<div class="entry"><div class="snap_preview">Before I get into the cauldron simmering in the Middle East, I want to revisit the health care summit and an article written by Joe Klein of TIME/CNN. If there is a better example of why the lamestream press are becoming extinct in this country I havent seen one.
Mr Klein was apparently elsewhere during the hearing and depended on tea leaves for his reporting. Read: I dont know anything about this but Ill pass judgment based on second hand garbage from other lefty sources. Kleins article was a misrepresentation from beginning to end. Joe, your boy Obama was on the defensive the whole time. The only way he had to protect himself from the very cogent points being presented by the Republicans was to repeatedly cut them off and go off on some obscure posturing or another. Despite being held to only one hundred and ten minutes the Republican lawmakers made the Democrats and President Obama look pretty damn silly.
Events in the Middle East are becoming more dangerous by the day following talks in Damascus, with Syria calling for military support from Iran in the event of war with Israel. Iran has been ginning up the image of war with Israel in talks with Syria, Lebanon and Hizballah.
Ahmadinejad and Assad
Iranian President Ahmadinejad, in a series of phone calls with Syrian President Assad, Lebanese President General Michel Suleiman and Hizballah leader Hassan Nasrallah, said that Israel is after finding a way to compensate for the defeat they suffered at the hands of Hizballah in Lebanon. read more »