Posted on 01/01/2010 12:43:36 PM PST by ricks_place
From the time he launched his campaign for president three years ago, Barack Obama had to consider how he would react to the first serious act of terrorism during the campaign, or if he won, on his watch. His fellow Democrats had been thinking about the moment even longer - since the September day in 2001 when attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon defined George W. Bush’s presidency and gave Republicans a decisive advantage on a defining political issue.
And yet the White House’s response to last week’s attempt to blow up a Northwest Airlines flight to Detroit could rank as one of the low points of the new president’s first year. Over the course of five days, Obama’s Obama’ reaction ranged from low-keyed to reassuring to, finally, a vow to find out what went wrong. The episode was a baffling, unforced error in presidential symbolism, hardly a small part of the presidency, and the moment at which yet another of the old political maxims that Obama had sought to transcend – the Democrats’ vulnerability on national security – reasserted itself.
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That’s where the batteries go.
Isn’t that the truth.......
The real bad dudes on the planet fear our glorious leader about as much as a pit bull fears a toy poodle.
No, adults were in charge of the White House then. While there was plenty of discussion in forums like this, especially about the Gorelick “wall” and Clinton’s supposed spurning of an offer by Sudan to turn over bin Laden. (now controversial, because Clinton recanted an early admission of this, claiming that he ‘misspoke’...)
But the Bush administration pointedly refused to “failures of the previous adminstration” game that Obama and cronies have perfected to a science.
Historically, incoming presidents “man-up” and go about fixing problems that exist rather than going back in time to try to blame their predecessors for everything that goes wrong.
For Obama, not so much...
thanks
We sure did have the shoe bomber on Bush's watch didn't we. But that was a long time ago so maybe it doesn't count.
“We sure did have the shoe bomber on Bush’s watch didn’t we. But that was a long time ago so maybe it doesn’t count.”
Right. That was on Dec. 21, 2001, 3 mos after we realized that terrorism is far larger problem than we thought and the TSA hadn’t taken responsibility for airline security. That was a different world than the one Bush came to build that Obama promised to undo, which he obviously has.
The Biggest Terror Threat this country has is “President” Himself.
The Biggest Terror Threat this country has is “President” Himself.
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