politiek Category

Riber Hansson, Sweden

Martin Sutovec, Slovakia

The American rightwing was annoyed by President Obama's ad celebrating the killing of Osama bin Laden one year ago. They claim he's unfairly belittling his opponents and is spiking the football. ('Spiking the football' is an American expression for slamming the ball violently in the ground in exagerated celebration.)

Were have these people been these past ten years?

George W. Bush landed on an aircraft carrier dressed in a bomber jacket and, under a Mission Accomplished banner, celebrated the defeat of Saddam Hussein before the game had even started.

Veterans For A Strong America is looking for Navy Seals who are willing to attack President Obama. It is unknown who has financed the rightwing group lead by Joel Arends who has worked for organisations funded by the rightwing Koch brothers.

'Spiking the football' is an American expression for slamming the ball violently in the ground in exaggerated celebration.

Veterans for a Strong America: “In the wake of a warm conservative reception for a web video trashing the president for ‘spiking the football’ on the anniversary of Osama Bin Laden’s death, the conservative group Veterans for a Strong America plans to gather Navy SEALs and Special Forces operators to criticize the White House during the 2012 campaign.”

Paresh Nath, The Khaleej Times, UAE

Kirk Walters, Toledo Blade  

Mitt Romney (R) last week had to let go his just appointed spokesman on foreign policy, Richard Grenell. That's because the American rightwing didnt accept an openly gay spokesman.
The attack on Grenell was led by the American Family Association, who states that homosexual behavior is offensive to God' and doesn't want Republicans to put 'a homosexual in any position of importance'.

Grenell is gone so you expect the rightwing spokesman Bryan Fischer to be happy... Well, no!
Today, Fischer asked the voters if they should trust a man to stand up to the Chinese and the North Koreans if he can’t even stand up to a “yokel” talk show host?:

FISCHER: If Romney can be pushed around, intimidated, coerced, co-opted by a conservative radio talk show host in Middle America, then how is he going to stand up to the Chinese? How is he going to stand up to Putin? How is he going to stand up to North Korea if he can be pushed around by a yokel like me? I don’t think Romney is realizing the doubts that this begins to raise about his leadership.

Best tweet of the day:

Misschien wordt Ineke van Gent wel adviseur van Richard Nixon.... (youpvanthek)

Zeg me dat het niet zo is ........ #bleker (FemkeHalsema)

Patrick Chappatte, The International Herald Tribune

For the first time there are more people employed in the private sector in the U.S. than when President Obama took office. Righ after the Bush years, in the midst of the Great Recession, there were 110,985,000 American workers. The last month of George W. Bush in office the American economy lost almost a million jobs.

Now there are 111,020,000 people employed in the private sector and rising. That's how long it takes to fix the stupidity of others.

Gorilla

Joep Bertrams, The Netherlands  

Mitt Romney's message... once and for all: WE'RE NOT STUPID

Obama's message

Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney is more patriotic than Barack Obama.

All Repblicans know that.

That's why he had special lapel pins made after 9/11. To bring America together.

Funny thing: The pins were made in China.

In the last 34 years the pay for executives has risen 127 times faster in the United States than the pay of average workers, writes the Economic Policy Institute. CEO's earned 26.5 times more than the average worker in 1978, now they earn 206 times more.

Best tweet of the day:

Bleker, Buma, Spies, Leers, volg het voorbeeld van Verhagen en stap uit de politiek. Jullie zijn niet geloofwaardig meer. (wimdebie)

Hatelijk: Mensen die zeggen dat ze te dik zijn terwijl ze dat niet zijn. (MeneerKrabs)

Danglar, Slovakia  

Patrick Chappatte, The International Herald Tribune  

Arend Van Dam, politicalcartoons.com

Matador, El Tiempo, Colombia  

FORWARD, is the new campain slogan Barack Obama decided to use for the 2012 reelection campaign. 

It was unveiled yesterday in a video. The slogan's quite obvious subtext is that Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney will take the country backwards.

American conservatives know where President Obama got the word.

Breitbart.com explaines that Obama took the slogan from decades of communist iconography. From Marx, Stalin, and Mao, to Benito Mussolini, to Thabo Mbeki, the former president of South Africa.
How does writer Joel Pollak know that? “Communist leaders frequently used - and still use - the word ‘forward,’”

The Washington Times agrees that the word Forward has a “rich association with European Marxism.”

Tea Party blogger Jim Hoft found an even worse character to connect the slogan with... who else than Adolf Hitler. He writes that Forward was a marching song of the Hitler youth. He proves it with a picture of the Hitler Jugend wearing Obama pins.

Note:
Forward is the state motto of Teaparty led Wisconsin.
Forward is also the 642th most commonly used English word out of 868,000, according to...

This is what British lawmakers concluded in a report on Fox News owner Rupert Murdoch yesterday. The report was published yesterday and reveals what sane people all over the world have been saying for years now:

Rupert Murdoch is “not a fit person” to run News Corp. or any other major international company.