In the Wonderful World of Obama the Name equals the Thing. The America First Committee (AFC) was the foremost non-interventionist pressure group against the American entry into World War II. It had nothing to do with the Know Nothing Party, as far as I can tell. Peaking at 800,000 paid members in 450 chapters, it was one of the largest anti-war organizations in American history. It was founded at Yale University. Started on September 4, 1940, it was dissolved on December 10, 1941, three days after the attack on Pearl Harbor had brought the war to America. Donald Trump isn't selling their product.
Hillary Clinton... sometimes described as
For a good time at 3 a.m. call Hillaryand at other times as Mrs. Bill, never as
Another Edward Stettinius, Jr....
also had a perfect plan. She would keep attacking Trump and his supporters as dangerous and deplorable in hopes that she could scare her way into the White House. With Obama playing the race card to help her with black voters, Clinton would wrap her arms ever more tightly around the president and his policies between now and November.
Hillarity actually is selling B.O.'s product.
But terrorist bombings and stabbings are great disrupters, especially when they involve both New York and the heartland in a single weekend. The disruption becomes unbearable when the attacks allegedly are carried out by foreign-born Moslems who were welcomed here with open arms, then turned on their generous American hosts.
But really, it has nothing to do with religion. Ask any politician...
Events have a voice and a vote, and the terrorism in Minnesota, New Jersey and New York is scrambling the presidential campaign. It also revealed Mayor Putz to be a horse’s ass as he twisted himself into a pretzel to deny calling the Manhattan bomb a bomb and terrorism terrorism. New Yorkers know that when a bomb goes off on a public street and another one is disarmed nearby, it’s terrorism, stupid.If you don't say the Thing's name it's not really the Thing.
While the scramble for political safe spaces is still under way, the advantage so far clearly belongs to Trump. His gut instinct to call the Saturday bombings what they were, combined with his demand that refugees and im
Same idea: You don't say the Thing's name, it's not the Thing, so it can't be a Fact.
Is there any doubt he’s right when he says political correctness has handcuffed law enforcement and that more attacks are coming? Or that his backing by numerous law enforcement groups reciprocates his support for them? It is a potent message when Americans believe they are less safe than they were eight years ago.
Mainly beause we're not. This past weekend was just a part of the beginning -- it's gathering speed.
The result of the mayhem and Trump’s boldness is that Obama and Clinton are playing defense.
That's defense against Trump, not against Murderous Moslems...
The president hoped to avoid saying anything Monday, no doubt viewing the attacks as a distraction from the lofty thoughts he wants to express at the UN, but events forced him out of his hidey hole.If you don't notice it, it didn't happen.
His press secretary inadvertently added to the pressure with one of the dumbest statements possible. Josh Earnest declared that America is in a "narrative battle" with the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling
Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not
reallyMoslems....
, as though it’s a war of words.
It is, kinda. They holler "Death to the Infidels!" The Obamae holler "Don't listen to Trump!"
Right, we throw adjectives and they throw bombs.
B.O. did call them the JV team once. That's kinda like the Choom Gang of the Islamic world.
When Obama did speak, he was perfunctory, warning the media not to rush to judgment and refusing to call the bombings terrorism, though he did say the Minnesota stabbings were a "potential act of terror."po·ten·tial adjective
1.having or showing the capacity to become or develop into something in the future.
"Potential"? The Somali-born attacker reportedly referenced Allah, and the Islamic State hailed him as one of its "soldiers." Of course, if he had used a gun, Obama would have lectured about gun control.
"Potential" means it hasn't happened yet. If you don't utter the Name, the Thing doesn't exist. Until you utter the Name the Thing remains Potential, unless you refuse to notice, in which case the Thing doesn't exist.
As it was, the president shifted into platitudes about the nation not being shaken, blah, blah, blah. It’s nice to say and think, but it’s simply not true.
If you utter the Name the Thing comes into existence. If you say "The Nation Remains Unshaken" then it becomes TRVTH whether the Nation is Shaken or not.
Where is my family, where are my friends -- that’s what every sensible person thinks when a bomb goes off or the shooting starts. Given the Islamic State’s barbarism and the damage that an inspired individual or small cell can inflict, fear is not just inevitable, it’s rational.
But you can't go blaming Moslems for what adherents to their religion do. You can't hate the Japanese for Pearl Harbor, or the Germans for the Lusitania or the Turks for the Gates of Vienna.
The country is shaken, afraid that terrorism is the new normal and that our politicianship is too timid to defeat it. Granted, it’s a difficult enemy, but hardly on the level of Nazi Germany or fascist Japan.Right up there with both of them.
That fed-up mood is a burden for Clinton because she is so linked to Obama. Her apologists keep promising that her inner hawk will surface and she will move away from Obama on national security, but she either didn’t get the memo or can’t recall it.
When you're lucky enough to get old sometimes you're unlucky enough for your mind to go.
Instead, she camouflages her predicament by turning up the rhetoric on the risks of Trump, saying recently that the Islamic State prays, "Please, Allah, make Trump president." She went there again Monday, calling her opponent is "a recruiting sergeant for the terrorists."
Perhaps the Islamic State should be careful what they wish for.
It’s catnip for the left-wing media, but her own answer to the challenge falls far short. She demanded that Americans show "courage and vigilance," and not demonize Moslems. That’s all she’s got?
Be kind to our Fine-turbanned friends,In fact, that’s exactly what most Americans have been doing for 15 years, and because it’s not sufficient, they want the next president to get tougher on terrorism. Trump pledges he will, while Clinton sounds a wobbly, uncertain note. She’s the one who needs to show courage.
'Cause Abdul could be somebody's mother.
He lives in a Salafist swamp,
Where the rhetoric is always damp!
(doodly oot-doot-doo!)