Say it ain’t so, Joe…

Transcript:

“The President has no Constitutional authority to take this nation to war against a country of 70 million people unless we’re attacked or unless there is proof that we are about to be attacked. and if he does, if he does, I would move to impeach him.”

Technically, Libya only has 6.5 million people, so maybe Joe can weasel out with a Clinton-esque parsing of the definition his words.

UPDATE: As if right on cue, here comes Obama with his own Clintonesque approach to the action in Libya, claiming “we are not at war“:

The White House held a classified briefing Tuesday with House and Senate leaders regarding the ongoing situation in Libya emphasizing the U.S. is NOT at war with Libya.

So if we are not at war, then how should we classify the deaths caused by bombings Obama has ordered? Murder? Terrorism?

Senator Barack Obama said on December 20, 2007:

“The President does not have power under the Constitution to unilaterally authorize a military attack in a situation that does not involve stopping an actual or imminent threat to the nation.”

And this week he unilaterally authorized military attacks on Libya, because their leader “told his people there will be no mercy.”

So it’s clear that Obama, under his own argument, has abused his powers as President…

You dopey Democrats elected this disaster… so suck it up and own the fact that maybe electing a motivational speaker to lead the free world wasn’t one of your brighter ideas.

For all its failures and ineptitudes, there is one thing eerily consistent with the Obama administration…

…it’s incessant ability to be caught off guard.

June, 2009: Obama Caught by Surprise on Iran

August, 2009: “President Obama, at a press conference with British Prime Minister David Cameron, said “all of us … were surprised, disappointed and angry” by the Scottish government’s decision to free Abdel Baset al-Megrahi last year

October, 2009: Washington caught off guard by Netanyahu visit

June, 2010: The White House was caught by surprise by a magazine piece that led to the exit of U.S. Gen. Stanley McChrystal as commander in Afghanistan, an official said.

February, 2011: [The Obama Administration] never once considered a scenario in which Mubarak faced a popular revolt.

March, 2011: Washington seemed taken by surprise as long-time ally Saudi Arabia sent 2,000 troops and the United Arab Emirates some 500 police into neighboring Bahrain Monday.

I guess Joe Biden was right when he said the Presidency is no place for on-the-job training.

Remember when Hillary ran the ad about the 3:00 AM phone call to highlight the fact that Barack Obama was completely unequipped to be Commander in Chief? Remember when Joe Biden, Obama’s own running mate, said that Obama would be engaging in “on-the-job training” as President?

They were both right…

…which means we’re screwed.

It’s nice to know that television news anchors are more up to date on current terror plots around the world than the man who heads the agency tasked with knowing everything before everyone.

U.S. Director of National Intelligence James Clapper drew a blank when ABC’s Diane Sawyer asked him about the arrests hours earlier of 12 men accused of plotting an al-Qaida-type attack in London. Give the guy a break… maybe going into makeup to get ready for a television interview was top priority instead.

“First of all, London. How serious is it? Any implication that it was coming here?” Sawyer asked at the start of an interview that also included chief counter-terrorism adviser John Brennan and Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano. Clapper, puzzled by Sawyer’s question, responded, “London?” and turned to Brennan for help responding to Sawyer’s questions about the arrests that had occurred several hours before the interview took place.

Later in the interview, Sawyer told Clapper that she was “a little surprised you didn’t know about London.” “Oh, I’m sorry, I didn’t,” Clapper replied.

Are you feeling safer, yet?

Here’s an exit question for you… do you think we’d be seeing the same silent reaction in the media (or on the Left - but I repeat myself) if the interviewee’s last name was Palin, instead?

UPDATE: From the same interview, Janet Napolitano wants to reassure Americans that the Department of Homeland Security is “working 364 days a year to fight terror”

And I hope they’re focused on protecting all 58 states.

Obama’s finally getting around to admitting what he’s doing to, and how he feels about, this great country.

From disliking the idea that America is a dominant military superpower…

“Whether we like it or not, we remain a dominant military superpower…”

…to admitting that his policies are going to insure we never return to the times of unprecedented economic growth and success.

Part of this global rebalancing is that they’re going to have to make some decisions as well about how they are approaching their domestic markets. And, you know, part of the bargain that we’re trying to strike within the G-20 framework is to say, “Look, we’ve got to take on our responsibilities in terms of improving our savings rate. You, on the other hand, have to recognize that a purely export-driven strategy of economic growth is not going to work, in that American consumers are just not going to be in the same position, and the American government is not going to be in the same position, that it’s been in over the last several years.

You wanted change… you got it.

Remember when Democrats whined that other countries hated us for being a freedom-loving democracy with a tough foreign policy?

Good news, Obama has fixed that… now they just simply laugh at us.

U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner on Monday reaffirmed his faith in a strong dollar and reassured the Chinese government that its huge holdings of dollar-denominated assets are safe.
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“Chinese financial assets are very safe,” Geithner said. His response drew laughter from the audience.

Who says complete inexperience and total ineptitude doesn’t pay off?

Remember how the Left complained for 8 years that President Bush was diminishing the status and reputation of the U.S.? Remember how American media picked up on the campaign and trotted out story after story about how the U.S. was hated and mocked around the world, usually based on some terrorist-supporting country’s complaints that we were playing too rough in the war against terrorism.

Yet, the same American media is now eerily silent about two gaffes of the Obama administration this weekend that’s actually got a superpower mocking us and our biggest ally hating us.

Imagine the amount of coverage Katie Couric, Matt Lauer and Chris Matthews would’ve given to these two stories had they occured a year ago.

It’s interesting that those on the Left seem to be the ones warning us the most about Obama’s lack of experience and qualifications to be President of the U.S. From his own running mate, Joe Biden, saying Obama wasn’t ready and warning that an international crisis would be generated to test his mettle (something former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright agreed with), to Hillary reminding us that he has much less experience than John McCain, to this:

French President Nicolas Sarkozy is very critical of U.S. presidential candidate Barack Obama’s positions on Iran, according to reports that have reached Israel’s government.

Sarkozy has made his criticisms only in closed forums in France. But according to a senior Israeli government source, the reports reaching Israel indicate that Sarkozy views the Democratic candidate’s stance on Iran as “utterly immature” and comprised of “formulations empty of all content.”

This has got to sting Obama and his leftwing friends considering how much they worship the French. It’s bad enough that everyone around Obama seems to think he’s not qualified to lead the nation, but does America really want a President that even the French - the French - think is weak?

Not as much as the liberals would like you to think.

Amazing, isn’t it, how the conventional wisdom that holds sway among many sophisticated — i.e. liberal — Washingtonians and New Yorkers is often so completely divorced from reality.

These folks have come to take it as a given that America’s involvement in Iraq has inflicted severe damage to our nation’s image abroad, especially in Europe. But the most recent national election results from France and Germany demonstrate that this “truth” about George W. Bush’s America is about as credible as the recurring rumor that Elvis is actually alive and well flipping hamburgers in happy obscurity somewhere near Seattle.

Exhibit A here is France’s Nicolas Sarkozy, who is described by the editors of the old gray lady on West 43rd Street in Manhattan as “unabashedly pro-American.”

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Exhibit B is Germany’s 2005 election of Angela Merkel as Germany’s first female chancellor.

Her elevation to the chancellorship followed an era in which her predecessor, Gerhard Shroeder, had become an increasingly strident critic of the U.S. and sought to weld Germany and France together as Europe’s dominant power. But Merkel won while running on a platform that stressed the importance of maintaining close ties to the U.S. In a 2003 op-ed in The Washington Post, Merkel said: “Germany needs its friendship with France, but the benefits of that friendship can be realized only in close association with our old and new European partners, and within the transatlantic alliance with the United States.”

Sorry guys.

UPDATE:
Looks like I’ll eat a little crow, now that Sarkozy is showing himself to be just another prototypical cheese-eating surrender monkey. Though it appears he’s doing this to save the pathetic economy that’s been slaughtered by socialism.