There are a lot of people who provide cover for Barack Obama like total Kevlar body armor, but few, if any, are as loyal as Democratic strategist Donna Brazile. She is nothing if not omnipresent immediately after every act of buffoonery Obama can pull.
The latest is Brazile’s attempt at translating Obama’s weird commencement speech at West Point last week.
Everyone but Brazile is pretty much in agreement that the appearance was nothing less than a “huh?” moment. It was typical Obama: one self-contradictory statement after the other. Clearly the speech was filled with “I” and “me” and a significant degree of irrelevancy, filled with verbal traversing to “explain” his failures to act with foreign enemies in trying to support his no-confrontation, no-war mindset.
Clearly, Obama was unaware of the makeup of his audience, i.e., their military training and ethos.
Brazile’s commentary, “A new approach,” was a stunning offering.
Rather than risk taking the heat herself, she says she quoted “New York Times conservative columnist David Brooks” speaking on PBS during the last national election saying: “The Republicans just – they can’t stop themselves. They just start rattling sabers. They can’t do it quickly enough,” followed by, “They don’t want to pay for it. They don’t want to be involved in it, but, boy, they love war.”
That last targeted comment blared by Brazile is not only stupid but incredibly remarkable. History certainly disagrees with Brooks and Brazile:
* World War I: Democratic President Woodrow Wilson;
* World War II: Democratic President Franklin Roosevelt;
* Korean War: Democratic President Harry Truman;
* Vietnam War: Democratic Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson;
* 1993 (first terrorist bombing in NYC): Democratic President Bill Clinton’s watch.
* 1998 (in retaliation for 1993, the mistaken bombing an aspirin factory in Sudan and some turf of Osama Bin Laden): Democratic President Bill Clinton;
* 1999 (same; accidental bombing of the Chinese Embassy in Belgrade, where people died): Democratic President Bill Clinton.
In 2002, Newsmax.com reported the following comments to CNN from Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein concerning 9/11: “Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Ca., said Sunday she believes that Osama bin Laden decided to launch deadly terrorist strikes on U.S. territory in direct response to President Clinton’s failed missile strikes on bin Laden’s Afghanistan headquarters in 1998.”
Irrespective of multiple Democratic senators supporting going to war in Iraq (although later disavowed, of course), Democrats steadily and invariably warbled that a war in Afghanistan was the one the U.S. should be fighting and President Bush was simply wrong.
Apparently their mantra was solid; Afghanistan remains.
With history on the side of the tally sheet for which party is more likely to put the U.S. into a war, Brazile is left once again with an embarrassing commentary for her files.
However, that is not a problem for her. One, she’s a liberal, and they are never embarrassed; and two, remember this is the woman who was Al Gore’s presidential campaign manager who titled and tried to convince the world that Gore was an “alpha male.”
Betty Arenson has lived in the SCV since 1968 and describes herself as a conservative who’s concerned about progressives’ politics and their impacts on the country, her children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren. She says she is unashamed to own a gun or a Bible, couldn’t care less about the color of the president’s skin, and demands that he uphold his oath to protect and follow the Constitution of the United States in its entirety. Her commentary publishes Fridays.
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A spot on evaluation of the front guard for President Obama. He and the Democrat Left cannot stand on their record so instead they step out as representing the center left bending as the winds of the the day dictate for good press. With the bulk of the press carrying their water they fear not thirst in a drought of any ideas outside of hate and fear mongering.
I pray, yes I believe in an all powerful God, that the electorate will wake to the dangers we fact and put in office leaders to lead us out of the desert we currently inhabit,
Steve Colf
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Newhall, CA 91238
A tad partisan .I believe Brazile was referring to the latest follies of the Bush Administration that went to war with the wrong enemy then lied about nukes in Saddam’s possession.
YOU criticizing Obama’s speech…re-read your own commentary for inane remarks with nothing to back them up. Maybe you’re from the time of Wilson and Roosevelt but we’re living in the here and now where Repubs DO love to start wars (for their corporate friends)without paying for them OR taking care of the Vets when they return…been going on for years! Your final paragraph is plain idiotic. Santa Clarita deserves better commentary.