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Obama’s Rumsfeld: Hillary Clinton Should Resign
Naïveté, weakness, and incompetence lead to death, disaster: Did the Three Stooges cause World War II?
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And so the much ballyhooed speech in a Muslim capital came to pass.
The speech was delivered in Cairo. It was an appalling pottage of moral equivalency, historical revision and outright apologetics. Or, as Senator Clinton once said of Rumsfeld, the speech was “happy talk”… sending the inevitable signal of weakness.
Weakness. The underlying message sent over and over again by the foreign policy of the United States government that was under her direction.
- Weakness exemplified when going along with a White House decision to ban words like “jihad” and “Islamic extremism” from all national security documents.
- Weakness exemplified by the disreputable treatment accorded the Prime Minister of Israel, a longtime American ally.
- Weakness exemplified by the decision — cited by the Hoover Institution’s Paul Sperry here in the New York Post — to order American troops into “Muslim sensitivity training.”
- Weakness exemplified in Obama defense budget cuts.
One could go on and on here to illustrate the point. The use of moral equivalence, bows to foreign heads of state etc., etc., etc.
All of this, of course, was a distinct and quite deliberate change from the Bush era, in which the National Security Document specifically said: “The struggle against militant Islamic radicalism is the great ideological conflict of the early years of the 21st century.”
Not to mention this changed attitude by the Obama administration looked at the Fort Hood shootings as an incident of “work place violence.” And replaced the term “global war on terror” with “overseas contingency operation.”
Can you imagine if the Roosevelt administration sent the Secretary of State in front of newsreel cameras to insist that in fact there was no need for war on December 8, 1941, because there was no connection between the previous day’s Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and the aggressive desire of the Japanese for military expansion? That the whole problem revolved around the film portrayal of an Asian (Chinese) detective named Charlie Chan? Then banned the U.S. government from using words or phrases that might offend the Shinto religion which proclaimed the Japanese Emperor was a god?
What if the Secretary of State of the day insisted there was no connection between Nazism’s anti-Semitic ideology and the ongoing Holocaust? That all those death camps for Jews were really the fault not of Nazi ideology but a mocking, tasteless anti-Nazi film (excerpt here) made in America called I’ll Never Heil Again. A film made by three Hollywood Jews named Louis Feinberg, Moses and Jerome Horwitz? Known professionally by the names of Larry, Moe and Curly — The Three Stooges?
Any Secretary of State who insisted on this reaction to Pearl Harbor or Hitler would have been laughed out of Washington. Replaced on the spot.
Yet that is precisely the stance being taken by Secretary Clinton. She has willfully signed on to a doctrine that insists an anti-Islamic YouTube video is somehow responsible for the death of State Department personnel not to mention all the destruction of the last few days.
She has made the deliberate decision to conduct American foreign policy based on the idea of “soft power.” The silliness that soft power combined with the President’s personal biography would somehow change the world view and the actions of those who believe Jihad is their duty and Sharia not simply their law but a global goal. To see how foolish this was, take a look here at this 2008 Huffington Post article by — you can’t make it up — a Harvard professor. The opening of this foolish, foolish business is, no kidding — this:
I have spent the past month lecturing in Oxford and traveling in Europe where Barack Obama could be elected in a landslide. I suspect that this fascination with Obama is true in many parts of the world. In fact, as I have said before, it is difficult to think of any single act that would do more to restore America’s soft power than the election of Obama to the presidency.
Soft power is the ability to obtain the outcomes one wants through attraction rather than using the carrots and sticks of payment or coercion.
How’s this idea working for the Obama-Clinton team now, Professor Nye?
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Jeffrey Lord is a former Reagan White House political director and author. He writes from Pennsylvania at jlpa1@aol.com.
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Appleby| 9.18.12 @ 6:58AM
But it's the SIXTIES, maaaaaan! Peace! Love! Drugs! Marching in the Streets! Oh, wait, the anniversary of Occupy Wall Street sort of floated past without anybody noticing ... when, oh when, are the adults going to take over again? Does an atom bomb have to actually go off (and be blamed on George Bush, no doubt) before these people see that the [censored] Sixties are OVER?
MelvinNC| 9.18.12 @ 7:23AM
Looks like Hillary's, "Soft Power," ain't working so good. The Islamic Fascists slapped her around like Hillary was their bitch.
chuck| 9.18.12 @ 7:39AM
You can include the empty chair in that comment too. Only he enjoys being the "bitch".
Alan| 9.18.12 @ 7:52AM
She should resign for being butt ugly if for nothing else.
Harry the Horrible| 9.18.12 @ 8:32AM
Dunno. Being ugly didn't stop Mad Maddie Halfbright.
KennesawJack| 9.18.12 @ 9:48AM
True, and she was just as incompetent as Shillary.
Kwan| 9.18.12 @ 10:36AM
A gen-u-wine "double bagger" for sure.
Alej| 9.18.12 @ 11:37AM
"Coyote ugly," man.
As far as her competence is concerned, she's only where she is (and not in jail for White Water and the cover-up murder at Rose Law Firm) because she's married to the serial rapist cigar-doodler.
It's like Brett favre's wife commented... "If Hillary can run for president because of who she's married to, I ought to quarterback the Green Bay Packers next year."
Butch| 9.18.12 @ 4:57PM
And those legs, man.
RJ| 9.18.12 @ 7:07AM
Fine article, Jeff, but who among us believes that Ms. Clinton will resign because of her failed policies? It is out of character for anyone on the left to assume responsibility for failure. They only leave when they are being thrown out the door. Let's hope the American public does that to the Obama Administration this November. Our nation can't take another 4 years of this.
Von Mises Jr| 9.18.12 @ 8:45AM
Shillary, Barry, and the socialist Democrats in Congress cannot admit failure since doing so would admit socialism is a failure.
Marx believed in "material productive forces" where economies just morphed all by themselves ultimately leading to socialism where no dictator or Party was needed since everybody has a Rodney King epiphany and commits to "everybody just getting along."
The National Socialist (Nazi) Party committed atrocities. Mao killed 70M. The USSR finally collapsed under its own weight.
But Barry and Shillary "are the ones we have been waiting for." What horse shit? But they actually believe this horse shit.
Of course, when they get shellacked November 6th, the socialist will then throw Barry and Shillary under the bus. Otherwise is to admit socialism is a pipe dream of epic proportions.
Al Adab| 9.18.12 @ 12:37PM
Disreputable and incompetent are the words that come to mind. They exist in a delusional world of their own creation far removed from reality.
The entire administration should resign, but as you say, that would be to admit that their wolkenkuckkucksheim is delusional.
CJW| 9.18.12 @ 2:21PM
Al Adab
As we discussed last week, with aplogies to Moe, Larry, and Curley, who were acting, our foreign policy is run by Moe Osama, Larry Clinton, and Curley Biden. The original stooges would be a vast improvement.
Hillary's main experience is destroying and hiding billing records, and to lie for Bubba.
We used to have Kissinger and now we have the three stooges.
Al Adab| 9.18.12 @ 4:15PM
W:
Remember when we used to talk about raising the bar? Well, we keep lowering it in the name of inclusion or some such and this is the result. Time to get back to demanding expertise and competence from our elected and other officials.
CJW| 9.18.12 @ 4:25PM
Al Adab
We now demand 15 second soundbites and are upset when Romney speaks in sentences, and view that as weakness because he takes time to speak coherently as does Paul Ryan.
We are used to drivel like "GM is alive and Osama is dead."
The JFK/Nixon debates were so much better.
Warrior| 9.18.12 @ 7:59PM
Curley Biden, that in and of itself makes any post fantastic.
TW in SC| 9.18.12 @ 7:08AM
One has to remember that the relationship between Hitlery and D'oh-bama is, at best, dysfunctional and at worst, spiteful.
They detest one another.
It also appears to me that Hitlery is suffering from what appears to be the later stages of alcoholism. I have no proof of this and am merely speculating. Inasmuch as she's a product of the 60's, and even as incompetent as she is, the stresses of her job no doubt take a toll and she was taught to use chemicals to deal with stress. Those big luxo airliners that state officials fly on are loaded with booze (Hat tip to Nancy Pelosi) at the taxpayers' expense. The good stuff too; Not the bottom-shelf swill at the corner bar.
But the president and secretary fundamentally do not work together as such a professional arrangement should. Like all things in this regime, it's a disaster. Flawed foundation. Flawed doctrine. Flawed execution.
MelvinNC| 9.18.12 @ 7:21AM
!!! Far out dude!!! The smartest woman in the world royally boofooed this one didn't she" " Ya, allegedly the ambassador to Libya was Gay, and he was going to spread a Leftist agenda in Libya and the Libyans were going to become serious medical marijuana users.
"Siccc, Sicccc, you wanna hit man." "But what about that aged hippie Hillary?
" "She was hanging out with her best friend Huma, word has it that they are really, really, really, tight, sicccc, sicccc." "But the Huma girl is married to that perv Anthony Weiner." Nah,thats just a front that Bill and Hillary came up with. Huma is also the daughter of some dude in the Muslim brotherhood that is like waaaaaaay up on the Islamic food chain." "Siccc, sicccc, wooooowwww, you mean the Huma dudette is feeding really, really, secret shit to the wierd beards? "
"Hey, can't say for sure, but things are sure looking like that. Siccc, sicccc, this medial marijuana is some really good shitttttt. Why you laughin man? Hey tell your mom, next time she comes down to the basement, to bring us some Doritos, I've got the munchies."
Joellen| 9.18.12 @ 7:47AM
Hilary, like Obama, never EARNED their positions. However, Obama is right about one thing, together, along with the rest of their evil empire, they are the cause and effect of all the doom and gloom that has permeated the world as we live now.
Anthony| 9.18.12 @ 7:52AM
Why the cheap shot at Sec. Rumsfeld? Your comparison is so flawed, it appears to come out of the Obozo campaign, or the NY Times. Rumsfeld was/is a supurb administrator and brilliant man.
Clinton is a total and complete disaster, like her boss. She's all glitter and no substance, just the way the whores in the MSM love their leftist pols.
Hillary couldn't fill Rumsfeld's shoes, even on his worse day, although she would his 34 waist pants.
Find somebody else to pillar Jeffery, or just stick to the subject line, Hillary abd Obozo are total incompetents.
TW in SC| 9.18.12 @ 8:05AM
I think, in Jeff's defense, though he didn't specify, is that the way the left unfairly crucified Rumsfeld, and that Bush acquiesced to leftists' demands for his resignation amidst trumped up suppositions, the left really now DOES have a reason, irrefutable proof of incompetence and Jeff is merely drawing attention to the sublime by being a bit absurd.
I cannot pretend to speak for him, but my impression in his article was that he outlined something that really happened and applied the same criteria to Hitlery's position, with the supposition that the left might entertain the same action from her and the president, as established by precedent.
Of course, one would sooner rope the wind.
Jeff| 9.18.12 @ 9:37AM
Anthony....
No shot at Rumsfeld intended.
The fact is that Hillary/Biden and others went after Rummy on the grounds stateed, insisting Bush should ask for his resignation because his decisions were a liability. So....I'm simply using their standards to apply to Hillary.
I like Secretary Rumsfeld...and have great respect for him. It was Hillary who applied the standards...and thus they are appropriate to apply to her now.
Cat Shot| 9.18.12 @ 10:35AM
Did you just use the words "standards" and "Hillary" in the same sentence?
mike 3/505| 9.18.12 @ 3:24PM
She has a lot of standards and class....all of them LOW.
JmsA| 9.18.12 @ 8:57PM
Wholly concur. Rumsfeld had quite an accomplished career, including his service to the country.
Pecos Pete| 9.18.12 @ 8:13AM
"Islamic fascism isn't going to disappear." Mr. Lord is correct.
Hillary Clinton is the smartest woman on the planet and Obama is the smartest man on the planet. They can do no wrong. On the other hand, based on facts, they appear NOT to be able to do anything to solve middle eastern conflicts nor, in the case of King O, the economic disaster occurring in the United States.
Soft policies equal soft results. Good fences equal good neighbors.
Where are the Muslim Moderates who are speaking out and calling for understanding and congeniality?
Yes indeed, Hillary Clinton should resign immediately. But she won't. Obama should be impeached, but he won't be by the current Congress. Their failed policies will drag the United States into another war, an immense and disastrous war.
cuban pete| 9.18.12 @ 8:52AM
PP,
You ask where are the "Muslim Moderates".
Why every time there is an incident involving "radical Islam" there are dozens of letters to the editors of papers and magazines from "Muslim Moderates" decrying and condemning radical Islam. You can read transcripts of sermons of moderate imans in mosques across the country and the Middle East condemning radical Islam and imploring the perpetrators to cease the violence.
Just kidding.
Minuteman78| 9.18.12 @ 8:40AM
I dunno Jeff, I say leave her in, let her be the albatross around Obummer's neck that wipes him out in the election! Who would he replace her with? Bill Maher? James Taylor? Morgan Freeman?
SUBVET| 9.18.12 @ 11:11AM
Ahhhhhh.......maybe the guy that was marooned on an island with a friend named WILSON.
Albert Constantine Jr.| 9.18.12 @ 8:44AM
To base a foreign policy on the hope that others will be attracted to you is at best dangerously naïve. Nations have interests, which are often competitive, and frequently in conflict with that of other nations. Islamism is a way political thinking that allows no competition and promotes constant conflict until its final victory. To think that it can be defeated in other nations or our own by the power of example rather than by the force of arms, economy and principle is misguided, to say the least.
John Navratil| 9.18.12 @ 1:47PM
Albert Constantine Jr.,
Which is why these fools seek a one-world government. Don't you see, only then will be have real peace! Kumbaya can be translated into Arabic, and renamed Kumballah, but anyone singing it will be called a blasphemer and beheaded.
Qwilly| 9.18.12 @ 9:08AM
HELP...HELP....Hillarys face just fell and IT CANT GET UP...Somebody call 911
Louis Jenkins| 9.18.12 @ 9:08AM
Rumsfield stood at his desk. The desk was elevated to accept his frame-stature. And the media complained when they found out the Muslim prisoners, at least some of them, were forced to stand hours at a time. You never received happy talk from him, only business. Too bad Hillary can't seem to find her lost glasses.
florin| 9.18.12 @ 9:09AM
Sept. 18th: Failure in judgement - in Obama's case I wonder if he is deliberately leading the USA into the hands of Muslim extremists. He skips intelligence briefings even after the attacks on our embassies and he goes off to campaign and party while the Middle East is on fire and after our Ambassador and his staff were brutally murdered...Obama is not leading...he doesn't know how and he doesn't care. Many are asking why Valerie Jarret has better security when she goes on vacation in the USA than our people in Cairo and Egypt, in Sudan and other hot spots...is Valerie Jarret the one in charge...it's surely not Obama. But since the media continues to bow down and do his bidding, and prop him up although he is an empty suit, it's likely Obama and Jarret will be given another 4 years to complete the damage they've begun..
No_BlahBlah| 9.18.12 @ 9:38AM
Mr. Lord excellent exercise in logic as usual.
Your list didn't include the 2004 Madrid train bombings.
Yes of course if life was fair and the media and demonRats in the U.S. were not unmasked communists bent on the destruction of America there would be calls for Shrillary to resign.
I'm not anticipating any such movement since Shrillary is their savior in 2016 if the Destroyer in Chief can't cobble together a plausible vote count or the anointed one in waiting if he does.
There won't be much to recognize in America if he pulls it off in 4 years. The intellectual elites have proven that their theories work to perfection. The American electorate never bothered to ask what was the intended result.
America, a shadow of its true self. Not to worry though, still plenty of jobs for those invested in the Administrative State. The rest of us? Not so much.
That was never the plan anyway. Power, pure domestic political power.
The vacuum created in the rest of the world?
Mehh,
Ken (Old Texican)| 9.18.12 @ 10:04AM
Jeffrey,
well spoken. Our only hope is fifty days away, and God's intercession.
My primary efforts are around e-mailing m 2,500 plus friends and stockholders and literally begging them to vote and also to kick their worthless brother-in law off the couch to vote.
I do want to draw your attention to the american thinker today concerning the internet kill switch.
brrrrrrrrrrr!
SUBVET| 9.18.12 @ 11:34AM
TEX...........we all have been doing what we can to get the word out...yes 49 days left. We all have called on the all Mighty above to intervene with our prayers.
Have we strayed to far from his WORD for Him to have mercy on us ?
Is He going to make an example of us like he did with the choesn ones ?
Yes barry seems like by the way he's acting that he's got the cat in the bag. He's running the ship aground and doesn't care.
Is something UP ? Does he know something we don't ?
Jusy by the way he has this "in your face" attitude sends a chill down my spine.
My fear is the election might be stolen.......
I am ready for anything.............and I mean anything.
ps......Mr. Lord thank you as always for the history lesson........may God Bless you.
Who Knows?| 9.18.12 @ 10:10AM
The Jeff-ster scores again.
Stupid is as stupid does.
And, just watch all the Obama-Hillary doings! Furthermore, actions, or doings, have consequences.
You betcha.
You can run, but you can’t hide. You may not be interested or concerned about Islam, but Islam is to-the-convert-or-die intimately eager to “engage” YOU!
At powerlineblog.com, Steve Hayward has posted, a couple of times, what Churchill wrote about Islam. Too bad all Western “heretics” haven’t read it, and taken it into account.
Islam has ALWAYS been flucked!
Remember, until black gold was found to practically bubble up out of the sands in the Middle East, the Arabs were easily understood to be the backward brainwashed fools portrayed in movies like “Lawrence of Arabia”. Talk about undeserved wealth!
From the first barrel of oil, through the nationalization of the oil fields and loss of control to the Saudi sheiks, right up to now, the essence of Islam has played out. It is just slavery, in a sandy form, whose plantation masters use Islam as the whip, and oil instead of cotton as the saleable commodity to keep THEM in power.
And, Americans, after soooo many years of in-your-face acts by Islamists, STILL doesn’t get it?
Pathetic.
Who Knows?| 9.18.12 @ 10:35AM
Churchill, from "The River War"-
“How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries! Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog, there is this fearful fatalistic apathy. The effects are apparent in many countries. Improvident habits, slovenly systems of agriculture, sluggish methods of commerce, and insecurity of property exist wherever the followers of the Prophet rule or live. A degraded sensualism deprives this life of its grace and refinement; the next of its dignity and sanctity. The fact that in Mohammedan law every woman must belong to some man as his absolute property—either as a child, a wife, or a concubine—must delay the final extinction of slavery until the faith of Islam has ceased to be a great power among men. Individual Moslems may show splendid qualities. Thousands become the brave and loyal soldiers of the Queen: all know how to die. But the influence of the religion paralyzes the social development of those who follow it. No stronger retrograde force exists in the world. Far from being moribund, Mohammedanism is a militant and proseltyzing faith. It has already spread throughout Central Africa, raising fearless warriors at every step; and were it not that Christianity is sheltered in the strong arms of science—the science against which it had vainly struggled—the civilization of modern Europe might fall, as fell the civilization of ancient Rome.”
Al Adab| 9.18.12 @ 12:40PM
Oh, but we must never learn from history and repeat those horrible, colonialistic errors of the benighted imperialists. That would be to admit that not everyone in the world likes one another and that in fact there exist irreconsilabne differences between men and nations.
John II| 9.18.12 @ 2:35PM
". . . were it not that Christianity is sheltered in the strong arms of science—the science against which it had vainly struggled—the civilization of modern Europe might fall, as fell the civilization of ancient Rome.”
Slight demurral from what is otherwise a characteristically splendid passage from one of my (political) heroes.
1. The "vain struggle" (of Christianity against science) to which Winnie alludes seems rather more a broad stroke of political rhetoric than a considered reflection on history. I suppose that, by "Christianity," Winnie is referring, for example, to the Catholic Church in her contretemps with Galileo, an incident which is now perhaps hopelessly misunderstood because of the symbolic value attached to the event by the secular consciousness that has pretty much dominated Western culture for more than 200 years. Indeed, from a Christian perspective, the forced symbolism of such events as l'affaire Galileo is itself a symbol of the secular world's own rather desperate need for self-affirmation and ritualistic display. More to come, if anyone's reading . . .
John II| 9.18.12 @ 2:38PM
The historical reality, as many historians have come to acknowledge, is that the development of Western science would not have been possible without the peculiar Judaeo-Christian optic that in effect mandates an openness to God's creation and serious efforts to understand it. I mean, the University is a Christian invention. Islam since about the 12th century effectively shut off such openness, a development which a study of the Qur'an itself should lead one, I believe, to regard as having been likely and plausible.
2. Western science is the ONLY aspect of the West that modern Muslims show any interest in. And the interest is confined almost exclusively to the applications of science--not, for example, to the deeper regions of physics or the mathematical speculations of cosmology, where Western science willy-nilly encounters philosophy and theology. Well-to-do Muslim families send their sons to the West just to study and learn those applications, NOT to inquire into Western philosophy and literature and art and history, and certainly not to grapple with Judaeo-Christian theology.
John II| 9.18.12 @ 2:40PM
3. The notion that Christianity "is sheltered in the strong arms of science" is not a notion that Churchill himself would any longer entertain if he were still with us. The only serious Western shelter against the latest onslaught of Islam, after a 400-year lull, would be a deep and reflective Judaeo-Christian faith. The dissolution of that faith in the West has gradually fostered a degenerate culture which I don't believe is up to the task of defending itself. A smug, comfortably skeptical nihilism is no match for the fanatic nihilism of jihad.
And now back to "The Jeweller's Shop" (1990), in which the remnants of a serious Judaeo-Christian faith inspire hope amid a hollow secularist culture.
Paul McGrath| 9.18.12 @ 4:31PM
Thanks, John, for your terrific analysis. I too was a bit troubled by the Churchill comment inre Chritianity's vain struggle against science, but I know better and he knew better. In general, Christianity opened door to all that, and indeed was the sole protector of Western knowledge off and on and in many different places for centuries. A "broad stroke of political rhetoric" is exactly the way to describe it.
As to our loss of faith in ourselves, well, witness these pages, filled with hatred and contempt for all that our culture represents.
Purp| 9.18.12 @ 11:14AM
Ha! Donald Rumsfeld couldn't empty Hillary Clinton's latrine.
"Snowflake" Rummy, that orchestrated torture and Abu Ghraib is a disgrace to the United States, so much so, even the idiot, GW Bush fired him.
We attacked Iraq clearly, in Rumsfeld's words "Because there are more targets of opportunity" in Iraq. What a tool. Send thousands to their deaths and dismemberment to put on a good show. It's unconscionable.
And, you compare that low-life to the leading contender for President of the United States in 2016?
How do you answer Mitty's campaign is in disarray, confused on messaging, donations falling off, the electorate coalescing around the President? Far more important than 4 people tragically killed in a terrorist attack in Libya.
Nick| 9.18.12 @ 11:27AM
Last week, Burp blamed the late Ambassador Stevens for his own death, the death of 3 other Americans, and the attack on the Libyan consulate because they didn't apologize to a Moslem mob (hit squad?) for the American right to free-speech.
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Purp| 9.12.12 @ 4:16PM
"Correct - the Embassy in Cairo released that message BEFORE there was any violence. Obama knew nothing about it - but they were worried for their lives and tried to calm things down.
"Smart, since they didn't get burned down like what happened in Libya."
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You are a disgusting scumbag, Burp..
Boar Hunter| 9.18.12 @ 11:27AM
Yip yip yip yap yap yap, Hillary's dog barks on.
Obama is gay and Hillary is a lesbo. That is the only reason they have your support.
Purp| 9.18.12 @ 12:39PM
Are you a pig?
Nick| 9.18.12 @ 1:28PM
You blamed Ambassador Stevens for his own death, Burp.
You are a disgusting scumbag.
Boar Hunter| 9.18.12 @ 2:56PM
Yip?
John II| 9.18.12 @ 12:35PM
"Far more important than 4 people tragically killed in a terrorist attack in Libya."
Point of linguistic order, Purp. You've misused the term "tragically." A tragedy is an bad occurrence that grows out of inadvertent and often mysterious coincidences. When terrorists kill, it's not a tragedy; it's an atrocity.
But there's something going on here more interesting than your writerly incompetence. For the term "tragically" in such contexts has morphed of late into a cheaply vague rhetorical trick--a pro forma nod to the general badness of an event that the writer or speaker is really not at all interested in.
The folks at Foggy Bottom use such language all the time; that's why the State Department is called "Foggy Bottom." Except for rare circumstances in which diplomacy is truly an art, there's just no moral center in what I would call the routine enterprise of Hillary-like diplomacy. And the routine use of such language by the Professor's shills is one of many signs that there is no moral center in the Obamanation.
And now back to the great Three Stooges short "I'll Never Heil Again" (1941), sequel to "You Nazty Spy" (1940)--both of which were personal favorites of Moe Howard and both of which, far from being "tasteless" (my one objection to Jeff's terrific piece), are masterpieces of Stooge genius, eloquent of a deep and resonant moral center.
Occam's Tool| 9.20.12 @ 7:06PM
The 3 Stooges were Masters of their Craft; Hillary is the Mistress of the Daft. A Large difference.
Might I suggest that we incorporate the Following into the Strategy of the Romney Administration:
1)Cut Domestic Spending 10%.
2) Cut taxes 10%.
3) Our Foreign Policy towards our enemies: Oderint Dum Metuant.
4)Therefore, set up the 1000:1 equivalence rule. Gilad Shalit was worth 1000 Palestinian Terrorists in exchange, according to the palestinian Muslims. Therefore, for killing our 4 Ambassadorial staff, the Libyans should suffer at least 4000 deaths. Personally, since those were US Government representatives as opposed to, say, St. Pancake, it should be 10,000 deaths per, or 40,000. That just happens to be the number of dead killed at Nagasaki. Therefore, one tacnuke dropped on, say, Bengazi. (With a population of over a million, this will guarantee the 10,000 to one ratio).
5) No Nation Building.
Stephie| 9.18.12 @ 12:51PM
For a minute there, I thought you were writing a comedy routine.
Mitt's campaign is just fine. It's just that you buy into the liberal progressive MSNBC BS line. The left is scared to death that your boy 'bama is about to get his scrawny butt spanked.
And he is.
Frekki| 9.18.12 @ 1:37PM
Barack is nimble
Barack is quick
Barack is history
November 6th
CJW| 9.18.12 @ 3:49PM
ObamaboyPurpie,
The Village Idiot continues with his daily drivel from the emails of DebbieWS.
If it wasn't for the enhanced interrogation that you call torture we would not have located Osama. Remember?
You oppose torture buy you approve of drone killings, even of American citizens, where Obama decides who lives or dies. And funny part, you never hear from the MSM about the others killed along with the terrorrists in the drone killings. You must believe the drones have a magic bomb that kills only the person designated by Obama and not any bystanders, right idiot?
Romney will win by a landslide. We will cut the deficit, support Israel, avoid a war with Iran, and get the economy moving after the ObamaFiasco.
Obama will retire to write another biography, attend Rev Wright's church, and hang with Billy Ayers, who qualifies for a drone attack under the Obama guidelines.
Hillary will retire to write her long awaited story of how her boyfriend Vince Foster died.
Biden will continue to do stand up comedy, even if he does not know he is doing it.
You, purpie/jack/canuck will continue with your make believe purpland, but that $10 and hour troll job will end soon.
TNcracker | 9.18.12 @ 3:54PM
I have discovered I CAN read Spectator comments again. It's easy - you just skip these sickening nutjobs like Purp, RCV, etc. Don't know why I haven't thought of this before.
CJW| 9.18.12 @ 4:21PM
Don't put RCV in same category as Purp. RCV is an intelligent and civil liberal. Purp is an idiot lefty with no manners.
Nick| 9.18.12 @ 8:23PM
I agree, W. RCV is nowhere near the lefty that Burp is. RCV will actually debate and make an argument, civilly.
Burp has no idea how to do so. Nor, has any intention of so doing. He is a drive-by poster.
Occam's Tool| 9.20.12 @ 7:08PM
RCV also is not fond of Islamofascists. his error is to assume barack thinks like him.
Houdini| 9.18.12 @ 11:27AM
Leave the old bag alone while she continues to prove her incompetence and listens to the sound of the death knell of her chances in 2016.
Paul McGrath| 9.18.12 @ 12:25PM
Seemingly lost in all of this is the fact that President Obama is indiscriminately dropping bombs all over the Middle East wherever and whenever he feels like it, including Pakistan, Yemen, and Afghanistan. The Obama admnistration has used these drone attacks five times as many times as used during the Bush administration.
Which by itself doesn't seem to be a problem, except that he's never bothered to spell out his rules of engagement to them--or to us. In that this is allegedly a Democratic Republic, don't we, as American citizens, have the right to know what he's doing and why? So that we can determine through our votes whether we agree with this strategy?
As to our enemies, would it not be prudent for Obama to issue a public statement giving them an alternative--whether they follow it or not--to getting blown up? Is it too much to ask for some clarity from this administration before we kill--perhaps--innocent civilians?
And is it possible, just possible, that these recent attacks on us are in retaliation for our hamfisted, clumsy, ill-defined policy?
Dave Williams| 9.18.12 @ 12:42PM
Nice thought about the resignation, but it'll never happen. The Hillaroid is a stone power junkie and she'll crave & seek the stuff till the day she dies.
Stephie| 9.18.12 @ 12:56PM
Well now Dave, she had to endure riding Slick Willie's coat tails for 20 something years to get to second fiddle. Why would anyone who would let this illegal run them out of a primary be worthy of being the president. No Hillary , you had your chance at the run and even the tears while wearing the pink suit and matching finger nails didn't get you on the ticket. You let obama run you out on a rail and then you came back to be his lacky. No respect left.
cuban pete| 9.18.12 @ 2:01PM
I gotta go with Dave on this one Stephie but if she does come back, trust me, she knows who helped "this illegal" run her out of the primary and there will be hell to pay.
Cobalt| 9.18.12 @ 1:24PM
Hillary serves at the pleasure of Valerie Jarrett.
cicero| 9.18.12 @ 4:21PM
Jeff, this time around you do not have the press beating the drum on a daily basis for her head, as they did for Rumsfeld's. For that reason, Rumsfeld became a liability to his president. Hillary serves as a cover for her president. People actually think that she makes policy. All decisions on foreign policy are made by the president, and the Sec. of State is merely the emissary who has to announce the policy, when the Pres. won't. Neat bit of double dealing. He can set whatever damaging policy he wants, and then stand there with a blank (cool) look on his face, and say "What, me worry."
BackToBasics| 9.18.12 @ 6:00PM
I agree with the article. Ironically and to our dismay, in 2016, she will be trotted out as the democrat with the most gravitas because of her foreign policy "experience."
To the dems way of thinking, a "great" foreign policy ticket would be Hillary Clinton - Madeline Albright.
conWaambulence| 9.25.12 @ 5:56PM
So a right wing idiot released a video, another right wing religious zealot advertised and promoted that idiot, right wing Islamists wen't bonkers and used this as an excuse to attack while the lemming like right wing poor were protesting and suddenly the team that ended the war in Iraq, presided over the fall of Libya, got Bin Laden and has been kicking terrorist butts all over the globe needs to go because of 3 deaths and some embassy's getting torched in extremely violent regions of countries undergoing sweeping changes.
I am no Hillary fan, I worked hard to insure she wasn't President Elect Hillary Clinton but recent issue's aside by every OBJECTIVE measure she has been a far more successful player than any of her predecessors during the Bush debacle.
Let's be perfectly clear here, Obama put the right person in place for that job. My personal distaste for her doesn't interfere with my ability to measure her job performance without prejudice and that appears to be a skill sadly lacking here among the faithful right wing lemmings and good old Jeff Lord. I'm not nearly as bright or talented as Mr Lord is, but my judgement also isn't clouded by pure partisan drivel as his (and most of your agendas appear to be here).
WAaaaaa is pretty much all I here from the right. What are your solutions? Bomb some more countries? Walk away completely? Please spea up and tell me what you would have done differently with your 20-20 hindsite.