Priorities… Priorities… Obama Spent 1 Hour Talking Egypt – Then 2 Hours Partying With Axelrod
Posted by Jim Hoft on Sunday, January 30, 2011, 7:08 PM
It’s much worse than we thought.
Barack Obama sure is concerned about the future of the Middle East, Isreal and the world.
As Cairo burned yesterday he met with his security team — for an hour.
It was exhausting. He needed a break.
Then on Saturday night he went out and partied with Axelrod… for at least two hours!
Kristinn reported:
As thirty years of United States Middle East strategy teeters on collapse, Barack Obama spent Saturday night at a going away party for David Axelrod who is leaving the administration to set up Obama’s reelection campaign in Chicago. The party was held at the Dupont Circle condo of former Obama aide Linda Douglass.
Douglass, who is now with the National Journal, played host to a gathering of cabinet secretaries including Arne Duncan (Education), Timothy Geithner (Treasury) and Steven Chu (Energy) and prominent reporters including Major Garrett (National Journal), Jake Tapper (ABC), Chuck Todd (NBC) and John Harwood (CNBC/New York Times).
Obama spent nearly two hours at the party.
Everyone has their priorities.
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Published May 21, 2012 at 12:19 am - 76 Comments
ebayer commented:
Parrrrrrrrrrrrrrrty!!
Woo Hoo!
Grab the hats and hooters!
pamlinson commented:
Well he screws up everything he touches…..maybe it’s good he’s at a loss for words.
NickDeringer commented:
Professor O’Barry is a passive aggressive. Treating the office of the POTUS as if it were an internship is his way of dissing America and what it stands for. It is his way of expressing his anger and rage. Dinesh D’Souza nailed him with his book “The Roots of Obama’s Rage.”
davidt commented:
Celebration.
bg commented:
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“they accept death with some kind of fanatical indifference”
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donh commented:
Sure would love to DJ that Gig….make it an 80′s flash back. …Walk like an Egyptian, Rock the Casbah…We Didn’t Start the Fire…I can’t wait for the international party memorial speech Obama is going to have on Sharmel Sheik resort when the body count hits 500…. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFTLKWw542g
NeoKong commented:
It’s above his pay grade.
hermie commented:
Can you imagine what the MSM would have said if this was George Bush?
Oh wait, since they were partying WITH Obama we won’t hear a thing about it from them.
bg commented:
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get a load of the video @ link..
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Wolf T. commented:
An old jewish proverb: A hundred wise men cannot undo the foolishness of a single person.
When Obama is that fool, and he is, it will take at least two generations to comprehend and attempt to patch up the damage that is being done while we sleep. The suez canal will be in the clutches of radical islam; the Horn of Africa, filled with al quaida sponsored somali pirates will cut off the Red Sea and Indian ocean for Israel; the sinai peninsula will fill up with the Egyptian army at Israel’s border; islamic radicalism will continue to replace Attaturk’s turkish republic.
And these are just starters for what is to come. 2012 may indeed realize the Mayan prediction.
Chances for an Atomic war in the middle east has just increased exponentially and our muslim president is happy to see it occur. Only one problem: No one has ever managed to wipe out the Jews and don’t anyone bet on it happening this time, either.
Israel: last country standing!
Jim commented:
As upsetting as Obambi’s behavior is, is anyone else bothered by all of these Beltway govt. twats and the MSM hanging out and partying with each other? It pretty much tells you the MSM and the DC Beltway establishment are one and the same and not on the side of everyday Americans.
I don’t want them to BFF’s/Buds/Bro’s/et al. I want them to hold each other in contempt which is something the MSM manages to figure out only when there is a Republican in a position of power.
mpw280 commented:
What does he care, he has a built in excuse. It’s all Bush’s fault! God help us. mpw
slick commented:
voting “present” again.
Taqiyyotomist commented:
But…but…
Bush spent SEVEN WHOLE MINUTES reading “My Pet Goat” to a group of kiddos when he was told about the 9/11 attack!
So this is just cheap political points.
/average moonbat idiot reality-challenged troll off
Somewhat Reasonable Voice commented:
Wonder when he’s going to learn to play the fiddle and laugh like a lunatic. It’s a shame old Robert Byrd is gone, quite a fiddle player he was.
Wm T Sherman commented:
I think he actually regards this as below his pay grade.
Or maybe, he feels he can relax now since everything is going according to plan.
Barbara commented:
How fun could that be: a party with every pencil-neck bureaucrat in DC! What could Major have been thinking? Has anyone heard from him since he left FOX?
Granny commented:
Well, he certainly had made himself (and us) utterly irrelevant in the eyes of the world. Take a look at this devastating piece form Ha’aretz -
Obama will go down in history as the president who lost Egypt – and more
http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/obama-will-go-down-in-history-as-the-president-who-lost-egypt-1.340057
bg commented:
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re: #10
video
Prnce Alwaleed
al-Masour
and i could keep on posting links (not that i haven’t) until O’s skeleton grows flesh & muscle & comes to life, but our government is oblivious??
sorry, just don’t believe it.. *sigh*
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zhombre commented:
Egypt isn’t lost. Joe Biden can point to it on the map. Right there next to Uruguay.
xqqme commented:
partying like it’s 1979!
That’s leadership for sure!
FU*K OBAMA commented:
First the Gulf Oil spill with Imam Obama gleefully ignoring the issue. Next stop ALL drilling in the Gulf and our nations oil supply reaching al time lows. Now stop all oil through the Suez Canal then watch as America and the free western world is brought to it’s knees by huge energy increases. Then stir up roits and chaos along with dwindling food supplies and you have a recipe for world wide disaster as we have never seen before.
And Imam Obama is partying away. Do you think there is a coincidence?
Do you feel safer now?
Paula commented:
It is abundantly clear that there is only one thing that will garner this guy’s FULL attention,,,,,,,himself!!!!!
Taqiyyotomist commented:
#25
Best post I’ve seen from your blaspehmous nic yet.
/sarc on the “blasphemous” part.
Kudos, for truth.
John 10:10 AV1611 (KJV) “The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.”
“The thief” currently controls the White House.
Granny commented:
#22 BG – Seen this one?
http://grantlawrence.blogspot.com/2011/01/saudi-prince-warns-royal-family-to-step.html
Granny Jan commented:
Saturday morning BO watched his daughter play basketball in Chevy Chase.
Mark Knoller: Pres. Obama and daughters are using the gym at FBI headquarters for some Sunday morning basketball this morning.
about 11 hours ago via web
FU*K OBAMA commented:
#27: Those that will curse me I will curse and those that bless thee I will bless…
How many curses has the progressives brought to America?
Big L commented:
How could you write a script like this? It is like Garth and Wayne in the White House.Beyond awful. And those crumbs-the reporters. Have they no shame?
donh commented:
The Christians in Egypt want Mubarak to stay. If El Baradei takes command, the Christians will be boxed into railroad cars and shipped out….worse a Genocide unlike any seen in the civilized world since WW2 . There are 10 million non muslims in Egypt. This blood will be on Obama’s hands as he is responsible for the push to have Islamo Nazi El Baradei take over.
Sally commented:
It is unfolding as we feared it might.
Big L commented:
but what about the Suez Canal?
Taqiyy. commented:
#13 Wolf T.
GREAT COMMENT!
As God told us:
Zech 8-9 KJV:
“8 In that day shall the LORD defend the inhabitants of Jerusalem; and he that is feeble among them at that day shall be as David; and the house of David shall be as God, as the angel of the LORD before them.
“9And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will seek to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem.”
Nothing can stand against Eretz Yisrael. Nothing will stand against Eretz Yisrael. God is faithful.
Sad truth: any nation which attacks Israel will be utterly destroyed. Even our United States.
Granny commented:
#34 January 30, 2011 at 8:59 pm
Big L commented:
but what about the Suez Canal?
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We twisted the Israeli’s arm to force them to give the Suez Canal to the Egyptians. Expect the canal to be closed shortly.
The good news? Not long ago the Israeli’s made an oil/gas discovery off their coast that is supposed to be one of the largest deposits in the world – even bigger than Alaska.
donh commented:
What about the Suez Canal, What about Israel, what about the price of oil…… Nobody asking what about the CHRISTIANS ! Geraldo just interviewed some American Egyptian Christians and they are very much afraid for their family back home who they claim have barricaded themselves inside their homes, and fear for their very lives. When Pakistan became an Islamic state independant from India, there was a purge of 1 million lives lost !
Taqiyy. commented:
I agree with those who say that America should secure the Suez Canal.
We have the ability. Perhaps rogue elements of our Navy will do so, despite our CiC’s reluctance to do anything which would safeguard the oil supply for the entire Western World.
Screw what Obama thinks, says, or commands. Our Navy should just f***ing do it.
If we don’t, expect riots.
$10.00 per gallon gas will do that. And that’s a low estimate.
Taqiyy. commented:
ATTN JIM HOFT:
You rock. Your coverage on this has been the best online, in this humble dishwasher’s opinion.
My meager tax returns are due to arrive in a couple of days, and I don’t see a “tip jar.”
I’ve never donated to a blog, but yours? I would in a heartbeat, no questions asked.
Just don’t ever pull a CJ. (If you know what I mean.)
Dobby commented:
I’m just hoping the dictators in the middle east are not replaced with liberal democrats. Cause they’ll stop all the oil drilling.
bg commented:
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FU*K OBAMA #25
reading your post brought one of the very first article’s,
long before Obama, that i’d ever posted back to mind..
not to mention one of the most informative..
via Antiwar.com
THE WAR AGAINST THE SAUDIS
by Justin Riamondo
January 23, 2002
[DEMOCRATS TAKE THE LEAD
'FORBIDDEN TRUTH'
This fusillade comes as the climax of a furious post-9/11 anti-Saudi propaganda campaign that has gone into overdrive in recent weeks. From noting that most of the alleged hijackers were identified as Saudi nationals to screaming headlines about a dispute between a visiting Saudi princess and her maid, the anti-Saudi jihad has become an intellectual paradigm for the theoreticians of a new cold war. Neoconservative ideologues such as Daniel Pipes and Stephen Schwartz, see Wahabism as the totalitarian flavor of the new millennium, just as the varieties of socialism (Stalinism and Nazism) were the scourge of the twentieth century. This view has been popularized – indeed, one might say novelized – by a new book, written and published inside of a few weeks, Bin Laden, The Forbidden Truth, by Jean-Charles Brisard and Guillaume Dasquie, described by the Los Angeles Times as
"A dense, conspiracy-minded portrait of Saudi-dominated banks, companies and tycoons, all allegedly interconnected, that they maintain have helped fund Bin Laden's holy war."
THE APOSTATES
THE MARLARKEY FACTOR
TARGET: BUSH I
OPPORTUNITY KNOCKS
THE ROCKEFELLER CONNECTION
AN ENDURING ALLIANCE
TURNING ON A DIME
This was the rock upon which the US-Saudi alliance was founded, and anyone who questioned the necessity, wisdom, or cost of this friendship – let alone calling for a US withdrawal – was roundly denounced as a foolish "isolationist." Now, the same people who hailed the Gulf war and the imperative of defending the Saudi oil fields, have turned on a dime, and are not only calling the historic friendship into question, but openly wondering if the Saudis are enemies.
How to explain this sudden about-face by the chattering classes, the political mavens, and now a growing number of mostly Democratic politicians? I say – follow the money!
Oh, but "everything's changed!," they cry. How can you be so cynical? Don't you know that skepticism is out and earnestness is in? Be that as it may, I can only report the facts as I see them, and what I can tell you is that everything changed well before September 11, 2001, as far as the Rockefeller oil interests in Saudi Arabia were concerned.
TURNING POINT
SHOCKWAVES
ABDULLAH TO ARAMCO: 'THE PARTY'S OVER'
THE SAUDIS AND THE 'SILK ROAD'
TWO CAN PLAY
A very interesting comment, that last: what are these "competing projects"? This is none other than the Transcaucasian "Silk Road" pipeline project, slated to extend from the Caspian Sea oilfields to Turkey, and perhaps down through Afghanistan to the Indian Ocean. This project has long been on the drawing boards, and the Clinton administration took it up with alacrity, even going so far as to set up a special department to facilitate its creation. If the foreign oil companies were going to try to go around them, said the Prince in so many words, then two could play that game:
Q: "Your Royal Highness what about Saudi Aramco? Will it assume a new role following the formation of the council and the invitation of the international oil companies?"
A: "We are proud of Aramco's achievements through the years and our dealings with foreign companies will never be at the expense of Aramco. I believe the presence of these companies will strengthen Aramco and sharpen its competitive edge. Aramco, has, I believe, the administrative and technical expertise and know-how that enable it to compete effectively with these companies."
FREE MARKET ECONOMICS 101
A LESSON LEARNED
ACCIDENTALLY ON PURPOSE
THE NEW COLD WAR
A GREAT DANGER
THIRSTY FOR BLOOD
THE VENTRILOQUISTS
BUSH PAYS THE PRICE
So far, President Bush has made it plain that he does not mean to wage war on Islam, and for that he is being made to pay a price. While his State Department is struggling to undo the damage done by the anti-Saudi media and the Lieberman-Levine assault in Congress, a grand coalition of left and right is pushing for World War III in the Middle East – a war that, given the presence of Pakistan and India (not to mention Israel) in the equation, could quickly go nuclear.]
much more @ link..
if you haven’t read it yet, i sincerely hope you
will, it is the cause of my research penchant..
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bg commented:
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Granny #28
re: #10
yup..
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Taqiyy. commented:
bg
Just began reading the article at link:
“Washington is all atwitter over what appears to be a sea-change on the foreign policy front: evidence of a developing rift between the US and Saudi Arabia…”
Was this an unexpected “rift”, do you think? Between the GREAT SATAN and the home of Medina and Mecca? If it was, quite a few decades after Jefferson and Churchill knew and wrote all about the Mohammadans, then we had, even then, become an incompetent and historically illiterate nation. A “rift” has just now, in TWO THOUSAND AND TWO, BEGUN to be evidenced by the academics and journalists??!! My god, our nation, by 2002, was run and informed by complete and utter idiots.
Going back to the article after that initial mind-boggling whopper.
tommy mc donnell commented:
whats the problem? obama is so smart one of his hours is worth ten of anyone else.
Taqiyy. commented:
Bookmarked on my toolbar, since I am too tired and slightly inebriated on Union-made beer (damn the unions!) to properly assess the article.
I’ll read it tomorrow, and thanks again, bg, for all you do here.
—–
bg — a gp treasure.
Taqiyy. commented:
“A developing rift.”
My neighbor must think i’m nuts, laughing as loud as I am at that idiotic, historically illiterate phrase.
If I wasn’t laughing, I would be crying. Developing. YAH, SINCE AROUND A.D. 1700 or SO, YOU MORONS!
W.T.F. and goodnight all.
jainphx commented:
Starvation for millions around the world, and here riots over food. $10.00 a gallon gas will prevent food getting to market, farmers can’t plant. The death panels in health care will govern all the elderly diverting food away from them. All this because we refuse to remove garbage from the White House. Party on Obama all is well according to you. Egypt, Venezuela, Iran, Tunisia, Peru, Turkey, and so many others that you were on the wrong side of. You couldn’t have caused this much damage if you had tried, no you just let it happen. One day, GOOD LORD willing, all of this cadre will be caught with their hands in the cookie jar, and will have to pay the piper.
KR commented:
Was Couric having a good time though, dancing the night away?
/s
Granny commented:
About that $10 per gallon gas -
Donald Trump, who is a pretty smart guy, thinks exactly the opposite. He thinks the turmoil in the ME is going to bring about a crash & burn of OPEC –
http://www.newsmax.com/Headline/trump-opec-oil-egypt/2011/01/30/id/384427
bg commented:
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LOL & sleep well Taq..
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save us commented:
We are better off when the o is playing b-ball or partying. That way he causes less damage to the USA,
AuntieMadder commented:
donh commented:
What about the Suez Canal, What about Israel, what about the price of oil…… Nobody asking what about the CHRISTIANS ! Geraldo just interviewed some American Egyptian Christians and they are very much afraid for their family back home who they claim have barricaded themselves inside their homes, and fear for their very lives. When Pakistan became an Islamic state independant from India, there was a purge of 1 million lives lost !
donh, all of the issues listed are very important. The Christians in Egypt will be the most immediately at rist. Next will be the Israeli Christians, along with all Israelis. The Christians and all citizens of the western world will either follow or perhaps be at risk simultaneously with Israel. That’s hard to say. It depends on how long it takes from the moment the Suez Canal is locked and blocked until there is little to no food to be found in the west. This is the part the libtards can’t seem to grasp. When they think about oil shortages in the US, they envision cute bunnies safely crossing what used to be high-traffic roads and butterflies dancing in the now-clearer air over empty interstate exchanges. Their sickened minds won’t allow them to imagine any further impact. Businesses closing or letting go of workers because they can’t afford to pay them and the power bills, too, especially not with the increased cost of paying their suppliers and vendors. The cost of producing food, from seed to grocery sack, every step along the way increasing to the point that even those still employed can’t afford to buy it. The producers, distributors and retailers unable to produce, distribute and retail it in abundance because the cost of doing so has grown so high that they had to let their workers go, too. And the cycle continues, round and round, until no one is working and no one is eating…and bored, idle, hungry people have been known to be downright vicious. (I tell all PETArds now, should that day ever come, don’t try to stand between me and that cute little bunnie in the road or you just might end up in the soup, too.)
AuntieMadder commented:
Big L commented: but what about the Suez Canal?
Forget the Suez Canal. Is the Panama Canal okay?
http://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2011/01/29/palin-and-bachmann-nitpicker-chris-matthews-says-panama-canal-egypt
Rose commented:
Why not? Merely one hour with Security team – HIGH FIVES don’t take long!
CV1 commented:
Taqiyyotomist #17…
“Bush spent SEVEN WHOLE MINUTES reading “My Pet Goat” to a group of kiddos when he was told about the 9/11 attack!”
Nice spin! If you had read “Decicion Points”, you would realize how foolish and misinformed you sound. Your comment, as usual, reeks of cheapness.
Diane Valencen commented:
@ Taqiyy #38
You do realize that what you are saying is not only a call for mutiny and an open act of piracy[which is a crime under International Law] but a call for the powers vested in the President as Commander in Chief of the Navy to be ignored. How can you stand on Constitutional matters so fully when it applies to the Commerce clause , say, and then rip the document up because you dislike the sitting President?
Taqiyyotomist commented:
CV1
Don’t come here often, do you?
That was sarcasm — if you’ll note my tagline:
“/average moonbat idiot reality-challenged troll off”
…you’d see it for what it was – a comment which would predictably be offered (and WAS, a couple of threads back) by said type of idiot moonbat.
The whole comment reeks of sarcasm, but somehow you didn’t catch it.
Diane, yup, I do realize what I’m saying. The Suez needs to be secured. These are desparate times.
cutlers bad knee commented:
Did Moochelle need a new $50.000 dress and a $500.00 pair of shoes for this party too..PATHETIC
reliapundit commented:
why obama is partying:
to obama, the tumult in egypt and likely takeover by baradei/MB/iran is not a bug of obama foreign policy; it’s a feature.
bg commented:
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CV1 #56
not made too clear, but Taq was mocking
what some trioll wrote in another post..
re: /average moonbat idiot reality-challenged troll off
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bg commented:
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Taq #58
duh-muh, didn’t see that..
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eaglewingz08 commented:
Don’t you understand that one hour of Obama’s attention is like six years of George W. Bush’s attention, cause Obama is super duper smart? When you use all that brain power, it’s only right that you relax for a couple of hours to recharge the genius making machinery.
denier commented:
#59 – Cutlers Bad Knee
Michelle’s dresses look like they cost $50.00 – but in actuality, closer to $2000 is the average. She buys top name designer clothes and then makes them look like cheap crap. This is not important – but this is reflective of how they think. They are too arrogant and vacuous to think about anything but themselves. They want the destruction of their own country – too stupid and angry to realize that they live here too. Party on Obamas – that is the only thing you are qualified to do.
bg commented:
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“protes” related..
[Hundreds of young people in the country’s north were beaten by police with batons in the sporadic antigovernment protests. Armed police surrounded at least six universities today to prevent students from leaving the campuses, according to Reuters. Students in Khartoum University were tear gassed in their dormitories late Sunday, leaving at least five injured.]
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