Critics of Obama way off base on this one
Yes — the not-so-bright, would-be terrorist from Nigeria got though international and domestic security mechanisms supposed to have stopped him long before the jerk lit his underwear afire before landing in Detroit. And yes — the incident happened during the administration of President Barack Obama. But the sniping at the president by Republicans, including former Vice President Cheney, and by conservative radio and TV commentators, borders on — if not passing into — asinine.
The criticism has included such childishness as blasting Obama for waiting a few days before making a national speech on the incident. For heaven’s sake, the president was briefed on the incident from the moment it occured; he made statements almost immediately indicating his concern and that he was being regularly briefed; he took time to gather the facts and meet with his national security team; and then he appeared publicly to give a rational, measured, but hard-hitting response. And for this, a former vice president criticizes him.
Partisanship truly has pervasively infected our political system when a reasonable, measured, factual, timely and substantive response by a president to a single security incident — the roots of which clearly indicate long-simmering problems that predated his tenure in office — is publicly blasted as irresponsible. In point of fact, those levelling such counterproductive attacks are the ones engaging in irresponsible behavior.
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Ed from Justice
January 7th, 2010
11:56 am
Here is the difference……… when W was president any potential terrorist knew that some things were for sure. If they were caught, they would go to a prisoner of war camp called Gitmo. They didn’t know what would happen to them while they were there, but it wouldn’t be good. They would also have some aggressive interrogation tactics applied so we could find out who and what they knew. They would not be given rights as citizens of the US and some pro bono lawyers, so that six or eight months from now a deal could be cut. Hopefully no one’s family was hurt or killed because we didn’t have the intel. I am sick of us worrying about the rights of terrorists. If my daughter was on a plane these creeps tried to blow up,I would want the suspect water boarded to who laid the rail. Bottom line, an agressive stance at least keeps their heads down. They don’t respect or fear president Obama. I think he really believes that if we present ourselves as a more friendly country we will get some help. Maybe, but meantime, I don’t want any American to have to die to prove him wrong.
TJ
January 7th, 2010
11:57 am
Thank you Mr Barr. We have to get over this partisan mindset.
National Security should NEVER be a partisan issue. Just like everyone got behind Bush after 9/11 – we need to stay behind Obama – because it’s STILL after 9/11. If you want to be a partisan – attack taxes or health care reform…..attack Obama as Party Head……not Obama as our Commander In Chief.
Get behind the President. Call him out for mistakes, but use common sense…..there was no mistake here. This was a wake up call, and points to weaknesses that we might not have an answer for. It’s not Obama’s fault just like the shoe bomber wasn’t Bush’s.
Eric
January 7th, 2010
11:58 am
“the president was briefed on the incident from the moment it occured”
LIE – he was asleep for three hours before being told what happened. It would help to get facts straight as is pointed out.
Chris Abbott
January 7th, 2010
11:58 am
I remember the Katrina attacks on W and they were unfounded in my view! W was accussed of, not only taking forever to react after the storm, but was also accussed of being a Racist and not caring about the black population of New Oleans to get them out of the city. Noone seems to remember though that it was Mayor Nagan’s responsibility to get them out and HE failed miserably! Typical left wing spin.
WarEagle
January 7th, 2010
11:59 am
Bob, it is asinine comments like this that convinced me to vote for the Constitution Party and not the Libertarian Party in the last presidential election.
Duke
January 7th, 2010
12:00 pm
The problem is TRUST. How can you trust an Administration that does not honor the Constitution, that has an enormous LUST for power and uses it, and could care less for the future of this country. Actions are speaking louder than any opponent’s words. That is a FACT! By the way, 2010 will bring to new areas of probable disaster to these United States: a Food Shortage and an unbelieveable increase in CRIME. Watch these two develop.
Brian Goettl
January 7th, 2010
12:01 pm
Two points. First, Barr is wrong when he said Obama waited for three days and gathered all the facts. Obama’s first statement was that the attack was by an isolated extremist. By the weekend, Obama had to acknowledge it was an al-Queada attack. Barr has bought into the Obama bs, hook, line and sinker.
Second, the partisan attacks began with the Bork nomination in (1987?). The liberals like Ted Kennedy were vicious in their attacks. The same can be said of the attacks against Bob Packwood, and Clarence Thomas. One needs to simply visit far left wing extremists websites like The Daily Kos, to see the level of invective of the far left. Or, one could simply re-watch the bubble media attacks on Sarah Palin to see that type of contemptuous behaviour.
Barr’s attack on conservative attacks on Obama, appears to be the assinine assertion.
Christian
January 7th, 2010
12:02 pm
WHAW!! CRY ME A RIVER!! CRY ME A FRICKIN RIVER!! You didn’t say that at any point for the previous president. Now that you nut-jobs are in charge you are incapable of leading – leading starts with taking responsibility for things that happen under your watch – you know – HOW BUSH TOOK IT! Shut up and take your medicine cry baby.
Diogenes
January 7th, 2010
12:03 pm
Ho hum – once again here goes the inept Bob Barr, who BOTCHED the impeachment of the Perjurer President, Bill Clinton, trying to get national attention in the state-sponsored media, by attacking the evil Darth Vader of the Republican Party. This random, pitiful, poorly written opinion piece, totally avoids the entire point of the criticisms of the White House by Vice President Cheney as well as many, many other informed people. Obama’s first instinct, as always, was to blame Bush. Before he even had the facts, Obama said the “system” put in place by the Bush administration, was at fault, not individuals in the Obama administration. More importantly, Obama declared that the “suspect”, who he would NOT identify as a terrorist, or even a suspected terrorist, was an isolated actor. I could repeat many other criticisms, which have been brought to light by VP Cheney and many others; but I suspect that Barr has heard all of those things. He is simply an attention-starved has been, or never-was, trying to get his face back in front of a camera.
Ted B
January 7th, 2010
12:04 pm
Why should Obama have acted immmediately? He had his appointed National Security Czar/idiot,Janet Napolitano, gather no informaiton and go on one of the Obama networks and state that the system worked as it as it should have. I was shocked that the reporter did not question her as to how the islamic goon got on the plane with explosives if everyhting worked as it was supposed to. These are the types of liberal, socialist loons advising Pres BO.
jilliangood
January 7th, 2010
12:04 pm
Perhaps he would get less criticism if he were not so smirking, smug and obnoxious. The less I see of him, the better.
Laura
January 7th, 2010
12:06 pm
Mr Barr – you are the one that needs to get your facts straight. President Obama was not notified to at least 2 hours AFTER the plane was on the ground in Detroit (heck even the Huffington post is reporting that one). His first briefing with advisors was only 15 minutes and then we was off to a workout. He then waiting 3 days (the incident happened on the 25th (in the morning Hawaii time) and he didn’t address the public until 12/28 in the afternoon (Hawaii time).
He wanted the job of President and he said he fully understood what that entailed and he was ready for that 3am call……. well it appears he wasn’t. This was someone trying to attack us on Christmas day using means that had been used before (the attack on the Saudi Prince) and he was sitting right over the gas tank of the plane. Yes,the partisan needs to be stop on both sides but the President also needs to step up and run this country and provide for its safety. That is the job he wanted and we believed that he could do it. I have serious doubts about that.
Don Wayt
January 7th, 2010
12:06 pm
I have to agree completely. Even though I am not an Obama supporter I do think that he handled the situation properly. Those who complain that they did it to Bush so it is okay to trash Obama forget the class that President Bush handled things with by refusing to continue to blame President Clinton. That is true presidential class.
Mike M
January 7th, 2010
12:07 pm
Why is Barr sending the Whaaaaaambulance to the White House on this one? This wasn’t a “security incident”, it was a terrorist attack with clear ties to Al Qaeda, and the only reason it failed because the terrorist was stopped by private citizens after a waterfall of failures by the government. We wait days for a response from Obama, and today we get a whole seperate press release telling us, “Get ready for this one guys, you’re gonna be shocked at how bad we blew it!” This earns an empassioned defense from Barr? Sorry, but this is why Barr and the Libertarian Party wasn’t and will never be ready for prime time.
Simone
January 7th, 2010
12:09 pm
I think Bob should proof-read his article before trying to sound so intelligent. As soon as I see a spelling error or obvious error in grammar, I’m done and the writer no longer has any credibility.
Sorry Bob!
BarrBeeQue
January 7th, 2010
12:11 pm
Barr and the Libertarian Party will never be ready for prime time.
ShayneInDallas
January 7th, 2010
12:12 pm
Golly, Bob. I love your outrage. Why didn’t you make similar comments when Bush was blasted because he didn’t leap from a classroom on 9/11 while the Secret Service and Defense Department were trying to assess the situation and his safety? Why didn’t you make similar comments when he was blasted for playing golf (as Obama was doing)? You have no idea how tired Americans are of the Democratics, do you? By the way, will you be appearing on the C-Span coverage of the healthcare negotiations?
Tronist
January 7th, 2010
12:12 pm
To be bi-partison is to be without principles is to be without morals.
JC
January 7th, 2010
12:13 pm
The sweet voice of reason! I appreciated your courage and honesty, Bob. Most of the Republican propaganda and criticism has turned nihilistic. No mere mortal president deserves the abuse heaped on this man, who is one of the most thoughtful and rational people ever to be president. He was handed the Titanic after it struck an iceberg. We are all on this sinking ship unless we work together and stop the constant, irrational and half-crazed attacks. Give the man a fair chance, for God’s sake. Americans used to be fair and decent folk who worked together against adversity. What have we become?
johs
January 7th, 2010
12:13 pm
Sarah, In my mind (which could admittedly be uninformed and/or warped) the Republicans have had some good ideas (like allowing interstate competition among health insurance providers), However they have remained inflexible on both idiological issues like abortion language, and practical issues like the public option and expansion of Medicare without offering effective alternatives to bring down costs (as measured by the non-partisan CBO. The Republican strategy looks to me like one that is utterly political in nature and not one of concern for the American people who are suffering (me among them) at the hands of our healthcare system.
None of the Republican ideas were even allowed in the House and were pretty much disregarded in the Senate except for some input in only one committee until the dems decided it was time to quit discussion.
Since one of the single biggest cost of health care is defensive medicine caused by lopsided court case judgement and higher insurance rates on doctors forcing them to practice highly defensive medicine if they wanted to stay in business, it speaks volumes about the seriousness of the dems for cost control. It also speaks volumes by omitting the 200 billion that will be paid to doctors due to low reinbursement rates on mdicare so the CBO doesn’t score it just to fool the public about the cost. It also speaks volumes about the dems that they would use 500 billion in medicare cost savings that hae never before, nor will ever be seen after the bill is passed. With 30 million new patients and the reimbursement rate for doctors on medicare at roughly 50% according to the Mayo clinic, the shortage of doctors willing to take the elderly as patients will be even more staggering than it is now. The additional costs to the states for medicade will be enormous and that amount is not included in the CBO numbers. States like California, Michigan, and Texas will huge populations of the portion of the 30 million who’s premiums will be subsidized will go bankrupt, California and Michigan long before Texas due to the fiscal responsiblity of lower taxes and better corporate business environment differences in the 2 states. The CBO only gets to score what Pelosi and Reid let them score, they don’t have a free hand to give the American public an honest answer.
Big Pharma is also taking us to the cleaners. It seems very odd that dems think transfering wealth to big health insurance carriers is some sort of reform. Dems like this plan because it creates a huge voting bloc reliant on government and paid for by republicans, independents, an a small percentage of the democrat base.
JD
January 7th, 2010
12:14 pm
This is the second terrorist act committed on U.S. soil since the beginning of the Obama administration and all you can do is complain about the comments of a former vice president! Walking in lockstep with a president and a party that refuses to take responsibility for it’s own administration and who cannot be trusted to defend a nation, you choose to blame the former president while not even comprehending the connection between this “single security incident” and the events in Fort Hood. This president chooses to treat this act of war as a law enforcement problem which guarantees rights to individuals who are not given these same rights under the U.S. Constitution or the Geneva Convention. This president may not like the phrase “War On Terror” but it seems the terrorists are at war with the U.S. This begs the question Mr. President…Are you at war with them? Mr. Barr, it’s time to put down that glass of Kool-Aid and start smelling the coffee!
Bob Chase
January 7th, 2010
12:16 pm
Bob,
What changed your tune? As a staunch conservative I think its about time Republicans or RINOs get back to Reagan economics and readopting the view most American’s feel our role should be in the world, as Reagan did. We have no time left for pasty faced politicians who are in over their heads to make incredibly dumb decisions which in the end will endanger all Americans.
ADM
January 7th, 2010
12:17 pm
Jack Parkman
January 7th, 2010
7:34 am
What’s with all the spelling errors? Consservative? Assinine? Long-simemring? Copy editor must’ve had a bad day.
Jack, either take your meds or get some glasses. There are no spelling errors.
Mike5150
January 7th, 2010
12:19 pm
I know….People are acting like he continued to sit down reading with children for SEVEN MINUTES! I’m going to go back to your past blogs to read what you said defending Bush on that. I bet you really let the left have it. I can’t wait.
Keith
January 7th, 2010
12:19 pm
I believe the biggest criticism from conservatives is the handling of this terrorist as a legal matter and granting him the rights of an imprisoned American citizen, including Obama’s description of the young man as an “alleged” “suspect”. Can you try to justify that for Obama?
nodoubt1
January 7th, 2010
12:21 pm
Thanks for introducing some common sense and civility into the debate. We need both parties to provide intelligent and constructive criticism of one another. There is no other way to counter the pet theories, sacred cows, and delusions that each party keeps repeating to themselves. Climate change and energy policy needs a more careful analysis before we hang ourselves with false assumptions and misguided priorities. Capitalism needs effective regulation to prevent excessive concentrations of wealth and power, to resist development of a permanent underclass, and further the development of a healthy and prosperous middle class. Otherwise, the system will destroy itself with monopoly, imperialism, and class warfare. A stable and balance political system is essential for continued progress. Meanwhile, health care can not be allowed to exceed its present share of GDP; nor is it going to be politically feasible to keep pushing folks out of the system. Republicans had a great chance to deal with that issue but choose to avoid it so we are where we are now. What is the conservative plan to breaking the political power of the health care and Wall Street money/power combines?
Abe_labbad
January 7th, 2010
12:21 pm
I don’t agree with you Bob, since Obama look at this type of attack as a criminal issue and seek to provide Civil Right. Additionally the fact that he took time to make a comment would not be as big an issue by itself; Look at the comments “The system worked” “this was a lone unaffiliated crazy person” all of which proved to be contrary to known facts at the time the statements were made. These comments combined with relaxed reaction is contrary to a Presidents first duty “Keeping us SAFE”
Bob I was always a fan of your, but something has gone wrong with your prospective in the last few years.
Gregory W. MacPherson
January 7th, 2010
12:21 pm
Are you supposed to be someone intelligent, because your writing style suggests that you are, and yet your statements are neither arguments nor intelligent, simply insulting and denigrating. Schoolchildren can call names better than you can – perhaps I should suggest that to your editor – they probably work for less as well.
If you had military experience or foreign policy experience, you would never make the mistake of separating Foot Hood and Detroit, but instead would see the connection of those and other events from a strategic view. From there, you would easily conclude that the responses by the administration to the strategy that the two episodes exemplify are amateurish, uncoordinated, and impotent.
True, the Bush administration also created the “security theater” of TSA and DHS. While they might be partially forgiven for responding to pressure from the American public to “do something” in the wake of the 9-11 attacks, this administration cannot be forgiven because (a) the programs have been in place for years – long enough to evaluate their effectiveness and results, and (b) continued attacks have defeated arguments in favor of ignoring or denying that true enemies both exist and are competent. The diaper bomber was not unsuccessful; in fact, he was eighty percent successful. The only reason we are not mourning the passengers of that flight is user error, nothing more saved them from certain death.
Ultimately, neither administration’s responses are adequate to keep the American people safe. Unless and until the United States stops playing a defensive game, the Muslim terrorists will continue to find and to exploit our weaknesses. Moreover, unless and until sycophants and apologists for the Obama administration allow the military and intelligence communities to hunt down and destroy the terrorist leadership, attacks will continue and lives will be lost.
LogicalOne
January 7th, 2010
12:22 pm
Perhaps if you, Bob Barr, would spend more time reading Cheney’s statement rather than consuming the MSNBC Kool-Aid you could put the dots together. The criticism is for this administration’s systematic and persistent actions which indicate our retreat in the War on Terror — and how this retreat has made us vulnerable to acts such as the present one.
Andrew
January 7th, 2010
12:22 pm
You just reminded me of why I didn’t vote for you, Obama or McCain this last election. Thanks for the reminder Bobby.
Minister James
January 7th, 2010
12:24 pm
The Ku Klux Klan was a political party too and people thought they were right. Some of your comments would still be in line with that way of thinking today. Cheney is a profiteer from the deaths of thousands of American soldiers; men and women. You people would follow this draft dodger anywhere.
buck
January 7th, 2010
12:24 pm
I think bob barr has been working at the aclu too long maybe he should sit down and read some quotes of mr. baldwin!!!!! he might actually realize he’s become a “useful idiot”
arynolds
January 7th, 2010
12:24 pm
Bob Barr is a booger eating moron. Why would anyone in the intelligence game risk being put on the line to answer questions about putting someone on such a high profile list without a mountain of evidence, after the way Obama and Pelosi have ravaged the CIA and other intelligence agencies? Just look at how the Navy seals are being treated for punching a well known and extremely dangerous terrorist.
What Bob also doesn’t mention is that Obama’s lack of management experience and his view of terrorism as a “criminal” activity caused him to put the wrong people in charge (Janet Napolitano) who failed to uncover the problems supposedly caused by Bush. I don’t remember having these issues after 9/11 while Bush was in charge. Are we to believe that we were only lucky? Are we to believe that the terrorists are just now coming after us again?
Obama FAILED you idiot – twice! He is continuing to fail us because he is not making any substantive changes. He is only putting a band aid on the issue because he doesn’t have the brains or guts to make changes that will correct this issue. One phone call to the Israelis would give him all the ideas he needs, and they wouldn’t think about using full body scanners.
Obama and Barr are complete tools.
rockman
January 7th, 2010
12:24 pm
arnold; The REPUBLICANS have been overly nasty??? You must be joking, insane, or just not paying attention. I’m not a Republican myself but come on. You say this with a straight face while the pit bulls Pelosi, Reid, Obama, Schumer, Emanuel, et al, make incendiary remarks CONSTANTLY about the Republicans. Get real.
dmartin
January 7th, 2010
12:28 pm
What is truly partisan is the fact that you did not write these words in defense of our previous president. George Bush was not only criticized for his actions after the worst attack in American history; He was demonized. Crying foul in the name of bi-partisanship only after “YOUR guy” is criticized is laughable.
Dwight in Lawrenceville
January 7th, 2010
12:28 pm
I obviously made a mistake supporting Bob Barr when he ran against Linder for the US House. I will make sure it doesn’t happen again, should Barr have any future ambitions.
Phil
January 7th, 2010
12:29 pm
Bob, while I think that most can agree that the flaws in our intelligence and security apparatus pre-date this Administration, this President deserves every bit of criticism coming his way. Not so much for the slow public response or any other of semi-trivial details you cited. No, what he deserves is criticism for personifying and re-engendering the attitude of the pre-9/11 mentality. How does one expect that those whose charge it is to protect us – in the military, the intelligence services, in the airport – will function properly when the President has said in words and deeds that we are not at war? That these are isolated acts? The alleged crimes of a few alleged extremists? His Justice Department moves to demonize and indeed prosecute CIA interrogators. Does a sane person believe they will continue to do their duty to the fullest? A court martial will soon take place for Navy SEALs who punched a terrorist in his poor little tummy. Should a reasonable person think that a President concerned about our troops would weigh in and put the clamps on this nonsense? The airport screeners are still scrutinizing Grandma Myrtle from Alabama as closely as they are Akhmed from Arabia. What we are seeing now with these recent attacks is the culmination of the politicization, undertaken by the President’s political party, of the Federal Government’s most significant function – the protection of its citizenry from attack. This President has played a large role in bringing us to this juncture and deserves no passes when it comes to the laughable, but frightening, state of affairs. In going out of your way to demonstrate your objectivity, you have forgotten the object.
Neil
January 7th, 2010
12:32 pm
Is this the same idiot, Bob Barr, that helped Obama win with his stupid third party run for president?
BillyG
January 7th, 2010
12:33 pm
You know what’s asinine? For over 6 yrs those on the right had to listen to the incessant snivelling of the left regarding W’s invading Iraq. And now you have a democrat President, elected mainly on the color of his skin (so you’ll tell that he’d still be President if he were white huh?), that is taking the most major steps to socialize America since FDR used the Depression to usher in his rubbish, who has the benefit of media protection and we still have guys like Barr here trying to cover up for the most incompetent, ineffectual leader of America in my lifetime, and possibly her total history. Obama couldn’t inspire me to drink water in the middle of Death Valley. You got Obama as the Great Deceiver and his partner Algore as the False Prophet, welcome to Armageddon. I know I’m racist radical… if that’s true, I’d still prefer to be that, than one of you democrats stuck in your own media bubble which I affectionately call the MATRIX. I got a red pill for you tho…
JCR
January 7th, 2010
12:34 pm
So that’s the opinion of a mainstream Libertarian nowadays. Vow! That’s pretty harsh on government.
Old Sailor
January 7th, 2010
12:34 pm
Who is the BARR guy. I can tell he thinks that Barry and Mooshell can walk on water but I just don’t think that is at all possible.
Maybe he needs to go back to Junior High School and start over from GO.
Contrary to what Barry and others may think, he is not the Messiah that he would like all of the voters to think he is.
He is for higher taxes, more government controls, more government jobs, a bigger trough for the Senators and Representatives to eat from.
The list goes on and on. Welcome to Barry’s world.
jilliangood
January 7th, 2010
12:34 pm
Still blaming Bush for Katrina? Why did I never hear a word of criticism for the democrat mayor of New Orleans and the democrat governor of Louisiana? The mayor left for Texas and nothing was ever seen of the governor. Go to hell, Bush bashers.
cj
January 7th, 2010
12:35 pm
Mr. Barr, I don’t remember you calling those on your side of the political isle were being “asinine” because President George W. Bush finished his reading to the second graders the morning September 11th.
You, sir, are a horse’s arse for defending this potentially devastating terrorist attack simply because you are unable to separate your partisanship from your citizenship in the greatest Republic this world has produced.
JD
January 7th, 2010
12:35 pm
The midterm elections are coming, America…Don’t act stupidly!
b' en natuf
January 7th, 2010
12:35 pm
Enter your comments here Way pff base bpb. I don’y care a whit about how long it took him to say something, on that I’ll agree. But, the problem was not long simmering. As Fauxbama like to point out he “ingeritted” much… inclufing a working security sustem. The provlem is as plain as the egg on your dace. Leadership/ Is there any wonder that on the first Xmas after Guxh left office, the firsy one without warnings to be extra vigilant, this happenned? No its not, because of a lack of docusm a lack of urgency, and the penchant of the fauxbamites to believe their campaign rhetoric. Tell me bob that you don’t remeber them all claiming that at each holiday, anicersery or event that Bish announced extra measures of vigilance them claiming he was “playingf on our fears” and using terror as a political prop. If you don’t yu mist have been asleep at the wheel or suffering from your own bout with BDS. Once again Bush is bindicated and Fauxvama is shown to ve the not ready for orime time neophite he is. Leadership vov… thats the problem.
Sam was right
January 7th, 2010
12:36 pm
The liberties of our country, the freedom of our civil Constitution, are worth defending at all hazards; and it is our duty to defend them against all attacks. We have received them as a fair inheritance from our worthy ancestors: they purchased them for us with toil and danger and expense of treasure and blood, and tr…ansmitted them to us with care and diligence. ~ Samuel Adams
deathportal
January 7th, 2010
12:36 pm
Personally, I don’t think we should do ANYTHING. And I know you’ll all think I’m nuts for saying that. But all that’s going to end up happening is, more hassles and regulations for law-abiding Americans, and nothing else but the potential for further terrorist attacks. The War on Terror is a farce and it’s unwinnable. Rather than escalating it every time we’re attacked, we ought to think twice about what happens EVERY TIME WE ESCALATE IT….MORE terrorist recruitment, and future attacks.
I think our Mid-East intervention is sort of like hitting a bee hive with a stick. You’re going to get stung. But instead of STOPPING hitting the bee hive with the stick, we just get a bigger stick and swing harder. How smart is that, seriously? These wars we’re in were NOT legally declared, meaning we are nothing more than invaders in someone else’s homeland.
Do I side with the Muslim terrorists? No, I think they’re nuts. But seriously, when are we going to stop inadvertantly justifying their cause in the name of “National Security?”
Sam was right
January 7th, 2010
12:36 pm
The liberties of our country, the freedom of our civil Constitution, are worth defending at all hazards; and it is our duty to defend them against all attacks. We have received them as a fair inheritance from our worthy ancestors: they purchased them for us with toil and danger and expense of treasure and blood, and transmitted them to us with care and diligence. ~ Samuel Adams
Sam
January 7th, 2010
12:37 pm
Sorry, Bob, but you’re the one that’s way off base on this. The President seems to have done everything in his power to avoid taking responsibility – personal responsibility – for the failures of his administration. He’s blaming the CIA (one of the few organizations actually out fighting the war on terror and killing terrorists) while defending Janet Napolitano (who isn’t sure whether the system worked or not). He’s passing the buck, rather than the buck stopping with him. That, sir, is weakness, if ever it existed.
rrm
January 7th, 2010
12:37 pm
Where the hell am I? Thanks Drudge, I’m reading an article called the Barr Code? How is this guy relevant to anything?