Rather that than What?
The worst 1 term President?
The only man to be tossed out of office over his birthplace?
The first President to be a lame duck during his first year in office?
Or just anything else that is possible?
Because clearly what he would rather be is impossible.
Hugo Chavez is certainly trying his best to be the Hitler character in the WWII sequel.
He certainly has the paranoia needed, whether it is real or an act is the question, He seems to have blended in the Mussolini character’s desire to Nationalize all industry.
His penchant for inflammatory speeches, and using those speeches to demonize his “enemies” is another trait of Hitler’s that he has mastered.
However he does not have the originality of the original Hitler, he is simply buying existing technology – interestingly derived from the real Hitler’s work.
I am waiting to see if it will be Obama, H. Clinton or some other character who will proclaim peace on the eve of the invasion to become the new Neville Chamberlain.
Seriously, if Obama is not actively trying to destroy this country he would have to be an imbecile. Since it seems unlikely he could be that stupid it is therefore impossible that he is not actively working to destroy the country.
So, what could he possibly be planning as his next step?
Obama has once again done what no US President has ever and should never do. He has bowed to the leader of another country. 
While he is there he will, without shame, apologize for Hiroshima. The Japanese are not owed an apology since they started the war, they invaded and enslaved numerous peaceful nations, they committed horrendous atrocities and were intent on continuing the slaughter of US and Allies servicemen when we used technology to take the war to their homeland and ended the war.
Certainly Obama should be sensitive to one atrocity committed in large scale by the Japanese in WWII – slavery! They captured and enslaved whole populations. They stole Korean women from their homes and shipped them to foreign lands to serve as sex slaves for their soldiers. They forced their enslaved captives to work in their war effort. They even enslaved their own people, the elite even referring to the conscripts in their military in a term relating their value to the cost of the postage stamp on the postcard conscripting them.
But then perhaps what the Japanese achieved – for the short and ill fated period – is what Obama wishes to leave as his legacy here. I wonder how many of his underlings in DC view the citizens as having a value equal to the39 42 43 44(?) cent stamp they put on their mail-in ballot?
“Obama says he’s looking at any way to create jobs” That is just an outright lie!
My employer has reduced staff by about 50% since the first of the year – and Obama’s administration and the Democrats in Congress could easily reverse that and they probably would not even have to pass a bill, they would not have to spend a dime of tax payers’ money and they could move the country a considerable distance toward energy independence.
Newt said it over a year ago – Drill here, drill now! There is an abundant amount of natural gas in this country. There is also a huge amount of oil in Alaska and off our coasts. Today we cannot touch that because our Government says no. If they simply said yes and got out of the way free enterprise would once again come to the rescue.
Not only would the 100 or so jobs missing at my employer’s factory reappear, thousands of people in the drilling business and at our competitors businesses would be at work. The reduced costs of energy that would result would add uncountable additional jobs across the economy. Heck, even Government Motors would probably benefit with more cars sold than from the Cash for Clunkers.
But of course Obama will not allow it – he does not really want to help the economy, he definitely does not want to allow free enterprise to help the economy.
As I flew this past week to DC for my friend Mike’s burial at Arlington I was reading the book – Band of Brothers about Easy Company and their participation in many of the key battles to liberate Europe from the Nazis in WWII.
Michael Yon has a long piece with pictures of the 65th anniversary of MarketGarden.
I am reminded about the difference in the way our returning troops were treated after the Victory in WWII and the politically abandoned effort in Viet Nam. I know Mike – a decorated hero – never felt he was even welcomed home by the general population here, so much so that he couldn’t talk about what really happened there for decades after. All he would do was tell “War Stories” – and he would readily tell whoever was listening that the only difference between a “War Story” and a Fairy Tale was “one starts ‘Once upon a time’ the other ‘This ain’t no shit!”
Ted Kennedy has died. He is to be buried in Arlington cemetary.
My mother (at whose house I labored all day today) taught me “to never speak ill of the dead” and “If you can’t say anything nice – don’t say anything at all!”
OK Mom.
I expect that every bad liberal/progressive idea that was even considered during the last 20 years will be proposed as law – passed easily in the House – squeak through the Senate – and be signed into law by Obama.
The right to keep and bear arms will be further restricted and diminished. Expect bills to require registration and taxation of all firearms. Expect heavy taxes on ammunition.
There will be taxpayer funded health care for all children in homes making as much as $150,000. The definition of Child will extend to age 26 in all cases and the coverage “for children” will include all pregnant women, all parents of children eligible for the expanded program. It will pay for abortions for all covered “children”.
There will be tax increases on all businesses that do not offer free health care coverage for their employees. Medicare will be extended to people who are not age eligible for social security.
There will be higher taxes on social security income and higher taxes on working people for social security. There will likely be a cutoff of social security to those with “means”.
Taxes in general will be increased, especially on things the “progressives” or “Greens” dislike. Cars that get less than 35 mpg will likely see a large annual federal tax (expect the states to follow through as well). There will be an increase in the federal (and state) gasoline taxes with much of the revenue diverted to non highway related uses.
There will be income redistribution – starting with “tax refunds” to those who paid no taxes. This “bailout” will be available to citizens and illegals alike. The “refunds” and “middle class tax cuts” will not extend to those who actually pay the bulk of the taxes. On anyone described as “upper”income will see their taxes increase – dramatically. I expect that anyone with a gross income of over $100,000 will see these increases.
Bankruptcy laws will once again be liberalized to allow people to file more often, keep more assets and pay back less to creditors.
Smokers will see yet another hefty increase in the taxes on them.
There will be other “sin” tax increases. There will be an increase in the tax on liquor (perhaps not on beer – since it is seen as a “working class” thing, where as liquor is “upper class”).
There will be efforts to legalize marijuana. What there is of the “war on drugs” will be greatly diminished. Drug smuggling will once again be rampant. Our border will be more porous than ever before – to people and contraband.
Our efforts to combat terrorism will be badly mangled. There will be efforts to use the military for social engineering, it will be directed less at Islamofacist areas and instead employed like Clinton did to end “social injustice” and poverty. We will see more incidents like Mogadisu, there will be an expansion of terrorism, al Qaida will once again flourish.
In short, every thing that G. Gordon Liddy lamented in his book “When I Was a Kid, This Was a Free Country” will become even worse!
I came across the following in a piece about Marine helicopters in Afghanistan:
“It’s well known among the enemy, with good reason, to never fire at the skinny grey helicopters,” said Maj. Mike M. Richman, Detachment B officer-in-charge of Marine Light Attack Helicopter Squadron 269 (HML/A-269) and North Lake, Wisc., native. “By being on station, we impede the enemy’s sanctuary and freedom of movement. They can’t move into position to fire at the Marines on the ground, because they know if we can see them, we’ll kill them.”
I suspect – based on all the news I’ve seen lately about Afghanistan – that the US Marines and the rest of the US and Allied forces are teaching similar lessons to the bad guys there – the only safe thing to do when you see the good guys – disappear or surrender!
Michael Yon has a new post that starts:
The war in Iraq has ended. Violent elements remain, but they no longer threaten the very fabric of Iraq. The Iraqi Army, police and government continue to outpace the elements that would prefer to see Iraq in chaos. Iraq is no longer an enemy. There is no reason for us to ever shoot at each other again.
My son the Marine spent three tours there in the Western Anbar Province. His comments to me a year ago when he returned from the third tour were to the point that in that once very dangerous region he had begun to feel more like a cop, that all they were doing was watching out for a few bad guys but is sure wasn’t much like a war anymore. He is currently somewhere in Afghanistan. Yon has this to say about that country and the continuing war there:
I write these words from Kandahar, in the south. This war here is just getting started. Likely we will see severe fighting kicking off by about April of 2009. Iraq is on the mend, but victory in Afghanistan is very much in question.
yon2Zabul Province, Afghanistan
While Americans sleep tight in their beds, this time of year U.S. soldiers sit shivering through the frigid, crystal clear nights at remote outposts in places most of us have never heard of and will never see. Often they head out into the enveloping darkness, to hunt down and destroy terrorists, who continue to kill innocent Afghans, Americans, Aussies, Balinese, Brits, Indians, Iraqis, Pakistanis, Spanish … in short, anyone who opposes their violent tyranny. Their greatest weapons are ignorance and terror.
We have fewer troops deployed in Afghanistan than Iraq, the landscape is much different – rather than vast barren desert it is mountainous with many valleys and caves for the terrorists to hide. It is true that the Russian army could not win in Afghanistan but that was a very different war. That was a war of agression against the whole nation of Afghanistan. We are fighting the Taliban and the terrorists – for the Afghan people, for their freedom – not against them and to take their freedom.
The Russians used tactics that turned the population against them. They took the Afghan children and sent them to Russian “training centers” many never to return. We have restored to the people the right to determine their own government, to have schools of their own choice and to even send their daughters to those schools.
The Taliban we deposed and are now fighting in the valleys was the result of the Russians destroying the previous government and then leaving a vacuum in their retreating wake.We must be aware that if we leave Afghanistan before the mission there is complete there will once again be a vacuum into which the Taliban or something equally evil could occupy. We must pursue the path there to victory. That will probably require more troops and surely more money, but the alternative is to once again give a fertile breeding ground to people like bin Laden to hatch their destructive plans and train their henchmen.
I look forward to the day when Michael Yon or someone else can write “We have won in Afghanistan!”
