Michael Ramirez for January 13, 2015

Nailed it again Michael.

Obama and his staff were conspicuous by their absence.

As proven repeatedly over the last years.Now he will be labeled an obstructionist when he vetoes a bill.

One thing is blatantly clear about the left, Obama could be a serial killer and the left will blindly defend everything that he does.

“One thing is blatantly clear about the left, Obama could be a serial killer and the left will blindly defend everything that he does.”

Sort of an exaggeration, but there are elements of truth. To be fair, Mr. Obama’s been criticized for everything from playing golf (which no previous president or legislator has ever, ever done) to how he salutes. And a lot of stuff has been made up, like the “fact” that he claimed that he alone killed bin Ladin. Under those circumstances, it’s a good thing he has some defenders.

On the other hand, this lack of action cannot be defended. Even if he believes Dick Cheney’s 2004 statement that Al-Qaeda’s in the last throes of its life, he still should have attended. He should be used to a large number of pundits and pols who will find fault with anything and everything he does, and should be willing to do the right thing, regardless of how the right-wing moans. And showing up would have been the right thing.

Back when gas topped $4 a gallon, Republicans chanted “drill, baby, drill” at rallies across the country — arguing more domestic drilling would increase supplies, reduce dependence on foreign oil and boost the U.S. economy.

Democrats, almost universally, mocked the GOP plan. In 2012, President Obama called it “a slogan, a gimmick, and a bumper sticker … not a strategy.”

“They were waving their three-point plans for $2-a-gallon gas,” Obama told a laughing audience during an energy speech in Washington. “You remember that? Drill, baby, drill. We were going through all that. And none of it was really going to do anything to solve the problem.”

“‘Drill, baby, drill’ won’t lower gas prices today or tomorrow,” Rep. Janice Hahn, D-Calif., echoed on the floor of Congress in 2012. “But it will fuel our addiction to fossil fuel.”

Today, Democrats are singing a different tune, as increased domestic drilling has led to a record supply of domestic crude, put some $100 billion into the pockets of U.S. consumers and sent world oil prices tumbling.

het hiram even far left toonist [ ex steve benson] has attacked bho for not going

In Paris there was a march for “free speech”, occasioned by the evisceration of a satire/outrage magazine whose repeated focus gag was piss-takes of Muhammad, and to a lesser extent of Jesus, the Pope, rabbis, etc. The march was led by, led by, a group of characters including:The Prime Minister of Turkey, the country which has jailed more journalists than anyone in the worldThe Foreign Minister of Egypt, which has Peter Greste and two other Al Jazeera staff serving 10-year prison terms on absurd charges/convictionsPutin’s Foreign Minister, a government whose shadowy affiliated gangs have murdered dozens of journalists in the past decade and a halfThe Foreign Minister of Bahrain (‘nuff said).The Prime Minister of Poland, whose government raided the Polish Charlie Hebdo equivalent when it “embarrassed” the governmentThe Prime Minister of Ireland, where blasphemy remains an enforced criminal offenceA sheikh from Qatar, where people are serving 15-year terms for “blasphemous” poetryLeaders of Tunisia, the United Arab Emirates and the Palestinian territories, who all jailed journosIsrael’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, whose Israel Defence Force lethally targeted journos during the Gaza invasionUK Prime Minister David Cameron, where Defence Advisory Notices and super-injunctions keep a host of live information from the publicThe Saudi ambassador to France, whose country has handed out a thousand lashes to a man convicted of blasphemyThe Secretary-General of NATO, which deliberately bombed the Belgrade station of Yugoslav public TV during the Kosovo operation, killing 16 journalistsThe US Attorney-General, who works for a government which has cracked down harder on whistleblowers than any other.

the Obama in the ‘toon is an imposter.the real O would never say “Global War on Terror”…(probably why O refused to go to Paris and stand withthe French government and people and all the other world leaders of the West, who have no fear in calling Islamic Terror Massacres what they truly are!)-For 6 years the Obama administration has been at war with honest language, putting the world’s Islamic enemies in a Politically Correct, accepted lingo. Obama will not “unite” with those who identify the enemy correctly. That dishonesty abets the thousands of murders done as the killers shout Allah Akbar!

Who can ever forget that image of “W” personally appearing at that “massive” demonstration in Bagdhad to pull down that statue of Saddam, or when he flew into Afghanistan to strangle bin Laden just three days into our invasion there.

Tough to keep up with all the cheerleaders from the right wing-nut echo chamber…Ramirez, McCoy, Holbert, Benson….

“Trolls hate Obama.”

You do?

Cha-ching

George W Bush was in Edinburgh atteninding a G-20 summit on July 7, 2005 when the attacks in London occurred. He did not go down to London with Tony Blair to standby by our ally in its time of need. He immediately flew BACK TO WASHINGTON. The next day, July 8, he went to the British Embassy in Washington to sign the book of condolences.The reason he probably did this was because Secret Service told him to leave for his own security reasons. Think about logistics of having the President attend a rally in a foreign country on less than 48 hour notice. The British or German Chancellor can have breakfast with their families at home, fly to Paris for the rally and be back in their capitals in time for dinner. It isn’t that easy when you’re on the other side of the pond.

@ColininAusNice summation.I see that, in six hours, nobody wanted to touch your post. That probably passes for high praise, given the present level of discourse.

And just for the record, no head of state from the Western Hemisphere attended the rally; this includes the Prime Minister of Canada, Stephen Harper.