President Pants-on-Fire

Even The Washington Post is calling out Obama for blatant misrepresentation. Find out why.

The quietness of a real hero

While Obama was touting his  Bin Laden decision, Kathleen Parker was sitting with  a modest, genuine hero.

O's Outrageous deadline

Announcing the timing and extent of US withdrawal from Afghanistan is an outrage: the granting of aid and comfort to the enemy purely for political gains at home. Imagine how our troops must feel being asked to risk their lives for a pointless cause -- a war we are already walking away from. How much more emboldened must the Taliban feel, knowing  exactly how long they need to lie low before the gates of the city are flung wide open. How much more overwhelmed and fearful must anti-Taliban Afghans feel, knowing now what's in store for them and when? 

Underemployed? Get over it

"Underemployed" after graduating?  Nonsense. Get over it and get on with life. Here's how.
[Thanks: BJS]

Cartoon: Eric Allie

[Cagle Cartoons]

The Preezy who's making us queasy

The Preezy's  sleazy campaigning is making Dana Milbank feel queasy. Find out why.
[Thanks: BJS]

Failing Forward

[This glorious graphic from Yid with Lid ]

Barack Obama's Diary: Kabul edition

Dear Diary: I am flying home from Bagram base in Afghanistan, having inked a new partnership deal with Karzai  and delivered a primetime TV speech to the American people, at midnight Kabul time, to underline the anniversary of my  gutsy attack on Bin Laden. My rhetoric soared like the glistening new skyscrapers in Southern Manhattan, if I may say so myself and I do. There cannot have been a dry eye in the living rooms of America.  Meanwhile duplicitous sources not a million miles from the Pentagon are claiming that the military went ahead with  the raid without my immediate approval because I had  been "indecisive."  How disingenuous! Let history record that I was delaying a decision out of an abundance of caution -- what  if it had failed? What if the Seals had shot at Bin Laden and missed? It would all have been blamed on Me.  How right I was to be cautious.  As a result, if the raid had failed , the blame would have fallen safely on Panetta  and the top  military brass.
Of course, another  advantage of  visiting Kabul was that it offered the Secret Service advance team no chance to visit  places of ill-repute. It's well after midnight DC time now, so it's time to go to sleep. Marvelous Marv, my trip director, has thoughtfully laid out my blue jammies and Boo-boo my blankey.  Now, a quick prayer to myself in gratitude for my outstanding military leadership  and remarkable courage while on the ground for seven terrifying hours in Kabul. And so  to bed. 

Obama in Kabul to sign agreement

Obama is in  Kabul, Afghanistan, to sign "a strategic agreement" and the  first news of this comes from a Chinese news agency. Details here.
UPDATE: Obama to address US from Kabul  at prime time tonight, the first anniversary of the Bin Laden raid. White House Dossier has more here.

Barack Obackfire

Everything the President does to disparage Mitt Romney seems to blow right back at him. He suggests that Romney would have chickened out of attacking Bin Laden, then the Seals react by leaking their resentment at being used as political pawns. Stories  are even emerging  that the military were so frustrated with  Obama's  indecision that they set the attack rolling before telling him.   Cynical, vain, indecisive, incompetent. Past behavior is indeed the best predictor of future behavior. Four more years? Heaven forbid.

Obama 'far more brutal than Bush'

The former head of the CIA's Clandestine Service Jose Rodriguez says President Obama is waging the nation's war against radical Islam in a far more brutal manner than his predecessor President George W. Bush. Read it all
[Thanks BJS]

Woman bites dog?

A 19 year-old woman has been charged with biting a bulldog. Details here.

Back off! Mitt tells Obama

Mitt Romney has attacked Barack Obama for making the killing  of Osama  bin Laden  "a politically divisive issue." More here

Cartoon: Nate Beeler

[The Columbus Dispatch]

The Dung Beetle award goes to...

The Academy of Dungbeetles has never rolled an award towards the President of the United States, out of respect for the office of President. But Barack Obama's  unseemly use of Seal Team Six as ammunition for his re-election and his  simultaneous  suggestion that Mitt Romney would not have ordered the attack is "despicable" even  in the view of the very liberal Arianna Huffington. The Academy has reached the inescapable conclusion that this week's award  should go to Barack  Hussein Obama.