Sep

21

‘We’re Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, and We Approve This Apology’

Filed Under Politics, Religion | 86 Comments

They’re still pretending this is all about some stupid video. Yes, our Middle East policy — or lack thereof — is now being based on full blown delusion, ignorance and incompetence. Assign a little of the responsibility for the backlash, protest and terrorist attacks to Obama’s continual spiking of the ball about killing Bin Laden? Never!

Instead, they’ve actually spent taxpayer money to air ads in Pakistan apologizing for freedom of speech:

Trying to blunt protests surrounding the YouTube film trailer that mocks the Prophet Muhammad, the Obama administration paid $70,000 to buy ads on Pakistani television disavowing the video, the State Department said Thursday.

The ads, featuring President Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, were airing on seven networks even as mobs tried to rush the diplomatic enclave in Islamabad housing the U.S. Embassy and other embassies Thursday. Pakistani police kept about 2,000 protesters at bay.

The ads and a broader effort to solicit and promote pro-U.S. testimonials on YouTube are an effort by the State Department and the Obama administration to counter the pervasive view in Pakistan and other Muslim-majority nations that the crude video is either the work of the U.S. government or is condoned by it.

Anti-American sentiment runs high in Pakistan, and suspicion of U.S. motives runs deep.

And the U.S. gives Pakistan on average $2 billion a year in aid.

Here’s the ad that the Obama administration bought time for to air in Pakistan:

So far protesters in Pakistan seem real impressed by that explanation:

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Remember though, Jay Carney says these types of things aren’t protests against the United States writ large.

Comments

86 Responses to “‘We’re Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, and We Approve This Apology’”

  1. Truesoldier__ on September 21st, 2012 12:59 pm

    No surprise that they keep pretending this is just about the video, just like they continue to claim this was some sort of "spontaneous" terrorist attack on 9/11.

    They do not want to have to admit that their foreign policy has failed as badly as the economic policy, their energy policy, their education policy, etc.

    Just like they never wanted to have to admit this was a terrorist attack, let alone one on the 9/11 anniversary. They were hoping to be able to say that Obama has thwarted every attempted terrorist attack over the past 4 years (just like he himself killed Bin Laden).

  2. Truesoldier__ on September 21st, 2012 1:00 pm

    "And the U.S. gives Pakistan on average $2 billion a year in aid."

    The Dem's are just paying ME countries for protests Americans won't do.

  3. Marshall_Will on September 21st, 2012 1:21 pm

    "failed as badly as the economic policy, their energy policy, their education policy, etc."

    Those etcetera's. sure come in handy! When describing the failings of the O'Draqma Admin. we could squander hours every week. You bring an excellent point, by simply dubbing it something -other- than a Terrorist Attack, their track record remains as flawless as… Boosh's!

    Another talking/goading point down the cr@pper!

  4. archer on September 21st, 2012 2:06 pm

    “Zaidi, author of a new paper on improving the success of U.S. aid, argues that the United States needs to rebalance its assistance away from the military toward governance and economic support. This is the only way to strengthen Pakistan’s civilian government vis-à-vis the military—and a stronger democracy will improve the stability of Pakistan and security of the United States.”

    Zaidi has got to be a Zero supporter and, after reading this tripe it seems he may even be one of his middle east advisors.

    The no-touch foreign policy has worked so well for Zero and Clinton in Egypt and Libya as we can see in very short order what has resulted.

    All these so-call “scholars” need to is read a couple paragraphs of the book for “islamification of the world” called the koran to know that DEMOCRACY IS IMPOSSIBLE in any country under the rule of the misogynistic pedophiles of islam.

  5. Marshall_Will on September 21st, 2012 2:16 pm

    archer,

    It's as if, foreign aid is where "Picking Winners & Losers" finds its origins. Also where we find the origins of vicious cycle of int'l dependency. Swamp creatures pat themselves on the back taking credit for, "a projection of U.S power" but it quickly descends into payola.

    Oh and we're BROKE. As long as we continue to distort these underdeveloped economies, they'll never rise to a point of having a mfr. base, banking system or meaningful employment.

  6. Truesoldier__ on September 21st, 2012 2:22 pm

    That's just it. They wanted it to be better than Boosh's. Remember, they blame Bush for not seeing the signs that lead up to 9/11 even though he had only been in office for just under 9 months.

  7. Truesoldier__ on September 21st, 2012 2:24 pm

    Exactly right. We are trying to prop up foregin economies with borrowed money that is only going to bring us down along with them.

  8. Truesoldier__ on September 21st, 2012 2:27 pm

    Look what else must have been brought on by "the film":

    One of three assailants who crossed from Egypt’s Sinai peninsula to attack Israeli soldiers on Friday blew himself up, an Egyptian security official told AFP.

    “Three gunmen infiltrated Israeli territory from central Sinai. Two were killed by the Israeli army, the third detonated the explosives vest he was wearing,” the source said.

    “According to our information, an Israeli soldier was killed,” he said, in the attack in which the Israeli military said all three assailants also died.
    http://english.alarabiya.net/articles/2012/09/21/…

    Of course the Israeli's are calling this exactly what it is:

    “A big terror attack was thwarted. Three terrorists infiltrated from Sinai into Israel and opened fire towards IDF soldiers guarding the border,” army spokeswoman Lieutenant-Colonel Avital Leibovich said.

    “The terrorists were well armed and carried explosive belts upon their bodies,” she added.

  9. SignPainterGuy on September 21st, 2012 2:29 pm

    Nowhere in the ME, except maybe Israel, is there Freedom of Speech / the Press. To these sand fleas who pitch a fit at every statement or video made that shines any kind of bad light on islam, they see as a gov. sanctioned statement / vid. They simply cannot fathom the notion of a NON-state run / controlled media.

    SO, when Shrillary and Obama play these ads claiming "no responsibility for these statements / vids", they are seen as just LYING AGAIN !!

  10. SignPainterGuy on September 21st, 2012 2:35 pm

    Right, and when GWB DID see the signs and wanted to take real action, the left pitched a hissy fit, even though a score or more of their own had made impassioned speeches on the floor about those same signs ! (Saddam`s WMDs)

  11. archer on September 21st, 2012 2:45 pm

    M_W,

    “…they'll never rise to a point of having a mfr. base, banking system or meaningful employment.”

    As we can see from the current Middle East culture, islam is NOT about improvement. Just the opposite, it’s about keeping others down.

    If it were about improvement, having been around since the 7th century, the Middle East would be the world’s banking, economic, manufacturing powerhouse.

    While some good mathematics, engineering, and astronomy came from that region, that was centuries ago. Nothing new or improved has risen to the surface in the last few centuries since warring religious fanaticism has taken over.

  12. Marshall_Will on September 21st, 2012 3:11 pm

    While spontaneously demonstrating right? Sheesh.

  13. Marshall_Will on September 21st, 2012 3:16 pm

    Solid perspective for those of us that could stand a refresher. It also causes me to ponder, just how in DEPTH an 'understanding' of their own religion does the avg. explosive vest wearer really have?

    With limited/no education I'm willing to wager only the parts their mullah's/handlers WANT then to hear! Are we really going to delude ourselves into believing these people at any point in their life are allowed an agnostic moment?

  14. Dexter_Alarius on September 21st, 2012 3:28 pm

    I apparently missed the furious statement Hillary issued when she stormed out of the showing of "Book of Mormon" she attended on Broadway last year.

    Wait. She didn't 'storm out'? She… enjoyed it?!
    Hmm. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10000872396390444…

  15. SignPainterGuy on September 21st, 2012 3:47 pm

    Both of you are fabulously perceptive on the subject; the women have NO education and the men have only a synopsis version at best (on avg.). As we`ve heard many times, their militant, hateful training begins at a very early age !

  16. SignPainterGuy on September 21st, 2012 3:50 pm

    Shrillary apparently laughed out loud !

  17. archer on September 21st, 2012 3:50 pm

    SPG

    "…no responsibility for these statements / vids…"

    Like the wheelman driving the bank robbers who killed many in the process.

    “I’m innocent! I didn’t kill anybody, I didn’t even go inside the bank. No one was supposed to get killed.”

    …OR…

    As any judge will tell you: “I ignorance of the law or the situation is not an affirmative defense.”

  18. Marshall_Will on September 21st, 2012 3:55 pm

    Great article, link & point. Not living in NY, not long after hearing about this, I guess most of us forgot about it? Hillary now wishes she could.

    For many of us we must have mentally lumped "BoM" right along w/ the time honored smut trad. of dressing some hooker up in a nun's habit and then… Your basic shock value type BS. Just wasn't aware or SoS attended?

    So hip. So hip.

  19. archer on September 21st, 2012 5:53 pm

    From the War Department (now the Department of Defense) archives comes a 63-year-old military intelligence review, entitled “Islam: a Threat to World Stability,” that inadvertently provides incredible insight into the challenges faced…in today’s world.

    Part 1

    http://www.khouse.org/articles/2009/879/

    Part 2

    http://www.khouse.org/articles/2009/891/

    Part 3

    http://www.khouse.org/articles/2010/905/

  20. Marshall_Will on September 21st, 2012 5:55 pm

    SPG,

    What little I've been exposed to is from a mil. training aspect. TS has been in the region extensively and Archer strikes as well versed.

    One thing I can affirm is the training we've gotten details exactly as you describe. An indoctrination that just can't start soon enough! Also insights into their mindset if we were to be interrogated are most revealing.

    Day 1, Topic 1: They're NOT "just like us!" so let's get that straight out of the gate.

  21. backwoodsconsr on September 21st, 2012 7:29 pm

    I think a more appropriate apology would be delivered via a squadron of B-52s. Make it clear to them that we can get offended too, and offending us is a whole lot worse than offending them.

  22. SignPainterGuy on September 21st, 2012 10:37 pm

    The local radio talk-show host is friends with a guy from the ME and has had him on as a guest a few times as well as two others, all are converted to Christianity – all ex- Hezbollah or other terrorist group, and are just mountains of insight and info !

    All day I`ve heard this guy from Lybia on the news saying, "We will not stop until we have a democratic form of government". I can`t help but think it`s BS.

  23. A.Men on September 22nd, 2012 11:17 am

    Osama died.

    Our ambassador died.

    obama spike the football some more

  24. SignPainterGuy on September 22nd, 2012 1:59 pm

    There`s a cartoon at TownHall.com that illustrates this "spiking the football" really well. Obama has Osama`s head on a pole and is poking a hornet`s nest in a tree. The nest is swarming – Obama is smiling, oblivious.

    He still says the film is to blame for the ME outrage right now.

  25. Truesoldier__ on September 22nd, 2012 2:10 pm

    Speaking of the ME. One of the things we found out is that many of the locales only knowledge of the US is what they were told (like Sadam telling them he kicked our a$$ out of Iraq in Gulf War I) and what they see in the movies (they actually believe that Rambo was a real guy and asked why we didin't send him over to Iraq to take care of business).

  26. SignPainterGuy on September 23rd, 2012 2:12 pm

    Fascinating that Romney stated the obvious; it was a coordinated, pre-planned attack, within 18 hrs or so, but the O`Stration didn`t open admit that it was planned for 11 days and THEN still hasn`t dropped the "anti- film outrage" meme completely ! Zero told the Mexicans on Univision in Miami that it was an escalation of the spontaneous riots. The reporter there didn`t buy it either !

    I still believe Obama thinks the terrorists are just "freedom fighters", that terrorist events are rare AND I think he wants them to win !

  27. blogc2011 on December 2nd, 2012 9:04 am

    The ads, featuring President Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, were airing on seven networks even as mobs tried to rush the diplomatic enclave in Islamabad housing the U.S. Embassy and other embassies Thursday. Pakistani police kept about 2,000 protesters at bay.botox

  28. blogc2011 on December 4th, 2012 5:27 pm

    “A big terror attack was thwarted. Three terrorists infiltrated from Sinai into Israel and opened fire towards IDF soldiers guarding the border,” army spokeswoman Lieutenant-Colonel Avital Leibovich said. Tom Deluca

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