GOP representative Mike Conoway gets asked why they are so gung ho in attacking Obama for waiting for three days to comment on a thwarted attack, when Bush took six to respond to a similar attack. He clearly was not prepared for the question. Unfortunately, she lets him off the hook.
Addendum: The White House hit back at the GOP, and particularly VP Dick Cheney – fairly aggressively actually. Some excerpts:
“The difference is this: President Obama doesn’t need to beat his chest to prove it, and – unlike the last Administration – we are not at war with a tactic (“terrorism”), we [are] at war with something that is tangible: al Qaeda and its violent extremist allies.
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To put it simply: this President is not interested in bellicose rhetoric, he is focused on action. Seven years of bellicose rhetoric failed to reduce the threat from al Qaeda and succeeded in dividing this country. And it seems strangely off-key now, at a time when our country is under attack, for the architect of those policies to be attacking the President.
Ouch!
Second addendum: Just so you know, another problem with Obama is that he’s vacationining in his home state of Hawaii. That’s a “foreign place.”
Meanwhile, Democrats are starting to find their voice. This isn’t 1980 or 1994.
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December 30, 2009 at 1:20 pm
Be here now
This just in, we get it that Bush, who used to be President, sucked out loud.
That does not excuse further suckage by he who promised not to suck.
But hell, he promised to be transparent, bipartisan, out of Iraq, trustworthy, loyal, helpful, friendly,
courteous, kind, obedient, cheerful, thrifty,
brave, clean, and reverent.
I guess he’s friendly. If you thump your neighbor, he will ask you both over
for a beer. He’s probably kind, at least to party loyalists. And I am sure he is
hygenic.
December 30, 2009 at 1:52 pm
Eric Kirk
That’s one way of thinking about it. Another possibility, given the same reaction by two presidents, is that there is reason behind the decision. Maybe not elevating the importance of the attack with an immediate presidential response, particularly on a major holiday and when the attack failed, it good policy.
Again, the issue here isn’t so much whether Bush was bad too, but the hypocrisy of feigned GOP outrage.
December 30, 2009 at 3:33 pm
Heraldo
Exactly. Republicans have adopted a policy of complain-no-matter-what in lieu of any real platform.
December 30, 2009 at 4:26 pm
moviedad
Apparently there was a crime committed in California. Why hasn’t the president made a statement?
December 30, 2009 at 5:03 pm
Anonymous
was it here in sohum? that probably explains it.
December 30, 2009 at 5:31 pm
moviedad
I just found this cool site for local information:
http://www.city-data.com/county/Humboldt_County-CA.html
You can get info on individual cities also.
December 30, 2009 at 7:52 pm
Joe Blow
Heraldo, what makes you think that what they’re doing isn’t their “real platform”?
Hey Eric, go back and re-read that first comment, then tell all of us what “thought” got to do with it? I’m waiting for the day I read your admission of betrayal.
In all my years of dealing with lawyers I never found one that these words meant anything: “be transparent, bipartisan, trustworthy, loyal, helpful, friendly, courteous, kind, obedient, cheerful, thrifty, brave, clean, and reverent.” But, then again, politians are all nothing but lawyers, aren’t they? From your response I’d say he talked right over you too.
December 30, 2009 at 7:55 pm
Eric Kirk
Was any of that supposed to make sense Joe?
Just asking.
December 30, 2009 at 8:15 pm
here and back again
About as much sense as giving 750 billion to Wall Street.
December 30, 2009 at 8:23 pm
Tom Sebourn
Erik, speaking of making sense of things, contact me about Arthur Murphy.
December 30, 2009 at 8:32 pm
Eric Kirk
Arthur Murphy. The guy I interviewed about 911 premonitions? Okay, I’ll send an email.
December 30, 2009 at 8:44 pm
Anonymous
That’s kind of like the boy scout list. Bipartisan?
December 31, 2009 at 7:24 am
unanonymous
While i would pluck my own eyes out with a fork before supporting Bush, a fair analysis would indicate that the actions set in motion prior to Obama have reduced violence and improved conditions in Iraq. Afghanistan, shrub screwed, and we will see if Obama will be able to help. Of course, as we all should be aware, Obama is expanding our war against tangible entities to Yemen.
December 31, 2009 at 8:32 am
moviedad
Gross.
December 31, 2009 at 8:50 am
Joe Blow
Eric, you sound just like my genius kid and occasionally my wife? Like I tell them, when you figure it out you come tell me. (My way of finding out if they’re really listening or just trying to make a funny . . .)
December 31, 2009 at 9:31 am
Joe Blow
Eric,
Getting serious, my point to Heraldo was my lame effort to emphasize your excellent commentary, “The Culture War Joins the Terror War.” When you consider the comment by “unanonymous,” there really is no difference. All the so-called terrorists did and continue to do is motivate this “war.” When you hear the tyranny and treason in the likes of Pete Hoekstra, Dick Cheney and others you can begin to understand the real war these so-called “terrorists” are conducting. If the last year and the Obama presidency tells us anything, they the so-called “radical extremists” already won that war. With Constitutional protections shredded the Constitution becomes irrelevant coupled with the fact Congress and Obama are conducting government accordingly, like a totalitarian state, the circle comes closed. Not to forget the looting of working America that goes right to the heart of the Culture War/Terror War. … And the Republican’s pseudo opposition? That’s just a feint.
December 31, 2009 at 10:08 am
anon
LUSH LINBOUGH HAD A HEAR ATTACH..AND THE LIBERALS CAUSED IT
December 31, 2009 at 12:21 pm
anon
The 2010 appropriations bill contained Transportation Security Administration funding for explosives detection systems and other security measures — it was opposed by House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio), Rep. Pete Hoekstra (R-Mich.), and Rep. Mike Pence (R-Ind.) among others.
December 31, 2009 at 5:49 pm
Eric Kirk
Well, that’s probably because the tangible entities have taken hold in Yemen. So are we expanding the war, or are they?
January 1, 2010 at 10:06 am
moviedad
Why do you think they opposed it?