Glad Bush is gone. One circus for another. Sorry, but I don’t have the Fevah. Here are various links to today’s Obamapalooza. And yes, just like last night’s dinner, this, too, shall pass. Just at a price tag of $170 million.
Well, that didn’t take long. One minute after his swearing in the official White House website became Barkey Central. Take a look…while you really can’t see the pesky flag anywhere (it’s so divisive!) it’s now a Hopey McChange Family Album, his colors, his pics, That “America” idea seems to be taking a back seat to the Dawn of a New Error.
Whoa–talk about the Compulsion to Confess: someone better tell the Whitehouse.gov guy that we don’t have a new “government”–we have a new administration of that same old pesky democracy as set up by the Founding Fathers. Whether they like it or not. (HT Pauline).
Millions of Americans have powered President Obama’s journey to the White House, many taking advantage of the internet to play a role in shaping our country’s future. WhiteHouse.gov is just the beginning of the new administration’s efforts to expand and deepen this online engagement.
Just like your new government, WhiteHouse.gov and the rest of the Administration’s online programs will put citizens first. Our initial new media efforts will center around three priorities:
WaPo:Early Risers Try to Get a Jump-Start on Celebration
After all, it is just a movie, right? It’s not like a real country or real lives are at stake, or anything.
Bush leaves note in Oval Office desk for Obama
More McChange! The first president to transcend race (and you know none of the others did) has a strangely racist benediction. Weird.
Benediction at Obama ‘s inauguration, Rev. Joseph Lowery: ‘Lord, in the memory of all the saints who from their labors rest, and in the joy of a new beginning, we ask you to help us work for that day when black will not be asked to get in back, when brown can stick around… when the red man can get ahead, man; and when white will embrace what is right. That all those who do justice and love mercy say Amen. Say Amen’…
One guy, just one senator, has stopped the ridiculous idea of a Rodham Clinton Unanimous Consent confirmation by the senate. One guy thinks having a roll call vote, getting people on the record personally is a good idea. Yeah, I’d like to see wht those Republicans do, one by one as they actually do their job. Thank you John Cornyn. Good for him.
Aretha Franklin’s hat alone is worth the price of admission.
As I was walking to work in downtown San Francisco this morning, I noticed something different as I approached Bush Street. The street sign has been magically changed to read “Obama”. (Someone must have been up early with the bumper stickers.)
It would not surprise me one bit if the illustrious San Francisco Board of Supervisors made a formal resolution to permanently change Bush Street to Obama Way. After all, there is no crime, homelessness or out of control budget to fix here. Not at all.
I’m counting on you today Tammy to interpret for us. I’m not watching any of it. Could you please let us know when the Navy chorus sings the National Anthem. That’s the only part I’m interested it and it’ll do our hearts good.
Here’s a link to the complete text of O’s speech. I’m wondering if they’ll be selling copies of it, suitable for framing… ?
We have a snow day here in VA so I am home with my 7th grade daughter and listening to Tammy’s “disrespectful” but extremely entertaining commentary regarding Hopey’s in-swearing. Thank you for an alternative to the mass cool-aid binge drinking that has overwhelmed the nation! And thank you Tammy for being a strong independent female voice!
I am hiding in my office. UVA has canceled classes (never done before), the John Paul Jones arena has been opened to the public for the inauguration celebration, colleagues are gathering in the auditorium to watch this. I have watched every inauguration beginning with JFK. I can’t watch this. Thank you for being there for us Tammy.
Our long national nightmare has begun. But, with Bush gone, we can begin rebuilding the conservative movement. Let’s keep our chins up, and remember The Messiah will never again be as popular as he is today.
I don’t know about the rest of you but I feel the need to hit the vodka.
At least it’s better than the kool-aid.
I am not happy that Barack Obama is our President. However, I’ve been around long enough to have seen the disgrace of segregation first hand. I can’t dismiss the historical significance of today. It is the singular and fleeting aspect of today that should be a source of pride but the moment is blasphemed by the politics of the man who wears history’s mantle.
Today effectively ends one struggle and demonstrates the character of America in addressing our faults and fixing them. Today is also the beginning of a new struggle—the struggle to prevent the destruction of the founding vision of a free nation based on personal liberty and a restricted government. Diminishing the flag on the White House website is symbolic of what this administration has in store for us—a vanishing America.
Even though I have been critical of Bush on many occasions – someone on another blog posted this
about the B.D.S. and some cretin named Keith Olbermann.
I read this a few months ago and saved it for tonight….
Jeffrey Shapiro, an attorney who interned with John Kerry’s legal team, wrote an excellent column in (the) Wall Street Journal drawing attention to shabby treatment the president has been given. He said, in part, “The treatment President Bush has received from this country is nothing less than a disgrace. The attacks launched against him have been cruel and slanderous proving to the world what little character and resolve we have. The president is not to blame for all these problems. He never lost faith in America or her people, and has tried his hardest to continue leading our nation during a very difficult time. Our failure to stand by the one person who continued to stand by us has not gone unnoticed by our enemies. It has shown to the world how disloyal we can be when our president needed loyalty – a shameful display of arrogance and weakness that will haunt this nation long after Mr. Bush has left the White House.†Keith Olbermann should be ashamed of himself.
You’re right on, Pat S. with your comment “Diminishing the flag on the White House website is symbolic of what his administration has in store for us – a vanishing America”. You’re absolutely right.
If you think for five minutes that anyone will dare, per your suggestion, “- – tell the Whitehouse.gov guy that we don’t have a new “government”.
This guy thinks it’s not only a new government, but a whole new country: His.
Executive orders will flow like tsarist decrees.
From today on we wiill officially abide in a cult of personality and Americans will be bombarded by egregious and vulgar propaganda.
Think: CHAVEZ, CASTRO, MUGABE, QUADAFI, MUSSOLINI him whose name we dare not say and OBAMA.
You are seriously missing what is really going on if you are watching Katie Couric; you NEED to be watching BET, if you can take it. I have been waiting to see a great, great ad that has bought time on BET during the inauguration but I can’t stand it any longer. They just interviewed Farrahkhan, called him the controversial minister – never mind that he is a racist, misogynistic anti-semite – and they treated him like he was normal. But you get a real feel for this entitlement-time event.
Since all the zombies have migrated to the Capitol and Mall area, the rest of the city is nice and empty. This being a city usually full of zombies year round, it is especially nice to be on the street and no face the throngs of screaming hope and change bots.
The Messiah (may he live forever) has filled the world with beauty.
Heretics of the politcal right (who share your beds with demons), open your eyes and behold the Gracious Hand of The One in all his princely works, so you may learn to serve him with gladness.
We, the faithful, humbly beseech The One (preserver of all mankind), to make his blessed ways known to the blasphemous peeps and their she-devil. We pray that the Messiah (may he live forever) will heal their irreverence, lo, the whole land, with his sacred and saving universal health care.
We commend to his Fatherly Goodness all those who are in any ways afflicted or distressed in body, estate, mind, (or soul-such as the sorceress Tammy Bruce) that it may please his Annointed Self to comfort and relieve them according to their several necessities.
The Messiah (may he live forever) will give us happy issue of all of our afflictions.
Tequila – Vodka?? Vodka – Tequila?? I just left a meeting that started with “in honor of inauguration day” ….
HAHAHA! PALIN2012, I feel so sorry for you, but those 2 posts were hilarious.
I had to face people in the building watching Invocations and Benedictions as one would watch porn. I heard them complain about how they were hungry, but weren’t going to pick up lunch; no one, of course, was going to leave the building.
I couldn’t watch the obamafest, so I didn’t. Hope and change……geeeez……and every president of this great land thought leading America was so hard. And all they ever needed was Hope and the prospect of change. Amazingly simple!
Anyway…back to reality. I’m “hoping” for the best but preparing for the worst.
Great point about the Obama’s sense of giving. She’s lived high and his ‘noble’ community organizer launching wasn’t without a paycheck.
And he wants us to “step up” and volunteer?
Rarely have a couple been so bound by the mutual attration of being mercenaries.
That must be what George Soros admires in them.
Okay, here’s MY inaugaration “horror” story. If I were home, I wasn’t planning on watching it. I was in Court this morning (skip the lawyer jokes, I’ve heard them all :p ) and figured that would be a good way of not being involved.
WRONG! Instead of bringing the court into session, the judge had me and about 15 other people in the jury room watching the Inaugaration. He did say that if anyone had to leave, he’d take care of their case right then, but that he really wanted to watch it. Must be a Democrat.
I give credit to the 15 other people in the room. They were quiet and respectful and I heard no Bush bashing and there was no Kool-Aid behavior. They clapped at appropriate times and were otherwise, as I said, quiet. For one moment I did feel like I was in that movie The Invasion (with Nicole Kidman), where she has to pretend she’s already been “invaded” lest they notice her. Yeah, had that paranoid feeling for a moment.
But I also knew that I had class and grace and that I would not ruin the occasion for others who wanted to enjoy it. If I wanted to heckle, I could do it from the privacy of my home. I would show the Left MORE class than they have shown us over the last 8 years and that would give me tons more satisfaction. I am a bit of a hot-head (my friends call me “passionate”) so I tend to mouth off first, but I did finally realize that it was better to remain calm and rational and show class and grace because that would probably piss them off even more! LOL!
Anyway, I watched it. His speech, as all his speeches, was eloquent. He uses his mouth prettier than a $20 whore. (See Blazing Saddles for pop culture reference). And some of it sounded very “conservative” which I guess is his way of distracting the masses – of course I believe in “responsibility” and of course the gov’t can’t solve everything (yet).
But ACTIONS speak louder than words.
The buck stops with YOU, President Obama, and your Democratic Legislature. Best of British luck to you, mates.
But the real meaning for this day, for me, is to watch the U.S. show her best face to the world – TRANSITION OF POWER between bitter political rivals – no shots fired, no rockets fired, no riots, no murder, no mayhem. Just power shifted from one party to another, as has been done 43 other times in our history. It is the shining example of our democracy.
As Doug McIntyre said on KABC today – what rebuttal could the islamofascists possibly have after watching that peaceful Transition of Power, especially to a half-black man with the middle name Hussein! What could possibly be said? Yeah, I know, they’ll think of something; they always do. But it’s meaningless really. Has no teeth because we all know that whatever they say is not true. And rational and good people know that.
But that’s what I get from ANY Inaugaration, no matter what party has won – the beauty of our democracy unfolding before our eyes. The words of the Oath that show we pay allegiance to IDEALS and IDEAS and a sacred document that wrote those ideas and ideals down. Not to an individual. Even our military only takes an oath to protect and defend the Constitution and respects only the OFFICE of the President and not the individual who sits in that office.
We really are a wonder and I am so proud of our country on days like this. It’s a thumbing of the nose to those people who do not believe in freedom, who hate us because we are free.
Let’s hope (real hope) that we continue to exist, that we are able to free ourselves of the current crises without resorting to socialism or communism or any kind of totalitarianism. Let’s hope our enemies do NOT strike, or if they do, that few lives are lost and we kick their asses back to the Stone Age.
But most of all, I hope that, as a country, we are in God’s side (rather than God being on our side). I really love that sentiment because it really rings true to me, even as an agnostic.
God Bless America!
God Bless you all.
Cheers.
I found his speech downright insulting. How ingratious to say “We are ready to lead once more,  as if we haven’t had any leadership in the last 8 years. What a slap in the face to an outgoing president, and how arrogant.
And the benediction by Lowery was clearly racist… and pathetic.
Like many of you, I’ve had my share of differences with President Bush over the past eight years. That being said, I wanted to share this article by Peter Brookes.
After 9-11, if a Democrat President finished their term with these successes, they would be hailed by the media and historians.
HIS OVERLOOKED SUCCESSES ON FOREIGN POLICY AND SECURITY
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By PETER BROOKES
Posted: 1:50 am
January 11, 2009
If you asked Americans to list President Bush’s foreign policy and national security accomplishments, you’d likely get some laughs – surely some snarky comments. Perhaps, at best, a short list.
But, in truth, there are a number of great successes. So as the Bush administration gets ready to exit the national and world stage in the coming days, it’s time to give credit where credit’s due.
It’s not just by chance that there hasn’t been another terrorist strike here at home since the 9/11 attacks at the World Trade Center, the Pentagon and in the skies over Pennsylvania – more than seven years ago now. While far from perfect in execution, the Bush administration pulled out the stops in fighting terror at home and abroad, which, prior to 9/11, had been considered by many to be little more than a law enforcement problem.
Since 2001, the government has thwarted a number of plots, including conspiracies to blow up airplanes and fuel farms, assault an army base, and attack Los Angeles and Chicago skyscrapers – and surely others.
Internationally, in 2006, the Bush administration helped foil a plot hatched in Pakistan that aimed to bring down about 10 US- and Canada-bound airliners over the Atlantic with liquid explosives after taking-off from the United Kingdom.
If it had succeeded, the attack could have killed more people than the number who tragically died on 9/11.
The Feds have nailed more than two dozen terrorist wannabes right here in the United States since 2001. Treasury froze terror-related finances, making it tougher for terrorists to plan, train and operate.
President Bush also took the fight to the enemy overseas in places like Afghanistan, where Osama bin Laden and al Qaeda had set up shop in the years prior to 9/11, plotting the destruction of the United States and the establishment of a global Islamist caliphate.
Aiding this success has been a reinvigorated national security establishment, including the creation of the Department of Homeland Security, the Director of National Intelligence and joint intelligence and law enforcement centers.
In Asia, the Bush administration helped the Philippines fight the Abu Sayyaf Group and Indonesia battle Jemaah Islamiya. Both groups have al Qaeda ties – and US and Western targets in their crosshairs.
Ties with Indonesia, the world’s most populous Muslim nation, have been normalized after years of troubled relations. Japan is now making increasing contributions to international security across the globe.
Fortunately, the Bushies caught North Korea cheating on its 1994 nuclear agreement with the United States. While progress has been glacial, Washington did get Pyongyang to agree to end all its nuke programs.
US-India relations are better than ever due to Bush administration efforts. Even Pakistan is doing a better job recently in fighting the Taliban and al Qaeda in its border areas with Afghanistan.
Today, Afghanistan is a lot better off: more than 30 million Afghans no longer labor under terrorist Taliban rule. Healthcare access is up; child mortality is down. Six million kids go to school, including nearly 2 million girls who would not otherwise be allowed to.
In Europe, the Bush administration led a charge for NATO expansion, bringing seven former Warsaw Pact enemies into the democratic transatlantic alliance.
The Bush White House also oversaw Kosovo’s transition to independence from Serbia, helping to start to close a chapter in the Balkan’s long, bloody history.
In the Middle East, Lebanon no longer labors under the yoke of Syrian domination, which ended its occupation after almost 30 years. In Iraq, nearly 30 million people are no longer subject to Saddam Hussein’s tyranny.
The surge of American troops into Iraq has left al Qaeda there battered, bewildered and in retreat in what Osama bin Laden said would be the decisive battle in its global jihad. While still dangerous, al Qaeda has suffered a stinging blow.
In Latin America, US ally Colombia has prospered under Washington’s “Plan Colombia,” a counter-drug and -terrorism program. The narco-terrorist group FARC is reeling from the pressure applied to it by Bogota – with U.S. assistance.
The Merida Initiative in Mexico to fight the drug lords, which are battling each other and the central government in a low-grade civil war, is also a positive development – one which will enhance security north of the border, too.
In Africa, President Bush spent more on fighting HIV/AIDS than any previous American president. As a result, medicine is reaching more than 2 million African HIV/AIDS patients. Anti-malaria programs have gained traction, too. (My comments–If a Democrat President provided $30billion dollars in aid to fight HIV/AIDS, he/she would win the Nobel Peace Prize)
In a shocker, Libya’s Colonel Qaddafi renounced terrorism and gave up his weapons of mass destruction programs, including one for nukes. We now have a Tripoli embassy for the first time in three and a half decades.
President Bush also kept his campaign promise of fielding a missile defense system to protect the American people from the threat of ballistic missiles and weapons of mass destruction from the likes of North Korea and Iran.
First, Bush withdrew from the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty; then in a 2002 agreement with Russian President Vladimir Putin, both sides agreed to reduce the size of their strategic nuclear forces by two-thirds. Then the military began to field missile defense systems in California and Alaska and at sea aboard US navy destroyers for dealing with North Korea, which joined the once-exclusive nuclear club in 2006.
The Bush administration also signed pacts with Poland and the Czech Republic – with NATO’s endorsement – for the building of a missile defense system in Europe, focused on the growing Iranian nuclear and ballistic missile threat.
They also developed the Proliferation Security Initiative (PSI), a voluntary effort consisting of some 90 nations, working together to battle the proliferation of missiles and weapons of mass destruction.
The PSI is credited with intercepting material for Iran’s ballistic missile and nuclear programs, which many increasingly believe isn’t for peaceful purposes.
It also uncovered and took apart the AQ Khan nuclear proliferation network, an international smuggling ring that had been selling nuclear know-how and equipment to North Korea, Iran and Libya – and to who knows who else.
The President also expanded international commerce, concluding more than 10 free-trade agreements (FTA) around the world. (Three additional FTAs are sitting with Congress, awaiting approval.) Trade with Africa doubled.
But free trade can’t solve every ill. So since 2001, Washington has nearly tripled international assistance, doubling it in Latin America and nearly quadrupling it to Africa.
We’ve re-focused aid programs to make sure it gets to the right folks. The Millennium Challenge Account sends help to responsible, accountable leaders and organizations, creating economic opportunity, reducing poverty – and suffering.
Sure, there are still challenges in places like Iraq, Afghanistan, Iran, North Korea, Russia and China – plus al Qaeda – that the next administration will have to grapple with. The same was true for the Bush team when it took over in 2001 from the Clinton administration.
The fact is international relations is a tough business – and will continue to be. Countries pursue their national interests – often at others’ expense, including ours. But the Bush administration has made real progress in advancing our interests during its tenure, especially in preventing another terror attack right here at home – no small feat.
Accordingly, it deserves more credit than the conventional wisdom affords it.
Peter Brookes is a Heritage Foundation senior fellow and a former deputy assistant secretary of defense. [email protected]
I listened to the B.Hussein speech. Same as the old speech. I was trying to get some message out of it but all it was was the same mindless babble we have heard for the last two years. I would compare that speech to Charlie Browns teacher giving the class a lecture. Thanks for the dose of RWR Tammy. I still get that tingly feeling going up my leg when I hear him speak 😉
I called a friend that has cancer today, to cheer him up. He told me he was watching the inauguration, and I told him there was no way I would watch that travesty.
He told me that had to support the president, just because he was the president, and I wanted to ask him if the president destroys the country would he still feel the same…
But him being deathly ill with cancer, I refrained.
Thanks Tammy for all that you do, to spread the real truth.
Who rendered the benediction, Joseph Lowery? Funny, I couldn’t distinguish his words from Farrakhan’s.
dances with trout, I have only one point to dispute of that good article: wasn’t it yesterday or the day before that a news item said that N. Korea now had about 6.5# of weapons grade Uranium? About enough for 4 warheads. All other points are well stated. Newsmax.com had an editorial yesterday very critical of Pres. Bush’s 8 years and the points were also valid and well stated. No POTUS is perfect and too many expect them to be. In light of Preses Carter and Clinton, we came through the Bush Administration rather well. The blame for the crap we’re going through now rests squarely on Congress and therefore, us. We put’m there. Now, time will tell what good or bad Pres. Obama does or causes.
Ripper, thanks for the Shapiro quote. Also well put. We need to be VERY careful, more than we have been, to NOT sound like the Left has in regards to Pres. Bush. And, Amen, to ladykrystyna’s comment.
Floyd R. Turbo
Thanks.
I saw Glenn Beck before on Fox and he mentioned his disagreements with Bush regarding for example Ramos and Campeon but he also mentioned Bush’s matural dignity, grace and decency.
Our 4 (possibly 8 years) national nightmare now begins. I am afraid we have sen the last of America and by the time this charlatan is finished we will become France.
We will never become France. Remember, we are out here people and we will not let that happen. Take a breath and be ready. When legislation comes to our representatives we will protest or agree. We are a democracy and still have a voice, never forget that or we are truly lost.
1. Barf.
2. Obamagasm. Uncontrollable BARF.
3. I successfully avoided TV sets all day. Damn I’m good.
And last but not least. I would like to ask, in a mature and civil discussion based way, what is it that so many people hate about President Bush. I know why the anti-war crowd hates him. I know some things that I have disagreed with and have disappointed me, but what are the reasons, beyond the war(s) that so many hate him? Including Tammy?
i’m a little late to the after-party, but did lowery forget to tell us of the yellow that we no longer need to be mellow?
president hopey, should i be offended first, then ask for a bail out, or just ask to be paid off now?
tammy, you’re the best.
rick
All this Obama worship has left me feeling nauseated for sure. I would like to say that I am a big comic freak and Marvel is my pick. Now with that said I would like to point out that last weeks Amazing Spider-Man and the hype generated around it was sickening. The fist bump between Spidey and Obama was pretty hard to take and I physically cringed to see it. I should have seen this coming since Marvel just wrapped up a long run series called Secret Invasion in which the theme was “Embrace Change”. Could Obama be a Skrull too?!?!? lol I was greatly disappointed by Marvel’s chosing to show it’s political leanings and I can understand why my wife is a DC fanatic now. After all, like DC’s election run series DC: Decisions and Superman illustrates – don’t look to your heroes to validate or even pick your politicians or your candidates. Do that yourself based on your beliefs.
I don’t hate President Bush, DaredevilAccordion. I just find him an inauthentic conservative. This was evidenced in three ways just off the top of my head:
1. Amnesty/border issues
2. No Child Left Behind
3. Medicare prescription drug plan
I also didn’t appreciate the “compassionate conservative” mantra. As Tammy and others have said before, it insinuates that conservatives and conservatism are not compassionate by nature. This is just as insulting as Reverend Lowry’s “white do right” crack today.
palin2012, of course, we won’t disappear, but the America we’ve known and our grandparents fought for, is quickly being dismantled, one piece at at time. It began in the sixties. Of course we will resist loud and long at everything this administration will try to get us further towards socialism. It will be a LONG road back. One battle at a time.
Kelly, there are pros and cons to every president. No president has left with a fantastic track record. The recent Newsmax.com editorial did a reasonable job of pointing out his many faults. But as many have tried to show, he did well in keeping us safe. Yes he violated conservative fiscal principles. And I agree with the compassionate conservative mantra being distasteful. He was far from perfect. We’re still better for his presidency, compared to Carter and Clinton. The vitriol directed towards GWB is pure political bs/BDS. Nothing else. As I said, the crap we’re in now points straight to Congress. And most of the RNC leadership should be fired. They’ve long ago outlived their usefulness and have obviously lost their gonads.
BOOK ENDS
Didn’t I hear somebody say something about Obama being an historic book end?
How about a swearing in at one end and a handcuffed perp-walk out at the other?
He’s an history law breaker. If it didn’t already come when he was sworn in as Senator (foreigners such as Indonesians are prohibited from the US Senate) it came today through his natural born allegiances to foreign counties such as Kenya and Great Britain.
I’m surrendering to the Compulsion to Confess:
Watching the Obamas attempt to dance tonight reminded me of Robert Preston’s version of “The Shady Dame from Seville.”
Watching this event on BET must have been a hoot. There’s nothing quite as deliciously funny as hearing some over-dressed dolt use words like precipitated, commensurate, and actualize in the same sentence, then misconjugate the verb.
Cinderellaman; nails it, “I found his speech downright insulting. How ingratious to say “We are ready to lead once more,  “
With George Bush present on the Inauguration Stand, Obama’s ‘slight of lip’ and sidewinding venom was pure insulting to the Office of the President ever committed by a president. Think of the dignity which has always been afforded Past Presidents.
Obama showed the sign of a “Poor Winner”. He is shameless and in terms of social grace; ignorant. That is a bore.
I”m listening to Tammy’s show.
She just blurted “SCREW YOU”
I agree completely. I am as enraged as she is. I was never a Leftist.. but I know them and I am not fooled by them.
They’re destroying this country… they’re destroying it and there’s no political representation for real Americans in this country to defend us.
I watched the welcoming speech of now former President Bush in Midland (posted on the C-SPAN website), and it just what I needed to hear. It was all that Barkey’s wasn’t: warm, heartfelt, optimistic, and funny.
I wish President Bush the best.
I typically have low blood pressure, but I could swear I was on the verge of an aneurysm listening to Obama’s speech yesterday. But there was one particular part that had me certifiably outraged:
“And to those nations like ours that enjoy relative plenty, we say we can no longer afford indifference to suffering outside our borders; nor can we consume the world’s resources without regard to effect…”
First of all, Barky, the United States of America has NEVER EVER been indifferent to suffering outside our borders, neither have all the other wealthy, foreign aid DONOR countries in the world. We give and give and give…..and then we take a breath and give some MORE!!! You filthy self-righteous jerk! We have countless private charities and organizations that we donate billions of dollars annually to humanitarian efforts across the globe, as well as all the tax money we pay to go in foreign aid to poverty-striken nations. Don’t you DARE call us INDIFFERENT!
Further, you say we consume most of the world’s resources? Do you even know WHY?? We PRODUCE an inordinate supply of the world’s civilian and military technology, agricultural products, and natural/energy resources, especially coal and natural gas. Once we do that, we ship by trucks and trains to planes and ships to be distributed worldwide. OF COURSE, we use a lot of the world’s energy!! Out of the nearly 200 countries on this planet, we produce about 20% of its wealth! Hundreds of millions of people on this planet would NOT have clean water, homes, food, or education if it were not for us.
Shut up, Barky! Take your pompous, snooty self-righteous, paternal, shame-on-you lecture somewhere else.
Tammy: I totally agree with you about not wanting to thank Bush.
Bush KNOWS the threats we face. It’s derelict of him to have not tackled them… and primarily his failure to attack iran.
We’re going to be nuked. And I blame him.
He didn’t protect us… He hid under the bed and ensured the electorate would reject the Republican party and vote in the dangerous Democrat Party.
We bend over backwards for the rest of the world and all those ungrateful idiots know how to do is ridicule us.
If it weren’t for us, most of them would be starving and even more would be living under the rule of dictators than are now.