Posted on 04/27/2009 12:27:31 AM PDT by RobinMasters
Former Senator, TV star and presidential candidate Fred Thompson tells Newsmax that President Barack Obama is revealing his “naivete, ineptitude and arrogance” as he deals with matters of national security.
The Tennessee Republican, who now hosts a radio show on Westwood One along with his wife Jeri, also said the “dogs of war have been loosed” over left-wing attempts to single out Bush-era officials for prosecution relating to the treatment of detainees.
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Fred Thompson should have been the Republican presidential candidate in 2008.
McCain was a sure looser.
BTTT
Obama, it seems wants nothing less than a full-blown civil war.
IMHO he thinks he can write Chicago large on the USA.
Wow! powerful words ! wow!
He would have had my vote
Fred’s a wonderful writer and speechifier. He would have had little use for the teleprompter.
There’s some dispute over how well his first debate went. Successful candidates, fortunately or unfortunately, have to electioneer well to get voted for.
Don't get me wrong... I'm sure the operations side has done many heroic things, very few of which we can ever know about.
But the analysis side has been a one-way street since the early '60's. Their analytical take on everything has been "the west is doomed, collectivist economies are going to bury us."
It was CIA advice that led to the "escalation" in Vietnam. The right thing to do (hindsight, sure, but still true) would have been to let them go. You want to turn your country into a communist paradise? Knock yourself out! In a few years the whole excrement-pile collapses, and we come in and pick up the pieces.
But Nooooo.... The Ivy-Leaguers at CIA saw the tide of history turning against us. The White House said "not on our watch," and it was off-to-the-races time.
They undermined Nixon. They undermined Reagan. I don't know about Bush '41 (he was one of them, after all). But they undermined Bush 43 relentlessly, Wilson/Plame being only the most open example.
They've been wrong so many times about so many things it's not even funny.
There was a line in one of William F. Buckley's "Blackford Oakes" novels, in which one of the characters said "you could tell it was a CIA operation; everyone in the room was killed except the intended target."
This sounds like empty, mean-spirited rhetoric, until you remember that Buckley was a CIA undercover agent in Mexico in the early 1950's.
The effete nancy-boys on CIA's analytical side have been helping the left since Kennedy's time.
Whoever it was who said "organizations tend to become more liberal over time, unless they are explicitly conservative" was probably thinking of the CIA.
I blame crossover votes in early primaries and Mike Huckabee.
EXACTLY if it weren't for Shuckabee we would have president Fred Thompson now
From what I have heard, the operatives are apolitical, they know what lies out there and they truly work to keep us safe. The bureaucrats on the other hand, it’s like 2 separate entities.
I blame Rudy and Romney.
Barack Obama is revealing his “naivete, ineptitude and arrogance” as he deals with matters of national security,and the msm loves him.
Man what a dud Rudy was.
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