Stand Up Notes From Flyover Country: Dithering on Afghanistan

The situation in Afghanistan is like a poker game. There are only three options for action: raise, call or fold.  The President seems to be unable to pick one that doesn’t have Americans on both sides of the debate pulling out their hair.

During his campaign for the White House President Obama said, “We have seen Afghanistan worsen, deteriorate. We need more troops there. We need more resources there… I would send two to three additional brigades to Afghanistan.”

He promised to send another ten to fifteen thousand troops to help those already there. He also declared that the war in Afghanistan was the proper front in the war against terror. Now that he is Commander-in-Chief, his vision seems to be less clear.

The military commanders gave the President four troop deployment options earlier this week but he refused all four. Not for military reasons but because of some hooey about the corruption of the government in Kabul and their inability to run a fair election. Mr. President, if our support for governments was based on whether they are corrupt or not and could run a fair election, we would have pulled federal funding from Chicago years ago. The problem with pulling out of Afghanistan, or Chicago for that matter, is that they would fall into violent anarchy. We have already seen that happen in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. (more…)

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Tags: ACORN, Afghanistan, Al Queda, chicago, iran
Posted Nov 18th 2009 at 4:44 pm in Military, News, Politics | 26249055 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jjena/2009/11/18/get-in-the-game-mr-president/Stand+Up+Notes+From+Flyover+Country%3A+Dithering+on+Afghanistan2009-11-19+00%3A44%3A47Jeffrey+Jena

NewsBusted: Who Will Replace Lou Dobbs?

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Tags: Chris Matthews, CNN, Flavor Flav, Gold, Joe Biden's Motorcade
Posted Nov 17th 2009 at 5:46 pm in Media Criticism, Political Humor, Video | 26393818 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/newsbusters/2009/11/17/newsbusted-who-will-replace-lou-dobbs/NewsBusted%3A+Who+Will+Replace+Lou+Dobbs%3F2009-11-18+01%3A46%3A34NewsBusters

Cindy Sheehan: Where Have All the Cameras Gone?

Cindy Sheehan brings Camp Casey to Martha’s Vineyard. Meanwhile, the mainstream media is as apathetic about her new protest as they are about an Afghan body count. As the President’s strategy in Afghanistan appears to be failing worse than his economic policies, and his promise to end American military involvements overseas is withering alongside health care reform, recalling those lofty promises from last year’s campaign is like looking at a marriage proposal from the other side of a Las Vegas hangover.

Outside a short article by the AP there is very little coverage of Cindy Sheehan. The woman who once couldn’t go anywhere without a spate of cameras in tow, is now wandering the streets of Martha’s Vineyard completely alone. Her name is as forgotten by the locals as Mary Jo Kopechne. This despite the Island being packed full of journalists right now; journalists who couldn’t resist an all expense paid trip to the Vineyard to cover the vacation of His Presidency. I’m fairly certain there were a lot more journalists already on the island than there were in that ditch outside of Crawford four years ago. (more…)

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Tags: 10% unemployment, Camp Casey, Cindy Sheehan, Crawford, greg gutfeld
Posted Sep 1st 2009 at 8:41 am in Politics | 213334123 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/tslagle/2009/09/01/where-have-all-the-cameras-gone/Cindy+Sheehan%3A+Where+Have+All+the+Cameras+Gone%3F2009-09-01+15%3A41%3A45Tim+Slagle

The Left Has Spoken: Today, We Are All Extremists

The leader of genius must have the ability to make different opponents appear as if they belong to one category.” – Adolf Hitler.

“At this point, whatever dividing line there was between mainstream conservatism and the black-helicopter crowd seems to have been virtually erased.” – NY Times columnist Paul Krugman.

Paul Krugman

Really sucks to be a conservative these days. I feel like I’m walking around with a big bulls-eye on my back. I know many of the Left, especially Keith Olbermann, Frank Rich, Paul Krugman, the New York Times editorial staff and all the pundits at HuffPo and KOS would find that statement hilariously ironic, given the recent shooting deaths of Dr. George Tiller in Kansas and security guard Steven T. Johns at the Holocaust Museum. Then again, they’re not the ones being branded en masse as co-conspirators in those murders. Conservatives are. (more…)

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Tags: Air America, assassination chic, Axelrod, Bill O'Reilly, Cynthia Dixon
Posted Jun 16th 2009 at 3:31 pm in Politics | 1587586 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jtsimpson/2009/06/16/today-we-are-all-extremists/The+Left+Has+Spoken%3A+Today%2C+We+Are+All+Extremists2009-06-16+22%3A31%3A36John+T.+Simpson

David Axelrod, Rasputin of the Magic Kingdom

Senior Obama advisor David Axelrod made the news recently with his comment on NPR’s ‘The Hot Seat’, when he offhandedly remarked that ‘Miss California’ was one of three names considered for President Obama’s new dog, Bo. The remark was met with uproarious laughter by NPR’s Regressive live audience. Then again, the intellectual retards of the Left will laugh at most anything that grossly insults anyone to the right of Stalin, like second graders instinctively laughing at farts.

President Obama — David Axelrod

You know. Like Wanda Sykes, Sandra Bernhard and the Teabag-loving MSM.

As to Mr. Axelrod’s crude and lame attempt at insulting humor that should be beneath the dignity of any presidential advisor, I can only conclude that he made that derogatory comment about Carrie Prejean because Miss California shares his boss’s negative attitude  toward gay marriage. (more…)

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Tags: ACLU, Anthony Romero, assassination chic, Barack Obama, Carrie Prejean
Posted May 21st 2009 at 8:10 am in Politics | 137038One Commenthttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jtsimpson/2009/05/21/david-axelrod-rasputin-of-the-magic-kingdom/David+Axelrod%2C+Rasputin+of+the+Magic+Kingdom2009-05-21+15%3A10%3A30John+T.+Simpson

Profiles in Courage: Army Spouse Edition

 What does it mean to be an Army Spouse during the War on Terror? In this edition of Profiles in Courage, we will take a look at one such Army Spouse story, that of Kim McNaughton, wife of Mike McNaughton.  

You have no doubt heard about the story of Mike McNaughton but how much thought have you put into what it must be like to be Mrs. Mike McNaughton? What she must have gone through when he deployed? When she heard the news of her husband’s incident, how did effect her family? How did her life change? 

Having not seen Mike since he deployed 7 months before, she knew that her life was about to change forever 

The most emotional experience in her life was the first time she saw Mike when he arrived to Walter Reed. With no idea of what to expect and how she would react when she saw him. Would her reaction make it harder for Mike? She knew she needed to be strong for him and the kids. How was she going to deal with it all? How would it affect the kids?  (more…)

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Tags: Iraq War, Kim McNaughton, Mike McNaughton, President Bush, Road2Recovery
Posted May 6th 2009 at 3:01 pm in Military | 1292385 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/r2r/2009/05/06/profiles-in-courage-army-spouse-edition/Profiles+in+Courage%3A+Army+Spouse+Edition2009-05-06+22%3A01%3A57Ride+2+Recovery

24 Hours Apart – The Second Civil War

The peaceful transfer of power in this country was indeed thankfully just that. Unfortunately though, it has been anything but polite or even the slightest bit classy. The rapper horror, the boos, the nasty silent welcome of a President that kept us safe since 9/11 – sadly, we have come to expect this kind of incivility from too many members of the no-shame, no-apology, no-manners bunch.

This behavior causes me to believe we are in the midst of a type of second civil war in this country. Maybe it’s a bit of a bomb throwing moniker, so choose another name – but there’s no denying that it’s a nasty war of minds, attached to mouths that spew nasty words, pumped by hearts filled with hate. The war’s small arms fire are the childish run-of-the-mill ‘Buck Fushers’ – with its big guns being judicial radicalism, tyrannical political correctness, moral relativism, and blame America first-ism. (more…)

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Tags: 9/11, Bush Haters, President Bush, President Obama, September 10th
Posted Feb 5th 2009 at 8:35 am in Media Criticism, Politics | 3725045 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/emannix/2009/02/05/24-hours-apart/24+Hours+Apart+-+The+Second+Civil+War2009-02-05+16%3A35%3A27Ernie+Mannix

I Pledge to Ridicule Celebrities Who Refuse to Recognize We Are At War With People Who Want to Kill Them, Too

Many of the celebrities that were central to demonizing and making life impossible for President Bush for eight loathsome years NOW want to help with the heavy lifting of bringing America back together under President Barack Obama.

Witness Demi Moore and Ashton Kutcher’s cavalcade of shiny, happy situational patriots appearing in a derivative public servitude announcement: A “Presidential Pledge” to President Barack Obama.

Forgive and forget? Right.

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Tags: "Oceans" franchise, 9/11, Afghanistan, AIDS, Anthony Kiedis
Posted Jan 19th 2009 at 2:42 pm in Celebrity News, Featured Story, Video | 24317382 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/abreitbart/2009/01/19/where-were-you-celebrities-after-911/I+Pledge+to+Ridicule+Celebrities+Who+Refuse+to+Recognize+We+Are+At+War+With+People+Who+Want+to+Kill+Them%2C+Too2009-01-19+22%3A42%3A40Andrew+Breitbart