We have our own Nero in the White House. From what we hear, Obama is taking up the fiddle along with bowling lessons.
What we have here, is a failure to communicate...
You remember that line from "Cool Hand Luke"? It fits in this situation. As a matter of fact, it fits every situation that comes along for this administration.
US 'deeply disappointed'
as Iran convicts
reporter; By Ali Akbar Dareini, Associated Press Writer; Apr 18, 2009
The headline sums it up.
Iran convicted an American journalist of spying for the United States and sentenced her to eight years in prison, her lawyer said Saturday, complicating the Obama administration's efforts to break a 30-year-old diplomatic deadlock with Tehran.
Wanna bet Gitmo is a better place to be.
The White House said President Barack Obama was "deeply disappointed" by the conviction, while the journalist's father told a radio station his daughter was tricked into making incriminating statements by officials who told her they would free her if she did.
Hang on here, Dingle-Barry will head on over to Tehran to make his next apology. He's apologized everywhere else he's been.
The journalist's Iranian-born father, Reza Saberi, told NPR that his daughter was convicted Wednesday, two days after she appeared before an Iranian court in an unusually swift one-day closed-door trial. The court waited until Saturday to announce its decision to the lawyers, he said.
Let's face it. She already has 3 strikes against her, she's female. In the world of the towell-heads, less important than a good goat.
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said the United States was working with Swiss diplomats in Iran to get details about the court's decision and to ensure Saberi's well-being. She said in a statement the United States will "vigorously raise our concerns" with the Iranian government.
She can rest a whole lot easier now, the Broomer is on the case. I'm sure all that vigor will help.
The United States has called the charges against Saberi baseless, and the State Department said Thursday that Iran would gain U.S. good will if it "responded in a positive way" to the case.
Obama has said he wants to engage Iran in talks on its nuclear program and other issues - a departure from the tough talk of the Bush administration.
What a leader!!!! After less than 100 days we have NorKors sending up test missiles and defiantly moving ahead with their nuclear warhead program, Somali pirates grabbing ships, and China refusing to buy our any more of our debt. And we have a president who is looking for goodwill!! That ought to send shock waves to our enemies.
In a speech, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Iran was preparing new proposals aimed at breaking an impasse with the West over its nuclear program.
I forgot to mention their nuclear program. Get the fiddle out Dingle-Barry, both North Korea and Iran are burning. At least while you're fiddling, you're not running around the world apologizing for everything.
On second thought, don't communicate
Someone want to call the boy back home. Our president is a babe in the woods.
Obama extends hands to Chavez, Ortega at summit; By MARK S. SMITH, Associated Press Writer; Apr 18, 2009
Only thing he hasn't yet extended is his checkbook. But don't rule that out either folks.
President Barack Obama offered a spirit of cooperation to America's hemispheric neighbors at a summit Saturday, listening to complaints about past U.S. meddling and even reaching out to Venezuela's leftist leader.
I think our journalist mis-quotes the story. "President Dingle-Barry Obama entertained complaints..."
While he worked to ease friction between the U.S. and their countries, Obama cautioned leaders at the Summit of the Americas to resist a temptation to blame all their problems on their behemoth neighbor to the north.
"I have a lot to learn and I very much look forward to listening and figuring out how we can work together more effectively," Obama said.
Going unsaid were Obama's words of "But if you do we apologize for everything".
In front of photographers, Chavez gave Obama a copy of "The Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent," a book by Eduardo Galeano that chronicles U.S. and European economic and political interference in the region.
...along with Karl Marx's "Das Kapitals" book.
To which Dingle-Barry replied, "I already have and use a copy."
When a reporter asked Obama what he thought of the book, the president replied: "I thought it was one of Chavez's books. I was going to give him one of mine." White House advisers said they didn't know if Obama would read it or not.
... and he said, "Say, did you read Saul Allinsky's book?"
Ortega stepped up and introduced himself to Obama, U.S. officials said. But a short time later, Ortega delivered a blistering 50-minute speech that denounced capitalism and U.S. imperialism as the root of much hemispheric mischief. The address even recalled the 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba, though Ortega said the new U.S. president could not be held to account for that.
To which Dingle Barry replied...
"I'm grateful that President Ortega did not blame me for things that happened when I was three months old," Obama said, to laughter and applause from the other leaders.
The Bill Ayers excuse. I don't think there's a whole lotta difference here now though. The guy doesn't act much older than 3 months now. And this is the leader of the free world. We're screwed here folks, just under 4 years left to go with this blithering idiot.
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