Obama wants to use diplomacy with these people?

Israel National News recently reported that Hamas' "Minister of Culture", Atallah Abu Al-Subh, called our Secretary of State a "black serpent" in a local TV interview. "With the arrival of that black scorpion with a cobra's head, Condoleezza, I began to worry that she would use her venomous fangs and hiss to kill this initiative and new spirit that we should protect," he said.



Abu Al-Subh continued: "The arrival of Condoleezza Rice is not a good sign... Condoleezza Rice, you are not welcome. Every proud Palestinian views you as a murderer, and sees the blood of the children of Palestine between your lips and on your fangs. I pray to Allah that you will soon slither away, along with your master who is more Zionist than the Zionists, that murderer and criminal, whose place in history is more advanced than that of Nero, Hulagu, Genghis Khan, Timor the Lame, Hitler, and Mussolini, and before them that of Nimrod -- that criminal murderer, little Bush, who is striving to fan the flames in this region."


How in the world would an Obama administration begin to have diplomatic discussions with such people?


Before addressing the radical mindset that produces such unenlightened thoughts, the crude, 7th century trashtalk itself deserves comment:

What the hell...?!?

What an ignorant, juvenile, archaic culture he's attempting to administer.

The isolated, hateful, deprived and depraved organization that created and nurtured him, and which he now helps to lead, produces that kind of paranoid delusional mindset. Many Palestinians and the people within groups like Hamas are forever blaming the tiny island of democracy that is Israel for all of their self-inflicted pathologies and their stagnant societies.

"Black serpent with a scorpion's head"..."her venomous fangs and hiss"..."the blood of the children of Palestine between your lips and on your fangs"..."I pray to Allah that you will soon slither away." How would Barack Obama even hope to begin reasoning with people that think this way? The truth is, you can't reason with them. You must neutralize or defeat them. Diplomacy doesn't work with everybody. Promoting the dangerously niave policy that we should engage in diplomatic talks with all of our enemies, or our allies' enemies, is one of the many reasons that underscore why Barack Obama isn't ready to lead this country.

New York's Hugo Chavez: Rep. Maurice Hinchey

Pictured to the right of (because it's hard to be to the left of) Phil Donahue

The citizens of the 22nd Congressional District must have to scrape the bottom of the barrel for candidates to represent them in Congress, since they've sent this idiot to Washington DC for eight terms now. Perhaps there are too many hippies still hanging around the "artists' enclave of Woodstock" in his district. Or just chalk-one-up for the power of incumbency. Whatever the cause, Hinchey, (the 1st word to describe him on his home page is "progressive", read: SOCIALIST) is the moron that wrongly, and malevolently, accused President Bush and Karl Rove of orchestrating the Rathergate episode, which I blogged about here.

Today he put his foot in his mouth again, ignorantly making more false claims he can't possibly back up, as well as exposing his collectivist desires.

In a press release responding to President Bush's call for more domestic oil exploration, Hinchey ignorantly claimed "...68 million untouched acres (already leased to oil companies) could produce an additional 4.8 million barrels of oil and 44.7 billion cubic feet of natural gas each day, nearly double current domestic oil production." With no substantiation for his predictions, he further disgraces himself by citing his Leftist-paranoid conspiracy theory: "The oil companies are simply sitting on those 68 million acres until oil prices rise to $200 or $300 a barrel when they can make even greater profits at the expense of Americans," and that the president is colluding with them in "...an attempt by oil companies to grab as much federal land as they can before one of, if not the most, oil-friendly administration leaves office."

When asked about the subject of oil refinery capacity (because leftist tree huggers like Hinchey haven't allowed any new refineries to be built in 30 years), Comrade Hinchey endorsed the Socialist goal of taking over and nationalizing the privately owned oil refineries in this country. Such a power grab would draw either warm applause from fellow traveler Hugo Chavez, or his ire because of Commie-competition, which is a bit of an oxymoron, and rather ironic.

If Comrade Hinchey and Rahm Emanuel happen to know where to drill on those 68 million acres to get at the oil deposits that may or may not be there, perhaps they should tell us. What geological survey can they cite that indicates the oil companies are greedily sitting on known reserves? Like his source for knowing that President Bush faked his own would-be-damaging National Guard records, Hinchey "just knows it".

It's hard to decide which is worse: the hypocrisy of Leftists whining about gas prices when they are the ones who've blocked any expansion of domestic discovery and building refineries (not to mention nuclear power stations), or the Socialist tendencies to have the government take control over anything they want use of.

As if the government would run the refineries more efficiently...?!?

06/19/08 UPDATE: I just ran across this PRICELESS video of the CLUELESS Maxine Waters (by the way, who the hell keeps electing this mentally-challenged fool?) threatening Big Oil to take'em over!
A MUST SEE!

Rest in peace, Tim Russert- you did Buffalo proud

At just 58 years old, Tim Russert leaves this world way too early. His gracious, good natured, diplomatic, and yet tenacious approach to interviewing political guests on "Meet the Press" acheived, as well as anyone could, the principle of unbiased watchdog journalism.

God bless his family, his wife and son, and his father, "Big Russ", especially on this Father's Day weekend.

The company he keeps

For the last twenty years, Barack

Obama has kept company with some radically-minded and angry characters, who don't think very highly of the United States of America, and that's not even counting his wife, Michelle.

Clockwise from lower color photo: Tony Rezko (convicted June 4th on 16 counts of corruption); Bernardine Dohrn (domestic anti-establishment terrorist); Jeremiah Wright (Obama's 20-year pastor); Father Michael Pfleger (pictured w/close friend Louis Farrakhan), (recently-suspended, Al Jolsen-like, "Catholic" priest); Bill Ayers (domestic anti-establishment terrorist)

Below are some quotes by and descriptions of some of Obama's long-term friends. See if you can match them with the friends above:

A.) "America has been raping people of color, and America has to pay the price for the rape!"

B.) "...for the first time in my adult life, I am really proud of my country." (Age: 44)

C.) "Kill all the rich people. Break up their cars and apartments. Bring the revolution home,kill your parents, that's where it's really at.''

D.) ''Dig it! (Charles) Manson killed those pigs, then they ate dinner in the same room with them, then they shoved a fork into a victim's stomach.''

E.) He lived in 15 states, taking names of dead babies in cemeteries who were born in the same year as he. He describes his typical safe house: there were usually books by Malcolm X and Ho Chi Minh, and Che Guevara's picture in the bedroom...

F.) America is a "just downright mean" country.

G.) He writes about his sexual experimentation as they tried to ''smash monogamy.'' They were ''an army of lovers,'' he says, and describes having had different sexual partners, including his best male friend.

H.) ''I felt grand juries were illegal and coercive.'' (Hint: She's now a law professor at Northwestern!)

I.) During a protest against Chuck’s Gun Shop (Riverdale, IL.), he twice threatened to “snuff out” the shop’s owner and threatened the same fate for legislators who oppose his position on gun control.“We’re gonna find you and snuff you out,” he said about the gun shop owner, likening the man to a “rat.” “We’re gonna snuff out legislators who are voting against our gun laws and we’re coming for you because we are not going to sit idly.”

J.) Has been on the FBI's "Ten Most Wanted List".

With friends like this, who needs (political) enemies?