Biggest Big Government Can’t Keep Lights On
” In political terms, Hurricane Sandy and the Benghazi consulate debacle exemplify at home and abroad the fundamental unseriousness of the United States in the Obama era. In the days after Sandy hit, Barack Obama was generally agreed to have performed well. He had himself photographed in the White House Situation Room, nodding thoughtfully to bureaucrats (“John Brennan, Assistant to the President for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism; Tony Blinken, National Security Advisor to the Vice President; David Agnew, Director for Intergovernmental Affairs”) and Tweeted it to his 3.2 million followers. He appeared in New Jersey wearing a bomber jacket rather than a suit to demonstrate that when the going gets tough the tough get out a monogrammed Air Force One bomber jacket. He announced that he’d instructed his officials to answer all calls within 15 minutes because in America “we leave nobody behind.” By doing all this, the president “shows” he “cares” – which is true in the sense that in Benghazi he was willing to leave the entire consulate staff behind, and nobody had their calls answered within seven hours, because presumably he didn’t care. So John Brennan, the Counterterrorism guy, and Tony Blinken, the National Security honcho, briefed the president on the stiff breeze, but on Sept. 11, 2012, when a little counterterrorism was called for, nobody bothered calling the Counterterrorism Security Group, the senior U.S. counterterrorism bureaucracy.
I don’t know whether Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan can fix things, but I do know that Barack Obama and Joe Biden won’t even try – and that therefore a vote for Obama is a vote for the certainty of national collapse. Look at Lower Manhattan in the dark, and try to imagine what America might look like after the rest of the planet decides it no longer needs the dollar as global reserve currency. For four years, we have had a president who can spend everything but build nothing. Nothing but debt, dependency, and decay. As I said at the beginning, in different ways the response to Hurricane Sandy and Benghazi exemplify the fundamental unseriousness of the superpower at twilight. Whether or not to get serious is the choice facing the electorate Tuesday.”
Republicans are good at politicizing tragedies in their favor…
Pot meet kettle … The progressive left knows nothing of ” politicizing ” tragedies does it ? Paul Wellstone , Cindy Sheehan , Gabrielle Giffords , Trayvon Martin , oh the list is mighty long … and of course these “Tragedies” were in fact just that … In Benghazi on the other hand , while it is tragic that four fine , honorable American government employees lost their lives , it is criminal that they did so because of a lack of integrity on the part of their employer . The lack of security , the refused requests for additional security , the lack of support when the SHTF , the lies and evasions and backtracking by said employers and finally the persecution , demonization and subsequent jailing of an innocent man all belie a matter of national security way above and beyond any ” tragedy” …. this was sheer , unadulterated imcompetence , or worse …
The fact that you on the left are not screaming bloody hell about the jailing of a strawman for the creation of a tasteless internet video and the failure of this administration to stand up for the 1st Amendment , the one the left supposedly worships uber alles , exposes the hypocrisy inherent in your politics for all the world to see .