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- Clearing the Browser Tabs – Bushless Ground Zero Thursday Edition
- The Campaign Starts Tomorrow for Cain, Others
- The GOP House Intel Chair’s Stunning Display of Insult and Ignorance
| Clearing the Browser Tabs – Bushless Ground Zero Thursday Edition Posted: 05 May 2011 03:10 AM PDT I want to bring out one story from yesterday, that’s worth just a bit more attention than a linky bullet point. George Bush declined President Obama’s invitation to join him when he speaks at Ground Zero today. I think that’s an incredibly classy move by the former President. Barack Obama is the President and all the failures and successes of the war we’re fighting today belong to him. It’s fitting that George Bush stand aside and let his successor bask a little bit in the success that he appears to have earned by bagging one of our most dangerous enemies. On the other hand, it’s also wise that President Bush not walk into a potential trap of the kind that President Obama sprung on the Supreme Court and Paul Ryan. After Sunday’s speech in which I don’t believe President Obama once mentioned his predecessor’s name favorably, it’s not hard to imagine that he’d freeze him out, even if he was standing right next to him. And now, links!
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| The Campaign Starts Tomorrow for Cain, Others Posted: 04 May 2011 07:18 PM PDT Fox News is hosting a debate of erstwhile Republican candidates in South Carolina tomorrow and my favorite, Herman Cain, will be there. Joining him will be Tim Pawlenty, Ron Paul, Gary Johnson, and Rick Santorum — admittedly not the crop of front-runners Fox had anticipated when they scheduled this debate, but that’s what you get for setting one up approximately 19 years before the election. You’ll notice that the big names, most notably Romney and Palin, won’t be there. I can’t say whether that’s a good move for them or not. To be honest, the person who can predict what Sarah Palin will do next should probably quit doing that and get rich correctly guessing lottery numbers. As for Romney, well, Stacy’s post makes it pretty plain that his campaign is not ready for public consumption. Still, the debate ought to be interesting. Most of the participants could be contenders if they get off to a strong start and they’d get a nice little boost from a strong and substantive performance. Cain and Johnson will benefit greatly from the national exposure. Cain, especially, gets very good reactions once people get to see and hear him. If they do particularly well, they could knock Pawlenty and Santorum off-kilter enough to get some real separation in the polls. I know I’ve been critical of a debate this early in the election season, but it might just work out well. If nothing else, I’ll get to watch Herman Cain work his magic on the big stage, and that’s not a bad thing at all.
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| The GOP House Intel Chair’s Stunning Display of Insult and Ignorance Posted: 04 May 2011 12:04 PM PDT
Of all the reasons one could concoct for not releasing photos of a gunshot Osama bin Laden, this is easily the dumbest. We know exactly how Americans would react to that situation because we’ve already seen it. Someone needs to remind the Intelligence Mastermind of the House of Representatives about Daniel Pearl and Nick Berg. Maybe they could also show him the photo of the civilian contractors whose corpses were brutalized and hung from an overpass in Iraq. And those were civilians. We wouldn’t even interrupt our dinners if they actually defiled the corpse of a soldier who is directly engaged in the fighting*. Did we erupt in fury when al-Qaeda butchers dragged our soldiers through the streets of Iraq? We did not. But that is almost beside the point — well, not quite. It does speak to Roger’s woeful ignorance of recent history or our war against the Islamists, which you would expect would be a focus for him as the Chair of the House Intelligence Committee, but it’s not the major point. The larger point is that it ought to insult the hell out of every Americans that Mike Rogers thinks us no better than the typical riot-prone Muslim in the Middle East, even though he has ample evidence this is not the case. How little must he think of you and I (and Muslims in general, but that’s another story) that he believes we have the same limits of self-control as people who murder innocents because some guy in Denmark drew a picture of Mohammed? You know, I don’t care to find out. I don’t want to hear an apology from him. I just want him gone. He’s disgraced his nation, Congress, and the Republican Party. I can no longer trust him and neither should anyone else. Speaker Boehner…it’s on you now. *That’s not to say that we respect soldiers less than civilians. Far from it. However, we rational and civilized folk realize there is a world of difference between soldiers and civilians in a war. UPDATE: Ben Howe has a lot more on the matter and I recommend his post highly. He gets the importance of a symbol in wartime. UPDATE 2: Here is a roundup of reactions from Stacy McCain. There is a lot of good stuff in there.
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