wonÂ’t be happy that Barack is expanding the war, their anger, he hopes, will be mitigated by the phony and undefined commitment to withdraw troops in July of 2011.
 ObamaÂ’s announcement drew less-than-wholehearted support from congressional Democrats. Many of them favor a quick withdrawal, but others have already proposed higher taxes to pay for the fighting.
 The President doesnÂ’t have much credibility when it comes to promises on troop withdrawals. Remember that he was able to outflank Hillary because he promised that he would commence upon taking the presidency a systematic drawdown of one to two brigades a month from Iraq, without regard for realities on the ground, that would result in all combat troops being out in 16 months. Now, in ObamaÂ’s eleventh month, there are still 124,000 U.S. troops on the ground in Iraq.
If the timeline for the troop increase holds, it will require a costly logistical scramble to send in so many people and so much equipment almost entirely by air. It will also probably require breaking at least an implicit promise to some soldiers who had thought they would have more than 12 months at home before their next deployment.

Crowd scans indicated that West Point cadets watching the speech were either unhappy with its content or just falling asleep – not a good sign for a White House hoping to create a perception of Obama as a powerful Commander in Chief. Libs do need to learn that the troops work for the Commander in Chief, and that happens to be Obama. It’s also likely that the majority of these young folks voted for Hope and Change, although they’ve also likely corrected coarse since making that mistake.
An unintended consequence of having a radical in the White House is that the presidentÂ’s fellow socialists feel free to speak honestly. In the past, Democrats have pretended to believe in the values of America. With Obama as President, theyÂ’re not able to control themselves. This is not good  for them, of course, but it is good for the country. The inconvenient truth is that Obama and his crowd donÂ’t believe in the America that was designed and implemented by our founders. They believe in something different. Howard Dean admits it, just as Barack did in 2001, when he talked about positive rights – the idea that the government owes citizens certain results in their lives rather than opportunity to achieve for themselves. ThatÂ’s what tranformational is all about. Which is why Obama is the worst thing thatÂ’s happened to the Democrats in a long time.

27 >>I really have no respect for our current President.

Neither do I. I wouldn't trust him to walk my kids to the store.

28 Oh God, oh God, I just wish for once and one time only that those soon-to-be-on-the-battlefield cadets would have booed him off the stage and then started shouting USA, USA.  This goon for a president is going to get them and many of us killed.

29 The entire Obama enterprise is suffused with a gloomy aura of despair, contrasting strongly with the “hope and change” rhetoric of the campaign.

I like Doctor Zero's analyses, but I think he is giving too much to The Precedent. It's all about exacting revenge on us. Their various moods are nothing but tactical positions. This is a sociopathic administration with a flat affect.

The primary theme of his presidency is governmentÂ’s lack of faith in its citizens.

Here, also, I would go much further. Lefties have this lack of confidence in individuals (as they have moved to have government take over every role of responsibility possible) but The Precedent is not a lefty; he's a true anti-capitalist, America-hater in the third world mold. He's not here to transform anything. He's here to wreak chaos.

30 I sure hate Obama, and his pet wookie too.

31

 The Precedent is not a lefty; he's a true anti-capitalist, America-hater in the third world mold. He's not here to transform anything. He's here to wreak chaos

 

 

Exactly!

32 Look, Obama doesn't have time for all these pain-in-the-ass military conflicts. He wants to get back to his priorities - settling scores with whitey.

33

She went lesbian because she is at the point where no dude will even look at her, hairy biker dykes will treat her just fine.....

34

Seven years ago? I would have thought it was when Michael Gross went and filmed Tremors and she was stuck with all the shitty Lifetime and Oxygen movies.

Tremors. Now there was a movie.

35 Tremors. Now there was a movie.

Posted by: U.S.S. Yorktown at December 02, 2009 07:23 PM (5RlWq)

Quite the ensemble cast, too.

36

Tremors. Now there was a movie.

Nice arsenal Gross had

Obama sucks what Meredith BOxster Birney won't......

37 Lifetime and Oxygen have subliminal messages that turn you gay. I read it somewhere.

38

Interesting and depressing - reported by Jonathan Hunt @ Fox -of the troops in Afghanistan, the Italians do not fight but stay holed up in their baracks, the Germans do not patrol or fight at night -so the Taliban is free to run havoc.  The only forces engaging the enemy are the Poles, Brits, Canadians, Dutch and us.

 

39 Tremors. Now there was a movie.

Reba was hot.

40 Tremors made me conflicted. Do I get wood for the hottie or for the BFG?

41 Crosspost, to Dr Z.

Great post, you have the literary pen that captures the American spirit and the heartwrench that every patriot feels in his core as a Teleprompter raises his neck and pontificates on a plan that militarily is at best Phyrric, and politically is as smart as Watergate.

I have no doubt that the Grey souls in West Point were falling over themselves in dissapointment, they couldnÂ’t clap soft enough. The only thing missing that night was styrofoam pillars, clown noses, and a koolaid drinking cheerleading squad.

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On the contrary. They completely match up now with the Progressives of the early 20th century - true enemies of liberty.

43 Der Präsident benötigt nicht einen anderen Anus. Er ist sein eigener Anus.