No Barry, torture is listening to you perpetuating your lies, waterboarding would be a treat by comparison
Two things struck me initially from BHO’s address to the nation on stolen, er I mean, donated airwaves. As an aside, I saw that the combined cost to the networks, who I never watch anyway, was estimated to be $21.5M,  according to ABC. Not that I care, but these are publicly traded companies beholden to shareholders, so it seems a little rude to even ask. However, that has never stopped a politician before.
I digress. The first thing that struck me was his willingness to brand waterboarding as torture. This serves no purpose other than to appease those on the left, on the one hand, and the very people who would actually benefit from the procedure, on the other. Also, it undermines those charged with distasteful deeds so that we may sleep peaceably in our beds. From Breitbart,
Obama also said he was “absolutely convinced” he had acted correctly in banning waterboarding, an interrogation technique that simulates drowning, and approved making public the Bush administration memos detailing its use as well as other harsh methods used on terrorist suspects. “Not because there might not have been information that was yielded by these various detainees … but because we could have gotten this information in other ways, in ways that were consistent with our values, in ways that were consistent with who we are.”
Like the fool that he is, he concedes that although we obtained valuable info, we might have also gotten it by showing pictures of puppies. Or not. Islamic terrorists do not hate us because we “torture”, however,  they may now add that reason to their already long list of perceived motivations, thanks to our feckless President. Not content to trash America abroad, he has now stooped to doing it at home, as well. While I am not surprised by his actions, I am disgusted.
Secondly, he had the bald-faced cheek to re-iterate that the deficit is not of his causing. What? To show how thin that excuse is wearing, even the AP is calling him out on this.
“That wasn’t me,” President Barack Obama said on his 100th day in office, disclaiming responsibility for the huge budget deficit waiting for him on Day One.
It actually was him – and the other Democrats controlling Congress the previous two years
Displaying stones that heretofore have not been apparent when representing this country overseas, he asserted,
…Â that his proposed budget “will cut the deficit in half by the end of my first term” is an eyeball-roller among many economists, given the uncharted terrain of trillion-dollar deficits and economic calamity that the government is negotiating
Read the whole debunking here, where they dissect all his plans for health care, auto companies, education and social security and contrast his rhetoric with reality. It’s quite informative.
I’ll leave you with this quote, supposedly from Dennis Miller about tonight’s proceedings,
We’re Living In Odd Times When Miss California Gets Tougher Questions Than the President. Indeed!
Michelle Malkin gives out her Drool Bucket of the Day Award to an attending NYT reporter.
Update:Â Ed over at Hot Air has more on this story, with particular reference to Churchill and torture in WWII, and how Barry got it wrong.
April 29, 2009
Tags: Budget, First 100 days Posted in: Bailout, Barack Obama
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