Published by Jack Everest on 15 Jul 2010
The Obama administration is either inept in its response to the Gulf oil spill…or it’s actually eager for those deepwater rigs to be deployed elsewhere (like to Soros’ Petrobras in Brazil–read Soros Oil Spill Payoff for details).
HT to HotAir!.
Published by Jack Everest on 06 Jul 2010
This confirms it! Our nation has slipped into a parallel universe!
Here’s the exact statement by NASA administrator Charles Bolden in his interview with Al Jazeera in Cairo (and here’s the entire youtube video–the “foremost” comment occurs at the 1 min 20 sec mark):
“One, he [Obama] wanted me to help re-inspire children to want to get into science and math; he wanted me to expand our international relationships; and third, and perhaps foremost, he wanted me to find a way to reach out to the Muslim world and engage much more with dominantly Muslim nations to help them feel good about their historic contribution to science and engineering — science, math and engineering.”
By the way, Bolden was quick to point out that this is NOT a diplomatic outreach but instead an effort to attract more scientific contributors to our space “partnership.” Bolden didn’t explain why Obama wants NASA to invite the participation of those who at present feel rather poorly about their scientific and engineering achievements…but surely he (or the administration) will issue another statement of clarification shortly.
We at this blog are uncharacteristically speechless by this turn of events. Luckily, for us, there are those who can still find their voice.
Here’s what some sensible commentators have to say…
Michael Griffin, NASA administrator under the Bush:
It is a perversion of NASA’s purpose to conduct activities in order to make the Muslim world feel good about its contributions to science and mathematics.”
Byron York (regarding Michael Griffin’s comment):
For all his unhappiness with the new policy, Griffin says blame for the situation does not belong with NASA administrator Charles Bolden, whom Griffin calls “one of the best human beings you will find.” “When I see reports in the media excoriating Charlie for this position, that blame is misplaced,” Griffin says. “It belongs with the administration. That is where policy for NASA is set. The NASA administrator does not set policy for NASA, the administrator carries it out.”
“This is not about personalities,” Griffin concludes. “It is about the intellectual content of the policy, which I find to be bankrupt.”
Ed Morrissey of Hot Air…
Hey, maybe that’s why Obama hasn’t taken the Iranian effort to build a nuclear bomb all that seriously until now. He just wanted Iran to make the Muslim world feel good about their achievements in science! And it’s hard to do to that unless you talk a lot about outstretched open hands — and ignore a freedom movement that wants to depose the brutal tyrants who are trying to give the Muslim world a new “historic contribution.”
Actually, Muslim nations should be insulted by the idea that the US pays NASA to provide them with paternalistic and patronizing validation and self-esteem boosts. And they probably will be.
Victor Davis Hanson at NRO…
[I]s it really the business of a government scientific agency to produce historical and scientific narratives for political purposes? And do we really wish to return to the embarrassment of last June’s Cairo mythmaking? In that address, the president misled his audience on nearly every “fact” he presented, from the absurdity of Muslims in Cordoba supposedly serving as beacons of tolerance during the Inquisition (there were essentially no Muslims in Cordoba at the time) to the assertion that Muslims helped to jumpstart the Renaissance and the Enlightenment (when, in fact, flight from or reaction against Islam in the eastern Mediterranean had far more to do with both European intellectual awakenings).
Bolden, like so many Obama appointees, has impressive dossier and yet seems to say some very strange things that put ideology above all else — e.g., Eric Holder (“nation of cowards”), Hilda Solis (“documented or not”), Janet Napolitano (“man-caused disasters”), Ken Salazar (“boot on their neck”), or Steven Chu (“no more agriculture in California”).
Krauthammer (video of Fox’s Special Report with Brett Baier) had this to say…
This is a new height in fatuousness!
This idea to feel good about past scientific achievements is the worst combination of group therapy psychobabble, imperial condescension, and adolescent diplomacy! If I didn’t know that Obama had told this, I’d demand a firing of Charles Bolden the way I would Michael Steele…this is unbelievable!
Published by Jack Everest on 28 Jun 2010
Watching the coverage of Obama at the G20 this weekend reminded me of his history of inappropriate giggles and flippancy when confronted with the economic struggles of our country (and the mountain of debt bedeviling the world).
One might expect the leader of the world’s greatest superpower to focus on ways to get our economic engine reignited and revved up again (and at the G20, one might even hope he would draw our fellow member nations into the process)…but the issue weighing most heavily on Obama’s mind was “there are lots of good golf courses up here, right?”
There is something wrong with Obama! His staff knows it (how can they not), and I hope they are merely protecting us by hiding the truth.
He doesn’t offer the wisdom of leadership. He doesn’t tell us that our struggles will make us strong. He doesn’t point to a courageous course of action and call to us, saying “this way folks…follow me and we will survive.”
To the contrary, he seems genuinely incapable of grasping who this nation is. He thinks that our citizens’ troubles are a laughing matter.
This old video is a perfect illustration of this Obama tic. When Steve Kroft mentions to Obama that only a small minority (18%) of Americans favor the auto bailout, Obama does not offer a logical explanation of why it is the right thing to do…instead he simply emits a barrage of nervous giggles.
How strange!
Kroft wonders aloud if Obama isn’t “punch drunk”…and even asks him about it.
Published by Dark Skies on 17 Jun 2010
This video captures the essence of our president. In Nero-like fashion, he plays golf and parties while the nation’s troubles smolder unattended.
Is it that he just doesn’t care? Or is it that life has just been too easy for him and, hence, he never developed the tools needed to be effective in actual work and leadership? I guess we now know why, as President of the Harvard Law Review, he never published a single article…too much work!
Published by Jack Everest on 05 Jun 2010
It has been reported (here and here) that Bill Ayers and wife and Jodie Evans (an Obama bundler) helped organize the Free Gaza Movement and its Flotilla, but now it is being reported (here) that there is a link deep inside the White House (John Brennan, deputy national security adviser for homeland security and counterterrorism is the person named).
We are looking for confirmation from other sources and will update this post at that time.
UPDATE: No additional news on this matter as of 6/14/2010 (for a developing story, this one is in slo-mo).
Published by Jack Everest on 29 May 2010
In his press conference this week, the President has the audacity to stand before the America people (on television at least) and insult the flag and the country for which it stands. This incompetent pretender has the nerve to dishonor our flag–this flag for which so much American blood has been spilt–by refusing to stand beside it.
Unforgivable!
Published by Jack Everest on 29 May 2010
I thought this day would never come.
At last, the media is waking up to the idea that Obama is an incompetent leader. Chris Matthews of the formerly tingly leg is flushed with anger at Obama over his absolute and abject failure to take command of the Deepwater Spill. Unbelievable–and hugely satisfying!
See for yourself…
CLICK HERE TO WATCH VIDEO
Published by Jack Everest on 27 May 2010
This just isn’t going away.
According to Rove, the reason the American public can’t simply accept the White House claim of innocence in this matter is because of its well-established reputation for “moral callousness.”
As an illustration of this “moral callousness,” he reminds us how, in 2005, WH Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel, then a Congressman, came into possession of email evidence of Rep. Mark Foley’s sexual predation on underage Congressional male pages.
Rather than take action to bring a halt to such crimes (by immediately submitting the evidence to the House Ethics Committee), Emanuel hid the evidence until the 2006 elections, when its political value would be greatest.
Published by Jack Everest on 27 May 2010
Apparently, even New Orleans democrats are angry at Obama’s complete lack of leadership on the oil disaster. Carville is so angry he literally screams at Obama (”we’re begging down here, we’re crying…we’re dyin’ down here…”).
Check it out…
Published by Jack Everest on 13 May 2010
Here’s what real political leadership is all about. Governor Christie has a huge future!