Obama Nightmare Continues – Page Two (6)

#1 — Biden praises world’s ‘finest military’ at Arlington

Arlington, Virginia (CNN) — Vice President Joe Biden led Americans in every corner of the country and around the world Monday in pausing to remember the sacrifices of those who have fallen in military service to the country.

President Barack Obama, meanwhile, delayed his planned Memorial Day remarks at Abraham Lincoln National Cemetery in Elwood, Illinois, due to a heavy storm. The president briefly took the stage to urge people to take shelter in their cars. He left roughly a half hour later.

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Notes:

Fine speech — I watched most of it.  People can make what they will of Obama’s absence.

#2 — Gulf oil spill could hit Alabama, Mississippi coast

VENICE, La. — Oil from BP’s out-of-control Gulf of Mexico oil spill could threaten the Mississippi and Alabama coasts this week, U.S. forecasters said on Monday, as public anger surged over the nation’s worst environmental disaster.

U.S. government and BP officials are warning that the blown-out deepwater well feeding the catastrophic spill may not be shut off until August as the company begins preparations on a new but uncertain attempt to contain the leaking crude.

“Right now we are going to a containment operation,” BP Managing Director Bob Dudley told CNN’s State of the Union program Sunday of the latest attempt to deal with the ruptured well nearly a mile (1,600 meters) under water.

“Because this is being done at 5,000 feet with robots, we’re going to take our time, do it extremely carefully. By the end of the week, we should have this in place,” Mr. Dudley said.

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#3 — WST | Klaus Asks ‘When Will Euro Zone Fall?’

Václav Klaus, president of the Czech Republic, has never been too worried about upsetting his European Union partners. He risks doing so again with a piece just written for the libertarian Cato Institute’s Center for Global Liberty & Prosperity provocatively entitled “When Will the Euro Zone Collapse?”

His main conclusions are twofold.

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#3 — Globe | Europe’s crisis puts EU future in doubt

Forged out of the ashes of the Second World War and the end of the Cold War, the European Union was meant to create peace and prosperity across the region. But Europe’s debt crisis has laid bare deep financial and cultural divisions within the 27-nation bloc that may never be bridged.

The fateful decision to make the EU effectively a halfway house – tying its member countries into a joint currency and interest rate decisions, while allowing them to retain control over national budgets and taxes – has left the fractured grouping at a crossroads.

Further political and economic integration leading to a common treasury – a central government, in effect – could rescue the ailing 11-year-old euro currency, and some say now is the time to seize the moment.

But what the head orders is not always what the heart desires: Greeks, Germans and even euro zone outsiders like the British are fiercely protective of their independence, their languages and ways, including the right to decide how they spend their own tax dollars.

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#4 — NP | Kay: Jenin on the high seas

If Israel truly had wanted to “massacre” the Hamas sympathizers and fellow travellers aboard a six-ship Gaza-bound flotilla, the operation would not have been complicated. The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) would have used the trusty North Korean solution: Torpedo the ships and watch them sink to the bottom of the sea. That’s certainly what Hamas would have done to a boatload of Jews, if it got the chance.

Even Israel arguably would have been within its rights to seize and destroy a ship being sent toward Gazan waters in defiance of an international embargo, especially after giving abundant warnings to the leaders of the largely Turkish-based Free Gaza Movement, which had sent the flotilla, that they would not be permitted to sail to Hamas-controlled territory.

But that’s not how Israel operates. Instead, it sent commandos to seize control of the ships and bring them safely to Israeli waters. Israeli officials had even prepared air-conditioned accommodations for the activists, and had made arrangements to deliver legitimate aid supplies to Gaza.

According to the IDF, not all of the activists on board the ships were the pacifists they claimed to be. Though the Free Gaza leaders said they would not resist Israeli enforcement of the embargo, some of them fought the Israeli boarding parties with iron clubs — as confirmed by video that has been made available to the media. More seriously, it is claimed that at least one of the activists took two handguns from the Israelis and fired at the soldiers. In the melee, at least 10 activists were believed to have been killed, and several Israeli commandos wounded.

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#5 — Republicans Grow More Hopeful Ahead of 37 Gubernatorial Races This Fall

A political tail wind boosting their prospects, Republicans have significant opportunities to gain governorships across the Great Lakes and Midwest this fall. But, in a wrinkle to their coast-to-coast victory plan, the GOP is struggling with internal fights in a handful of primaries, giving Democrats hope of snatching a few big states.

The outcome of a whopping 37 races will determine control of several heavily populated states ahead of the every-decade redrawing of congressional and legislative boundaries. The census decides who will have the advantage in the quest for control of statehouses and Congress over the next 10 years.

And many governors elected in November will preside over states certain to loom large in President Barack Obama’s likely 2012 re-election bid. They include swing states with huge numbers of electoral votes needed to win the White House, such as Pennsylvania, Ohio and Florida.

Five months before the election, primary contests that will set the November stage are well under way.

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Notes:

Never a dull moment in the Obama meltdown. Has anyone considered that Obama may be the most dangerous president to US interests that has ever been elected?

I have and I’m beginning to come up with the response “yes”. Not only US interests — world interests. Watching the situation in Israel this day I can see no larger enemy than a “friend” who bows to dictators and encourages thugs to lead us into WW4 at every opportunity.

Wait for it. He’s going to defend those Hamas demonstrators on the boats that are trying to break the Israeli embargo. It will be a happening thing and then all will know our true enemy.

Very weak leadership by a man who should never have been elected.

A very large war is coming because Obama, today, stayed away from Arlington and let Joe take over.

Joe did fine.

Obama “not so much”.