By Mr. Curmudgeon
The Obama Media is beside itself over the failed Christmas Day Al Qaeda attempt to bring down a Northwest airliner bound for Detroit. As much as it breaks their hearts, they feel compelled to report, no matter how painful, the failings of their favorite administration. At first, they hoped to make Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano the lightening rod for the administration’s intelligence failures. 72 hours after the Detroit incident, President Obama begrudgingly dragged himself away from a Hawaiian golf course to address the glaring U.S. intelligence breakdown. “A systemic failure has occurred, and I consider that totally unacceptable.” He gravely informed his adoring press corps that he would “insist on accountability at every level.” As the New York Times noted, crest fallen, “he did not elaborate.” After narrowly escaping another bloody terrorist attack on U.S. soil, President Obama attempted to distance himself from his own administration.
New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd lamented, “One thrilling thing about moving from W. to Barack Obama was that Obama seemed like an avatar of modernity. W., Dick Cheney and Rummy kept ceaselessly dragging us back into the past. America seemed to have lost her ingenuity, her quickness, her man-on-the-moon bravura, her Bugs Bunny panache.” No doubt in tears, Dowd continued using child-like pop-culture references to express her disappointment in Obama’s lack of cartoon rabbit competence, “Spock was letting us know that our besieged starship was not speeding into a safer new future, and that we still have to be scared. Heck of a job, Barry.”
Meanwhile, America’s number one grownup, former Vice President Dick Cheney, told POLITICO.com:
“[W]e are at war and when President Obama pretends we aren’t, it makes us less safe. Why doesn’t he want to admit we’re at war?…”
Then, Cheney brilliantly and insightfully answered his own question:
“…It doesn’t fit with the view of the world he brought with him to the Oval Office. It doesn’t fit with what seems to be the goal of his presidency – social transformation—the restructuring of American society.”
And there you have it. Transforming a Constitutional Republic into an impoverished Left-Wing banana republic can be very distracting. Democrats have their hands full herding over 300 million Americans down the death-march road to government-run health care. The bribes to Democratic senators alone required hours of backroom negotiations and thousands of pages of byzantine legislation. The mainstream media is red-faced over Obama’s incompetence and fear Al Qaeda is exploiting cracks in America’s security programs. That crack is the distraction inherent in Obama’s attempt to remake America into something it was never meant to be; to “change” it from the “shining city upon a hill,” which made it a worthy target of Al Qaeda’s dark evil and a noble avenger after 9/11.
