Obama, Incompetent and Dangerous !!!
Just read the highlighted bold print to see he and his morons are playing into Irans hands. He couldn't wait till after the elections. They are only 3 months away.
By BRIAN MURPHY, AP
posted: 4 MINUTES AGOcomments: 3PrintShareText SizeAAADUBAI, United Arab Emirates -The Iranian leader's rebuff on Saturday to President Barack Obama's offer for dialogue was swift and sweeping: Words from Washington ring hollow without deep policy changes.
But Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's response was more than just a dismissive slap at the outreach. It was a broad lesson in the mind-set of Iran's all-powerful theocracy and how it will dictate the pace and tone of any new steps by Obama to chip away at their nearly 30-year diplomatic freeze.
"It's the first stage of the bargaining in classic Iranian style: Be tough and play up your toughness," said Abdulkhaleq Abdulla, a professor of regional politics at United Arab Emirates University. "The Iranian leaders are not about concessions at this stage. It's still all about ideology from the Iranian side."
For Khamenei and his inner circle, that means appearing to stay true to the 1979 Islamic Revolution and the political narrative of rejecting the United States. Any quick gestures by the ruling clerics to mend ties with Washington could be perceived by hard-liners as a betrayal of the revolution.
Iran's non-elected leaders also are carefully weighing how any openings — even small ones — could affect the June 12 presidential race between their apparent choice, hard-line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, and reformists led by a former prime minister, Mir Hossein Mousavi.
"This is why this will be a very slow, very complicated process between Iran and the United States," said Abdulla. "Even the theocracy can be pragmatic. When they feel it's in the national interest to reach out to America, they will find a way."
There are no signs of a spring thaw.
Khamenei set the bar impossibly high — demanding an overhaul of U.S. foreign policy, including giving up "unconditional support" for Israel and halting claims that Iran is seeking nuclear arms. Iran insists its nuclear program is only for peaceful energy purposes.
"Have you released Iranian assets? Have you lifted oppressive sanctions? Have you given up mudslinging and making accusations against the great Iranian nation and its officials?" Khamenei said in a speech in the northeastern city of Mashhad. The crowd chanted "Death to America."
Despite Obama's offer, the State Department still lists Iran as a sponsor of terrorism for its backing of militant groups such as Lebanon's Hezbollah. In Iraq, U.S. officials accuse Iran of aiding Shiite militias whose targets have included American soldiers.
"He (Obama) insulted the Islamic Republic of Iran from the first day. If you are right that change has come, where is that change? What is the sign of that change? Make it clear for us what has changed."
Still, Khamenei left the door open to better ties with America, saying "should you change, our behavior will change, too."
Khamenei's response carried a particular bite following Obama's important shift in U.S. tactics in his video released Friday, offering to speak directly to Iran's theocrats rather than encouraging only pro-democracy reformists inside the country.
The move appears to recognize two key realities for U.S. policy makers: Iran's establishment is firmly entrenched and it holds all the cards in all important decisions.
"There's a thinking that they will do what the U.S. did with Libya: engagement and incentives in return for moderated policies," said Patrick Clawson, deputy director of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy. "Iran, however, is a vastly more complicated place that has influence in Iraq, Afghanistan and across the region."
The Obama administration hasn't outlined details of its next steps, but White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs told reporters Friday that "many more" initiatives are expected.
Last week, U.S. officials raised the possibility of regular diplomatic contacts between U.S. and Iranian diplomats around the world. On Tuesday, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Iranian envoys will have an opportunity for informal talks on the sidelines of a U.N.-led conference on Afghanistan at The Hague, Netherlands.
In Iran, any contacts or messages will undoubtedly be viewed through the prism of the country's presidential elections.
Some experts believe that Ahmadinejad could benefit from Obama's overtures by claiming that his tough stance toward the West brought Washington to the table. Reformers, meanwhile, could struggle with an identity crisis.
"These are people who considered the U.S. an honest broker and committed to regime change," said Ilan Berman, an Iranian affairs specialist at the American Foreign Policy Council. "Now the reformers are going to feel left out in the cold."
__________________
Kinda reminds ya of the late 30's Germany doesn’t it.
And isn’t this the same administration that put all veterans on a watch list?
Obama even bowed to a King who is funding the genocide of African tribes in Uganda because the tribe’s people are black and considered less than human.
Yea and you call Limbaugh a Nazi. 
Funny thing is, I can’t take Limbaugh, but Obama, come on, and take a good.
In the interest of full disclosure, I voted for John McCain, not Obama. That being said, I find it disconcerting that people like Hannity, Limbaugh, and other "I have all of the answers" folks are unwilling to give Obama a chance to succeed or fail on his own merits. We are more concerned with whether or not he may have 'bowed' to a foreign leader than whether or not he's doing a good job.
A good conservative, Jack Kemp, died the other day. He wasn't completely my cup of tea, but I notice that the current folks who call themselves conservatives were so preoccupied with wiping the sweat from Hannity's sack that they barely noticed.
Given the volume of hate being spewed toward Obama, little of it policy driven and/or logical, I'm not surprised that anyone who's on the NRA rolls is on a watch list. We're certainly going to harvest another McVeigh is we don't find a way to civilly disagree.
Especially since it’s Obama that wants to organize and build a youth army.
Kinda reminds ya of the late 30's Germany doesn’t it.
And isn’t this the same administration that put all veterans on a watch list?
Obama even bowed to a King who is funding the genocide of African tribes in Uganda because the tribe’s people are black and considered less than human.
Yea and you call Limbaugh a Nazi.
Funny thing is, I can’t take Limbaugh, but Obama, come on, and take a good.
LOL
I just wonder when the current incarnation of the Republican party is going to abandon all pretense and rename itself, properly, the Nazi party.
The New "Balls Tax". Since everyone knows that liberal men are really just women, with little weak balls, the government is going to weigh every man’s balls, and if you have big heavy manly balls, then you must be a conservative, and you will be taxed for having big balls, but if you’re a Liberal, and have little shaven weak balls, well then the government is going to whisper in your ear and give you a reach around.
It is like being asked if I would rather die of arsenic or anthrax.
Obama
new
Now, Larry, you know I'm not a liberal. I am a very bitter conservative.
Then why do you act like a liberal?
In order to just get on the same page as Bush, Obama would have to:
-start two major wars
What was the alternative? Sit on our @$$es and do nothing?
-spend us into unthinkable debt to "fight" poorly the two wars
From 9/11 till Bush left office he spent 648 Billion on the "War on Terror". You may be able to change the name, but never the reality. Just Obama's stimulus packages are higher then what Bush spent on "The War on Terror" since 9/11 and that isn't counting his depression causing budget. Bush made a big mistake with TARP, but that is nothing compared to Obama's spending.
-ignore a major US city in distress
Revising history I see. You read the liberal press and actually believe what they write. The main blame belongs to the Governor of LA. and the Mayor of New Orleans. The National Guard and FEMA had no authority to enter until the Governor or Mayor asked for help. Sovernty of the states. Obama has ignored NO since he has taken office.
-condone all sorts of black ops and the torture of enemy prisoners
Have we been safe since 9/11? When we are treated properly, then they should be treated properly. The Geneva convention has nothing to do with this. Did we "Kill" anyone while in captivity? Over 4000 military personal get waterboarded every year in servival training, but we can't use it on our sworn enemy. I condone anything that keeps America safe.
-start letting Joe Biden make all of his decisions
Are we there yet? Yeah, not so much.
I love you Mike, but you are a liberal.
Now, Larry, you know I'm not a liberal. I am a very bitter conservative.
In order to just get on the same page as Bush, Obama would have to:
-start two major wars
-spend us into unthinkable debt to "fight" poorly the two wars
-ignore a major US city in distress
-condone all sorts of black ops and the torture of enemy prisoners
-start letting Joe Biden make all of his decisions
Are we there yet? Yeah, not so much.
Give Obama about 2 more months and he will make Bush's presidency seem like heaven. This guy has no clue.
the media to be about as bias for Obama as possible. Read the first sentence. Yet all the networks wouldn't show a Bush news comference when it was a serious subject, the Iraqi war, while Obama's is of little or no newsworthy reason.
It was bound to happen sooner or later. And with President Obama requesting time in prime-time for the third month in a row, for little to no newsworthy reason, the Fox Broadcasting Company has become the first network to forgo covering an Obama new conference. In a statement released today, Fox said that it would air regularly scheduled programming instead.
"The Fox Broadcasting Company will not air the Presidential News Conference on Wednesday, April 29 at 8:00 PM. Fox's sister networks, Fox News Channel and the Fox Business Network will air the press conference in its entirety. Fox will be alerting viewers with an on-screen graphic at the top of the 8:00 PM (ET) hour that the press conference is available on Fox News Channel and the Fox Business Network."
Broadcast networks and news networks are not required to cover presidential events. They decide to do so based on the inherent news value in the event and weigh that against their business interest in airing commercial programming. Doubtless, however, some will see Fox's decision as politically motivated. But that argument is belied by the fact that Fox News will be covering the event. And there is very recent precedent for networks declining a presidential request. The networks collectively decided not to honor a request for prime-time coverage by President Bush, for a speech on the very important topic of Iraq War strategy.
President Obama's political and media strategy is to try to capitalize on his personal popularity to push through as much of his agenda as possible before the polls come back down to Earth. The risk is that the president will become overexposed to the media, and his appearances will start to lose their buzz. Fox has apparently decided that President Obama has already become old hat. If he keeps up the pace of one prime-time news conference every month, it will not be long before more networks follow suit
__________________
Anyone vote for someone who made the statement "Just Words, Just Speeches."
BUT.......
I wasn’t exactly happy with McCain either, the Dems could have run a 12 year old against him and won.
I get the feeling that a lot more is going on then we know.
Obama is wilting before our eyes. 
Obama's Disapproval Rating Reaches New High
By Mark Impomeni
Apr 22nd 2009 8:00PM
Filed Under:eBarack Obama, Polls
President Barack Obama's approval ratings have declined steadily since he took office three months ago. A new poll out today shows that as the president approaches his 100th day in office, the percentage of Americans that disapprove of his job performance has reached a new high. Rasmussen Reports' Daily Presidential Tracking Poll shows Obama with a 54-46 percent approval rating. The approval and disapproval numbers represent record low approval and record high disapproval for the president, respectively. Moreover, the spread between respondents that strongly approve or disapprove of Obama's job performance stands at just 34-32.
Rasmussen's results confirm the result of a Pew Research Center for the People and the Press poll from earlier this month. That poll showed that Obama had the most polarized poll results of any president in forty years with 88 percent of Democrats viewing his performance favorable and just 27 percent of Republicans agreeing. Overall, Pew found the president's job approval at 59 percent, slightly higher than the 54 percent reported by Rasmussen.
In other polling news, Rasmussen also reported that the generic Congressional ballot is tied at 39-39 percent between Republicans and Democrats. This is the second straight week that respondents have indicated no preference between the two parties in the 2010 Congressional elections. Rasmussen's Congressional ballot has been trending toward Republicans since Election Day, but Republicans have yet to overtake majority Democrats.
It was inevitable that President Obama's poll numbers would come down once the euphoria of the campaign died down and he began the tough work of governing. Obama has always been personally popular, but the public is less enthusiastic with his proposals. The longer he is in office, it seems, the more Americans are beginning to identify him with the policies he is proposing, and not the grand themes and generalizations of the presidential campaign. It will be interesting to see whether President Obama modifies his positions in response to his poll numbers, should they continue to fall
Every one is dangerous. I am not saying that Obama is a bad guy, but there are people out there who really believe that he is some kind of savior. There is only ONE of those..
There is a difference between anger and worry. I've experienced too much of both lately as I watch the administration try to mend the financial crisis by trial and error.
Today, I'm halting the emotions at worry. Tomorrow it may well be back to full blown anger. I am extremely uncomfortable with the sanctions that are being heaped on corporations receiving bailout money without the ground rules being set at the get go.
Okay, there can be a lot of arguments for everything the administration is doing because of tax payer dollars. However, more and more it looks to be an attempt to change the way corporate America works and if so, you'll soon see us as a diminished nation even more than we already are.
Just like politics. You have to vote to have a say. The responsibility, in that respect, falls on the shareholders, not the executives.
GREED KILLS SOULS!....how about the greed for power? To have the ultimate authority to reshape an entire country into a vision not necessarily sanctioned by the people? To dictate what CEO's can and cannot do while giving Unions a pass? By doing an end run around Congress?
Think about it. We criticized the Bush administration mightily for all Bush's signing statements stating he was going to ignore parts of passed legislation. We criticized Bush for ignoring the Constitution on many occasions. We criticize the Christian Conservatives for trying to hijack the government so they can force their agenda on those of us who don't agree with it.
May God's will be done!
hell have you been hiding you liberal derriere. Baseball starts and now you come and grace us with your presence.
Give Obama about 2 more months and he will make Bush's presidency seem like heaven. This guy has no clue.
No matter how incompetant Obama ultimately proves to be, he's got a long, long, LONG way to go to match George W. Bush.
Kinda reminds ya of the late 30's Germany doesn’t it.
And isn’t this the same administration that put all veterans on a watch list?
Obama even bowed to a King who is funding the genocide of African tribes in Uganda because the tribe’s people are black and considered less than human.
Yea and you call Limbaugh a Nazi.
Funny thing is, I can’t take Limbaugh, but Obama, come on, and take a good.
In the interest of full disclosure, I voted for John McCain, not Obama. That being said, I find it disconcerting that people like Hannity, Limbaugh, and other "I have all of the answers" folks are unwilling to give Obama a chance to succeed or fail on his own merits. We are more concerned with whether or not he may have 'bowed' to a foreign leader than whether or not he's doing a good job.
A good conservative, Jack Kemp, died the other day. He wasn't completely my cup of tea, but I notice that the current folks who call themselves conservatives were so preoccupied with wiping the sweat from Hannity's sack that they barely noticed.
Given the volume of hate being spewed toward Obama, little of it policy driven and/or logical, I'm not surprised that anyone who's on the NRA rolls is on a watch list. We're certainly going to harvest another McVeigh is we don't find a way to civilly disagree.
Now that is funny,