Greatest Olympian of all time

Michael Phelps just keeps blowing away the competition.

Michael Phelps won the men’s 200-meter butterfly Wednesday and not even an hour later helped lift the U.S. 4×200m freestyle relay team to victory, becoming the winningest athlete in Olympic history, now with 11 gold medals — and counting.

The U.S. men didn’t just set the world record, they destroyed it. Their 6:58.56 was 4.68 seconds faster than the previous record, also set by the U.S. men at the 2007 World Championships.

Phelps swam a 1:43 31 leading off the relay, just short of his personal best, and the world record, set the day before in winning the 200m freestyle. Ryan Lochte, Ricky Berens and Peter Vanderkaay did the rest, as the silver medalists from Russia finished more than five seconds behind.

“For four years we knew we could probably get under 7 minutes,” Lochte said in a poolside interview with NBC. “It’s great to finally do it.”

Phelps is now five-for-five in Beijing, with a world record in every final.

In the first of his two races, Phelps touched in 1:52.03 for his fourth gold medal and fourth world record in Beijing. The mark had been 1:52.09, set by Phelps at the 2007 Worlds.

Phelps also now stands alone when it comes to most career Olympic gold medals.

Along with the five golds he has now won in Beijing, Phelps won six at the 2004 Athens Games. Phelps also won two bronze medals in 2004.

Coming into Wednesday’s action at the Water Cube, Phelps stood at nine career Olympic golds, tied with four others for most career golds, among them Mark Spitz and track star Carl Lewis.

“I’m almost at a loss for words,” Phelps said of breaking the career record. “To be in the same group with the greatest Olympians who ever lived, to have the most golds in history is unbelievable.

“After the fly, I was trying to focus, but I just kept thinking, ‘Wow, the greatest Olympian of all time.’ That’s a pretty cool title.”

The possible secret to Michael’s success – a 12,000 calorie diet.

Whatever the secret watching Phelps at these Olympics has been nothing short of amazing.

That 3 am moment

Remember this Clinton ad regarding the 3 am phone call?

It created tremendous fallout, including this statement by Barack Hussein Obama’s own senior foreign policy advisor at the time.

Well a real 3 am type moment came about recently when Russia invaded Georgia. 

Columnist Andrew Bolt of the Herald Sun had this to say about Barack Hussein Obama’s initial response to the situation. (H/T – Shoebox)

“It’s both sides’ fault — both have been somewhat provocative with each other.” The United Nations should step in and send a peacekeeping force under “an appropriate UN mandate”.

Knock, knock. Excuse me, Mr Obama, sir. But Russia is one of the five permanent members of the UN Security Council and would veto any UN move in Georgia it didn’t like.

And, sir, why do you treat invaded Georgia as just as guilty as invading Russia? That’s blaming the victim.

It’s true that, stung by criticism of his stand, Obama later toughened his rhetoric against Russia.

Proof that Barack Hussein Obama is unprepared to lead this country if his first instinct when it comes to a foreign policy crisis isn’t the tough approach but the “palm it off” approach.