To which we responded verbatim: “Cohen describes the world accurately, but fails to attribute the blame where it belongs”; i.e., squarely on the shoulders of the real junior varsity:
Then came this timely rejoinder from PJ Media’s Richard Fernandez entitled…
“…The liberal flagships are beginning to feel the scales falling from their eyes. And they don’t want to look, because they’re out on the edge and it is too far to fall. One of Elizabeth Scalia’s most telling insights is that “‘smart, urbane, sophisticated” people saw themselves shining in Obama, as the idolaters saw their reflections in golden calf. And that vanity blinded them to the obvious until now, when it is almost too late; it made them see as the Duke of Wellington a man who was only just Harry Flashman, a clever adventurer with a talent for taking credit for things. A blank screen who was just a blank screen.
That’s how it came to this. Now perhaps their only chance is to keep going in the barrel until it zooms over the Niagra falls, hoping they will make it past the rocks to some, to any stretch of beach. For as Flashman once observed, “there’s a point, you know, where treachery is so complete and unashamed that it becomes statesmanship.”What’s the alternative to stupidity now? Now that they’ve gone so far it’s almost a shame not to see it through to the end.And therein rests the last remaining chance of the liberal establishment, imploring such divinities as they still believe in — luck maybe — that their hero can create a chaos so complete it will embroil the entire Muslim world, Russia and China in a vast conflagration before it consumes them.
And if doesn’t work, here’s Flashman’s last-ditch advice. “Thats what you young chaps have to remember. When you run, RUN! Full speed. Don’t dither or dally even for an instant. Let terror have his way, for he’s the best friend you’ve got”. We’re not at the running stage yet, but give it time. Give it time…“
Unfortunately, perhaps for America and the world…
Now, here’s The Gouge!
First up, Victor Davis Hanson plumbs the depths of most duplicitous White House in history as he describes the deceitful details behind what amounts to an on-going criminal conspiracy:
“…Obama’s prevaricating has lost him any thought of a legacy, all the more so because for years as a candidate and as president he pontificated about his new transparency and the need for executive candor — itself an untruth at best, and at worst a cynical ploy to provide cover for a deliberate effort to enact policies that could not be honestly presented to the American people.
The two fuels that run Untruth, Inc., are, first, a realization that most of the president’s policies, whether deliberately or as a result of indifference and laziness, run counter to what most Americans support, and, second, a media establishment so invested in his agenda that it will not call the administration to account.So the engine of lying keeps humming. On any given day the president of the United States can step up to the teleprompter amid the latest disaster and swear that he did not do what he just did, or insist that someone else, not he, did the dastardly deed, or simply skip over recent history and make things up. The press at first quibbles, then nods in agreement, and Obama is empowered to do it again and again. We have not seen such a disingenuous president since Richard Nixon — but he, at least, was countered rather than enabled by the media.“
Which is largely why, as Michael Goodwin notes in the New York Post…
“The rising clamor over the beheading of two Americans, and rapidly sinking polls, forced President Obama to reassure the nation last week he had a plan to deal with the Islamic State. He did some of what he had to do, but only some, and so most military analysts believe the expanded airstrikes will not be a sufficient match for the size and weaponry of the terrorist army.
They miss the point. The disjointed speech wasn’t really about terrorism and launching a new war. It was about saving Obama’s presidency. He is sinking fast and could soon pass the point of no return. In fact, it may already be too late to save the SS Obama…”
Meanwhile, as James Taranto notes in his latest edition of Best of the Web, The Dear Misleader, in yet another seemingly inexplicable political faux pas reminiscent of his bitter-clinger comments, evidently wants to become…
“What…you wanted a strategy to combat with ISIS, not a strategy for ISIS?!?
“…As comical as it is for the president of the United States to imagine himself giving political advice to a terrorist army, Obama’s musings are also revealing. He imputes to the Islamic State the objective of forestalling U.S. military intervention. It understates matters considerably to observe that there is no obvious reason to suppose that is so.
On the other hand, there is every reason to think that Obama had a strong aversion to military intervention in Iraq (and now Syria). ISIS’ putative goals are his palpable wish…“
Frankly, ISIS can have him. Then we could hope and pray The Obamao’s unique brand of leadership and policy brilliance would do as much for ISIS as it’s done for America: they’d be teetering on the brink of insolvency and irrelevancy in no time.
Since we’re on the subject of the junior varsity of Islamic terror, as the NRO‘s Andrew McCarthyreminds us, when it comes to the “Islamic” in ISIS…
“When you are dealing with an administration whose officials look you in the eye and tell you the Muslim Brotherhood is a “largely secular” organization, it’s tempting to laugh off the idiocy spouted by President Obama and Secretary of State John Kerry about how the Islamic State has nothing to do with Islam. We should resist the temptation, though, because there is a dangerous purpose behind the laughable assertion...“
In a related item, Commentary Magazine‘s Michael Rubin analyzes…
“…It’s all well and good to dismiss ISIS actions as “un-Islamic” as CAIR has done or, for that matter, as President Obama and Prime Minister Cameron have done. But the truth is that to millions of Muslims, they are very Islamic.To deny the religious component of “Jihad John” or ISIS’s actions is to deny that there is an exegesis within Islamic thought that not only allows but blesses such actions. It is to deny that there is a battle of interpretation which must be won. Nor is it logical to embrace a politically correct and scrubbed 21st century definition of jihad when ISIS reaches back to interpretations of a millennium and more ago when jihad was understood by Islamic theologians to mean an often offensive holy war…“
No, the truth is, ISIS is utterly Islamic to hundreds of millions of Muslims, perhaps more…many more. Remember, these are the same bastages who poured into streets across the Arab world cheering…
…as the Twin Towers tumbled.
One thing, however, is flat-out fiction…
…or perhaps, more appropriately, pure, unmitigated bullsh*t!!!
Speaking of pure, unmitigated bullsh*tters, it appears the tangled webs Hillary has weaved may yet come back to haunt her:
Note the perpetrators are described as “Hillary Clinton confidantes”, which Hillary will use to deny any knowledge, let alone involvement, in the cover-up. As for former Admiral Mike Mullen’s claim his investigation had unfettered access to anything related to Benghazi, based on his willing subservience to The Obamao as Chairman of the JCS, we’re of the opinion he’d sell his own mother out for personal promotion. Mark our words: if America suffers under a second Clinton Administration, Mullen will occupy a particularly powerful and profitable position.
Moving on, the WSJ reveals Team Tick-Tock’s true methodology for transferring wealth:
“…The President did not invent the idea of allowing borrowers to pay reduced monthly bills based on income. Nor did he create the concept of forgiving debts for those employed by government or nonprofits. But working first with a Democratic House until 2011 and then administratively, Mr. Obama has expanded benefits to provide free graduate school for generations of academics—and a license for schools to charge the taxpayer whatever they wish…“
Thus the rich get richer…and the rest of us foot the bill.
Turning now to the Culture Wars, yet another sign the apocalypse is upon us,as Meghan Cox Gurdon details the latest assault on thousands of years of accepted Judeo-Christian values:
“…So we are entering a miniboom in children’s books about a particular type of sexual identity, or mis-identity. It will surprise no one that these books refrain from skepticism about the transgender condition or, in the memoirs, about the appropriateness of adolescents undergoing genital surgeries and powerful hormone treatments. These are books that seek to engage the sympathies of young readers on behalf of people who believe themselves imprisoned in alien bodies, and, in doing so, to nudge the needle of the culture…“
For those who don’t believe Satan is sitting back laughing his tail off about all of this nonsense, you don’t recognize the face of the real enemy. Having thought about it, this isn’t just an assault on Judeo-Christian values, it’s an all-out war on simple sanity.
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