WASHINGTON (AP) — In his farewell address to the nation, President George W. Bush is acknowledging that many of his decisions are unpopular with the American people. But he says there can be no debate about the results.

Indeed, a text of the speech comes with a laundry list of what Bush says are successes.

In the text, released by the White House in advance of the address Thursday night, the president says Afghanistan and Iraq have changed for the better.

Bush credits his administration for improving public schools, creating a new Medicare prescription drug benefit and finding more money for veterans.

What about the bad economy? Bush says his team took decisive measures to safeguard it.

The bottom line, Bush says, is there have been good days and tough days during his term.

On that, even his critics would agree.

(I just corrected two misspelled words in the Associated Press article. And these liberal idiots are considered “professional journalists”?)

President Bush made many socialist decisions to “safeguard” the economy.

Why are liberals complaining? Liberals should love President Bush when it comes to the economy.

Well, what goes around, comes around, and when President-elect Obama takes office, it will be my turn to disrespect Obama and give him an EPIC FAIL every time he screws up.

I cannot wait to be called a “racist”, too! (Will liberals dare call me, a Puerto Rican, a “minority”, a racist?)

Let us grade President Bush’s tenure:

Response after 9/11/01: A+

Afghanistan: B+ (The job is not done, yet. Victory is within our grasp, though.)

Iraq: B+ (Again, the job is not done, but victory is within our grasp. Our brave military will have to mop-up the terrorist bastards that are still hiding.)

Al Qaeda: B+ (They are still out there, however, they have been severely cut off from the outside world.)

Osama bin Laden: Grade pending. President Bush still has a few more days to find him and kill him.

AIDS in Africa: A+. Not even liberals can spin this as a “failure”.

Pro-Life: A+. Abortions have dropped during the past 8 years.

Economy: D-. President Bush inherited President Clinton’s recession, 9/11 and Enron screwed the economy, President Bush then cut taxes, the economy rebounded and the Dow Jones index went past 14,000 points. The economy tanked in September of 2008, especially with Bear Stearns becoming worthless, and John McCain lost the presidency due to the economy. More and more banks lost money, the auto manufacturers lost money, more businesses spanning several different sectors went out of business, Bernard Madoff ripped off the world (including his own sister) of $50 billion dollars, and now the nation is facing 7.2% unemployment.

Final Grade: B-

Those are the only issues I really care about.

Oh, wait. One more issue.

Pissing of liberals: A+++

Sweet.

Hat Tip: Michelle Malkin

J-Post.com

United States Vice President Dick Cheney said Friday that while he would still like to see Osama bin Laden captured or killed, the al-Qaida kingpin is likely in hiding and is no longer an effective leader of his terrorist group.

Cheney told CNN television’s “Late Edition with Wolf Blitzer” that the terrorist threat is bigger than one man.

“We would like very much to capture or kill Osama bin Laden, but my guess is at this point, he’s operating in an area that’s very difficult, very hard to get to, that he’s not an effective leader at this stage,” Cheney said in one of a series of exit interviews.

Bin Laden really cannot engage with his organization without leaving “whatever hole he’s hiding in,” Cheney said.

Drop some MOAB’s on Osama bin Laden’s general location on January 19th.

What is the United Nations going to do? Sanction America?

If it is on You Tube, it has to be true!

Hat Tip: Hot Air

The Pew Research Center

It is amazing that President Bush’s approval rating was once at 90%.

I believe if the federal government’s response to Hurricane Katrina was better, President Bush might have had a chance to leave office with a favorable approval rating. However, liberal Blacks (such as Jesse Jackson and the idiots of his ilk) used Hurricane Katrina as a springboard to blame all the ills of the Black community on President Bush. Many Black people in New Orleans do not blame President Bush as much as they blame Governor Katherine Blanco and Mayor Ray Nagin, both Democrats, for the slow response and incompetence during Hurricane Katrina. Even Usher Raymond (singer and actor) came out in defense of President Bush during Hurricane Katrina and said that the country needed President Bush during this time. Perhaps Kayne West should have followed Usher’s example.

I believe that Iraq will stabilize completely and President Bush will be remembered fondly for making the right decision to go to war and depose Saddam Hussein. For as much as liberals bitch about freedom, they sure love to deny it to the majority of the good Iraqi people.

I hope and pray that Osama Bin Laden is caught or confirmed dead before President Bush leaves office.

Hat Tip: Hot Air Headlines

Washington Whispers

Ever wonder what terrorist mastermind Osama bin Laden might look like if he shaved his trademark beard and turned in his robes and camouflage for a western business suit? Well, apparently so did the intelligence analysts at the National Counterterrorism Center. In their popular annual desk calendar, just received at Whispers, a page about the al Qaeda leader features an altered photograph, showing a neatly trimmed bin Laden in a dark suit and tie, looking more like a used-car dealer than a guerrilla fighter.

Bin Laden has a $27 million bounty on his head and a distinctive visage that has become remarkably familiar over the past decade, but the Westernized Osama looks surprisingly different. Still, it’s a face only his mother could kiss. And there are some things he won’t be able to disguise. The NCTC’s calendar points out that he remains unusually tall (somewhere between 6 foot 4 and 6 foot 6) and walks with a cane. The NCTC, which is the U.S. intelligence community’s primary analytical shop for terrorism, has not yet posted its 2009 calendar, but the 2008 version is on its website.

Actually, the bounty on Osama bin Laden is $28 million, after actor Bruce Willis offered to add another $1 million dollars to the current bounty.

Hat Tip: Hot Air Headlines

But not because Al Qaeda killed 3,000 people on September 11,2001, or thousands more around the world.

Nor did they denounce Al Qaeda for any of the countless atrocities committed by Osama Bin Laden’s henchmen these past 15+ years.

CNN.com

NEW YORK (CNN) — Spiritual leaders of New York’s African-American Muslim communities lashed out Friday at a purported al Qaeda message attacking President-elect Barack Obama and, using racist language, comparing him unfavorably to the late Malcolm X.

The imams called the recorded comments from al Qaeda second-in-command Ayman al-Zawahiri “an insult” from people who have “historically been disconnected from the African-American community generally and Muslim African-Americans in particular.”

“We find it insulting when anyone speaks for our community instead of giving us the dignity and the honor of speaking for ourselves,” they said in a statement read during a news conference at the Malcolm X and Dr. Betty Shabazz Memorial, Educational and Cultural Center.

The al Qaeda statement, an 11-minute, 23-second audio message in Arabic with subtitles in English, appeared on the Internet on Wednesday. Its authenticity has not been confirmed.

The message said Obama represents the “direct opposite of honorable black Americans” like Malcolm X.

The outrage!

Do you feel it?

Hat Tip: JammieWearingFool

ABC News

Osama bin Laden is alive and “putting a lot of energy into his own security,” the director of the CIA, General Michael Hayden, said today.

He also claimed, without providing details, that the US intelligence community had disrupted an attack “that would have rivaled the destruction of 9/11.”

“America and its friends have taken the fight to the enemy,” Gen. Hayden said in a broad roundup of efforts to fight al Qaeda.

“Al Qaeda has suffered serious setbacks, but it is a determined, adaptive enemy unlike any our nation has ever faced,” he said.

Without directly referring to the CIA’s offensive blitz of unmanned missile attacks in the tribal areas of Pakistan, the CIA boss said the US had successfully isolated the al Qaeda leader bin Laden, referring to him in the present tense.

“He appears to be largely isolated from the day-to-day operations of the organization he leads,” Hayden said in a speech delivered to the Atlantic Council in Washington.

Hayden said the failure to kill or capture bin Laden in the seven years since the 9/11 attacks, could be explained by the “rugged and inaccessible” terrain of the Afghanistan-Pakistan border area and “the fact that bin Laden has worked to avoid detection.”

The CIA director provided no other details but it was the first public indication of the intelligence agency’s growing effort to narrow the focus of the search for bin Laden and other top terror leaders.

Hayden said the deaths of at least six top al Qaeda commanders in Pakistan had kept the terror group “off balance.”

The good news of success in Iraq against al Qaeda was measured against the terror group’s alarming growth in North and East Africa and Yemen, he said in his remarks.

Wow! U.S. intelligence interrupted a possible attack that could have rivaled 9/11’s destruction. Scoop This reported three days ago that Al Qaeda wanted to surpass 9/11 attacks.

It seems as if we know where Osama Bin Laden is, we just cannot get to him. However, the Predator-drone airplane attacks are working since at least six Al Qaeda terrorist leaders have been killed in the Pakistani mountain region.

Also, the end of the article states that Al Qaeda has strengthened in Africa. Scoop This reported that news seven days ago.

The Age

Osama bin Laden is planning an attack against the United States that will “outdo by far” September 11, an Arab newspaper in London has reported.

And according to a former senior Yemeni al-Qaeda operative, the terrorist organisation has entered a “positive phase”, reinforcing specific training camps around the world that will lead the next “wave of action” against the West.

The warning, on the front page of an Arabic newspaper published in London, Al-Quds Al-Arabi - and widely reported in the major Italian papers - quotes a person described as being “very close to al-Qaeda” in Yemen.

The paper is edited by Abdel al-Bari Atwan, who is said to be the last journalist to interview Osama bin Laden in 1996. According to the report, bin Laden is himself closely following preparations for an attack against the US and aims to “change the face of world politics and economics”. The operative is quoted as saying that “this will be shown by the fact that we now control a major part of the south of Somalia”.

The U.S. military has been attacking targets inside Somalia, so the claim that Al Qaeda controls a part of south Somalia may be rooted in truth.

I pray that President Bush and President-elect Obama keep America safe. The safety of all Americans should be paramount in every administration.

Hat Tip: Hot Air

UPDATE 1: After having 30 minutes or so to think about this, it must be mentioned that Al Qaeda is near defeat worldwide. The U.S. military has virtually destroyed Al Qaeda in Iraq. Al Qaeda has had to divert money and militants to Iraq, and thus no new attacks worldwide.

However, Al Qaeda is resourceful. It only took 19 men to attack America. My best guess is that Al Qaeda will try to hijack planes again and hit targets inside Chicago, especially since President-elect Obama is from Chicago. I know that the Sears Tower in Chicago is permanently on high alert, but I venture to say that it is now a very legitimate target.

Again, I hope for the best and have full confidence in President Bush, President-elect Obama, and the Pentagon in protecting all Americans.

I just saw this posted on DEBKA File.

DEBKA

Al Qaeda prepares third war front in E. Africa to test Obama

DEBKA-Net-Weekly Exclusive Report

Al Qaeda plans to test the mettle of the incoming United States President-elect Barack Obama by opening a third anti-US war front in the Horn of Africa - in addition to the raging conflicts in Afghanistan and Pakistan.

Details of Osama bin Laden’s ticking, third-front bombshell will be revealed on Friday.

I think DEBKA File is just hyping up this story, but DEBKA File is thought of as the Israeli Mossad’s news agency, so they could and should have some decent intelligence regarding Al Qaeda opening up a new front in East Africa.

However, the worldwide economic turmoil, as well as decisive and continuous defeats in Afghanistan and Iraq, have taken an excessive toll on Al Qaeda and their leadership base, including their man power and monetary funds.

For the sake of all innocent people, let us hope Barack Obama passes this test. President-elect Obama receives his first intelligence briefing today.

This is a mini-headline currently up on Drudge Report.

This should be interesting.

Breaking News…

Developing…

UPDATE 1: The story is not up yet, but I would like to take a wild guess at who was behind 9/11.

I am guessing Fuck Face Cunt Muscle Osama Bin Laden.

UPDATE 2: newsmeat.com

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Seven years after the Sept. 11 attacks, there is no consensus outside the United States that Islamist militants from al Qaeda were responsible, according to an international poll published Wednesday.

The survey of 16,063 people in 17 nations found majorities in only nine countries believe al Qaeda was behind the attacks on New York and Washington that killed about 3,000 people in 2001.

U.S. officials squarely blame al Qaeda, whose leader Osama bin Laden has boasted of organizing the suicide attacks by his followers using hijacked commercial airliners.

On average, 46 percent of those surveyed said al Qaeda was responsible, 15 percent said the U.S. government, 7 percent said Israel and 7 percent said some other perpetrator. One in four people said they did not know who was behind the attacks.

The poll was conducted by WorldPublicOpinion.org, a collaborative project of research centers in various countries managed by the Program on International Policy Attitudes at the University of Maryland in the United States.

In Europe, al Qaeda was cited by 56 percent of Britons and Italians, 63 percent of French and 64 percent of Germans. The U.S. government was to blame, according to 23 percent of Germans and 15 percent of Italians.

Respondents in the Middle East were especially likely to name a perpetrator other than al Qaeda, the poll found.

Israel was behind the attacks, said 43 percent of people in Egypt, 31 percent in Jordan and 19 percent in the Palestinian Territories. The U.S. government was blamed by 36 percent of Turks and 27 percent of Palestinians.

In Mexico, 30 percent cited the U.S. government and 33 percent named al Qaeda.

The only countries with overwhelming majorities blaming al Qaeda were Kenya with 77 percent and Nigeria with 71 percent.

Interviews were conducted in China, Indonesia, Nigeria, Russia, Egypt, France, Germany, Britain, Italy, Jordan, Kenya, Mexico, the Palestinian Territories, South Korea, Taiwan, Turkey and Ukraine.

The poll, taken between July 15 and Aug. 31, had a margin of error of plus or minus 3 to 4 percent.

Oh Lord. Some people will believe anything!

46% of the people surveyed said Al Qaeda was responsible for 9/11. Thankfully, nearly half of the people surveyed around the world are smart.

25% of the people surveyed said that they do not know who attacked America on 9/11/01. For those of you still confused, direct your attention to the photo posted earlier on the blog.

15% of the vote went to the U.S. government. Why would the U.S. government destroy buildings that they specifically used. What purpose is served by destroying the Pentagon?

Israel received 7% of the vote. Are you kidding me? Maybe WorldPublicOpinion.org accidentally surveyed people in Iran.

The last 7% of the vote went to other possible attackers.