Just when you think the media can’t possibly get more nauseating in their worship of Barack Obama, Chris Matthews shows they can. Here he is describing Obama as “almost pluperfect,” yet – Matthews despairs, “they don’t like him.”

Uh, Chris, that’s because he’s not “almost pluperfect.”

Obama says he spoke to President Bush this morning before the address, and acknowledges it’s “well known” they disagreed on the war. Obama said that despite their disagreements, “No one can doubt President Bush’s support for our troops, or his love of country.”

Obama never thanked or gave credit to Bush for the surge, which was a crucial step to get to where we are now, a crucial step that Obama strongly opposed and repeatedly said would never work.

H/T: Gateway Pundit

President Obama announces: “The American combat mission in Iraq is over. Operation Iraqi Freedom is over, and the Iraqi people now have lead responsibility for the security of their country.”

MSNBC’s Ed Schultz tries to downplay Glenn Beck’s 8/28 Rally, which NBC estimates had 300,000 people attend. Schultz repeatedly said it was “no big deal,” before saying he could get more than 300,000 people to rally.

I’d like to see Schultz try! He would probably only get a few thousand to show up, if he’s lucky.

Via RadioEqualizer

Here is video of White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs facing repeated questions today about whether President Obama will give credit to former President George W. Bush for the Surge Strategy that brought about victory in Iraq. Gibbs did everything he could to avoid answering the question. His response was to essentially say that Obama knew all along that putting additional troops in Iraq would improve the security situation there.

That, of course, is simply not true. Instead, President Obama opposed the Surge Strategy, and even said he thought it would not only not help, but would probably make things worse:

Oh brother.

Here is audio of the Imam behind the Ground Zero Mosque – Imam Faisal Abdul Rauf – saying that he sees himself as a “bridge builder” between the United States and Al-Qaeda. He likened the struggle between the U.S. and Al-Qaeda to a quarreling married couple that needs to try and understand what has caused pain to the other side. Rauf said to be a “bridge builder,” you need to “have one foot on each side of the divide if you are going to become a bridge.”

What the good Imam does not seem to grasp is that we do not want to “understand” Al-Qaeda – we want to destroy Al-Qaeda! We don’t need a “bridge” to Al-Qaeda. We already know who they are, and there can be no compromise with pure, unadulterated evil.

Exit Question: Why would we want an Imam who has essentially admitted he has “one foot” in Al-Qaeda’s camp to have a 13-Story base of operations two blocks from Ground Zero?

Via Breitbart.tv

NBC’s Richard Engel says that if the U.S. had not invaded Iraq, “Saddam Hussein would still be in power,” but Engel said he believes Hussein would be “more moderate.”

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