By Mr. Curmudgeon
At a White House briefing, press secretary Gibbs was asked to comment regarding the barrage of shrill attacks on the administration by the jihadist left. But what drove Gibbs to hyperventilate was their claim that President Obama...I hope your sitting down...is nothing but a warmed over version of George W. Bush.
"These people ought to be drug tested," said an exasperated Gibbs. "They will be satisfied when we have Canadian healthcare and we've eliminated the Pentagon. That's not reality. They wouldn't be satisfied if Dennis Kucinich was president."
Gibbs makes a good point. The left suffers from the utopian delusion that the presidency is imperial. But to be fair to the ankle-biters, Obama reinforced their delirium by naming his administration's authoritarian minions "Czars."
In a Democratic Republic, its leaders must persuade "We the People" if they are to govern effectively. Forcing a particular agenda down the throats of Americans only builds resentment. Have the loons seen the president's approval ratings lately?
But grasping reality is not the strong suit of the lunatic left. A case in point: gays in the military.
"There is a frustration in the LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender) community that the promises that were made have not been entirely fulfilled," Fred Sainz, vice president at the Human Rights Campaign, told the Los Angeles Times.
At a recent Los Angeles fundraiser for Democratic incumbent Senator Barbra Boxer, Obama's address was interrupted by gay protestors demanding an end to the military policy "don't ask, don't tell."
The protestors won't be happy until every military review resembles a San Francisco gay pride parade.
And we saw the success of President Clinton's "don't ask, don't tell" policy in America's struggle in Afghanistan. Gay Pfc. Bradley Manning is accused of leaking 90,000 secret military documents to the Internet site WikiLeaks.org.
In a tender New York Times puff piece, Ginger Thomas wrote of Manning's heroic struggle. And it's as riveting as accounts of George Washington at Valley Forge. "But it was around two years ago, when Pfc. Bradley Manning came here to visit a man he had fallen in love with, that he finally seemed to have found a place where he fit in, part of a social circle that included politically motivated computer hackers and his boyfriend, a self-described drag queen. So when his military career seemed headed nowhere good, Private Manning, 22, turned increasingly to those friends for moral support." And you know the rest of the story.
It is said that allowing openly gay soldiers in the military is bad for unit cohesion. Pfc. Manning showed it can be downright hazardous to one's life. Especially if you're an Afghan informant. You know, the ones who risked their lives telling our military where the Taliban planted those improvised explosive devices. Afghan villagers will be a lot more reluctant to stick their necks out – for a beheading. So the next time you hear a news story about soldiers killed in IED attacks, their families might have an heroic and sexually confused Pfc. to thank for it.
"He would get upset, slam books on the desk if people wouldn't listen to him or understand his point of view," said Chera Moore, who attended elementary and junior high school with Manning.
It looks like President Obama is getting the Manning treatment. It's like they say, "dance with the one that brought you."
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