The Times They Are A’Changing
My oh my, how times have changed.
It seems like only yesterday that the Democrats and their faithful lapdog counterparts in the news media were lambasting President Bush for inciting the Taliban and Al Qaeda to violence. Almost every move the president made and every word the president uttered was dissected and analyzed for its negative impact on America’s enemies.
If Bush said “Bring it on”, he was described as a cowboy who put our troops on the battlefield in even greater peril by stirring an already very dangerous pot. If he suggested inclusion of former members of Al Qaeda who had not committed violent acts against our troops he was damned for being passive and putting our troops in danger by inciting our enemy through weakness. Democrats stood on the sidelines and played Monday morning quarterback after each and every press conference or directive. The now infamous position John Kerry took during the presidential debates of being against something before he was for it before he was against it became the order of the day for the entire Democrat Party.
It was a much simpler time to be a Democrat when all you had to do was oppose. It was also a much simpler time for the blatantly liberal news media when the only tool they needed to deal with then President Bush was a hammer and the only reporting they needed to provide on Barack Obama was the worldwide Hope and Change he would bring. Flash forward to today and it gets much more complicated.
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was noticeable by her absence at the latest summit meeting with Afghan President Hamid Karzai regarding the recent Afghan elections with its alleged claims of vote fraud and corruption. In her place was US Senator John Kerry representing the United States. Constitutionally a US senator has no authority to represent the entire country in matters of foreign affairs, that is the constitutional task of the Secretary of State under the direction of the president. Barack Obama said he had nothing to do with it. But there stood Kerry with no sign of Clinton. You figure it out.
Now just three hours after Clinton arrives in Pakistan the Taliban blows up over a hundred innocent people. Clinton’s immediate reaction is to call them “cowardly”. A woman who is also an official of the US government, calling Muslim terrorists cowards and the press makes no mention of possible incitement.
October has been the deadliest month in years for our brave troops in Afghanistan. It also just happens to be the month Barack Obama has made a spectacle of his inability to give our troops the desperately needed support requested by General McChrystal. The press remains mum on that point too.
Barack Obama addresses airman at a military base in Florida making a solemn pledge to not send them into harms way without a firm strategy in place. The press gleefully reports on the speech but fails to mention that we already have tens of thousands of America’s finest in harms way who are just waiting for some backup.
At the same time car bombs planted by Al Qaeda in Iraq kill hundreds of innocent shoppers. Does the press even ask if this could have anything to do with the weakness shown by a president more interested in political damage than military of civilian lives? Nope, not a word.
The sad truth is that if the Taliban and Al Qaeda want to get this pacifist president to take action they will have to go to work for Fox News.
Maybe then the mainstream media will give it some coverage.
