Posted on 10/30/2009 6:31:02 AM PDT by rhema
Old Soviet joke:
Moscow, 1953. Stalin calls in Khrushchev.
"Niki, I'm dying. Don't have much to leave you. Just three envelopes. Open them, one at a time, when you get into big trouble."
A few years later, first crisis. Khrushchev opens envelope 1: "Blame everything on me. Uncle Joe."
A few years later, a really big crisis. Opens envelope 2: "Blame everything on me. Again. Good luck, Uncle Joe."
Third crisis. Opens envelope 3: "Prepare three envelopes."
In the Barack Obama version, there are 50 or so such blame-Bush free passes before the gig is up. By my calculation, Obama has already burned through a good 49. Is there anything he hasn't blamed George W. Bush for? The economy, global warming, the credit crisis, Middle East stalemate, the deficit, anti-Americanism abroad -- everything but swine flu.
It's as if Obama's presidency hasn't really started. He's still taking inventory of the Bush years. Just this Monday, he referred to "long years of drift" in Afghanistan in order to, I suppose, explain away his own, well, yearlong drift on Afghanistan.
This compulsion to attack his predecessor is as stale as it is unseemly. Obama was elected a year ago. He became commander in chief two months later. He then solemnly announced his own "comprehensive new strategy" for Afghanistan seven months ago. And it was not an off-the-cuff decision. "My administration has heard from our military commanders, as well as our diplomats," the president assured us. "We've consulted with the Afghan and Pakistani governments, with our partners and our NATO allies, and with other donors and international organizations" and "with members of Congress."
Obama is obviously unhappy with the path he himself chose in March. Fine. He has every right -- indeed, duty -- to reconsider. But what Obama is reacting to is
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Good post!
Good post!
“In the Barack Obama version, there are 50 or so such blame-Bush free passes before the gig is up.”
Wrong! He gets 57 envelopes, one for each state!
Nothing is EVER a narcissist’s fault, at least in their own mind.
Obama doesn’t have the fortitude to take responsibility for the Afghan war.
Hopefully, his last words in office, sooner rather than later, will be...”It’s all Bush’s fault!”.
Talk about hitting the nail on the head!!! The HAMMER bringing the truth.
Krauthammer nails it again.
I wonder why this erudite and brilliant man chose the term “the gig is up” over the traditional “the jig is up”.
http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview/id/590347.html
I’ve read that Neville Chamberlain’s last words, on his deathbed, were “If only Herr Hitler had kept his word”.
0bama’s last words will be “It’s all Bush’s fault!”.
(fantasy NYT headline)On second thought, its not much of a fantasy.
Michelle Obama Goes Into Alcohol Rehab
President Obama says: "It's All Bush's Fault!"
(1) 'on occasion' = any day that ends with a 'y'
“Is there anything he hasn’t blamed George W. Bush for?”
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And the sheeple are still buying it, and repeating that mantra.
We are dealing with real morons who have been programmed by the treasonous MSM.
Might her husbands election caused her problem?
Damn sure caused mine!
Probably for the same reason that Bill Maher called out Drudge for shortening "negatives" to "negs." "Jig" is short for a derogatory term ascribed to African-Americans.
In other words, Dat's Rassist!
/sarc
There are certain words that would end all consideration of what else he is trying to say.
Gig can’t be conflated into a racist slur quite as easily as jig can.
PC creep hits everyone at some point or other.
It’s too early yet. We’ve only been at war over there for eight years. The real questions is...”How many more years will it take the President to come to a decision?”
Brilliant man. But he can't spell a three-letter word. Or would prefer not to, he said enigmatically. :)
LOL!!
Good thing I’m not president, because I’ve no grasp of “light footprints” in war. War’s for stomping an enemy. Utterly and quickly. That’s the most merciful way for all involved, in a war. No? The lightest scar, not the lightest footprint.
One thing I have used against my libtard friends to tell them to go over to a calendar and point to the day, month, and year when democrats are accountable. The looks on their faces is priceless.
It is getting very old to blame everything on someone else. That is not leadership.....it is pandering cowardice.
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