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Via Roger’s Rules we contrast the reception of two different Commanders-in-Chief
People like to forget what side the president was on in Iraq. Marines never forget. They are polite and respectful as required but they never forget. The reaction of the media person at the end is priceless.
Matt Welsh via Glenn when dealing with the Freeman nomination notes the sudden spin of the left from the Saudi’s being the root of all evil to it being no trouble at all:
Remember when Saudi-bashing was a lefty thing? When Michael Moore was devoting a big chunk of Farenheit 9/11 to the over-warm relationship between U.S. leaders and the clannish House of Saud, stewards of the dictatorship that produced 15 of 19 hijackers on that sunny September morning, and Craig Unger was peddling House of Bush, House of Saud? Well now that Barack Obama is in the Oval Office, the proper lefty response has morphed into a full-throated defense of one of Saudi Arabia’s most influential apologists: Former U.S. ambassador Chas Freeman, who has been nominated to head up the National Intelligence Council. Why? Because neocons don’t like him.
What I want to know is why anyone is surprised at this? You might recall our leftist friends were dead set against fighting world war II until June 22, 1941. Until the Soviet Union was under threat the war was not worth fighting. Once the invasion took place then the worm turned very quickly.
As for Andrew Sullivan who has less credentials on the left recall he proclaims himself a Catholic but when Catholic belief conflicts with his personal desires he simply modifies Catholic belief and proclaims his modified belief superior. Why should his beliefs on Iraq or the China or the Saudi’s be any different?
Because the LA Times felt compelled to reprint his entire speech in context online with an introduction by Rush himself:
Greetings, LATimes.com readers,
You may not realize it, but you are actually doing something now that the Drive By Media consistently fails to do. You are actually reading what I had to say — in context no less — before forming an opinion on it.
Congratulations!
And I want to give a special thanks to Top of the Ticket for making this happen (and you should too).
Rush Limbaugh
There will be a lot of liberal spam in comments but how many people who would not have ever read this speech will read it now and think about it?
The more people actually hear what Rush has to say, the less they phony picture of him created by the media can survive. (via Glenn)
You know I’ve been thinking about Ann Althouse’s question today:
But Obama should be setting off positive fantasies around the world. That’s what he said he’d do. That’s what those of us who voted for him believed he would do. Come on! Where’s the magic?
What has happened reality has happened. Think of it this way.
Vincent LaGuardia Gambini as the real World
Nobody – I mean nobody – pulls the wool over the eyes of a Gambini, especially this one.
The entire Obama phenomenon has been a magic trick. You have a guy who won his primaries by getting his opponent’s off the ballot, Who won his senate seat due to another scandal that knocked the incumbent Senator Jack Ryan off the ballot. Who didn’t even serve a single term before running for president. Who faced an adoring press that fawned over him, who played the race card against Bill Clinton and who used tactics against Hillary Clinton and Sarah Palin that reeked of misogyny.
And after the election we still see comics unable unwilling to make a joke about a president who can’t even announce a cabinet position without a teleprompter.
All of this might be fine for getting elected but once elected one has to govern. From Russia, to North Korea, to Syria, to Iran, to the stock market, to the banks, reality is intruding on the magic tricks. He can’t even make nice with our friends.
Gambini has him on the stand asking if he is sure about those five minutes. He doesn’t have an answer. It looks like some of us may have been mistaken.
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