Obama Fail Blog

Talking tough is not the same as acting tough, but Eric Holder and President Obama are too busy failing to know the difference:

President Barack Obama predicted that professed Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed will be convicted and executed as Attorney General Eric Holder proclaimed: "Failure is not an option."

Source: Forbes

Even if a terror trial suspect were acquitted, Holder said, he would not be released in the United States.

Err... Uh... Failure already happened. A terrorist who has confessed to plotting to kill thousands of American citizens is being granted a federal trial. He is being afforded the rights of a US citizen - innocent until proven guilty, jury of his peers, all that jazz...

But, but, but, but, wait! It gets worse! These guys just won't stop talking about their idiotic policy decisions:

Even if a terror trial suspect were acquitted, Holder said, he would not be released in the United States.

In one of a series of TV interviews during his trip to Asia, Obama said those offended by the legal privileges given to Mohammed by virtue of getting a civilian trial rather than a military tribunal won't find it "offensive at all when he's convicted and when the death penalty is applied to him."

Source: Forbes

Are these guys serious? Let's review:

• KSM was the mastermind who plotted 9/11
• KSM confessed to being the mastermind
• President Obama (dba Eric Holder) is granting a trial to KSM
• Obama has declared -BEFORE HIS TRIAL - that KSM will receive the death penalty

Andrew McCarthy - who prosecuted Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman for his involvement in the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center - weighs in on this madness:

In a meeting with the press in China, President Obama said that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed would be "convicted" and had "the death penalty applied to him" . . . and then said he wasn't "pre-judging" the case. He made the second statement after it was pointed out to him — by NBC's Chuck Todd — that the first statement would be taken as the president's interfering in the trial process. Obama said that wasn't his intention. I'm sure it wasn't — he's trying to contain the political damage caused by his decision — but that won't matter. He has given the defense its first motion that the executive branch, indeed the president himself, is tainting the jury pool. Nice work.

Source: National Review

And they said George W. Bush was a reckless cowboy...

1.) ABC News is reporting about the success of the stimulus in Arizona's 15th congressional district, except that district doesn't exist:

Here's a stimulus success story: In Arizona's 15th congressional district, 30 jobs have been saved or created with just $761,420 in federal stimulus spending. At least that's what the Web site set up by the Obama administration to track the $787 billion stimulus says.

There's one problem, though: There is no 15th congressional district in Arizona; the state has only eight districts.

And ABC News has found many more entries for projects like this in places that are incorrectly identified.

Late Monday, officials with the Recovery Board created to track the stimulus spending, said the mistakes in crediting nonexistent congressional districts were caused by human error.

Source: ABC News

2.) New York governor David Patterson is ripping the Justice Department's decision to grant trials to terrorists, just blocks from Ground Zero:

Gov. Paterson on Monday joined critics questioning the White House's plan to put the accused 9/11 terrorists on trial in New York.

"This is not a decision that I would have made," he said when asked about the upcoming trials of Khalid Shaikh Mohammed and his four underlings in Manhattan Federal Court.

"It's a little inconsistent with what he told me last week," U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder told the Daily News last night after being honored on the East Side with the Brennan Center for Justice Legacy Award.

Source: NY Daily News

3.) Regarding Holder's claim that Paterson is contradicting himself, Holder is claiming he didn't consult with Paterson, Obama or anyone else in positions of power. Of course, these are either blatant lies or Eric Holder is the most dangerous man in the free world. Lil' bit of both, most likely:



4.) Spiegel Online is declaring that Obama has "failed the world on climate change." Author Christian Schewergel blames Obama for lying and being too self-centered and incompetent to do what is right - a sentiment that everyone can agree on, regardless of their views on climate legislation:

Obama Lied to the Europeans

Barack Obama cast himself as a "citizen of the world" when he delivered his well-received campaign speech in Berlin in the summer of 2008. But the US president has now betrayed this claim. In his Berlin speech, he was dishonest with Europe. Since then, Obama has neglected the single most important issue for an American president who likes to imagine himself as a world citizen, namely, his country's addiction to fossil fuels and the risks of unchecked climate change. Health-care reform and other domestic issues were more important to him than global environmental threats. He was either unwilling or unable to convince skeptics in his own ranks and potential defectors from the ranks of the Republicans to support him, for example, by promising alternative investments as a compensation for states with large coal reserves.

Source: Spiegel Online

A victory for America, another epic fail for Obama!

1.) Former NYC mayor Rudy Giuliani is blasting Obama's decision to grant trials to the Islamist terrorists behind the 9/11 attacks:

“It is an unnecessary advantage to give to terrorists,” Giuliani said on CNN’s “State of the Union.” “I don’t know why you’d want to give terrorists advantages, and, secondly, it’s an unnecessary risk.”

Giuliani also warned that opting for a civilian court trial over a military commissions proceeding would mean lengthy delays.

“Our federal system has an enormously protracted process that’s going to go on forever. ... It grants more benefits than a military tribunal will grant. There’s always the possibility of acquittal, change of venue,” the ex-mayor said on ABC’s “This Week.”

Source: Politico

2.) Troop morale in Afghanistan is down - and ABCNews is overlooking the most obvious reason - Obama's dithering.

3.) Politico is reporting that President Obama was upset with a question from AP's Jennifer Loven during a press conference in China:

President Barack Obama made no effort to conceal his irritation when his press corps used the first question of his maiden Far East trip to ask what was taking him so long on Afghanistan.

Jennifer Loven of The Associated Press had asked: “Can you explain to people watching and criticizing your deliberations what piece of information you're still lacking to make that call.”

“With respect to Afghanistan, Jennifer,” the president scolded, “I don't think this is a matter of some datum of information that I'm waiting on. … Critics of the process … tend not to be folks who … are directly involved in what's happening in Afghanistan. Those who are, recognize the gravity of the situation and recognize the importance of us getting this right.”

The cool president’s heated response reflected second-guessing from the press and Pentagon about a process that has spanned eight formal meetings with his war cabinet, totaling about 20 hours.

Source: Politico

4.) Wizbang is analysissin' the hell out of Obama's response to Loven's question:

Herein is a just a small measure of a thin skinned White House on the matter of Afghanistan policy. Considering that the source is Politico, which covets its White House access, and the quoted question came from none other than AP Obama maven Jennifer Loven, it can only be concluded that, to a small degree, some in the media are seeing themselves as Hope and Change chumps.

One wonders where this strange new respect for "those directly involved in what is happening" was during the Iraq War and the successful surge strategy that then Senator Obama opposed. Could it be that this President is being mugged by reality and doesn't like the scrutiny that often accompanies the perquisites of the office of POTUS?

Source: Wizbang

5.) HotAir Pundit is comparing the president's bow to Japanese emperor Akihito to the more professional greetings used by other world leaders.

6.) Jake Tapper is reporting - via a message from a trusted source on Japanese culture - that O-bow-ma's stunt with Akihito is an embarrassment:

Obama's handshake/forward lurch was so jarring and inappropriate it recalls Bush's back-rub of Merkel.

"Kyodo News is running his appropriate and reciprocated nod and shake with the Empress, certainly to show the president as dignified, and not in the form of a first year English teacher trying to impress with Karate Kid-level knowledge of Japanese customs.

"The bow as he performed did not just display weakness in Red State terms, but evoked weakness in Japanese terms....The last thing the Japanese want or need is a weak looking American president and, again, in all ways, he unintentionally played that part.

Source: ABCNews via HotAir

Attorney General Eric Holder has a history of helping terrorists - just ask the FALN. In fact, Holder was a partner in the law firm Covington & Burling LLP - a firm that represents 17 terrorists being held in Guantanamo Bay. Given his soft spot for America's enemies and the financial windfall that is sure to benefit his buddies at Covington & Burling during a show trial, this should come as no surprise:

President Obama has made his most outrageous move to date. Attorney General Eric Holder made the announcement this morning that some admitted terrorists including the self declared mastermind of the 9-11 attacks, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed will be brought to New York City for trial.

Yes, you are reading this correctly. Our president is bringing terrorists, confessed terrorists, from Guantanamo Bay to New York where they will be tried near what used to be the shadow of the twin towers.

They will have lawyers that will use every means possible to get these terrorists acquitted on technicalities. All it will take is one liberal judge and KSM or one of the others could go free. Think about that. Can you imagine?

Source: Ross Balano, Kansas City Star

The Wall Street Journal agrees:

Attorney General Eric Holder, who dropped this legal bomb on New York yesterday, called his decision to move their trial on war crimes from a military courtroom at Guantanamo Bay to American soil "the toughest" he has had to make. Other words come to mind. For starters, intellectually and morally confused, dangerous and political to a fault.

Source: Wall Street Journal

Right on, right on, right on!

Terrorists also love a big stage, and none come bigger than New York. Zacarias Moussaoui, the so-called 20th hijacker, made his civilian trial a spectacle. Not even the best judge can entirely stop KSM and others from doing the same. And Mr. Holder has invited grave and needless security risks by tempting jihadists the world over to strike Manhattan while the trial is in session.

Source: Wall Street Journal

And to deliver the finishing logical blow, the America's Truth Hammer, Charles Krauthammer:

Source: The Heritage Foundation

Today, President Obama’s campaign organization “Organizing for America” sent out a notice to its “grassroots” supporters. It asked them to wage a coordinated phone campaign for health care by calling their U.S. Senators on September 11 – also known as Patriot Day in honor of the thousands of Americans killed by Al Qaeda terrorists eight years ago. It goes on: “All 50 States are coordinating in this – as we fight back against our own Right-Wing Domestic Terrorists who are subverting the American Democratic Process, whipped to a frenzy by their Fox Propaganda Network ceaselessly re-seizing power for their treacherous leaders.” Please read that again.

As of this posting, the statement has been taken off BarackObama.com, however the notice has been sent out and the intended damage is done. No one has taken responsibility and surely Obama will never allow himself to be linked to statements such as this. But he should be.

Source: The Heritage Foundation

(Update #2: Several readers have asked us whether this posting on barackobama.com was “user-generated” rather than a staff posting. From what we can tell, this may have been the case. Nevertheless, members of ‘Organizing for America’ in Illinois, North Carolina, Michigan and possibly other states were invited to this event without filter. Anything under the ‘Organizing for America’ banner that is distributed en masse is accountable to those who run the President’s perpetual campaign.

Which is the problem with a perpetual campaign. When you have campaign organizers attempting to assist the White House message, you end up in this situation. If one American received one email that led them to believe that the President shared these views, that is one too many.

This was not an ill-advised comment on a blog, but rather an organizing activity that used hateful language to describe the opposition. The President and his political advisors should immediately denounce this language and continue to remove it from their website. And they should immediately discontinue the use of the ‘Organizing for America’ website to remove any suspicion that the President shares these views. There is a time for campaigning, and a time for leading. Now is the time for the President to lead.)

The Obama Administration continues to shoe-horn leftist causes into American institutions and causes, in an attempt to paint patriotic Americans into a corner. In this case, groups like ACORN and Organizing for America are organizing a National Day of Service on 9/11.

Of course, any American who speaks out against ACORN or the involvement of radical communist White House advisor Van Jones will be labeled un-American for not honoring the fallen heroes of 9/11. That's David Axelrod for ya!

Source: The American Spectator

President Obama is counting on two Marxists who blame America for the 9/11 terrorist attacks to help turn Sept. 11 from a day of solemn remembrance into an unseemly celebration of radical environmentalism and Big Government.

The two men charged with this politically correct exercise in desecration and icon-smashing are the boorish, self-absorbed Rev. Lennox Yearwood and the comparatively suave, articulate Van Jones. Jones is adept at concealing his radicalism; Yearwood is incapable of doing so.

As I wrote last week, about 60 groups including those associated with Yearwood and Jones, are planning to help the Obama administration greenwash the meaning of 9/11. They want to turn each Sept. 11 into a National Day of Service focused on the importance of bicycle paths, ethanol, carbon emission controls, putting solar panels on your roof, and radical community organizing. It has nothing to do with healing the nation and everything to do with easing the nation along in the ongoing radical transformation of America that President Obama promised during last year's election campaign.

Source: NY Daily News

By act of Congress and the signature of President Obama, the eighth anniversary of 9/11 will be America's first officially designated National Day of Service and Remembrance.

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But there are dangers.

Acts of kindness are easily distorted into propaganda, issues advocacy and attempts to redefine 9/11 for political purposes. This cheapening has already happened, and in the most inappropriate place - the White House.

The Obama administration supports creating clean energy jobs in cities through a campaign called Green the Block, started by the groups Green For All and the Hip Hop Caucus. After cabinet officials met with leaders of the organizations in the West Wing, aides posted a video and a statement on the White House blog.

Van Jones, an Obama environmental adviser, said 9/11 would be an opportunity to "connect, to find other people in your peer group who are also passionate about repowering America but also greening up America and cleaning up America."

And the Rev. Lennox Yearwood, head of the Hip Hop Caucus said:

"The first milestone for Green the Block will be on our National Day of Service, Sept. 11, 2009, where we will organize Green the Block service events around the country in coordination with the President's initiative, United We Serve."

No. Wrong. Entirely wrong.

9/11 is not about green jobs or health care or bank bailouts or about the ideologies and egos of celebrities who are planning concerts and other performances this year. To them, hands off.

And "remembrance" must not, must never, be forgotten.

It would be sacrilege to smother 3,000 murders under gauzy and fleeting good feelings.

It would be a gross betrayal to gloss the evil that targeted - and still targets - America.

Source: FoxNews

LAURA INGRAHAM, GUEST HOST: In the "Unresolved Problem" segment tonight: A controversy is brewing over President Obama's decision to remember 9/11 as a National Day of Service. Some critics believe that marking 9/11 as a day for volunteerism demeans the memory of the thousands who were killed by Muslim extremists on that fateful September morning. Joining us now from New York, FOX News analyst and my old friend, Alan Colmes.

Now, Alan, I knew it was going to be something like this when you and I were back on television together. It was one of these raw meat subjects. And look, the 9/11, the day of volunteerism, on the surface, that's fine, you know. Volunteering, isn't that great? But when I looked at the groups involved on this teleconference call they had to organize, get everything in place for the day of service, it's ACORN, AFL-CIO, the Color of Change group — the group that's boycotting Beck, or trying to — the Community Action Partnership. These are all a bunch of left-wing crazy groups, are they not?

Source: TimesOnline

Thousands of terrified office workers evacuated buildings in the city’s financial district as the presidential Boeing 747 and pursuing F16 swooped low on Monday past the site of the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Centre.

The blue-and-white aircraft, with The United States of America emblazoned on its side, circled the Statue of Liberty in New York harbour at an altitude as low as 500ft before flying off over Manhattan.

Hundreds of people called the police fearing a repeat of the September 11, 2001, terror attacks by two hijacked airliners that killed almost 3,000 people.

John Leitner, a floor trader at the New York Mercantile Exchange, said that about 1,000 people “went into a total panic” and fled the building after seeing the low-flying presidential plane and fighter.

David Frank said that a stampede of people ran out of his office tower across the Hudson River in Jersey City. “By the time I got outside it was coming around for its third pass, and I watched it level off below building height over the water and then once again veer sharply towards the building,” he told WCBS television. “Several hundred of us began to run away fearing for our lives before it climbed steeply and flew over our building.”

Michael Bloomberg, the New York Mayor, said that he first found out about the flypast when his BlackBerry began buzzing with messages. “Why the Defence Department wanted to do a photo-op right around the site of the World Trade Centre catastrophe defies imagination,” he said. “Poor judgment would be a nice way to phrase it. Had I known about it I would have called them right away and asked them not to.

Source: FOXNews

There has been another apparent public relations mishap by Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano. Today she tried to recover from an earlier statement that the 9/11 attackers came over the Canadian border, which she now calls a mistake. But she may have ruffled more feathers when she said: "There are very real differences between what Canada allows in their country and who is allowed in the United States."

She acknowledged that the Canadian media, "...were not happy with me." That was made evident by a Canadian newspaper editorial titled, "The Border for Dummies." The National Post asked: "Can someone please tell us how ... Napolitano got her job? She appears to be about as knowledgeable about border issues as a late-night radio call-in yahoo."