President Obama: Al Qaeda Is Seeking a Nuke — and They Will Use It

Due to the quantity of nuclear weapons throughout the civilized world, the greater threat against the United States is the possibility of a rogue terrorist group obtaining one of these weapons and using it against the U.S. This threat is much greater than the possibility of a government/nation attacking the U.S. with one of these weapons. Thus, the President’s recent treaty with the Soviet Union to reduce the mumbers of nuclear weapons (PERIOD!)…. i.e., less weapons available, lessons the chances of a rogue terrorist group getting hold of one.
Of course, if you try to explain this to Sarah Palin and her followers… they “can’t” understand such a threat (i.e., “rogue terrorist). They still think that the wars we’re fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan are against “Muslims” as a whole or that we’re fighting on “fronts” like we did in World War I and World War II. They don’t understand that the Global War on Terror is just that… “Global”.

Wow,
So what will Obama do, wait until they hit us? But that would be premptive. The loony left wouldn’t want that. They want to protect those terrorist. And by the way, GWB would be proven right.

No sweat – since we are rapidly approaching par with western Europe, they will help defend us, no?

It seems You chickens are worried the sky is falling? An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. But chicken little’s need not apply.
Wake up. Wise men do not gather just for a party in these times. Wake up. Or are you all just COLOR blind…

Obama wouldn’t retaliate if Al Qaeda did nuke us. Who would he take out? Al Qaeda is a group not sponsored by any state. Obama would instead apologize and surrender.

Obama will make sure another piece of paper is signed and then declare that he was successful in securing all nuclear matter all over the world — all the guy does is talk and sign papers — oh yea, and spend lots and lots of taxpayers’ dollars.

Posted by: eatb | Apr 11, 2010 10:11:28 PM
Apparently nothing the President does will be good enough for you.
Gathering close to 50 heads of state together to focus attention on taking action to deter terrorists from access to or use of nuclear weapons is not worthy enough for you?
Foolishness rushes out of the mouths of fools.

all the guy does is talk and sign papers — oh yea, and spend lots and lots of taxpayers’ dollars.——AND takes 600,000 layoffs PER MONTH and turned that into 120,000+ JOB GROWTH AND takes a GDP shrinking quarter after quarter and gets 5.7% GROWTH in GDP, the biggest growth in 6 years ,and oh by the way, if you’re concerned about debt, what increasing the GDP does, is effectively, reduce the debt! The debt is a function of GDP, do you understand that? The debt you care about is the debt-to-GDP ratio, so if you GROW your GDP, you have less debt to pay back. So if you’re all worried about spending, why no congrats to Obama for growing the GDP?????? oh, yeah, you’re a republican, you wanted the country to fail. ahhh ,yes, party first, country last. We got your ticket. Dont be surprised if this election you think will get all those republicans in just doens’t work out as you planned. Most of us LIKE the economy turning around. MOST of us. Republicans I know, HATE IT and would do sabotage it the first chance they’d get.

Where do you see 120,000 plus job growth? Last I checked the 9.7 unemployment report for this month was off by 18,000 jobs lost (big surprise). In the week ending April 3, the advance figure for seasonally adjusted initial claims was 460,000, an increase of 18,000 from the previous week’s revised figure of 442,000. The 4-week moving average was 450,250, an increase of 2,250 from the previous week’s revised average of 448,000. Whats really upsetting is that when Obama and congress were called upon to work over Easter recess (and the Republicans complained about where the money to extend unemployment was coming from) Obama simply allowed congress to recess, take its vacation, rather than work over the weekend and vote to extend unemployment. Even though millions of people will see their unemployment benefits run out in April. Even if congress now passes a bill to extend the deadline for filing – tens of millions of people unemployed for more than 99 weeks (thats 2 years) will not be getting an unemployment check no matter what happens.

Obama worries about nukes and insurance – while America worries about jobs and how its going to pay its bills. Say no to the Obama administration in November 2012 and subsequent Novembers. Thanks.
Posted by: superminority | Apr 11, 2010 10:35:42 PM
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Hey, we’ve already seen the ‘great’ concern of the Republicans. A doubled national debt, a collapsed economy losing over 700,000 jobs a month, the collapse of major banks and financial institutions, the collapse of major american automotive companies, foreclosures and bankruptcies, etc. etc. etc.
You seem to think it’s Obama’s fault these things happened – it is not. Slowly this administration is turning around a near-depression disaster.

Posted by: we got your number | Apr 11, 2010 10:41:28 PM
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while America worries about jobs—LOL!! uh huh. And who left us with 600,000 layoffs PER MONTH and an unemployment rising a percent PER MONTH???? EXPONENTIAL unemployment when he left office??? Republicans! You have a guy in office now who took exponential unemployment numbers and not only leveled it off in a year, but now has JOB GROWTH, even MORE job growth than the last 3 years, even before the crash happened! Oh yes, by all means, do vote for where the jobs are, for who can bring back the jobs, and clearly, that is not hte party of over 600,000 layoffs per months! LOL!

with Obama’s fiasco!!!—OBAMA’s????? Obama’s debt?????? oh I think not!!! WHAT was the debt FOR??????? FIXING THE DISASTER that ws republican rule!!!! Republicans ran this country into the GROUND!!! The country’s six largest banks in the toilet, one of hte country’s largest employers, the automakes, in the toilet, wallstreet running unfettered! THAT is what cost the debt, you moron! FIXING WHAT BUSH DID! What you elected him to do!!! You got a problem with the price tag of throwing a lasoo around the country and dragging it back from a potential bee-line toward catastrophy that would have put us back into the middle ages, then LOOK IN THE MIRROR!!!!! YOUR POLICIES caused the problems that caused the VERY HIGH PRICE To FIX!!!!! I blame this debt on YOU and all ofyou brainless morons who voted for Bush!!!! WHAT did Bush say when democrats in congress called hearings on PREDATORIAL LENDING PRATICES???? HE SAID “LET THE BAD BANKS FAIL! LET THE MARKETS SELF CORRECT!!”" That was his quote!!!! Well the crash LED to the 600,000 layoffs per month, per his DESIRE!!!!!!! Do NOT blame the debt on Obama! You dont blame the doctor for the amount of stitches it takes to close the self inflicted wound!

And by the way brainless, when hte GDP GROWS that means proportionate to what you make you are paying back less!!! So the way to payoff the debt is either to make the same amoutn and pay it all back, or to make more and pay back less. The Number that is of concern is the GDP-TO-DEBT RATIO!!The RATIO of GDP to debt!!!!! So when hte GDP grows by 5.7%, that means the debt essentially, as a function of GDP, goes down by 5.7%. So long as the GDP keeps growing our ability to pay it back gets easier. Hence, you GROW THe GDP FIRST, then you pay down the debt once hte private sector kicks after they get over their skittishness to invest after you jump start GDP growth. That’s the theory, and dont look now, but I think it’s working.

while America worries about jobs—LOL!! uh huh. And who left us with 600,000 layoffs PER MONTH and an unemployment rising a percent PER MONTH????
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Quiet down now – the Republicans don’t like to remember Obama wasn’t president when the economy went into almost complete free-fall, major banks and financial institutions failed, over 700,000 people losing their jobs every month, major automotive companies in collapse, foreclosures, bankruptcies – they don’t want to remember that was under Bush – and after 6 years of Republican policies to ‘make the economy strong’.
‘Strong’ – sure thing. It collapsed like a house of cards.

Obama scared al the small businessmen from hiring anyone until the healthcare debacle was set… —–small businesses are getting a TAX CREDIT for providing heatlhcare and all the small business owners I know already provide some typeof plan, always have, so thye are getting a tax credit NOW that thye didn’t have last year. Where DO You get your ideas from??? LOL! Uh, no, the GDP is growing, jobs are coming back, we already see the numbers, which means folks will start buying things they need, things they put off buying, more customers means more inventory needed, means more sales, means more customers means more folks needed to keep the business going. Sorry, i know good financial news, coming out of this recession so darn fast is just horrible for your party-first-country-last republicans, but it’s soooooo true. Democrats understand the economy better. Want some links to some research that proves that, too?

—–small businesses are getting a TAX CREDIT for providing heatlhcare and all the small business owners I know already provide some typeof plan, always have, so thye are getting a tax credit NOW that thye didn’t have last year.
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Yes, and small business got additional tax credits in the recent Jobs Bill.

— the Dems have already EXCEEDED the Bush deficit in 3 years— LOL!!! THE deficit was needed for ONE PURPOSE to FIX THE MESS BUSH CAUSED!!! The Deficit IS BUSH’S FAULT! It is the fault of republican rule! IT is Bush’s fault because dems in congress tried to do something about hte mortage failure rate and bush said “LET THE BAD BANKS FAIL!” “LET THE MARKETS SELF CORRECT”!!!!! it was a wonderful Herbert Hoover impression. I DO NOT blame the debt on the democrats!!!! How hysterical! That’s like blaming the doctor for hte pain of the six hundreds stitches he put in to stop the fatal bleeding of the self inflicted would you got when you stabbed yourself in the stomach. Oh yes, you saved my life, but gee ,doctor, I’m so mad at you for having to put all these stiches in me!!! couldn’t you have saved mewithout stitching me up????? CHILDREN you cons are!!! who do you think you’re fooling?

Again, GOP congress = $470 Billion per year; Dem congress = $1.3Trillion per year!!
TheLoyalOpposition | Apr 11, 2010 11:03:37 PM
Cute how you ignore the complete economic crash wrought by ‘trickle down, no regulation’ Republican principles dramatically cut tax receipts at the exact same time all the entitlement spending expanded by those Republican Congresses exploded…

Let us not forget that OUR NATION is the ONLY nation to have used a nuclear warhead against another city of civilians… not once, but TWICE! Secondly, if our prime purpose is to avoid ever having a major city of ours attacked again, perhaps we could start by NOT OCCUPYING OTHER NATIONS and executing military strikes against them. WAKE UP FOLKS, we would feel the same way!

wegotyour —- so the Dems were forced to fix Bush’s deficit of $2.84T by creating an additional deficit amount of $3.9T!!!! —- SOOOO funny…. If the “stimulus” money was so important to “save” the world, why are the Dems waiting until closer to the next election to spend 65% of it????

you said “when hte GDP grows by 5.7%, that means the debt essentially, as a function of GDP, goes down by 5.7%” —you know what, this is why it helps to have an education. Did you take economics in college? Do you remember the GDP TO DEBT RATIO????? Look it up. THAT Is the number you want to be concerned with. You cannot compare debt to a time when bread cost 5 cents. The number that everyone in the know looks at to access how heavy our debt burden, is the GDP TO DEBT RATIO. The word “ratio” means one number divided by the other, right einstien??? So if the GDP grows by 5.7% then the debt BURDEN IS reduced by 5.7%. IF you dont understand this, then cry uncle, becuase you dont understand how your microwave works doesn’t mean it won’t, it meas this is not your forte and there are plenty of folks who understand it just fine. Those people, thank goodness, ARE in charge NOW. Honestly, it’s very very possible you dont support Obama because you DO NOT UNDERSTAND how the economy works yourself, my dear.

jhw539 – Much of our current economic problems were caused by variable rate mortgages instituted by Jimmy Carter as a way to get low income people into a home of their own. I believe President Carter’s intentions were honorable but the VRM allowed people to get into a home they simply couldn’t afford. There is no free lunch and sooner or later you have to pay the bill. We’re paying it now.
Notice that many of Obama’s programs won’t start until after he leaves office? Wonder why?

jhw – it makes plenty sense. Ford is a for profit organization, competing in an industry. The government collects money and re-distributes it as a function of what the legislative branch says. Does that help ya to understand?

Much of our current economic problems were caused by variable rate mortgages instituted by Jimmy Carter —OMG keep your day job!!! LOL!!!! NO! Variable rate mortages are NOT the cause of the collapse!! LOL!!!! Never heard of derivatives? SHort selling? Default stock swaps? Mortage backed securities. What caused the fall was betting derivates on mortaged backed securities that were made on junk mortages made by private mortage corporations that (1) had no regluations on making mortages (2) were not required to hold any of hte mortages they made, another regulation that was strippedby republicans (3) rating agencies that were paid by the mortage companies they were hired from to ‘rate’ the security so the mortage company could sell it on the secondary market for a nice profit. The REASON we had the fall can be summed up in one sentence “LACK OF REGULATORY OVERSIGHT OF THE PRIVATE FINANCIAL SECTOR” …and do notice I said “PRIVATE” financial sector, because unkonwn to cons, Fannie and Freddie did NOT make those junk loans. THEY BOUGHT THEM in the form of mortage backed securities with AAA ratings, so who knew they were junk???? The PRIVATE mortage companies who made them and the PRIVATE ratings agencies who rated them. Again, you MUST admit you DO NOT KNOW HOW THE ECONOMY WORKS!!! WHY Do you imagine you know who is better for your economy when you do NOT Understand how it works. YOu dont. It’s obvious. Is your ego so huge you cant admit it?

wegotyour —- You said “So if the GDP grows by 5.7% then the debt BURDEN IS reduced by 5.7%.” —– You can talk all you want about a higher GDP “paying back the debt” in economic terms… but the following is still true….1) A raging GNP will still not “payback” one penny of the debt, it might make it “cheaper” in dollars…but will not PAY IT!! — 2) when all the dollars that have been printed by the Obama Administration to increase the money supply takes their effect… the INFLATION we will see will make the increase in GNP a mute point!!

———— After the Dems took control of congress the deficit increasd to $12.4T.—and you are including hte first TARP, you do realize this, right? TARP is the COST of trying to fix the economy, although Bush’s TARP was a dismal failure for hte SAME REASONS as why te collapse happened in the first place. With Bush’s 2 Trillion TARP he did not give ONE regulation, one requirement on what happened to the 2Trillion so it was pi$$ed into the wind. Gone without doing a single thing. It took Obama’s TARP, with him going INTO the banks and giving them health tests and fessing up about hteir books ,combing their books, did things finally turn around. Again, who do you think you’re fooling??? blaming Bush’s TARP on democrats??? LOL!

Jimmy Carter, APR’s Wrong!
Historical Fact:1982 congress passed the Alternative Mortgage Transactions Parity Act AMTPA which allowed non’federally chartered housing creditors to write adjustable-rate mortgages. Regan and the Republican controlled congress and Senate Pushed for it and got it.
Look it up. Stop spreading your Republican lies and miss information.

wegotyour —- You said “Never heard of derivatives? SHort selling? Default stock swaps? Mortage backed securities.” —— Yes, that was part of the problem…. but then why was Greenspan just saying two days ago that a lot of the problem was “selling homes to ppeople who couldn’t afford them’??? — Huh??? — he is out of the picture now, no reason to tell lies!!!!

hw539 – Much of our current economic problems were caused by variable rate mortgages instituted by Jimmy Carter as a way to get low income people into a home of their own.
oonogil | Apr 11, 2010 11:16:29 PM
Seriously? ‘But Carter’ is your line now?

instead of continuing the current retirement Rx plan that went with their pension.—-they got reimbursed! THEY GOT REIMBURSED AND they got to take a tax credit. NOT ANYMORE. It was a loophole. Back with the prescription drug law was passed this loophole was left behind. Just sloppy work.

the INFLATION we will see ———wrong tree to bark up. Inflation will actually make the debt cheaper to pay back as well. The debt burden is lowered when the value of the dollar goes down. Back when the Chinese bought a bond, a $1 was worth 1 yen, for exampel. when $1 is worth 1/2 yen, it’s like paying off half your debt. Now our goods are half as cheap, we will export more, china gets back money that is worth half of what they paid for it. WE make out in the debt burden when/if inflation hits. And you’re jumping the gun quite a bit, inflation hits when demand exceeds supply. WE’re just trying to get folks to start spending right now. So you’ve got the recession not only over, but on the other side into inflation????? HOld your horses, sally, let the GDP rise enough to take us out of recession, THEN start to pay down the debt and if inflation kicks in a little ,ya know ,that’s not a bad thing, it means our debt burden goes down. the debt, the dollar to pay back, stay the same, and if hte dollar is worth less ,if we make more, then it’s easier to pay back. It is a lower total of what we bring in. For example, if ou make 100K a year it’s alot easier to pay off that 30K loan than when you made 50K. get it?

wegotyour — You keep calling it “Bush’s TARP” — which is so funny —- he was on the way out as POTUS…. told the Dems (who had won the WH and both houses of Congress) that he didn’t want to leave them with this crisis and would sign what they passed — the MAJORITY Dem congress passed the bill and, yes, Bush signed it —– but really “wegotyour”, WHO spends money in DC, the POTUS, or the Congress???? –HUH??????

“selling homes to ppeople who couldn’t afford them’??? — Huh??? — he is out of the picture now, no reason to tell lies!!!!———Listne CAREFULLY to what he said. The problem was selling homes to people who could not afford them, yes, who did that? The PRIVATE SECTOR> notice he said “FANNIE AND FREDDIE BOUGHT THEM” (the loans). no, he’s wrong. They didn’t by the loans, they bought the derivates which were BETS on the loans. THere was an analysis that looked at what if ONLY the loans went bad. would we have seen the crashes we did? The banks devalued. and the answer is no. THere were not THAT many bad loans made to be bought by those banks, AIG, FAnnie and Freddie along with state governments and foreign governemtns. These derivates were actually an attempt to create new financial “products” to sell since there weren’t that many actual loans to sell. Greenspan is right to a single degree. Not the whole degree, but he is exactly right that people BUYING the loans was the problem, sort of, because they were buying BETS , dervitives, on the loans and hte REAL problem was that the loans were rated AAA when they were actually worthless. how was any bank, or Fannie or anyone, to know they were junk when the ratings said they were so solid??? who would have guessed mortage companies and ratings agencies would behave so immorally. it was NOT illegal, as there were no regulations against flagrant lying, but I suppose folks never imagined such immoral irresponsible behavior. now we know. As if 1929 didn’t already tell us.

INFLATION is one of the latest fear-words which right-wingers throw around to induce images of people going shopping with wheelbarrow loads of money. True or false: inflation is a slow mover?

So they dumped off the risk from the variable rate loans by repackaging them as other financial products and selling them.

wegotyour —– Quick question….. with all you’ve said… you imply Bush screwed up everything and Obama had to “save” everything —- but answer one question… If Obama had to spend ALL THAT MONEY to “save” us… why DIDN’T HE SPEND 65% OF THE TARP MONEY??? —- It’s still waitong to be handed out to Dem favorites just before the November elections!!!! —- -HUH??

So they dumped off the risk from the variable rate loans by repackaging them as other financial products and selling them.
—–there is nothing wrong with variable rate loans when you are giving them to people who have good credit and are young and usually, have job and hence income growth, in their future. Most folks make more money as they get older. Not all variable loans went bad, not by a long shot. again, I know folks like to stay within the realm they understand, but do trust me on this, Fannie and Freddie made variable rate loans and their loans they made, did not go bad. read the business week article I gave you. NONE of their loans were part of this scheme.IT was the no income verification, no money up front, it was BAD LOANS to folks who didn’t have a job, didn’t have an education or a skill, had no means to make money, folks who thought they’d never need to pay the loan back, just live in the house for three months, default during that time, tehn just before they come to take hte house, sell it, with realestate always going up, make a profit. Who gave such loans? The private unregulated sector. That problem was NOT variable loans, it was BAD LOANS. PLENTY of folks have always had variable loans and been just fine. YOU can lock in a variable rate to a fixed rate at any time ,and most folks do right before the rates go up. Variable rate just gives you time to make more money, or if you think interest rates are going down, you have a house you wnat to buy NOW because it’s a good price, you get a variable rate loan, until you see rates hit what you think is hte bottom ,then you refinance at a better fixed rate than you could have gotton had you first gotton your loan as a fixed rate. I have work to do. good night.

So I am supposed to believe Pressman over ALAN GREENSPAN????? —-should you believe Business Week Magazine over Grenspan??? Uh, yeah. Business Week Magazine has a STAFF of well educated certified economists, CPA’s and accountants whom they can give HUGE tasks to, such as “go research all the bad derivates. Find out where they were made from, who made them and what was the failure rate of Fannie Mae Loans”. Can ALan Greenspan, that old man, do that? did he do that? No. he’s an old man, one person. He didn’t alalyze why this crash happened, he’s is speculating. IF you want FACTS, you look to the people who do the research and publish the resutls to other peers in the industry. The reason why you read Business Week MagaZine is becuase it IS done well, and when second checked by peers, you find their analysis johnny-on-the-spot. seriously, i’m not reading another post- dont bother posting to me again, i’m not here. good night.

Posted by: we got your number
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Phil Gramm Republican Congressman 1983-1985 and Texas Republican Senator 1985-2002 Spearheaded in congress to repeal the Glass-Steagal Act while Regan was president.
And Alternative Mortgage Transactions Parity Act pass 1982 by Republican Congress and Signed by Regan who pushed for it
both began the inevitable spiral downward adding to it was everything that was pulled in to it including Fannie and Freddie.
Plus all that Speculative Borrowing in Residential Realestate has been cited as A Contributing Factor in the suprime mortgage crises.
Oh what a tangled web the Republicans weave when first the all practice to Deceive.

the possibility of Iran, North Korea and any terrorist group; especially the al Qaeda obtaining a nuclear weapon.
Posted by: Matilda1948
better include american militias and crazed evangelicals in your list

There has only been one country that has used a Nuclear Weapon in an act of war, U.S.A. The fear has to go beyond the thought of people using them, that has been done already.The fear has to be someone will copy the same mistakes we have made. The ability to produce weapons of mass destruction will never go away. To create a world where the thought of mass destruction is unspeakable is the answer. Power,Greed,Ignorance are the problems. Weapons of Mass Destruction are the Tools.

We’ve known that al-quaeda has wanted a nuke for over 10 years. Why wasn’t it important before obummer came into office?

Barry is the ultimate Don Quixote.
He is forever tilting at windmills from his own delusional twisted worldview.
America has held nuclear weaposn for well over 50 years without a serious incident so Barry decides he is going on a quest to solve a non-existent problem. All the while Islamic terrorists are wrecking havoc in every region across the globe. Opps forgot must not mention that they are Islamic or terrorists, that might upset their little feelings while they are rampaging across the globe.
Job well done Man from La Mancha.
America has the best healthcare the world has every known, so here come Don Quixote-Obama to conquer that windmill while the entire economy crashes in flames around him.
What America gets for electing a imbecile ideologue as it leader.
Thankfully come November, this disaster will be over and we can put this mistake behind us.

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