March 24, 2011
— Ace "It's emerging," she says.
So let's parse this. The Obama Doctrine, per Renaissance woman and executive fellatrix Andrea Mitchell, consists of four parts:
1) "When you have a catastrophe you can avert"
2) "and the benefits outweigh the costs"
3) "and you have an international or multilateral support"
4) "Go for it."
1 almost always exists in the world.
2 is just a restatement of the simple utilitarian idea of "if the good outweighs the bad," a calculation so obvious every person on the face of the planet, including the most stupid among us, does it at least six times per day, while making mundane purchases like toilet paper. (One ply? Two ply? Double sized rolls? Cottony feel? "It's like a day-spa for your ass"?!?!)
But more importantly, this is like the "???" in the Gnomes' business model. This is of course the key question -- when do the costs exceed the benefits? According to what criteria? Defined against what imperatives? In support of what goals?
That is largely unanswerable, and the whole point of a doctrine is to announce relative priorities to make this question at least ballpark answerable or subject, at least, to some kind of analysis with defined parameters. Doctor Andrea Mitchell doesn't seem aware of this, and for her, simply asking if the costs exceed the benefits is a terrificly probing question.
3 is so obvious George W. Bush used it as a criterion too. Except the French weren't on board with his coalition. So she really means France. Once again. It's what they always mean. The last time the US went to war without foreign partners was, I think, the Punitive Expedition against Pancho Villa.
Yeah. It's been a while, huh?
4 is a categorical imperative derived from the philosophy of Rocco "Rocky" Balboa in his dialogues with Clubber Lang.
And there's your Obama Doctrine. If Mickey's dead, and you're being trained by Apollo Creed (who counts as a sovereign power due to his titles of "The King of Sting" and "The Count of Monte Fisto"), and you have permission from the French foreign minister, you should, per this elaborate, sophisticated doctrine, "Go for it."
Via Greg Hengler. Thanks to Ben.
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Posted by: Tom in Korea at March 24, 2011 07:29 AM (+gX1+)
Which is understandable, but far from honest.
Posted by: Tom in Korea at March 24, 2011 07:29 AM (+gX1+)
Posted by: EC at March 24, 2011 07:31 AM (GQ8sn)
Posted by: Radagast the Proctologist at March 24, 2011 07:31 AM (kZ8J9)
Actually France and Russia.
So I guess we now know - an action is only moral when Vladimir Putin and the French government approve.
Posted by: 18-1 at March 24, 2011 07:31 AM (bgcml)
1) "When you have a catastrophe you can avert"
2) "and the benefits outweigh the costs"
3) "and you have an international or multilateral support"
4) "Go for it."
I notice one missing piece. An actual plan.
Posted by: 18-1 at March 24, 2011 07:33 AM (bgcml)
Posted by: steevy at March 24, 2011 07:34 AM (ibfOH)
But US troops are not just needlessly -- and lethally -- endangered by our misbegotten COIN strategy in Afghanistan -- they are being simultaneously humiliated as classic when their so-called military leaders-cum-deranged-social workers apply Islamic Law to "guide" the actions of our brave fighters in the irredentist Afghan Muslim morass.
Who can win with this strategy?
Posted by: sTevo at March 24, 2011 07:35 AM (dHZ/U)
Posted by: ace at March 24, 2011 07:35 AM (nj1bB)
Posted by: steevy at March 24, 2011 07:35 AM (ibfOH)
I notice one missing piece. An actual plan.
Posted by: 18-1 at March 24, 2011 11:33 AM (bgcml)
Plans are for people who didn't go to Harvard.
Posted by: KinleyArdal at March 24, 2011 07:35 AM (WvFvd)
I'm going back to the Doom Loop- it's less discouraging...
Posted by: backhoe at March 24, 2011 07:36 AM (0bk6W)
Posted by: NC Ref at March 24, 2011 07:36 AM (/izg2)
Posted by: t-bird at March 24, 2011 07:37 AM (FcR7P)
Posted by: Suike Tawdry at March 24, 2011 07:37 AM (MPtFW)
Have you ever driven along on the highway and passed another vehicle, who was travelling at a much lower speed only to see them in your rearview a short time later, right up on you doing the same speed ?
That sums up his doctrine. Too much of a pussy to take the lead for fear of ridicule (or a traffic ticket) so instead, waiting for someone else to make a command decision then getting in line right behind them.
Posted by: Cu'Chulainn at March 24, 2011 07:37 AM (oW269)
Posted by: Andrea "Cavernous" Mitchell at March 24, 2011 07:38 AM (McG46)
Posted by: Roy at March 24, 2011 07:39 AM (VndSC)
Posted by: t-bird at March 24, 2011 07:39 AM (FcR7P)
Too much of a pussy to take the lead for fear of ridicule so instead, waiting for someone else to make a command decision then getting in line right behind them.
Don't you mean... 'In front of''?
Posted by: MO - First Pegger of the United States at March 24, 2011 07:40 AM (kZ8J9)
There's far too much low-hanging fruit to even start to make jokes.
Posted by: JEM at March 24, 2011 07:41 AM (o+SC1)
This administration does have a great plan, but members of the unwashed proletariat do not have the intelligence or ability to analyze the data to form a worthy opinion. This analogy doesn't include members of the Ivy League, SEIU, Code Pink, or my friend Bernie Finsterwald who helped me cheat on Mr. Parker's 8th grade math exam.
Posted by: Joe "Mr Conductor" Biden at March 24, 2011 07:41 AM (ZHsNw)
So Alan Greenspan didn't marry her for her smarts. Or her looks. She must have some other talent, if you know what I mean. Wink.
Posted by: Matt at March 24, 2011 07:41 AM (ecpMe)
Posted by: sTevo at March 24, 2011 11:35 AM (dHZ/U)
Made about five different introductions to my post to describe just how much that article infuriates me, but they all ended up feeling pretty hollow. That this is being pushed onto our troops drives one nearly to madness.
Utter insanity. How long before we recognize it?
Posted by: KinleyArdal at March 24, 2011 07:41 AM (WvFvd)
Posted by: USMC Steve at March 24, 2011 07:42 AM (mqp9H)
Posted by: Steven Seagal at March 24, 2011 07:42 AM (Pzf4N)
Posted by: Fritz at March 24, 2011 07:42 AM (GwPRU)
1) "When you have a catastrophe you can avert" - I get fussy if I don't play golf.
2) "and the benefits outweigh the costs" - It's pretty much free, for me.
3) "and you have an international or multilateral support" - No one's complained so far!
4) "Go for it." - Four!
Posted by: Barry O'Bama at March 24, 2011 07:42 AM (TXKVh)
Posted by: steevy at March 24, 2011 07:43 AM (ibfOH)
Posted by: Waterhouse at March 24, 2011 07:43 AM (oSMOM)
There's far too much low-hanging fruit to even start to make jokes
There's no resemblance to fruit.
Posted by: Andrea 'Tick Tits' Mitchell at March 24, 2011 07:43 AM (kZ8J9)
Posted by: Empire of Jeff at March 24, 2011 07:43 AM (U9jjw)
Posted by: Chauncey Gardner at March 24, 2011 07:43 AM (bgcml)
Posted by: steevy at March 24, 2011 07:44 AM (ibfOH)
Posted by: t-bird at March 24, 2011 11:39 AM (FcR7P)
Rent? Hell..... we'll pay for it.
Posted by: Truck Monkey at March 24, 2011 07:44 AM (yQWNf)
Posted by: Alan Greenspan at March 24, 2011 07:45 AM (kZ8J9)
This Presidentin is a piece of cake. NBC does all my splainin for me.
Now watch this drive. fore!
Posted by: Barry O at March 24, 2011 07:45 AM (K/USr)
Posted by: That eloquent guy shitting a Lego® at March 24, 2011 07:46 AM (TXKVh)
There's a Samantha Power/Susan Rice doctrine. There is an Obama tee-time.
What we're seeing here is a bunch of academics trying to figure out executive authority, and it's not a pretty sight.
Posted by: JEM at March 24, 2011 07:46 AM (o+SC1)
Posted by: joncelli at March 24, 2011 07:46 AM (RD7QR)
Posted by: phoenixgirl at March 24, 2011 07:47 AM (Cm66w)
Posted by: Steven Seagal at March 24, 2011 07:48 AM (Pzf4N)
It's Kinetic!
You can't see it
It's kinetic!
You gotta feel it
It's kinetic!
Ooh, it's shakin'
It's kinetic!
You gotta know it
It's kinetic
Boogie woogie, woogie!
Now you can't hold it
It's kinetic
Boogie woogie, woogie!
But you know it's there,
Yeah here there everywhere
Posted by: Soothsayer, Republican Whip at March 24, 2011 07:48 AM (1tFVW)
Posted by: Lincolntf at March 24, 2011 07:48 AM (xMT+4)
They hate him and also don't trust him, so the above strategy saves Euro oil contracts how?
Posted by: Miss'80sBaby at March 24, 2011 07:48 AM (UO6+e)
Posted by: dfbaskwill at March 24, 2011 07:48 AM (71LDo)
Cross-platform hybrid protocol came up, could be the new word for doctrine.
Posted by: sTevo at March 24, 2011 07:48 AM (dHZ/U)
So...let me get this straight...
We have to weigh "catastrophes" on a cost/benefit curve, obtain multilateral support and then act.
Four factors for consideration that all exist on a continuum, NOT as dichotomies. It's all very nuanced, allows Howard Dean to sleep at night after one of the greatest politically hypocritical statements in history, and will power the country for generations from hooking up a turbine to the near-speed-of-light revolutions the body of Harry Truman is now doing.
Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at March 24, 2011 07:49 AM (B+qrE)
Let me be perfectly clear, the Obama Doctrine is to announce a unitary executive decision for kinetic military action as part of overseas contingency operations to avert man-made disasters as an investment in hope and change
Posted by: beedubya at March 24, 2011 07:49 AM (AnTyA)
Yeah. "Go for it" isn't a plan.
"Go for it" is what you do when you're eating chicken wings, and you're really full, but there's like only two left on the plate.
Posted by: Truman North at March 24, 2011 07:50 AM (8ay4x)
1) "When you have a catastrophe you can avert"
2) "and the benefits outweigh the costs"
3) "and you have an international or multilateral support"
4) "Go for it."
I notice one missing piece. An actual plan.This one's too short. The health care plan is too long. There's no pleasing you people.
Posted by: BO at March 24, 2011 07:51 AM (GMG6W)
Posted by: Islamic Rage Boy at March 24, 2011 07:52 AM (tvs2p)
The last time the US went to war without foreign partners was, I think, the Punitive Expedition against Pancho Villa.
Grenada? Panama?
Posted by: ed at March 24, 2011 07:52 AM (Y2WVW)
Posted by: steevy at March 24, 2011 07:52 AM (ibfOH)
That is the double bind they are trying to get the GOP to cave to.
Fwance will never approve a GOP coalition because the GOP will never allow the Fwench to scoop up all the loot as brazenly as they like.
The Fwench give approval to the Donk led coalitions because they know the donks will defer to Fwance on executive issues and look the other way while Fwance makes contracts with the aftermath.
The Donks through their incestuous relationship with the MFM will shitstir and riot over any GOP effort no matter how needed because like Emperor Palpatine they are all about POWER UNLIMITED POWER! and they know the American people notice we're better at protecting US interests with minimal force used for maximum gain.
If we do not take control of and highlight the inherent hypocrisy in the actions of Fwance, Bury, and the MFM we will have ceded total control of the best area of our electoral battlefield.
We are backing an iranian and AQ funded coalition in toppling a dictator who has Fwench contracts.....
I've seen at least parts of this movie before only Fwance and barack o'bama had a LOT different lines in the cut of the movie I saw.
Posted by: sven10077 at March 24, 2011 07:52 AM (kq1lG)
Posted by: Like high-compression V-8s at March 24, 2011 11:46 AM (lT0LC)
Thanks much!
I think I'll drown my frustration with that billboard in lemonade, and await more updates in the DOOM thread. ~_~ Freakin' madness.
Posted by: KinleyArdal at March 24, 2011 07:53 AM (WvFvd)
No, any link with "img" or "image" in the url gets those letters automagically replaced by underscores when you post. Just tinyurl everything.
Posted by: Waterhouse at March 24, 2011 07:53 AM (oSMOM)
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Posted by: Soothsayer, Republican Whip at March 24, 2011 07:53 AM (1tFVW)
Posted by: Truman North at March 24, 2011 07:54 AM (8ay4x)
Posted by: Y-not at March 24, 2011 07:54 AM (pW2o8)
Posted by: Waterhouse at March 24, 2011 07:54 AM (oSMOM)
♫ ♪
The Obama Doctrine is emerging
The Obama Doctrine is emerging
Hi ho the derry-o
The Obama Doctrine is emerging
♪ ♫
Posted by: The Mega Independent at March 24, 2011 07:54 AM (1KFpn)
Posted by: A Balrog of Morgoth at March 24, 2011 07:55 AM (0IPsJ)
What in the ever-loving fuck is the infatuation with liberals coming up with new bullshit terms?
My dick is kinetic.
Elizabeth Taylor? No. Not kinetic.
Posted by: Dang at March 24, 2011 07:56 AM (TXKVh)
So,you're on a desert island with Andrea Mitchell and Elenore Clift furiously fighting to stay on the bottom of the ocean.....
Posted by: The Mega Independent at March 24, 2011 07:57 AM (1KFpn)
Posted by: steevy at March 24, 2011 11:52 AM (ibfOH)
I manage to weave palm fronds into a rope long enough to hang them both.
Posted by: Unclefacts Luxury-Yacht at March 24, 2011 07:57 AM (6IReR)
Posted by: Roadking at March 24, 2011 07:58 AM (vcTAC)
Posted by: ed at March 24, 2011 07:58 AM (Y2WVW)
I don't care what Andrea says, here's my doctrine:
1. Define enemy as any country/entity with a stated goal of doing harm to the U.S or its allies.
2. Define allies as a short list of nations that have historically been with us (ie, England, Australia, Israel, Canada... that's about it).
3. When the U.S. and/or one of its allies (see above) decide it's in our interest to take military action against an enemy, we do it.
4. The rest of the world (including france) can go suck eggs.
My opinion is, this action against Libya fits the above criteria because England wants us taking this action.
Posted by: Mr. Fire at March 24, 2011 07:58 AM (TOk1P)
Posted by: Comanche Voter at March 24, 2011 07:59 AM (3ESDJ)
2) "and the benefits outweigh the costs"
The only situation where you can be certain that the benefits will outweigh the costs is when you take Jeff B.s girlfriend out for a drink when he's out of town on business
(Sorry, Ace...I denconce myself have do a self-imposed temporary ban)
Posted by: beedubya at March 24, 2011 07:59 AM (AnTyA)
Posted by: Y-not
She does have that wide-eyed look about her that betrays a certainty that at least 40% of her brain is constantly repeating the phrase, "Oh fuck! Oh fuck! Oh fuck!"
Posted by: Dang at March 24, 2011 08:00 AM (TXKVh)
Posted by: steevy at March 24, 2011 11:52 AM (ibfOH)
I would be ramming bamboo shoots into my eye sockets while they proceeded to get it on.
Posted by: Truck Monkey at March 24, 2011 08:00 AM (yQWNf)
Posted by: phoenixgirl at March 24, 2011 08:00 AM (Cm66w)
Posted by: Have Blue at March 24, 2011 08:00 AM (mV+es)
"People question whether there's a strategy and the president tried to outline it."
In other words people realize that Barry has no clue on what to do but we here in the MFM will continue to cover for him even if it means making up stuff for him
Posted by: TheQuietMan at March 24, 2011 08:00 AM (1Jaio)
This could be something: (only because I do not trust this Administration because TEA partiers are considered 'homegrown terrorists' not Muslims that want to kill us)
In any event, the Obama administration took further chunks out of the Miranda recently when it passed new rules allowing investigators to hold domestic-terror suspects longer than others without giving them a Miranda warning
...
The Justice Department believes it has the authority to tinker with Miranda procedures. Making the change administratively rather than through legislation in Congress, however, presents legal risks.
Posted by: momma at March 24, 2011 08:01 AM (penCf)
have they said "the situation is fluid" and "we want to be a flexible as possible to adjust to the shifting paradigms?"
they will
Posted by: Soothsayer, Republican Whip at March 24, 2011 08:01 AM (1tFVW)
Posted by: maddogg at March 24, 2011 08:02 AM (OlN4e)
So,you're on a desert island with Andrea Mitchell and Elenore Clift.....
Posted by: steevy at March 24, 2011 11:52 AM (ibfOH)
So,you're on a desert island with Andrea Mitchell, Eleanor Clift, and an attractive sheep named Sally..........Posted by: Fish the Impaler at March 24, 2011 08:02 AM (ZHsNw)
The last time the US went to war without foreign partners was, I think, the Punitive Expedition against Pancho Villa.
Grenada? Panama?
Actually, it's not persnickity, it's a valid question. In both those cases, the OAS was nominally involved, if I remember correctly.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at March 24, 2011 08:03 AM (yf5H9)
O'wait a familiar name pops up with scandal and TOTAL; Mr. Auchi. Why is does his name ring a bell?
Posted by: Jean at March 24, 2011 08:03 AM (WkuV6)
Is there NO ONE anywhere near these people that tell them, uh....you really are putz? Ever?
Posted by: Tami at March 24, 2011 08:03 AM (VuLos)
Ever fuck a coconut?
Posted by: That guy who got kick off Survivor without a council vote at March 24, 2011 08:03 AM (TXKVh)
"It's emerging," she says.
So is this massive shite!!!
Posted by: Fat Bastard at March 24, 2011 11:53 AMHAHAHA!
I thought the same thing!
Obama Doctrine= Painful Bowel Movement
Posted by: shibumi at March 24, 2011 08:03 AM (OKZrE)
Posted by: B. J. Clinton at March 24, 2011 08:04 AM (yQWNf)
Wait...now it's Coming...coming...coming....ack....ack....ack...
Alan...Alan...did you see that? Are you hard yet? Should I have him spank me?
Posted by: Amdrea "Kneepads" Mitchell at March 24, 2011 08:04 AM (Q1lie)
maddogg, did you know that President Reagan referred to Kaddafi as the "mad dog" in the Middle East? It's true.
Posted by: Soothsayer, Republican Whip at March 24, 2011 08:04 AM (1tFVW)
I might add that the "catastrophe" in the case of Libya was willfully precipitated in the form of military attacks by the "rebels" of unknown allegiance vis a vis the United States as part of some nebulous "Arab Awakening." Gadaffi's response may be disproportionate or indiscriminate but it would not have happened if the "rebels" didn't attack him. I don't recall the United States inducing the "rebels" to take up arms with some kind of tacit agreement to give aid and support. They wrote the check, and now the Obama position is that it is our responsibility to guarantee that it clears.
Posted by: Alec Leamas at March 24, 2011 08:04 AM (IVQSY)
What in the ever-loving fuck is the infatuation with liberals coming up with new bullshit terms?
In their defense, that is the cool kids term--I first heard it in Iraq.
However, when hearing from the mouths of this administration, it sounds like my kids spouting disjointed quantum physics terms.
Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at March 24, 2011 08:04 AM (B+qrE)
Yeah. The ability to get in bed with him and not throw up.
Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) at March 24, 2011 08:05 AM (8y9MW)
Posted by: Howard Dean at March 24, 2011 08:05 AM (AnTyA)
Yeah, that sound like someone shitting their pants.
Posted by: Dang at March 24, 2011 08:05 AM (TXKVh)
Posted by: justin cord at March 24, 2011 08:05 AM (6UTk5)
Posted by: Ian S. at March 24, 2011 08:05 AM (p05LM)
Posted by: Andy at March 24, 2011 08:06 AM (5Rurq)
At some point you have to pinch the turd off. It can't emerge forever.
Posted by: toby928™: Popular Front for the Liberation of Wisconsin at March 24, 2011 08:06 AM (GTbGH)
So,you're on a desert island with Andrea Mitchell, Eleanor Clift, and an attractive sheep named Sally..........
Can Sally cook?
Posted by: beedubya at March 24, 2011 08:07 AM (AnTyA)
Posted by: Like high-compression V-8s at March 24, 2011 11:41 AM (lT0LC)
FIFY
Posted by: MWR at March 24, 2011 08:07 AM (4df7R)
At some point you have to pinch the turd off. It can't emerge forever.
Posted by: toby928™: Popular Front for the Liberation of Wisconsin at March 24, 2011 12:06 PM (GTbGH)
Well, when you've got a honk hole that's been, shall we say, stretched and wrecked and abused repeatedly..... and I mean repeatedly..... it gets harder and harder to 'pinch' as you say.
Posted by: Andrea Bitchell at March 24, 2011 08:09 AM (yQWNf)
Can Sally cook?
Posted by: beedubya at March 24, 2011 12:07 PM (AnTyA)
Sally cooks a mean mutton stew, but is so sorry because she's currently flowing and unavailable.
Posted by: Fish the Impaler at March 24, 2011 08:09 AM (ZHsNw)
Posted by: steevy at March 24, 2011 08:10 AM (ibfOH)
Posted by: Andrea Mitchell, spraying musky smelling dust all over the MSNBC studios at March 24, 2011 08:12 AM (RkrQu)
Posted by: steevy at March 24, 2011 12:07 PM (ibfOH)
Yeah, but I think the point is that the Left doesn't. Until now.
Posted by: Alec Leamas at March 24, 2011 08:13 AM (IVQSY)
Next phase in Obama's world of fictional references for policy...
Obama's gonna make Kaddafi an offer he can't refuse.
Posted by: Soothsayer, Republican Whip at March 24, 2011 08:13 AM (1tFVW)
Toonces could say Whisky flamingo tree biscuit, and those assholes would lap it up and hail it as the One True Wisdom.
Thanks again FiftyTwo Percenters, you retarded fucking fucks.
Posted by: Unclefacts Luxury-Yacht at March 24, 2011 08:13 AM (6IReR)
Posted by: Marie at March 24, 2011 08:13 AM (GuTKr)
Yeah. The ability to get in bed with him and not throw up.
Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther)
Some ladies, I am told, are sexually aroused by slow-talking men who look like turtles wearing goggles.
Posted by: Dang at March 24, 2011 08:14 AM (TXKVh)
Posted by: ground hog at March 24, 2011 08:15 AM (h+qn8)
Posted by: Folk songs for our time at March 24, 2011 08:17 AM (RD7QR)
Posted by: Soothsayer, Republican Whip at March 24, 2011 12:04 PM (1tFVW)
Infidel bastard! You've outed me! Now come and get me infidel! I will fight until the wrinkles on my face prevent me from seeing you, or until you vote that chicken turd out of office.
Posted by: maddogg at March 24, 2011 08:17 AM (OlN4e)
Posted by: Unclefacts Luxury-Yacht at March 24, 2011 12:13 PM (6IReR)
Althouse makes me laugh.
Posted by: FUBAR at March 24, 2011 08:18 AM (McG46)
1. If it makes me look really really really bad if I do nothing,
2. AND the French are going to take action
3. AND The UN has issued a resolution.
4. AND At least one credible source from the Muslim world endorses action.
5. AND someone else agrees to actually lead and take responsibility for failure.
6. AND That same person agrees to give me credit for success.
7. AND Congress approves. Not Required
A. Take Military Action!
ELSE
B. Issue hedging tepidly worded statement that makes no commitment.
Posted by: MikeTheMoose at March 24, 2011 08:18 AM (0q2P7)
Posted by: The Honey Badger at March 24, 2011 08:19 AM (TXKVh)
Like, if the commander in chief has a bowl movement, is that "kinetic military action," and does he need support from the French?
I am intrigued by the "benefits outweigh the costs" concept, does it apply to all situations? Is it something only the president should consider? How about in business, can we use the same approach to solve out business problems?
Posted by: nine coconuts at March 24, 2011 08:20 AM (DHNp4)
1) "When you have a catastrophe you can avert"
2) "and the benefits outweigh the costs"
3) "and you have an international or multilateral support"
4) "Go for it."
5) "Profit?"
Posted by: beedubya at March 24, 2011 08:21 AM (AnTyA)
So this is like an exception to standard practice.
Posted by: nine coconuts at March 24, 2011 08:23 AM (DHNp4)
Posted by: nine coconuts at March 24, 2011 12:23 PM (DHNp4)
Or health care or SS or hate crimes or WIC or affirmative action or amnesty or student loans or bailouts or gun control or...
They never care about cost-benefit. They only care about intent.
Posted by: FUBAR at March 24, 2011 08:29 AM (McG46)
Posted by: Tommy Gunnarson at March 24, 2011 08:34 AM (ybA9f)
Well, it isn't a doctine doctrine... those are for cowboys.
Posted by: sherlock at March 24, 2011 08:38 AM (7UMow)
Posted by: Fish the Impaler at March 24, 2011 12:02 PM (ZHsNw)
So, who invited the ugly bitches?
Posted by: Sally the Sheep at March 24, 2011 08:50 AM (/izg2)
Wife asked me what was taking me so long in the bathroom this morning. That was my exact reply.
Posted by: tangonine at March 24, 2011 08:51 AM (x3YFz)
Posted by: Mikey NTH at March 24, 2011 09:06 AM (O9Cc8)
Obama Doctrine= Painful Bowel Movement
Barack Obama is :
The Fissure King
Ha! Ha! That made me LOL!
Posted by: runningrn at March 24, 2011 09:15 AM (ihSHD)
Posted by: Dang at March 24, 2011 12:14 PM (TXKVh)
Yes, but we are talking about Andrea Mitchell here.
Posted by: Book Geek at March 24, 2011 09:24 AM (1+OO5)
Posted by: oic at March 24, 2011 09:46 AM (B2/u4)
Back when New Jersey Governor Jim McGreevey was on the verge of being indicted for various crimes I predicted that his way out of the mess would be to stop denying all of the swirling rumors over his sexual orientation, because the resulting cultural panic would make people completely forget about the bribery and corruption.
He did my prediction one better by announcing at a preference that "His truth was that he was a Gay American". Brilliant! The man never served a day in jail.
I gotta suspect that people are thinking along similar lines in the Obama White House right now. Things are just going to keep on getting worse, because he has dug a hole from which there is no digging out. Libya is the cherry on top of the sh!t sundae of his own creation. So, what is a President to do?
Simple. Stop denying the birther rumors. Admit that you are not a native-born citizen. The resulting Constitutional crisis would make everybody completely forget about everything else. Obama can be hounded out of office with his head held high and the idiots on the Left can talk for another fifty years about how great a President he might have been...
My prediction is that somewhere in the basement of the White House, people are trying to concoct an innocent explaination of how Obama could run for President withour realizing that he was ineligible. I'm guessing that Momma is about to go under the bus. Of course, her deception would have come out of her earnest desire for her child to have a better life as an American citizen, so maybe she doesn't have to go under the bus at all.
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The last time the US went to war without foreign partners was, I think, the Punitive Expedition against Pancho Villa.
Grenada.
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See? You're Alan Greenspan. Things are all better now, right?
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