“Chicago way.” From all available evidence, Obama will either apologize to the pirates, tax them, or quite possibly attempt to organize them to protest American imperialism. Gives a whole new meaning to “Talk Like a Pirate Day”, doesn’t it?

Somali Pirate #1 “Yar, Abdullah! Do you think that the American dog of a President will send the infidel Marines against us?”

Somali Pirate #2 “………….” (Can’t talk, helpless with laughter.)

“Do you know, or have you ever allowed a parrot to stand on your shoulder?”

YOU
KILL
THE
BAST**RDS

Never a more adequate solution ever written.

subjected to a full scale attack by any country in Africa. The “standoff” is between our cowardly so-called President and a bunch of illiterate Somali pirates with small arms.

Team of SEALs slips up around 3AM, board, BANG, problem solved. Maersk will want their Captain back and won’t want to become a special target of the pirates, so, they’ll pay the ransom and the American media will just pretend this unfortunate little overseas contingency never happened. This is one where the maritime unions are likely to start raising holy Hell with the government and their employers. Those guys don’t take well to anything happening in the course of their employment that they don’t like.

Seriously…who gets into a standoff with a dinghy? Oh wait…The People’s Republic of Unicorns, that’s who.

My head hurts from all the ::facepalming:: First our Fearless Leader does an absolutely bang up job making sure PM Brown never again sets foot on US soil; then, he goes on to mortify the Queen of England, bows down to make slobbery love to the leader of a foreign country, and watches serenely as pirates in a dinghy make him look like the world’s biggest weenie.

Smashing. I’m keeping my eye on Canada.

Obama will just exchange the Bainbridge for the Alabama captain to “level the playing field,” just like he will with raising taxes on the “wealthy”

After all, it just isn’t fair to send a multi-million dollar, heavily armed warship after a l’il old dinghy that’s out of fuel.

BTW, wasn’t it a l’il old dinghy, albeit packed with explosives, that blew a hole in the side of the USS Cole?

Thought so.

You know the really funny thing is, for 3 long months, we’ve had to see his ugly mug on tv almost every day, mostly talking just to hear himself talk. NOW we have one of our own citizens taken hostage by terrorists (excuse me, criminals, HA!) and he’s nowhere to be seen.
Says he’s too busy dealing with the housing crisis. WTH???

Imagine being the family of this brave man and seeing that he’s not important enough to involve the “leader” of our country.

What they ought to do, is send in a team of Navy Seals, creep over the side of the boat and slit their throats while they’re busy “negotiating” their next millions. This is getting really pathetic.

In a sane America with a real President………………………..

Scene….. Oval Office, The White House, 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington DC.

Fade in………… External door to The Oval Office.

On-duty National Security Aide knocking to enter Oval Office, POTUS inside dealing with day to day duties – along with POTUS, Oval Office populated by a member or two of the Presidential Staff, and one or two Secret Service POTUS Detail Inner Loop Agents.

……………………….

POTUS: “Yes, come in………. Whoa, bad look on your face….. What’s the problem?”

Aide: “Mr. President, we have a hostile situation off the coast of Somalia. One of our nation’s flagged cargo ships has been boarded by Somali Pirates. Before we confirmed the event, the American crew, God Bless them, took back the ship. However, the ship’s captain has been taken off the ship and is now held hostage by a few of the Somali pirates who managed to escape.”

POTUS: “We’re certain about hostile’s identities and that the ship in question is American ?

Aide: “Yes sir, Mr. President.”

POTUS: “OK, I’m on it. You can go” ………….. NSA Aide leaves, POTUS picks up the phone, remains calm……….. “Mary, get me The Chief Of Naval Operations right now. Not 30 seconds from now, I mean NOW.”

POTUS Admin. Asst.: “Yes sir, hold one moment please, Mr. President.”

Less than 10 seconds later……………

CNO: Yes Mr. President ?”

POTUS: Admiral, we have a situation. There’s a Carrier Battle Group near the Gulf Of Aden, right ?

CNO: “Yes, Mr. President, on station and able to reach anywhere needed within the area in minutes, including all land-based locations.”

POTUS: “Good, here’s what we’ve got…………” POTUS describes the situation and adds……. “Admiral, you have a full green light to secure the safe return of the ship’s Captain and completely destroy the hostiles. We we discom, I’ll be on the phone to their US Ambassador or whatever moron is posing as the Somali authority, and give them about 10 minutes to release the Captain or they start losing cities….. you pick the targets….. no nukes, just send standard HE T’hawks and follow on with your air group until I tell you to stop….. 5 minute intervals per city – ports first. Targets of opportunity, industrial, etc. and anything large. If these s.o.b.’s harm as much as a single hair on the Captain, I may not tell you to stop until all that’s left are the grass huts inland. You have your orders. Am I understood ?”

CINCPAC: “Yes sir. The CBG is op-standard on ‘Alert 5′ with 30% of the regular T’hawk battery and has a constant CAP flight of four combat-loaded F-16′s, with another two always at the Cat on Alert 3. Their air group is being put on full scramble as we speak. Consider the mission fully active within the next 5 seconds.

POTUS: “Thank you, Admiral. Stay on the line for a few minutes so I can give you verbal confirmation – we’ll send the full action order to you electronically in a few minutes as well.”

CNO: “Yes Sir.”

POTUS puts CNO on hold…………….

POTUS: “Mary, get me the UN Ambassador from Somalia…. yesterday would be a good time frame.”

POTUS Admin. Asst.: “Yes sir, please hold one moment.”…………..approximately 4 minutes later (with POTUS boiling over with controlled anger…………… “Mr. President, the Somali Ambassador on line 3.”

POTUS: “Thank you Mary.”……….. Connects: “Mr. Ambassador, listen to me and say ‘yes sir’ or ‘no sir’ ONLY. Do you have any idea what I’m calling regarding ?”

Somali Ambassador: “No sir.”

POTUS: Describes the situation and adds……….”Mr. Ambassador, you have approximately 10 minutes to call off these terrorists, hostiles, pirates or whatever you’d like to name them, or we’re going to start taking out your port cities and keep going until the Captain is released completely unharmed. If anything happens to the Captain, your country will no longer exist. That is a threat and a promise.”

Somali Ambassador: “Mr. President, I am not in control of……”

POTUS cuts off the Somali Ambassador: “Listen to me and understand this clearly. No political games, No talk. DO WHAT I’M TELLING YOU NOW !”

Somali Ambassador: : “I will try Mr. President”.

POTUS: “I suggest you do more than try. I’ll be waiting for your call that the ship’s captain has been released to our forces, completely unharmed.”………. POTUS slams phone down on receiver for emphasis.

POTUS reconnects to CNO: Admiral, The mission is a ‘go’ and please pass on my wish for God’s speed to our men and women in harm’s way.’

CNO: “Yes Mr. President and thank you for your wish for our people.”

POTUS: “We’ll stay in touch full-time until this is resolved. I’ll be offline for 2 or three minutes and then back for the duration.”

CNO: “Yes Mr. President.”

Discom.

POTUS: … on the phone…. “Mary, please call my wife and tell her that I probably won’t make it upstairs for lunch, but by dinner the situation we’ve just found ourselves in will be cleared up.”

POTUS Admin. Asst.: “Yes, Mr. President.”

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In a sane America, the Maersk Alabama’s Captain would have been having dinner with his crew last evening instead of adrift for two days and about to be thrown under the bus by his own country’s so-called leadership.

So right, it hurts.

people need reminding

If you wade through the comments of ad hominem attacks on Republicans, you discover a lot of warmongering, bloodthirsty, attack dogs.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/4/11/718874/-The-Pursuit-of-Pirates

I say its a Code Pink Alert.

I think that the European surrender tour is affecting the Obama Presidential Approval index. That and the nonresponse to the taking of an American hostagae.

http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/obama_administration/daily_presidential_tracking_poll

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Activists Taking Action: Unified Patriots

… but I do wish they’d find a way to “disappear” the one who was “taken into custody.”