Thank you President George W. Bush for rescuing Captain Richard Phillips

Internet Powerhouse Andy Martin says former President George W. Bush is the real hero of yesterday's hostage rescue. Martin says Obama's response to the Somali pirates endangers every American.

Internet Powerhouse Andy Martin: Thank you President George W. Bush for rescuing Captain Richard Phillips

ANDY MARTIN
Executive Editor
ContrarianCommentary.com

“Factually Correct, Not
Politically Correct”

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

Andy Martin thanks President George W. Bush for rescuing the U.S. ship captain held hostage by Somali pirates

Obama's "Somali" response sent a message of weakness to our enemies, says Martin

BHO's post-rescue "spin" is just typical Obama

Liberal media again distort the true significance of the rescue

(NEW YORK)(April 13, 2009) I don't often have good things to say about former President George W. Bush. But today I want to thank him for the rescue of Captain Richard Phillips, held hostage by Somali criminals and rescued by the U. S. Navy.

The captain was rescued by George W. Bush's Navy, not Barack Obama's Navy.

I have never been much of a success as a politician because I insist on telling audiences the truth, even when it goes against popular opinion. The Bush Brothers and I are not friends. And political groups don’t want informed and independent opinion; they want red meat. Life is much more complex. My ultimate loyalty is to the truth, and not to any individual or party. I am a Republican by inclination, but not a Republican "right or wrong."

That is why today I am alone in all of America's media in singing the praises of President George W. Bush. He rescued Captain Phillips.

The "Navy" that was able to respond in the Indian Ocean was a navy created by the Bush administration. While Bush may not have maintained as large a navy as I would prefer, he kept our seafaring capabilities at a high level.

Barack Obama wants to devastate the navy, and reduce our fleet to a handful of tugboats and dinghies.

The "navy" that Barack Obama is trying to create with his proposed defense programs would not have been able to rescue Captain Phillips. Think about that for a minute. If Obama had been in office long enough to succeed with his plans for the navy, there would not have been a successful rescue of our hostage captain.

The liberal media, of course, are desperately trying to "spin" the captain's rescue as a "victory" for the "young commander in chief who had yet to prove himself to his generals or his public."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/04/12/AR2009041203002.html?hpid=topnews

Praise is pouring in for "Commander" Obama:
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/thefix/cheat-sheet/white-house-cheat-sheet-14.html?hpid=topnews

Well, Obama "proved" himself all right. He proved he is an uncertain and unsteady hand on the tiller. Obama wants to gut our defense capability so he can "invest" in welfare checks for illegal immigrants. The navy that he wants to create would lack a global reaction capability.

Obama has said nothing about cleaning out the land-based Somali pirate nests, and he won't. They are Muslims. He will not become the scourge of the Somali terrorists. Under an "Obamas Navy," Captain Phillips would have been sitting in captivity for months.

Barack Obama proved he is the new Jimmy Carter.

Obama sent a strong message to both our friends and enemies: when there is a crisis or conflict, he will hide in the White House basement until it is safe to emerge and claim victory. His feckless behavior did not deter future attacks on Americans. He has encouraged them. With each passing day that Obama is in the White House our worldwide military capability is being degraded and decreased.

Congress, are you listening?

And so, today I praise the real hero of yesterday's victory: President George W. Bush, who kept America militarily strong and left behind a Navy with the capability to rescue Captain Phillips.

Thank you President Bush. Thanks George. During your term in office you took credit for a lot of things that you did not deserve credit for. But today, quietly, you can take credit for leaving behind a U. S. Navy that can respond around the world.

I salute you. And every man and woman in uniform should salute you.

Thank you President Bush for rescuing Captain Richard Phillips.

This is really your day, not Barack Obama's.

[And now you know what this column is called "Contrarian Commentary."]

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Andy Martin is a legendary Chicago muckraker, author, Internet columnist, radio talk show host, broadcaster and media critic. He has over forty years of broadcasting background in radio and television and is the dean of Illinois media and communications. He is currently promoting his best-selling book, Obama: The Man Behind The Mask. Andy is the Executive Editor and publisher of www.ContrarianCommentary.com.

Martin comments on regional, national and world events with more than four decades of experience. He is regarded overseas as America’s most respected independent foreign policy, military and intelligence analyst on Asia and the Middle East. He holds a Juris Doctor degree from the University of Illinois College of Law and is a former adjunct professor of law at the City University of New York. He is an announced candidate for Barack Obama’s former U. S. Senate seat.

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Somali pirates may sink the good ship Obama

It's time to send in the U.S. Marines, says Andy Martin. "If Obama's pirate sitcom ends badly, or in a 'whimper,' Barack Obama will be publicly castrated," says Andy Martin. "His administration will be emasculated. He will have accomplished in less than three months what it took three years for Jimmy Carter to achieve: humiliation of the American people. If BHO bungles this one, he will be a candidate not for reelection but rather to play 'Barney' on public television."

Internet Powerhouse Andy Martin says the Somali confrontation is turning into Barack Obama's worst nightmare

If the Somali pirates get away with taking on the USA, Obama's through, says Martin

ANDY MARTIN
Executive Editor
ContrarianCommentary.com

“Factually Correct, Not
Politically Correct”

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

Andy Martin says it is time for Obama to stop dithering and come clean with the American people: is he going to take on the pirates, or surrender?

Is Obama becoming a real life version of public television's "Barney?"

If the pirates win, what gangster or dictator will be next to take on Uncle Sam?

(NEW YORK)(April 10, 2009) Although the United States has drones over the pirate hostage lifeboat, no one seems to have live video of what is happening. Is Obama covering his tracks to cover up a capitulation to the pirates? Could be.

The pirate hostage crisis is turning into Barack Obama's worst nightmare, a miniature version of the takeover of the United States Embassy in Tehran in 1979.

Coming in the wake of Obama's bowing down to the King of Saudi Arabia, an ongoing hostage imbroglio would confirm that Obama has suffered his worst week, the first of many bad weeks to come. As long as an American seaman remains a hostage, media attention will be focused on his plight.

If the Somalis are actually allowed to escape, after being surrounded by a U. S. Navy ship, or if other pirate vessels are allowed to approach with a pirate flotilla, Barack Obama's presidency is dead. He will have lost all credibility with the rest of the world.

Its time to take on the pirate strongholds "in the air, on land and sea", and tell the pirates what we told the thugs a hundred years ago: "Pericardis alive or Raisuli dead."

If reports in the Washington Post are pointing in the right direction, Obama is stepping back to allow the shipping line to pay ransom as a "cost of business." That would have a disastrous impact on American prestige, and set off a worldwide piracy epidemic.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/
article/2009/04/10/
AR2009041000881.html?hpid=topnews

The Navy would be humiliated. General Petraeus would be embarrassed. Loyal Americans would be outraged.

It is time for Barry O to face the inevitable: he is going to have to attack and take out the pirate strongholds, all of them, "…on land, and sea."

Bleeding heart Democrats are already crying that the pirates are just misunderstood fisherman (see comments at: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/community/groups/index.html?
plckForumPage=ForumDiscussion&plck
DiscussionId=Cat%3aa70e3396-6663-4a8d-ba19-e44939d3c44fForum%3aa725552c-bd4a-4a5f-a5b9-a0c96cfae382Discussion%3a82c0e716-1d88-4697-a34d-3ddff053f9b0?hpid=talkbox1)

Disgraceful. Piracy is not a sea borne version of "West Side Story," with misunderstood punks seizing hostages out of ennui and with Obama as a later-day Officer Krupke.

It took Jimmy Carter three years to reach worldwide humiliation in Tehran; Obama has managed the trick in less than three months. Obama cannot allow himself to be castrated as a leader.

Obama started as "Sweet Barry," the "anti-Bush." In just a few hours or days, if the pirate circus drags on and if Obama continues to defer to a woman as the leader of his response to piracy--Hillary Clinton as the only man in his administration—Obama's world standing and prestige will be DOA. RIP Barry O.

If Barack Obama continues to act as a "girly man" and hide in the White House, he will sink the U. S. Navy, humiliate the American people ands trigger endless confrontations during the remaining three years of his mortally wounded presidency.

He will have to go back to Chicago and sulk in his Rezko-financed manse.

We have gone from an incompetent administration run by Dick Cheney's malignant "adults," to Barack Obama's version of "Barney & Friends." http://www.iptv.org/series.cfm/547/barney_friends

Come to think of it, Barney might do a better job than Barry.

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Book orders: Amazon.com or http://OrangeStatePress.com. Immediate shipment from Amazon.com or signed copies (delayed for signing) from the publisher are available.
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Please give generously. Our ability to fight and defeat Barack Obama's political agenda is directly dependent on the generosity of every American.
“The Committee of One Million to Defeat Barack Obama has no bundlers, no fat cats and no illegal contributions. Obama is opposed to everything America stands for," says Executive Director Andy Martin. "But while Obama has raised an almost billion dollar slush fund, his opponents lack sufficient resources. Americans can either contribute now, or pay later. If we do not succeed, Obama will."
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Andy Martin is a legendary Chicago muckraker, author, Internet columnist, radio talk show host, broadcaster and media critic. He has over forty years of broadcasting background in radio and television and is the dean of Illinois media and communications. He is currently promoting his best-selling book, Obama: The Man Behind The Mask. Andy is the Executive Editor and publisher of www.ContrarianCommentary.com.

Martin comments on regional, national and world events with more than four decades of experience. He is regarded overseas as America’s most respected independent foreign policy, military and intelligence analyst on Asia and the Middle East. He holds a Juris Doctor degree from the University of Illinois College of Law and is a former adjunct professor of law at the City University of New York. He is an announced candidate for Barack Obama’s former U. S. Senate seat.

UPDATES: www.twitter.com/AndyMartinUSA

His columns are also posted at ContrarianCommentary.blogspot.com; contrariancommentary.wordpress.com.
[NOTE: We frequently correct typographical errors and additions/subtractions on our blogs, where you can find the latest edition of this release.]

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Somali pirates send Barack Obama a wake-up call, and a challenge

Internet Powerhouse Andy Martin connects the Somali pirates to Barack Obama's defense budget.

"Obama's in the fight of his life," says Martin. "I just not sure with whom. The American people or our enemies"

ANDY MARTIN
Executive Editor
ContrarianCommentary.com

“Factually Correct, Not
Politically Correct”

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

Internet Powerhouse Andy Martin says Somali pirates may have rendered Obama's defense budget DOA

Will Obama become the "accidental warrior." A reluctant one?

For the first time in his life, events control Obama says Martin

For it's Tommy this, an' Tommy that, an' "Chuck him out, the brute!"But it's "Savior of 'is country" when the guns begin to shoot;
Rudyard Kipling

(NEW YORK)(April 9, 2009) Rudyard Kipling, the 19th Century chronicler of the British Empire understood. When times are good, no one wants to honor our men and women in uniform. We strip them of their weapons and ignore their needs. When times are bad, we suddenly rediscover our military services. At least that's the way it was in Kipling's time.

America has been an unusual nation for a special reason: we honor our military personnel all the time. Not just when we need them. America is not a martial nation. But we are a grateful one, to the men and women who have kept us safe, and keep us safe every day.

New Year's eve Barack Obama must have thought the world was at his feet. He had managed to convince the American people he should sit in the White House. He had managed to franchise foreign policy to the Clinton organization. And he could look forward to "using the financial crisis" to morph the United States of America into the United Socialist States of America. It all must have looked so easy.

In three months, his world has been turned upside down.

Obama may yet become the accidental warrior.

Earlier this week, Obama proposed a budget that would shrink the military. Yes, the new budget would provide more money for small-scale warfare. But the United States is a global power, not a small-scale one.

Obama's scheme has been undone by a handful of Somali pirates, one of whom might even be missing from a Minneapolis suburb where several Islamic teenagers recently disappeared. Could fate be so brutal?

Obama assembled one of the least bellicose cabinets in history. Other than retired Marine General James Jones, whose role takes on new prominence and significance with each passing day, Obama's cabinet lacks noticeable military expertise.

Obama himself is no warrior. And maybe that's a good thing. The so-called "adult" warriors of the Bush administration created chaos in the Middle East with misguided polices, invaded Iraq and caused more confusion, and left behind a festering conflict in Afghanistan and Pakistan. It looks as though Dick Cheney's "adults" were actually the ones in need of "adult supervision."

So while I have never been a supporter or admirer of Obama, I understand why the American people in frustration and exasperation turned to the mild-mannered Barry Obama to save them from the false and incompetent bravado of George W. Bush and his Republican "rough riders."

And then a U.S. ship was boarded by pirates. For the first time in two centuries. A handful of thieves may have unexpectedly upended Obama's lifetime of planning for his conquest of the American government.

Conservatives were already yapping (and properly so) about Obama's misguided claim that America is "just another nation." For better or for worse, we are not.

Our Constitution and our solid institutions give us stability no other nation can match. Yes, voters make mistakes, sometimes egregious ones. But they have the power to correct them (as they will no doubt correct their error in anointing Obama).

Our freedom has produced wealth beyond the wildest dreams. Obama tells us we are in the "worse crisis since the depression" and yet restaurants are crowded and theaters are packed. As one country and western singer on Fox's "Hannity" recently said, "there are even waiting lines for Red Lobster." The economy has declined, but only from an unimaginably lofty plateau.

The Depression-era comic Will Rodgers once said that America was the only nation that drove to the poor house in a Cadillac. In our current crisis we may be driving to the poorhouse, but we are going with a car full of TV's, GPS's, computers and i-Phones, with regular stops at roadside restaurants. No, we are not poor, and we are not beaten and we are not through, not by a long shot.

But with wealth comes responsibility (as well as the inevitable envy). And with responsibility comes the need to act, and lead.

This week the Somali pirates called Obama's bluff. As long as the ships of foreign nations were being boarded and held for ransom, the pirate crisis was a back story. Once a U. S. crew and flagged vessel were seized, Obama could no longer hide.

Earlier this week, Obama made a campaign stop in Baghdad. Barely a hundred hours later, the significance and necessity of our military was staring down Obama in the Indian Ocean.

As our Campaigner-In-Chief it was proper for him to visit Iraq. I hope he was infected with the boisterousness and loyalty and love of country and Constitution that most people in the military exhibit.

And then the pirates struck.

Could Obama become an accidental warrior? A reluctant one?

History teaches that we do not command events. Events command us. All of his life, Obama has been commanding his destiny, scheming, plotting, planning, manipulating and so forth. But now that he is in the Bully Pulpit, events command him. Can he in turn command? I don't know.

"Barry O" thought he could let Hillary handle the rest of the world while he imposed his socialist dogma on the American people. It looks as though his game plan has been thrown out of
whack.

Earlier today I wrote how a Moldovan gangster, Israeli Avigdor Lieberman, had thrown down the Israeli-Palestinian gauntlet to Obama. Today it was the Somali pirates who have thrown Obama's cut-the-Navy-budget into reverse. Last week it was the North Koreans. Obama just doesn't have much time to focus on creating his domestic regime.

Not many of us spend time in harbors. But, unseen, the maritime industry keeps the continents connected, and the U.S. Navy keeps the seas free and open to all.

The men and women of our Navy serve a global purpose. I do not support cutting either the number of aircraft carriers or the fleets that they lead. No, I don't like seeing tax dollars spent maintaining global peace. But there is no reasonable alternative. Every American benefits from global trade and the free movement of goods and services around the world.

We need more ships, not fewer. We need a few more men and women willing to serve in the Navy. Each of them is an honored participant in the ongoing history of American exceptionalism. We don’t see them; we don't hear them. We don't know many or any of them by name. But our kids and their officers keep the seas safe and secure for every American. Thank you.

This week, Somali pirates interrupted over 200 years of American freedom of the seas. The U.S. Marines, of course, were and continue to be a maritime fighting force. In due course they will deal with and subdue the pirates. But in the meantime this gang of small bore Somali burglars sent the United States of America a strong wake-up call.

If Barack Obama thinks he can simply surrender the seas to piracy and criminality, there are close to 300 million Americans who are going to stand up and fight him.

Barack Obama: the accidental warrior. Maybe.

Obama can fight our enemies, or he can fight the American people. Either way, for the first time in his life he's in the fight of his life.

And, oh, Mr. President. God Bless the USA. Really.

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Readers of Obama: The Man Behind The Mask, say the book is still the only gold standard and practical handbook on Barack Obama's unfitness for the presidency. Buy it.
Book orders: Amazon.com or http://OrangeStatePress.com. Immediate shipment from Amazon.com or signed copies (delayed for signing) from the publisher are available.
----------------------------------------
URGENT APPEAL: The Committee of One Million to Defeat Barack Obama raises money to oppose President Barack Obama's radical agenda and also to support www.BoycottHawaii.com.
www.CommitteeofOneMilliontoDefeatBarackObama.com
Please give generously. Our ability to fight and defeat Barack Obama's political agenda is directly dependent on the generosity of every American.
“The Committee of One Million to Defeat Barack Obama has no bundlers, no fat cats and no illegal contributions. Obama is opposed to everything America stands for," says Executive Director Andy Martin. "But while Obama has raised an almost billion dollar slush fund, his opponents lack sufficient resources. Americans can either contribute now, or pay later. If we do not succeed, Obama will."
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Andy Martin is a legendary Chicago muckraker, author, Internet columnist, radio talk show host, broadcaster and media critic. He has over forty years of broadcasting background in radio and television and is the dean of Illinois media and communications. He is currently promoting his best-selling book, Obama: The Man Behind The Mask. Andy is the Executive Editor and publisher of www.ContrarianCommentary.com.

Martin comments on regional, national and world events with more than four decades of experience. He is regarded overseas as America’s most respected independent foreign policy, military and intelligence analyst on Asia and the Middle East. He holds a Juris Doctor degree from the University of Illinois College of Law and is a former adjunct professor of law at the City University of New York. He is an announced candidate for Barack Obama’s former U. S. Senate seat.

UPDATES: www.twitter.com/AndyMartinUSA

His columns are also posted at ContrarianCommentary.blogspot.com; contrariancommentary.wordpress.com.
[NOTE: We frequently correct typographical errors and additions/subtractions on our blogs, where you can find the latest edition of this release.]

MEDIA CONTACT: (866) 706-2639 or CELL (917) 664-9329 (not always on)
E-MAIL: AndyMart20@aol.com © Copyright by Andy Martin 2009.