My intentions this morning were to write a lengthy piece about how disgraceful President Obama’s speech in Cairo was. Hopelessly naive, relentlessly pandering, pusillanimous, and weak were all words that were hovering just above the tip of my tongue.
Then I turned to America’s Newspaper of Record (thanks John Derbyshire) and saw that Amir Teheri had written almost everything I wanted to write.
So, here you go.
I’m keeping “Grovelpalooza” as my own, though.
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According to a new Gallup poll, the approval ratings for Nancy Pants-On-Fire Pelosi are actually lower than the approval ratings for former VP Dick Cheney.
I’m not particularly surprised by this. In fact, I don’t understand Cheney’s low ratings except to note that they are the byproduct of being portrayed as evil incarnate for the last nine years by everyone from Tom Brokaw to David Letterman.
But now Cheney is unleashed and, far from being the fire-breathing dragon of popular lore, he is coming across as the reasonable and responsible public servant he is now and always has been. Most importantly, he is being increasingly seen as an adult in a foreign policy world inhabited by obsequious and ignorant children.
Polls are what they are, of course, and they change like the wind. I try not to put too much faith in them, but these findings were just too delicious to resist. The great satisfaction in this, to me, is to know how this must be scrambling the brains of those on the Left. As far as they are concerned, this poll indicates that Snow White is less popular than Darth Vader, that Queen Victoria is somewhere below Adolf Hitler in approval ratings, and that Mother Teresa has a likability quotient below Caligula.
I wonder how they’ll react in a couple of years if St. Barry’s approval ratings drop below Bush’s?
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From the President’s speech in Cairo today:
“I reject the view of some in the West that a woman who chooses to cover her hair is somehow less equal, but I do believe that a woman who is denied an education is denied equality. And it is no coincidence that countries where women are well-educated are far more likely to be prosperous.”
“Now let me be clear: issues of women’s equality are by no means simply an issue for Islam. In Turkey, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Indonesia, we have seen Muslim-majority countries elect a woman to lead. Meanwhile, the struggle for women’s equality continues in many aspects of American life, and in countries around the world.”
I swear to God, I don’t know how much longer I’ll be able to take this. Making an outright comparison between a country where a woman finishes second in the Democratic primaries for President and countries where women are not allowed to drive or are killed because they touch men who are not their husbands is so insulting on so many levels I don’t even know what to write about it. How long is this Grovelpalooza going to last?
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Lo! and Behold! The pressure finally got to them.
The President has finally issued a statement on the shooting by a radical Muslim terrorist of Army Private William Long and Corporal Quinton Ezeagwula. The full statement:
“I am deeply saddened by this senseless act of violence against two brave young soldiers who were doing their part to strengthen our armed forces and keep our country safe. I would like to wish Quinton Ezeagwula a speedy recovery, and to offer my condolences and prayers to William Long’s family as they mourn the loss of their son.”
Now, first and foremost, I don’t for one second believe that this statement comes from the President. The President is in Egypt, apologizing for colonialism and a failure to properly understand Islam. He didn’t take time out of his schedule to craft this statement, and that’s understandable. My guess is that most of these statements are written by staff and approved by the man in charge, including the statement about the murder of George Tiller.
Nonetheless, the statement is pure Obama: mealy-mouthed, insufficient, and 100% insincere. Let’s compare this statement with the one he approved for the murder of George Tiller:
The murder of George Tiller was a heinous act of violence, and it is rightfully deplored by people of good conscience everywhere, whether they are on the pro-life or pro-choice side of the argument. But the shooting of Private Long and Corporal Ezeagwula was far from “senseless.” It was a planned crime of hatred against the Army and against America itself by a man whose only regret seems to be that there weren’t more soliders nearby to kill. It was an act of jihad by a convert to Islam. Private Long and Corporal Ezeagwula are casualties of a war that was launched against the United States. A failure to recognize that fact, and declare the facts loudly and publicly, does not speak well of this President.
I’m glad the President is outraged by the Tiller murder. I am, too. I just wish he’d saved some outrage for those who have sworn oaths to destroy us, even if they only managed to kill one and wound another.
But then, that might not go over so well on his current Kumbaya tour of the Middle East.
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Within an hour of the murder of George Tiller, the Kansas doctor known as one of the leading abortionists in the country, by a domestic terrorist, President Obama issued the following statement:
“I am shocked and outraged by the murder of Dr. George Tiller as he attended church services this morning. However profound our differences as Americans over difficult issues such as abortion, they cannot be resolved by heinous acts of violence.”
Within several days of the murder of U.S. Army Private William Long and the wounding of Corporal Quinton Ezeagwula at the hands of a Muslim terrorist, President Obama drew on his unparalleled command of the English language and issued the following statement:
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The Clampdown 