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PC Amateur Hour

By on 1.7.10 @ 6:08AM

A culture of Obamaism can’t identify threats.

The Founding Fathers set up a limited federal government. Statists have turned it into an unlimited one, eager to perform any and all superfluous tasks while neglecting core ones.

That security debacles, both large and small, increasingly define the Obama administration is to be expected given his frivolous and excessive view of the federal government. Perhaps Janet Napolitano spoke more truly than she realized when she said that the “system worked.” The problem is not that the system failed; it’s that a failed system is in place, and the Obama administration is too blinkered by PC and ACLU anxieties to change it.

The nation saw a no-profiling system “work” in the Fort Hood shooting and now sees it work in the attempted Detroit bombing. Neither required any tricky connecting of dots: Hasan self-identified himself as an Islamic terrorist to anyone who cared to listen; the Nigerian bomber’s father delivered a warning about his son directly to the U.S. government.

Moreover, if the system is sound but just wasn’t applied, why is Obama scrambling so furiously for ad hoc fixes to it? The carefully crafted picture of Obama presiding over Tuesday’s amateur-hour brainstorming session with Napolitano and company is supposed to make him look grave and presidential, like he is discussing the Cuban Missile crisis. It makes him look ridiculous. This is an administration that has been outwitted by socialites and a Nigerian 23-year-old.

The left is steaming over Dick Cheney’s observation that this administration can’t identify threats due to ideological obtuseness, excavating a few presidential speeches in which “terrorists” are mentioned. But Cheney’s comment holds up perfectly well. The Obama administration has evasively described Islamic terrorism as a “man-made disaster” while issuing ludicrous reports via Napolitano on the domestic terrorism threat posed by pro-lifers and disgruntled military veterans.

It is somehow fitting that a president who prides himself on saying he is “not at war” with Islam would find himself hopelessly flat-footed on a Hawaii vacation while an Islamic terrorist tries to blow up a plane over America on the day marking Christ’s birth. And the obtuseness continues, with Obama, still more interested in self-vindication than security, calling Guantanamo Bay once again a “recruiting tool” for Islamic terrorists.

Obama’s ACLU liberalism is the best recruiting tool for them. A president who saw the Fort Hood shooting as “incomprehensible” rather than obvious, who gives a jury trial to the 9/11 mastermind, who sees doctrinal Christianity as a greater threat to America than militant Islam, and who devotes more alarmist rhetoric to weather than war, is the best recruiting poster for the terrorists.

The culture that Obama’s PC liberalism informs is chronically unserious, as evident in such small snapshots as the elite chattering class’s simultaneous horror over the suggestion of increased profiling of foreign Islamic males from ages 20-40 and Brit Hume’s suggestion that Tiger Woods convert to Christianity. Apparently profiling and Christian “proselytizing” are the real threats to America, if one were to judge by the tenor of cable chattering.

Ironically, the PC refusal to permit even the most rational and rudimentary profiling for some is pushing America towards violating the privacy of all. “Body scanners” are now necessary! CNN ran a headline, “Joan Rivers: A Security Threat?” which I thought was going to dovetail with its latest report on this new technology. But instead it teed up a tangled interview with Larry King, in which she unraveled a holiday tale of getting stopped at an airport not by an experimental body scanner but by a “moron” official in Costa Rica.

About the Author

George Neumayr, a contributing editor to The American Spectator, is co-author, with Phyllis Schlafly, of the new book, No Higher Power: Obama’s War on Religious Freedom.

Letter to the Editor View all comments (130) |

Fed Up| 1.7.10 @ 7:10AM

The attributes of the current administration consist of; ineptness, incompetence, lying, thuggery, racketeering, and wasteful spending. Under their plan the system is working, America will become a Maxistist style socialistic country before the end of Obama's first term.

Ken (Old Texican)| 1.7.10 @ 12:06PM

Fed Up,
Over my dead body, sen'or, and a couple of hundred million Americans are figuring out that it may very well be the case.
Gird up your loins, sir.

glassfinger| 1.7.10 @ 1:36PM

Ken-
You are not alone, sir. There are a lot of us former professional military out here who never forgot how to handle a 'musket' and will never forget what duty, honor and country mean. The movement has started; ballot box first; we'll reserve the next step after that.

Jack (USMC ret.)| 1.7.10 @ 3:43PM

Amen Bother!!

Jack (USMC ret.)| 1.7.10 @ 3:45PM

I meant, Amen Brother!!

Chuck| 1.7.10 @ 7:18PM

Absolutely, time is almost here to break out the shotguns and pitchforks(figuratively speaking.....maybe?) and run the lot of them out of town.

Judge Dred| 1.7.10 @ 7:40PM

Oh, there are many, many, many of us... I hope it isn't necessary.....

John Ryan| 1.7.10 @ 10:50PM

How can people even joke about now being the time to "break out the shotguns?"

I'm a former United States Marine and I think that threatening the use of violence because of a political disagreement isn't at all funny. This article was about political correctness and a failed national security system - its absolutely disgusting to imply the use of violence about something that just and reasonable people can legitimately disagree about.

I'm no Obama apologist; I am a simple patriot and believe in service to the ideals of the founding fathers and of America. The tea party movement is a legitimate protest but not when people cross the line.

Stop throwing around terms like Marxist unless you really mean it. Do you believe that Sec Def Robert Gates is a Marxist, because he is one of the most influential members of the cabinet?

troyble2| 1.8.10 @ 1:00AM

Inherent in the foundation of this country is the God given right to threaten those, even though duly elected, with forcible removal. Also inherent is the right to bear the arms to do so. Obviously these buffoons refuse to be swayed by the ballot box.
Not saying it's the time for that. But it's the closest time for that I've seen. I fear it may get worse.

z1Patriot| 1.8.10 @ 8:58AM

Marxist..yeah I mean it!

chuck| 1.8.10 @ 10:08AM

Like it or not, this country was born of violent revolution against a form of government that was far less repressive than our current one. Read your history, Marine(and thanks for your service!). The constitution and the Bill of Rights were arranged the way they are for a reason. The First Amendment guarntees your basic freedoms, and the 2nd guarantees your ability to protect those freedoms, not from deer, elk, turkeys, or squirrels, but from an oppressive government.

Alexander Robart| 1.8.10 @ 4:26AM

This article is complete nonsense. The current security apparatus that is in place, is the exact same reformed apparatus that Bush put in place several years ago. PC/ACLU leanings and inclinations of the administration has absolutely nothing to with the failures of the apparatus.

Tom in Michigan| 1.8.10 @ 3:16PM

It is indeed the ridiculous system put in place during the Bush Administration. But, would it have been thus if Bush himself had not surrendered to the pressures of the political correctness which has poisoned everything in this country? I'm not sure of your age but, I've watched Orwellian Newspeak creep across the land since I was in college many years ago. It began simply enough with people being shouted down for "value judgments" and lectures about the equal validity of all cultures (I once asked a professor if that meant Nazi Germany was morally equal to other cultures and he replied in effect, "Yes. All cultures are equal" while at the same time informing me of the superiority of Soviet "culture"). The difference is the Bush folks submitted to it rather than be excoriated by the media as "racist" or whatever. Well, despite their submission; they were accused of that and worse. Now we have an administration whose senior members were at the heart of the political correctness movement and whose junior members, such as our President were raised with the lies and distortions inherent therein disseminated by the likes of spoiled rich-kid, tough-guy terrorist, friend of Obama Bill Ayers and his ilk. So, the danger is that political correctness has been institutionalized through intimidation of those who dare oppose it and putting in power its adherents. I'm willing to lay off the President if you will join me in renouncing political correctness and the true evil it brings.

carnot| 1.10.10 @ 11:46AM

what arrant BS. aside from the fact the Democratic Party has spent the better part of a half century working to undermine our intelligence agencies - particularly its HUMINT capabilities - it was largely responsible for precisely the sorts of information sharing boundaries that proved so disasterous leading into 9/11. That party - and its current leadership as well as intellectual enablers - are the ones who have consistently fostered a culture of distrust and suspicion. they are the ones who have operated consistently to undermine the morale of the workforce, the trust of the public and the integrity of the leadership. are you friggin kidding me? what have Holder, Obama, Pelosi et al been doing these last 2 years and more? attacking the institutions and its leadership. they should be held accountable for their negligence and incompetence.

just one more straw on the proverbial incompetence camel this administration and party have so closely tethered their fortunes to.

Appleby| 1.7.10 @ 7:38AM

I find it slightly amusing that the same Lefties who miss no opportunity to appear without their clothing, flash their private parts sans panties as they exit their Decidedly Not Green Fueled limos, and demand the right to walk the streets in Vermont starkers, are now shrieking about their PRIVACY vis-a-vis full body scanners.

Shouldnt they be demanding instead that everyone fly nekkid? Would that not fit their usual pattern?

Stephanie| 1.7.10 @ 7:44AM

Another march on Washington is needed. We need millions there, and mid week is best when the bastards are there.

canuckistani| 1.7.10 @ 3:38PM

To march for what, exactly? Remember, washington and his minutemen were branded terrorists by the ruling brits. Terrorism is in the eye of the beholder. It's a tactic of war, but a war noone has the intelligence to actually characterize as the fruits of our labor on the world stage since WW2. Between the Soviets and us, we've authored or proxied every single skirmish, coup, war, police action and uprising worldwide.
I don't agree we are totally at fault for the incompetence of regimes we've put in place, but at least fess up to the fact we are not very good nation builders, never have, never will.
Now we are falling over our righteous feet looking to profile any dark-skinned mope that gets on a plane. Stupid is as stupid does. Do as the Israeli's do with airline security. Full stop.
Oklahoma city: white guy. Vegas this week: white guy. I think unemployed white guys going postal is a clearer and more present danger, don't you think?
I love the old founding father quote (paraphrased): those who choose security over freedom deserve neither. So true.
The Detroit bomber was outed by his own father and the Jack Bauers of the US didn't connect the dots. The Bush-appointed security head kept on skiing after the incident, just like Bush kept reading "my pet goat".

Jim Conrad| 1.7.10 @ 4:22PM

The Vegas shooter was black.

iblain| 1.7.10 @ 4:42PM

What idiotic nonsence. At any given time, there are about 100 armed conflicts going on in the world. How is it our fault that Muslims are killing non Muslims in Darfur? How are we to blame for Hutus killing Tutsis. Did we cause the Armenian genocide? Go back to school.

Ctbob| 1.7.10 @ 9:25PM

Yeah, and just like the POTUS didn't deign to rush back to Washington from Hawaii to be at the center of the action.

troyble2| 1.8.10 @ 1:09AM

9/11 4000 or so dead: Muslim
Tennis shoe bomber: Muslim
US Cole: Muslim
Underwear bomber: Muslim
Warping young chidren to strap bombs to themselves with a deadman trigger and watching from a safe distance ready to snipe them in the head if they get cold feet:Muslim
Give me a choice and I'll take the white (postal) guy. Full disclosure, I'm a white guy (so far non postal).

carnot| 1.10.10 @ 11:55AM

another bogus canard. racial profiling isn't the issue. it's common sense to realize that this is a statistics/ probability problem. to use the Net vernacular.....the right metadata must be aggregated/fused and correlated in databases and then parsed by relevant/proven algorithms to provide some pattern assessment and predictive results. racial/country-of-orgin data would clearly be ONE relevant variable. it defies imagination not to think this has been going on for years. what we are seeing now is simply a disgusting political blame game.....with untoward consequences for the the morale, culture and sharing practices of the institutions being attacked by the incompetents in power.

we now know the modus operandi of Obama and his allies. in the main...their emotional responses are puerile and their ability to effect results questionable when it matters most.

Lawrence Boccardi| 1.7.10 @ 8:08AM

I agree with Stephanie on the need for more demonstrations, however, a lot of us old folks find it too taxing to travel to DC to increase crowd size. If some national figure such as Dick Armey or Michelle Bachman could co-ordinate demonstartions in state capitols, say on April 15th, a lot more of us could handle a 150 mile drive, and home that evening. Just a thought!

Matt Morehouse| 1.7.10 @ 11:32AM

A truly excellent idea. Living in California the thought of a cross country flight on my own dime to spend a few hours howling in vain at our rulers does not excite me.

However the wife and I might make the six hour trip to Sacramento and combine it with a short vacation to the Gold Country.

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Tinmouth| 1.7.10 @ 7:20PM

Blah, blah, blah. And I couldn't go because I had grandkids to take care of. Over a million people "marched" on Washington and nobody paid any attention.Why not? Because nobody express any anger. Imagine that - over a million "angry" people and not a single window smashed. Meanwhile the bomb throwers of the 60's are now in power. Do you think Bill Ayers and Bernadette Dohrn were impressed by the quiet, self disciplined cattle of 9/12? Do you think a career community activist like our POTUS is impressed by people who are afraid to inconvenience their opponents? They derisively call you "teabaggers". Okay, how many teabaggers are willing to be arrested for the cause of freedom?

Libertyman13| 1.7.10 @ 9:33PM

The cause of freedom--hilarious! The same people who think the government can't be trusted to regulate health care to provide meaningful choice and effective coverage are the same people who kept utterly silent over the greatest expansion of government police power at the expense of the individual we have ever seen.

These are the same people who insist that we should be able to choose how much we pollute, but not who we have sex with. Who do not cry out when a foreign nation is invaded on nonexistent proof, but scream when banks are subjected to slightly more regulation.

One need only look to this author's attempted excoriation of the ACLU as a big government apparatus to see that conservatism is the anathema of liberty. The ACLU has, and will continue, to stand up for individual rights, no matter how much conservative cowards seek to strip them away.

A favorite conservative argument: the ACLU wars against Christianity keeping it out of schools and city halls. Well, the typically shortsighted conservative would hum a very different tune if a Muslim, Buddhist, or atheist majority in a community started teaching their tenets in schools or posting a giant "Christianity is a lie" sign on public property. But the ACLU would, of course, be there to back up those who would spit on them, to further their cause of liberty.

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R Martin| 1.7.10 @ 8:45AM

A good piece by Mr. Neumayr, and I have just one oblique take on it. We are all now suffering because voters bought into the image that candidate Obama projected when, in fact, the reality of the man is far different. A similar, but much less consequential, image scam has been revealed by the golfer known as Tiger Woods.

We are all working in our own ways to deal with the odious Mr. Obama. May I suggest one simple way to deal with Mr. Woods: drop the "Tiger". From now on, since we know who he really is, let's call him by his real name: Eldrick.

"And now on the tee from Windemere, Florida Eldrick Woods." "Rah, rah, rah go Eldrick." Just a thought.

Pete| 1.7.10 @ 12:41PM

Infideldrick.

Still cracks me up.

Richard H.| 1.7.10 @ 10:53AM

It was all so predictable during the campaign: the U.S. bashing, the a** kissing of hostile governments, the power-grab from the private sector, the arrogant certainty, the inexperience, the malfeasance, the triumph of PC over common sense, logic and reason. I lost a great deal of confidence in the American electorate when they voted this bunch into power and now stand, jaw-dropped, as the horrific realization dawns. Presidential elections should not be referendums on style or popularity.

Al Adab| 1.7.10 @ 11:47AM

For The Left, ideology is not simply a prism through which to view issues. Instead it represents an alternate reality which they wish to impose. Nothing must interfere with that goal.

The stated purpose is to remake America. Into what exactly they do not say, but it becomes more clear with each passing day what they in fact desire. Each of us must choose which nation we wish to inhabit.

PC and the ineptness it fosters is only one symptom of the fatal disease infecting the Left and now, the American government. Health care won't cure it, only radical surgery.

Ned| 1.7.10 @ 11:59AM

So far, Barry hasn't surprised me a bit. He has 10 more months to cram his line of Marxist hokum down everyone's throat before the whole thing blows up in his face, and everything else be damned. He was utterly dishonest campaigning,
and he is utterly dishonest now... as well as inept,
thuggish, etc.

Tony in Central PA| 1.7.10 @ 12:30PM

I heard this AM on the Washington Times radio show that Rachel Maddow had a guest on last night who was laying the blame of the recent uptick in terrorist activity at the feet of Dick Cheney. Rachel wholeheartedly agreed, of course. I did not see the show because I can only stand a few seconds of it before waves of nausea overtake me. What surprised me is that Sarah Palin was not also to blame for the increase in terrorism. Maybe that's tonight's show.
The scary thing is that we have actual people in charge of our nation's defense who believe the same BS.

John II| 1.7.10 @ 12:44PM

"The problem is not that the system failed; it's that a failed system is in place, and the Obama administration is too blinkered by PC and ACLU anxieties to change it."

I would refine that remark slightly so that it fits the rest of the piece and the responses to the piece. I've watched the PC nonsense up close for several years now in academia, and I've concluded that there is nothing "blinkered" about any of it. The people who push and enforce political correctness are cheap nihilists at heart who have discovered a means of disguising their will to power and the moral vacuum out of which that will emerges. They are not deluded. They know exactly what they're doing, and they can't help feeling a kind of creepy sympathy for the terrorists who share their basic nihilism.

Deborah D | 1.7.10 @ 5:28PM

Guess where political correctness came from...Marxists at the Frankfort School who left Germany for Columbia University during Hitler's era of the late 1930's. You can read about it here: http://www.marxists.org/subjec...../index.htm

You can watch a video about it here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hh2DdJLycPM

Now you know what its purpose is -- they married Marxism to the culture.

Marc Jeric| 1.7.10 @ 1:26PM

The blame for terrorist successes should be apportioned as follows:
1) 50% to well-educated, rich, jihadists; ans
2) 50% to our politically correct multiculturalists based in Democrat Party, ACLU, universities, foundations.

Geez Louise| 1.7.10 @ 10:29PM

PERFECT!!

pugsley| 1.7.10 @ 1:39PM

Hat tip to John II, you have said what I have been saying for years. These people are not nut jobs or crazy or inept or any other adjective you wish to throw at them. They are committed to their cause and they absolutely will not stop until they achieve their goals or die trying. They are first and foremost for the implementation of global socialism with themselves at the controls. They have been working toward this end for 50 years and their goal is in sight if they can just stretch this last little bit to grasp the prize. The American people are waking up but it may be too late, blood may be spilled befor this is over. Time will tell. They must break the middle class, monetarily and in spirit to get across the finish line, they have a good start.

PolishKnight| 1.7.10 @ 2:42PM

Pugsley, that's what has always confused me.

I wonder why the rational elites have a goal of tearing down the USA and western civilization into a feudal dark age. What is in it for them? In the short run, of course, political appointments and spoils where they move away from the damage similar to the robber barons whose plants would spill PCB's into the river and they'd move off to Aspen. But once they've torn down everything, where can even they go? I guess similar to South America where the mafiasos have a 2 dozen security team escort their kids to school and machine gun fenced in compounds. But even THOSE guys vacation here in the states and much of Western Europe to get away from their self-created luxury prisons.

This begs the question: Does AlGore and Obama really believe in, say, global warming caused by falling temperatures? Are they totally aware of the scam and playing the system in a saavy way to slush money to their buddies OR living in a self-delusion? I'm leaning towards the latter. Most of these politicians have risen through the ranks through the cool aid drinking faithful but wind up in a position where it doesn't hurt them personally perhaps allowing cognitive dissonance.

I see this with the leftists I have access to: The "man in the street" I know who buy into all the PC nonsense including blaming all the world's problems on, well, me and then wondering why I don't buy into their faith and admit I'm stupid and drink the cool aid. They seem genuinely puzzled that I don't see anything for me in that. "Wow! I can get discriminated against because of my race and gender AND pay high taxes for boondoggles. I really want some of that!" I think they are motivated by the hopes that if they can throw me, or even other people such as themselves, under the bus then they'll get their dream: "robbing the rich" and Eurodisney with public, and clean transportation, "green" power with magic tree hugger generators, etc. Drink the cool aid (or someone else drinks it) and get on the comet!

I suppose the only weapon against this vicious subconscious urge they have it to call it out via our simple existance: I think of them as cruel and coldhearted, not compassionate, and challenge them to show me otherwise and that sometimes reaches them (or it's a start.) If THEY are the model for compassion, then "fascists" are better!

JP| 1.7.10 @ 3:53PM

Polish Knigh,
Great question. My short answer is: demographics. Most of the energy, money, and effort of the entire Leftist fantasy world comes from Baby Boomers. And the majority of these people have spent thier lives in either a)academia and think tanks, b)expensive law firms, c)endowed philanthropist organizations, d)high priced Wall St firms, and e)politics and lobbying.

They have always lived a sheltered life; their parents and grand parents won 2 world wars and created the highest standard of living known th Man; and they received probably the best education known to Man. And they've spent thier entire lives tearing down the world thier parents and grand parents created, while enjoying life styles we can only dream up. They've never had to personally live in the world that they've created, and they don't intend on starting now. Despite thier rhetoric to the contrary, on money and power matter to them. Well, that and "transforming Amerika".

k962| 1.7.10 @ 3:35PM

INEPT- Its the only word that describes this administration. Thye haven't donea thing for the jobless, they are being hog tied by Iran, thye don't understand how to keep America safe. Face it folks you have a bunch of whimpering weaklings at the helm.

canuckistani| 1.7.10 @ 3:52PM

Ok, what do YOU suggest?
I didn't vote for Obama, but he has slowed the bleeding of our global prestige within one year. Name me a GOP pres that has tackled as much as Obama has in his first year without falling on his face? I'm thinking Nixon only. Lincoln precipitated a civil war, Ike did nothing, Reagan was awful, Bush 1 was unremarkable and Bush 2 had 9/11 on HIS watch in his first year - and we know where HIS inept actions have left us today.
Explain what a true conservative would have done differently this year given the lousy hand that was dealt? The next couple of years will tell the story if Americans want a nanny state and then how are we going to pay for it.
Again, what's your solution?

iblain| 1.7.10 @ 5:06PM

You give Obama a lot of credit for trying to do a bunch of things. A few good, most bad, some really awful. But success isn't measured by what you try to do, it's measured by what you accomplish. Even then, passing a bill isn't an accomplishment in itself. The bill has to make things better or the entire effort is a failure. By the way, Obama has not repaired our image throughout the world. Our enemies think he is weak and our allies think he is foolish. Only the rapidly weakening Europeans like him.

Black Saint | 1.7.10 @ 4:08PM

Our government fails the most basic and primary task & duty of government, spelled out in our Constitution Article IV Section IV to protect this Nation and its Citizens from invasion and enforce its laws.
Our Government, past & present, Republican & Democrat, have allowed the invasion of 20 to 30 million criminals and uneducated peons which is the largest invasion of any Nation, at any time, by any means & in direct violation of Article IV Section IV of our Constitution.
This refusal to abide by our Constitution, enforce our Immigration Laws and honor their Oath of Office should be classified as Treason of the most foul kind, & as grounds for impeachment & trials for Treason!
Not only have they allowed the invasion, they have aided, encouraged & assisted in this invasion and provided sanctuary for the invaders. While forcing American tax payers to pay Billions on Billions of dollars to provide Welfare, Prison cells, Educate the invaders numerous children, and free medical care, at the same time the invading horde break numerous laws and massive document fraud, & are destroying our schools, hospitals, communities, culture and standard of living while Robbing, Raping, Killing & Assaulting American Citizens at an rate the terrorist can only dream about.
Recent statements in Mexico from both President Obama and Secretary of State Hillary something needs to be done. "Our inability to prevent weapons from being illegally smuggled across the border to arm these criminals causes the deaths of police officers, soldiers, and civilians," Hillary whined.
But no mention, whines, concern or care that their refusal to stop the Massive Invasion of Illegal Aliens pouring across our borders or enforce our immigration laws that causes an estimated 25 Americans deaths per day and 10,s of thousands victims of Assault, Robberies, Rapes, Identify thief, and other assorted crimes committed by the invading horde of Illegal Aliens from Mexico on American citizens each year!
It is a telling indictment & shows their Empathy & Compassion of our Politicians & their priorities are not for the American citizens when they express more concern over Mexicans deaths mostly connected to the Drug trade, than the murders, havoc & crimes of Illegal Aliens against American Citizens!
The Democrats view the invading horde of Criminals and Uneducated third world rejects as Undocumented Welfare Democrats & the Republicans as Undocumented Slave labor for their Pay Masters in the Chamber of Commerce & Businesses!
Most of our Politicians in Wash. DC are wading knee deep in innocent American blood and suffering because they put Self Interest ahead of the interest of American Citizens & the future of this Nation!
The Citizens of this Nation have not sacrificed with blood, sweat & tears for over 200 years & obeyed the Laws of the land, paid the taxes, and fought the wars & built this Nation to see Corrupt politicians turn this Nation into the United States of Mexico without a shot being fired, to serve their demented, nefarious goals!

Johnr| 1.7.10 @ 4:20PM

TO: Glass finger and Jack
I am with you also - Semper FI and God Bless the USA, vote!! - if that doesn't work, well....we WILL cross that bridge when needed.

Anthony| 1.7.10 @ 4:30PM

Your photo says it all; Obama and Napolitano = Abbott and Costello meet al Qaeda.
The problem is, this isn't a comedy for the rest of America that has to live with the edicts of these morons. This is for real and we have leftist, clueless ideologues running this country.

JimE| 1.7.10 @ 5:26PM

When you elect a shiftless, lazy, negro socialist don't be surprised when a Zimbabwe breaks out.

geffers| 1.7.10 @ 6:23PM

you should be ashamed, jim E, embarrased too. Besides the obvious racism your comment contains, it shows enormous ignorance of america and certainly of zimbabwe.mugabe [certainly a terrible man] and obama do not compare on any level, but neither is shiftless, lazy or even a socialist in any real sense.

MR BILL| 1.7.10 @ 5:55PM

THE DISTRICTS ARE GERRYMANDERD AND THE POLLS ARE RIGGED AND WE JUST SAT BACK AND WATCHED, NOW WHAT DO YOU THINK ITS GOING TO TAKE TO STRAIGHTEN THIS MESS OUT. LOOK IN THE MIRROR AMERICAN MEN AND WOMENTHE ANSWERE WILL FRIGHTEN YOU.

michigander_sandusky| 1.7.10 @ 6:05PM

I tip my hat to John II. As a faculty member of a major university I'm sick of the PC and "multiculturalism" nonsense rampant at my formerly fine institution. More and more faculty members buy into this line of crap and the rest are afraid to speak out lest they be put on administration's shit list. The notion of "academic freedom" is non-existent. Thank goodness I work off campus.

joselori| 1.7.10 @ 6:09PM

There was a time, early in my career, that I enthusiastically supported and worked for our government. While I still feel the same about this country, its original values, and our Founding Father’s Vision, I now fear the government I once so proudly served.

What has happened? The Democrats happened. The Democrats and their destructive minions: the useful idiots, the lawyers, the ACLU, the unions, the marxists, the socialists and, worst of all, activist judges happened.

This country was destroyed from within. What was once a creeping cancer of socialism going back before L. Johnson is now in its final marxist form under todays dems and obama. We are no longer becoming a third rate country - we are one.

And so to obama and the democarats I have to say:

Your party, through the great society entitlements, singlehandedly did more to destroy our culture, traditional values and the American family than anything before or since. Your shameless quest for power resulted in making millions dependent on the government, marginalized and devalued the male parent, spent six trillion dollars on welfare, and resulted in just as many poor today as there were in the sixties. But now we have a majority of children born and raised in single parent households and the near complete collapse of the traditional family, particularly sever in minority populations. Not happy with the destruction already wrought, you now want to take the last step and either legislate or adjudicate away the very institution of marriage.

What you have done to the American Family you, through unions, lawyers, the ACLU, and judges, are now doing to the education system. The schools are no place for social experimentation, indoctrination or propaganda. I grew up in the fifties and sixties; received a first class public education; and was admitted to a university fully qualified to take advanced math, physics and engineering courses. Today children are taught that morality is relative, that two moms are just as good as a mom and a dad, how to put a condom on a cucumber, and that sodomy is just fine. But they know little of American History, are taught that capitalism is evil, that marxism is no more than another societal form, etc. They cannot read, cannot speak coherently, cannot do math. The American Flag, the Bible, the Pledge of Allegiance, the Bill of Rights, and even the Constitution are either discouraged or prohibited from the classroom. And now Democratic judges tell parents that they have no rights when it comes to how or what is taught their children in public schools.

They are not taught that this country was intentionally founded on Judeo-Christian morals and ethics. That ours was purposely a Republic with a Constitution focused on limiting the power of the central government. That the Bill of Rights does not include any entitlements. That the Legislature is empowered to legislate and that the Judicial Branch is tasked with protecting the Constitution. That the Constitution of the Founding Fathers is not a ‘living document’ to be modified by ‘empathetic’ judges but a ‘line in the sand’ protecting the people from their government by strictly limiting what that government can do.

We lament the plight of California but the Democrat’s socialistic policies made that outcome inevitable. We lament the plight of Detroit but the unions control and demands made that outcome inevitable. We lament the plight of our ecomomy but federal lending requirements made the current outcome inevitable. We lament the plight of our industry, but federal taxes and unions made that outcome inevitable. And now the federal government is poised to take the final step and take over as much of our economy as is can get away with. It now controls most of the financial system banks, insurance and the markets. Setting wages is just the beginning. It now controls most of the American owned auto industry. Direct ownership of GM and Chrysler. It wants to control all of the national health industry. And with Cap and Tax, it will have the right to control and dictate everything that has an energy or emission component - which is everything.

And so I ask you the question. Do you really want to be the ones responsible for destroying the very things that made America a moral, social and economic beacon to the rest of the world? I fear it may already too late. The unimaginable level of federal spending and the resulting deficits have destroyed the dollar and most of the world’s confidence in the dollar. The jobs lost are, for the most part, gone forever. No smaller business is going to hire with the looming health care costs, taxes and fines. Green jobs are a myth. Solar and wind will never be competitive with conventional fuels or nuclear without huge government subsidies made even more onerous because of the huge government bureaucracy about to be created to administer them.

Libertyman13| 1.7.10 @ 9:42PM

Do you honestly think that a bunch of Deists founded this country on Judeo-Christian morality? And do you honestly have a concept of what that would entail?

The fact is, conservatism is as anathema to true Judeo-Christian morality as it is to liberty.

Not to mention the fact that the dollar declined 40% in value as against the euro in the 2002-2008 time period. If only you had some sort of fact on your side.

Liberal Reader| 1.7.10 @ 6:38PM

Fascinating.

A disaffected Nigerian goes to Yemen to be trained as a terrorist by someone the BUSH ADMINISTRATION released from captivity, but it's Obama who can't tell a threat.

Are you guys serious? Or are you fucking kidding me.

Lullaby's, Legends and Lies| 1.7.10 @ 6:59PM

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don| 1.7.10 @ 6:58PM

It's hilarious: everyone in the world profiles, except us. We only profile people to hand out goodies, like VISA EXPESS and DIVERSITY VISAS. You have to love the little do gooders.

Joe Doakes| 1.7.10 @ 7:23PM

To the editor;

Recently the United States suffered yet another attempted act of war from a terrorist acting on the misguided notion of jihad. This particular fellow evaded airport security, then while seated on the aircraft attempted to detonate a bomb in addition to the fuel tank positioned below him. The jihadist’s failure was a result of a lack of preparation; neither his will nor our efforts to keep him off the plane did anything to ameliorate his plans. This jihadist, like many who have attacked this nation in the past, are men educated in mind and not in morals, and as such are a menace to civil society, and must be stopped at any cost. After 30 years of the free world trying to stop various forms of jihad we are no closer to stopping the next attack because the ideology that creates the next radical Islamic terrorist still exists; so long as it exists we will neither have peace nor security - nothing short of a regional war that redraws the boundaries of countries in the middle east will bring us the opportunity of lasting peace. Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan did not alter their evil plans upon the sight of a TSA agent. That said; a small suggestion.
Credit card companies monitor spending behavior to detect fraud. They do this by setting limits based on historic spending patterns, and computers monitor daily transactions to detect purchases that may be fraudulent. For instance, if I make a few small purchases in one geographic area and then drive many miles away and make much larger purchases the credit card company will deny the charge, and request that the merchant verify my identity. Why is it that a credit card company is motivated enough to monitor, successfully detect, and challenge potentially malfeasant behavior? Further, why is it that the Transportation Safety Administration is unable to detect a known explosive attached to the genitalia of a known threat, and is unable to stop future malfeasant behavior? In a word - profit. The credit card company is trying to maintain profits by limiting its losses by devising ingenious ways of detecting fraud to protect that profit, the TSA does not operate for the purpose of profit.
The Transportation Safety Administration has a completely different standard to meet and it must do so by engaging in willful blindness to threats in order to accomplish its mission without raising the ire of the ACLU. Thus, precious security detection resources that could be directed to more plausible threats must be redirected to less likely threats in order to satisfy the politically correct among us. For the same reason my local police department does not set up sobriety check points near our local churches or temples the TSA ought to spend more time looking for the telltale signs of jihad from likely sources. This recent attempt was a no brainer, our security apparatus had everything but a red alert warning from the starship Enterprise before this fellow made it to the airport gate even sans passport; if we can’t stop this guy we can’t stop anyone.
If an airline operated a system akin to my credit card companies in the atmosphere of airport security what would that look like? Might a pre-flight approval system consist of various credentials already in a citizens possession; a system for non-citizens would perform the same function of verification with cross referenced forms of identification, the elimination of the option of using cash to purchase a ticket, and the elimination of purchasing a ticket without being pre-qualified to do so in the first place. In addition, the airline would be responsible for all security; remember the $50 Billion per year TSA could not stop this jihadist, and frankly in a world where people willingly swallow prophylactics filled with narcotics to breech our drug laws, the TSA will not stop the next one; an airline that is one hundred percent responsible for the occupants and operation of the aircraft can and will. They will have the ability to reject people who do not meet their flight criteria identity policy in a way that the TSA is forbidden from by organizations like the ACLU. The profit driven airline can drive the innovation that will be required to detect individuals whose behavior is suspicious even before a ticket is purchased by combing all the data points that separate out frequent travelers from those that have never flown, or are traveling in a manner not consistent with past patterns, and thus require more scrutiny at security checkpoints prior to boarding the plane. In fact much like credit cards issue a FICO score in some future world they may have a central organization for all airlines that compiles this information and issues an “Approved Travel Score.”
In closing, it is almost treasonous that after so many kicks to our collective complacency we are still only fighting the last battle, and not the next one. Securing an aircraft is best left up to the airline and the crew of the airplane, and not the federal government. The private airline possesses the incentive to maintain the safety of the airplane that the TSA and the rest of the security apparatus lacks. The federal government lacks the economic incentive to do a quality job, but the private airline is nimble and can evolve the policies and procedures the government is not permitted or politically unable to do. The current setup seems to serve only one purpose - to avoid responsibility for anything at all, in that atmosphere you can bet we are going to lose much more then an airliner in the future. The radical Islamic threat from 1979 to 2010 has grown stronger, and developed a greater reach into the west then our side has developed a defense or plan to defeat; we are fooling ourselves if we think a watch list, that no one even bothers to check, is anything more than a placebo for the cancerous philosophy of radical Islam.

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Richard Baker| 1.7.10 @ 7:34PM

When I was in the Infantry in the '70s, I didn't think that anything could be more immature and incompetent than the Carter administration. Boy, was I wrong. At least Carter was an Academy grad and a serving officer in the Navy. Somewhere in this guy is still a love of country instilled at Annapolis, and that could be debatable, of course. The Kenyan's enmity and hostility towards the country he, unfortunately, leads is breathtaking in its scope and depth. I also remember much that I learned as an Infantry (11B) Staff Sergeant. Hope that at age 57 I don't have to take the field to defend our country against "enemies domestic." But I'm still willing to take a bullet for this country and those of you who've served would understand my sentiment.

rogerdsmith| 1.7.10 @ 7:35PM

Obama and company have Nothing in common with America. It's as if they were plucked up by a UFO from the old Comintern and dropped into DC. The are utterly foreign to American Traditions, Faith, and Honor.

Deborah D | 1.8.10 @ 7:41AM

That's what Marxists are all about...tearing the culture of the United States. They've been doing that via political correctness since the 1930's and on through the 1960's and have run rampant through the educational system, the media, and government. There truly is an enemy within.

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WRJonas | 1.7.10 @ 7:38PM

I believe you have realistic view of our plight Jose or Jo .
Our redemption is not to be found in the world of politics . Our nation was founded on principles and ideas and we squandered those through the creep of socialism so long ago it isn't even arguable.
What remains is a gang of criminals trying to plunder whats left of our economy.
Sad though it is . we let it happen .

xiaobo| 1.7.10 @ 8:15PM

Obama is more concerned about protecting Muslims than proctecting Americans.

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Jason Keuter| 1.8.10 @ 3:33AM

A great article that illustrates the moral perversity of liberalism : namely, that it's relativism only yields an obsession with destroying the good and cultivating the bad. The fact that obviously decent travelers are treated like criminals finds equivalence in the whole class being punished for the acts of a minority of students. The minority of students are beyond the pale and should not be allowed in the class; just as Muslim terrorists are beyond the pale and should not be given any "rights".

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Oldefarte| 1.9.10 @ 3:02PM

No disrespect intended, but everyone seems to giving him/them the usual EXCUSES. He/they do not accidentally miss a clue/signpost,etc-------he/they miss it ON PURPOSE. That is what he/they INTEND to do, and then to lie about it after the fact. WAKE UP,AMERICA,WAKE UP!!!!

Rmm| 1.10.10 @ 11:15AM

It is bad enough to be routinely insulted by the serial liars in this administration, but it is much worse to be witness to the crass and cynical hypocrisy given off as some sort of defense of the homeland.
To wit, O has set in motion that terrorists, the Nigerian, are to be prosecuted as common criminals, thus cutting off any avenue of interrogation that may lead to actionable intelligence. Just whose side are these morons on?
These twits act as if they don't want to get their hands dirty in this very dirty business.

alin | 1.11.10 @ 1:03AM

To march for what, exactly? Remember, washington and his minutemen were branded terrorists by the ruling brits. Terrorism is in the eye of the beholder. It's a tactic of war, but a war noone has the intelligence to actually characterize as the fruits of our labor on the world nike outletstage since WW2. Between the Soviets and us, we've authored or proxied every single skirmish, coup, wadidas outletar, police action and uprising worldwide.

Richard Baker| 1.11.10 @ 7:31AM

alin:
And your point is what? That countries act in their own interests? Of course they do. The difference is that in our own ham-handed way, we are attempting to liberate and free millions from oppression. Do we make mistakes? Sure we do. Ask yourself this. Would you rather live in a country run by al-Qaeda, Hugo Chavez, or any of the Russian leadership? You stay here because our core is Liberty and Freedom. Terrorism is the attempt by small means to subjugate and oppress with killing and violence. Many of the Arab countries are using the terrorists as a surrogate for their own foreign policies. Would you wish to live in an Arab run country? Terrorism is.

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