So he needs to spend another $50 Billion – QUICK!  How ’bout for railroad tracks?  Yeah, that should fool ’em! 

So of course to spend money even faster he took Air Force One to Milwaukee – to the Laborfest there and said he needs a fast $50 Billion to rebuild 150,000 miles of road, 4,000 miles of railroad track, and 150 miles of airport runways.  

Paid for by? 

Oh you knew all along – tax hikes on oil and gas companies.  Like you’re not already paying enough for gas and home heating oil?  Remember he has already halted drilling in the Gulf of Mexico?

Are you seeing a crying need for 4,000 miles of railroad track?   

In which Congressional District?  How many votes does Obama think this will buy on Nov 2^nd?

 Which unions will get this work?  How many private sector jobs will be created – that is ones which won’t be hanging on for every renewal of the government purchase order?

Oh please Sir, may I have another crock of Hope and Change?  Or how about just renewing the Bush tax cuts and give Business and Industry a fighting chance to recover?  Naah!  That wouldn’t be Socialism!  We want Government Control!

   /s/  Iron Mike
   Old Soldier, – Still Good for Parts!

Do you think Obama’s train left the station a long time ago?

Here’s a piece of his speech – he veers off the script – where he shows that he’s feeling the pressure.  Remember that Muslims hold the dog in very low regard.  So very presidential – don’t you think?

Obama was unable to give credit to G. W. Bush for the courage and wisdom to pursue the surge which did route out most of al Qaeda and tamped down the Sunni-Shia violence long enough for Iraqis to start rebuilding their country.

As his speech wandered from Iraq to Afghanistan he claimed that “with those added forces now available” we would be able to pursue al Qaeda and Taliban terrorists in Afghanistan.

But of course he failed to mention that he had dithered five long months on McChrystal’s troop request, then given him exactly half of what the general needed.  He ignored completely the other threats to peace in South Asia – including the fragile and corrupt Pakistani government, and the now-nuclear Twelvers in Iran.

He failed to mention the horrible intelligence and security disaster that just befell us in the leak of ultra-sensitive defense and state department documents to the anti-American blog site WikiLeaks  By now I wonder if he either understands the magnitude of the loss – or if he even cares.

To that point – as Obama was going through the motions last night – reading from the off-camera teleprompters and conspicuously tilted to his right – he was a study of a man whose heart is most definitely not in the task at hand.  He doesn’t care about this struggle, except to be quietly cheering on our enemies.  He just doesn’t want to suffer a major battlefield defeat before the 2012 elections.  We went through exactly this ballet with Lyndon Johnson in 1966 – 68.

Obama spoke of using all our tools of national strength to defeat terrorism, including our financial strength.  The irony, sarcasm and duplicity of his words could not have been layered any thicker.  In his relentless march to socialism he has given us a flat economy and 10+% unemployment.  

It is precisely Obama and his team of socialist goons who have just spent nineteen months deliberately disemboweling our free-market economy, and frankly – scaring the piss out of both US and foreign capital investors.  He was straight-faced lying to our faces, and thinking that he is so smooth that we wouldn’t notice.

Earlier in the day he stopped into Fort Bliss, Texas for a photo-op with troops.  I watched that and saw the distain in the eyes of these proud young patriots.  They know when they’re being used.  Contrast the “Sir, please get your hand off me” look with troops who are actually glad to see a president. 

EVERYBODY NOTE:  Obama made a special trip to Fort Bliss [outside El Paso] for this photo-op, but for the second time in a month had NO TIME to meet with Texas Governor Rick Perry on the subject of illegal immigration and drug smuggling across Texas’s 1969-mile gunfire riddled border with Mexico.

In the simplest words I can use:  Obama doesn’t give a S-H-I-T about illegal immigration or drug traffic.  As a lifelong internationalist socialist – he just doesn’t believe in borders – or nations.  

Obama is FAILING to execute his Oath of Office!

    /s/  Iron Mike
   Old Soldier,  - Still Good for Parts!

$1.3 Trillion budget deficit 

$14 Trillion National Debt

9.5%  [500,000] unemployed, or 12% of US families

1 Million illegals left last year due to unemployment

22% US Debt held by China;  20% by Japan

One (1) new nuclear Islamism nation this week

26% Personal approval rating

24% US Citizens believe he’s a Muslim

50% Approval rating for Princess Michelle

27% of Citizens / 41% of Republicans believe he is foreign born

Blago convicted on 1 of 23 counts

Starting 11^th vacation in 19 months.

“Miss me?” Bush T-Shirts outselling O stuff on Martha’s Vineyard!

74 days until November 2^nd. 

Enjoy your time on the Vineyard Barry, and watch out for those Great Whites.  I mean the sharks – not those rich Democrats who are sucking up to you out there.  74 days . . .

   /s/  Iron Mike
   Old Soldier, – Still Good for Parts!

SITUATION:  A young traitor has leaked precious military secrets to a hostile entity – the web-site called Wikileaks.  Wikileaks owner - Julian Assange – hates what he believes is “American Imperialism and war crimes in Iraq and Afghanistan”.  He has already released thousands of documents which have and will hurt our troops and our allies.

They are about to release more.

Problem 1:  Our DoD intelligence services have totally blown it by letting a junior soldier have so much access to so much material.  Worse, there are reliable reports that the man may be either gay and/or transgendered.  This is a recipe for instability and irrational behavior. 

We saw this before in 1967 when a gay supply sergeant in the Berlin Brigade was set up with an East German lover.  He walked a brand-new Redeye missile through the Brandenburg Gate.  By 1972,  Soviet copies of the Redeye were shooting down American planes and helicopters in South Vietnam.

Problem 2:  Presidential inertia – i.e. Obama has FAILED to ACT to STOP WikiLeaks. 

We have the resources to stop these out-of-control idiots.  The danger to our troops and our allies is clear and present.  The release of these documents WILL cause allies to be murdered – their families first in front of them. 

WikiLeaks / Assange either doesn’t believe it, – or considers it acceptable collateral damage in the greater good of hurting the USA.  It’s PAST TIME for a presidential finding of “Clear and Present Danger”.

We’ve got the ability to stop it.  Wikileaks is most likely operating from servers in Sweden.  We can take them out without risking nuclear retaliation by the Swedish Air Force.  Send in the SEALs, send in the CIA, sent in the F117s or the B2. – but destroy the servers.  Ask the Israelis to hunt down Assange and eliminate him.  Don’t even give any warning at this late date.  Send a message to azzswholes everywhere – don’t #uck with America! 

Problem 3:  Tighten up on how we handle sensitive information! 

Problem 4:  Come November 6^th 2012 – let’s elect a real president – one who understands his oath, will honor it, who understands the duties of being Commander-in-Chief.

   /s/  Iron Mike
   Old Soldier, – Still Good for Parts!

He issued his statement at a White House dinner celebrating Ramadan!  What’s next;  minarets on the White House? 
 

If you lost a friend or loved one on 9/11, or as a result of any other Islamic fundamentalist act of terrorism,  – Obama has just flipped a ‘bird’ right in your face.  Our sworn enemy occupies the White House, and he’s busy destroying the United States you were born in. 

This bold experiment with this “new-age man” is not going well.  He bows to the Saudi king and the Iranians are going to fire up their nuclear reactor next week.  You should probably learn about twelvers. 

And he’s only just begun!  Americans, either fight back – fight like hell, or learn the meaning of dhimmitude. 

   /s/  Iron Mike
   Old Soldier, – Still Good for Parts!

For those of you who are pretty sure I’m crazy – here are some soothing words from your Messiah!  The Peace of Allah be upon Him!

Now look at the work of Peaceful Muslims.  This is their “Victory”.

   http://www.angelfire.com/ak2/intelligencerreport/911_pictures.html

I remain amazed that Obama has the gall to appear before Disabled Veterans.

UPDATE:  2 PM EST Monday, July 26^th.  Thus far there has been no official confirmation – and no official denial – of this event.

I am forced to admit Possibility #1: it was a wonderful [ but scary] internet hoax.  If that is the case, and given how the thing spread on the internet, – I remain amazed that local law enforcement didn’t take local press in tow and conduct a health and safety sweep of the areas in question. 

Students at Laredo Community College, which sits right on a bend of the Rio Grande, sometimes hear gunfire taking place just ½ mile west and south across the border in Nuevo Laredo.

Possibility #2: is that it’s real but there is a news blackout.  Given the way the Obama Cartel put the clamps on news and photos of the BP gulf oil leak, this ~ is ~ a possibility.

Possibility #3:  the event was a training exercise by federal / local authorities.  OK, what intelligence would DHS have to indicate that such training might be worth undertaking?

Possibility #4:  the event was a training exercise by Los Zetas – for the day when a massive Mexican military sweep might force them into a quick escape across the border to “safety” in Texas.   

In any event, our Southern Border gets more dangerous every day and the Obama Cartel does NOTHING [except sue Arizona for defending its citizens].

- – - More when we know it. – - –

It took Obama MONTHS to figure out how many troops to surge into Afghanistan.  Let’s see how long it takes him to figure THIS ONE out.

The Los Zetas – the most ruthless and homicidal of Mexico’s drug smuggling cartels – have just seized two ranches adjacent to the Mexican border.  One near Farm to Market Road 1472 and State Route 255.  This is just 15 miles northwest of Laredo, and just a mile or two inside the US border. The other is due south of Laredo off US 83. Story developing:

Laredo Police have confirmed to two separate news outlets that the American ranchers did escape with their lives.  Outgunned and already overstrained, the Laredo Police have asked for federal help.  Given the way things run at DHS and Justice,  they’ll probably be sued by Eric Holder for profiling.

Just who are Los Zetas?  Worst of the worst!  Their core is former Mexican Special Ops and anti-gang police, – all with very advanced [US funded] anti-drug training.  But the pay was nominal, and they saw their leaders were corrupt. So they went over to the dark side and into business for themselves, – pushing existing drug cartels into submission, or just killing them.

I can’t wait for Obama to apologize to Los Zetas for all the trouble that pesky border has put them to.  In his next breath he’ll promise to eliminate it. 

Stay tuned, and see if either the MSM or the Obama Cartel picks upon any of this. 

And if this proves to be an internet hoax, I’ll report it that way.
http://www.lmtonline.com/articles/2010/07/24/front/news/doc4c4b6b53d2179200438464.txt

UPDATE:  9 AM EST Sunday, 25 July:  Three (3) possibilities emerge – since the Laredo PD isn’t talking,

  1.  It’s real, and there is an official news blackout . . .

  2.  It’s a hoax . . .

   3.  It’s an FBI / Border Patrol training exercise . . .

   /s/  Iron Mike
   Old Soldier, – Still Good for Parts!

I remember back to the spring and summer of 2008, when Obama’s books were flying off the shelves.  Democrats and liberals were in near-euphoria.  At last – a Black President!   All the Nation’s old scars from slavery to Jim Crow – to the Civil rights 60s would be smoothed over and healed.  Hozzahana!  [Just don’t ask about his documentation, - you racist!]

There were clues available in those books, – but nobody was actually reading them. 

‘I ceased to advertise my mother’s race at the age of 12 or 13, when I began to suspect that by doing so I was ingratiating myself to whites”. 

‘There was something about him that made me wary, a little too sure of himself, maybe. And white . . .

Now just 18 months into Obama’s pResidency, we see a much clearer picture.  Obama is a man whose entire life seems to be wrapped in the inner conflict bequeathed him by his white Kansas liberal mother and his black Kenyan communist father.  It forms the basis for his socialist views of wealth redistribution, and may form the basis of his embrace of both Islam and Black Liberation Theology.  It has formed the basis of his views of Justice and guided his hand in the execution of his duties as our Chief Law Enforcement Officer.  Thus far he’s really made a botch of it.

First you were told that somehow Obama had attended Jeremiah Wright’s church for 20 years and not heard a single racist word from the reverend.  Yeah, right!

One of Obama’s first appointments was Attorney General Eric Holder.  Holder is a mental light-weight, unable to think or act on his own, – but totally willing to be the junior partner to Obama’s racial vendettas.  Holder mostly avoids public statements – with good reason.

In a February 2009 speech he called us “a nation of cowards”.  He announced that KSM and the 9/11 plotters would be tried in NYC,  and later under great pressure reversed himself.  He called the Arizona Immigration Law “racist” – then admitted he hadn’t read it.   He has since sued Arizona to overturn or nullify it.  But even with videotape evidence, he failed to finish the prosecution of the New Black Panthers in the Philadelphia voter intimidation case. 

Obama then hired radical activist and avowed communist Van Jones to be his “Green Jobs Czar”.  Among his many controversial statements are “…it is literally impossible for most white people to hear people of color speak about our pain, just literally impossible”  and on 9/11 he wrote to then Governor Eliot Spitzer demanding an “ immediate inquiry into evidence that suggests high-level government officials may have deliberately allowed the September 11th attacks to occur”.  And “The white polluters and the white environmentalists are essentially steering poison into the people of color’s communities because they don’t have a racial justice frame.”  

The real question for me is “exactly what was Obama’s objective in hiring Jones?”  Since Jones had no special experience in green jobs other than claiming to evangelize for them,  he could not have been the most qualified.  Then why hire him, except that he is Black,  is brashly controversial,  and Obama wanted to make a statement?  There were available at least 10,000 better qualified executives, most with some green experience.  At least 100, maybe as many as 1000 were Black.  So why Jones?  Maybe it was that Communist thing? 

Anyway, by early September ’09 the outcry was deafening.  Obama tossed Jones under the bus and never looked back.  ObamaBuddies Beware!  We will see this maneuver employed many times between now and November 2012. 

“The Cambridge Police … acted stupidly”  Barely six (6) months in office and Obama had his first major foot-in-mouth moment.  Naturally it concerned a black man and an arresting white police sergeant in Cambridge, MA – the left ventricle in the bleeding heart of American Liberalism.  Obama’s blurted statement – quickly proven totally wrong by audiotapes, – revealed on national television that his first instinct is to fault white policemen in any dustup. 

A White House beer summit did little to repair the image of a president steeped in racial stereotypes, and this began to peel the layers off the onion.  In fact, the beer summit – meant as damage control, only served to highlight the president’s knee-jerk racist reaction. 

Within weeks Democratic operatives including some-time actress Janeane Garofalo were calling the growing TEA Party movement “Racists”.  Nobody in the MSM would challenge these assertions for the remainder of 2009.  By March of this year the hype had continued.  Democratic Congressmen John Lewis and Emanuel Cleaver claimed to have been spat upon and called “Nigger” by a TEA Party crowd.  Strangely a standing $100K reward for proof has gone unclaimed.  I can only assume that if there is proof,  Eric Holder’s Justice Department would be all over it.  But they’re busy suing Arizona.

Last week, just a day after a major speech by Michelle Obama, the NAACP issued a fatwa calling [some] TEA Party leaders racist.  Many observers thought it a feeble attempt to bolster a sagging and aging membership.  Was their timing accidental – or orchestrated?  In any event – it would shortly prove to be very bad timing. 

Because earlier this week an edited video went viral on the internet.  It appeared to show Shirley Sherrod a Dept Agriculture official and NAACP member admitting to having shafted a white farmer in Georgia years ago. 

Suddenly very gun shy on all issues of “racism”,  “somebody” at the White House had Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack fire the lady – quite literally as she drove home.  Two days later – having viewed the complete unedited video, there was a big “Oh Shit!” moment at 1600, and Vilsack called with a better job offer. 

But the damage is done.  The White House is now denying that it was involved [oh certainly not the pResident – heavens no], and they had Baghdad Bob Gibbs issue some idiot remarks about “it was a teaching moment”.   This story has legs, because Ms. Sherrod was raked over national coals, and she’s already won one lawsuit against the government. 

Obama has been shown to be a racist, someone willing to toss allies under the bus, and a knee-jerk reactor who is anything but a calm, steady hand at the helm of state. 

He is anything BUT our first post-racial president.  He may be the worst racist we’ve had since Woodrow Wilson.  The “Hope” was hype, and the “Change” is change for the worse.

It will take our next real president years to undo all the damage this fraud had done.

   /s/  Iron Mike
   Old Soldier, – Still Good for Parts!

This Iowa TEA Party billboard was taken down.  Some wanted to claim it is racist.  It’s not.  It DOES compare Obama’s socialist policies and his socialist views on the role of government with other known world socialists.  It may be stark and harsh, – but when you consider Obama’s “spread the wealth around” views, and his steady federal takeover of private business and industry,  it’s right on target.

Remember when the Pepsi Center in Denver just wasn’t BIG enough to contain the crowds [or his ego] for HIS acceptance speech?  So they moved the event to Mile High Stadium?  A quick trip back in time – just two short years – for some perspective.

This was JUST two short years ago.  We still had a real President, and the junior senator from Illinois was barnstorming the World.

It was at this point that the label The MEssiah began to stick.

He traveled like a head of state – or a rock star.  Was this the Second Coming?

Then came the Democratic National Convention in Denver.  Would he offer theVP spot to Hillary?  No, he went with the white-haired buffoon, our National Village Idiot. 

Remember that Gawd-awful Black Widow dress?  It was a signal.

  So today this undocumented worker can barely draw a crowd.  Democrats running for office across the land have been avoiding public appearances with him, lest they be photographed with him. 

With unemployment nationally at 10+%  [14+% in Nevada] it’s become painfully clear that OBummer fully intends to spread your wealth around.  But he is unable to do that loaves and fishes thing that the REAL Messiah did.  Worse still, he may not want to. 

We’re stuck with him for another 914 days, and we’ll have to endure his socialist plots and edicts, his 27+ socialist Czars, and his badly dressed and totally tasteless disbarred wife.  Come November 2012 you’ll be lucky if you still have a job.

We can improve our odds a LOT this November 2^nd.  Vote ALL of his Democrat cronies and enablers OUT!

   /s/  Iron Mike
   Old Soldier, – Still Good for Parts!