USAID had a hand in Trump's impeachment?

USAID is set to shut down this Friday. Most of its employees will be put on leave as the agency gets merged into the State Department. Under President Trump's direction, Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency has uncovered a lot of corruption, waste, and fraud that's not exactly surprising but still pretty shocking. Democrats are really upset about this agency being dismantled, and there might be a reason for that. It looks like they helped fund and had a big role in the 2019 impeachment of Donald Trump.

The agency seems to have been behind the scenes of the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP), which was referenced several times by the CIA whistleblower who started the whole impeachment drama about Trump, Ukraine, and military aid. Independent journalists Michael Shellenberger and Alex Gutentag did some serious digging into this shady government network, where OCCRP's purpose wasn't typical journalism—USAID seemed to have a big say in what they did, who they hired, and what their mission was.

This story on Public really got OCCRP upset, leading them to threaten Shellenberger and his team with a lawsuit, saying the story was wrong and damaging. But they didn't provide any evidence to counter the journalists' claims.

The second part of the story goes into detail about USAID's relationship with OCCRP, with OCCRP trying to distance itself. But even USAID officials have made statements that question OCCRP’s claim of being independent, which even respected news outlets like ProPublica acknowledge. Drop Site News, run by former Intercept reporters, did a good job exposing this murky relationship, and they've also faced legal threats. Here’s what was found in the investigation:

"In the complaint, the whistleblower claimed to have heard from White House staff that Trump had, on a phone call, directed Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to work with his personal attorney, Rudy Giuliani, to investigate Joe Biden and Hunter Biden. The whistleblower who triggered the impeachment was a CIA analyst who was first brought into the White House by the Obama administration."

"Reporting by Drop Site News last year revealed that the CIA analyst relied on reporting by a supposedly independent investigative news organization called the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP), which appears to have effectively operated as an arm of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), which President Trump has just shut down. The CIA whistleblower complaint cited a long report by OCCRP four times."

In a 2024 documentary by Germany’s NDR about OCCRP’s ties to the US government, a USAID official confirmed that USAID oversees OCCRP’s "annual work plan" and approves key hires. NDR worked with several media organizations on this investigation, including Mediapart, Il Fatto Quotidiano, Reporters United, and Drop Site News.

However, according to Mediapart, NDR censored the broadcast after "US journalist Drew Sullivan, the co-founder and head of the OCCRP, placed pressure on the NDR management and made false accusations against the broadcaster’s journalists involved in the project."

On December 16, Ryan Grim from Drop Site posted a link on X to the 26-minute documentary. “NDR, Germany’s public broadcaster, is facing a censorship scandal and has defended itself by saying it never killed a news report about OCCRP and its State Department funding — b/c no report was ever produced to kill,” said Grim. “That was absurd — and dozens, maybe hundreds, of journalists knew it to be false, and now of course, someone has leaked it.”

This investigation showed that OCCRP got its initial funding from the State Department, and a USAID official noted, “Drew’s just nervous about being linked with law enforcement,” referring to Sullivan. “If people who are going to give you information think you’re just a cop, maybe it’s a problem.”

OCCRP doesn’t work like typical investigative journalists; it seems they aim to interfere in foreign politics, including elections, to change regimes. Sullivan told NDR his group had “probably been responsible for five or six countries changing over from one government to another government… and getting prime ministers indicted or thrown out.”

This means the CIA, USAID, and OCCRP were involved in Trump's impeachment in ways similar to how they operate abroad, which is illegal and possibly treasonous when done in the U.S.

We thought the Clinton Foundation was bad, but USAID makes it look like small-time players in the world of funding left-wing causes. They've also kept certain media outlets like Politico, Associated Press, The New York Times, and Reuters financially supported, which are key for pushing narratives.

Here are some more details from the Public piece about USAID and OCCRP:

OCCRP threatened Public with a lawsuit, claiming, “The premise of your article is factually false and defamatory,” wrote Miranda Patrucic, the Editor in Chief of OCCRP. “The claim by Dropsite News and partner media that USAID has control over editorial appointments has been disproven and we suggest you read our response to that.”

But there's no proof that Drop Site's allegations are wrong, and they stand by their reporting.

OCCRP says on their site that USAID's oversight is misunderstood, but there's nothing in the agreements suggesting USAID's control doesn’t affect the editorial content.

USAID official Shannon McGuire emphasized in the NDR documentary that USAID controlled OCCRP through what's called a “substantial involvement clause.”

Patrucic told Public, “I am the editor-in-chief of OCCRP and was appointed during a USAID grant, but my CV was never sent to USAID and no approval was sought or received. OCCRP is governed only by its board of directors and no one else.“

But another USAID official, Mike Henning, said to NDR filmmakers that USAID approval goes beyond just logistics or admin.

“A cooperative agreement has more strings attached,” said Henning, “than a grant… Some of the strings that are attached in a cooperative agreement are approval of key personnel, approval of an annual work plan, approval of sub grants of a certain amount above a certain amount.”

USAID would approve “the editor in chief or who’s the CEO, who’s the, you know, managing editor,” Henning added.

Meg Gaydosik from USAID admitted she helped push for funding for OCCRP and even helped rewrite their application for a major grant. She said, “It was from USAID,” about OCCRP’s initial support.

OCCRP also threatened Drop Site News with legal action. “The news outlets involved in this project, including Drop Site, have been on the unpleasant end of increasingly aggressive legal threats from Drew Sullivan, co-founder and head of OCCRP,” the authors wrote. “While we strived to be as fair as possible, and have posted most of Sullivan’s responses, what we’re not going to do, of course, is back down to threats, even ones backed with the resources of the federal government.”

In the end, we're left with the CIA whistleblower citing an OCCRP report, which is closely linked with USAID, in the impeachment of President Trump in 2019. With USAID shutting down its overseas missions this Friday, the flow of funds might stop, but what other secrets are hidden in these grants? The Department of Government Efficiency will continue to investigate.

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We're out of ammo and the world is pondering what to do as we tap dance to get more

Thanks to President and Commander in Chief, Joseph Robinette Biden, every Tom, Dick and Mohammed knows that the United States is low on ammunition. For some inexplicable reason, the potted plant POTUS had to blurt out that information on the Creative News Network, telling far-left host Fareed Zakaria this little factoid. 

“This is a war relating to munitions. And [Ukraine]… is running out of that ammunition, and we’re low on it,” Biden mumbled coherently enough for all the world to hear the obviously classified information.

Babbling Biden also claimed that the shortage was one reason behind the controversial decision to send immoral cluster munitions to Ukraine, in his clusterfrack way that he has when off teleprompter.

The U.S. is now scrambling like "River Dance" being played at 1.75 speed to increase stockpiles, if you believe John Kirby, the coordinator for strategic communication [aka ministry of propaganda] at the National Security Council.

Kirby appeared with Fox News' Shannon Bream on "Fox News Sunday" and described their River Dance:

"We’re working very closely with the defense industry to try to ramp up production, particularly for artillery shells…

"You saw that we gave some cluster munitions to Ukraine as a bridging solution here while we ramp up production. We’re having very, very strong conversations with the defense industry and we believe that we’ll be able to get there."

Cluster munitions are smaller anti-personnel bombs inside a bigger bomb that gets distributed along larger areas and are intended to kill whoever is in the area. Cluster bombs do not distinguish between soldiers, women, children or babies. They just kill folks.

Bream mentioned a think tank report that estimated it could take years to get back to where we were in terms of our munitions.

It's hard to know what or who to believe, but in any case, war sucks and people die. Why isn't it okay to not take sides on this one?

And when all is said and done, nobody is going to do anything to impeach our cognitively impaired, child-hair-sniffing criminal in office. But boy, what they are doing to Donald Trump.

It’s infuriating.

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Kathy Griffin uses vulgarity aimed at Melania Trump

When you lack the intellectual capacity to elevate your speech to the level of 'profound,' you tend to lower it to the depths of profanity.

When you're as ugly as a bag of porcine anal sphincters stuffed with rice, and the person you hate is as pretty as a cover girl model, you tend to be Kathy Griffin and the target of your profanity would be Melania Trump, the First Lady of the United States.

Griffin attacked Melania on Twitter Sunday with a vulgar assault, possibly because she is no longer relevant as a comedian and is doing all she can to stay in the spotlight.

This is a woman who posed for a photo holding the fake severed head of President Trump, for which she apologized after receiving online flak, but soon took the apology back, which is the Modus Operandi of the left.

The first lady weighed in earlier in the day and her office responded to Fox News:

"Mrs. Trump hates to see children separated from their families & hopes both sides of the aisle can finally come together to achieve successful immigration reform. She believes we need to be a country that follows all laws but also a country that governs w/heart."

To which Griffin the twit tweeted: "F**k you, Melanie. You know damn well your husband can end this immediately...you feckless complicit piece of s**t."

Griffin's misspelling of Melania's name was an allusion from a May tweet from POTUS in which he made the same error, and Griffin's use of the word 'feckless' was stolen from another leftist dolt, Samantha Bee, who called Melania a "feckless c**t."

And these are women who are alleged to be feminists . . . and allege to be funny.

Griffin received some backlash online: "Kathy Griffin is hate filled and pathetic," one tweet said, adding that she was one reason "why the left can't be taken seriously."

But let's hope Griffin, Bee and the rest of the clowns on the left keep using vulgarity to get their message across. Funny, they never said anything like this to Michelle Obama when Barack Obama did exactly the same thing, only to a lesser extent.


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Elizabeth Warren may be running for POTUS in 2020

Sen. Elizabeth Fauxcahontas Warren stated emphatically that she is not running for president in 2020. Translation: Elizabeth Warren is probably running for president in 2020. 

Warren, who lied about her Native American heritage to Harvard University where she taught. 

In 2012, The Boston Herald noted that the Harvard Crimson reported in 1998 that she was the university's only tenured minority as a "Native American." When the report came out, Warren initially claimed that she was unaware as to why she was listed as a Native American.

But soon she had to spin the story. She claimed that there was "family lore" about her alleged Native American heritage. 

One story was that her "Aunt Bea" supposedly spoke about her "pappaw's" "high cheekbones." [It's a wonder she didn't conjure up a brother named Opie.]

 The other story was that family tensions over her father's family's disapproval of her mother's part-Cherokee and Delaware blood. They had to elope and keep the secret as to mom's heritage.

But Legal Insurrection's William Jacobson explored Warren's stories and found no evidence that they were legitimate.

The Aunt Bea story was delved into by Cherokee genealogist Twila Barnes and she found that Aunt Bea's death certificate listed her as "White," not "American Indian" by Elizabeth Warren herself.

The family tensions argument was also looked into:

Warren's parents married in 1932 in a church near their home town by a respected and prominent pastor, who was not likely to marry runaways seeking to elope. In fact, the witness on the marriage certificate was a family friend of Warren's mother--not some stranger rounded up by the pastor last minute for an elopement.

The couple returned home and the marriage was announced in the local paper with extensive descriptions of the prominence of the families in the local business community.

So Elizabeth Warren has a rather poor relationship with the truth.

In an interview with MSNBC's Rachel "I-Have-Trump's-Tax-Returns" Maddow on Wednesday, the question as to whether she will run in 2020 came up. 

"If you were running for president in 2020," Maddow began, "you would not want to talk about it now, with me or anybody else, is that true?"

"That is true," Warren replied. "But let me be clear, I am not running for president in 2020," she lied.



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Mexico Pres. will not meet with POTUS

Mexico President Enrique Pena Nieto canceled his plans to meet with President Trump in the aftermath of the latter's ongoing tweets demanding Mexico pay for a border wall. However, according to Mr. Trump, who spoke Thursday in Philadelphia, his first official visit and flight on Air Force One, it was he who decided to call off the meeting.

Is that an alternate reality? 

Maybe not--Trump said in an early Thursday message that Nieto should cancel the visit to Washington if Mexico refuses to pay for the wall he has ordered to be constructed along the border and which he sees as a major campaign promise that he needs to deliver.

Nieto fired his own salvo on Twitter after Trump again called for Mexico to pay for the wall. He received a ton of calls to cancel the meeting. 

Nieto said that Mexico doesn't believe in walls and this may be due to their willingness to allow their people to illegally enter the United States. A wall will put a damper on that.

"We have informed the White House that I will not attend the working meeting planned for next Tuesday with @POTUS," Nieto tweeted. "Mexico reiterates its willingness to work with the United States to reach agreements that favor both nations."

Relations with Mexico aren't at its best right now since Trump's campaign characterized Mexican migrants as murderers and rapists (although Trump admitted that "some" are good people).

Trump already signed the executive order for construction of the wall on the same day his aides spoke with Mexico's foreign minister.

After Nieto tweeted, the Mexican peso fell another 1 percent from an already deflated value.


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Obama's wrong: the election is a reality show

Lame duck president Barack Obama told the media that Donald Trump "has a long record that needs to be examined." He then went on, "This is a really serious job. This is not entertainment. This is not a reality show. This is a contest for the presidency of the United States."

Sorry Mr. Obama, contrary to what you said, the next election is a reality show. In fact, so was yours. 

It isn't like you've taken your job so seriously that you refused to go on reality TV. You went on "Running Wild" and your wife appears on "Ellen" more than Ellen. So your opinion is only taken seriously by those who are clueless or would back you even if you killed Trump on a reality TV show.

"These rodent testicles are rather tasty"

Reality shows are staged to a large degree, just like political campaigns and the politicians who campaign will say what they must in order "not to get voted off the island." In terms of "The Apprentice," they will say what they must in order to not get fired.

Obama just couldn't sit on the sidelines once Trump became the presumptive nominee. He was asked about the GOP race during an off-the-cuff presser after speaking about the economy at Friday's White House briefing.

Our POTUS-pontiff said "[Trump] has a long record that needs to be examined," and asked "the folks to "take seriously" some of the things Trump has said in the past, unlike how the press did not take seriously some of the things Obama said, like there being 57 states, "you can keep your doctor, your health plan," etcetera.

Personally, Donald Trump wasn't my choice for the nomination. But now that he has been nominated, I feel we as Republicans, need to stand behind him or a felon will be leading us into the ground.


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The Heir to the Throne is Born

Lady Chelsea Clinton Mezvinsky, daughter-in-law of the great Ed Mezvinsky gave birth to a girl, Charlotte Clinton Mezvinsky. This gave the Queen Grandmother and King William their second heir to the throne and their first grandchild. Chelsea, of course, is first heir.

The Clinton's are ecstatic and so is some woman in a red dress who keeps lurking around Bill and Hillary's place after sunset.

Clinton spokesman, Kamyl Bazbaz (no relation to Buz B. Bazbaz of Bismark, ND) said little Charlotte was born on Friday, but the rest of the details are confidential or none of our business. The Mezvinsky's live in the Big Apple, if you really care to know.

In a tweet (the method of communication Democrats favor over face-to-face communication and as threats to terrorist organizations) Chelsea wrote: "Marc and I are full of love, awe and gratitude as we celebrate the birth of our daughter, Charlotte Clinton Mezvinsky.

Now the question remains: will Hillary still run for POTUS in 2016 or become a doting grandma? My money is on the White House, to hell with grandma crap. Hillary's come too far, pointed at too many people in the crowds of low-information women who adore her, and put up with too many "I did not have sex with that woman in the red dress" shenanigans from Bill to give up now. This is her time and she doesn't want to be "on the wrong side of history," (as if history took sides).

Killery Hillary called the idea of becoming a grandmother her "most exciting title yet," but she was as honest as her hair is blond. But becoming a grandmother is a nice bump for her in the polls because it makes her seem less than a do-nothing opportunist and more like a person from this planet.

Bill, on the other hand, sounded sincere when he said, "I just hope being a grandfather doesn't hurt my chances at impressing some of my staff, if you know what I mean."

Like her parents, Chelsea is "dead broke," only able to scratch together about $75,000 for each speech she makes on college campuses. She is so destitute that she is considering creating a website for cash and credit card donations to help by little Charlotte baby clothes and diapers. All donations will be tax deductible she said.

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Our Perfunctory POTUS

Eighty Yazidi men were slaughtered today by ISIS, but President Obama assures us that there is nothing to worry about--he has everything under control. Well, I know 80 people who no longer have anything to worry about thanks to Obama's perfunctory intervention. In addition to the murders, ISIS kidnapped the women and boys from the town.

The worst part of it all, as far as Obama is concerned, is that it interrupted his golf game.

Barack Obama has ordered "targeted airstrikes" to disturb the onslaught of the slaughterers in Iraq as they push on to slaughter non-Muslims and establish their caliphate. Obama calls these airstrikes "targeted" but what they really are is "limited." With the exception of carpet-bombing, all airstrikes are targeted.

Mr. Obama only wants limited airstrikes because he doesn't want his voting base to view him as a "hawk." Unfortunately for Obama, people are beginning to view him as a community organizer and not much else. He certainly doesn't appear to be a serious Commander in Chief.

Regarding Israel and Hamas, it appears that Obama favors the terrorists, but he perfunctorily has to say that any country being attacked with rockets has the right to defend itself. But he has also said that he would like to see Israel go back to its 1967 borders where it would be virtually impossible for them to defend themselves.

Our perfunctory POTUS has said that he will bring the nation together. "There is no red America. There is no blue America. There is the United States of America." We can see how well that's working out for us.

With the police shooting death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, MO, President Obama made the perfunctory remarks about how we need to be non-violent, etc., etc. Then he went on to practically accuse the police of murdering Brown before the facts are in and before a trial has taken place. And it's always a white on black situation in which he goes public, never a black on white or black on black. He reminds me of a certain black so-called "Reverend."

It is when the president can divide us that he stops being perfunctory and starts showing his true self. Thankfully this is his final term, but if Hillary somehow gets elected, we will have had two consecutive Alinsky leftists running the show. 


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The Middle East Reality and Obama's Disconnect

This had to hurt

Obama is back at it with Israel, telling them they should do what they can to make peace with their Palestinian neighbors, as if they wouldn't if they could. Hours before he said this, some Palestinian terrorists lobbed rockets into Israel from Gaza--how lovely. Do you think they were trying to tell our president something?

Obama makes it appear that Israel doesn't want peace while the poor Palestinians are owed some of "their" land. Before Israel became a nation back in May of 1948, there was no Palestinian state, but that fact seems to have escaped our president. 

Meanwhile, on the other side of the fence in Palestine, Obama spoke about how his daughters (he uses his family a lot when trying to make points, much like some comedians use their wife), are not unlike Palestinian kids. (To me, this was reminiscent of the Trayvon Martin ploy--except the photo of Trayvon that Obama alluded to was when he was 12, not 17 when he was all tatted up and bad-ass looking.) I would have preferred if he said how Palestinian kids are not unlike Jewish kids across the border, but I suspect that would sound something like: Palestinian kids are like those ape and pig, Jews, to the Islamic Palestinians--their religious "scriptures" describes Jews precisely that way. (See Suras 2, 5, and 7 and for more on Palestinian hatred for Jews, go here ). I believe that as long as there is even one Palestinian alive, there will be war with Israel--it's their religious duty. Why do we pretend otherwise?

They blow up so fast

If you recall, Obama told Israel that they should go back to the 1967 borders in order to appease the Palestinians. If Israel does that, there will be no Israel, to paraphrase Bibi Netanyahu regarding laying down one's arms for peace. "If Palestine laid down their arms for peace, there would be peace. If Israel laid down their arms for peace, there would be no Israel." That's the plain, simple truth.

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If You See His Lips Move, He's Lying

No other president of the United States has done more to try bringing change to the United States of America than Barack Hussein Obama. Yes, he is working tirelessly to make America the "Land of the mediocre and unspecial." Not an easy job considering what a great nation we have, and we are very lucky to live in the United States. But Obama wants "Change we can believe in," and all we have is change--loose change, and a few dollars to pay for groceries and pray we don't fall sick and need to use Obamacare.  But I want to focus on his hypocrisy today. Maybe next time I'll talk about the love affair he has with the MSM.

Back in November 2009, our brave Navy SEALs captured Ahmed Hashim Abed, a very bad man. Abed (his friends called him Asofa) was the mastermind of the killing and horrible mutilation of many Americans in Fallujah, Iraq in 2004. Rather than being seen as heroes, Rowan Scarborough from Fox News reported, these brave men faced court martials because Abed got a boo-boo on his lip, and it was bleeding when he was captured. Of course, the SEALs were demoralized over the actions against them that was being considered and there was talk amongst them that they weren't going to do any more capturing of these killers in the future. A military source who went unnamed said this court martial was Obama's idea because he was still angry over the SEALs operation involving Capt. Richard Phillips. Phillips commanded the Maersk Alabama and it was pirated by Somali Islamic pirates in April 2009. They held the Captain for 38 days and the SEALs, who had closed in on the vermin, were under Obama's rules of engagement, which was:  do nothing unless Capt. Phillips is in imminent danger. On the 38th day the SEALs site commander had his men take out the garbage, because he determined that the garbage put Phillips in imminent danger.  Barack was fuming and threw a presidential hissy fit, and being a man of his character, took it out on the SEALs who had simply done their job with Abed. Later in August of that year, Secretary of State Clinton said that she regretted the fact that the US did not accept the authority of the International Criminal Court (ICC) when it came to dealing with these poor pirates.

So now we're supposed to use the laws of the ICC rather than our own laws to determine the moral conduct of our country? I don't think so. Fareed Zakaria, Obama's consultant and CNN newsman, is keeping Obama honest, and they both think so. In fact, Zakaria recently said that he thinks the US Constitution is outdated and needs an overhaul. I say he should consider returning to his land of birth, Bombay, India, where the people are called "420's" which, according to Indian penal code, stands for robbery/fraud, and seems to suit him well.

Our Hero?

The hypocrisy of Obama is astounding. When Osama bin Laden was shot in the head, wrapped is swaddling clothes, prayed over by a holy imam and summarily dumped into the depths of the sea, only to be eaten by sharks with bad taste, Obama acted like he just took off his flak jacket after doling out some serious whoopass. The SEALs were quietly mentioned as accomplises to Obama's excellent adventure.  Moreover, Bush's methods were what got Obama the information they needed to find the Hide-and- Seek Champion of the World, but to hear Obama, you might think he figured it all out on Facebook.  I don't know about you, but as for me, I'd vote for  a recliner before I'd vote for Obama. But seriously, how can we allow our country to continue along this road to even more socialism? How can we allow him to control freedom of speech, of press, and now, the internet? 

We must vote him out in 2012

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POTUS Does the Royals

Unfinished business

For a guy hoping to be king of North America, Barack H. Obama did it up right--almost. He went to Moneygall, Ireland to visit the town where his great great great grandfather, on his communist mother's side, came from many a year ago. He went to a pub and lifted a pint of Guinness with the locals, faked a brogue reminiscent of an Irish Spring soap commercial, and did his best to score points with white folk back home. Hopefully for Obama, these white folk either have short memories or other mental health issues in order to be capable of nullifying his claims of being Christian, black, white, son of a Muslim, but grandson of a Christian whose son was the Muslim who fathered Obama. Darn, it just gets so confusing. But I'm sure the liberal press will write around the confusion and make it impossible to understand anything more than the fact that Obama is one of us, and loves us all--so we must love him. See, if we don't vote for him, then we are racists, but now I'm not even sure what race he is anymore--he may be one of us or them  .  .  .  or both.

Meanwhile, back in merry old England, Obama toasted the Queen; did an Obama-like pause, then the band played "God Save the Queen" and he rambled on during the playing, which was considered extraordinarily rude and totally impeachable--but not in America, so it didn't count. He also signed the guest book and dated it two years prior to his arrival, which knowing him, wasdone  for some covert plan he has for the future to cover his tracks with an alibi and protect himself from legal prosecution for a deed only he knows about at this time. Mark my words, you're going to want to remember this down the road and I'll say it now, "I told you so."


One can only surmise what went through the Queen's mind seeing the man who called France, not England, America's closest ally. Was she thinking, "What's wrong with England--are we chicken soup?"  I believe Elizabeth had a royal WTF moment--even greater than the one she must have had when the O-Man returned Winston Churchill's bust to England after two weeks upon arriving at the White House. We shall not discuss the DVDs he gave the royal family as a gift when DVDs don't play, in England. In retrospect, it was probably better that the DVDs didn't play there since they were probably Cop-Killing Rap Crap, which would have put Obama in a bad light.  All Anglophiles must have hoped that Barack and Michelle would be forced to scarf down a large helping of blood pudding with their stuffed Dan Quale as punishment for our rapper-loving prez.


Back in the States we can only hope Obama changes the tactics he is known for and actually goes after terrorists on American soil, rather than having them as guests at the White House or allowing them to tour FBI facilities.