Monday, September 2, 2013

BloggeRhythms 9/2/2013

Yara Bayourny and Thomas Ferraro of Reuters via Drudge, illustrated clearly today what’s without doubt an extremely damaging blow to our international image.  
 
The writers state that Syria's official al-Thawra newspaper said in a front-page editorial: "Obama announced yesterday, directly or through implication, the beginning of the historic American retreat."

They go on to quote Syrian Deputy Foreign Minister, Faisal Mekdad, who accused the incumbent of indecision by saying, “It is clear there was a sense of hesitation and disappointment in what was said by President Barack Obama yesterday. And it is also clear there was a sense of confusion as well." 

Now, while we’ve been attacked verbally and in print innumerable times over history, by many adversaries, to my knowledge this is the very first time we’ve been referred to as retreating in confusion. I also fully realize that the words come from a two-bit politico of a backward nation, but nonetheless, they have credence to others in the world.

So, since I haven’t the responsibility, expertise or position to make decisions like this one, attacking Syria or not, I’m only addressing how things appear to have been done. And strictly in that regard, I think the situation points out the huge mistake people like the incumbent make when they continually speak without knowledge of subjects, and even worse, become known world-wide as spineless loudmouth wimps.

Syria however, wasn’t the only place the incumbent lost ground today because, according to Warner Todd Huston of Breitbart, also via Drudge: “In what is being reported as a surprise move, the 40,000 members of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) announced that they have formally ended their association with the AFL-CIO, one of the nation's largest private sector unions. The Longshoremen citied Obamacare and immigration reform as two important causes of their disaffiliation.”

In  a letter to AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka the Longshoreman leader said, "President Obama ran on a platform that he would not tax medical plans and at the 2009 AFL-CIO Convention, you stated that labor would not stand for a tax on our benefits." 
 
Mr. Huston further points out that, “But, regardless of that promise, the President has pushed for just such a tax and Trumka and the AFL-CIO bowed to political pressure lining up behind Obama's tax on those plans.”

So now another 40,000 folks have become fed up and are deserting the sinking health care ship. And adding their dissatisfaction with the do-nothing approach to illegal immigration. 
 
Which leads me to conclude once again with the thought that if Republicans don’t win every contest they run in next time around, all of them should pack up and move on to another business. Because they don’t even have to campaign against a party that’s harmed just about everyone in the nation in some way or other, and will only do worse as time moves on. 

That’s it for today folks.

Adios

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