Posted on 09/22/2010 7:02:14 PM PDT by SanFranDan
It starts with the front page story from the Washington Post which talks about Bob Woodward’s new book, Obama’s Wars. The book quite literally is a stark reality check for the American people on who their Commander-in-Chief is and how he thinks.
The first bombshell that people are talking about is this comment directly from Obama to Woodward:
“We can absorb a terrorist attack. We’ll do everything we can to prevent it, but even a 9/11, even the biggest attack ever . . . we absorbed it and we are stronger.”
Nice…but it gets worse...Check this. This might explain why Director of Intel Blair was run out of his position. He told the truth and Rahm accused him of scapegoating the issue!
During a daily intelligence briefing in May 2009, Mr. Blair [former Director of Intelligence] warned the president that radicals with American and European passports were being trained in Pakistan to attack their homelands. Mr. Emanuel afterward chastised him, saying, “You’re just trying to put this on us so it’s not your fault.” Mr. Blair also skirmished with Mr. Brennan about a report on the failed airliner terrorist attack on Dec. 25. Mr. Obama later forced Mr. Blair out.
Another interesting thing about the book is that it covers last summer/fall when Obama took FOREVER to figure out his Afghanistan strategy even though McChrystal’s needs were clear as day. As it turns out, Obama could care less about the mission being a success and cared only about his exit strategy.
Predictable of course. He is the man we always knew. IT’s just amazing to read somebody who was actually there to tell the story. Woodward’s book explains how the military commanders were pressured to carry out their strategic goals in what they called an “unrealisitic time frame” and without the proper number of troops that were requested to finish the job successfully.
According to Woodward’s meeting-by-meeting, memo-by-memo account of the 2009 Afghan strategy review, the president avoided talk of victory as he described his objectives.
And on the dismissal of the military’s requests for troops?
The president concluded from the start that “I have two years with the public on this” and pressed advisers for ways to avoid a big escalation, the book says. “I want an exit strategy,” he implored at one meeting.
Privately, he told Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. to push his alternative strategy opposing a big troop buildup in meetings, and while Mr. Obama ultimately rejected it, he set a withdrawal timetable because, “I can’t lose the whole Democratic Party.”
Wait wha???
“I can’t lose the whole Democratic Party.”
And there you have it folks...The true intentions of our sitting President is not to be victorious in Afghanistan, not to protect the American people from another attack, not to do everything he can to make sure that this country is safe from future attacks, it’s for one reason only. To shore up support for himself in his own party.
what a disgrace...
Now, there’s already staunch reaction coming out, and I’ll leave you with one of the best I’ve seen. It’s John Bolton’s appearance today on Foxnews. Here is the video:
“If the book is accurate … it is some of the most cold-blooded, cynical, grotesquely political manipulation of national security that I think we’ve ever seen.”
“The notion that a President would say that in that kind of callous and just utterly robotic way, I think is yet further indication that Obama is simply not qualified to be Commander-in-Chief,” Bolton added.
“Obama is divorced from the American people, I think he is unemphatic, I think he is ‘show that’ and I think the American people have the wit to know what that means,” Bolton concluded.
He could just as easily be talking about the extreme left.
The extreme left absorbed 9/11 and came back stronger.
Zippo has a habit of referring to the extreme left as “WE” as in “We are what you've been waiting for”.
My impression is he's referring to his administration absorbing an attack and coming back stronger.
*My son is a Marine heading to Afghanistan in December, and as far as I’m concerned, this shithead just gave our enemies the green light to take any of us out where ever we are, especially our troops.*
Actually, if the Talib are smart, they won’t kill anyone until June 2011, If they were smart, they’d just stockpile weapons and kill everyone after we leave.
Ignore the heathens. You’re absolutely right.
Thanks all. I see it another way now.
Agree ... He is hiding, the other post was spur o the moment
TT
Watching the video, the first thing that jumps out is that scum like Simon Rosenberg cannot help themselves when they speak, they have to lie! ... This pond scum leftist asserted that 53 percent of the American people were behind Obama in 2008. To need to lie so blatantly tells me two things immediately: the progressive scum like Rosenberg have total disdain for the American people as nothing more than what obamanoids characterizes as ‘Homer Simpsons to be manipualted’, AND the scum are just beginning to realize that we the people are not going quietly into the progressives ‘marxist utopia’, that we are locking and loading and coming for the scum like Rosenberg who have such disdain for we the people. Tolerating scum like Rosenberg is why we’re so far down the broad road to destruction. Time to build the guillotines
Someone like me, who is not quite as far right as many of you, is now stuck hoping all your "tea party" people win their elections. If we don't take back at least one house of Congress, God help us all.
When he says “WE” he does offend me ... I start “feeling” / acting like a DU poster for a couple of minutes until I regain my composure
McCain, Lindsey and a few others can also push that button.
TT
Ditto that.
I'm afraid there are increasingly fewer who can.
Obama, our first Rohypnol President.
RE: My son is a Marine heading to Afghanistan in December/
Tell your son to keep his head down, his eyes open and to watch his 6!——Same advice I was given, OIF vet
Obama, our first Rohypnol president.
First he gave it to the press,
Now he is giving it to us.
He is one of them, obviously. Certainly not one of us.
Looks like Gatewaypundit blew the transcription.
What Bolton said was, “Obama’s divorced from the American people, he’s unempathetic, I think these quotes show that, and I think the American people have the wit to know what that means.”
I am sorry, but I must admit that I didn’t even know of Rohypnol until your post.
I have to vote 100% accurate for technical content, but somewhat lacking in Rapid Recognition attribute needed for an effective bumper sticker.
So, only a 5.7 eh? Well, I’ll keep trying.
I’ll see your Grrrr and raise you a grumble.
LOL - maybe a 6+ for good word count too!
I could care less = there is more room for me to not care..or I care some...
To people that read words, it is a big difference...imho
I think “couldn’t care less”/”could care less” is like irony or sarcasm. It’s like “slim chance” is the same as “fat chance”.
Still, it is inaccurate. For that reason, I’ll suggest the more accurate “could not care less”.
“It’s accurate, and correct. I can’t believe this is being argued!” (We live in an age that sees correct grammar as an affront, and where it is ridiculed).
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