THE DAILY BLADE: Hopelessly Changeless: Broken Campaign Promises Watch: Part II
Those talks with Iran Barack Obama repeatedly promised during the primary and general election campaigns? Not gonna happen, argues Iranian-born columnist Amir Taheri in a New York Post op-ed:
To start with, he has realized that his offer of unconditional talks with Tehran could destroy the six-nation coalition that has managed to pass three United Nations Security Council resolutions imposing sanctions on the Islamic Republic. …
More important, perhaps, with the election over, Obama remembers that talking to the mullahs is nothing new. …
To be sure, Obama can't suddenly declare that he no longer wants direct, unconditional talks. That would enrage his anti-war base. So, he is trying to bring the camel down from the roof, as the Persian proverb has it, without appearing to have made a U-turn.
Obama no longer talks of "meeting them anywhere, anytime." Instead, he speaks of engaging Iran “at a time and place of my choosing.” His initial idea of talking to Ahmadinejad is also gone. Now, he says he'd talk to "appropriate Iranian leadership" (whatever that means).
Taheri makes a convincing case that Obama’s central national security policy was nothing more than a talking point to differentiate himself from Hillary Clinton and George Bush.
The Iranians already woke up and smelled the coffee. So has the so-called “Arab street,” judging by this article by Palestinian author Ramzy Baroud in Tehran Times (“An early ominous sign greeted hopeful Obama supporters just hours after he was declared a winner, when he chose Rahm Israel Emanuel as his White House chief of staff.”) and this cartoon in Jordanian paper Al-Dustour November 5th, which depicts Israel winning no matter what the outcome of the U.S. election [Hat Tip: The Memri Blog]:
Now that the rest of the world is starting to see Obama clearly, how long will it take the saps who voted for him to get over their Kool-Aid intoxication? Throughout his campaign, Obama kept saying cynicism was our biggest enemy. What the over-ambitious, under-qualified fellow really meant was, cynicism was his greatest enemy.
Gays Do Not Tolerate Dissent: Part II
In the wake of the passage of CA’s Proposition 8, which defines marriage as a union between one man and one woman, gay activists showed their true colors. Though many of the rallies supporting gay marriage held nationwide have been peaceful for the most part, in CA – where the seemingly inimical interests of two protected classes, blacks and gays, clashed on Election Day – protests against Prop. 8 have turned riotous and ugly.
Violent protests have occurred throughout CA – in one, an elderly woman holding a cross was physically attacked – and black gay protesters have reported being called n****r by white gay protesters who obviously could not see past skin color to discern that the targets of their racism were on their side.
Gay activists have also targeted individuals and businesses that donated money to support passage of Prop. 8, in one case forcing the resignation of the artistic director of a community theater in Sacramento. (BTW, The Sacramento Bee helpfully provided a searchable database of pro-Prop. 8 donors to make it easier for gay activists to harass them.)
Finally, Singer Melissa Etheridge, for one, went so far as to openly declare her lack of patriotism – as defined by veep-elect Joe Biden - in a blog entry posted on former New Yorker editor Tina Brown’s TheDailyBeast.com. Etheridge wrote that her and her partner “are not allowed the same right under the state constitution as any other citizen” and “I am taking that to mean I do not have to pay my state taxes because I am not a full citizens … I don't mean to get too personal here, but there is a lot I can do with the extra half a million dollars that I will be keeping instead of handing it over to the state of California.”
Where Obama’s Utopia Will Lead Us?
A couple of days ago, a friend sent this “Wizard Of Id” cartoon to The Stiletto:
Although the cartoon is funny and has the ring of truth, it is not, in all likelihood, authentic. Daily Cartoonist.com recently reported on an altered 2004 “Wizard” panel about administering intelligence tests to voters that had gotten lots of viral exposure in which the question “What if there are more stupid people than intelligent people?” was given a new answer. In the counterfeit cartoon, the punch line is: “Then the Democrat wins”; the original punch line: “Then the best liar wins.” Same diff, so the joke works either way.
The Iranians now have the Sajjil missle, a solid fuel, 2-stage rocket with a 1200 mile range. These are mobile, not sedentary placements, somewhat like Saddam Hussein's scud missles, but more lethal, accurate with a much longer range. How now Obama? Going to sit down with the madman and talk about this? kool-aid diplomacy, sheesh!
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