What I Find Annoying and/or Disturbing Today ....

So much to choose from, so let's just put 3 items out there:

1. Joe Biden - don't mess w/ Joe !
2. Miranda Rights for Terrorists -- have I mentioned how horrible Eric Holder is lately ?
3. Obama's Arrogance towards Allies -- Ralph Peters strikes again !


http://www.nypost.com/seven/06102009/postopinion/opedcolumnists/bams_euro_freeze_173408.htm

An excerpt:

WHEN Europeans wish upon a star, they get an American president with a huge Third World chip on his shoulder.

Those "sophisticated" Europeans dismissed "cowboy" Bush as a rube beneath their contempt. If the continent's opinion-makers could've changed their voter registrations, they would've flown to Chicago to vote for Barack Obama last fall.

They got what they wanted. But it isn't what they expected.


Joe Biden -- Jay Leno would have a field day with this guy; what a terrible VP ...

The vice presidential gaffe machine was in high gear Tuesday. During a press conference call with reporters, Joe Biden was asked to explain how exactly the administration plans to create 600,000 new jobs this summer.

But according to The American Spectator, when reporters asked the VP to explain how the White House even came up with the 600,000 number, he asked for a pass, saying a question like that is "above his pay grade" and, "I'm sorry, I'm not an economist. My background is in foreign policy."

That is so comforting coming from the guy who President Obama tasked with implementing the stimulus plan.


Miranda Warnings for Terrorists — Thank Sen. McCain [Andy McCarthy]

Steve Hayes is getting lots of well deserved attention for his report at the Weekly Standard today about how the Obama/Holder Justice Department has quietly instructed the FBI to start giving Miranda warnings to captured alien combatant terrorists — the next logical move in the ongoing effort to move us away from a war approach and return us to the law-enforcement paradigm for dealing with international terrorism.

Obama will obviously be embarrassed by the revelation, especially since, as the Standard's John McCormack recounts, candidate Obama (and fledgling President Obama) scoffed at the claim by us knuckle-draggers that he wanted foreign terrorists to get Miranda protection upon capture. But once he recovers his footing, I guarantee the president will argue that he is merely bringing government agents operating overseas into compliance with the McCain Amendment (enacted as part of the 2005 Detainee Treatment Act).

I hate to say I told you so, but back when we were having this debate, thanks to Senator McCain's grandstanding on "torture," I warned that his amendment would lead to the legal claim that American agents — including the military — were now required to give Miranda warnings to captured terrorists outside the U.S. (See, e.g., here, here, here and here (under "The Domestic Agenda")). Live by demagoguery, die by demagoguery.