Tweedle-Dee and Tweedle-Dumb

By Burt Prelutsky

Timing, as they say, is everything, and not just for baseball players trying to hit a 95-mph fastball. For example, if Hitler had come along 70 years later than he did, I have no doubt that he would have succeeded in conquering all of Europe. One only has to look at how close he came, and that was in spite of all those nations and the U.S. aligned against him. Today, much of Europe has no backbone, and I doubt that, in the wake of Iraq, Americans would have the collective will required to oppose Nazism. It bears remembering that when we went to war against the Axis powers, FDR was never asked if he had an exit strategy.

While it’s true that our presidents must deal with a great number of issues other than war, war and national defense are at the top of the list. Can anybody actually picture Barack Obama, a man born to be a left-wing social worker, as commander-in-chief? Keeping America safe is simply not on Obama’s to-do list. He has made that perfectly clear by several of his statements. For instance, he insisted that John Kennedy got Nikita Khrushchev to pull Soviet missiles out of Cuba by sitting down and reasoning with him. He obviously believes he will turn evil dictators into peaceful lambs by the sheer power of his personality. He seems to have confused Hugo Chavez, Robert Mugabe, Kim Jong-il and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, with Oprah Winfrey and three Vassar coeds...

He offers a nice summary of the Republicans in Congress:

The biggest question I have regarding the Republicans in Washington is deciding if their stupidity out-weighs their cowardice or whether it’s the other way around. On Monday, they seem to be worried about offending homosexuals. On Tuesday, they’re terrified of angering blacks. Wednesday, they’re scared stiff of alienating illegal aliens. By Thursday, they’ve taken to their beds, suffering from the vapors. The really nutty thing is that very few of those people are going to vote for them anyway. But of course if they dared come out against same-sex marriages, affirmative action or tax-funded social services for Hispanic scofflaws, they’d be scolded by the New York Times and the Washington Post, and that’s something they simply couldn’t bear.

My father was on a U.S. Navy destroyer off the coast of Cuba during the “negotiations”.

REASON had nothing to do with the outcome. The United States’ show of overwhelming force had EVERYTHING to do with it.

B. Hussein is an absolute ignoramous where U.S. history is concerned. I’m sure he is MUCH better at Kenyan or Indonesian history, though.

I remember hearing years ago, that after 9/11, some Democrats were privately secretly happy that Bush won the 2000 election instead of Gore. Reason being, some Dems. don’t have a lot of confidence in their fellow Democrats to use our military force when needed. So they were happy that Bush and his administration would have to deal with the aftermath of 9/11 rather than Gore. And they had confidence (off the record) that Bush and his adminstration would do what was necessary, including military force.

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