Netanyahu’s speech
Here’s an open thread to discuss Netanyahu’s speech.
[ADDENDUM: Transcript here.
And if you read to read some depressing stuff, read the comments here.
And Ace has quite a roundup of mocking/trivializing tweets from the liberal/left politicians and pundits on Netanyahu’s speech. It’s exactly as expected, but still must be seen to be believed.]
VP Joe Biden won’t attend.
I’m shocked and Heartbroken. (Snicker, Snort..)
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I wish that George W. Bush had the BEST VIP seating in the balcony.
Looks like your senator liawatha isn’t attending, likely meeting with bdsers in her teepee.
Alas, out here in California it is a bit early for popcorn.
While we are distracted obama is writing more executive orders like a dictator in which congress is nothing more than a bunch of elite rubber stamps with legs..
he now is rewriting tax law…
and pretty much negating the constitution he swore to uphold as he whipes his arse with it…
Obama has never gotten a response like the one I just witnessed. What a dramatic contrast between a man who’s fighting for his country’s existence and one who continually apologizes for his own.
Artfldgr:
Why “distracted”? I don’t see people being distracted.
First of all, that news is not under the radar. There’s been a lot written about Obama’s tax plans on the right (see this for links in the last 24 hours). I read about it at some length yesterday evening.
Of course, the left ignores it. But the right does not.
In addition to NOT being distracted, “distracted” is an odd word to choose. To me, it implies that the distraction is relatively unimportant. The situation re Obama’s pending deal with Iran is of tremendous importance.
Obama knew that Netanyahu’s speech would be powerful and would be based on truth whereas Obama and the Democrats live by lies and deception. For Obama the need for lies and deception is even larger than for the majority of his supporters on the left since Obama considers the victory of the Muslim Brotherhood, the destruction of Israel, and worldwide hegemony of militant Islam to be the ultimate goal while most of the left consider their support for militant Islam as a necessary alliance in their battle to destroy Christianity/Judaism with the ultimate goal to establish worldwide leftist hegemony with Islam as a junior partner.
Bibi: good speech, I was hoping for great, but….
Art: I saw that tax thing yesterday…scares the hell out of me, especially the non-response from a lot of quarters. Didn’t we kick the Brits out over just this issue?
I know think there’s no hope for stopping the Dems from establishing a dictatorship…most of the populace are either on board with the idea, or don’t really care at this point as it’s no directly affecting their lives…..yet.
And this link from Drudge shows how despicable the Dems really are….just when I think they can sink no lower…
http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2015/03/wow-democrats-lash-out-at-netanyahu-tell-him-to-go-home-call-him-a-child/
So WHEN will the public wake up???
Neo: Why “distracted”? I don’t see people being distracted.
i do… not those that pay attention… like the people who write for the not left (right)… but in the general public of liberals, and their bastions, like where i work… a liberal paradize of a top medical school… you would be appalled if you know the brain fart i am working on now that is using up raises and tax money, and they dont care…
they have no idea… and the few that do have no idea its not legal to do… or the history, etc.
To me, it implies that the distraction is relatively unimportant. The situation re Obama’s pending deal with Iran is of tremendous importance.
you can be distracted by a nucllear explosion, etc.
the words definition has nothing on it that matches what your saying… its your own alic in wonderland a la caterpillar definition meaning what you want it to mean.
distraction does not imply import…
you can be distracted by a noise, an explosion, your work, yoru child, a fly on your nose, a bee in your car, etc
and desipite the pending deal with Iran being so important, and the health care law being so important and net neutrality being so important, and unilateral tax law by administration fiat..
not one of those things and more are exposed on the table for examination!!!!!!!!!!!!
in fact, if not for leaks some of it we would not know till something happened and it came out because of the happening.
Artfldgr:
Take a look at the definition:
It is certainly possible to be distracted by something large and important. But the word “distraction” is not generally used that way. It far more commonly is used to mean a distraction by something more trivial from something more important. So the implication of your phrase was that the distraction (Netanyahu’s speech) was less important than what it distracted us from (Obama’s possible tax action). I understand that you’re saying that’s not what you actually meant, however.
That was only one of my points, however. The other is that both things are being paid attention to by the right. Of course the left is either ignoring them, covering them up, pooh-poohing them, trivializing them, mocking them, or debunking them.
Okay Boehner, time to invite El-Sisi.
Steve:
What a great idea.
I wonder if he would come, though. Probably not.
Still trying to find where i can leave my half shekels… 🙂
A Giant sat in the best seat in the balcony of the chamber rather than President and Mrs. Midget. Elie Wiesel. Enough said, is it not?
Regarding the “depressing stuff”, they really are like children aren’t they.
Charles Freedman, a conservative talk-show host whom I respect, mentioned “Obama’s Secret Iran Strategy” by Michael Doran on website Mosaic. It is an exhaustive description of a strategy that assumes Iran can be made less belligerent by enabling them a pathway to respectability. http://mosaicmagazine.com/essay/2015/02/obamas-secret-iran-strategy/
Doran is a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute, is a former deputy assistant secretary of defense and a former senior director of the National Security Council
Charles Freedman is on KSCO in Santa Cruz 1080 am. You can listen to him on the Internet.
See a “striking” visual representation of Obama’s foreign policy at http://washington.cbslocal.com/2015/03/02/controversial-artist-creates-new-obama-foreign-policy-critique/ ).
David Axelrod tweeted: “Speech broke no new ground nor offered realistic path short of war.”
Agree. But what if there is NO realistic path short of war?
The Hive Mind at Huffpo is in full jabber, I see. They remind me of the Bandar-log (Monkey People) in Kipling’s Jungle Book.
Here we sit in a branchy row,
Thinking of beautiful things we know;
Dreaming of deeds that we mean to do,
All complete, in a minute or two —
Something noble and grand and good,
Won by merely wishing we could.
Now we’re going to — never mind,
Brother, thy tail hangs down behind!
All the talk we ever have heard
Uttered by bat or beast or bird —
Hide or fin or scale or feather —
Jabber it quickly and all together!
Excellent! Wonderful! Once again!
Now we are talking just like men.
Let ‘s pretend we are… never mind,
Brother, thy tail hangs down behind!
This is the way of the Monkey-kind.
Then join our leaping lines that scumfish through the pines,
That rocket by where, light and high, the wild-grape swings,
By the rubbish in our wake, and the noble noise we make,
Be sure, be sure, we’re going to do some splendid things!
What of the hunting, hunter bold?
Brother, the watch was long and cold.
What of the quarry ye went to kill?
Brother, he crops in the jungle still.
Where is the power that made your pride?
Brother, it ebbs from my flank and side.
Where is the haste that ye hurry by?
Brother, I go to my lair — to die.
Obama is fond of setting up straw man arguments, of posing false, either or choices.
In the end, there may well be war, but “either the agreement that Obama is negotiating or war” are not the two and only choices we face at this moment.