Smite A. Hippie

h/t – Jim

So the stimulus bill hasn’t done squat for jobs here… but China and other foreign nations?
You betcha!

Obama’s Stimulus Money Spent Overseas, Jobs in China

So how’s that Hopey-Change workin’ out for you?

Well look who’s got a huge (no bid?) contract in Iraq…

KBR wins contract for work in Iraq

By BLOOMBERG NEWS
March 2, 2010, 9:49PM
KBR has received its first contract for logistics services in Iraq under a new competitive bidding structure that ended its sole-source work, the Army said Tuesday.

Houston-based KBR won a one-year $571 million contract with four option years that, if exercised, could be as high as $2.8 billion, Army spokesman Dan Carlson said.

The contract calls for KBR to provide services including transportation and postal operations, he said in a statement.

KBR (Kellogg Brown & Root) is the former subsidiary of that eeeevil Halliburton, and is the company that was awarded those huge contracts during start of the 2003 Iraq offensives.  They’ve been around for some time, though. They also received contracts during WWII, Vietnam, post-Desert Storm, and I remember them being there with me in Kosovo too… but it was only under President Bush’s terms, there was outcry.

They’re the only company with the experience and man-power big enough to pull off the logistics that are requested by Uncle Sam, but when a Republican is in office, the libs cry-fowl – “Cheney!” “No bid contract!” “Evil big corporation!”

Will there by outcry this time?  Probably not. There wasn’t any under Johnson, or Clinton.. and what Party is Obama with? oh yes, that’s right…

From Breitbart, Bush tells aides he seeks ‘anonymity’

Former US president George W. Bush told a group of his White House aides at a breakfast Friday that he is “trying to regain a sense of anonymity,” an event attendee confirmed to AFP.
Bush also told the group that he was pleased former vice president Dick Cheney had taken a lead role in defending their national security policies, declaring: “I’m glad Cheney is out there.”

The former president, who also touted his administration’s domestic agenda, said he was resolved to keep a low profile and indicated he did not want to be a thorn in the side of President Barack Obama.

“I have no desire to see myself on television. I don’t want to be on a panel of formers instructing the currents on what to do. I’m trying to regain a sense of anonymity,” Bush said.

“I didn’t like it when a certain former president — and it wasn’t 41 or 42 — made my life miserable,” he said in a reference to Jimmy Carter, who infuriated the Bush White House in 2007 when he accused the administration of allowing the use of torture on terror suspects.

The online political publication Politico first reported the remarks at the breakfast, which was closed to the media.

Second to last paragraph about Carter summarizes it well.  I didn’t agree with everything he did while in office (immigration, spending, etc.), but he was (and still is) a decent man, with a respect and dignity for the Office of the President.  I only wish he would have defended himself more, while in office, under constant (and often libelous) attack by the left.

Barrack Obama was touring the countryside in his chauffeur-driven limo.   Suddenly, a male donkey jumps out onto the road, they hit it full on and the car comes to a stop.

Obama says to the chauffeur: ‘You get out and check, you were driving.’

Hours later, the chauffeur returns totally plastered, hair ruffled with a big grin on his face.

‘My god man, what happened to you?’ asks Obama.

‘I knocked on the door, and when it was answered, I said to them, I’m Barrack Obama’s chauffeur and I’ve just killed the jackass.’

Here is what Obama needs to have set up to talk to a few school children. He still needs to have the teleprompters, and even his glorious podium with the Presidential Seal.  Not much room for kids there, huh?

I guess the secret service guy in back keeps eye out for any terrorist-type-8-year-olds with tea partying parents…

Here’s what the last guy needed.

Romney at CPAC: “In case you didn’t hear the late-breaking news, the gold medal in the downhill was taken away from American Lindsey Vonn. It was determined that President Obama is going downhill faster than she is.”

Remember how the left constantly made fun of Bush, over his pronunciation of nuclear?  Well say what you will, but at least HE knows the difference between corps and corpse.

It was twice on that video, and as I understand it from the news reporting, a total of three times, so it really is how he thinks you say corpsman.

Say it with me now, Mr. President… corpsman… “kohr-muhn”.   If you’re still not sure, click on the last link and then the little speaker icon beside the word.

The Patriot Journal has a great must-read about ever-dwindling dignity of the Office of the President of the United States (and by proxy our countries own dignity):

The Dignity Is Lost On Obama

While I disagreed with some policies under Bush (immigration, spending, etc), I loved the man.  He’s a genuine, decent guy, who always had the utmost respect for the Office, a love for this country and our troops.

Now just setting aside the extreme marxist nature of Obama, the man is truly a polar-opposite to Bush. He’s a little man-child that can’t take any criticism.  His only method of operation is to continue to point false-blame on his predecessor, and offer no substance or ideas beyond blame.  He trashes this country at every opportunity. He destroys this economy, by destroying the private sector.   He’s got a chip on his shoulder, and thinks country needs to be remade into a socialist level playing field.

A friend of mine said it best – “Remember when Ronald Reagan was President, Bob Hope and Johnny Cash were still with us… Now we have Obama and no hope and no cash.”

God bless this country, and God bless us all.  We’re going to need it.