This is an excellent article.
To be fair to Obama, if he DID know what was going on and had a workable detailed plan for Iraq, the American people are so childish and simplistic and stuck in their ways that a plan that took into account all of the complexities would, if disclosed now, be ridiculed and would reduce Obama’s ability to win the election, something that is already difficult due to his complete lack of any qualifications for the job, his associations, his unlikeable wife, the fact he went to mosque in Indonesia, etcetera. Imagine if Obama was completely honest and said, “I was raised as a Muslim in Indonesia, was later an atheist, then at age 26 I realized that my presidential chances would be zero unless I joined a Christian church, so I found one I was most comfortable with. I carefully considered my words on the Iraq War over the years and my votes with an eye to giving myself an out if the war should succeed and become popular, or if it should fail and become an albatross around the neck of its supporters. As it turns out, I was lucky because it failed, and the media protected me from my contradictory statements.” Do you really think he would be the nominee if he had said this?
In 2001, Bush DID NOT say, “I’m about as qualified for the presidency as a pile of bricks. If my daddy hadn’t been president and erased my arrest record and paid off or threatened various witnesses, and if the media hadn’t protected me from scrutiny and relentlessly mocked Al Gore in 2000, I wouldn’t have gotten close enough for Jeb and Katherine Harris to steal it for me. And Cheney told me there was going to be a terrorist attack in September, and we were gonna let it happen, and I said OK, but I was thinking maybe an Oklahoma City type deal. Not a huge attack like that. I was surprised while I was reading that goat book and they told me 2 jets hit those towers. But Cheney and Karl was right, after that I could get away with anything. It turned out good.” Bush was not about to tell the truth, and neither is Obama.
I’m not saying that Obama is a criminal freak like Bush. I am saying that he is a mystery man who, like Bush in 2000, has received little real scrutiny. We DON’T KNOW WHAT THE HELL HE WILL DO IF HE MAKES IT. So much for informed democracy. Roll the dice and hope is more like it.
