“His plan comes up short. There’s not enough troops, not enough resources and not enough urgency. What President Bush and Senator McCain don’t understand is that the central front in the War on Terror is not in Iraq and never was. The central front is in Afghanistan and Pakistan where the terrorists who hit us on 9-11 are still plotting attacks seven years later.”
Barack Obama
Campaign Speech
September 9, 2008
Obama attacked McCain and Bush for not sending enough support to our troops in Afghanistan.
But, that was just his campaign speech:
Now it’s Sarah’s turn.
Today Sarah Palin blasted the Obama Administration for dithering and waffling on Afghanistan.
ABC News reported:
As for another hot-button issue — Afghanistan — where 68,000 U.S. troops are currently deployed, Palin said the president should follow the advice of Gen. Stanley McChrystal.
“To listen to McChrystal, to listen to the appointee that President Obama asked for, the advice from,” she said. “McChrystal gave the president the advice and said, ‘We need essentially a surge strategy in Afghanistan, so that we can win in Afghanistan. And that means more resources, more troops there.’ It frustrates me and frightens me — and many Americans — that President Obama is dithering around with the decision in Afghanistan.”
Related… Tom Cotton, who served in Afghanistan, discusses the Afghanistan myths at The Weekly Standard today.
November 17th, 2009 | 11:11 pm | #1
Vacilate, procrastinate, delay, navel gaze, six of one, half a dozen of the other. the point is she’s right
November 17th, 2009 | 11:15 pm | #2
“A good plan executed today is better than a perfect plan executed at some indefinite point in the future.”–General George Patton
Indeed she is. Sitting idly waiting for the ‘perfect’ plan is naught but inviting a long and slow defeat. People who actually fight wars know that, it’s something that isn’t taught in college, let alone ‘community organizing.’
November 17th, 2009 | 11:22 pm | #3
Previously posted 5 minutes ago:
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Dither, dither, dither, dither, dither… Republicans need to get a thesaurus.
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Why do you delete comments by anyone who disagrees with your worldview, Mr. Jim Hoft?
November 17th, 2009 | 11:29 pm | #4
[...] Sarah Palin: Obama Is Dithering With Afghanistan Decision Gateway Pundit [...]
November 17th, 2009 | 11:30 pm | #5
Merriam W
November 17th, 2009 | 11:22 pm | #3
Why do salad tossers wander from their salad tosser havens of the daily communist, huff puffers or media splatters to post comments that are the talking points ground into their heads by the masters of talking points “The Whine Crib” also known as the “Ministry of Truth”?
November 17th, 2009 | 11:34 pm | #6
Merriam W
November 17th, 2009 | 11:22 pm | #3
Paranoid much, merri?
Sometimes, the program just “eats” a comment. It happens to all of us. Don’t get your knickers in a twist.
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November 17th, 2009 | 11:34 pm | #7
Just watching the teabagger freakshow.
Funny that you mention talking points: Dither, dither, dither, dither, dither.
November 17th, 2009 | 11:37 pm | #8
No, the comment was deleted. It was the first comment and up for about 10 minutes — replied to by narciso.
November 17th, 2009 | 11:40 pm | #9
Merriam W
November 17th, 2009 | 11:34 pm | #7
Salad tosser your the only comedy freak show show in town. Go back to your rock and crawl back underneath it with the other salad tossers,rats and cockroaches.
November 17th, 2009 | 11:43 pm | #10
President Pantywaist and teleprompter needs to buy a pair ( since Chris Mathews and Olbernut) seem to have his in his mouth. The man is a walking lie. He has lied about or gone against most every promise or campaign pledge or statement he has made.
1. “His plan comes up short. There’s not enough troops, not enough resources and not enough urgency
2 I will put bills online for 5 days.
3. We will have the most honest open adminsitration.
4. I will close Gitmo immediately ( or whatever dumb statement he made) even if it hurts the US, troops, cost millions.
5. I wont have lobbyinst in my administration..LOL this guy is funny but sad.
6. I will poor over budgets line by line to root out waste and abuse and fraud etc… I dont think he has read one bill much less removed any waste. Lets be honest all waste, fraud, bribes, and paybacks EXPLODED when this clueless turd was voted into office by unions, Acorn, Dead people and morons.
7. I dont want to own /run auto companies( yet he hasnt given us any exit strategy or dates he demanded of Bush in Iraq etc.)
8 The man and his Administration cant count jobs. It seems they hired ACORN to count saved or created jobs…Most of those created were Govt beauaratic union jobs, jobs that were never in jeapardy, or jobs counting those made up jobs.
9. Dont get us started on the number of missteps, mistakes, lies, blunders in dealing with foreign policy, protocal, class, and common sense. Im hoping for a set of his speeches and DVD’s I cant watch on US players for Christmas along with Natzi Pelosi’s Christmas steaming pile of Sh*^ she wants to thrust on the US.
10. These clowns are the biggest morons on the face of the planet if they believe their policies will help this country or they are the most ignorant. Either way its scary that these flaming jerkoffs are supposedly running this country.
I know Im missing many lies, misrepresentations and pathetic predictions by President Teleprompter reader but its hard to keep up.
Oh and anyone who says this man is a genious or a great speaker with a straight face needs a can of whoopass opened on them because they are too stupid to breed.
November 17th, 2009 | 11:46 pm | #11
Gee, I know that dems want to take away free speech, didn’t realize they wanted to do it one word at a time!
November 17th, 2009 | 11:53 pm | #12
People have an unseemly focus on the meaning of that word, I assume it has strong association with their personal practices. But the point still follows, seven months ago, he replaced MacKiernan with MaChrystal yet he has delayed on implementing the counterinsurgency while
the entire NorthWest Frontier is on fire. Similarly with Iran, he waited until after Ahmadinejad’s speech, denouncing Israel before announcing the Qum facility
November 18th, 2009 | 12:01 am | #13
Our dear reader’s teleprompter lies.
November 18th, 2009 | 12:05 am | #14
Who does this woman think she is, anyway? Governor of Alaska? Vice-President of the United States?
I mean, who really cares what a Runners World cover girl thinks about Afghanistan, anyway?
She should learn to leave that to the professionals.
LOL!
November 18th, 2009 | 12:09 am | #15
Merriam W
November 17th, 2009 | 11:34 pm | #7
Just watching the teabagger freakshow.
You’d probably be much happier with your salad tossing friends at huffpo.
They seem to cater to you salad tossers.
Why don’t you go on back there, salad tosser? Don’t dither like your master. Go quickly.
(and don’t forget to brush after tossing salad. That breath has gotta be rank, salad tosser.)
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November 18th, 2009 | 12:13 am | #16
Solly!
Question for my main bud: How come you name yourself after a fictitious Soviet sniper, yet sign all your posts with “The only good communist is a dead communist.”
Can I thus call myself “Palin” and sign off with “The only good whack-job candidate for VPOTUS is a FAILED whack-job candidate for VPOTUS”?
Or can you suggest something even MORE mindless, irrelevant and contradictory?
LOL
November 18th, 2009 | 12:13 am | #17
Just Sayin’
November 18th, 2009 | 12:05 am | #12
She should learn to leave that to the professionals.
You’d do well to heed your own advice, salad tosser.
Amateurish nancy-boys like you have nothing to add to a conversation.
lol!
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November 18th, 2009 | 12:21 am | #18
Ah c’mon, Solly, don’t be grumpy. You’re supposed to be happy, what with all this apparent teabagger/minuteman/gun-totin’/yee-hawin’/populist revolution about to break loose any minute now. I mean, you got Sarah on the cover of Newsweek and on Oprah, giving all these libtards what for, right?
So why the ‘tude, man?
LOL
November 18th, 2009 | 12:22 am | #19
Just Sayin’
November 18th, 2009 | 12:13 am | #14 How come you name yourself after a fictitious Soviet sniper, yet sign all your posts with “The only good communist is a dead communist.”
You – like most salad tossers – spend too much time reading fiction. So much, in fact, that your only frame of reference is bounded by a work of fiction.
And, I prefer dead communists. That may be a result of spending 30+ years hunting them for the express purpose of introducing them to that state.
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November 18th, 2009 | 12:24 am | #20
Just Sayin, salad tosser to barney fwanks. proud card carrying member of the useless generation, who fears the day a strong conservative woman would take the helm and again point us away from the utopian salad tosser world of abject poverty and misery that its beloved master is leading us to.
Typical for the miserable life a salad tosser leads to want us all to “Share The Misery”.
November 18th, 2009 | 12:26 am | #21
“Good golly Ms. Solly,
You sure like to squall…”
–With apologies to Little Richard, whose name, so apt in these conversations with right-wing loonie-birds, is also a synonym for “Small D***.”
LOLOLOLOLOLOL!!!!!!!!!!!!
November 18th, 2009 | 12:29 am | #22
Nite all! Nope, please don’t beg me to stay! I gotta get up early tomorrow ‘cuz I gots me this thing called a “j…o…b” which I’ll explain some time to those of you who have nothing but time to spend–HERE!
SAVE ME, Jesus!
LOL
November 18th, 2009 | 12:30 am | #23
“That may be a result of spending 30+ years hunting them for the express purpose of introducing them to that state.”
LOL! Suuuure, Solly. And SP is VPOTUS!
LOL!
November 18th, 2009 | 12:33 am | #24
Just Sayin`Job as in taking out the trash for mom and dad and then back to sleep until late afternoon. Taking out the garbage for a salad tosser is really really hard work.
November 18th, 2009 | 12:34 am | #25
I’m afraid you may be beyond saving, Just Sayin’…
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November 18th, 2009 | 12:35 am | #26
Just Sayin’
November 18th, 2009 | 12:30 am | #21
Not everyone is a coward like you, salad tosser. Some people actually enter the arena.
Now you get lots of sleep. Remember, you’ve got to change the oil in the deep fryer in the morning.
And you know Ronald gets cranky when you screw it up.
November 18th, 2009 | 12:42 am | #27
Just Sayin’ sounds like a doofuss troll from another site with all the lol’s.
Went by the name Colin at Ace of Spades.
November 18th, 2009 | 12:45 am | #28
Just Sayin` only comes here for the affection it cannot get at kos,huff puff or media matters.At those places Just Brayin` is just another salad tosser repeating talking points.
November 18th, 2009 | 5:33 am | #29
Looks like Sarah decided to come-out on the book tour with the big guns blazing- I love it.
Dear Leader must be freaking out…
LOL
November 18th, 2009 | 5:37 am | #30
Evidently when it appeared that Obama during his Sept 9, 2008 campaign speech criticized Bush and McCain that with respect to Afghanisatn “[t]here’s not enough troops, not enough resources and not enough urgency,” really those were his teleprompter’s words, not Obama’s.
November 18th, 2009 | 6:12 am | #31
0bama:
Yes, I dither – on purpose. Let me be clear, I have sworn allegiance to Kos, The Black Panthers, Bill Ayers, and George Soros. The Troops and the Taxpayers can eat dirt. Let them have ObamaCare and slowly whither away. America sucks.
Be forewarned. Sarah Palin is my worst political enemy. She could win the next election. Don’t let her. She doesn’t belong to ACORN. Smear her at every opportunity.
Now, I must continue my Apology Tour. Although it is getting old, I must bow to the Chinese. I apologize for America’s cowboy treatment of Wen Ho Lee. We need more Chinese like him in our laboratories. American Scientists suck. Good day.
November 18th, 2009 | 7:50 am | #32
Merriam W
November 17th, 2009 | 11:37 pm | #8 edit
No, the comment was deleted. It was the first comment and up for about 10 minutes — replied to by narciso.
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Aww, aren’t we affording your comments the respect you feel they deserve?
So, to whom shall we respond to, Mirriam W? Jiminy? Palin/Beck 2010?
It’s difficult to take you seriously when you can’t even stick to one name. Why don’t you try putting some actual substance in your comments? If you’re capable of that, that is.
Or are you just another empty headed troll?
November 18th, 2009 | 7:56 am | #33
Btw, folks, remember this comment from the Railway to Gateway” Event in Normal, Illinois thread?
Palin/Beck 2010
Submitted on 2009/11/12 at 12:20pm
Who’s the tall lesbian second from the right?
Yeppers, that was from our resident troll who now calls itself Merriam W. It was referring to Jim Hoft as a tall lesbian.
This is the loser that wishes to be taken seriously.
November 18th, 2009 | 9:42 am | #34
Hey let’s not accuse P-BO of dithering, he’s doing what he always does when he has to make an important decision…. “Voting Present”!!
November 18th, 2009 | 10:49 am | #35
Merriam W & others that get comments blocked -
I don’t always agree w/ Jim or the far right, and he does not block my posts. I have no idea what you are putting in your posts that would have your comments banned, but it must be pretty over the top. Hell, I’ve even gone so far to insult Jim for his sloppy writing style, but he still respects my posting privileges.
Bottom line: I don’t know why you’re being blocked, but my guess is that it is your own fault.
November 18th, 2009 | 11:10 am | #36
Chisum is Hoft.
November 18th, 2009 | 11:23 am | #37
Hey Sherlock,
Keep on smoking that opium and playing that violin. You’re hallucinating again.
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