Posts Made By: Mike Strieber

Yes in indeed, the MSNBC barrel has no bottom. Al Sharpton has his own show now. I'll give him about a month to be fired or suspended. That's a badge of honor at MSNBC. If you haven't been fired or suspended from MSNBC you're just not being foul enough. If you haven't seen Al in action here's a tidbit of what you're missing. Now this is some quality journalism.

http://www.ihatethemedia.com/al-sharpton-im-too-fast-for-em

Now his speech will be up against football. You know who will win that ratings battle. It's offical now; 2.5 years to lame duck, a new presidential record for President Downgrade.

http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2011/08/obama-bows-to-boehner-will-hold-spending-jobs-speech-on-september-8/

Hey, the media's got to be using something to bury his Solargate and Lightsquared scandals.

Oh...Mitt Romney was there too.






...bet you guys never figured me for an old fat guy.

...and then some.

Hello folks, it's been a couple years since I posted. It's good to see some of the usual suspects still around. I would just like to say something about the state of our foreign policy. OMG, little did we know when Obama was elected we would be getting a guy whose life long dream would be to gift his country Jimmy Carter's second term. Obama reset US-Russian relations alright; all the way back to 1963. Do I want a war with Russia? Of course not. And I'm tired of being called a warmonger for suggesting Obama projects weakness. That's the intellectually lazy way out of a discussion when your position is shallow.

With that said, Obama's "cost" to Russia is so severe they're mocking us about it. Literally; we have Russian dignitaries mocking us about these so-called sanctions. Of course we wouldn't want to included Putin in sanctions, that's just uncivilized, against international norms, according to this administration. Are you serious? For years now Putin has played Obama like a fiddle. Assad made him look silly. The Iranians have bamboozled him. He lost the war in Iraq we already won. He's about to lead us to defeat in Afghanistan as well. Half the time he supported the wrong side of the "Arab Spring". Fallujah was once the most dangerous place in the world, now it's being at a wedding in some remote village in Pakistan. And we've reached never before seen lows in US-Israeli relations. This cat Obama has more red lines than a box of Twizzlers. On top of that he's presiding over the dismantling of our military to a point of weakness we haven't seen in decades. At a time when there is bipartisan agreement the world is a far more dangerous place than we've seen in years. Even Al Qaeda is stronger than pre-911 days. By the time Obama's presidency is over more than half our military will be in mothballs or just nonexistent. Yeah, we've never made that mistake before.

Not only is our foreign policy in shambles, but domestically we are a mess as well. Record numbers of people believe we on the wrong track and in decline. The president continues to tell us the economy is recovering yet 70% of the country believes we are still in a recession. I'm having a tough time figuring out which of the five summers of recovery I've enjoyed the most. Then of course there's Obamacare; the greatest single domestic policy failure in US history. The best thing about Obamacare is it will forever have the name of the guy who gave it to us attached to it.

Besides that, everything is going great. Hope you all are well.
Mike

Very nice Luca. Here's how I saw 961 in Las Vegas today....

Mike

Rod Kaufman said:

Oil company CEOs have formed a lobbying group to fight oil speculation. Today, one CEO noted NINE airlines have shut down and two others are in chapter 11 proceedings due to the run-up in oil.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/07/09/politics/politico/thecrypt/main4246567.shtml
The lobbying website is:
http://capwiz.com/sosnow/issues/alert/?alertid=11571321
Today oil speculators shot up the cost of oil $5.00/barrel after a supposed Iranian missile test that, according to our own military, never happened. No supply disruptions, no loss of oil, not one drop.
Stop the speculation now!

Rod,
Not sure how the article you linked here supports your position. It only suggests to me the airlines are trying to pass the buck on cost (and service) to someone other than themselves. And clearly the favored target of late are the dreaded "oil speculators". The last line says this...

"But the administration, regulators, and Wall Street say investors had little effect on oil prices."

Did you happen to notice also the sponser of the article (or the page maybe?), listed at the top? It says "Presented by ExxonMobile". You don't see a connection there?

While I am certainly no expert on oil futures (but I'm learning) I did find this Fortune Magazine article interesting...

...if you don't have time to read it the gist is this....

"Bashing futures traders may well be good politics, but it's stupid public policy."

"Indeed, without a futures market, I believe we'd be decrying oil at $200 a barrel oil instead of oil at $135."

http://money.cnn.com/2008/06/27/news/economy/birger_oil_speculation.fortune/index.htm?postversion=2008062709

They seem to quote some folks with credentials in the article. My only point is I'm seeing more and more contradicting the "speculators" angle on all this. Are you sure this isn't yet another boogeyman being created?

Mike

Rod Kaufman said:

The New York Times rejected McCain's Op Ed on Iraq because there was "nothing new" in it, just a broad-base attack on Obama:
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/07/21/new-york-times-rejects-mccain-editorial/
At least Obama put forth a plan on Iraq but all you get from McCain is an attack ad. Geez...

Rod,
You complain frequently how your civil liberties are being trampled on yet you advocate the NYT suppressing an editorial voice with a different view? Give me a break. Even if your characterization of the situation were any where close to reality you might have noticed this quote from the article you linked....

"Obama’s July 14 essay had taken shots at McCain..."

Either those "shots" are ok by you or you don't consider "shots" an "attack". Shouldn't the NYT have suppressed O'Wright's essay also if you buy into the "attack" ad spin you just postulated? Geez...

BTW, interesting post on the day this poll result is published Rod...

http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/election_20082/2008_presidential_election/belief_growing_that_reporters_are_trying_to_help_obama_win


It's up to 49% (and growing) who believe the msm is trying to get Obama elected. Here's a related quote from the article:

"A separate survey released this morning also found that 50% of voters believe most reporters want to make the economy seem worse than it is. A plurality believes that the media has also tried to make the war in Iraq appear worse that it really is."

Imagine that. Yet there are "knuckleheads" (to use Rod's term for those with a differing opinion) here on this forum that argue a bias doesn't exist. Whether it really does or not, there's an awful lot of "knuckleheads" out there that believe it. The NYT is certainly doing their part.

Mike

Jim Babcock said:

Reasoning people already know all that they need to in order to make a decision.

Owright has such a thin record, there is nothing to attack, unless just pointing out his record (or lack there of) is considered an attack. His record is clear, simple and more than enough to understand what he is. In regard to your suggestion that Owright may not have been a community organizer, that cannot be disputed because the term is meaningless. The best I can figure is that he was a minor player at the local level hanging out with his buddies taking crack as they complained about the need for more government. He was about as effective at "change" then as he has been at everything else that he has tried. But that is OK because he is a lib, black, clean and can say "change" very well (if he has a teleprompter). What more do we need to know? A typical Dem.

McCain has a long public record that has been well vetted over decades. Everything real in his past that can be used against him is known, and Owright's dirty trick squad is already doing their best to use it against him.

The Owright group includes the MSM. They understand the score and are already executing their strategy to get Owright into the oval office. Their strategy is simple and straight forward:

1 - Swoon over Owright to build buzz and to make him a star.
2 - Ignore McCain. Give him no coverage or the minimum possible.

Hopefully the voting public gets tired of Owright's nonsense and people get to understand that he is nothing more than a clean black guy who can read a teleprompter.

Wow Jim, you got all serious on me. :S The best we can do on both sides right now is point out each others gaffes.....boooooring. We need some excitement, something with some meat. The gaffe - senior moment -uhhhhhh thing is really meaningless to me. That's just the best either side can do right now.

McCain especially needs to do something. While my crystal ball is certainly cloudy at times, right now I see nothing but potentially the most lopsided presidential election in history. While I personally support McCain, I think he'll be embarassed in November unless Obama's closet doors open and something really scary comes out. However, I think we would have seen that by now if that was the case. Imagine the "bump" he gets today when 500,000 people watch him speak in Berlin. Just my two cents, and you know how much that is worth in the current economic situation.

Best,
Mike

Rod Kaufman said:

I hadn't heard much about America and a manned mission to Mars since shrub got our hopes up about it '04 and then dropped it like a cold ----. Now there appears to be fresh political action from the two major candidates regarding the red planet:
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-ed-nasa23-2008jul23,0,4440280.story
It appears Obama's ideas are a bit more down to earth and a lot more realistic...

Good topic Rod. Not a political comment here but I actually saw a recent documentary about it on the Science Channel and was very surprised how far along we actually were.