Obama Wins Nobel Peace Prize

The British have a wonderful term “gobsmacked” which literally means that you’ve been surprisingly slapped across your face, or “gob.” I can think of no better word to describe my feeling when I loaded up the Drudge Report this morning. Granted, it’s not that surprising that Oslo wanted to give him this, but it’s the pure hubris of the Nobel Committee to do it this soon…so soon (when he has done absolutely nothing) that even the MSM is a bit non-plussed.

Too bad SNL has been probably been cowed into silence by CNN, otherwise they could expand on last week’s skit with a vengence.

MORE: Quote of the day from an anonymous White House aide: “It’s not April 1, is it?”

Story Of The Day: Hitler Called Chamberlain An "Arschloch"

It never ceases to amaze me how much Adolph Hitler, perhaps the worst person that ever lived, can teach us. He’s like the horrible gift that keeps on giving….like that cuckoo clock I once got as a wedding gift (which turned out to be rather poignant considering I’m not married anymore).

Today we learn from the British archives that MI5 tried to use some of Hitler’s saucy descriptions of Chamberlain to convince the weak Prime Minister to reconsider appeasement:

The file claimed that Hitler was “convinced that Great Britain is ‘decadent’ and lacks the will power to defend the British Empire” and added: “If the information in the [report] which has proved generally reliable in the past, is to be believed, Germany is at the beginning of a ‘Napoleonic era’ and her rulers contemplate a great extension of German power.”

At the suggestion of one officer they included samples of Hitler’s insulting references to Chamberlain which was said to have had “a considerable impression on the Prime Minister.”

Lord Halifax, the Foreign Secretary, underlined three times in red pencil Hitler’s reported description of Chamberlain as an “arschloch” before handing it on to the Prime Minister.

Hitler was also said to have mocked Chamberlain’s trademark umbrella, according to the report, which said he was “very fond of making jokes about the ‘umbrella pacifism’ of the once so imposing British world empire.”

Professor Christopher Andrew, the author of the book, said the report, delivered in November 1938, was “unprecedented” because it represented the “first, albeit implicit, indictment of government foreign policy by a British intelligence agency.”

In the end it had no effect, and Chamberlain and Halifax still believed Nazi Germany would stand by the agreement they had made in Munich even as they occupied Prague the following March.

This is so rich and delicious, I can’t finish it all. I hate to play the “Captain Obvious” card, but does anyone see, oh, I don’t know, some simliarities to current world events?

And my new favorite word is now “arschloch.” Expect to see it on this webpage ad nauseum.

It’s Official: No More Making Fun Of The French

For they have elected a president with a firm grasp of reality. I don’t agree with Nicholas Sarkozy on everything, but on the stuff that really, really matters, he is golden.

From the National Post, via Breitbart:

“President Obama dreams of a world without weapons … but right in front of us two countries are doing the exact opposite.

“Iran since 2005 has flouted five security council resolutions. North Korea has been defying council resolutions since 1993.

“I support the extended hand of the Americans, but what good has proposals for dialogue brought the international community? More uranium enrichment and declarations by the leaders of Iran to wipe a UN member state off the map,” he continued, referring to Israel.

The sharp-tongued French leader even implied that Mr Obama’s resolution 1887 had used up valuable diplomatic energy.

“If we have courage to impose sanctions together it will lend viability to our commitment to reduce our own weapons and to making a world without nuke weapons,” he said.

Mr Sarkozy has previously called the US president’s disarmament crusade “naive.”

“We live in the real world, not the virtual world. And the real world expects us to take decisions.”

Parfait!

Sick: U.S. May Be Hiding Zelaya

I’ve never thought I’d see the day where the U.S. Government would be openly supporting and assisting a dictator in waiting. Now I know what the lefties are gonna say: “What about Pinochet? What about Somoza?” Fair enough, if you want to just push aside the whole fighting the Cold War aspect. Of course, we were the bad guys in Cold War, right? Sorry, I keep forgetting that. Anyway, so just to make sure I understand what’s going on here: It was wrong and evil of us to back Pinochet and Somoza, but it’s right and just for us to support Zelaya who tried to subvert democracy in Honduras and was deposed by democratic means?

Anyone that wants to enlighten me, feel free, and do so with the knowledge that if I disagree with you, you will NOT be banned from my website.

UPDATE: Hiding at the Brazilian embassy.

Contemptible: Hillary Clinton Compares Florida 2000 To Nigerian Corruption

She’s apparently trying to overtake Madeline Half-bright as the worst Secretary of State in modern history. As Karl at Hot Air puts it, this, coupled with Obama’s “America sucks” foreign policy is quite the combo. Absolutely disgusting.

Krauthammer: Dictating Only To Israel

The usual calm and collected Charles Krauthammer seems fit to be tied by Obama’s latest apology tour. As he points out, there is one country that will be dictated to: Israel.

President Obama repeatedly insists that American foreign policy be conducted with modesty and humility. Above all, there will be no more “dictating” to other countries. We should “forge partnerships as opposed to simply dictating solutions,” he told the G-20 summit. In Middle East negotiations, he told al-Arabiya, America will henceforth “start by listening, because all too often the United States starts by dictating.”

An admirable sentiment. It applies to everyone — Iran, Russia, Cuba, Syria, even Venezuela. Except Israel. Israel is ordered to freeze all settlement activity. As Secretary of State Hillary Clinton imperiously explained the diktat: “a stop to settlements — not some settlements, not outposts, not natural-growth exceptions.”

What’s the issue? No “natural growth” means strangling to death the thriving towns close to the 1949 armistice line, many of them suburbs of Jerusalem, that every negotiation over the past decade has envisioned Israel retaining. It means no increase in population. Which means no babies. Or if you have babies, no housing for them — not even within the existing town boundaries. Which means for every child born, someone has to move out. No community can survive like that. The obvious objective is to undermine and destroy these towns — even before negotiations.

To what end? Over the past decade, the U.S. government has understood that any final peace treaty would involve Israel retaining some of the close-in settlements — and compensating the Palestinians accordingly with land from within Israel itself.

The Big Show In Cairo

Well, Obama gave his big speech in Cairo. So far it looks like the usual suspects are impressed…the state-run media and the academics. Meanwhile, Israel, American conservatives and Muslim extremists are not so enamored. The Rightists in Israel are putting out a new poster that you see here. Rather extreme, but I don’t blame them for being fearful.

The part about the Palestinian state is what gets my goat. Yes, everybody is for a two-state solution, except for one very important party…the Palestinians! They turned down the offer in 1999 because they will only accept a one-state solution which would involve the total destruction of Israel. Why can’t anyone get this?

Meanwhile, there was this statement:

Conservative critics seized on a passage in which he said: “Given our interdependence, any world order that elevates one nation or group of people over another will inevitably fail. So whatever we think of the past, we must not be prisoners of it. Our problems must be dealt with through partnership; progress must be shared.”

Hard to get too worked up about this, because it’s nothing new. This was a view held by many of the Foggy Bottom wonks in the Clinton administration. Many believe it would be a better world if many countries had nukes rather than just the United States which was part of the reason the Clintons sold missile technology to the Chinese. It’s also believed by some that democracy is no better than any other system…it’s all relative. Yes, Postmodernism is back, in a big way.

UPDATE: Great minds think alike. Victor Davis Hanson on Obama’s postmodernism.

A Memorial Day Test

Coincidence? I think not. Today, we have news of a North Korean nuke test and word that Iranian psycho Mahmoud Ahmadinejad wants to debate President Obama at the U.N. That’s right, on Memorial Day in America, the day that we honor fallen veterans for their sacrifice to keep America free, the two remaining members of the Axis of Evil (we still use that term at Jim-Rose.com) fire shots across the bow of the S.S. Messiah.

Here’s the difference between us on the right and pseudo-right vs. those on the left…we want Obama to pass this test. We want him to rise to the occasion because his failure against the Axis of Evil would not be his alone, but the safety of our nation. This is different from Rush Limbaugh’s “hope he fails” treatise. Rush’s example involves Obama succeeding in what he has set out to do…destroy the economy, and cut America down to size on the national stage. In that sense, we want him to fail, but in a perfect world, Obama would see the error of his ways and start off by standing up to the world’s thugs.

I’m not optimistic, but for my country, I have to hope that it can happen.

Cheney: Obama Endangers The Nation

*sigh* It’s gonna be a long week listening to the Left complain about Dick Cheney’s comments all the while pretending they were nothing but charming toward George W. Bush, not to mention Cheney himself.

Anywho, he’s absolutely right, but facts never get in the way of a good media cycle.

Iran Jails American Reporter

At a time when our President is going around the world apologizing for the United States and glad-handing with dictators, Iran decides to throw an American reporter in jail:

TEHRAN, Iran – Iran convicted an American journalist of spying for the United States and sentenced her to eight years in prison, her lawyer said Saturday, complicating the Obama administration’s efforts to break a 30-year-old diplomatic deadlock with Tehran.

The White House said President Barack Obama was “deeply disappointed” by the conviction, while the journalist’s father told a radio station his daughter was tricked into making incriminating statements by officials who told her they would free her if she did.

It’s like Khrushchev-Kennedy all over again.