Obama exige Leap of Faith
28 de mayo 2009 por Steven Ting
Filed under general , la política
Considere el 1998 "gnomos" episodio - posiblemente superando a Milton Friedman "Libertad de elegir", como la defensa clásica del capitalismo - en la que los niños de South Park, Colorado, recibe una lección de cómo no se debe ejecutar una empresa de misteriosos hombres pequeños que va sobre el robo de la ropa interior de los incautos y proceder a su recogida en un depósito subterráneo inmenso.
¿Cuál es la gran idea? Los gnomos explicar:
"Fase Uno: Recoger la ropa interior.
"Segunda etapa:?
"Tercera etapa: Beneficio".
Para que no piense que hay un paso que falta aquí, que es el punto. ("¿Qué pasa con la segunda fase", pregunta uno de los chicos. "Bueno", responde a un gnomo, "Fase Tres son las ganancias!")
En el artículo se va a describir un montón de otras políticas de Obama. Echemos un vistazo a Guantánamo, Oriente Medio, Corea del Norte y las armas nucleares, energía, salud, y el déficit público. Usted obtendrá una vez que la idea de empezar.
Guantánamo
- Orden que está cerrado a Guantánamo durante las primeras semanas de la Presidencia
- ???
- Cerrar Guantánamo!
Umm. ¿Cuál es el paso 2? En este caso, podría ser para mover los prisioneros en algún otro lugar. Podría ser para conseguir financiación para el cierre. ¿Alguno de ellos ha pasado? No. ¿Es Obama tonto? Sí.
El Oriente Medio
- Hable con Irán, Siria, los Estados antagonistas
- ???
- ¡Paz!
Así que lo que falta aquí? Desde el artículo:
In this case, the administration seems to think that diplomacy, like aspirin, is something you take two of in the morning to take away the pain. But as Boston University's Angelo Codevilla notes in his book, “Advice to War Presidents,” diplomacy “can neither create nor change basic intentions, interests, or convictions. . . . To say, 'We've got a problem. Let's try diplomacy, let's sit down and talk' abstracts from the important questions: What will you say? And why should anything you say lead anyone to accommodate you?”
North Korea and Nuclear Weapons
- Tell NK they'll be punished if they continue Nuclear development.
- ???
- No more nukes!
This is a fail by both Bush and Obama. We told NK that they were doing bad things. We told them they would have consequences. We even condemned their actions. But what was done? Nada. What did the United Nations do? Nada. I thought everyone loved Obama and would do what he said. With the ballistic missle launch by NK last month, the UN Security Council failed to get the votes for a resolution condeming NK. And even if they did, does it affect NK? No. It's just a piece of paper. Is Obama dumb because he thinks he can bring change? ¡Sí!
Global Warming and Energy
- Use Renewal and Clean Sources of Energy
- ???
- Carbon Neutrality!
Universal Health Care
- Provide Insurance to the Uninsured
- ???
- Everyone Has Insurance!
Reduce the Deficit
- Spend Trillions of Dollars
- ???
- No More Deficit!
Save the Automobile Industry from Bankruptcy
- Raise the CAFE standards to 35.5 MPG
- ???
- Auto Industry is Strong!
Is there a pattern here with Obama? As you can see, Obama has all of these dreams. He hasn't woken up to experience reality. It's great to have an idea and to have an end result. We just need to know how to get there. Anyone can propose ideas. An effective president will show us how to achieve these ideas. So far Obama is lacking on the effective side and on the leadership side. Since November 2008, things have just gotten worse. I thought once he took office, there would be some type of change? The only change I see is from bad to worse.
Just because Obama went to Harvard does not mean that he is smart. In many instances, Obama is Dumb.
Guantanamo: Not Closing Yet
May 22, 2009 by Guest Writer 1
Filed under General , International , Politics
President Obama faces a major setback in his plans and promises of change, as the Senate has disallowed all funding for the closure of the Guantanamo Bay military prison. This marks the first real opposition to Obama's agenda by Majority Democrats, who are largely responsible for blocking the funds for closing the prison.
Here is some of what has occurred lately in the Senate over this issue:
Democrats had been hammered by Republicans, many of whom don't want Guantanamo shuttered at all, over the possibility that detainees could be sent to live in the United States — in prisons or otherwise.
… It's unclear what Democrats would be okay with approving in a closure plan. The party has been a state of disarray over the issue recently.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., nearly had it both ways on Tuesday.
He first said, emphatically, that Democrats “will never allow terrorists to be released in the United States,” and then said Democrats also don't want detainees to be transferred to US prisons.
The suggestion was that the United States should not taken [sic] any prisoners under any circumstances, raising questions about where the Democratic leadership wants detainees to go should the closure plan be executed.
But Reid's spokesman walked back his statement, saying the leader went too far and would actually be open to putting them in American prisons, if the administration puts forward a plan to do so.
The discord between Reid's own words was emblematic of the clash among Democrats on Capitol Hill.
Sen. Jim Webb, D-Va, said on a Sunday talk show that he opposes the release into the United States of 17 Chinese Uighurs who were captured in Afghanistan after Sept. 11, 2001. The prisoners, de-listed as enemy combatants by a federal court that deemed them not a danger to the US, are eligible for release.
The administration is considering releasing them in Northern Virginia, something Webb vehemently opposes. Webb's language left the door open to an even broader opposition to any Gitmo detainees being released in the United States.
Sens. Jon Tester and Max Baucus, both Montana Democrats, have said emphatically that no detainees will be brought to their state. The same goes for Sen. Ben Nelson, D-Neb.
FBI Director Robert Mueller told the House Judiciary Committee Wednesday that he's concerned some detainees could support terrorism if sent to the United States, either through financial support to terror networks, radicalization of others or taking part in attacks.
Still, Inouye left the door open to bringing the prisoners to the US eventually, refusing to rule out any opportunity to incarcerate detainees on US soil.
Reid's No. 2, Dick Durbin of Illinois, told FOX News that while Democrats were very concerned about taking a vote defending moving prisoners to the United States, he is not opposed to it, adding that American prison facilities can hold these prisoners safely.
Durbin took on Minority Leader Mitch McConnell on the Senate floor Wednesday, saying that while it's true no prisoner has ever escaped from the Guantanamo, “it's also true that no terrorists have ever escaped from US supermax prisons.”
The outcry in the US over the issue of closing the prison and where to house the prisoners has also caused some problems with foreign relations, and presented no solutions to the Obama administration:
Both Democrats and Republicans have been retreating from an uproar in their districts over the possibility that terror suspects would be housed in local prisons.
That's a fairly empty sales pitch for administration officials who are trying to persuade European and Muslim allies to take some of the detainees.
And they got no help Wednesday when FBI Director Robert Mueller told Congress that bringing Guantanamo detainees to the United States could pose a number of risks, even if they were kept in maximum-security prisons.
Gibbs and Attorney General Eric Holder both quickly responded that Obama would never do anything to endanger Americans.
Obama has named senior diplomat Daniel Fried as special envoy on the issue. So far he's had little success in garnering commitments abroad and his task only grows more onerous with the votes in Congress to deny money to close the prison.
While France has accepted one prisoner, fulfilling a promise made when Obama attended a NATO summit in April, other European allies have refused or given nonspecific commitments.
It seems that though Obama may be passionate about closing this prison, he has very little support from people in this country or others in how to practically make that happen. The people and leaders are justifiably concerned about the safety of their countries and/or states with the possibility that some of the most dangerous terrorists (and now possibly with more cause to hate the US than ever) would be released or transferred to places where they could pose a greater threat than they ever had before.
Closing Guantanamo Bay
April 24, 2009 by Guest Writer
Filed under General , International
El Congreso está de vuelta de su receso de Pascua y esta semana los debates petición del Presidente Obama para $ 84.3 mil millones para financiar las guerras estadounidenses en Irak y Afganistán. Enterrado en la página 99 del proyecto de ley presentado el 9 de abril fue una breve sección que pide $ 80 millones para ir a cerrar prisión de Guantánamo.
¿Qué es exactamente que va a pasar a estos 240 hombres o más, si se cierra Guantánamo? Proyecto de ley de Obama incluye una solicitud de fondos para los países extranjeros que aceptan prisioneros. Los esfuerzos previos para llegar a otros países a tomar en estos detenidos no han tenido éxito, sin embargo. Es comprensible que los temores de seguridad han impedido a otros países de cumplir con el deseo de Obama de que la rehabilitación de los presos de Guantánamo en su territorio. Los estadounidenses no los queremos aquí tampoco.
Uno de esos hombres peligrosos en Guantánamo es Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. Él se cree que es un autor intelectual de los ataques terroristas del 11. ¿Alguien cree que pueden ser rehabilitados?
Líder republicano del Senado, Mitch McConnell, de Kentucky, es el primero entre los que hacer las preguntas importantes, como el relativo a la seguridad estadounidense de Guantánamo, si está cerrada. Ayer, en un artículo del New York Times, McConnell es citado diciendo, "El gobierno dice que Guantánamo se cierra, se cerrará el próximo mes de enero. Lo que no nos han dicho es lo que planea hacer con estos asesinos una vez que se cierra. Bueno, los estadounidenses quieren que algunas garantías de que el cierre de Guantánamo no se les hacen menos seguros y, francamente, eso es una petición muy importante y comprensible. "
Uno de esos hombres peligrosos en Guantánamo es Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. Él se cree que es un autor intelectual de los ataques del 9/11 terroristas.
Una vez más, Obama no ha pensado en las cosas.














