George Rebane
MediaMatters.org has declared “war” on Fox News. This far left organization, one of many such enterprises receiving funds from George Soros, is seeking to squelch speech with which it disagrees. This type of political action is a common distinguishing feature of progressive tactics drawn from the Saul Alinsky play book Rules for Radicals (1971). Can you imagine the howling on lamestream media if any conservative voice even suggested that a liberal voice be constrained? But about such programs as “Drop Fox” the lamestream is dead silent.
Team Obama has declared that its plans for the economy have not worked, and that they are now bankrupt of any new ideas. Instead of offering something concrete in its next step to fix the economy (starting, say, with a budget), Team Obama has reverted to that perpetual bamboozle of delivering stump speeches criticizing the specific conservative programs now on the table. An example is the President’s call for America to again “take the lead in manufacturing”.
It’s a safe smokescreen since his constituents are too dense to figure out that this can only happen through massive technological advances that increase worker productivity to unheard heights, thereby reducing manufacturing jobs to an absolute minimum. Obama voters instead have visions of jobs, jobs, jobs – thousands of factory workers with lunchboxes coming out of big factory gates heading home for the evening after a well-paid workday (remember the newsreels of 40s and 50s?). And the Community Organizer in Chief will do everything he can to imprint this fantasy on every simple mind in the land that can be registered to vote.
Lt Gen John R Allen, slated to replace Gen Petraeus in Afghanistan, testified to Congress that Obama’s announced 10,000 troop drawdown was NOT among the alternatives offered by the Pentagon to the President as he had claimed (oops!). That little political alternative was stitched up out of whole cloth by a White House responding to the hard left burr under its blanket.
But the puzzlement about Allen is his turnabout statement, “Although I was not a participant in those discussions, I support the president’s decision and believe that we can accomplish our objectives.” (The next theater commander on the ground was not consulted on what means he would have left to carry out what kind of objective??!!) And since there is no way to achieve any straight-faced objective in Afghanistan after telegraphing our departure, why would a senior Marine general close out his career overseeing America’s drawn out retreat designed by a politician for his own political gain? An honorable alternative would have been, “Mr President if we are to leave, then let us be out of there before Christmas.” Retirement would have been another one.
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