Indian Summer, the dream time, neither totally here nor there…
Welcome to the Watcher’s Council, a blogging group consisting of some of the most incisive blogs in the ‘sphere, and the longest running group of its kind in existence. Every week, the members nominate two posts each, one written by themselves and one written by someone from outside the group for consideration by the whole Council.Then we vote on the best two posts, with the results appearing on Friday.
Council News:
This week, Ask Marion and Maggie’s Notebook took advantage of my generous offer of link whorage and earned honorable mention status with some great articles.
You can, too! Want to see your work appear on the Watcher’s Council homepage in our weekly contest listing? Didn’t get nominated by a Council member? No worries.
Simply head over to Joshuapundit and post the title a link to the piece you want considered along with an e-mail address ( which won’t be published) in the comments section no later than Monday 6PM PST in order to be considered for our honorable mention category. Then return the favor by creating a post on your site linking to the Watcher’s Council contest for the week when it comes out Wednesday morning
Simple, no?
It’s a great way of exposing your best work to Watcher’s Council readers and Council members. while grabbing the increased traffic and notoriety. And how good is that, eh?
So, let’s see what we have this week….
Council Submissions
- Liberty’s Spirit – Foreign Policy Clowns: Allowing Tyrants to Dictate Exceptionalism
- The Noisy Room – Obamas Middle Eastern Sleight of Hand
- Joshuapundit-Whoopsie…Gay Icon Matthew Shepard Was Actually Killed By Lover Over Meth
- The Political Commentator – Sports analogies for Obama Strategies!
- Simply Jews – Amnon Lord: Obama as a grand failure – or missing the great red herring.
- The Mellow Jihadi – Speaking in Japan to. . .
- GrEaT sAtAn”S gIrLfRiEnD – Sinai Insurgency?
- The Razor – Memento Mori – The Art of Abandonment
- VA Right! - Putin is Right! America IS NOT Exceptional
- The Right Planet – Sun Tzu on Syria
- The Colossus of Rhodey – Moonbat gun control round-up
- Nice Deb – Grief Stricken Christian Woman in Syria Lashes Out: We Blame Obama! He Is Helping The Rebels
- The Glittering Eye -The Lack Of Moral Outrage
- Rhymes With Right – Black Actors Step, Fetch, For Racist Liberal Sarah Silverman
- Bookworm Room – Andrew Sullivans marvelously misguided theory about how Obama played Putin when it came to Syria
Honorable Mentions
- Ask Marion – After a Year, Congressional Benghazi Report Finally Points Negatively To Senior State Department Officials
- Maggie’s Notebook – Palestinian Nidal Hasan’s Military Pay Went to Charity: Won’t Disclose What Charity or In What Countries
Non-Council Submissions
- Lee Smith/Weekly Standard – The Damage Done submitted by Liberty’s Spirit
- Mark Steyn –American Ineffectualism submitted by The Noisy Room
- Roger L.Simon/PJ Media – Going to War with the Blind General of Benghazi (An Apology) submitted by Joshuapundit
- Middle East Forum -Beware Syrians bearing gifts submitted by The Political Commentator
- Richard Fernandez/PJ Media – A Gift Horse In The Mouth submitted by Simply Jews
- Castor Praetoria – Things Your SgtMaj Hates…”That’s not my job!” submitted by The Mellow Jihadi
- AEI Ideas – Saving al-Assad submitted by GrEaT sAtAn”S gIrLfRiEnD
- Habitable Worlds –Emotive but Meaningless submitted by The Razor
- Heritage/The Foundry – Morning Bell: 5 Ways Obama Has Trampled the Constitution submitted by VA Right!
- Walid Shoebat – John Brennan has a New Benghazi Problem submitted by The Right Planet
- Douglas Ernst – Dianne Feinstein, NSA apologist, is more dangerous to America than men with rifles will ever be submitted by The Colossus of Rhodey
- Roger Kimball/PJ Media -Fundamentally Transforming the United States of America submitted by Nice Deb
- James Joyner/Outside the Beltway – Obama Syria Speech Instant Reaction submitted by The Glittering Eye
- Allergic To Bull – “I Know They Went to Heaven” submitted by Rhymes with Right
- New Scientist-Why A Cyberwar won’t happen submitted by Bookworm Room
- Seraphic Secret – 12 Years After 9-11 submitted by The Watcher
- Barry Rubin – The Solution: How to Deal with Obama Middle East Policy submitted by The Watcher
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Watcher’s Council Nominations – Indian Summer Edition
Here is a tiny “island” of truth in this sea of lies!
A retired friend of mind recently called President Obama “stupid” while talking on the phone recently.
This got me to thinking, is it true? Is this President “stupid”?
Well, I considered the previous President, Bush 43. Would he have ever been elected Gov. of Texas and then President, without the family name, money, and his dads “good ole boy network”?
Then look at Mitt Romney. Did George Romney, the money, influential friends, have anything to do with Mitts rise to fame?
We will never know. Certainly didn’t hurt having those tools available, now did it?
Then, we take a poor black kid from Hawaii, from a broken home. No famous family name, no money, no network of influence built up over many years by the family. Raised by his grandmother. No nothing.
Somehow, this man is able to overcome all these obstacles, and rise to the office of the most powerful man in the world. And you think he is “stupid”?
It would be interesting to know how the people who think President Obama is stupid, would define genius or brilliant?
The world media, the Republicans with all their hatred and money, could not find one bit of corruption to stop his rise. Nope. Nothing. They have been trying for about 10 years and got absolutely nothing.
Recently, “they” appear to have given up on finding anything and have gone into the “creating” something phase. But that is another story for another time.
So, next time that you look into a mirror, ask yourself this, “if President Obama is stupid, then why is he President of The United States, and I am not”?
Ok, so you think he made it to President being stupid, where does that leave you on the intelligence ladder?
Also, if you believe any self-made man is elected President while being stupid, what are you saying about the majority of America who elected him? Twice?
Hatred and ignorance are alive and well in America!
“I’m glad the president has such great compassion,” Paul commented, “because he’s admitted, like a lot of other individuals who are now elected to office, that at one time he made mistakes as a youth. And I think, ‘What a tragedy if he had gone to prison….American would not have gotten to see Barack Obama as a leader.’”
Quote from Rand Paul, September 18, 2013. Finally a Republican speaks the truth about something.