So the liberals who withheld any praise for Bush in terms of AIDS funding and research, no federal DOMA and keeping America safe since 9/11 are petty as well, right?

Regards,
Peter H.

“To achieve that goal, we must continue to work with our partners to *prevent future attacks*,

Would those “partners” be the same ones who gave him the finger when he went groveling for assistance in Afghanistan? He trashed his own country to curry favor and they still told him to go to hell.

I thought everybody was supposed to love us now.

“Two observations:
1. This was not a “military success” for Obama. It was a military success for the U.S. Navy, in general, and the SEALS in particular.

2. Obamians everywhere must have very mixed feelings right now about this operation. Must I explain why?
Comment by MarkJ — April 12, 2009 @ 7:54 pm – April 12, 2009″

According to your logic chain, if this wasn’t a success for Obama but was for the military, then was Iraq a success for Bush and a failure for our generals and the fine troopers on the ground? Really think what it takes to carry out a mission like this and don’t act so impulsively from your conservative bias until a bit more is known.

I’m a strong liberal and I prayed hard everyday for eight years that Bush would succeed because if he failed then our country failed. Well he did and so has our country. We can’t take that kind of failure much longer. Obama’s success is needed as the country needs it even more. He isn’t going to make us Sweden, only keep the oligarich predators at bay for a change. He isn’t a cookie cutter liberal and is showing real depth, although I wish he supported the Bill of Rights more.

Second, I have no mixed feelings. Being a liberal doesn’t mean soft on defense or a strong military. It means thinking about what kind of military our money buys and how that military is effectively deployed for the defense of the country.

Lefties defending the enemies of peace and human freedom: An old, sad story.

Apparently, part of the left is cheering the pirates as environmental activists, while the lefty blog “Crooks and Liars” says the pirates are acting in self-defense.

At least [Obama] was willing to let the men on the spot make their own decisions.

Entirely true. And: How low our standards have fallen.

I’m just surprised Bill/Neptune/whomever didn’t start off with “I voted for Bush twice, but….”.

Agreed.

But, what I came to say – From a current Reuters article:

Richard Phillips was just one of more than 250 hostages of many nationalities being held by pirates who have seized dozens of vessels, from oil tankers to luxury yachts, in recent months.

Translation: In recent months, piracy has become huge and, to normal people, an unacceptable problem.

The U.S. Navy said Phillips’ life was in danger…
“They were pointing the AK-47s at the captain,” Vice Admiral William Gortney, head of the U.S. Naval Central Command, said in a Pentagon briefing from Bahrain.

“The on-scene commander took it as the captain was in imminent danger and then made that decision…”
[...]
President Barack Obama granted the Pentagon’s request for standing authority to use appropriate force, Gortney said.

Translation: Obama granted a vague authority to use “appropriate” force and USN commanders on the scene decided it was “appropriate” to shoot the guys. Kudos (real) to the Navy commanders on scene and kudos (sarcastic) to Obama for staying out of the commanders’ way, thus boldly risking the anger of the American Left.

[The] crew set off flares, hoisted an American flag and jumped for joy at the news of their captain’s rescue.
They called on Obama to take the lead in combating piracy.

Translation: He hasn’t been.

Obama…vowed to curb rampant piracy.
“To achieve that goal, we must continue to work with our partners to *prevent future attacks*, be prepared to interdict acts of piracy and ensure that those who commit acts of piracy are held accountable for their crimes,” he said in a statement.

Emphasis added. Translation: The pirates don’t need to be eradicated; they just need a bailout or loan modification program. Then they’ll be nicer human beings. If they aren’t nice it’s because we deserve it for being Westerners.

“The French and the Americans will regret starting this killing. We do not kill, but take only ransom. We shall do something to anyone we see as French or American from now,” Hussein, a pirate, told Reuters by satellite phone.
[...]
Andrew Mwangura, coordinator of the Mombasa-based East African Seafarers Assistance Program, said the rescue would change the stakes in future pirate attacks. “This is a big wake-up to the pirates. It raises the stakes. Now they may be more violent, like the pirates of old,” he said.

Translation: The pirates agree with Obama, that they are actually nice people when you get to know them or they would be, if the Americans hadn’t started it all, by being rich and there.

Never mind that the entire underlying premise of piracy is that if you don’t pay the ransom, THEY ARE GOING TO KILL YOU.

So far, pirates have generally treated hostages well, sometimes roasting goat meat for them and even letting them phone loved ones. The worst violence has been the occasional beating. No hostages are known to have been killed by pirates.

Translation: Reuters suffers from Stockholm Syndrome. “The pirates really are nice. They shared their primitive native goat meat with us, in between beatings and threats to kill us.”

Cue a lefty defending the pirates…

Does anyone know is there a site that is giving tips on Tea Party Signs for the 15th?

I smell astroturf aka fraudulent “commenters”. I’m just surprised Bill/Neptune/whomever didn’t start off with “I voted for Bush twice, but….”. That, or drop names of blue-blooded conservatives he shared drinks with in the Hamptons.

I praised the president, congratulated him and called his action a “success.” Seems you’re just looking to criticize an remind you that Andrew Sullivan also considers himself a conservative, but that doesn’t make him one.

First, you taunt the President with “America Held Hostage” posts, making a ridiculous comparison between 1 American held for a few days by financially motivated non-state actors, and a politically-motivated, state-backed mass hostage taking at a US embassy.

Then, after taunting the President for inaction, you give him only the most grudging credit for having “signed off” on the rescue. (I wonder how many times the authors of this blog used that passive aggressive phrase in reference to military action authorized by Republican presidents.) Even worse, a number of commenters here complain that there wasn’t a firefight sooner, even though they know little or nothing about the position of the captive prior to today or the overall tactical situation on the lifeboat. Of course, if the captive had been killed, this blog would have crowed about it being Obama’s Desert One. This is a pathetic a mirror image of how the Left conducted itself vis a vis Pres. Bush.

Keep it up and your blog will be as respected and influential as the Free Republic.

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