Nice to see the football isn't being spiked...

I know I just wrote about this issue, but it is amazing to me that President Clinton agreed to be the spokesman for this message given he had three opportunities to remove Osama bin Laden from this world before September 11 was ever carried out and didn't execute on actionable intelligence at the time.

If he had carried out his duties as Commander-in-Chief, I think it is arguable that President Bush would never have been re-elected and arguably your Veep could have appeared stronger than he did in the 2000 general election where he lost the Electoral College by an exceptionally few votes.

It probably is a challenge defending human rights...

...while President Obama yucks it up at the White House Correspondent's Dinner while Chen Guangcheng, a Chinese dissident, is reportedly being hidden in the American Embassy in Beijing.


As media reports note,  Secretaries of State and Treasury, Hillary Clinton and Tim Geithner, were supposed to be en route next week for talks with the Chinese, but now their fragile relationship might be in trouble.  The question, should be why?


During the Cold War, Ronald Reagan had no trouble bringing human rights up again and again with the Soviet Union, lecturing the Mikhail Gorbachev when they met in Switzerland.  He had no issue bringing human rights up again and again, but what will our current White House occupant do?


Given the history of recent Democratic administrations I would be shocked if they didn't hand Guangcheng over to Chinese authorities like the Clinton administration did with Elian Gonzalez.  Guangcheng is a human rights advocate who has pushed for care of those who are disabled and against forced population control measures including forced abortion.  Given the Obama Administration's love for his healthcare death panels and previous history when a provincial police chief provided information about the murder of a British businessman, it will be no surprise if Obama continues yucking it up at the expense of those who are doing what he only talks about.

Abdominal Problems

So according to Time magazine via another post on the breitbart site Obama was not the "guts" of the decision in relation to Osama bin Laden afterall.

As per usual for 44, Obama is not Mr. Guts and Glory, but instead defers timing, control, and operational decisions to Admiral McRaven.  The Ben Shapiro post is totally correct on this one.  Obama claimed all the credit because the op went well, if it had gone bad it would have all over McRaven's doorstep.

It reminds me of Kennedy's response after the Cuban missile crisis when he quoted the Count Galeazzo Ciano who said, "Victory has a hundred fathers, but defeat is an orphan."  Now and then it would be nice if Obama would invoke a little bit of Kennedy and learn some humility.  I am probably asking for too much, but Obama will be out of office in a very few months.  January 20 can not come quick enough!

For those of you interested enough to see it, here is the hand written memo from the DCI (Director of Central Intelligence) Leon Panetta.

Give Me Time To Give Away The Store...

Another example of why President Obama does not deserve re-election comes via ABC News as our President tells Russian President Dmitri Medvedev he needs room to operate as he prepares to sell ournation short - once again.


Star Wars, our nation's missile defense system, has come about because we wanted a deterrent to be able to say to the Russians 'we will not fear your nuclear stockpile.  We will shoot them down from the sky before the wreak havoc upon us.'


Now, Obama in another Jimmy Carter impression wants to give away the protection technology that helps protects us against not only the threat of an increasingly belligerent Vladimir Putin, but that of China, another nation who has had no issue rattling sabers and doing business with those that mean us harm.  Forgive me for thinking our leaders were meant to protect us against the threats that the Strategic Defense Initiative provides.


225 days until the Election...and counting...