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The Observer Journal - Observation Leading to Insight: Monthly Archives for July 2008

Bad Idea Barack has no clue - "The Kurds are very grateful to the United States for liberating Iraq from dictatorship," said Rawand Darwesh from the Kurdish Foreign Relations Ministry - step by step, the Kurds are making the far-left look foolish

Posted by Merl Oberon Publisher at Thursday, July 31, 2008 1:15 PM | Add Comment

Bad Idea Barack stuck on stupid while the Observer dug into the "11 killed in July in Iraq" reported by the mainstream media - it's the lowest month since the 2003 invasion; however, the ACTUAL number "KILLED BY THE ENEMY" is even lower -- SIX

Posted by Merl Oberon Publisher at Thursday, July 31, 2008 2:31 AM | Add Comment

Goofy Country-Club Republicans giving cold, hard, taxpayer cash to democrat party activists - Bush signs bill alone, in a dark closet (just kidding about the closet)

Posted by Merl Oberon Publisher at Thursday, July 31, 2008 1:46 AM | Add Comment

Bad Idea Barack wants a combined total marginal tax rate = 62.8% -- INSANITY -- Current max combined total tax rate = 44.6% -- is NUTS... but not totally insane -- Where are the moderate democrats to talk some common sense into the far-left?

Posted by Merl Oberon Publisher at Wednesday, July 30, 2008 1:21 PM | Add Comment

Bad Idea Barack skipped LANDSTUHL - Iraqi democrats express deep gratitude to wounded US soldiers - Iraq’s interior minister at Walter Reed this morning

Posted by Merl Oberon Publisher at Wednesday, July 30, 2008 10:37 AM | Add Comment

BAD IDEA BARACK merrily defending foolish far-left positions - according to the AP: "Organized resistance has all but ceased" - far-left displays endless fecklessness and poor judgment

Posted by Merl Oberon Publisher at Tuesday, July 29, 2008 5:52 PM | Add Comment

Bad Idea Barack willfully arrogant or clueless - Iraqi democrats supported by the will of the Iraqi people - Khayria Hussein, a 50-year old resident, said her family was praying to "God to make this operation successful."

Posted by Merl Oberon Publisher at Tuesday, July 29, 2008 11:49 AM | Add Comment

Pelosi: 'I'm trying to save the planet' – Democrat Year at Risk as Pelosi single handedly destroys moderate Clinton-style democrat politics - middle-class Americans driving to work – horrified - Barack down 3 points in 2 days

Posted by Merl Oberon Publisher at Tuesday, July 29, 2008 1:26 AM | Add Comment

BBC and Reuters broadcasting "how to walk away" expose' - urging worldwide listeners not to invest in USA bonds – “The US homeowner is a bad risk and they are shafting global bond holders”

Posted by Merl Oberon Publisher at Tuesday, July 29, 2008 1:04 AM | Add Comment

Bad Idea Barack on board? Far-left fanning the flames of genocide? - The Nation - "Iraq: Poised to Explode" -- by Robert Dreyfus

Posted by Merl Oberon Publisher at Monday, July 28, 2008 1:04 PM | Add Comment

On going Observer series - "Stupidity and the State, when Democrats Run Government" - $1,200 to millions of American families at the same time inflation cuts spending power by $1,200 per family - INSANITY

Posted by Merl Oberon Publisher at Monday, July 28, 2008 12:04 PM | Add Comment

Democrats control both houses of Congress – Democrats in charge and create congressional mess - Americans worried more about energy than Iraq - CNN: “Congress in knots over energy as recess nears”

Posted by Merl Oberon Publisher at Monday, July 28, 2008 11:01 AM | Add Comment

Bad Idea Barack’s poor judgment – Per LA Times: Barack acknowledged Sunday he -- “Failed to anticipate how much violence would decrease in Iraq this year”

Posted by Merl Oberon Publisher at Monday, July 28, 2008 10:20 AM | Add Comment

Bad Idea Barack - #777 - "On my first day in office, I would give the military a new mission: ending this war" -- Obama can't bring himself to say 'WIN the war' because HIS mission is to 'WIN the election' - ARROGANCE defined

Posted by Merl Oberon Publisher at Monday, July 28, 2008 8:05 AM | Add Comment

McClatchy embedded reporter – “Iraqi troops are confident as never before” - Iraqi democrats still need American help

Posted by Merl Oberon Publisher at Saturday, July 26, 2008 4:58 AM | Add Comment

Bad Idea Barack’s ‘Audacity of Hopelessness for Iraqi Democrats’ – Finally! McCain Slams Slick Barry - How about slamming the raw hypocrisy of Barack’s Berlin quote – “But in the darkest hour, the people of Berlin kept the flame of hope...”

Posted by Merl Oberon Publisher at Saturday, July 26, 2008 1:19 AM | Add Comment

Bad Idea Barack, a lifelong endeavor to force everyone to Sell Low and Buy High? – New York Times: “U.S. Expands Visa Program for Iraqis” -- far-left demanded this program ‘by law' in January 2008 - just as Iraqi democrats were winning

Posted by Merl Oberon Publisher at Friday, July 25, 2008 1:51 AM | Add Comment

Bad Idea Barack owes the Iraqi democrats a FULL apology for endless infantile, far-left bashing - USA Today - "The insurgency is not even much of a challenge anymore" to Iraq's future, Ambassador Ryan Crocker said - Bad Idea Barack bashes Iraqi democrats

Posted by Merl Oberon Publisher at Friday, July 25, 2008 1:19 AM | Add Comment

Bad Idea Barack endorses job destruction - The demand curve slopes down. If something costs more, it will be used less. If labor costs more, humans will hire less labor - 23 states move far-left on 'minimum wages'

Posted by Merl Oberon Publisher at Thursday, July 24, 2008 9:41 AM | Add Comment

In counterpoise the: "Bad Idea Barack" on-going series HERE -- “GOP losing the new-media war - Jonathan Martin - Politico.com” – “We amplify its effect and then stay on it,” explains Arianna Huffington

Posted by Merl Oberon Publisher at Thursday, July 24, 2008 9:12 AM | Add Comment

Far-left shocked that workers and capitalists rejecting 'state sponsored slavery' – The Nation – “Many will consider these revelations shocking."

Posted by Merl Oberon Publisher at Thursday, July 24, 2008 8:39 AM | Add Comment

Leftists and Lawyers and the Far-left Press create ‘Lawfare’ – the far-left has gone totally nuts with constant legal pressure – New York Times: “The Taliban leader escaped.”

Posted by Merl Oberon Publisher at Thursday, July 24, 2008 1:23 AM | Add Comment

McCain catatonic – The Observer made this call two months ago – According to the WSJ: “Schmidt brought in to save a widely ridiculed McCain campaign” – Too little, too late? – Senate the only hope?

Posted by Merl Oberon Publisher at Wednesday, July 23, 2008 1:57 AM | Add Comment

Bad Idea Barack clutching his white flag - Far-left thinking distilled – “But when I suggest to them that if the Iraqi government is really so strong, maybe it can do without American support.” - back on earth, Najaf Airport Opens (with help)

Posted by Merl Oberon Publisher at Tuesday, July 22, 2008 1:46 AM | Add Comment

Bad Idea Barack plays jujitsu with TurkishPress.com: Obama in Anbar acknowledged violence in Iraq is down significantly - USA Today - "Logistics Convoy Attacks Plunge" - Najaf Airport Opens

Posted by Merl Oberon Publisher at Tuesday, July 22, 2008 1:11 AM | Add Comment

Bad Idea Barack could care less - Sunni democrats in Iraq rejoin democratically elected Iraqi government – another major political milestone achieved by Iraqi democrats – Iraqi democrats also successful with Arab states

Posted by Merl Oberon Publisher at Monday, July 21, 2008 11:19 AM | Add Comment

"All this happened within the first 20 minutes of the battle" - NINE heros DEAD in Afghanistan - read the FULL story - 200 Taliban try to slaughter US platoon

Posted by Merl Oberon Publisher at Monday, July 21, 2008 1:44 AM | Add Comment

Bad Idea Barack #408: "The 'surge' failed in Iraq, but I will make 'a new surge' work in Afghanistan" - Obama thinks the planet is so 'enamored' no one will notice the Obama "Double-Speak Importantitus Maximus with a touch of Buffoon Syndrome"

Posted by Merl Oberon Publisher at Monday, July 21, 2008 1:27 AM | Add Comment

Bad Idea Barack slammed by Blue Dog - MSNBC - "Anybody who came in contact" with U.S. operations in Iraq "would come away impressed," said Rep. Jim Marshall DEMOCRAT

Posted by Merl Oberon Publisher at Saturday, July 19, 2008 1:41 AM | Add Comment

Bad Idea Barack's high taxes will kill American domestic manufacturing which is booming – UP 39% - thanks to a weak dollar and sky-high transportation costs – but Democrats move to re-destroy manufacturing job growth

Posted by Merl Oberon Publisher at Friday, July 18, 2008 11:31 AM | Add Comment

The far-left, encouraged by the Democratic Party leadership, is waging a full blown "political war" at home, at the expense of winning a "life and death war" on the other side of the planet --- Pelosi - "Bush A Total Failure”

Posted by Merl Oberon Publisher at Friday, July 18, 2008 1:18 AM | Add Comment

Bad Idea Barack slammed on MSNBC - Far-left crack up - MSNBC - 'Setting a timetable... like committing suicide,' Iraqi democrats say - "Reflecting the dramatic changes in the past few months in Iraq"

Posted by Merl Oberon Publisher at Thursday, July 17, 2008 12:43 PM | Add Comment

Pelosi single handedly saves the Republicans in Congress – with gasoline prices soaring, Ms. Pelosi is not budging - Pelosi tells “hard working Americans” trying to drive to work, “That is not the cause, and I am not going to let him get away with it.”

Posted by Merl Oberon Publisher at Thursday, July 17, 2008 11:53 AM | Add Comment

Far-left democrats thrilled to have “big money” in presidential politics – “Obama: The 52 Million Dollar A Month Man” - far-left Daily Kos loves the deep “irony” of destroying McCain using McCain-Feingold

Posted by Merl Oberon Publisher at Thursday, July 17, 2008 8:56 AM | Add Comment

First comprehensive post war study, “Looted Archaeology Sites in Iraq” – NOT SO LOOTED – in fact, NOT looted – bottom-line: in 2003, far-left academics 'dreamed up' the looting narrative and the far-left media "looted" the story for "ratings"

Posted by Merl Oberon Publisher at Thursday, July 17, 2008 8:31 AM | Add Comment

Bad Idea Barack defining himself as far-left – moderate Clinton democrats horrified - Kuwait names ambassador to Iraq - 36 minutes ago – daily drumbeat of progress by Iraqi democrats making American far-left democrats appear moronic

Posted by Merl Oberon Publisher at Thursday, July 17, 2008 2:32 AM | Add Comment

Germany's largest publication - staunch Bush basher and far-left Spiegel - printing dramatic GOOD news on Iraq - Der Spiegel: "Optimism Grows in Iraq as Daily Life Improves"

Posted by Merl Oberon Publisher at Thursday, July 17, 2008 1:46 AM | Add Comment

As Bad Idea Barack trashes Iraqi democrats - BREAKING – 13:03 GMT - BBC NEWS - violence in Iraq is now at its lowest level since 2003 (prior to the war) and the BBC correspondent says it – “Is attributable to the US troop surge"

Posted by Merl Oberon Publisher at Wednesday, July 16, 2008 2:46 PM | Add Comment

"The World Court orders that the United States of America shall take all measures necessary to ensure that five Mexican nationals are not executed pending its final judgment," World Court Judge Rosalyn Higgins said.

Posted by Merl Oberon Publisher at Wednesday, July 16, 2008 12:31 PM | Add Comment

Bad Idea Barack had longer conversations as a "community organizer" with "reformed," Chicago crack dealers than any conversation he's had as a "Senator" with even one US General serving in Iraq

Posted by Merl Oberon Publisher at Wednesday, July 16, 2008 8:24 AM | Add Comment

BREAKING NEWS – prescient Iraq commentator – highly accurate in 2004, 2005, 2006 – Michael Yon – “I would go so far as to say that barring any major and unexpected developments, that the Iraq war has ended. We won."

Posted by Merl Oberon Publisher at Wednesday, July 16, 2008 1:55 AM | Add Comment

Job one - the transfer of relationships as one unit arrives and one unit leaves - the most important job by a factor of ten

Posted by Merl Oberon Publisher at Tuesday, July 15, 2008 3:49 PM | Add Comment

Bad Idea Barack rants "U.S. Strategy in Iraq Is Unsound" - Far-left Iraq narrative has devolved into a rant – Same day 72 percent of the 1,119 adults surveyed by ABC News/Washington Post – favor McCain as "good CinC"

Posted by Merl Oberon Publisher at Tuesday, July 15, 2008 8:39 AM | Add Comment

Bad Idea Barack 'Iraq war' narrative 'now just a rant' -- According to the AP: “Basra offensive transformative for the Iraqis” – American far-left and Bad Idea Barack totally clueless

Posted by Merl Oberon Publisher at Monday, July 14, 2008 3:12 PM | Add Comment

Bad Idea Barack - flip-flops on: public campaign financing; ending free trade; repeal of Clinton welfare reform; DC gun laws constitutional; READ ON because the flip-flops go on and on

Posted by Merl Oberon Publisher at Sunday, July 13, 2008 1:08 AM | Add Comment

Torture? Captured US soldiers end up dead in a ditch missing eyes and fingers – Captured al Qaeda end up in a court chatting with a liberal US judge. Hitchens asks all the right questions. But an equally important question: Is Hitchens wrong?

Posted by Merl Oberon Publisher at Saturday, July 12, 2008 1:21 AM | Add Comment

Bush finally kills Kyoto (with help from the Chinese and Indians) - Europeans play whack-a-mole paying China and India "offsets"

Posted by Merl Oberon Publisher at Saturday, July 12, 2008 1:05 AM | Add Comment

CNN - Clueless News Network - "47 Afghan civilians killed by US bombs", group says - Taliban PR targeting the far-left press? Like the faux missile photos from Iran?

Posted by Merl Oberon Publisher at Friday, July 11, 2008 1:44 AM | Add Comment

Bad Idea Barack - #499 - European family dashes to the USA in bid to save their baby’s life - might be a good idea to reject NoBamaCare

Posted by Merl Oberon Publisher at Thursday, July 10, 2008 3:14 PM | Add Comment

BREAKING NEWS – first time in the Iraq war – troops scheduled to deploy to Iraq were turned around – deployment canceled – US troops not sent to Iraq

Posted by Merl Oberon Publisher at Thursday, July 10, 2008 1:22 AM | Add Comment

Why can't Bad Idea Barack wait to hear the Iraqi plan for a handover? Last week, Iraq violence plummeted - Iraq experienced the lowest number of acts of violence in more than four years - yet Bad Idea Barack wants to abandon the Iraqi democrats

Posted by Merl Oberon Publisher at Wednesday, July 09, 2008 1:13 PM | Add Comment

USA Today – “I believe that the Bush haters would rather see the president marred for life over Iraq than see democracy take root and grow in the Middle East.” - Returning from Iraq, Jim Hardin demolishes the far-left façade

Posted by Merl Oberon Publisher at Wednesday, July 09, 2008 12:34 PM | Add Comment

In the New Republic, part of the American far-left advocates repeating Rumsfeld's 2003 mistakes. Far-left all a twitter over Obama talking about maintaining “stability” in Iraq

Posted by Merl Oberon Publisher at Wednesday, July 09, 2008 1:35 AM | Add Comment

First time since the start of the Iraq war – Gulf without a US carrier, per Central Command request - dramatic good news - Gates: "Without any cost to the mission in Iraq"

Posted by Merl Oberon Publisher at Wednesday, July 09, 2008 1:06 AM | Add Comment

Both were up for the 2007 peace prize - Irena Sendler is credited with saving 2,500 Polish Jews from the Holocaust and Al Gore is credited with a slide show on global warming - guess who got the far-left vote and won a Nobel?

Posted by Merl Oberon Publisher at Tuesday, July 08, 2008 1:37 AM | Add Comment

CNN – Clueless News Network - "Whenever we do an airstrike, the first thing the Taliban is going to cry is 'Airstrike killed civilians,' when the missile actually struck militant extremists we were targeting," said a U.S. spokesman, 1st Lt. Nathan Perry –

Posted by Merl Oberon Publisher at Tuesday, July 08, 2008 1:35 AM | Add Comment

Iraqi democrats pleased - 550 metric tons of Saddam’s uranium (per the American far-left, not atomic bomb uranium – Saddam’s ‘peaceful’ uranium) successfully transferred to Canada

Posted by Merl Oberon Publisher at Monday, July 07, 2008 4:07 PM | Add Comment

American far-left darling, Sadr in political freefall - according to the Christian Science Monitor - "Moqtada al-Sadr, who, like Sen. Barack Obama, has always opposed a long and fruitless American occupation"

Posted by Merl Oberon Publisher at Monday, July 07, 2008 1:31 PM | Add Comment

Bad Idea Barack - #343 - surrender in the face of success - United Arab Emirates - forgives $7 billion owed by Baghdad - major success for Iraqi democrats

Posted by Merl Oberon Publisher at Monday, July 07, 2008 1:39 AM | Add Comment

Far-left enviro-mentalists love oil companies - socialized oil companies

Posted by Merl Oberon Publisher at Thursday, July 03, 2008 1:59 AM | Add Comment

Per far-left --- bin Laden buddy and Tora Bora vet turns suicide bomber on Easter Sunday 2008 in Iraq because, drum roll please… he suffered 'bad treatment' and 'bad food' at Guantanamo

Posted by Merl Oberon Publisher at Tuesday, July 01, 2008 1:27 AM | Add Comment
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