Mullings



Mullings

An American Cyber-Column

Phoning it in

Wednesday, September 26, 2012

• During President Barack Obama’s whirlwind visit to New York City delivered a speech to the United Nations.

• In that speech Obama said,

“The attacks on our civilians in Benghazi were attacks on America.”

• To keep close tabs on our response to those “attacks on America” Obama played footsie with the gals on The View. And attended a reception. And Tweeted about the nature of the global issue of replacement refs in the NFL. And, for all I know, took a turn as the Naked Cowboy in Times Square.

• This is from that well-known right-wing mouthpiece, Time Magazine:

He arrived in Manhattan on a glorious autumn afternoon and rushed to his first – and only – public event of the day: a taping of ABC’s The View with his wife, Michelle.

• Obama did find time to slip in his U.N. speech during which he also said:

“We were inspired by the Tunisian protests that toppled a dictator …”

“We insisted on change in Egypt …”

“We supported a transition of leadership in Yemen …”

“We intervened in Libya alongside a broad coalition …”

“We, again, declare that the regime of Bashar al-Assad must come to an end …”

• Is it just me, or did Barack Obama sound like he was channeling George W. Bush?

• Obama wagged his finger in the face of the Iranian delegation and warned them about their program to build nuclear weapons saying,

“There is still time and space to [resolve this]. But that time is not unlimited.”

• He said the U.S. “will do what we must” to prevent Iran from getting a nuke, but late reporting gave no guidance on what that might involve.

Dear Mr. Mullings:

Stop it.

Stop what.

Stop pretending you’re outraged at Obama’s United Nations speech.

• I, er, am …

• Ok. I had no more emotional reaction to watching Obama’s speech than Obama had giving that speech.

• We were both phoning it in.

• First of all, just having a pretend election does not a democracy make

• The Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt didn’t just send NGOs helping to establish democratic institutions out of the country; it raided their offices, stole their money, and have sicced Interpol on some of the Americans who left the country effectively making them the equivalent of international arms dealers.

• Yeah, Barack. That’s working.

• After the attack on the Consulate in Benghazi, the U.S. Embassy in Tripoli did nothing to keep potentially sensitive information from falling into the wrong hands.

• “Information,” here, being defined as Ambassador Chris Stevens’ diary. The “wrong hands,”

here, being defined as a CNN reporter.

• Yeah, Barack. That worked.

• We were wrong in attacking Obama for having dissed Benjamin Netanyahu and refusing to have a one-on-one meeting while they were in New York – or in Washington.

• Obama didn’t have a one-on-one (called a “bi-lat,” short for bi-lateral) meeting with any foreign leader.

• All those who believe Barack Obama hates doing the job of President but loves being President, raise hands.

• Oh. Everyone.

• At a concert in Washington, DC this week that noted expert in international political philosophy, Madonna, said

“For better or for worse, all right, we have a black Muslim in the White House, okay?”

• That reminded me of one of my favorite Galen-isms:

No matter how good your cause, there is always someone who agrees with you that you wish didn’t.

• Raise hands if you believe that if Clint Eastwood had said to the empty chair in Tampa “You are a Black Muslim” you think it might have created more of a sensation than a half-naked singer in Washington, DC saying the same thing.

• Oh. Everyone.

• Finally, in New York, there was much ado about the spat between Japan and China over island “called Senkaku in Japan and Diaoyu in China, [that are] are controlled by Japan but claimed by China and Taiwan,” according to the BBC.

• Japan says they bought the islands. China says they were not for sale.

• Japan hasn’t, to my knowledge, said from whom they bought the islands but it is clear that my earlier suggestion it was from some guy named “Buster” was probably wrong.

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• On the Secret Decoder Ring page today: Links to the text of Obama’s speech, to the NPR coverage of CNN and the Ambassador’s diary; to Madonna’s remarks and to the dispute between Japan and China.

Also a bumper strip Mullfoto that’s pretty good.

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