I think it is the first good news in weeks. That is until we see who his replacement is?

YES!

As I just posted: EAT IT, you Jew-hating, Saudi-sucking, Commie-defending bastage!

Must've paid his taxes on-time.

Good riddance to rabid rubbish.

Isn't it time someone do an investigation into Director of National Intelligence Dennis C. Blair?

"Everything is proceeding as I had forseen."

-Darth ElderZion

///

"Director Blair accepted Ambassador Freeman’s decision with regret.”

I didn't!
;)

re: #6 MJ

Isn't it time someone do an investigation into Director of National Intelligence Dennis C. Blair?

Did Blair pick Freeman?

Next up - Walt and Mearsheimer (tag team).

re: #6 MJ

Isn't it time someone do an investigation into Director of National Intelligence Dennis C. Blair?

Past due.

re: #1 Nevergiveup

I think it is the first good news in weeks. That is until we see who his replacement is?

Regrettably, there are plenty more where Freeman came from.

Okay, let me post this here (copied up from the thread below):

Given Freeman's desire to not be nominated and given the number of open positions, especially in the Treasury, why haven't I heard as many comparison's between Obama's administration filling up slowly and the delay Bush had in getting his administrative positions filled with the wait for the courts to finish reviewing the Florida results in 2000?

I mean, in this case, Obama won it (I won't say fair and square as I have serious misgivings about Acorn). He had time to get people lined up. He has seriously dropped the ball just in filling out the employees he needs to run his administration.

Dolt.

re: #10 Ward Cleaver

Next up - Walt and Mearsheimer (tag team).

Or Juan Cole.

The Left has shame?

What do you know. What do they know?

Moonbats and CAIR blame "Israel Lobby" in 5...4...3...2...1...

I guess he wasn't radical enough

re: #14 buzzsawmonkey

This way he doesn't have to tell anyone how thoroughly he's been Saudi-mized.

He didn't have to confirmed so he could have tried to hang tough. Somebody got to him.

re: #9 Nevergiveup

Did Blair pick Freeman?

Yes. What does this say about this guy's judgment?

A PURIM PRESENT!

re: #17 Ward Cleaver

Moonbats and CAIR blame "Israel Lobby" in 5...4...3...2...1...

Let em!

re: #7 Occasional Reader

The plans for the Death Star are NOT in the main computer.

re: #20 MJ

Yes. What does this say about this guy's judgment?

Everything we have to know.

re: #15 Occasional Reader

Or Juan Cole.

Or Justin Raimondo.

The Vast Right Wing Conspiracy Strikes Again.

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

You'd think these failures would start adding up sooner or later. Maybe the MSM has a new octomom angle to cover instead.

Good. Metaphor in music follows:

re: #21 insanity police

A PURIM PRESENT!

Pass me a hamantaschen (poppy seed if you please)!

re: #3 Occasional Reader

As I just posted: EAT IT, you Jew-hating, Saudi-sucking, Commie-defending bastage!

...but tell us how you really feel, O.R.! :-)

Blair's letter of support of Freeman to Congress:

[Link: www.politico.com...]

re: #27 screaming_eagle

You'd think these failures would start adding up sooner or later. Maybe the MSM has a new octomom angle to cover instead.

So Freeman is the Octodad?

re: #23 oh_dude

The plans for the Death Star are NOT in the main computer.

Excellent. It's the "Death Magen", by the way.

At least he had the decency to throw himself under the bus.

re: #23 oh_dude

The plans for the Death Star are NOT in the main computer.

Speaking of a Death Star...
[Link: mypetjawa.mu.nu...]

re: #29 Ward Cleaver

Pass me a hamantaschen (poppy seed if you please)!

I just ate one!

Wonder if Robert Fisk will get the call...

Somebody send him a crescent of regret.

LOL, couldn't happen to a nicer guy... go figure

//

I do not think that the request to withdraw was accepted with 'regret".
I think that this guy was pushed. He was generating some bad publicity & Obama wants everyone to focus on the new puppy, while he punishes the Middle Class.

The bigger story is why he was chosen in the 1st place. This guy has no business in a council that has the word intelligence in it.

re: #38 Boxy_brown

Wonder if Robert Fisk will get the call...

GAH!

Warn me before you post something like that.

re: #3 Occasional Reader

As I just posted: EAT IT, you Jew-hating, Saudi-sucking, Commie-defending bastage!

I find myself with a real urge to look up his address and send him a basket full of hamentaschen for him to enjoy while he looks for his next job.

I'm hoping I might push his Jew-hatred over the edge enough that his head might explode. It kind of looks like it's about to already.

Amateur hour continues.

We'll get someone just as bad but without the public statements.
I can't imagine anything else.

BTW, I believe Ward Churchill's looking for a job.

re: #13 vxbush

Okay, let me post this here (copied up from the thread below):

Given Freeman's desire to not be nominated and given the number of open positions, especially in the Treasury, why haven't I heard as many comparison's between Obama's administration filling up slowly and the delay Bush had in getting his administrative positions filled with the wait for the courts to finish reviewing the Florida results in 2000?

I mean, in this case, Obama won it (I won't say fair and square as I have serious misgivings about Acorn). He had time to get people lined up. He has seriously dropped the ball just in filling out the employees he needs to run his administration.

Dolt.

Indeed. Even Bush's harshest critics give him high marks for the smoothness of his transition, especially given that so much of the work going into it was delayed for a month and a half. At this point, Bush had most of his key people nominated and/or already approved, after only a couple of weeks on the job following election certification.

Good news. Now if the MSM can pull its head out of the sunless regions, recognize the pattern and do its job it just might salvage its credibility. Not likely but I'm an optimist...a very weary optimist.

i've been following politics since lbj was president.
never, never have i seen this many nominees pull out or disqualified for any reason. what the heck is wrong with obama's vetting and selection process? usually the prez's chioces sail right thru to comfermation. the rare exceptions are ones that are extreamist, or have high powered enemies, or "undiscovered" skeletons the vetting crew missed.
but this guy has had a couple dozen aborted nominations for everything from tax issues to foriegen influence problems. they should have never made to serious consideration, much less actual nomination.
what a noob.

re: #42 KenJen

The bigger story is why he was chosen in the 1st place. This guy has no business in a council that has the word intelligence in it.

My favorite quote that I read today said something like: Don't attribute to malice what can more easily be explained by incompetence.

I can't figure out whether B.O. is the former or the later.

re: #37 insanity police

I just ate one!

I gotta find a place around Dallas that sells them. Maybe Simon David, or the Tom Thumb at Preston-Forest (they have a kosher meat dept).

Boo freaking Hoo, mr. chairman. Maybe one of the Gitmo detainees would like the job?/

re: #13 vxbush

Okay, let me post this here (copied up from the thread below):

Given Freeman's desire to not be nominated and given the number of open positions, especially in the Treasury, why haven't I heard as many comparison's between Obama's administration filling up slowly and the delay Bush had in getting his administrative positions filled with the wait for the courts to finish reviewing the Florida results in 2000?

I mean, in this case, Obama won it (I won't say fair and square as I have serious misgivings about Acorn). He had time to get people lined up. He has seriously dropped the ball just in filling out the employees he needs to run his administration.

Dolt.

This time, Acorn's cheating didn't tip the result. In a squeaky-clean election, Obama would have won anyhow. Maybe a state or two would have gone the other way, but the election as a whole would have come to the same result.

This is good news of sorts. It shows that Obama isn't dead set on putting in place a team of people that are publicly and openly radical. Either he doesn't really want radicals, or there are forces at play besides his own wishes and he has to take them into account and proceed cautiously. Whichever it is, it's good news.

re: #31 MJ

Blair's letter of support of Freeman to Congress:

[Link: www.politico.com...]

Thank you for posting that. It is now clear that Blair needs to be fired immediately. He's not the night manager at Taco Bell. This is an important job he has. People's lives are at stake.

Way to go Rush...

With all the nominee's bailing and the sorry picks that have already been confirmed, there is still no one in the administration who can actually make a decent decision on anything.
This administration is like a slow motion train wreck.
This would actually be good entertainment if it wasn't for our lives and livelihoods hanging in the balance!

re: #43 vxbush

Warn me before you post something like that.

Warning: Boxy Browns posts are not fit for human consumption.

re: #45 snakedoctor

Amateur hour continues.

"Round and round and round she goes, where she stops, nobody knows!"

/ted mack

re: #19 Nevergiveup

He didn't have to confirmed so he could have tried to hang tough. Somebody got to him.

I agree. He was putting up a fight and only yesterday his son threatened to punch people who badmouthed him. Something must have come up today that made him do such a quick about-face.

re: #50 cannon2

never, never have i seen this many nominees pull out or disqualified for any reason. what the heck is wrong with obama's vetting and selection process?

I think we need to resuscitate "The Gong Show", for a special Obama Appointees episode.

re: #14 buzzsawmonkey

This way he doesn't have to tell anyone how thoroughly he's been Saudi-mized.

LOL! Jimmah too.

re: #1 Nevergiveup

I think it is the first good news in weeks. That is until we see who his replacement is?

From the previous thread:

#1 zombie
iPhone post! The the first time I've seen that.

Two threads in a row! But both times, they were legitimate uses.

re: #41 opnion

I do not think that the request to withdraw was accepted with 'regret".
I think that this guy was pushed. He was generating some bad publicity & Obama wants everyone to focus on the new puppy, while he punishes the Middle Class.

What does Geitner have to do with this?

I humbly submit

Sandy Burgler

in his place

/

re: #50 cannon2

i've been following politics since lbj was president.
never, never have i seen this many nominees pull out or disqualified for any reason. what the heck is wrong with obama's vetting and selection process?

Mebbe the same thing that's wrong with our presidential candidate selection process.

/cough-cough

Does LGF's Charles ever go by Chas?

By the way, all the Republicans on the Senate Intelligence Committee came out against Blair. Not one Democrat would go against his party.
The Democrats continue to sell Jews out.

Here's the letter that the Republican membership of the Senate Intelligence Committee sent Dennis Blair :

[Link: theplumline.whorunsgov.com...]

re: #51 insanity police

My favorite quote that I read today said something like: Don't attribute to malice what can more easily be explained by incompetence.

I can't figure out whether B.O. is the former or the later.

Both. They are not mutually exclusive.

re: #3 Occasional Reader

As I just posted: EAT IT, you Jew-hating, Saudi-sucking, Commie-defending bastage!

Aw, but wasn't he the perfect guy to try to get the Chinese to play a little softer with Barry?

/

re: #57 who is john galt

This administration is like a slow motion train wreck.

You'd prefer it at high speed?

re: #67 insanity police

Does LGF's Charles ever go by Chas?

Only liberal Charles go by the name Chas.

Ya gotta wonder - what was it that Freeman was suddenly so anxious to keep from becoming public? His public statements seem inflammatory enough, but aren't really sufficient to derail his appointment.

What else has he said or written? Who else has he associated with?

And who did the Administration get to run their vetting process? Are they counting hoof stomps to validate these candidates?

re: #70 funky chicken

Aw, but wasn't he the perfect guy to try to get the Chinese to play a little softer with Barry?

/

Egads... I hope Freeman doesn't hose himself down and strip down to his underwear.

re: #52 Ward Cleaver

I gotta find a place around Dallas that sells them. Maybe Simon David, or the Tom Thumb at Preston-Forest (they have a kosher meat dept).

Somewhere I got the idea you were up in Plano.
TT-Preston/Forest made me do a double-take.
I shop there sometimes, but usually up at TT-Preston/Belt Line.

What concerns me about the Obama administration is the fact that so many of these skunks like Freeman are being appointed to positions of power with apparently no vetting.

So either the Obama administration is incompetent and sloppy and allowing dangerous radicals to be appointed or they are knowingly appointing dangerous radicals to positions of power

It's Lose-Lose for America either way

Boy, this administration is just batting 1000, aren't they?
/

re: #68 MJ

By the way, all the Republicans on the Senate Intelligence Committee came out against Blair. Not one Democrat would go against his party.
The Democrats continue to sell Jews out.

Here's the letter that the Republican membership of the Senate Intelligence Committee sent Dennis Blair :

[Link: theplumline.whorunsgov.com...]

Maybe it will occur to my Jewish relatives and friends that the Democratic Party, as now constituted, is no friend of Israel. Or maybe I'm just wildly optimistic?

vetting ?

the Clintons would not allow vetting, remember them ?

this is just Clinton's on steroids

re: #77 tackle

Boy, this administration is just batting 1000, aren't they?
/

They're the Ted Williams of crappy picks.

re: #72 KenJen

Only liberal Charles go by the name Chas.

His evil twin, the one with the goatee.

re: #63 zombie

Two threads in a row! But both times, they were legitimate uses.

Context counts.

re: #71 itellu3times

You'd prefer it at high speed?

I prefer I wasn't on the train!

I feel like singing "Another one under the bus" to the tune of "Another one Bites the Dust."

re: #75 pre-Boomer Marine brat

Somewhere I got the idea you were up in Plano.
TT-Preston/Forest made me do a double-take.
I shop there sometimes, but usually up at TT-Preston/Belt Line.

I dig the big lighted menorah they put up in that shopping center, for Hanukkah.

I missed the Steve Martin thread. Damn. We could have had an insult contest. (Roxanne)

re: #73 SixDegrees

Ya gotta wonder - what was it that Freeman was suddenly so anxious to keep from becoming public? His public statements seem inflammatory enough, but aren't really sufficient to derail his appointment.

Word is that there was tons more Saudi money to his foundation than previously admitted.

re: #81 Boxy_brown

His evil twin, the one with the goatee.

On Evil LGF, you have the upding button, the downding button, and the "agonizer" button.

re: #80 livefreeor die

They're the Ted Williams of crappy picks.

Don't associate a patriot and a great ballplayer with these jack asses

re: #53 CapeCoddah

Boo freaking Hoo, mr. chairman. Maybe one of the Gitmo detainees would like the job?/

I humbly nominate Bill Ayers for the position.

re: #14 buzzsawmonkey

This way he doesn't have to tell anyone how thoroughly he's been Saudi-mized.

Couldn't you be a little Qaida with the off-color remarks?

I believe it shows that Obama is dead set on putting in place a team of people that are publicly and openly radical or corrupt. He is just not getting his way thanks to freedom of speech, vetting testimonies and disclosures.

We could be seeing a new rejection record in the making.

re: #91 zombie

I humbly nominate Bill Ayers for the position.

He'd prolly get it.

re: #91 zombie

I humbly nominate Bill Ayers for the position.

I'll second his nomination if he can get a security clearance. Boy I'd like to be in on that board?

re: #39 itellu3times

Somebody send him a crescent of regret.

That's . not . nice.

LOL

re: #72 KenJen

Only liberal Charles go by the name Chas.

I wonder why that is? Chas is kind of a cool abreviation. We should call liberals Ches instead.

hey, if Gitmo is closing

Khalid Sheik Mohammed is going to need a job

any chance 0bama would nominate him ?

The White House has released this clip in response to the latest news

Speaking of Dennis Blair... Venezuelan newspaper El Universal reports that Blair also stated that Hugo Chavez still supports the FARC.

re: #86 Ward Cleaver

I dig the big lighted menorah they put up in that shopping center, for Hanukkah.

Are you aware that they're expanding that store?
TT took at least one space to the east.
It might be completed by now.

re: #17 Ward Cleaver

Moonbats and CAIR blame "Israel Lobby" in 5...4...3...2...1...

Apparently that had already started before this announcement:

Freeman is a one-of-a-kind choice: with an impeccably establishment pedigree, Freeman has developed over the years a startling propensity to speak truth to power, which is precisely what one would want in a NIC chairman. Over the last decade, he's excoriated Israel for its stubborn refusal to compromise with the Palestinians, he's accused George W, Bush and the "neocons" of having pushed America over a cliff in Iraq, and he's ridiculed the military-industrial complex for trying to tout China as a bugaboo because, Freeman once told me, the Pentagon has suffered from "enemy deprivation syndrome" since the end of the Cold War.

...But the firestorm directed at Freeman didn't start with Schoenfeld. It began with alarmist postings on a blog by Steve Rosen, the former official of the American-Israeli Public Affairs Committee who's been indicted for pro-Israeli espionage in a long-running AIPAC scandal. Rosen, whose blog is entitled "Obama Mideast Monitor," is published by the Middle East Forum, a rabid, right-wing Zionist outlet led by Daniel Pipes, whose Middle East Quarterly is edited by Michael Rubin of the American Enterprise Institute...

...The Steve Rosen blast, which was followed up by Rosen here and here, richocheted around various AIPAC-linked blogs until it was picked up by (of course) Fox News on Monday. Fox settled on Frank Gaffney, an extremist, right-wing Zionist who leads the Center for Security Policy, to blast Freeman:...

...Marty Peretz, the arch defender of Israeli depradations, weighs in too at The New Republic:...

...And today, the smearing of Freeman landed on page 15 of the Wall Street Journal...

Freeman needs more defenders. The campaign by AIPAC, AEI, Pipes, the Wall Street Journal and their ilk can only be expected to intensify, using lots of muscle behind the scenes to pressure the White House, and Admiral Blair, to capitulate.

re: #100 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

The White House has released this clip in response to the latest news

LOL!

Yea! Finally, one thing halfway right. Now, zero can work on the State Dept's attitude and protocol ; [Link: www.mererhetoric.com...]

re: #92 pre-Boomer Marine brat

Couldn't you be a little Qaida with the off-color remarks?

Indeed... poor Chas, wahabbi done to deserve such treatment from buzzsaw?

Conspiracy caller on Medved is onto the hidden chambers under DIA.

CODE ORANGE CONTAINMENT!
CODE ORANGE CONTAINMENT!
CODE ORANGE CONTAINMENT!

I would sure like to knock his punk son on his ass.

Just in case some of you missed it, here's an antisemitic letter Chas Freeman's son published the other day:

Note to Peretz, Chait and Kirchick: It's Clobberin' Time!

My father, Chas Freeman, was recently appointed to chair the National Intelligence Council, an important but not political position that operates as editor-in-chief of "big think" analysis of foreign policy for the President.

A cabal of ideological hardliners has orchestrated a remarkable, self-referential smear campaign against my Dad's appointment, dragging Congress and the political process into this non-political sphere. They are wrong to do it, and not just because my Dad is involved.

Let me say that I have had my disagreements with my father over the years.

I am a lifelong Republican. My Dad's politics are less easily defined (and his decision to join the Obama administration is the most damning thing I can say about him). I toiled in the boiler rooms of the George W. Bush administration at a time when my Dad was organizing a mutiny of former statesmen and military men to warn that the President was about to ground the ship of state.

We have argued over China policy, Middle East policy and every other conceivable policy: my Dad's a born arguer and a born contrarian. He likes to challenge established viewpoints and conventional wisdom. I'm more likely to guard my flank against political attack.

So the attack by groups interested in issues about which he's been impolitic in the past doesn't particularly surprise him (or me). My Dad has been vocal on the dangers of established maxims about blind faith (in Israel) and blind antagonism (with China). That will get you in trouble quick, and it has, if you have any political sensibility.

The problem with - and the great virtue of - my Dad is that he has no political sensibility at all.

Things none of us would say while we watch our flanks, he says flippantly. He jabs at Congressional perfidies and at established wisdoms and has punched the odd sacred cow in the face. But he's seriously smart.

As the smartest person I know said about my Dad: "oh, he's scary smart." He's a curmudgeon with a stiletto for a mind. He has the capacity to force the intelligence community to begin asking the questions that need to be asked, as opposed to the questions that they think will generate the answers that best suit the political framework that may have generated the question. Just the kind of person who should be asking the big questions about intelligence.

His appointment is being challenged these days by a small cabal of folks that believe first and foremost in the importance of allegiance to Israel as a core U.S. priority. Putting aside my natural instinct as a son to want to punch some of these guys in the face for some of the things they are saying about my father, for heaven's sake, I'm more deeply angry about the lack of guile some of these people have.

Steve Rosen (what do you say about someone on indictment for espionage calling someone else un-American (ANSWER: chutzpah!), Jon Chait (who has scaled new lows); someone who used to be someone in Soviet studies named Gabriel Schoenfeld; the unpleasant Marty Peretz; and the usual lurid commentators from the comic book approach to international affairs (the nasty, narrow, dogmatic children from NRO and their ilk (although I'm glad you changed your mind about marching for Pride in Jerusalem, Jamie). Goodness!

I do think it's perfectly acceptable to be more loyal to Israel, even as an American citizen. But I also think that should disqualify you from any serious discussion about American interests in the Middle East...

Rest here:
[Link: www.thewashingtonnote.com...]

re: #98 Adrenalyn

hey, if Gitmo is closing

Khalid Sheik Mohammed is going to need a job

any chance 0bama would nominate him ?

He'd have to fight it out with Columbia U., who would promptly offer KSM a tenured position.

re: #76 Shug

they are knowingly appointing dangerous radicals to positions of power

Of course they are. Obama has preferred the company of dangerous radicals for over 20 years. I certainly didn't expect that to change just because 52% of American voters are idiots.

sign outside the White House

HELP WANTED
NO EXPERIENCE PREFERRED
NO CREDIT CHECK / NO PROBLEM

re: #106 Occasional Reader

Indeed... poor Chas, wahabbi done to deserve such treatment from buzzsaw?

We should Riyadh Buzz outta town on a rail!

Hugo Chavez needs to give Obama lessons in Dictatorship 101. Obama is still getting his sea-legs. As Chavez has pointed out, turning a country socialist doesn't happen overnight. He's been trying for ten years and he's only halfway there. Obama's bumbling and blundering now, but give him three years of on-the-job training. He'll be more of an expert at pushing these traitors into positions of power.

We're laughing now, but we must NEVER let our guard down.

hey, maybe 0bama's illegal alien auntie could use the gig ?

re: #74 Occasional Reader

Egads... I hope Freeman doesn't hose himself down and strip down to his underwear.

Curse those clever Chinese and their ship-to-ship torture!

OT, got this in an email. Did you all know about this:
Obama Signs Presidential Determination Allowing Palestinians Loyal to Hamas to Resettle In US

President Barack Obama has signed an executive order presidential determination allowing hundreds of thousands of Palestinians to resettle in the United States. Sure, what can go wrong when we allow hundreds of thousands of people who have been,

as Mark Steyn memorably described, "marinated" in a "sick death cult," who voted for Hamas, and 55% of whom support suicide bombings live here and at the American taxpayers' expense:

By executive order, President Barack Obama has ordered the expenditure of $20.3 million in migration assistance to the Palestinian refugees and conflict victims in Gaza.

The "presidential determination" which allows hundreds of thousands of Palestinians with ties to Hamas to resettle in the United States was signed on January 27 and appeared in the Federal Register on February 4.

President Obama's decision, according to the Register, was necessitated by "the urgent refugee and migration needs" of the "victims."

Few on Capitol Hill took note that the order provides a free ticket replete with housing and food allowances to individuals who have displayed their overwhelming support of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) in the parliamentary election of January 2006.

thefederalregister.com

The last thing we needed was some one with extremely close ties to China and Saudi Arabia to have the nation's top security clearance.

/what was Blair even thinking, does China need any more help with their espionage?

Update: As a consolation prize, Freeman is being presented with a plastic "Marine One" model from the White House Gift Shop.

re: #111 funky chicken

Of course they are. Obama has preferred the company of dangerous radicals for over 20 years. I certainly didn't expect that to change just because 52% of American voters are idiots.

Precisely.
I wish I had more up-dings!

re: #75 pre-Boomer Marine brat

AWWW>MWAH!

re: #115 Adrenalyn

hey, maybe 0bama's illegal alien auntie could use the gig ?

Or Michelle Obama. At least she might pick up some tips on diplomacy in the process.

re: #106 Occasional Reader

Indeed... poor Chas, wahabbi done to deserve such treatment from buzzsaw?

You're the one usually stirring up Shiite.

re: #84 Nevergiveup

I prefer I wasn't on the train!

Trouble ahead,
Trouble behind,
And you know that notion
just crossed my mind.

re: #119 Occasional Reader

Update: As a consolation prize, Freeman is being presented with a plastic "Marine One" model from the White House Gift Shop.

lol

re: #76 Shug

What concerns me about the Obama administration is the fact that so many of these skunks like Freeman are being appointed to positions of power with apparently no vetting.

So either the Obama administration is incompetent and sloppy and allowing dangerous radicals to be appointed or they are knowingly appointing dangerous radicals to positions of power

It's Lose-Lose for America either way

I'm in the "incompetent" camp. It explains pretty much everything we've seen so far.

It also partially explains the high rate of dropouts. People accept the nomination, then get to meet the President and his staff...then bail with the realization that there isn't a hand on the tiller and their careers will be short and ruinous.

Could also be a continuation of Judd Gregg's problem. He bailed when he found out that the core of his job would be gutted and handed off to Rahm Emmanuel, making his position as Commerce Secretary less than meaningless. It could be that similar machinations are at work with these other nominations, and the candidates are withdrawing when they find out they won't really be in charge of anything.

This also dovetails nicely with the extreme narcissism explanations floated here recently. A narcissist often surrounds himself either with complete incompetents - in order to make himself shine more brightly in comparison - or undermines those with actual talent in order to avoid less than flattering comparisons down the road.

Hit the road Chas and don't get run over by your own Bentley.

re: #76 Shug

They've got herds of skunks to choose from. But even the current president's captive media are starting to talk about the rash of non-starters. So, to paraphrase Churchill, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our Island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender...
and in the end, maybe their treachery will destroy themselves.

re: #88 Carl B

Word is that there was tons more Saudi money to his foundation than previously admitted.

Hmmm. Someone might want to look into that.

good news: this danger to the nation is sidelined

re: #124 itellu3times

Trouble ahead,
Trouble behind,
And you know that notion
just crossed my mind.

Kinda catchy. You should take that verse and make it into a song!

re: #115 Adrenalyn

hey, maybe 0bama's illegal alien auntie could use the gig ?

She's teed up for Director of US Customs and Immigration Service.

The NIC Chairman post is gonna go to Sami Al-Arian, as soon as his trial is finished.

(I keep trying to come up with a worst-case-scenario that is too terrible to actually happen. So far Obama keeps proving me wrong.)

re: #119 Occasional Reader

Update: As a consolation prize, Freeman is being presented with a plastic "Marine One" model from the White House Gift Shop.

/it's Diplobamacy!

re: #121 goddessoftheclassroom

AWWW>MWAH!

Awww, INDEED!
MWAH!

re: #114 zombie

Hugo Chavez needs to give Obama lessons in Dictatorship 101. Obama is still getting his sea-legs. As Chavez has pointed out, turning a country socialist doesn't happen overnight. He's been trying for ten years and he's only halfway there. Obama's bumbling and blundering now, but give him three years of on-the-job training. He'll be more of an expert at pushing these traitors into positions of power.

We're laughing now, but we must NEVER let our guard down.

Agreed, but Obama is bumbling and blundering on a scale that I have never seen in a new president. He might not last those three years.

It can't be because he owes taxes, that's part of the BO job selection criteria, so it must be some other skeletons rattling around in his closet.

re: #131 Truck Monkey

Kinda catchy. You should take that verse and make it into a song!

Let me guess, you're an out-of-work intellectual property lawyer?

He must have paid his taxes.

Well, to those of us actually, you know, PAYING ATTENTION, Obama is pretty much performing as we expected - the inexperienced, untested amateur is making every rookie mistake in the book. What I find more interesting is that he seems to make the same mistakes OVER AND OVER again. When the hell is he going to start actually vetting his nominees? When is he going to start picking people who actually know WTF they are doing, as opposed to "fellow travelers" who believe his "hope and change" bullshit?

That having been said, thank God we are seeing the last of Chas Freeman, a truly vile, unpatriotic and racist/anti-semitic asshole.

My Dad has been vocal on the dangers of established maxims about blind faith (in Israel) and blind antagonism (with China).

Yeah, well, about that whole China thing...unless you think those Chinese navy guys were just a little lonely and bored and looking to tie up along side for a nice picnic or something, um...

re: #130 Ayatollah Ghilmeini

good news: this danger to the nation is sidelined

Bad news- there is more where that came from. . .

re: #119 Occasional Reader

Update: As a consolation prize, Freeman is being presented with a plastic "Marine One" model from the White House Gift Shop.

And a packaged set of DVD's.

it is not surprising at all that o can not get anyone thru the confirmation process.
his whole life before he was elected he surrounded himself w/ unsavory people.
all the chicago political blaggo thugs, the horrid rev. wright, ayers, pfleger, rezko.
etc,
he doesn't know anyone but haters, thieves and immoral people.
how many have dropped out because they are tax cheats or are being investigated for corruption like bill richardson.
daschle, killefer, ron kirk, and geithner himself. a den of thieves.
this is the caliber of people o knows. all bad apples, just like him.
when the dems can't get someone thru the process, that nominee is
way worse than it appears.

Freeman took a look at his unpaid tax bill and said, "Screw it. Not worth it."

/

re: #144 DEZes

And a packaged set of DVD's.

Of Chinese naval personnel performing Gilbert & Sullivan classical music numbers.

re: #136 USBeast

Agreed, but Obama is bumbling and blundering on a scale that I have never seen in a new president. He might not last those three years.

We might not last those three years.

re: #136 USBeast

Agreed, but Obama is bumbling and blundering on a scale that I have never seen in a new president. He might not last those three years.

Hey, everyone-lay off! The poor guy is tired!
/

re: #136 USBeast

Agreed, but Obama is bumbling and blundering on a scale that I have never seen in a new president. He might not last those three years.

No unfortunately he will last his full 4 years. It is us I am worried about.

CHARLES (and/or any other alert Lizards)

Is anyone keeping a list of Obama "picks" that aren't panning out one way or another. i'm not even talking about the likes of Giethner getting the position even with the tax issue. i'm talking about the Richardsons, Guptas, Ron Kirk, Daschle ,,,

re: #133 ploome hineni

one of the ugliest articles I have read in a long time

Agreed. Let's note that it appeared in Time magazine.

re: #136 USBeast

Agreed, but Obama is bumbling and blundering on a scale that I have never seen in a new president. He might not last those three years.

Name me the 51% of congressmen who would ever vote to impeach him.

Obama is safe, safe, safe from any impeachment for the next four years. No matter what he does. Because no way will Pelosi and Reid allow a single Democrat to ever vote for impeachment, ever.

re: #117 newsjunkie_ky

OT, got this in an email. Did you all know about this:
Obama Signs Presidential Determination Allowing Palestinians Loyal to Hamas to Resettle In US

This has been repeatedly raised by posters here, and repeatedly debunked.

re: #109 MJ

Just in case some of you missed it, here's an antisemitic letter Chas Freeman's son published the other day

I dunno if that's antisemitic as such, I dunno if I'd even want to say that about Chas. Effectively, yes, but. Let's take son's word that dad just likes being contrarian, and maybe son follows in that too - at least as far as not having made any commitment in his own mind to just who is right and why in the middle east.

/boy that check from them better clear soon ...

re: #147 OldLineTexan
Good one.

re: #117 newsjunkie_ky

is that true? If so, really, WTF?

re: #156 DEZes

Good one.

That episode is SEARED into my mind, I tells ya.

/

re: #136 USBeast

Agreed, but Obama is bumbling and blundering on a scale that I have never seen in a new president. He might not last those three years.

Yes, but the media is painfully slow in reporting it. They'll prop him up as long as they can.

Watching Obama putting his Cabinet together has been like watching the little circus car roaring into the center ring, backfiring and belching smoke, ... and 487 clowns leap out and do asinine things.

re: #148 Kosh's Shadow

We might not last those three years.

Yes we will. We're Americans.

in a way, maybe this is a bad thing, because it's just going to be fuel for the neo-nazis "Look at the power of the Jew lobby" fire...

re: #141 funky chicken

Yeah, well, about that whole China thing...unless you think those Chinese navy guys were just a little lonely and bored and looking to tie up along side for a nice picnic or something, um...

It was a spy ship electronically monitoring a Chinese submarine base.

/who was right depends on where the ship was located at the time

re: #17 Ward Cleaver

Moonbats and CAIR blame "Israel Lobby" in 5...4...3...2...1...

Freeman's son essentially did just that.

The One is trying to take this anti-Bush persona a little too far, it seems.

Bush appointed pro-Israel people, so by default, I must appoint anti-Israel pro-Islamofascists.

re: #117 newsjunkie_ky

OT, got this in an email. Did you all know about this:
Obama Signs Presidential Determination Allowing Palestinians Loyal to Hamas to Resettle In US

President Barack Obama has signed an executive order presidential determination allowing hundreds of thousands of Palestinians to resettle in the United States. Sure, what can go wrong when we allow hundreds of thousands of people who have been,

as Mark Steyn memorably described, "marinated" in a "sick death cult," who voted for Hamas, and 55% of whom support suicide bombings live here and at the American taxpayers' expense:

By executive order, President Barack Obama has ordered the expenditure of $20.3 million in migration assistance to the Palestinian refugees and conflict victims in Gaza.

The "presidential determination" which allows hundreds of thousands of Palestinians with ties to Hamas to resettle in the United States was signed on January 27 and appeared in the Federal Register on February 4.

President Obama's decision, according to the Register, was necessitated by "the urgent refugee and migration needs" of the "victims."

Few on Capitol Hill took note that the order provides a free ticket replete with housing and food allowances to individuals who have displayed their overwhelming support of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) in the parliamentary election of January 2006.

thefederalregister.com

Is this for real? Looks like the new cottage industry here will be suicide belts..I do hope they design some patterns, Style and Colors.
Cause if you are going to go out with a bang..You really should look Fabulous
///

bad news: this will make some people already unhappy with Israel and her supporters even more unhappy.

Freeman is bad news all the way around. He expressed very disturbing and extremist views. The bad news is the next guy may not have such a public trail and may, if its possible be worse.

I bet his nickname among the Saudi Royal Family was "Footstool."

Need to go see how the Kozzies and Huffpos are taking this; it would be terrible if Norman Finkelstein's readers were stroking out across the blogosphere.

re: #161 USBeast

Yes we will. We're Americans.

I was in Radio City Music Hall last night with all them Liberals. I am not so sure what an American is anymore?

re: #154 Occasional Reader

OK, good.

KOS, Huffington Post, Neo Nazi, Jihadists, Arab -and similar loon site- articles insisting this is proof that Zionist control the US in 10...9...8...

re: #162 rollwave87

in a way, maybe this is a bad thing, because it's just going to be fuel for the neo-nazis "Look at the power of the Jew lobby" fire...

Then we need to point out the NON JEWS who also opposed this asshat's chance. . .notice how they are usually left off of lists of this nature. . .

Hey, there was a logical explanation in the article for Freeman's positions, you all just missed it...

Today at a Senate hearing, Blair faced questions about the perception that Freeman is anti-Israel and pro-Saudi Arabia and pro-China, as critics have alleged. Blair said Freeman was being taken out of context.

All fixed.

/// (fucking porker)

re: #133 ploome hineni

one of the ugliest articles I have read in a long time

The Assault on Chas Freeman

there was the rabid opposition of the professional Jewish community--some of them moderates like Jeff Goldberg, others full-fledged members of the Israel lobby, like former AIPAC honcho Steven Cohen Rosen, others from the neo-hysterical Commentary crowd...perpetrators of the OMG nutsiness about Obama on a range of issues, in this case: OH MY GOD, he's selling out Israel!

In recent days, however, two very reliable sources--at least, I find them so--have made strong arguments in Freeman's defense.

who made the absolutely essential argument that Freeman's contrarian nature is precisely what you need at the National Intelligence Council. (One can only imagine the sort of rigor Freeman would have brought to the disgraceful October 2002 National Intelligence Estimate on Iraq...or even to the 2007 NIE about Iran's cessation of its nuclear program.)

The second argument comes from Andrew Sullivan, who reconstructs the history of the campaign against Freeman--and finds it launched primarily by neoconservatives, who don't like Freeman's position on Israel. Sullivan notes that Jeff Goldberg, who favors a two-state solution and has criticized the Israeli settler movement, bases his case against Freeman on a single speech. It's a pretty tough speech, filled with the sort of, well, candor, that rarely is heard in Washington when it comes to Israel.

when in a corner BLAME THE FKN JEWS AGAIN

and ignore

Chinese Dissidents Ask Obama to Reconsider Freeman Appointment

Ploome, for today's Liberals, the only qualification one needs is to be anti-Israel. There are a few exceptions though. The TNR has been out in front in opposing this nomination and Jeffrey Goldberg, also at the Atlantic has been out-spoken against Freeman. But in the main, Democrats were more then willing to allow a flat out Jew-hating scum be appointed to this position because he is a Jew-hating piece of crap.

Al Franken could always use it, should he not be able to steal the Senate seat

or they could nominate this person

re: #165 HoosierHoops

Is this for real?

No. (The order is for real, but it's not about bringing Palis here... and Bush signed one just like it.) See my link above.

re: #163 Killian Bundy

So, they weren't looking for a picnic then? What a shame.

/

Need to go see how the Kozzies and Huffpos are taking this; it would be terrible if Norman Finkelstein's readers were stroking out across the blogosphere.

Don't go there Ema. . .just shut yer trap. . .Ema, be a mensch

ok, I know this is a serious breah of protocol
jumping right past dare, double dare and right to triple-dog-dare

he'll nominate Osama Bin Laden

With global oil prices in the tank, I wonder if some of the Saudi money to liberal think tanks/ people like Freeman is drying up?

At least he doesn't have to worry about being on The One's Wiki page.

re: #50 cannon2

I believe we'll see more zingers like an unprecedented number of resignations starting with Treasury Sec Geithner who is flailing miserably alone without any help for our economy from any place else in the White House.

re: #151 sattv4u2

CHARLES (and/or any other alert Lizards)

Is anyone keeping a list of Obama "picks" that aren't panning out one way or another. i'm not even talking about the likes of Giethner getting the position even with the tax issue. i'm talking about the Richardsons, Guptas, Ron Kirk, Daschle ,,,

In all seriousness, I think they would have better luck getting names from a phonebook. Remember that news show along the lines of "everybody has a story" where the reporter threw a dart at a map and then he found some random person to do an interview? That's what we should do. I'd love to see an average citizen take a crack at some of these appointments.

re: #155 itellu3times

I dunno if that's antisemitic as such, I dunno if I'd even want to say that about Chas. Effectively, yes, but. Let's take son's word that dad just likes being contrarian, and maybe son follows in that too - at least as far as not having made any commitment in his own mind to just who is right and why in the middle east.

/boy that check from them better clear soon ...

it's antisemitic. He brings up the dual-loyalty charge, he addresses to just Jews who were opposed to Freeman's nomination ( ignoring Human Rights Watch! ) as well as Chinese dissident and he digs in a nice Yiddish word as a coup de grace in order to remind everyone he's addressing this to Jews.

re: #178 chicagodudewhotrades

With global oil prices in the tank

What worries me is that they're creeping back up.

To MJ Rosenberg of the Israel Policy Hating Forum- Suck it up.

re: #153 zombie

Name me the 51% of congressmen who would ever vote to impeach him.

Obama is safe, safe, safe from any impeachment for the next four years. No matter what he does. Because no way will Pelosi and Reid allow a single Democrat to ever vote for impeachment, ever.

As the House and Senate stand now, yes. But if the Unholy Trinity (Obama, Pelosi, and Reid) continue their shenanigans there is a slim chance that there will be a sea change in 2010. I'm not optimistic, but there is hope.

re: #51 insanity police

My favorite quote that I read today said something like: Don't attribute to malice what can more easily be explained by incompetence.

I can't figure out whether B.O. is the former or the later.

All his failing and bailing cabinet picks have to be incompetence. Which illuminates his leadership fiasco's. For instance, did his administration slight the British PM on purpose, or is his administration incompetent? IMO, it is incompetence that is surfacing. Which of course looms scary in light of the rather large budget and stimulus program of this apparent incompetent administration. It would be funny if I lived on Mars.

re: #182 MJ

it's antisemitic. He brings up the dual-loyalty charge, he addresses to just Jews who were opposed to Freeman's nomination ( ignoring Human Rights Watch! ) as well as Chinese dissident and he digs in a nice Yiddish word as a coup de grace in order to remind everyone he's addressing this to Jews.

He must be a friend of Pat Buchanan?

re: #145 nyc redneck
Hey, just looked at my cell phone and saw where I missed your call. Sorry, I've got to start carrying that thing around with me.
Let me know when a good time is and I'll call you.

re: #162 rollwave87

in a way, maybe this is a bad thing, because it's just going to be fuel for the neo-nazis "Look at the power of the Jew lobby" fire...

Yeah, as if they need any excuse other than "Look, Jews are alive in the U.S.! Must be the Jew lobby"

re: #184 Opinionated

To MJ Rosenberg of the Israel Policy Hating Forum- Suck it up.

The New go-to Think-Tank for the Democratic Party on Israel.

re: #154 Occasional Reader

This has been repeatedly raised by posters here, and repeatedly debunked.

OK, missed em. Thanks. Is that site bogus?

re: #153 zombie

Name me the 51% of congressmen who would ever vote to impeach him.

Obama is safe, safe, safe from any impeachment for the next four years. No matter what he does. Because no way will Pelosi and Reid allow a single Democrat to ever vote for impeachment, ever.

Quite true. I'm becoming concerned, however, that he may be headed for some kind of breakdown. He's never actually had to work, never held a job where the buck stopped with him, and he doesn't take criticism well - at all.

It'll be interesting to see his reaction when his "100 days" are up. Even the press seems to be champing at the bit over his bumbling.

Will he have a public meltdown? I've never in my life heard a President - or any world leader - say that his job was making him tired. And after less than two months on the job. Barry isn't running a campaign anymore, and he can't hide behind high-school appearances and scripted press conferences for much longer.

re: #186 filetandrelease

All his failing and bailing cabinet picks have to be incompetence. Which illuminates his leadership fiasco's. For instance, did his administration slight the British PM on purpose, or is his administration incompetent? IMO, it is incompetence that is surfacing. Which of course looms scary in light of the rather large budget and stimulus program of this apparent incompetent administration. It would be funny if I lived on Mars.

And then I bet you would be pissed off at them probes landing on your planet with out permission. And littering the place to boot.

re: #181 tackle

In all seriousness, I think they would have better luck getting names from a phonebook. Remember that news show along the lines of "everybody has a story" where the reporter threw a dart at a map and then he found some random person to do an interview? That's what we should do. I'd love to see an average citizen take a crack at some of these appointments.

William Buckley famously said that he'd rather be governed by the first 2000 names in the Boston telephone directory, than by the faculty of Harvard.

re: #189 Alouette

Yeah, as if they need any excuse other than "Look, Jews are alive in the U.S.! Must be the Jew lobby"

True that. . .how ELSE would we be alive if not through some sort of duplicity. . .

re: #109 MJ

Just in case some of you missed it, here's an antisemitic letter Chas Freeman's son published the other day:

Rest here:
[Link: www.thewashingtonnote.com...]

re: #117 newsjunkie_ky

I call shens...for now.

re: #184 Opinionated

To MJ Rosenberg of the Israel Policy Hating Forum- Suck it up.

MJ would enjoy that. (MJ Rosenberg, not MJ the Lizard)

I get this sick nagging feeling that Obama keeps trying on idiots like Freeman as if they were disposable diapers, to be used to soak up the congressional flak and eventually to be discarded in favour of fresh ones.
All the while intentionally creating the mirage of being surprised and somewhat naive at worst, Obama then appoints an alternate who appears more acceptable.
And so on and so forth.

/Paranoia runs deep.

Biden Sees Conversion of Taliban in Afghanistan

Vice President Joe Biden said at least 70 percent of Taliban guerrillas in Afghanistan are mercenaries who could be persuaded to lay down their arms, stepping up U.S. calls for outreach to “moderate” elements of the insurgency.

If it wasn't official before, it is now.

/Ol' Plugs is out of his [expletive deleted] mind!

Barry's track record for choosing appointees is teh suck.

re: #191 newsjunkie_ky

OK, missed em. Thanks. Is that site bogus?

The site you linked to? I know nothing about it. It is definitely NOT, however, the actual "Federal Register".

re: #189 Alouette

Yeah, as if they need any excuse other than "Look, Jews are alive in the U.S.! Must be the Jew lobby"

good point.

re: #188 newsjunkie_ky

hey {news}, just holler at me when ever you want.
i think i called you sun. but i forgot why. lol

OT: Up on auction – Boeing 727 jet, expected to go for $45,000.

Bid now! Auction closes March 25!

re: #200 Killian Bundy

Biden Sees Conversion of Taliban in Afghanistan

If it wasn't official before, it is now.

/Ol' Plugs is out of his [expletive deleted] mind!

Just wait for the pundits who claim there are moderate elements of Hamas, FATAH, and HizbALLAH to claim that there are NO moderate elements in a group like the Taliban.

Writen prior to the withdrawal:

Obama's National Intelligence Crackpot
What does the Jewish lobby have to do with China's dissidents?

In a recent article about Mr. Freeman's nomination in the Huffington Post, M.J. Rosenberg of the left-wing Israel Policy Forum writes that "Everyone involved in the anti-Freeman effort are staunch allies of the lobby." Of course: Only the most fervid Likudnik mandarins could object to Mr. Freeman's 2006 characterization of Mao Zedong as a man who, for all his flaws, had a "brilliance of . . . personality [that] illuminated the farthest corners of his country and inspired many would-be revolutionaries and romantics beyond it." It also takes a Shanghai Zionist to demur from Mr. Freeman's characterization of the Chinese leadership's response to the "mob scene" at Tiananmen as "a monument to overly cautious behavior on the part of the leadership."

[Link: online.wsj.com...]

Biden warns of 'deteriorating' Afghan situation

[Link: www.breitbart.com...]

Has anyone clued Einstein into the fact that the Afgan War is the GOOD War and that he is no longer in the "loyal" opposition? He is not suppose to be talking the war down?

re: #157 funky chicken

is that true? If so, really, WTF?

see 154.

re: #200 Killian Bundy

Biden Sees Conversion of Taliban in Afghanistan

If it wasn't official before, it is now.

/Ol' Plugs is out of his [expletive deleted] mind!

That sucking sound is Bidens empty head pulling in atmosphere!

re: #200 Killian Bundy

“Five percent of the Taliban is incorrigible, not susceptible to anything other than being defeated,” Biden told a press conference at North Atlantic Treaty Organization headquarters in Brussels today. “Another 25 percent or so are not quite sure, in my view, of the intensity of their commitment to the insurgency. Roughly 70 percent are involved because of the money.”

It's good that Biden has such insight into the mindset of Pashtuns living in caves.

Maybe he can offer them all jobs at those 7-11s in Delaware?

re: #180 Madeline

I believe we'll see more zingers like an unprecedented number of resignations starting with Treasury Sec Geithner who is flailing miserably alone without any help for our economy from any place else in the White House.

We can only hope. Geithner has been a complete, unmitigated disaster. Every time he opens his mouth in public, my retirement recedes by another decade. And he can't even manage to assemble his own appointments - pretty much the entire top tier at Treasure remains vacant, without any nominees in sight, during one of the country's worst economic crises.

Amazing. How many more appointees are going to go through?

He was just another example of the Chicago Way in action: it doesn't matter what someone does or says or what trouble he got himself into with the prosecutors, all that matters is if he's our friend or our enemy. So, of course, he sailed through vetting. He’s a Democrat: what's not to like?

re: #193 Nevergiveup

And then I bet you would be pissed off at them probes landing on your planet with out permission. And littering the place to boot.

Nah, just pick em up and toss em back, you know. like a Frisbee.

re: #198 Spare O'Lake

I get this sick nagging feeling that Obama keeps trying on idiots like Freeman as if they were disposable diapers, to be used to soak up the congressional flak and eventually to be discarded in favour of fresh ones.
All the while intentionally creating the mirage of being surprised and somewhat naive at worst, Obama then appoints an alternate who appears more acceptable.
And so on and so forth.

/Paranoia runs deep.

That's what some people said about the Harriet Meirs strategy.

re: #195 DisturbedEma

True that. . .how ELSE would we be alive if not through some sort of duplicity. . .

"Tricksy Juice! We hates 'em! HATES 'EM!"

re: #185 USBeast

As the House and Senate stand now, yes. But if the Unholy Trinity (Obama, Pelosi, and Reid) continue their shenanigans there is a slim chance that there will be a sea change in 2010. I'm not optimistic, but there is hope.

Even if Republicans took over in 2010 and they were able to muster the votes to impeach, the media would turn it into a sexual, private business thing like they did with Clinton.
And they'd be right because Obama is fucking all of us...

OT - Milton Friedman defending capitalism: [Link: www.cato-at-liberty.org...]

re: #200 Killian Bundy

Biden Sees Conversion of Taliban in Afghanistan

If it wasn't official before, it is now.

/Ol' Plugs is out of his [expletive deleted] mind!

No he is not. This is going to be "OFFICIAL" Obama admin policy. He will sign some kind of agreement with some unfortunate taliban smucks and declare victory and abandon Afghanistan to the wolves.

re: #208 Opinionated

Writen prior to the withdrawal:

Obama's National Intelligence Crackpot
What does the Jewish lobby have to do with China's dissidents?

[Link: online.wsj.com...]

Jews using the Chinese as a smokescreen.

re: #190 MJ

The New go-to Think-Tank for the Democratic Party on Israel.

This incident proves to anyone who needed proof that Rosenberg hates Israel more then he wants "peace".

Maybe even to the Jerusalem Post - who one may hope will stop publishing his crap.

Chas Freeman has admitted accepting a million dollars from the Saudis, and he has earned it by spouting viciously anti-Israel propaganda. Freeman says he was paid for public relations. In his defense of the selection of Chas Freeman, Obama's Director of National Intelligence Dennis Blair praised Freeman's opinions as being different. But if he wanted a different point of view that aligns with that of the Saudis, why didn't he just turn the job over to the Saudi royals? If he really wants something different, he could skip the Saudis and just turn the job over to Al Qaeda.

This is a job that requires someone to know the value of intelligence and be able to distinguish intelligence that has value and something that is little more than a guess. And yet Freeman has absolutely no experience in the generation of intelligence.

This is a job that requires accuracy and sufficient objectivity to be able to guide American foreign policy so that outcomes are predictable. And yet Freeman comes with so much baggage of opinionated statements, and evidence that his values are outside the mainstream. But the job requires the NIC to decide what intelligence the president sees and doesn't see, summaries of intelligence, and interpretations of intelligence. As a paid lobbyist Freeman has formed opinons that would make it difficult or impossible for his work not to be very suspect.

What I find difficult to understand is why Dennis Blair has been so attracted to Chas Freeman for this crucial position, when Freeman lacks the competence to judge the reliability of intelligence and also obviously lacks the objectivity that is needed. Who will he choose as Chas Freeman's successor? Everybody will be watching this time.

re: #145 nyc redneck

it is not surprising at all that o can not get anyone thru the confirmation process.
his whole life before he was elected he surrounded himself w/ unsavory people.
all the chicago political blaggo thugs, the horrid rev. wright, ayers, pfleger, rezko.
etc,
he doesn't know anyone but haters, thieves and immoral people.
how many have dropped out because they are tax cheats or are being investigated for corruption like bill richardson.
daschle, killefer, ron kirk, and geithner himself. a den of thieves.
this is the caliber of people o knows. all bad apples, just like him.
when the dems can't get someone thru the process, that nominee is
way worse than it appears.

You forgot Hillary - the Clintons MUST fit into your "den of thieves" meme somewhere!

re: #214 Oxnuts

Amazing. How many more appointees are going to go through?

Go through what?

re: #218 Occasional Reader

"Tricksy Juice! We hates 'em! HATES 'EM!"

My Preciousss

re: #206 gmsc

OT: Up on auction – Boeing 727 jet, expected to go for $45,000.

Bid now! Auction closes March 25!

Cool! I've always wanted a three holer!

re: #206 gmsc

OT: Up on auction – Boeing 727 jet, expected to go for $45,000.

Bid now! Auction closes March 25!

SWEET! Finally I can buy that Jet I've always wanted..
I want the spinning rims..The body Painted in cherry red with gold flakes with yellow flames on the side..
Do you think a tune up costs much on a 727?

re: #223 Opinionated

This incident proves to anyone who needed proof that Rosenberg hates Israel more then he wants "peace".

Maybe even to the Jerusalem Post - who one may hope will stop publishing his crap.

The JPost also has Gershon Baskin (a paid Hamas stooge) and Larry Derfner (garden variety moonbat), but only one Caroline Glick. And they are supposed to be "centrist" (gag-a-maggot)

re: #228 jcm

Cool! I've always wanted a three holer!

They are cheaper on Ebay.

re: #222 Ben Hur

Jews using the Chinese as a smokescreen.

It's the Chinese food.

re: #226 Walter L. Newton

Go through what?

Thanks Walter! I just blew Coke Cola through my nose all over my keyboard!

So long Bernie, we hardly knew ya!
When sentencing a criminal, judges are required to consult a sentencing manual that assigns points for each characterstic of the perpatrator’s offenses. Here’s how Bernard Madoff’s alleged crimes break down:

Alleged characteristics of Madoff’s crimes: / Points assigned under federal guidelines:

Stealing more than $400 million -- 30 points

Securities fraud -- 6 points

Victimizing at least 250 people -- 6 points

‘Substantially endangering’ at least 100 people’s finances -- 4 points

Violating rules for registered investment professional -- 4 points

Abuse of trust -- 2 points

Total points for Madoff crimes -- 52

Points needed for a life sentence -- 43

re: #232 MJ

It's the Chinese food.

I made eggrolls for the Purim seudah.

re: #224 EE

Hey EE. Glad to see you. Where you've been?

If people re: #200 Killian Bundy

Biden Sees Conversion of Taliban in Afghanistan

If it wasn't official before, it is now.

/Ol' Plugs is out of his [expletive deleted] mind!

I wonder if Dan Quayle is enjoying this. Just a thought...

re: #230 Alouette

The JPost also has Gershon Baskin (a paid Hamas stooge) and Larry Derfner (garden variety moonbat), but only one Caroline Glick. And they are supposed to be "centrist" (gag-a-maggot)

Derfner is slime- and I for one cannot fathom the harvest he will reap from the drek and hate HE sowed. . .his piece of shit on Danny Pearl was a travesty!

SPIT

re: #42 KenJen

The bigger story is why he was chosen in the 1st place. This guy has no business in a council that has the word intelligence in it.

Neither does most of the Administration...

re: #202 Occasional Reader

The site you linked to? I know nothing about it. It is definitely NOT, however, the actual "Federal Register".

Presidential Determination No. 2009–15 of January 27, 2009

/the actual document from the Federal Register

re: #232 MJ

It's the Chinese food.

Darn those Zionists and their wonton aggression!

Obama's throwing alot of stuff against the wall - but not much of it is sticking.

re: #230 Alouette

and Larry Derfner (garden variety moonbat)

Who seems to be going ever more crazy with each column.

re: #233 jcm

Thanks Walter! I just blew Coke Cola through my nose all over my keyboard!

I hope that's your own personal keyboard and not your employers. Seriously, sometimes my sentence structure is frighting, I shouldn't play around like that.

re: #234 CapeCoddah

I say Bernie never makes it to Prison. I'll lay odds he takes the cowards way out. What floor is he apartment on?

re: #233 jcm

Thanks Walter! I just blew Coke Cola through my nose all over my keyboard!

Back the chair off from the desk while reading. Roll it back to respond. And what the hell are you doing drinking Coke at this time of day?

re: #243 jamgarr

Obama's throwing alot of stuff against the wall - but not much of it is sticking.

Er, have you checked out the economy lately :)

re: #236 cagney

Already have one.
ACORN.

Obama worked with them in his community organizing days.
ACORN had a piece of setting up the housing bubble, and is big into vote fraud.

re: #241 Killian Bundy

Presidential Determination No. 2009–15 of January 27, 2009

/the actual document from the Federal Register

As I said previously, yes, there actually is a real order behind all the hysteria, but no, it says nothing about resettling Palestinians here.

re: #242 Occasional Reader

Darn those Zionists and their wonton aggression!

Send in General Tso!

re: #6 MJ

Isn't it time someone do an investigation into Director of National Intelligence Dennis C. Blair?

Dennis Cutler Blair (born 1947), is the third and current Director of National Intelligence and a retired United States Navy four-star admiral.

Reports of disobeying orders

According to journalist Alan Nairn, Blair disobeyed orders from civilians in the Clinton Administration during the 1999 East Timorese crisis during his tenure as commander-in-chief of the U.S. Pacific Command. Amid growing international concern over violence against the independence movement in Indonesian-occupied East Timor, Blair was ordered to meet with General Wiranto, the commander of the Indonesian military, and to tell him to shut down the pro-Indonesia militia. According to Nairn, two days after the Liquiçá Church Massacre, Blair failed to deliver this message; instead he presented Wiranto with an offer of military assistance and a personal invitation to be Blair's guest in Hawaii.[5] Consequently, Wiranto’s "forces increased the Timor killings".[6] During his confirmation hearing as Director of National Intelligence, Blair responded to the accusations: "In our conversations with leaders of Indonesia, both military and civilian, we decried and said that the torture and killing that was being conducted by paramilitary groups and some military groups in East Timor had to stop"; "those who say that I was somehow carrying out my own policy or saying things that were not in accordance with American policy are just flat wrong."[7]

Conflict of interest

His membership on the board of directors of EDO Corporation, a subcontractor for the F-22 Raptor fighter program, and ownership of its stock was raised as a potential conflict of interest after the IDA issued a study that endorsed a three-year contract for the program. Blair told the Washington Post, "My review was not affected at all by my association with EDO Corp., and the report was a good one." He originally chose not to recuse himself because he claimed his link to EDO was not of sufficient "scale" to require it, but subsequently resigned from the EDO board to avoid any misperceptions.

However, on December 20, 2006 the Washington Post reported that the US Department of Defense Inspector General's investigation into the affair found Blair had violated IDA's Conflict of Interest rules but did not influence the result of IDA's study. Blair observed, "with all due respect to the Inspector General, I find it hard to understand how I could be criticized for violating conflict of interest standards when I didn't have any influence on the study."[8]

re: #50 cannon2

i've been following politics since lbj was president.
never, never have i seen this many nominees pull out or disqualified for any reason. what the heck is wrong with obama's vetting and selection process? usually the prez's chioces sail right thru to comfermation. the rare exceptions are ones that are extreamist, or have high powered enemies, or "undiscovered" skeletons the vetting crew missed.
but this guy has had a couple dozen aborted nominations for everything from tax issues to foriegen influence problems. they should have never made to serious consideration, much less actual nomination.
what a noob.

Someone on another blog said it better. No quoting, but the gist is that as long as the inmates are chatting amongst themselves no one realizes just how nutty they sound. It is only when their views are exposed to the unlettered rubes that some kid says, "Hey, that dude doesn't have any clothes on!"

re: #248 Walter L. Newton

Er, have you checked out the economy lately :)

Part of my point, actually.

re: #214 Oxnuts

Amazing. How many more appointees are going to go through?

At this rate, Obama will resort to nominating statues from the Rotunda within the month.

re: #251 DisturbedEma

Send in General Tso!

The Europeans will condemn him, too, if he has to use force, which they think is beneath them. They always have a "Holier Than Tso" attitude.

re: #166 Ayatollah Ghilmeini

Need to go see how the Kozzies and Huffpos are taking this; it would be terrible if Norman Finkelstein's readers were stroking out across the blogosphere.

Yes, they're having a little Jew-hating conniption over at Huffington Post. Here are some of their comments, not block-quoted to save space:

Score one for the Israeli lobby!

A.I.P.A.C Wins again ...

The United States government (tax payers) give Israel billions of dollars in aid every year, and Israel gets veto power over our foreign policy. What a sound relationship.

When will we ever stand up to Israel/AIPAC ... when or when ... i guess never ... What does Israel have over the US? ... [response to that:] They have lots of wealthy, influential donors and they use guilt against us for what they perceive as events during WWII that they claim we should have known about and prevented.

A.I.P.A.C. should not have this much power over our government.

Wow AIPAC is still running things, and Feinstein is still pulling our country backwards? Man I cannot WAIT for the 2010 primaries, its gonna be bloody

F AIPAC In The A

This is depressing. AIPAC always wins.

Truly disgusting. AIPAC has way too much influence.

Israel wins. America loses. YET AGAIN!

This is the work of the Mo.ssad operative in the Obama administration -- The Rahm Dog.

Can America have a foreign policy vis a vis Israel which is not dictated by Israel? Is it possible that Obama is not free to make any change in at least three areas: the escalation in Afghanistan; the funneling of our wealth into failed banks; the altering of America's policy toward Israel? It's been said that JFK made the mistake of thinking he was President; is it possible that in the euphoria of Bush's departure, we've forgotten that he was never President? Who holds the power in America? Who has the dominant hand with regard to our Israeli policy, us or Israel? Why?

Thank you Chuck Schumer (D-Jerusalem). I can't figure out if Chucky represents Israel or the great state of New York these days. This guy is a lapdog for AIPAC.

Slightly off topic but did you know that White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel's father was a member of Irgun, the terror organization that blew up the King David Hotel, and that Rahm served as a civilian volunteer with the IDF during the first Gulf War? I have to say any hope I had for a new direction in U.S. Middle East policy under Obama is rapidly fading.

re: #187 Nevergiveup

He must be a friend of Pat Buchanan?

Well, that's kind of the comparison, but Pat truly has a kink in his brain that shuts off the blood when he hears the word "Jew", and I don't know that Freeman father and/or son are quite that bent. As if it mattered the exact degree of bentness involved.

re: #239 DisturbedEma

Derfner is slime- and I for one cannot fathom the harvest he will reap from the drek and hate HE sowed. . .his piece of shit on Danny Pearl was a travesty!

SPIT

I have wondered if Derfner just makes up the worst crap he can think of in order to generate "talkbacks" and get ad revenue for the JPost (there is a popup ad on each "talkback" that is displayed)

Then I see his "Joker" face (Jack Nicholson, not Heath Ledger) on Jew-hate sites. What a fucking tool.

re: #245 Walter L. Newton

I hope that's your own personal keyboard and not your employers. Seriously, sometimes my sentence structure is frighting, I shouldn't play around like that.

I just throw keyboards in the dishwasher. We have tons of extras. Our chips go into keyboards and mice so we have boxes full.

re: #135 pre-Boomer Marine brat

Awww, INDEED!
MWAH!

This overload of cuteness is going to make my head explode into candy.