At Least He Kept Us Safe

No matter what those constipated, asswipes, progressive, leftist, unrepentant, Godless, self serving elitist wanker, hypocrite, pansy, girlie men, che loving, obsessive compulsive, anti Semite, anti Christian, pro islamic terrorist, pro castro, pro chavez, mofos, horesh*t eating, penis breath, liberals out there have to say, especially those self grandious wanks who have nothing better to do than to obsess with what we write over here, who purport to get their only action at the local strip club, but fail, and who insist that global warming is the causes of their emasculation and mental impotence, and who feel that they have a right to marry goats, have to say about President Bush, . . . he has kept us safe since 9/11. They don't want to admit it. They like to say things are more dangerous here today than they were pre 9/11, but the fact is they are so full of caca that they will come up with some other inane argument (stolen from Noam Chomsky) to say something to the contrary. They're tearing down their Obama altars since they are pissed that not enough "progressives" have been appointed to the cabinet, and will continue to blame Bush for everything including the festering sores on their bodies.

Great op ed today by Peggy Noonan on this precise point:

She notes:

In the seven years since 9/11, there were no further attacks on American soil. This is an argument that's been around for a while but is newly re-emerging as the final argument for Mr. Bush: the one big thing he had to do after 9/11, the single thing he absolutely had to do, was keep it from happening again. And so far he has. It is unknown, and perhaps can't be known, whether this was fully due to the government's efforts, or the luck of the draw, or a combination of luck and effort. And it not only can't be fully known by the public, it can hardly be fully known by the players at all levels of government. They can't know, for instance, of a potential terrorist cell that didn't come together because of their efforts.

But the meme will likely linger. There's a rough justice with the American people. If a president presides over prosperity, whether he had anything to do with it or not, he gets the credit. If he has a recession, he gets the blame. The same with war, and terrorist attacks. We have not been attacked since 9/11. Someone—someones—did something right.

And of course the asslicks will say, there they go again, those wingnuts trying to scare everyone. But listen to what Democrat Bob Graham, adviser to Obama has to say about that ....

Commission co-chairman Bob Graham, a former chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee and an adviser to Mr. Obama's transition team, was sober in a Q&A with Newsweek. He said he was most surprised at the risk of biological weapons because of "the ubiquitous nature of pathogens"—anthrax, or a resurrected infectious agent such as the one that produced the 1918 influenza epidemic, which has been re-created in the laboratory.

The report hasn't received the attention it deserves, nor have its recommendations. Rep. Jane Harman, a California Democrat, accused the commission of playing the "fear card" and trying to imitate the Bush administration in alarmism and bellicosity. Mr. Graham, a Florida Democrat and former senator, would have none of it. "Our adversaries are gaining greater capabilities," he said.

Here is the key line of her article which hits it on the head and pretty much repeats a comment I made to Henry yesterday that perhaps the big O is seeing the intel and is saying, "Oh Shit!"

But it comes at a key moment for Mr. Obama, because it gives him a certain amount of cover to be serious about what needs to be done. What's at stake for him is two words. When Republicans say, in coming years, "At least Bush kept us safe," Democrats will not want tacked onto the end of that sentence, "unlike Obama."

Have a great weekend infidels!

Posted by Cigar Mike at December 5, 2008 08:57 AM

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