I posted a rock and roll play list over @ The Resistance that contains many (in my opinion) of the great Detroit rock artists:
Check it out at The Resistance
The Obama and Jimmy Carter comparisons continue.
I don’t know how you can call Obama snakebit. He entered office with rubber stamp majorities in both chambers of Congress and a fawning press who thinks he can do know wrong.
The president is starting to look snakebit. He’s starting to look unlucky, like Jimmy Carter. It wasn’t Mr. Carter’s fault that the American diplomats were taken hostage in Tehran, but he handled it badly, and suffered. He defied the rule of the King in “Pippin,” the Broadway show of Carter’s era, who spoke of “the rule that every general knows by heart, that it’s smarter to be lucky than it’s lucky to be smart.” Mr. Carter’s opposite was Bill Clinton, on whom fortune smiled with eight years of relative peace and a worldwide economic boom. What misfortune Mr. Clinton experienced he mostly created himself. History didn’t impose it.
There really isn’t such a thing as being snake bit. When difficult (unlucky) times arise, you manage the situation by relying on your experiences and hard work to get through them with positive results. Obviously, this is not happening.
I guess just under three years in the US Senate is not enough experience:
If you want to be the Liberal President of the world and you lose the hard core left in Europe, look out. Via Spiegel Online:
Can US President Barack Obama lead America away from fossil fuel dependency? German commentators don’t think so. Some say he is in danger of turning into an idealistic, one-term president like Jimmy Carter.
US President Barack Obama’s address from the Oval Office on Tuesday was supposed to be a moment of leadership during the worst environmental disaster in American history. But critics from across the political spectrum wondered afterwards whether he’d shown leadership at all. The geyser of oil in the Gulf of Mexico seems, technologically, to lie beyond anything either BP or the US government was prepared for, and Obama failed to mention any specific new ideas.
And this quote:
The center-left Süddeutsche Zeitung writes:
“Obama wants to lead the US out of its dependence on oil. Absolutely right. In fact it’s the very thing people have been wanting to hear from Obama for weeks.”“But how cautious he seems, and how vague his suggestions. In 1961 President Kennedy declared a national mission to place a man on the moon by the end of the decade. Obama has chosen not to name concrete goals. No numbers, no time frame. He doesn’t dare mention how things will have to change to favor the climate. Professor Obama waits for new ideas and looks forward to a public debate. He doesn’t dare push the Senate to settle on a climate-change bill. This president won’t lead America out of a crisis this way — and he certainly won’t usher in a new era.”
All that apologizing and they don’t respect him.
Via Russia Today:
Russia’s Prime Minister Vladimir Putin is personally overseeing the country’s efforts to create one of the most advanced fighter jets in the world. He stopped by the Zhukovsky airfield outside Moscow to watch a test flight of the Sukhoi T-50 jet. The plane features an array of technical and design innovations. Sukhoi, the company behind it, says it’ll be a few more years before the fifth-generation jet is ready for mass production.
Also @ MCT:
Video: Russian Sukhoi T-50 Stealth Fighter
The T-50 Russian Stealth Fighter
Its Friday Night and after a full day of listening to soccer snobs, I’m in the mood for some old school hockey. And as an added bonus, follow the links for some excellent right wing writing.
Please allow me to be the first to apologize for the Representative’s apology. Not the first apology mind you, which was wholly appropriate in my opinionated opinion, but the second apology that was offered just five hours after the first. Congressman Barton was absolutely correct when he characterized El Presidente’s handling of the matter and should retract his second apology or at the very least, apologize for it. That being the second apology and not the first.
Obama surrenders part of America to Mexican thugs
Bob Probert vs. Ty Domi
Video: Another videographer assaulted by Democrats
With Obama’s leadership lacking, bureaucracy wins
Mike Vernon vs. Patrick "I can't hear you because I have my Stanly Cup rings in my ears" Roy
My Boss Goes Before the Small People
Like yesterday, when BO puffed out his chest (yeah, I know, you need a microscope to tell) and called the $20 billion damage claims fund he extorted from BP a good start, saying he’d “continue to hold BP accountable.” That’s some ass kicking right there. At least you all weren’t too dumb to understand it.
Hanger 42 – Celluoid Burns Like Napalm
Hillbuzz won’t support Obama, even if Hillary is his VP
Darren McCarty vs. Claude "The Turtle" Lemieux
European flooding (be sure to check out the incredible pictures)
Tom DeBaggio and the disease called Alzheimer’s
And a bonus video: “The Brawl”
And if you are not a Red Wing or hockey fan, this hit (at the 0:50 mark) is the reason for the brawl.