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  1. Charles the Great nails it, as always.
    Now, at the risk of being critisized for insensitivity towards other cultures, here’s my suggestion: Take the punk to an interrogation by intelligence operatives. Wet his nasal membranes until he divulges everything. March him, forthwith, to a Military Tribunal. Find Guilty. Pass Sentence. Hang or Shoot. Bury or Burn & Scatter.

    Baa-Daa-Bing. Like dat.

  2. Disgustingly, the Obama White House reacted politically: taking action to attempt to favorably compare themselves to the GWB White House. American Spectator:

    On December 26 … as it became clear internally that the Administration had suffered perhaps its most embarrassing failure in the area of national security, senior Obama White House aides, including chief of staff Rahm Emanuel, David Axelrod and new White House counsel Robert Bauer, ordered staff to begin researching similar breakdowns — if any — from the Bush Administration.

    “The idea was that we’d show that the Bush Administration had had far worse missteps than we ever could,” says a staffer in the counsel’s office. “We were told that classified material involving anything related to al Qaeda operating in Yemen or Nigeria was fair game and that we’d declassify it if necessary.”

    The White House, according to the source, is in full defensive spin mode. Other administration sources also say a flurry of memos were generated on December 26th, 27th, and 28th, which developed talking points about how Obama’s decision to effectively shut down the Homeland Security Council (it was merged earlier this year into the National Security Council, run by National Security Adviser James Jones) had nothing to do with what Obama called a “catastrophic” failure on Christmas Day.

    “This White House doesn’t view the Northwest [Airlines] failure as one of national security, it’s a political issue,” says the White House source. “That’s why Axelrod and Emanuel are driving the issue.”

    Axelrod, who has no foreign policy or national security experience beyond occasionally consulting with liberal or progressive candidates running for political office in foreign countries, has been actively participating in national security briefings from the beginning of the administration. He has also sat in on Obama’s “war council” meetings, providing Obama with suggestions in both venues based on what he knows about polling and public opinion data, say several White House sources.

    I remember, either in Spring or Summer 2009, hearing Karl Rove commenting about Axelrod’s presence in national security briefings. Rove asked: What is a POLITICAL DIRECTOR doing in a national security meeting?

  3. gcotharn: Hmm…sounds like the Shoe Bomber talking point in defense of Obama’s inept handling of the Christmas Bomber came straight from the White House.

    In any event, I’m sure tired of all the “What about Bush?” responses to criticisms of Obama.

    Ever since he took office I notice that his supporters usually defend Obama on the basis of his high poll numbers (though not since the summer when his polls began tanking), blaming Bush, or ad hominems against the critics, but rarely on the merits of Obama himself.

  4. Obama supporters can turn on a dime- I thought everything Bush did was horrible? How can it be cited as an example of good policy? It’s almost as if their only arguments are ad hominem (“Hypocrisy!”)

  5. “… Reid seemed like small potatoes then…”

    Only by pure luck, imagine if he had been successful… It’s one of the problems, and not a highly complex one at that, with the Democrats that should be personal for every American; unfortunately most still don’t think any further than their self-limited exposure to the MSM; or the recent Obamahellcare legislation wouldn’t have been railroaded through. Some people have learned a lot, but human civilization on this planet isn’t generally anymore sophisticated than 1933…

  6. gcotharn cited this:

    “… ordered staff to begin researching similar breakdowns – if any – from the Bush Administration.”

    Does that mean there might be a new cabinet department in the future?

    The Department of Scapegoating?

    The Department of Reverse Responsibilty?

    The Department of Patsies, Pawns and Finks ?

    I can see their latin motto now:

    Tu Quoque & Ad Hominem…Ad Nauseum

  7. Several times recently the behavior and reactions of the Obamites simply leave me speechless and searching–in vain–for descriptives.

  8. More seriously.

    Your reference to Bush’s previous credibility is an important point. History will give a clearer verdict whether W made a right or wrong choice there. But there was no sense that he was making the choice to try Reid in civil courts as a purely political choice.

    I do not have that confidence with Obama. Results might vindicate the choice and it all work out just find. But I can’t shake the impression that the politics are the dominant part of all Obama’s decisions. He doesn’t have enough credibility in the bank to draw on.

  9. “Tu Quoque & Ad Hominem…Ad Nauseum”

    LOL

    Ass Vill Id:

    Similar to GWB’s forthrightness re national security: GWB actually tried to keep his campaign promises. In this area, as compared with most politicians, GWB was golden. I think GWB’s unusual (for a politician) forthrightness – in both national security and in keeping campaign promises – was part of what lulled the nation into believing Barack would also be forthright. The nation either forgot – during the GWB years – that the promises of most politicians are worthless, and that national security needs can easily (Clinton) take a back seat to political necessity; or, as with my son, who voted for the first time, some young voters have never learned what the promises of most politicians are worth. GWB was unusually trustworthy. Ironically, that lulled the nation’s voters to sleep.

  10. Obama Friends Ayers, Dohrn, and Evans Join Up on Behalf of Hamas

    They’ve all been in Egypt agitating on behalf of Hamas terrorists:

    Top President Barack Obama funder Jodie Evans and her terrorist sympathizing group Code Pink have provoked a violent crisis in Egypt over an attempt to deliver “humanitarian aid” to Hamas-run Gaza to mark the one-year anniversary of Israel’s response to repeated provocations by Hamas terrorists. Evans was joined in Cairo by Obama pals Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dorhn, both former terrorists with the Weather Underground.

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