Midknight Review -- new and revised: I think we all missed this, but Obama is the first president in American history to pay ransom to terrorists.

Crowds gather during the Egyptian Spring (left) at the end of which time, 19 American freedom fighters, people supporting the democracy movement within Egypt, captured and held for ransom.

They were held hostage for 36 days - I told you we missed it - the rebels demanding millions of dollars in exchange for the hostages' freedom.

Obama, coward that he is, caved in, paid a 5.7 million dollar ransom and became the first president in modern American history to exchange money for hostages.

Understand that Obama "back stabbed" Egypt's Mubarak, sending Egypt into uncharted chaos, with an increased possibility of a new Egyptian government aggressively opposed to peace with Israel. We should all be so proud. Our country has become the laughing stock of the world in the Middle East, Russia, South America and Red Chinese.

Maybe the world did not like Bush, but it respected and feared the man, and, because Bush was NOT likable in the eyes of the Middle Easterner, he was able to accomplish a great deal, nothing less amazing than the surrender of the entire Libyan nuclear arsenal held under the control of Gadaffi. That would have never happened with the likes of Obama. There is a reason why Bush confiscated the Libyan nuclear arsenal and Obama scurries off to a toy store to buy a plastic reset button.

The Stated Nonsense from the Left now includes these Progressive goals:

July 2, 2008, Obama had this to say: "We cannot continue to rely only on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives that we've set. We've got to have a civilian national security force that's just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded."

MICHELLE OBAMA: "Barack knows that we are going to have to make sacrifices; we are going to have to change our conversation; we're going to have to change our traditions, our history; we're going to have to move into a different place as a nation."

“ . . . . . . they have become a generation of activists possessed with that most American of ideas – that people who love their country can change it.” -- Obama the Radical

On September 30, Van Jones told MSNBC "I think everybody should hold onto your seats. October is going to be the turning point when it comes to the progressive fight back."

2 comments:

stripmallpaulMay 5, 2012 at 1:58 PM
You conveniently seem to have forgotten about Reagan just like Reagan conveniently forgot about paying ransom to terrorists. You can read the Iran Contra scandal in a few different ways but it boils down to paying ransom to terrorists and Reagan authorized it against the advice of his Secretary of Defense and Secretary of State.
John SmithsonMay 6, 2012 at 10:38 PM
Wow. I was very much alive during this episode in Reagan's Administration. It is the one thing with which I disagreed, after the fact. But calling his support of the contras "ransom" is evidence to me that you really hate it that Obama is such a gutless moron.

Ransom, to me, is a bribe. Nothing in the Contra affair can be deemed a bride.

So, like I said, the gutless Obama is the first president in history to negotiate with terrorists and pay their ransom demands.