Top Cuban official says Obama lied in Copenhagen

The incompetence of this administration is appalling.  They wake him up to tell him he had been gifted the Nobel Peace prize but they wait hours to inform him of the terrorist attack on Christmas.  The jackass then waits three days before he makes his pitiful statement.  What a farce!  What a joke!

HAVANA – Cuba’s foreign minister called President Barack Obama an “imperial and arrogant” liar Monday for his conduct at the U.N. climate conference, a reflection of the communist island’s increasingly fiery verbal attacks on the U.S. government.

Bruno Rodriguez spent an hour and a half lambasting Obama’s behavior in Copenhagen, telling a news conference, “at this summit, there was only imperial, arrogant Obama, who does not listen, who imposes his positions and even threatens developing countries.”

He called the summit “a fallacy, a farce” and said Washington used back-room deals and strong-arm tactics to foist on the world a deal that he labeled “undemocratic” and “suicidal” because it urges — but does not require — major polluters to make deeper emissions cuts.

Rodriguez also said Cuba and other poor nations have refused to recognize the agreement because they weren’t permitted to participate in its development.

He singled out comments Obama made during a news conference in Copenhagen, when the U.S. president said no agreement had yet been reached but he was confident one would before the summit ended. “Obama knew he was lying, that he was deceiving public opinion,” the foreign minister said.

When asked if Cuba was serious about forging a climate agreement given that President Raul Castro declared Copenhagen a failure days before it ended, Rodriguez said, “Cuba’s prestige is well-recognized in international negotiations.”

“It was an open secret that countries would not reach an agreement,” he said.

Rodriguez would not answer questions about the status of an American citizen who was detained in Cuba on Dec. 5 while working as a U.S. government contractor.

Castro first publicly mentioned the detention Sunday, when he told the Cuban Parliament that the American was arrested for distributing illegal satellite communications equipment.

“The United States won’t quit trying to destroy the revolution,” Castro said, referring to the armed rebellion that brought his brother Fidel to power on New Year’s Day 1959.

“In the past few weeks we have witnessed the stepping up of the new administration’s efforts in this area,” he said, adding that the arrest “demonstrates that the enemy is as active as ever.”

American diplomats in Cuba have requested — but not yet received — Cuba’s permission for consular access to the detainee, whose name has not been released. Rodriguez refused to say whether his office would grant the request.

Rodriguez’s comments Monday echoed remarks by former President Fidel Castro, who in a weekend opinion column called Obama’s speech in Copenhagen “deceitful, demagogic and full of ambiguities.”

Last week, the elder Castro, who stepped down as head of state in February 2008, wrote that Washington is looking to solidify its control over Latin America and that Obama’s “friendly smile and African-American face” hide his government’s sinister true intentions for the region.

Raul Castro over the weekend mentioned recent war games Cuba conducted to prepare for a U.S. invasion and hinted that the contractor’s arrest shows further American aggression against his country is a real possibility.

“I just want to note that here we have a people who are ready to protect, at any price, the successes of the revolution,” he said. “I’d advise one and all that they cease provocations of this type.”

Obama’s Holiday Bribes PRO-OBAMA JOURNALISTS GET PAID WITH TAXPAYER MONEY, TO SURROUND OBAMA DURING HOLIDAY IN HAWAII

This is fucking bullshit.  If he doesn’t want the press to take pictures of his daughters then why is he dragging them out for pathetic walks on the beach with him.  What a jackass.  The fact that tax payer money is being spent for pro-Obama journalists to travel with him is fucking criminal and a sign of just how lame the media really is.  Why don’t you do your fucking jobs? Stop the propaganda.  Do they really think we’re that stupid?  However, on a brighter note, I would like to thank the jackass, though.  At least he kept his shirt on so we didn’t have to see his disgusting “manboobs“.  Earth to Obama, you’re a  hypocritical, self-absorbed, jackass. Stop using your daughters as props for another photo op.  Can’t you see they are bored out of their minds with you and all your good daddy transparent bullshit?

(Dec. 11, 2009) — Just after the aftermath of yet another insult to our allies via the refusal to participate to the traditional events surrounding the award of the Nobel Prize including a dinner with the King, on the pretenses that the recipient was a very busy, sitting “President,” responsible for not one, but two, wars and facing the worst economic crisis “EVAHHH!”, the White House is quietly organizing yet another vacation-time for the Obamas.

They would have you believe that nothing has been decided yet, when in fact the logistics of booking their 13 day vacations in Hawaii, from December 23 to January 3, are in full swing!

And the invitations for the entourage are out!

Yesterday, December 10, Laurence Haim, the only French-Press-accredited, White House correspondent — but for the AFP — revealed that she had received an email inviting her and a guest to stay for the duration of Obama’s trip to Hawaii, at a Hotel next to the Obamas’ vacations spot.  Her revelations were aired on the French TV leading evening news program.

To listen to the program in French, go to the 20:00 mark in the broad cast at http://www.zataz.com/news/17388/canal-plus–regarder-gratuitement.html

(UPDATE – 12/13/09: 10:10 PM — The audio file has now been archived, and moved to a new url:  http://player.canalplus.fr/#/299716 )

According to Haim, the entire corps of White House correspondents, domestic and international has been invited (with a guest of their choice), to follow the Obamas under the sun at the American taxpayer expense.

In times when the American people are facing a bleak and sobering Christmas, when millions have lost their jobs and homes, the Obama Court is relocating to a Hawaiian paradise on the public dime.  And to insure the cooperative silence of the Main Stream Media, it is bribing the lackeys of the press, with lavishing and outrageous favors.

This would be cause enough to raise eyebrows, but since when is 13 day vacation outside of the mainland U.S.A.  accpetable the “President” of a nation at war?

I guess Christmas at home in Chicago or New Year at Camp David does not fit the standards of the Grandiose Obamas.

Probably not Historic enough!

Read it here.

2009: The year of living fecklessly

Say what you want about Krauthammer but he is absoulutely correct in what he says about Obama and Iran.  People were dying in the streets.  They were tortured, raped and murdered and Obama remained silent.  He said nothing and stressed that he didn’t want to meddle.  Well, fuck him.  Hillary would have known what to say and she would have said it.  Fuck you, Obama. Hillary 2012.

On Tuesday, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad did not just reject President Obama’s latest feckless floating nuclear deadline. He spat on it, declaring that Iran “will continue resisting” until the United States has gotten rid of its 8,000 nuclear warheads.

So ends 2009, the year of “engagement,” of the extended hand, of the gratuitous apology — and of spinning centrifuges, two-stage rockets and a secret enrichment facility that brought Iran materially closer to becoming a nuclear power.

We lost a year. But it was not just any year. It was a year of spectacularly squandered opportunity. In Iran, it was a year of revolution, beginning with a contested election and culminating this week in huge demonstrations mourning the death of the dissident Grand Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri — and demanding no longer a recount of the stolen election but the overthrow of the clerical dictatorship.

Obama responded by distancing himself from this new birth of freedom. First, scandalous silence. Then, a few grudging words. Then relentless engagement with the murderous regime. With offer after offer, gesture after gesture — to not Iran, but the “Islamic Republic of Iran,” as Obama ever so respectfully called these clerical fascists — the United States conferred legitimacy on a regime desperate to regain it.

Why is this so important? Because revolutions succeed at that singular moment, that imperceptible historical inflection, when the people, and particularly those in power, realize that the regime has lost the mandate of heaven. With this weakening dictatorship desperate for affirmation, why is the United States repeatedly offering just such affirmation?

Apart from ostracizing and delegitimizing these gangsters, we should be encouraging and reinforcing the demonstrators. This is no trivial matter. When pursued, beaten, arrested and imprisoned, dissidents can easily succumb to feelings of despair and isolation. Natan Sharansky testifies to the electric effect Ronald Reagan’s Evil Empire speech had on lifting spirits in the gulag. The news was spread cell to cell in code tapped on the walls. They knew they weren’t alone, that America was committed to their cause.

Yet so aloof has Obama been that on Hate America Day (Nov. 4, the anniversary of the seizure of the U.S. Embassy in Tehran), pro-American counter-demonstrators chanted, “Obama, Obama, you are either with us or with them,” i.e., their oppressors.

Such cool indifference is more than a betrayal of our values. It’s a strategic blunder of the first order.

Forget about human rights. Assume you care only about the nuclear issue. How to defuse it? Negotiations are going nowhere, and whatever U.N. sanctions we might get will be weak, partial, grudging and late. The only real hope is regime change. The revered and widely supported Montazeri had actually issued a fatwa against nuclear weapons.

And even if a successor government were to act otherwise, the nuclear threat would be highly attenuated because it’s not the weapon but the regime that creates the danger. (Think India or Britain, for example.) Any proliferation is troubling, but a nonaggressive pro-Western Tehran would completely change the strategic equation and make the threat minimal and manageable.

What should we do? Pressure from without — cutting off gasoline supplies, for example — to complement and reinforce pressure from within. The pressure should be aimed not at changing the current regime’s nuclear policy — that will never happen — but at helping change the regime itself.

Give the kind of covert support to assist dissident communication and circumvent censorship that, for example, we gave Solidarity in Poland during the 1980s. (In those days that meant broadcasting equipment and copying machines.) But of equal importance is robust rhetorical and diplomatic support from the very highest level: full-throated denunciation of the regime’s savagery and persecution. In detail — highlighting cases, the way Western leaders adopted the causes of Sharansky and Andrei Sakharov during the rise of the dissident movement that helped bring down the Soviet empire.

Will this revolution succeed? The odds are long but the reward immense. Its ripple effects would extend from Afghanistan to Iraq (in both conflicts, Iran actively supports insurgents who have long been killing Americans and their allies) to Lebanon and Gaza where Iran’s proxies, Hezbollah and Hamas, are arming for war.

One way or the other, Iran will dominate 2010. Either there will be an Israeli attack or Iran will arrive at — or cross — the nuclear threshold. Unless revolution intervenes. Which is why to fail to do everything in our power to support this popular revolt is unforgivable.

Read it here.

Merry Christmas, Everyone.

h/t hillaryis44 via Hillbuzz

This could just be a bunch of Hot Air but some people are saying the healthcare vote could be put off until…February?

WH putting health-care off until … February?

posted at 11:36 am on December 23, 2009 by Ed Morrissey
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Politico’s Mike Allen and Alexander Trowbridge have some bad news for Democrats, especially in the Senate, where Harry Reid has kept the chamber locked in battle over ObamaCare for weeks in an attempt to hit the finish line by Christmas.  Barack Obama plans to put the health-care overhaul on the back burner until after the State of the Union address, pushing any conference between the House and Senate off until February.  Instead, Obama plans a “hard pivot” towards jobs and the economy:

The White House privately anticipates health care talks to slip into February — past President Barack Obama’s first State of the Union address — and then plans to make a “very hard pivot” to a new jobs bill, according to senior administration officials.

Obama has been told that disputes over abortion and the tight schedule are highly likely to delay a final deal, a blow to the president who had hoped to trumpet a health care victory in his big speech to the nation. But he has also been told that House Democratic leaders seem inclined, at least for now, to largely accept the compromise worked out in the Senate, virtually assuring he will eventually get a deal.

Internally, White House aides are plunging into a 2010 plan calling for an early focus on creating jobs, especially in the energy sector, along with starting a conversation about deficit reduction measures, the administration officials said.

Both will be major themes for his first State of the Union speech, which will likely take place on Jan. 26 or Feb. 2. White House aides are in the early stages of planning for the national address, but Obama will not only trumpet what he has described as his “B-plus” performance in 2009 but also set the stage for the 2010 congressional campaigns.

This tells us that the White House has done some legwork in the House and found that the lower chamber is not going to adopt the Senate version as is, as Politico also reports this morning:

House Democrats insisted Tuesday they have no plans to roll over for the Senate in upcoming negotiations on a health reform bill, even as they acknowledged it would be all but impossible to reinsert a public insurance option or force the so-called millionaire’s tax on the Senate.

Either move would disrupt Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s no-margin-for-error 60-vote majority. But House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and her leadership team seem to have their sights set on lower-profile – but no-less important – differences, like boosting affordability credits in the final bill and starting the insurance exchange a year earlier, which they did in the House.

On a conference call Tuesday, Pelosi (D-Calif.) walked the party’s leadership team through differences in the two bills.

Other differences the speaker mentioned Tuesday include: replacing the Senate’s state-run exchanges with a national exchange established under the House bill, adding tougher mandates to make sure everyone secures health coverage and closing a gap in prescription-drug coverage next year. Senate negotiators have agreed to close the so-called “donut hole,” but they haven’t agreed on a time to implement those changes.

Forget Raul Grijalva’s note of encouragement.  These issues will be too tough to overcome without the House reworking the bill.  That  will either require a conference committee to resolve the two bills or an attempt by Harry Reid to get the Senate to buy a House version (the “ping-pong” strategy), either of which would be subject to cloture votes and unlikely to succeed to a floor vote.

The longer that debate drags, the further Obama drops in the polls, which is why this move only makes sense if the White House sees weeks more futility in the health-care overhaul debate.  Even liberal commentators like the Seattle Times editorial board want Democrats to shelve ObamaCare and start paying attention to the fact that unemployment has spun out of control on their watch.  Deficits are even more wild, as Obama’s OMB Director Peter Orszag was forced to acknowledge when he admitted that he had underestimated deficits over the next ten years by 22%, or $2,200,000,000,000.

Unfortunately for Democrats in Congress, that move tosses them under a very big bus.  They wanted to close this debate as early as possible in order to allow anger over the unpopular measure to ebb in time for their re-election campaigns.  Under the new timing, Congress would have to consider ObamaCare and cap-and-trade in rapid succession, just in time for the summer and fundraising time.  Unlike last year, Democrats won’t be able to avoid appearing in public and being surrounded by Tea Party protests, and those two agenda items will provoke them to even more fury than last year.

The other term for “hard pivot” is “dithering.”  The more Obama dithers, the less likely ObamaCare becomes.

Read about it here.

Is Obama a Wall Street Project?

Lindsey Graham accuses Obama of seedy Chicago politics.

h/t admin @ HillaryIs44.

Witness in Richmond gang rape case vanishes

This doesn’t surprise me at all.   Apparently being called a “rat” is the worst thing EVAH.  How about being gang raped?  Where does that rate?

21-year-old man who said he feared for his safety after witnessing the gang rape of a Richmond girl outside a high school homecoming dance has been missing for more than two weeks, police said today.

Family members say they have not heard from Salvador Rodriguez Jr. since the evening of Dec. 7, when he went to a store in Richmond to pick up money that his mother had wired to him from Phoenix.

Relatives filed a missing person report Dec. 16, telling police they feared Rodriguez might have been targeted.

“I’m worried about him,” Rodriguez’s mother, Stephanie Gutierrez, said in an interview today. “He kept telling me he was in fear for his life.”

Richmond police Sgt. Bisa French said Rodriguez was not receiving any protection as a witness.

“We really don’t know what happened,” French said.

Rodriguez was a witness to the Oct. 24 gang rape of a 16-year-old girl who had just left Richmond High School’s homecoming dance. In a nearby courtyard, police said, as many as 10 men assaulted the girl for two hours while others watched and took photos.

Six men are in jail and facing charges. Each has pleaded not guilty.

Rodriguez was initially arrested on suspicion of taking part in the attack, but was not charged and was released. He then sought out interviews with television reporters in what he said was an effort to clear his name.

His mother said Rodriguez, who dropped out of Richmond High, does not work and spends much of his time skateboarding. He usually stays at the home of his godfather just outside Richmond, she said, or at friends’ homes.

She said her son called to let her know he had picked up her MoneyGram from a store near the high school the evening of Dec. 7. Her son was sick with the flu at the time, she said.

“I haven’t heard from him since. He never went home (to his godfather’s house) or anything,” Gutierrez said. “He had been calling every other day.”

She said people who know the young men arrested in the rape had told her that one of them wanted to hurt Rodriguez – even telling his brothers to go after him.

Gutierrez also suggested that her son is a reluctant witness.

“As far as I know,” she said, “he wasn’t going to say anything (in court).”

In the days after he was released in connection with the rape, Rodriguez was arrested again in Contra Costa County and held briefly in a separate matter – for missing a court date in a graffiti case out of San Francisco.

Rodriguez is on probation after pleading guilty in July to a vandalism charge that stemmed from a 2006 arrest. He was given three years of probation and diverted to community service, said Brian Buckelew of the San Francisco district attorney’s office.

Rodriguez has another court date in the graffiti case in January. Police are hoping he shows up.

The Contra Costa Times has more info on this as well.

Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/12/23/BAQ41B8PSA.DTL#ixzz0aYErDAO9

Stop calling anyone who disagrees with Obama and his policies RACIST. These politicians are disgusting.

Who’s been naughty and who’s been nice? Here’s who’s getting a bag of coal.

The Nutroots and the Kooks, who maligned and smeared Hillary for the greater glory of their Mess-iah, are now lying in their filth. More bags of coal for them.

Hillary supporter websites which stood by Hillary and respectfully refused to back Obama (”Accept No Substitutes) – Nice.

Losers who first supported Hillary on their websites then tried to erase everything they wrote in order to dupe American voters into voting for unqualified, inexperienced Obama – who now realize we were and are right – coal for them.

Backstabbing Senator Chris Dodd – coal and election loss.

Backstabbing Bill Richardson – coal and obscurity and ruin (and failed diet).

Backstabbing Donna Brazile and Oprah, who backstabbed women and the best candidate – coal and failed diets and misery.

Howard Dean – coal and exile in opposition from Mess-iah land.

Big Media – coal and the unemployment line.

Republicans who trashed Hillary and now are faced with the horror of their hypocrisy – coal and toil to restore themselves.

Copenhagen – insults Obama when it counts, praises Obama only to his face – an empty stocking (no coal, but no gift either).

Nobel Peace Prize Committee – coal and the discount bin for their formerly prestigious trinket.

Michele Obama – coal, the punishment of sleeves, and banishment from Whole Foods.

Backstabber Greg Craig – coal and job as hotel bellhop.

MSNBC – bags of coal, no ratings, no viewers, no Mess-iah, and a knife in the back with the initials B.O.

Lady Lynn Forester De Rothschild – nice. Continued classiness is it’s own reward.

Andrew Sullivan and Gay-Americans who trashed Hillary – bags of coal and no marriage and no divorce from the reality of the gay-basher they enabled.

The “Peace Movement” activists who trashed Hillary as a “war-monger” and enabled the boob – bags of coal and Afghanistan and Iraq and Gitmo.

Big Pink supporters – nice and so is Big Pink.