Posted on 01/03/2010 12:34:40 PM PST by smoothsailing
Erick Erickson
January 2, 2010
Within twenty-four hours of the terrorist trying to blow up the plane, the White House was giving briefings by a “Senior Administration Official” who most likely was Obama, Axelrod, or Jarrett, pointing out that the terrorist watch list was created by the Bush administration.
Then the White House Counsel’s Office sent out a memo demanding any and all documentation to show that the Bush administration had done worse.
Then the White House decided it needed to look into the “systemic failures” of the operation that George Bush had put in place.
234 days into George W. Bush’s first contentious year in office, four planes were hijacked and used as missiles to strike the United States. Shortly thereafter, Richard Reid tried to blow up another jet.
George Bush never tried to disown 9/11 or Richard Reid. He never tried to say, “hey, it was Clinton’s problem.” Sure, in fact, a lot of what led to 9/11 happened on Bill Clinton’s watch and he failed in most every measure to shut down Al Qaeda.
But after 9/11, George Bush didn’t spend his first day, second day, or third day blaming Clinton. He set out to destroy Al Qaeda. After Richard Reid, we’ve been pretty darn safe flying.
In fact, under George Bush leading scholars and pundits declared Al Qaeda marginalized. By 2003, the pontiffs of miasmatic beltway wisdom were near unanimous that Al Qaeda was nearly dismantled.
You really need to read this editorial in the London Telegraph by Toby Harnden. It really hits this point where it needs hitting.
For a man who campaigned denouncing the politicisation of national security under President George W Bush, it is worth noting how intensely political Obama’s treatment of what might henceforth be known as Underpantsgate has been.
His White House recognised its political vulnerability more readily than it comprehended the level of danger faced by Americans.
That last bit is the most troubling part of this.
At the end of the first year of Barack Obama’s administration, there’s something moving in the shadows of Mount Doom. It wasn’t there while George Bush was in charge. But Barack Obama is no George Bush. And the strategy of blaming Bush for being weak on terror will not work after eight years of blaming Bush for being too bloodthirsty.
Headline says it all.
We live in era where a single individual can end the species .......
How’s that hope and change working out for you America?
Look at his new nominee for TSA Director.
Another Obama voter-clone.
He has filled Washington with them.
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=120408
This one wants to unionise TSA workers so that incompetence will not get them fired.
Sen. DeMint is looking better and better for me in 2012.
Is this a surprise. Clearly, this is a goal of BO.
I was reading this article below I thought it had some good points and others might like to read it and see what they thought of it.
http://johngaltfla.com/blog3/2010/01/03/the-decade-that-was-end-of-pax-americana/
“Barack Obama’s Vulnerabilities Will Get Us All Killed”
What a ridiculous and misleading headline. We won’t ALL be killed.
I’d be willing to bet a box of donuts that there are spies from China, Russia, Israel, Britain, and Lichtenstein floating around the White House, all part of that beautiful building’s current Administrative staff.
They probably know what is going on before Obama has a chance to proof the teleprompter feed.
The incompetence of the US intelligence bureaucracy is not the only thing that makes Underpantsgate so damaging for Obama. More serious is his failure to understand or acknowledge the nature of the enemy - and to view war as mere politics.
For the Obamanistas everything is measured by whether or not it is damaging to Obama; the security of the nation is way, way down the list of priorities.
The incompetence of the US intelligence bureaucracy is not the only thing that makes Underpantsgate so damaging for Obama. More serious is his failure to understand or acknowledge the nature of the enemy - and to view war as mere politics.
For the Obamanistas everything is measured by whether or not it is damaging to Obama; the security of the nation is way, way down the list of priorities.
Not to worry......Obama is going to have a “Safety Summit”. Gee, I feel safer already.
Elections have consequences.
BO is NOT vulnerable—He IS purposeful in his decisions in trying to hurt US citizens.
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It hurts, but it's true.
More astonishing to me, Obama never left Hawaii and has had barely anything to say. The man is clueless.
I read the UK article. What a good article. Thanks for posting.
From Obama’s point of view, all this “man-caused disaster” folderal is an inconvenient distraction that potentially threatens his domestic agenda.
That’s why he downplays it. He’s not clueless, he’s evil.
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