(2008-07-10) — Democrat presidential nominee Sen. Barack Obama today faulted the “weakness of the Bush administration” for Iran’s recent long-range missile testing, and said when he sits in the Oval Office “Iran will know that we mean talk.”
The Illinois senator said he would engage Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in face-to-face negotiations offering “carrots as well as sticks,” meaning that he would “reward Iranian goodwill gestures with stirring laudatory speeches, and punish Iran’s violations of U.N. resolutions with bold rhetorical rebukes.”
“We know that President Ahmadinejad wants to see Israel wiped off the face of the map,” said Sen. Obama, “Of course, the first step in negotiating is to determine what the other party wants that you might be able to provide”
“Iran needs to know that our words mean something,” he said. “During the Obama administration, our words will mean that we are saying things by combining those words into sentences to express ideas about how we feel, using dramatic phrases and dynamic cadences. Iran must never question our resolve to deliver…speeches.”
While the Bush administration has tried to get allies to unite in applying pressure on Iran to halt its nuclear program, Sen. Obama said he would bring change to American foreign policy by trying to get U.S. allies to unite in applying pressure on Iran to halt its nuclear program.
“It’s a lot different than the Bush approach,” he said, “because in my strategy, there is no Bush.”
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1 conserve-a-tip // Jul 10, 2008 at 8:36 am
May America honor God!
Good morning and I nearly spewed my hot blueberry/vanilla tea out of my nose:
>>While the Bush administration has tried to get allies to unite in applying pressure on Iran to halt its nuclear program, Sen. Obama said he would bring change to American foreign policy by trying to get U.S. allies to unite in applying pressure on Iran to halt its nuclear program.<<
This is great, Scott!!
2 conserve-a-tip // Jul 10, 2008 at 8:37 am
Oh, that would be me - CAT
Scott, can I have my personhood back?
Captcha: beating Ethel - Oh, Fred..not you.
3 gafisher // Jul 10, 2008 at 9:12 am
Ahmadinejad is just looking for a little R-E-S-P-E-C-T. Once we get Midnight Basketball running in Tehran, he won’t need the nuclear program to be noticed.
Of course, we’ll have to put the hoops at the five foot level …
4 Fred Sinclair // Jul 10, 2008 at 9:29 am
Scott, do they allow you to run around by yourself, or like Adrian, do you have a Natalie?
You are a dangerous young man, Mr, Ott. If The NYT were to leak B.O.’s plan it could have serious ramifications and Mr. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad will surely wet his pants.
That could bring about repercussions and Ahmadinejad might retaliate with (shudder, shudder) really big words; like “O.K. I surrender.”
B.O. STINKS
5 onlineanalyst // Jul 10, 2008 at 9:55 am
“Iran needs to know that our words mean something,†he (Obama) said.”
Ahmadaboutjihad has grokked that Obama’s words to his own devoted nutroots are meaningless.
6 Fred Sinclair // Jul 10, 2008 at 10:06 am
ola #5 - slick, I had to parse Ahmadaboutjihad a couple of times - aha - good show, you know.
IN GOD WE TRUST
7 da Bunny // Jul 10, 2008 at 10:34 am
And, if Barack Hussein Obama can deliver those “stirring laudatory speeches” and “bold rhetorical rebukes” in Spanish, so much the better!!
“our words will mean that we are saying things by combining those words into sentences to express ideas about how we feel, using dramatic phrases and dynamic cadences. Iran must never question our resolve to deliver…speeches.â€
Again, you’ve “nailed it,” Scott!!
8 beekabok2 // Jul 10, 2008 at 10:38 am
“All words and no action makes Obama an ineffective ….” (wait I can’t finish this statement as it may be precieved as rasist) hmmmmmm.. I guess I’ll have to think about this one a while.
9 Fred Sinclair // Jul 10, 2008 at 11:03 am
gafisher #3 -MSNBC reports that Ahmadinejad is 5 feet 4 inches, or 163 centimeters tall. But when he’s riding a camel he at least ‘looks’ taller. (probably plays basketball from camel’s back) Do they allow camels on Brokeback Mountain? Perhaps he and Dingy Harry could go riding together since they seem to have so much in common. I never can tell which of the two is plagiarizing the other.
B.O. STINKS
10 upnorthlurkin // Jul 10, 2008 at 11:22 am
Beekabok, since when did inexperinced, incompetent, pandering boob become racist?!! Just askin’….I’ve been busy…
11 Fred Sinclair // Jul 10, 2008 at 11:23 am
beekabok2 #9 - May I suggest Swinebowa
I can’t spell it but I can speak it (German, Greek and a tad of Italian - no Mexican or Spanish though).
B.O. STINKS
12 Maggie // Jul 10, 2008 at 11:40 am
Scott,
What a great headline.It says it all.
Maybe instead of just talk,we could drop a plane load of old Michael Bolton cassetts and CDs over Iran and tell ’shorty” that we mean business and there’s more where that comes from.
Beekabok,
I’m gald to see you can leave your honeymoon cottage long enough to make a statement.Welcome back.
:>)
( a special hello to daBunny and Up North Lurkin)
13 beekabok2 // Jul 10, 2008 at 11:54 am
Well, I was going to go with the classic last word of the original saying but I must say, I do like yous better.
so,
“All words and no action makes Obama an ineffective inexperinced, incompetent, pandering boob â€
14 Maggie // Jul 10, 2008 at 11:56 am
Scott,
The headline says it all. I would chuckle if it wern’t so true.Make that two nails.
Beekabok,
Glad you could pay a visit to Scrappledom,although I know that you have been occupying the honeymoon cottage. Congratulations!and Best wishes!
To da Bunny and Up North Lurkin, I wish you a special “Good Morning”.
15 conserve-a-tip // Jul 10, 2008 at 12:32 pm
OK, Scott, here’s a belly laugh for you. I post on a stock message board for a stock in which we are invested and I posted your piece to one of the people who enjoys such things and linked it to here. One of the ultra, ultra, communist/socialist “all hail the power of Obummer’s name” liberals read it and posted:
[the] quotes are consistent … whats ur point???
After I picked myself off the floor laughing, I had the pleasure of telling them that your piece is satire and that the scary part is that they believed the Obama quotes and agreed!!!
Fact is stranger then fiction. Sigh.
CAT
16 da Bunny // Jul 10, 2008 at 12:39 pm
If the Iranians don’t pay heed to Barack Hussein Obama’s speeches, Obama can just send Je$$e Jack$on out to threaten the removal of certain parts of Ahmadinejad’s anatomy. That’ll show ‘em who’s in charge…
17 da Bunny // Jul 10, 2008 at 12:40 pm
Good morning to you, too, Maggie!
18 da Bunny // Jul 10, 2008 at 1:28 pm
CAT #14…proof that liberals are not only stupid, but also lacking in anything resembling a well-developed, mature sense of humor!
19 Ms RightWing, Ink // Jul 10, 2008 at 2:25 pm
Well, sigh, no good morning to me. sigh
Actually it was a good morning because I went to the Y for the first time since June 21st. I really can’t do much for 2 more weeks but I got to keep the muscles moving a tad bit.
Back to topic
It all sounds a bit Jimmy Carterish. You know, shades of mediocrity. Thanks Simon & Garfunkel
He thinks he is the new JFK, but Kennedy would not have watched as Israel gets ready to be dusted by goat herders
20 beekabok2 // Jul 10, 2008 at 2:40 pm
Maybe I had a typo before: I am getting married August 9 not July 9th. but thanks for all the good wishes
21 conserve-a-tip // Jul 10, 2008 at 2:49 pm
Da Bunny, it also proves that they have absolutely no critical thinking skills whatsoever!!!
22 vittles scooper // Jul 10, 2008 at 3:16 pm
Mark Steyn is doing Rush’s radio show tomorrow! If you are in NYC’s tri-state area, thats WABC (770 on the AM dial) from noon to 3:00 p.m. EST…..This is a rarity and not to be missed.
23 Fred Sinclair // Jul 10, 2008 at 5:17 pm
In the upper left of this page is a pic ad of Mark Steyn’s “America Alone” if you haven’t read it, do so.
If, after reading it, your knickers aren’t blown off, it’s because you weren’t wearing any.
IN GOD WE TRUST
24 upnorthlurkin // Jul 10, 2008 at 5:31 pm
Right back at you, “Maggie”!
25 Fred Sinclair // Jul 10, 2008 at 5:34 pm
Back on the 2nd of July in Iowa, B.O. outlined his plan for his “Obama Youth Corp”. Oops - there went my knickers again.
“[W]e are going to grow our foreign service, open consulates that have been shuttered and double the size of the Peace Corps by 2011 to renew our diplomacy,” said Obama. “We cannot to continue to rely only on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives that we have set. We have got to have a civilian national security force that is just as powerful, just as strong, just as well funded.” (link)
LOL WUT? Obama’s going to create a civilian national security force as strong as the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines — combined? With the same budget? And hardware, apparently? Holy %^&*!
This inconceivably vast proposal is hardly being mentioned by the MSM; just a throwaway line in last week’s speech about volunteerism. But what will this “civilian national security force” do? Obama didn’t say. Where will they get their funding? Didn’t say. Wouldn’t this force be at least extra-constitutional, if not unconstitutional? Who would control them? Would service be mandatory like his other youth “volunteer” initiatives? ::shrug::
At this same speech, he promised to withhold funds from school districts that don’t make their junior high and high schoolers serve 50 hours a year. 100 hours for college students, provided their type of service is deemed acceptable by a sprawling new Federal bureaucracy.
Oh, and Obama’s going to double the size of the Peace Corps while quadrupling AmeriCorps. I’m curious if anyone will be left to fill all the newly vacated private sector jobs. St. Barack concluded his speech with this gem: “Loving your country must mean accepting your responsibility to do your part to change it.”
But what if I love my country the way it is?
B.O. STINKS
26 Fred Sinclair // Jul 10, 2008 at 5:37 pm
!@#$%…(*&^)
27 Thursday Links : Stop The ACLU // Jul 10, 2008 at 10:55 pm
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28 PanamaRed // Jul 11, 2008 at 1:12 am
What can I say? I’d rather have WJC back than BO. This man is a 199% bonafide disaster waiting to happen. Jesse had the right idea, just 24 inches too low but we don’t get everything we want.
For English press one, para Espanol marque dos!
Que para hablamos por mi. Yo quiero WJC aqui y no BO. El hombre es 199% disastro puro para el tiempo a paso malo. Ayeeeee el migre, vamos rapido!
29 JamesonLewis3rd // Jul 11, 2008 at 6:45 am
I find it comical that each and every person who I have heard comment on the Rainbow Man’s metaphor regarding BO are just so shocked that men actually talk that way.
I’m no Jackson fan. I’m no fan of any promoter of victimhood. But from my perspective he’s right about BO and, from his (JJ’s) perspective, emasculation doesn’t seem harsh because he believes BO has already cut “racial progress” off at the knees.
And it just kills me how the media goes nuts whenever they get the chance to use a triple-entendre “dirty” word and giggle like little children.
30 Hawkeye // Jul 11, 2008 at 7:41 am
Good one Scott! Hope all is going well at Victory Valley. God bless…
31 Maggie // Jul 11, 2008 at 12:55 pm
Ms Righty,
I’d like to wish you a “special”Good Afternoon and rest of the day.
Pleaase forgive me for leaving you out of yesterday’s well wishes.You are a precious lady to me and I would not intentionally ignore you.My bad. :>(
ps….the Petunias are smiling again today…..they love me; they really, really love me.
32 nuds // Jul 11, 2008 at 12:58 pm
The sad thing is that this is not satire. There is absolutely nothing to differentiate Obama’s policy from that of the current White House save one thing. With Bush the use of force is credible, with Obama it is not.
33 everthink // Jul 11, 2008 at 3:39 pm
Ephesians 6:12
“For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.” KJV
ET
34 Darthmeister // Jul 11, 2008 at 5:41 pm
Obama For Messiah.
Endorsed by:
Chris Matthews - “This is bigger than Kennedy. . . . This is the New Testament.†. . .â€I felt this thrill going up my leg. I mean, I don’t have that too often. No, seriously. It’s a dramatic event.â€
Ezra Klein - “Obama’s finest speeches do not excite. They do not inform. They don’t even really inspire. They elevate. . . . He is not the Word made flesh, but the triumph of word over flesh . . . Obama is, at his best, able to call us back to our highest selves.â€
Bill Rush - “I would characterize the Senate race as being a race where Obama was, let’s say, blessed and highly favored. That’s not routine. There’s something else going on. I think that Obama, his election to the Senate, was divinely ordered. . . . I know that that was God’s plan.â€
Rev. Jesse Jackson Jr. - “I cried all night. I’m going to be crying for the next four years,†he said. “What Barack Obama has accomplished is the single most extraordinary event that has occurred in the 232 years of the nation’s political history. … The event itself is so extraordinary that another chapter could be added to the Bible to chronicle its significance.â€
Hmmmmm, there hasn’t been such a display of sheer messianic charisma and influence over the masses since Adolf Hitler!
35 Libby Gone // Jul 11, 2008 at 6:09 pm
Thank you Scott sir!
Just reading this made my day, humor was sorely needed.
The thing I find interesting, is the fact that all of the schemes, plans, hopes, and promises Mr. Barack has swirling in his skull, this satire will prove exactly true.
OBAMA/CARTER 08!
A Canadian was in line in front of me at an American hospital, I want free health care too!â„¢
36 Ms RightWing, Ink // Jul 11, 2008 at 6:33 pm
re:31
Maggie, I know ya do, but I just had to get my 1 and 9/10 cents worth in.
37 Fred Sinclair // Jul 12, 2008 at 12:27 am
Long before Rush began calling it a hoax, I was laughing my head off. Way back in Vacation Bible School as a young lad the first verse of Scripture I ever memorized was Gen. 8:22 “While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter and day and night shall not cease.”
Later we studied the flood and memorized God’s promises:
Gen. 9:11 “I establish My covenant with you; and all flesh shall never again be cut off by the water of the flood, neither shall there again be a flood to destroy the earth.”
Gen. 9:15 and I will remember My covenant, which is between Me and you and every living creature of all flesh; and never again shall the water become a flood to destroy all flesh
So when this Krappola raised it’s ugly head I recognized algore for the charlatan (snake oil salesman that he and others of his ilk - aka ‘henchmen’) really are. Having lost in 2000, his revenge took the form of using a debatable theory to MAKE AMERICA PAY!!! for his perceived humiliation.
The rest of the world must pay too, for recognizing George W. Bush (the usurper). so far it’s cost multi-(B)illions of dollars. I believe his ambition is to become the worlds first (T)rillionaire. (One thousand billion).
At my age of 70 I won’t be around, but unless this HOAX is exposed to the world, somebody’s children and their children’s children will pay.
FWIW (For what it’s worth): I did pray that God would allow me to live long enough to witness algore being led out of court to begin serving a life sentence (NPOP) with several dozen other countries wanting to try him in their courts. (Hey, it’s my pipe dream, O.K.?)
IN GOD WE TRUST
38 Fred Sinclair // Jul 12, 2008 at 2:37 am
With English as my major @ the Univ. of Maryland (College Park, MD) I enjoy finding new words. The following I picked up from Wiki while trying to run down a 1949 singer.
Eileen Barton (November 24, 1924 - June 27, 2006), was an American singer best known for her apostrophic 1950 hit song, “If I Knew You Were Comin’ I’d've Baked a Cake.”
That has always been in my top ten “Favorite songs” of all time. However none of the dictionaries available has the word “apostrophic”. Does anybody have a better dictionary? What does apostrophic mean? Definition anybody?
IN GOD WE TRUST
39 JamesonLewis3rd // Jul 12, 2008 at 6:52 am
Here, here and here are a few definitions of “apostrophic” .
40 gafisher // Jul 12, 2008 at 7:40 am
Fred Re#38, I’d ‘a guess’d it’s refferin’ t’the prepond’rance o’ apostroph’s litt’rin’ th’ titl’o th’ tun’.
41 onlineanalyst // Jul 12, 2008 at 7:47 am
Fred:
Besides being the word for a punctuation mark, the word “apostrophe” or the term “to apostrophize” is a literary device. It means to speak to (usually) a non-human as if it were human, capable of understaning speech. Thus, “Ode to a Nightingale” “speaks” to the bird.
42 gafisher // Jul 12, 2008 at 7:54 am
Re#25: “We have got to have a civilian national security force that is just as powerful, just as strong, just as well funded.â€
And so smart in their HJ uniforms.
43 gafisher // Jul 12, 2008 at 8:01 am
Ola, OLA, y buenos dias!
Thanks for the definition of apostrophic; I’ve learned something new, a wonderful way to begin any day, and I’m in your debt for that.
Still, unless Ms. Barton’s song addressed itself to, say, a bowl of icing or a just-delivered cake knife, I’m not sure the more literary definition applies to her song.
44 onlineanalyst // Jul 12, 2008 at 8:18 am
I think that she was apostrophizing the unexpected visitor.
45 gafisher // Jul 12, 2008 at 8:41 am
“I think that she was apostrophizing the unexpected visitor.”
Sounds like we’re back in Jesse Jackson territory.
46 MajorDomo // Jul 12, 2008 at 12:43 pm
My dictionary: Apostrophic-pertaining to a rhetorical or grammatical apostrophe. Apostrophize-to address by, or make use of, an apostrophe, as in a speech.
47 Possumtrot // Jul 12, 2008 at 4:50 pm
Great job, Great Scott!
Yeah, let’s all sit down and sing “Kumbayah”.
I’ll have some more words about The Manchurian Candidate as the day of reckoning draws near. Meanwhile, we’re telling shagyy dog stories at United Possums International. My political boredom meter is redlined; we’re going to lose this one.
48 gafisher // Jul 13, 2008 at 6:42 am
Possumtrot Re#47: “… we’re going to lose this one.”
Define what “winning this one” would look like. After Reagan we haven’t had much to work with; I can’t think of a single one of this season’s candidates who didn’t (or doesn’t) have some gaping hole in their political and/or philosophical worldview. The best we could hope for this year is to limit how much we lose.
(Which, by the way, is the same position the libs find themselves in.)
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