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Guys, seriously, the narcissism:
The reasons for Obama’s decline in popularity in the Muslim world could find their origins in any number of perceptions. Perhaps he lost approbation with his orders for more troops in Afghanistan and the ongoing American military presence in the land of the Taliban.
It is also possible that Obama is seen by Muslims as weak and ineffective, even untrustworthy given his failure to close Guantanamo Bay in spite of his vociferous promises to do so.
Furthermore, given that nothing substantive has changed in America’s dealings with Iran or with Israel, Obama again looks ineffective to those who believed the hype about his providing new relations with the Middle East.
However, a recent news story should give Americans hope that the Muslim world may well have a new reason not to like President Obama. As a regular sentry regarding the threat that the Islamic worldview poses to the core Western values of freedom of religion and freedom of speech, I am grateful.
Yes. A regular sentry regarding the threat from your fucking Barcalounger. Thank God you and your JAG reruns are there to keep us safe from … stuff.
You know, you get intimately acquainted with these fucknuts reading right-wing stupidity, and what drives me nuts about them is that they’re looking to be heroes, but only in one specific way: Saving the world when the Zombie Apocalypse occurs and they can be kings in their ammo-stockpiled, Soldier of Fortune-outfitted fantasy world and every girl that ever turned them down for a date will be swooning all over them because where once they were Herbert Kornfeld, now they are King Herbert the First.
I get the wish fulfillment aspect, I do. Plenty of people want to be important. Everybody wants to matter. But if you long to be a hero, there are about a hundred thousand ways you can do that, starting by picking up litter in the neighborhood or teaching some schoolchildren to read.
But that wouldn’t be as big and brave as being a Sentry on the Right Wing Blog Wall, now would it? After all, we’ve learned from Jerry Bruckheimer movies that you’re only really a big man if something’s exploding.
x-posted at First Draft
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First thing I saw over there at TownHall was an ad for “An Army of One” by Rush “Analcyst” Limbaugh. Hilarious! Hey, Rusty, “shooting your mouth off” is a metaphor, not the equivalent of actual, you know, shooting.
But considering the author’s point about “the Muslim world,” does he have any idea how big and diverse the Muslim world is? Do we really want all Muslims everywhere to hate us? I know that’s the result our foreign policy has been reaching asymptotically for years now, but does it ever dawn on these wingnuts that more enemies does not equal more security?
Hey, waita minute. This guy was Methodist minister who once talked to thousands of like minded religionists every Sunday. Then he became a Catholic, no doubt inspired by the faith journeys of Cardinal Newman and TS Eliot. AND – he has a PhD in “New Testament.” From Yale, no less, like some forty Bushes. Time to close Yale or just nationalize the Ivy League? Your call.
The recurrence of that Hero Who bangs The Previously Disdainful Cheerleader archtype is Jungian in its persistence with these peeps, Neitschean in its eternal return. Sick fucks.
Someone–I believe it was I myself–pointed out that, in the clipped, efficient manner of military abbreviations, a JAG officer must be called “a JAG-Off.” Suits this clown down to the ground, as the Brits say.
…where once they were Herbert Kornfeld, now they are King Herbert the First.
Yo, don’t be dissin’ on the H-Dog, aiight? That OG’s one stone cold Mack Daddy Enforca of tha Accountz Reeceevable Department, word up.
I know I am going to regret asking this, but WTF is TownHall and who is this Allen Hunt jackass? Seriously. If you’re going to be an asshole, at least be able to do it with flair. His biggest crime is that he’s dull. Ok, not his biggest crime, but in the top five.
Ms. A, I have to say after several days of reading your insight(snark), you are the, probably younger, incarnation of TBogg himself. As enjoying any fine element of life, your writing clarifies the imponderable. Looking forward to following First Draft.
The Sentries were the right-wing paramilitary group in “Viva Max” who fled after being faced down by Mexican soldiers with unloaded rifles. You can expect the same result if you depend on wingnuts to repel the scimitar-wielding dervishes.
(pours a fawty of Hi-C onto tha ground in honor of tha H-Dawg)
Word is bond.
Tommy