Barry In Charge: Obama Is A Murderer

Qazi Hussain Ahmed, center, the leader of Pakistan's largest Islamic party, Jamat-e-Islami, talks to his supporters during a demonstration near the federal parliament in Islamabad, Pakistan, Friday, Jan. 23, 2009. Hundreds of protesters Friday demanded an end to Pakistan military operations and U.S. missile attacks against Taliban militants in lawless areas bordering Afghanistan.

Today Barack Obama earns the exact same charge that has been levelled at George Bush since he engaged in the War On Terror: murderer. The freedom fighters in the hills of Pakistan never stood a chance against the all mighty BULLY called Uncle Sam with his great technology and pornographic use of power. Obama, who spent three years as a youth in Indonesia, learning the Quran, has allowed our Christian soldiers to fight a digital war of buttons and joysticks against an Islamic people with no electricity.

Obama gave the OK for this raid to be carried out. Not President Bush, anymore. See how the chickens have come home to roost, here, hard Left? Your man of Hope and Change just launched an attack that didn't just hit an empty tent like Bill Clinton used to do, either. This man of yours called Obama just killed people who DID NOTHING TO YOU OR ME!

These are pictures of a demonstration that was organized today to halt Obama's raid into their brother's regions. Look at how one of the major imams of Pakistan reacted immediately afterwards:

Qazi Hussain Ahmed, center, the leader of Pakistan's largest Islamic party, Jamat-e-Islami, pray with his supporters during a demonstration near the federal parliament in Islamabad, Pakistan, Friday, Jan. 23, 2009. Hundreds of protesters Friday demanded an end to Pakistan military operations and U.S. missile attacks against Taliban militants in lawless areas bordering Afghanistan.

Hey, remember how it was fashionable to say that George Bush was creating MORE enemies during the past 8 years of unjustified warfare? You know, how you said that the angry reaction from every person we kill in the Islamic community will result in ten more signing up to fight us and such?

How do you like it when YOUR MAN Obama angers and motivates these same people?

Pakistani tribesmen pray along a street following a demonstration near the federal parliament in Islamabad, Pakistan, Friday, Jan. 23, 2009. Hundreds of protesters Friday demanded an end to Pakistan military operations and U.S. missile attacks against Taliban militants in lawless areas bordering Afghanistan.

How do you like that?

Before you answer, let me tell you how I feel about it: HELL YEAH! I will be the first to say that, murderer charge or not, Obama acted wisely and prudently here. I hope for more of the same and support him completely in such actions.

Barry In Charge: When Pleasing The Left Kills Our Soldiers

Guantanamo Bay's Camp Delta

We've had to hear this drivel for years, now: "America's secret prison", "Torture camp", "Unconsitutional blight on our country". All of this angst and outcry caught just enough traction with just enough anti-Americans like George Soros that Rep Murtha had to take notice.

And almost as soon as we started filling the cells at Guantanamo Bay, the efforts to close it were already mounting. The same crowd that was apoplectic over the election of 2000 was still grinding away at our attempt to protect this great country from the beginning.

Frankly, I trust the Army's average soldier, his ethics and morals. It was the average American infantry soldier (like me when I wore the same uniform) who captured these prisoners, and I believe that those detainees in Guantanamo are former enemy combatants. There is no secrecy about this at all, but to the anti-Americans in our midst, they want to portray this time-tested method of fighting a war as if it's a 'neo-conservative' tactic dreamed up by Bush and his cronnies.

So we've been trying to defend the use of this camp called Guantanamo for years, now. We've been met with significant effort to release prisoners, but there has always been a legitimate reason, we have said, to keep this camp and it's detainees operating for the duration of the war.

And now, as the commander-in-chief changes hands, we see an agent of this anti-Guantanamo Bay, anti-American emerge to strike down this multi-million dollar facility which allows the inhabitants more luxuries than American prisoners are afforded. Obama pranced around so smugly during the campaign, assuring his beloved democrats that Guantanamo would be closed immediately if he became president.

But look what happens! The little boy of the primary season wrote checks that he can't cash, now. Try as he might, Obama WON'T do the bidding of the Move On crowd, but will carry on exactly as George Bush did for at least another year.

Before the actual elimination of Guantanamo takes place, I hope that some Armed forces personnel assigned to the White House will show Obama this article that came out today:

BEIRUT: The emergence of a former Guantánamo Bay detainee as the deputy leader of Al Qaeda's Yemeni branch has underscored the potential complications in carrying out the executive order that President Barack Obama signed that the detention center be shut down within a year.

The militant, Said Ali al-Shihri, is suspected of involvement in a deadly bombing of the U.S. Embassy in Yemen's capital, Sana, in September. He was released to Saudi Arabia in 2007 and passed through a Saudi rehabilitation program for former jihadists before resurfacing with Al Qaeda in Yemen.

His status was announced in an Internet statement by the militant group and was confirmed by a U.S. counterterrorism official. "They're one and the same guy," said the official, who insisted on anonymity because he was discussing an intelligence analysis. " He returned to Saudi Arabia in 2007, but his movements to Yemen remain unclear." (source)

Recession-Era Answer To The Convertor-Box Dilema

Barry In Charge

DAY 2:
Dear Diary,
I keep losing sleep from this awful nightmare: We're up to our eyeballs in chaos, people are being chased from burning buildings, children yell and scream in the streets, some on fire, stumbling away aimlessly, as the flames begin to take them over.

Everything is deathly quiet, except for the very youngest of children. There is a ringing in my ears from the explosion; glass, metal, and wood has been blown in the streets, some still aflame.

The scene changes to me running, trying to get away. I'm grabbing for guns that aren't there along the way, and nothing can repel these creatures that are chasing me in my dream.

And then I wake up.

It was a dream. WHEW. I'm sweating, heart is racing, and I'm glad to be awake, out of that dream.

It isn't long before I'm seeing the day's news: Obama Plans To Close Guantanamo In One Year. Wow. I feel kind of a pang in my mind's eye. A flash of people running. Screaming. Panic in the streets. I'm seeing my dream again!



I wonder how this GITMO extension plays with the Move On crowd. They wanted that torturous stain on our Constitution closed NOW! Yesterday, Barry told us it was only for four more months. Today it's a year. Who knows what it'll be 6 months from now?

What if we capture UBL while Barry is president? Where will Obama keep Osama? If we capture him alive, is there any doubt that to try him in our Federal Court system as if he was an American citizen would invite some anti-American lawyer looking to make a name for himself to mount a defense that actually wins in freeing him? After all, there's no droplets of blood , bloody gloves, bloody Bronco interior or anything!

What if UBL got an extra-special jury like OJ's? That jury didn't know what the words "reasonable doubt" meant, but when they saw the defendant, they knew all they had to know. With an IQ level like theirs, it could happen again in America.

Speaking of IQ levels, do you think Barry's intelligence can factor in this headline?: Ex-Guantánamo Prisoner Took Part In Iraq Bombing
Here's what the first sentence of that story read:

The Pentagon confirmed yesterday that a Kuwaiti released from the US detention camp at Guantánamo Bay three years ago carried out a suicide bombing in Iraq last month.

To these brats who gather in the streets for "civil rights" protests, this is all a game of sorts. They'll never feel the real repercussions from their actions. It's easy for them to throw on some stupid orange smocks, lay down in the street blocking the traffic of people who make America possible, and then go home again with their smug sense of self-satisfaction at "showing the man" that "we won't take it".

These overgrown crybabies won't get the bullet in the head from their actions, but one of my brothers in arms will. How I wish the reverse could be arranged.

Barry In Charge: Guantanamo Lives For Another Year

Only a day later, and Barry keeps revising his policy: this time he plans to keep Guantanamo prisoners for yet another YEAR! While this apparachik in the video above tries to put a happy face on Barry's extension, protestors, Leftists, and Progressives (redundant?) are squealing in horror.

Here's quick article that came out a few minutes ago: here.

Innauguration Day, January 20, 2009: The Letdown

BLACK HOODS: $12

ORANGE RAIN SLICKERS: $18

POSTER BOARD AND SHARPIES: $8
HAVING YOUR FIRST TEMPER-TANTRUM BECAUSE THE MESSIAH ISN'T TURNING OUT TO BE WHAT YOU THOUGHT HE'D BE: Priceless

Ok, all the pageantry of the day is over. I'm tired, burned out from watching the endless hand-waving and fake looks of surprise/wonder. My other two companion pieces to this one pretty much express my exhausted mental registry of today's events.

This first action of President Obama has to come as a furious letdown: instead of simply closing the Camp Guantanamo Bay right away, like he led everyone to believe he would do, Obama has started a 120-day review of the cases left in Gitmo's schedule of war tribunals. He may find one of these enemy combatants worth detaining, for all we know. After all, he is an attorney.

This has to be a terribly hard pill to swallow for the trust-fund kiddies and homeless-looking women in the above photos.

Four months???? But there are people being tortured right now in GITMO, remember? Your man Barry should be brought up on impeachment charges, by your standards!

How can you save those detainees if Obama might actually keep Gitmo open while he goes forward on a particular case, which could go on and on...keeping the Bush nightmare alive for even more years? Oh, the melancholy you must feel, valiant protestor.

Here's an article on this earliest of action by Barry In Charge:

Hours after being sworn in as US President, Barack Obama has called for a halt to Guantanamo war crimes tribunals, a move which will begin the long awaited process of dismantling the prison itself.

His request for a 120-day suspension of all 21 pending tribunals will bring to a halt the case against Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the self-proclaimed 9/11 mastermind and four co-defendants who faced the death penalty if convicted.

Military judges are expected to rule on Mr Obama's request to halt the trials today at the US naval base.

The request by Mr Obama was widely anticipated - he had already vowed to close down the prison and its controversial military commission trial system.

"In order to permit the newly inaugurated president and his administration time to review the military commission process, generally, and the cases currently pending before the military commissions, specifically, the secretary of defense has, by order of the president directed the chief prosecutor to seek continuances of 120 days in all pending case," prosecutor Clay Trivett said, in the written request to the judges.

The request said that freezing the trials until May 20 would give the new administration time to evaluate the cases and decide what forum best suits any future prosecution.

About 245 foreign captives are still held at the detention centre that opened in January 2002. The Bush administration had said it planned to try 80 prisoners on war crimes charges, but only three cases have been completed.

Defence lawyers had complained that the tribunals allowed hearsay evidence and coerced testimony, and were the subject of so much political interference that fairness was impossible. (source)

Innauguration Day, January 20, 2009: The Market

The market experienced its worst innauguration drop since...FDR. The similarities are eery: Democrat Leftist takes control of a Democrat-induced economic crisis, then grows the federal government by massive proportions, using increased taxes to accomplish this. Because government cannot create real economic growth, the Depression lived on for ten years, instead of the fraction of that which could have been America's 30's.

Soup lines lasted because jobs were stagnant. Jobs were stagnant because of high taxation. High taxation was in place because FDR created a network of agencies that were run by Democratic beaurocrats.

Barry sees the same possibilities for the modern Democrats. This crisis will be just the distraction that Democrats need to bring even MORE of our free market under their control: UHC, or universal health care will control 1/6 of our economy alone.

We'll see what's next.

Innauguration Day, January 20, 2009: The Spirit

This is a reverand from the days of MLK: he's still caught in those days, methinks. To see what I mean, fast forward to 5:05 on this video, and pay close attention to his estimate of us whites:

Here's what it looked/sounded like when Presiden Bush emerged on the dias to attend the innauguration:

The class of the average Obama faithful can be witnessed in their natural, safe, ungaurded environment in these next many videos. They are snapshots of typical, genuine reactions to the same incident above, when President Bush emerges on the dias which is simultaneously being broadcast on the jumbo screens in the crowds:


LOUD AUDIO: turn down your speakers before clicking!

In this one, there is a lone voice who tries to show some grace and class on this special day, only to be rebuked, eventually being told that, "Look--even Obama's laughing". What's the level of maturity amongst the average attendee, here, do you think? 12?














At least in this one, at the very end of this clip, someone admits, "Hehe...try that in Russia and ya' get shot." The joke is on that entire crowd, but only this one man hints at it. These people are too stupid to appreciate the peace and calm that Bush's policies have brought us, at very little cost, compared to the reality we would have faced without him. Gore would have kept the same paralysis in our intelligence-gathering that Clinton and Carter insisted upon, while looking for legal reasons for a combatant enemy like Usama Bin Laden to be served a search warrant. The enemy wouldn't have been stopped as many times as they were for the last eight years under a Gore administration, but these points require that you've paid attention to things like history and politics.
Do these grown adults look like the crowd that can remember what happened 8 minutes ago, much less 8 years ago?


Fast Forward to 1:03, where another lone voice exclaims, "That's not nice", which is covered up by a nearby cackling old woman. The next place in it where the crowd boos President Bush is 1:53.











For me, when I watch all of these "citizens" of this country making this awful display on what is really a sacred day, I feel alone. I couldn't even bring myself to act like that when Clinton, who's status as a draft-dodger and impeached president reviled me worse than any former or living president, even Carter, left office. I wouldn't have thought of it. I don't see these elections as "Your guy lost, mine won, nya nya". I'm too educated about politics to treat it as if it were a football game. These Obama voters in these videos--millions of them, obviously--are cut from the same cloth as those who get into fights at hockey matches, basketball games, or at the club on ladies night. Not much upstairs but ready to yell and chant.

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Barry In Charge: Making A Tax Cheat Your Treasury Secretary

I usually don't quote this reporter's work, but he happens to have the most comprehensive look at this latest issue with Obama's cabinet choices thus far (below). The choice for Treasury Secretary has gone to someone who has been asked to pay back $34,000 to the IRS that he owed in back taxes from as far back as 2000.

He only paid them a few months ago, when he was first tapped as a prospective in O's prospective cabinet. For 8 years this man has been ordered to pay back the IRS money he owed, and he has refused to do so until now.

Perhaps it wouldn't be as alarming as it is if this man were being nominated for, say, deputy secretary of the FCC, Agriculture, etc. However, for such a sensitive instrument in our crisis-ridden economy, right now is not the time to be foisting corrupt leaders on us to fix a corrupt problem.

If Obama sends someone who is damaged goods to a powerful post, Obama then has something he can use to his advantage--power. Just as Edgar Hoover used to accumulate ANY dirt possible on politicians, beaurocrats, citizens, in order to have something he could blackmail them with later, we are witnessing a product of Chicago Politics do what he has been brought up to do.

Why else would a man as brilliant as we are told he is, choose a person as ethically-compromised as Geithner is? After all, he looked us in the eye for the past two years, telling us that the era of 'business as usual' is OVER.

How brilliant and creative are you if you've got a nation of 300 million people and still can't find someone other than a financial executive who willfully failed to pay his taxes for nearly 10 years to run the Treasury Department? We have a boy doing a man's job, unfortunately.

With this appointment (and any, really to cabinet-level status), one can expect LOTS of graft and backroom deals to benefit the secretary for years to come. Maybe even a lifetime. With this appointment, the new Treasury Secretary stands to gain tremendous earning power for a lifetime or two, even.

Obama is still claiming that he made an "innocent mistake". Is this what "Hope" and "Change" mean to you?


WASHINGTON (AP) — President-elect Barack Obama's choice for Treasury secretary is becoming a national punchline for late-night comics, a clear sign that not paying your taxes is a growing problem in the public's eyes if you're the guy tapped to oversee the IRS.

Obama and many of the senators involved in confirming Timothy Geithner maintain that concerns about his failure to pay $34,000 in taxes isn't enough to cost him the Treasury job, which includes oversight of the IRS and, perhaps more significantly, Obama's economic recovery plan.

But the delay in Geithner's confirmation hearing — now scheduled for Wednesday — means more time for the public's unease with Geithner's problems to build, a fact he seemed to appreciate Thursday. He continued his courtesy visits to Senate offices to personally answer any questions senators might have about his nomination.

The Senate Finance Committee scheduled Geithner's confirmation hearing Wednesday, a setback for Obama and Senate Democrats who wanted a quick hearing this week in time for Geithner to be confirmed on Inauguration Day.

Some senators began receiving calls this week from constituents angry about Geithner, who has acknowledged he didn't pay his self-employment taxes from 2001 to 2004. Newspaper editorials are stacking up. Television and talk radio shows are keeping the topic alive. And comics are making fun of Geithner's revelation.

"Hey, I don't pay my taxes. Why can't I be Treasury secretary?" asked Steve Colbert on Wednesday night's The Colbert Report.

It may be funny to some, but the question is serious, and part of the continuing back-and-forth messages exchanged on Twitter, a free messaging service that allows users to send brief comments about issues of the day from their phones or computers.

"I'm still trying to get my mind around Tim Geithner wanting to collect taxes, but he doesn't believe in paying taxes," wrote Ken Barnes of New York in a message Wednesday evening.

Barnes, 38 and self employed, said in an interview Thursday it wasn't the fact that Geithner didn't pay his taxes that troubles him most. It's the fact that he waited until November, days before Obama announced his nomination, to fix a problem the IRS pointed out in 2006.

"He shows a willful disregard for the tax system," Barnes said. "If he was looking to be secretary of interior or some other Cabinet member, I wouldn't be as sensitive to it."

Transition aides have said Geithner paid the 2001 and 2002 taxes in November, even though legally he was not obligated to so many years later, after Obama's team discovered they were not paid.

Obama has offered his full, continued support for Geithner, saying he is confident the Senate will confirm him despite his "innocent mistake."

The Senate committee considering Geithner's nomination released 30 pages of records detailing the tax problems and other issues discovered after he was nominated. The materials show that the IRS audited Geithner in 2006 for tax years 2003 and 2004, noting then that he failed to pay self-employment taxes while working for the International Monetary Fund.

Geithner also received IMF pay in 2001 and 2002, and he handled his quarterly tax payments those years in the same improper way flagged by the IRS. But it wasn't until his nomination by Obama that he paid those taxes, a fact that's puzzling in light of arguments that Geithner's actions were simply "honest mistakes."

"Even in the best of economic times, it would be hard to accept a Treasury secretary who, after all, is in charge of the Internal Revenue Service with a cavalier attitude toward paying his taxes," The New York Times wrote in an editorial. "Today, in a time of economic peril, the nation cannot afford a Treasury secretary with a tainted ability to command respect and instill confidence."

Late-night comics made Geithner their latest joke.

"You ever notice that whenever a politician doesn't pay their taxes, 'Oh, it's an honest mistake?" Jay Leno said Wednesday night during his opening monologue on The Tonight Show. "You know what they call it when you and I don't pay our taxes? Exhibit A for the prosecution."

Geithner and others have pointed out that tax confusion abounds for employees at IMF and other international organizations who are required to handle all of their own taxes as if they were self-employed. The IRS offered a broad settlement in 2006 to those taxpayers, offering to waive most of the penalties because of the unique problems they experienced.

Most IMF employees who run into trouble with their taxes have problems because they have never filed as a self-employed worker, said one IMF official who requested anonymity because he was not authorized to speak publicly.

But Geithner had experience filing as a self-employed worker, handling taxes for a consulting business and for his wife's work, according to a report by the Senate committee.

The real issue is whether the American public sees a problem in all of this, said Linda Chavez, who withdrew her name in January 2001 as President George W. Bush's labor secretary. Chavez came under fire after questions surfaced about room, board and money she gave a Guatemalan woman over two years, a woman she knew was an illegal immigrant.

Chavez said she's struck by how her controversy attracted a swarm of media attention, as compared to moderate interest so far in Geithner's case. But she said the problem is not in Geithner's situation; it's the overreaction in 2001 to her case by reporters and a hyper-partisan Democratic Party still angry about Bush's contested victory over Al Gore.

In Geithner's case, senators shouldn't rush to judgment, but they also shouldn't dismiss his actions as insignificant without asking tough questions, Chavez said. If they do gloss over the issue, they run the risk of leaving the public's questions unanswered about Geithner, Chavez said, who added:

"Is the public going to accept his explanation?" (source)