Good morning pups. It’s 11:00 am here in Paris, and we are breathless awaiting Obama’s Cairo speech, which you will have on your screens when you wake up in a couple of hours.

As to Greenland, send in the Marines. Hey, it worked in Haiti back in the day.

Further evidence of the Vast Left Wing Conspiracy.

Undoubtedly President Islamoappeaser will learn how to say “Thank You” in Greenlandic. An act that can mean only one thing. We have no choice but to bomb Iran.

Thanks, Attaturk. Good morning.

Good morning, Knut 4:00 am and getting ready for work here in central Texas. Probably won’t have time for the speech before work.

Bomb Iran? Great googly moogly!

Count the predicted faux Right-Wing outrages within the speech…

The wingnuts’ heads must be exploding, listening to Obama in Cairo.

Whoa Doctor!

Out of Many One

Good morning, pups. It’s Collins, Cohen and Kristof today. Ms. Collins says “Options are Overrated,” and that in response to the Obama administration’s attempt to reform student loans by cutting out the middleman, the lenders have been rallying the troops. Mr. Cohen, in “Baker’s Ghost in Cairo,” says that in his speech to the Muslim world, President Obama should show a balanced approach to the Mideast conflict. Mr. Kristof has a question in “Bullets Over Beijing:” Twenty years after the events in Tiananmen Square, why is China frozen politically even as it has transformed economically?

Here they are.

The coffee and tea are ready, and I’ve got banana pancakes today. Now I’m going back to paying attention to President Obama in Cairo. Have a great day.

Oh, my. They’ll go nuts. He referred to “the Holy Koran.”

Diplomacy??? Is this guy on the Hookah?

Limbaugh is more honest than Hannity and Crazy Bill Kristol. That’s noteworthy, I guess. Congratulations, Rush!

..and Jefferson!!!!

Never gonna hear abnout that part. Just like the “arrogant” speech. Nutjobs just ignore the next part where Obama tells the Euros that they’re too often ingrates for the good we’ve done. And the media let’s them get away with it.

74 and cloudy in The City Beautiful. 80’s and t-storms later. Whoever could have predicted? Tremendous Magic buzz. Rally at City Hall later. Hope the rain hold off. But if it rains on their rally that would be soooo Orlando.
Believe in Magic.

Wow. Speech looks too long for me to read w/o caffeine. Be right back.

D DAY + 1 So many good men who realized what they had to do at all costs..

It’s a brave and progressive speech. I fear more for his safety now than ever. :(

Yea, wait till his critics here wake up and start moaning.

Well, I’m sure their response will offer much low-hanging fruit for Attaturk and Thers and others.

The “hajib” as a religious freedom issue will be latched on to.

American conservatives claim to believe women should be barefoot/pregnant and rather sexless, but not too sexless for goodness sake. Then they get online to order their Bukkake porn.

After all, women as “objects” is what “Western Freedom” is all about! /sarcasm

Oh, my. They’ll go nuts. He referred to “the Holy Koran.”

As soon as the speech is over the idiocy will commence. Expert MSM Aholes will condemn BO for everything up to and including his need to go to the bathroom. And AIPAC will have their acolytes running from studio to studio damning the islamist BO and Israel will threaten Iran and bomb Palestine just to demonstrate how bloody wonderful they are. I do wish I had the hope that anything positive will come out of this speech but I have long ago given up.

Well, we have to give Ass Limbo credit….he’s sticking to his guns that he wants Obama and America to fail, so now if the neocons say to us liberals, “You’re just taking his statement out of context!”, we have lots of new quotes to back ourselves up with now. Way to go Mr. Bouncy Bouncy!

“”The golden rule……”"” Put that in your pipe and smoke Cheney!! You need it to alter your dysfunctional mindset.

America and Islam . . . share common principles – principles of justice and progress; tolerance and the dignity of all human beings.

Disagree, Mr. President.

Well many of us share those principles, they just aren’t always backed up by our actions.

Oh, thank goodness, Morning Joe will have Mika’s BFF Liz Cheney on to tell us what the speech should have been all about — the need to bomb Iran and torture more brown people.

…or at least by the actions of those acting in our name.

OK, the speech is over. What a speech! I’m going to see if I can catch a train to Normandy tomorrow morning to see him in action on the beaches. We have a President!

Done. Good speech. Can’t wait to hear Hannity tonight. Wait. I’ll be watching the game. Oh well. No matter. I pretty much already know what he’s going to say.

Hannity?!? I can just imagine what NPR is going to say about it when I leave for work in a few minutes. Some brief actual quotes from the speech and 20 minutes of right-wing rebuttal for every minute of the actual speech they play. And if they’re feeling generous maybe a couple of minutes from some tepid, pseudo-supporter.

good morning firdogs!

in response to stonypillow;

Bomb Iran? Great googly moogly!

It seems to me Iran was the pnac’s first priority, we couldn’t go after them right after the attack because they offered to help us and the people of Iran at the time pretty much idolized us

my how bush has changed that sentiment

krystol has been saying we need to bomb Iran for some time, he even got mccain to make it an important part of his presidential campaign

krystol, the pnac, koch brothers, leo strauss

that is the thread boys and girls though not in that order

Lynn thought it was “well delivered speech”!

Mornin Joe points out that we overthrew the elected Iranian government!

Any examples of Christian intolerance, inconstant with the “Golden Rule” happen lately? The problem with “”religion”" is intolerance period. Perceived absolutism usually exploited as wedge issues by others, that are not so black and white! What “men” share in common is a propensity for stupidity, hence natural selection! Stupidity like drug addiction is an equal opportunity exploiter, usually a function of exposure.

We the USA can’t solve everything in the world! Foreign Entanglements with the “Old World” are inherently difficult. Question is do the tribes of the world now realize we are but one planet. One closed system unto ourselves with no where else to go…..

Lynn cannot speak a sentence without saying “sort off”. (is it Lynn or Liz Cheney?)

Yeah. Obama pointed that out too. Stop apologizing you closet Moslem!!

and then he’ll go and do whatever the neo cons want him to do

I just read and it seems quite aprapo, obama is proving that he is a lion in sheeps clothing

and for us progressives, he is not a progressive and if he campaigned on the policies he’s embraced as a republican he would have been their candidate last cycle

Um. that was snark. Thought that was obvious enough but sopme people may not have had their caffeine yet.

If your father is an obvious war criminal, shouldn’t that be part of your introduction when you come on tv?

what took you so long?

well, P, I think the last sentence is a bit far, but otherwise, yeah. he was by no means a progressive in the campaign and really made no bones about that. But even so, he’s been even less progressive than I expected with my low expectations. I mean, I have to stop saying “Better than the last guy.” I mean, talk about setting the bar so low you can step over it……………

Believe in Magic.

Or at least “douchebag.”

I mean, I have to stop saying “Better than the last guy.”

Why? Despite his not being “progressive enough”, are you serious in believing he is not better than Bush Darth?

Come on.

Save your breath, that is not the party line.

Save your breath, that is not the party line.

Please explain.

I’ve got to find a new morning show. JoeScar is such an ass.

BBC America was offering cogent commentary on the speech when I had to leave for work.

No. Not what i meant. You crazy? What I meant was hopefully I’ll be able to say more than that. That just being “better than the last guy” shouldn’t satisfy me or anyone.

I’ve got to find a new morning show. JoeScar is such an ass.

Boy is he ever.

I love the way they essentially stole Imus’ format but act as though they split the atom or something.

The problem is there is no alternative (save CSPAN, which is too dry) for expanded political and economic discussion in the morning.

Gotcha! (and agree wholeheartedly)

If President Obama is exactly like George Bush and the republicans and has embraced both, why are the right wingers up in arms about him then? You’d think they be saying, “Ha ha liberals….your Messiah is actually the Messiah for the right wing of America! You were fooled!”, but they’re not saying that at all. In fact, it’s quite the contrary.

It’s like when I officiated high school basketball. If both sides are equally pissed off when the game is over you probably did a good job.

Where’s my ’splain from your 45?

and yes Attaturk, someone noticed that that’s a blubber knife in your pic

I figured beerfart took care of it. This is a progressive blog. The whole point is to not be satisfied.

This is a progressive blog. The whole point is to not be satisfied.

Thanks for the response.

And while I’m nowhere near satisfied, I do see value in acknowledging the positive in the new administration.

If it wasn’t for those native Denmarkians, we never would,ve got the FireFox out of Russia. Just ask Col. Clintwood. Don’t forget, we must put our Godzillion-dollar Roni Raygunzap Star War bases up there in Thule, or Sonde Strom, whatever. To protect us from those terrorist Korean Missles.
Who needs green jobs when numnuts struck down the Anti-Ballistic Missle Treaty back in his first days in office circa 2001 A Facist Oddysey.