House of Eratosthenes

In his first interview since undergoing major heart surgery last July, [former Vice President Dick] Cheney said he thinks Obama has been forced to rethink some of his national security positions now that he sits in the Oval Office.

“I think he’s learned that what we did was far more appropriate than he ever gave us credit for while he was a candidate. So I think he’s learned from experience. And part of that experience was the Democrats having a terrible showing last election.”
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“I think he’s learned that he’s not going to be able to close Guantanamo,” Cheney said. “That it’s — if you didn’t have it, you’d have to create one like that. You’ve got to have some place to put terrorists who are combatants who are bound and determined to try to kill Americans.”

All together now:

DUH!

This is one subject on which Obama looks like a complete dumbass. Speaking for myself, I always prefer to believe if someone got elected to something…anything…then that person must know something. Besides of which if you’re in politics, you have enemies, and those enemies will always want to make you look stupid. So the stupid-ness of politicians is something I think is naturally overstated.

But this Guantanamo situation, knowing what I know today about it, still looks exactly like what it did at first. OBozo was completely flummoxed and bamboozled, ambushed in a surprise attack by reality.

“Okee dokee, now that I won and I’m the President and everything, let’s just let all these falsely accused and mistreated ordinary Americans out! Oh dear…oh, my…it looks like some of them really are bad. Oh, what to do what to do…”

I mean, it has to be more complicated than that. I find it hard to believe a master showman like Barack Obama can talk this thing up, day and night, month after month year after year, and never once give any serious thought to the possibility that maybe someone in Gitmo would like to hurt people and can’t be released. He never even considered it? Nobody in His inner circle even considered it? Not once?

Every little smidgen of information I’ve learned about this, supports that spectacular, unbelievable narrative. That they really did come to believe their own claptrap, and got snookered when they found out things aren’t that simple.

Calling it irresponsible is an insult to irresponsible people.

Isn’t it really sad when you realize that we were somewhat safer when the politicians lied to us to get elected; knowing they were lying? Now the Republic is in mortal danger because the democrats in charge really believe the insanity they speak.

What’s really scary is that we live in a country where roughly half the country’s voters are so damned stupid they bought into “Hope and Change” instead of paying attention to what Obama said he really wanted to accomplish, and a bunch on the other side bought into the lie that McCain was a conservative when he had a long track record of being nothing of the kind.

All of us have to suffer because, as a whole, we deserve the government we get.
- Moshe Ben-David | 01/19/2011 @ 13:07
He never even considered it? Nobody in His inner circle even considered it? Not once?

No. No, they did not.

The scariest thing about Obama is that he’s a run-of-the-mill leftist academic. I work with these guys; I live among these guys; I know these guys, and let me tell you, my friends, they truly, sincerely, honest-to-Barack believe that there is no such thing as a bad anti-American.

At worst, some of the Gitmo detainees might have done some….errr….unfortunate things. But their hearts were in the right place, and that’s what matters.

Yes, perfessers are that stupid and naive. They know that they’ll never be called upon to make any real, consequential decisions, and so the only way to feel their cloistered little lives have meaning is to spout ever-more-radical-sounding claptrap. But as everyone knows, if you repeat something often enough you start to believe it.

If He didn’t have Chicago machine connections, Barack Obama would be a junior professor at a third-tier law school somewhere.
- Severian | 01/19/2011 @ 14:27

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