Obama provides weak response to N. Korea and Iran
June 18, 2009 by Steven Ting
Filed under General, International
There has been a lot of global happenings this past week. Iran recently had an election where the current president received the popular vote. But with that popular vote, there are calls of corruption and that the vote was tainted. Currently, Iran is trying to define itself and figure out how to handle the problem. How does Obama respond? He doesn’t want the US to appear as meddling in the affairs of Iran. The problem is that was not the appropriate response. As stated by the writer at www.stoptheaclu.com
From yesterday
But at the same time, Obama said it would not be helpful if the United States was seen by the world as “meddling” in the issue.
Iran accused the United States on Wednesday of “intolerable” meddling in its internal affairs, alleging for the first time that Washington has fueled a bitter postelection dispute. Opposition supporters marched in Tehran’s streets for a third straight day to protest the outcome of the balloting.
Looks like President Neophyte is getting school (yet again) on how foreign affairs works. Maybe now he will step up and call for freedom, openness, fairness, etc? Oh, sorry, that was me just dreaming a bit.
Obama is new and he’s learning on the job. This is what we don’t want or need as president. He is a disgrace. Now this morning we hear that North Korea has plans to fire a missle in the the direction of Hawaii. While the missile has a range of 4000 miles and Hawaii is 4500 miles away, that is not acceptable.   Obama doesn’t make any comment. He can only “hope” that North Korea will return to the “talks”.
What would another country do? Let’s take Israel. They wouldn’t put up with it. They’d launch their F-16′s to take out the launch site and anything else that threatened them. How about the US? We stay quiet and hope that we one day will grow a back bone. Obama is the leader of the United States and he has done nothing with regard to North Korea. He has done noting in regard to Iran. He is sitting there hoping things will get better on their own.
“Vanilla” Change
April 24, 2009 by natashacall
Filed under Economy, General, Politics
I am so glad that Obama plans to make sure that “Every credit card issuer has to issue a plain vanilla easy-to-understand, simplest possible credit card…that the average user can feel comfortable with.” After all, the butterscotch crunch version was so hard to understand!
Sure, there needs to be reform. That’s okay as long as I can charge whatever I want and have the tax payer pay for it, just like my mortgage. I think I may just go out and buy some new furniture today so that I can be sure that everyone else in the country can pay for it.
Do I think that perhaps there may be some issues with loopholes in the credit card company policies within every credit card company in the US? Perhaps. However, have people been taking advantage of the system? Of course they have.
What do you bet that the new legislation will help those who have taken advantage of the system, over spending and then being irresponsible when paying their bills. Let me give it to you in the “vanilla” version. They buy and then don’t pay. I know it’s hard to understand for us “average” people.
There is an argument that the policies may reduce the amount of credit offered to lower-income individuals. Wouldn’t that be just too bad? I mean, everyone should have the same stuff in the same amounts shouldn’t they? Differences in the way people live are highly over-rated anyway. People should get paid the same no matter what job they get income, right? Doctor-Fast Food Grill Cook. It’s all the same, right? I hope the legislation comes down that we all have to drive the same battery powered cars, wear the same uniform colors, and that we must bow down to the Obama-God so that we don’t have to think for ourselves and therefore don’t have any consequences for our actions.
Amen.
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