So how would a real president, Ronald Reagan, handle a problem like Wikileaks? First, he’d be quick to apprehend Julian Assange. Then he’d take Assange up to the top of the Empire State Building and show him the beautiful city before them and say, “This is the country you’re mindlessly harming with what you’re doing.” Then he’d set Assange on fire and throw him off the building in full view of cameras as a warning to others. And then he’d just start bombing whoever else was involved. They want to be free with information, and Reagan would want to be free with cruise missiles. And eventually enough stuff would be blown up to solve the problem.
Just saying how Reagan would handle things. Not trying to criticize Obama and the nothing he is doing.
So didn’t he surrender to Britain? Was France and Sweden all booked up?
You forgot something important: Reagan would be wearing a cheap Patrick Swayze mask at all times during his friendly chats with Assange.
When the media would ask him about his involvement in the demise of Mr. Assange, Reagan would only smile and act like the crazy old uncle everyone knows.
The fact Obama is doing mothing, zip, zero, nada is telling. He was going to blame Bush until somebody in his posse reminded him Bush hasn’t been President for 2 years and has higher approval numbers than he does. Then he was going to blame Palin but thought the better of it when he heard Sarah shot and dismembered a caribou on TV. For dinner. You just don’t mess with that. So I hear his plan is to appoint a czar and hopes it doesn’t cut in to his golf time too much.
Suggestions on what other presidents would have done:
Truman: Would have nuked Britain to save a million U.S.
livespoliticians.Eisenhower: Would have invaded Britain amphibiously from France.
Kennedy: Would have sent in advisers to help set-up a puppet government run by the CIA.
Nixon: Would have secretly bombed Sweden.
Ford: Would have looked very concerned while falling down the stairs to the War Room.
Carter: Would have crashed airplanes and helicopters while preparing a covert action in Africa.
Reagan: (Frank has him covered.)
George H.W. Bush: Would have sent in General Schwarzkopf to take him out.
Clinton: Would have Sent in U.N. troupes to secure the neighborhood.
George W. Bush: Would have Rumsfeld organize a Shock ‘n Awe campaign.
and finally,
Obama: Would commence TSA patdowns at bus stations and train depots. And blame Boooosh!
Johnson: Would have escalated it to an all-out land war in… Europe. (Why would I forget guns & butter: Mr. Great Society?)
Reagan would have waterboarded Ms. Assange, by which I mean numerous swirlies in the locker room.
There wasn’t a single release about anything Kenya related, telling indeed. Obama’s got his country covered it’s the US that’s in trouble.
Has anyone checked the White House logs to make sure Assange hasn’t been visiting with Obama all along?
I don’t know if anyone has blamed the Joooooos yet so I think I shall. It’s obviously a Zionist plot to cover up Obama’s ineffectual Presidency.
I still think Assange needs to receive an award for shattering the lefts pretend world and vindicating the rights world views. It’s the actual leaker who should be receiving all of our ire does anyone remember Bradley Manning?
What are we going to do to him because life in prison just sounds to light. A public execution as a warning to future treasonous db’s seems about right. You will be killed for your betrayal… and perhaps too if you can lip sync Lady Gaga songs. Just for gp.
he would also nuke the moon, just to show he’s serious even if he had already done so earlier for another equally good reason.
I think a good compromise would be to publicly execute Assange, but then allow his website to post the emails that planned the execution.
I think bradley manning should be beaten to death with assange a machine could pick up assange by the ankles and viciously beat bradley against a wall till the club explodes on the wall. Then we can all have icecream!
This crap would not have remotely happenned under Reagan. C’mon, who taught Fred Thompson his hippie punching prowess? Reagan. Reagan would use pfc Manning for live fire practice at the Reagan ranch. Assange and co. would have disappeared , maybe only to be seen again as shark poop in the Baja gulf. You didn’t mess with Reagan.
Speaking of Manning, I highly reccomend Ann Coulter’s column and trip down memory lane last week on this subject. Manning is just the latest poster child as to why we should not allow gays in thje military/intelligence services.
Obama would have him assassinated instantly had he leaked a birth certificate, college papers, etc of either he or Michelle.
I have read lots of bits and pieces about this. So far quite a bit that makes Obama look incompetent and foolish. Hillary sackable, by which I mean to be fired not bedded, and others say much ado about nothing. Oh and it makes the Europe look stupid and unimportant. China aggressive stubborn arrogant totally not giving a crap what Europe thinks. I think it showed the state department manipulating climate data and made them look foolish in a lot of ways.
I follow Michael Yon on facebook, if you like a guy who is first and foremost loyal to troops and never to military leadership, parties and politicians he is a pretty good source. Yon has been very pissed off with this guy, he is a big Petraus fan but cheered Mcrystals removal. Not seen anything solid yet about what this hurts on the right.
Reagan was a very hands-on guy. I tend to think that he would have had Assange out to the Ranch where, ax in hand, he could escort Assange to the woodpile.
As for Obama, he’s a neo-colonialist. As such, he thinks the US has too much influence over other nations, so it is right and proper when the US gets taken down a peg. It wouldn’t do for Obama to publicly rail against Assange because to do so would be an exercise of US power, and that would reduce the goodness that came from the leaks themselves. Obama will do nothing unless Congress presses him very hard.
It’s not that Obama lacks the g-nads to after Assange (although he prolly does). It’s just that Obama sees some good in the leaks, and therefore, he’s gonna try to run the clock on this.
I say we dig up the Gipper set him up behind the desk in the oval office ala weekend at bernies with a stern look on his face and broadcast it on every single cable and satelite channel there is simulataniously for 24 hours. The mear sight of a real leader in the big seat will make hippies punch themselves, suicide bombers find Jesus, and liberals retreat back to berckely here they can go back to sniffing their own farts. It’ll be the global equivilent of playing a country song backwards.
I don’t know if anyone has blamed the Joooooos yet so I think I shall. It’s obviously a Zionist plot to cover up Obama’s ineffectual Presidency.
I thought it was a Zionist plot to expose Obama’s ineffectual Presidency! Which I suppose is rather silly since everybody seems to know how ineffectual he is anyway. See how devilishly clever those Zionists are? Damn, I love those guys!
Either way, anybody know where I can go to enlist in the Zionist Conspiracy? Like a recruiting station or something?
No, the Jooooooos are busy training sharks to attack mooslims. Don’t you guys read the news? Under Reagan we never would have heard about this guy. A team of highly trained professionals would have been dispatched from the White House led by Dick Cheney to track down and use such force necessary as to render him room temp.
I’m thinkin’ that with a name like Assange, and looking the way he does that the boys in prison have passed him around like hot cakes! Sans condom, of course!
Iowahawk had the best idea for dealing with Assange, and if weren’t a Luddite I would link to it. Cruise on over to his site, it’s worth the visit.
#19 – C.O.B.,
I found it. It’s too good not to share!
http://iowahawk.typepad.com/iowahawk/2010/12/great-satan-lauds-assange-as-infidel-of-the-year.html