Obama Foreign Policy Adviser:“Winnie the Pooh seems to be a fundamental text on national security.”

Campaign Spot ^ | 06/17/2008 | Jim Geraghty

[JRochelle]

A runaway metaphor is not the worst sin in the world. But if former Navy Secretary Richard Danzig really is a potential national security adviser under President Obama, he's doing his potential future boss no favors when he talks like this:

Richard Danzig, who served as Navy Secretary under President Clinton and is tipped to become National Security Adviser in an Obama White House, told a major foreign policy conference in Washington that the future of US strategy in the war on terrorism should follow a lesson from the pages of Winnie the Pooh, which can be shortened to: if it is causing you too much pain, try something else.

Mr Danzig told the Centre for New American Security: “Winnie the Pooh seems to me to be a fundamental text on national security.”

He spelt out how American troops, spies and anti-terrorist officials could learn key lessons by understanding the desire of terrorists to emulate superheroes like Luke Skywalker, and the lust for violence of violent football fans.

(Lest anyone suspect that the Telegraph is exaggerating Danzig's role in the campaign, note Obama called Danzig "one of our key foreign policy advisers" in November 2007.) The best explanation of the metaphor in the article comes here:

Mr Danzig spelt out the need to change by reading a paragraph from chapter one of the children’s classic, which says: “Here is Edward Bear, coming downstairs now, bump, bump, bump on the back of his head behind Christopher Robin. It is, as far as he knows, the only way of coming down stairs. But sometimes he thinks there really is another way if only he could stop bumping a minute and think about it.”

(So in the Danzig/Obama foreign policy vision... who's Tigger? We know Piglet has already been banned from the metaphor out of sensitivity to Muslims. Apparently Sen. Harry "the war is lost" Reid is Eeyore under this scenario.)

Jen Rubin suggests "Obama get rid of advisors who make people wonder if he is really ready to sit at the grown-up’s table." We've already seen Obama defend his summits-anytime-anywhere-with-anyone policy by pointing out that Iran, Venezuela and Cuba are geographically tiny, a strikingly irrelevant piece of data in a world of asymmetrical threats.

It's good that Obama is going to Iraq and Afghanistan. And he would be wise to articulate a national security policy that relied more on personal meetings with Gen. David Petraeus and less on reading Winnie the Pooh.

[JRochelle]

I had to shorten the title, here is the original.

Obama's 'Key' Foreign Policy Adviser: “Winnie the Pooh seems to me to be a fundamental text on national security.”

[Carley]

Channelling Admiral Stockdale?

May he RIP.

[avacado]

...and this is not Scrappleface?

[JRochelle]

Sadly it is all too real.

[avacado]

Okay... it's making sense now. Richard Danzig seems to be enamored by furry cartoon animals.

[Sacajaweau]

And we’d all be speaking German....(No offense to Germans goes without saying)

[ssaftler]

Sadly it is all too real.

Sadder still is that the Soros-soaked sheeple will find such tripe to be "true enlightenment" as we seek change in our diplomatic dealings with the rest of the world.

[LibertyRocks]

Mr Danzig told the Centre for New American Security: “Winnie the Pooh seems to me to be a fundamental text on national security.”

Oh, bother!

Everything is rainbows and giggles in the Hundred Acre Woods! We'll just give honey to all the terrorists and they'll be so happy they'll have to stop killing us!



Is she SERIOUS??? God help us if this is the Democrats plans for foreign policy! And, how dare she co-opt Winnie-the-Pooh for her dastardly plans!

[NativeNewYorker]

He was SecNav when the Cole was struck.

[ClearCase_guy]

The wheels on the bus go round and round
Round and round
The wheels on the bus can't touch the ground
Touch the ground, touch the ground
The campaign workers under the bus are piling up, piling
Early in the morning

[LibertyRocks]

OOPS - “she” should be “he”

[MrB]

Just read part of the “heffalump trap” story to my 3 yr old.

Pooh and Piglet fall into a pit trap that they think a heffalump set to capture them. Pooh tells piglet how he’ll handle it when the heffalump comes to get them.

Basically, when the heffalump triumphantly proclaims his victory, Pooh will just ignore him until the heffalump becomes so disconcerted that he leaves.

Yep, sounds like how the Dhimmirats want to handle terrorist attacks.

[wildbill]

If the Obamaites are going to start using fictional characters for foreign policy metaphors, I wish they’d start reading the old Jack Armstrong, the All-American Boy transcripts from wartime radio.

[Billthedrill]

Hey, if your political world is no deeper than a bumper sticker anyway, Pooh has to sound pretty profound. I’d humbly suggest to Danzig that instead of the troops learning about terrorists from Pooh, that he learn about terrorists from the troops. But that’s just me...

[Paladin2]

Oh, bother.........

[SueRae]

Good grief, could he really be that stupid?
(rhetorical question)

[Thinkin]

I’m at a loss for words...
Even the phrase “Houston we have a problem” is lame.........

[inkling]

[rightwinggoth]

And we’d all be speaking German....(No offense to Germans goes without saying)

nah, german seems appropriate

after all, germans in 1932 faced the same dilemma: elect a senile, has-been war hero or a racist, fanatical extremist who was bent on pursuing his destructive policies at whatever the cost to his own people. it turned out not to matter in the end.

[McGruff]

This is not the former Navy Secretary Richard Danzig I knew?

[rightwinggoth]

i should have added celebrated author of national renown, but the hyperbole is thick enough as it is ;)

[ltc8k6]

Why didn’t the reporter think to ask Danzig where Piglet would fit in when dealing with Islamic moder...I mean radicals....

[Dems_R_Losers]

Oh my God.

The TV ads just write themselves, don't they?

Worst. Campaign. Ever.

[JRochelle]

LOL, that is funny.

[ltc8k6]

Navy Secretary when the Cole was bombed...is now going to advise on National Security...by reading out of Pooh books...

You don’t even have to make stuff up...

Obama sure knows how to pick ‘em...

[massgopguy]

It’s Official.

“OBAMA IS AN IDIOT.” - Rush Limbaugh 12:28

[Miss Didi]

Rush on this now...calling Obama a complete idiot.

[Miss Didi]

GMPA! ;)

[F15Eagle]

Mr Danzig told the Centre for New American Security: “Winnie the Pooh seems to me to be a fundamental text on national security.”

Was he joking or just drunk?

[CholeraJoe]

So in the Danzig/Obama foreign policy vision... who's Tigger?

Tigger has been banned (notice I didn't say "blacklisted?") because his name rhymes with a racial slur.

[omega4179]

To me its like 1976.

[LibertyRocks]

The parallels are somewhat scary if you really compare them (beyond just what you pointed out). Of course, these similarities would be totally lost on most liberals because they consistently equate Nazis with the “right”, and no Democrat could EVER be a racist, you know - only Republicans are racists! And socialism is GOOD, don’t you know? </sarc>

It would be funny if it weren’t so darn scary!

[P.O.E.]

[Thinkin]

On second thought.. this is a Golden Opportunity !!
Kerry had the flip flops……….
Now Obama has Poo Bear for national defense….
Work it people !!!!!

[TornadoAlley3]

“People who don’t Think probably don’t have Brains; rather, they have grey fluff that’s blown into their heads by mistake.”
Winnie the Pooh quote

[Miss Didi]

The TV ads just write themselves, don't they?


The 3 A.M. phone call...

[Maverick68]

Personally I think Obama would do better to hire GLEN Danzig as his Foreign Policy Adviser.....

[Dominnae]

Smiling Eeyore is a Disney-ized blasphemy!

The Eeyore I remember from my childhood always looked sad and discouraged.
Not the smiling prozac-addicted donkey we see today!

[Miss Didi]

Right...Eeyore was the “doom and gloom” donkey.

[johnny7]

“Winnie the Pooh”? Better yet... “The Jungle Book”

[doug from upland]

[LibertyRocks]

ROFL - Prozac Addicted! Judging by today’s children, he might be on Ritalin - you know, so they can relate...

But yeah, I know, Eeyore is NOT supposed to be happy! :)

[mission9]

Admiral Stockdale was a legitimate American Hero who was a little hard of hearing due to injuries suffered in the defense of our Nation.
Now Danzig, he is just one toke over the line.

Please apologize to the Admiral.

[Dems_R_Losers]

LMAO!!!

This is rapidly turning into quite a "Mickey Mouse" campaign!

[NewHampshireDuo]

By extension, Mr Obama, being a leader can be painful. Why don’t you try something else?

[Snickering Hound]

[Vigilanteman]

A.A. Milne wrote his Winnie the Pooh books to teach children how to socialize and get along with each other, not to teach us to make friends with murderers, predators and terrorists. General George S. Patton should be the professor of choice for these occasions.

[manapua]

That's what I thought at first.

We are screwed.

[TigersEye]

He spelt out how American troops, spies and anti-terrorist officials could learn key lessons by understanding the desire of terrorists to emulate superheroes like Luke Skywalker, and the lust for violence of violent football fans.

Pooh pooh.

[SunkenCiv]

The Demwits *run* on made-up stories.

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