“The President is among the most sophisticated consumers of
intelligence on the planet.”
So
says White House spokesman Tommy Vietor when it was revealed
President Obama has been skipping his daily intelligence
briefing.
Reported Breitbart:
The Government Accountability Institute, a new conservative
investigative research organization, examined President Obama’s
schedule from the day he took office until mid-June 2012, to see
how often he attended his Presidential Daily Brief (PDB) — the
meeting at which he is briefed on the most critical intelligence
threats to the country. During his first 1,225 days in office,
Obama attended his PDB just 536 times — or 43.8 percent of the
time. During 2011 and the first half of 2012, his attendance became
even less frequent — falling to just over 38 percent.
And as we write… the Middle East is in turmoil, with the Obama
administration saying they just don’t understand why. Said Hillary
Clinton:
I asked myself — how could this happen? How could this happen
in a country we helped liberate in a city we helped save from
destruction?
As Rush Limbaugh today quoted author Michael Lewis on the
Charlie Rose show from 2008, Obama “thinks he’s the smartest person
in the room.”
Hmmmmm.
Just today over there in our column on some of the books that
would be helpful in understanding the 2012 campaign we wrote
this:
Elitism
•
Outnumbered: Chronicles of a Manhattan
Conservative by Jedediah Bilah. This smart, funny but
deadly serious book pinpoints with precision the almost laughable
elitism that has infected liberalism and the Democrats. The “I’m
smarter than thou” thinking that is so hilariously misplaced it
would be worthy of a sitcom were it not so serious in its impact on
the country. Ms. Bila tells her own personal tale of survival
amidst this kind of thinking in the heart of liberal Manhattan. But
make no mistake — this thinking is everywhere in the liberal
world. After all — who needs God in a platform if one is smarter
than God?
Now.
What exactly is it that the White House spokesman has just
said?
The spokesman said: “The President is among the most
sophisticated consumers of intelligence on the planet….”
So therefore he doesn’t need to attend all those intel
briefings.
Which is to say, the White House itself is at this very moment
illustrating precisely Jedediah Bila’s point. The only difference
here is that this “I’m smarter than you” argument is now coming not
from Ms. Bila’s interactions with snobby Manhattanites — but from
the President of the United States!
And the results?
Four dead Americans, including the U.S. Ambassador to Libya. And
right this minute mobs are swarming the streets of Cairo. Cairo.
Where “the most sophisticated” President gave that famous speech in
2009 that he was so certain would somehow make Islamic radicals
turn into not-Islamic-radicals. Instead? The Muslim Brotherhood is
now running the country. Something that Sean Hannity, Mark Levin,
Andrew McCarthy and others have spent time aplenty warning
about.
The other week we
asked the question about the influence of Clinton aide Huma
Abedin on State Department policy.
We quoted a letter to the Inspector General of the State
Department from Minnesota Republican Congresswoman Michele Bachmann
that said:
For example, according to “The Muslim Brotherhood in America:
The Enemy Within,” a product of the Center for Security Policy
(MuslimBrotherhoodinAmerica.com), the Department’s Deputy Chief of
staff, Huma Abedin, has three family members — her late father,
her mother and her brother — connected to Muslim Brotherhood
operatives and/or organizations. Her position affords her routine
access to the Secretary and to policy-making.
Now… today… the United States is in a crisis precisely because
of a series of blunders in both Egypt and Libya. Is any of this
related to any private policy advice Huma Abedin gave her Secretary
of State boss? We don’t know.
But we do know this.
With her pointed and perceptive
book on the smug elitism that runs rampant in the liberal world
view, Jedediah Bila has put her finger on exactly the attitude that
is now causing such terrible consequences in the Middle East.
The Middle East teeters on the brink.
But don’t worry. Huma is helping Hillary, although Hillary
doesn’t understand what’s happening.
And the President, you see, is the smartest man in the room.
