Brave woman…

Veena Malik is indeed a very brave woman.  Read about a Pakistani actress standing up to a Muslim cleric,  here.

More words, less information…

Obama will give another lesson in teleprompter reading tonight,  supposedly on the subject our adventure into Libya.   Politico says  everyone will be listening,  from Congress to the man in the street.   I think Jed Babbin,  who was a Deputy Undersecretary of Defense under Bush 41,  has it just about right.

There is no coherent explanation to be made,  and His Oneness can not afford to tell us the truth,  which is that,  as his his custom,  he is trying to position himself to claim credit for success,  while avoiding blame for failure.   Do watch — I suspect you’re about to find out just how stupid your President really believes you are.

UPDATE:  If Obama is going to “update” us,  shouldn’t he have already spoken to us?  Start with praising the troops,  followed by a bald-faced lie — the Left hates the military and has been trying to destroy it for years,  hence the push for gays in the military and women in combat.   Here’s  the text as prepared for delivery.   Daniel Foster   thinks we finally have the Obama Doctrine,  but I disagree  —  Obama’s statements suffer an extremely short  shelf life,  and are plump with  circular logic.

Obama  hit back at those who accused him of dithering,   but mostly it was a campaign speech loaded with self-praise.  An alert National Review Online reader caught His Oneness all but copying another Bush speech.   Jim Antle has a  neat summation.

The problem for His Oneness is that based on the place he marked,  we should intervene everywhere,  but we are to ignore that he failed to offer a single word of encouragement to Iranian protesters.  And how,  pray tell me,  are we to remove Gaddafi by non-military means when they have failed in the past?   He repeated that the tyrant has lost his legitimacy — the dictator never had any legitimacy,  and why was His Oneness afraid to call him a terrorist?

Stanley Kurtz has a  good breakdown,  and Alvin Felzenberg hammers Obama for setting  bad precedents.   Dana Perino wasn’t satisfied either.   And nobody thought His Oneness would mention that  the State Department helped Gaddafi’s son visit the USA just before the uprising.

This was a man  reading his teleprompter with no fire whatsoever,  like a professor instructing dull students.    How good do you feel when classicist Victor Davis Hanson finds the  speech murky at best?   My title was proven absolutely correct.

Not party time…

Frank Miele has some  excellent advice for us all,  regardless of political persuasion.