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In the wake of “11/5,” the attack at Fort Hood, Barack Obama faces a tough choice--like it or not.
The 44th president must choose to confront an unpleasant reality, head on--or else it will run him over. The issue is the threat of terrorist violence, here on the homefront.
Terrorism, and the debate over how to respond to terrorism, was the defining issue of the 43rd presidency. And now it’s apparent that Obama, too, will spend the bulk of his presidency confronting terror, from Afghanistan to new battlezones, such as central Texas.
Obama and fellow Democrats would rather, of course, talk about health care. But over the next few years, the Fort Hood shooting is going to be a bigger story, since it is connected to our relations, good and bad, with the entire Islamic world, including nuclear Pakistan and almost- nuclear Iran.
For his sake, and for ours, Obama needs to understand that sometimes even presidents don’t get to decide the agenda -- the agenda is decided for him. In such a situation, the question is whether or not the president can adapt to the new era and its new challenges.
So this president needs to launch an aggressive investigation, digging into every aspect of Thursday’s shooting rampage that left 13 dead and dozens injured. How did it happen? Who bears responsibility? And, most importantly, what must we change now?
Otherwise, if Obama simply talks about health care and “cap-and-trade” and “don’t ask, don’t tell” and all the other staples of his 2008 agenda, he will be left in the dust by the cyclonic events of 2009 and beyond. And in the wake of the 11/5 shootings, his presidency could be blown away by a whirlwind of damaging leaks, embarrasing reports, and well-justified fears.
Obama will always have his base of support, of course, especially in the media. Taking their cues, as ever, from the siren song of secular liberalism, the Mainstream Media would rather talk about health care, with an occasional digression into gay marriage.
As documented by the Media Research Center, MSM reporters are mostly loathe to draw anything outher than politically correct conclusions about the religious and ethnic dimensions of the Fort Hood mass murder.....
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1 So while the MSM is bemoaning “stress,”“PTSD,” and “over-extension,” WorldNetDaily is offering an entirely different narrative, featuring headlines such as “Muslims:‘America’s chickens have come to roost,’ U.S. Islamic street preachers declare Fort Hood victims got just desserts,” and “Shooter advised Obama Transition: Fort Hood triggerman aided team on Homeland Security task force,” and “Military jihadists fill ‘every branch’: Ultimate 5th column penetration, warns best-selling ‘Muslim Mafia’[author]” One additional piece was penned by Joseph Farah, the Arab-American editor of WND, whose headline blared,“PC sickness killed our soldiers.” How will the commander-in-chief react to that? Having bungled his first public remarks after the news of the killings at Fort Hood, Obama is already on the defensive. So, most likely, he and his staff will seek to change the subject as quickly as possible. But if they try doing that, getting back to, say,“the public option,” they will fail. Because the issue isn’t going away. As Georgetown University terrorism expert Bruce Hoffman said over the weekend: “I’m not saying it’s part of an organized campaign or a systematic strategy, but we're seeing a sea change when we have once a month a plot that is related somehow to Afghanistan, Iraq or what these people see is a war against Islam. It's too easy to dismiss them as unstable individuals when they have expressed strong religious beliefs with politics. That's the essence of the radicalization we're facing.” In other words, Fort Hood was not a random event; it was part of a pattern. http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2009/11/09/jam... |
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1 Sounds like something Limberger has said.. Can't blame those who follow the Idiot.. I mean these Tea Baggers, Right Wing Nuts, Birthers and Palianers get headaches when they have to think for themselves so they simply don't think.. So ya gotta look over'em |
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1 What's up you pal face liar! |
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1 That he is along with his mentor SunBitch512 |
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2 I hope you and BG do team up. That you can help each other remember when to get off the short bus. You both keep getting off a little too early. You're like a couple of fruitcakes that came out of the oven too early. Neither of you are quite done yet. |
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Why do you choose to remain so blind, Carolina? The incident at Ft. Hood is only the beginning of Barry's problems as it pertains to terrorist attacks on the home-front. But, you just sit there in your smugness and ignornace, and make all the juvenile comments you want. Based on your track record, I'm sure you'll continue to deny reality as these sort of attacks become common-place. You just can't bring yourself to admit that Barry has been an abject failure on many fronts. |
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See what I mean? Not only are you totally ignoring the fact that this opinion piece is just that, opinion, you've now added your own ignorance to the equation. It's no wonder you're not taken seriously. But you insist on adding your childish remarks in a pitiful attempt to somehow seem relevant, only to fail miserably. Not that it's anything new, this forum is littered with the garbage you've spewed and the stench of your rotting and festering hatred for this administration.
The incident at Ft. Hood is just that, an isolated incident of a soldier gone crazy, and I believe incidents like this are everyone's problem, not just one person...btw...who's Barry? Tell us BDT, who is at fault for the numerous suicides in the military? |
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The Democrats being Democrats are taking up for this terrorist killer.
Par for the course |
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Skeeter proves that idiots being idiots insist on providing written affirmation that they are totally clueless on a daily basis...typical.
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What I find most funny is that the nut sacks want to blame the president for this guy at Fort Hood who went nuts, but don't think Old "Dead or Alive" George is responsible in ANY WAY for the people killed on 9/11 (ignored warnings) or for the 4000+ soldiers killed in Iraq due to his "Weapons of Mass Deception" war. I started out believing that some of this was just differences in political ideologies. Now I am thinking that the nut sacks might be just a tad bit retarded. |
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Skeeter has tattoos on the inside of his eyelids reminding him not to keep looking up during a rainstorm. Now if he can just remember to blink. |
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They reek of desperation. They're a bit like the monkeys you see in the zoo (with apologies to the monkeys), playing with their own feces, occassionally slinging a handful to see if any sticks anywhere. Plus they're irked to no end that their lord and masters were single handedly responsible for the deaths of over 8,000 American citizens, the permanent maiming of tens of thousands of American, the killing of hundreds of thousands of innocent Iraqi's. So what do the numbnuts do? They make a feeble attempt to tie the president to a nutcase who goes crazy. Nevermind that this guy was in the military for more years than Obama has been president....sheeeesh! |
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Well, these guys will never let facts get in the way of being stupid, that's for sure. Their motto is "If the facts don't fit the lie, ignore them and if you get busted for lying, deny and deflect!" |
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Again, who's blaming Barry, Dog? The guy didn't go nuts, he simply reacted to American soldiers how any jihadist would react. The only reason he wasn't stopped before this tragedy occurred is the prevalent politically-correct policies we now have within this liberal and politically-correct government. This administration has left everyone within the government in fear of losing their jobs because of a discrimination lawsuit. This man wasn't taken out of service simply because Eric Holder would have had the discriminator arrested and incarcerated for singling out a full-blown, Muslim terrorist within our own military. You and I both know this to be true. |
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You keep on saying failure would you care to list them and then we cant discuss them ! |
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As I recall he had been in service a long time all way back to the beginning of the bush administration at least eight years would why bush didnt pickup on this |
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Are you so blind that you're not aware of what an abject failure Barry has so far been as president? |
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First up is our Commander-in-Chief, who lectured us that: "We don't know all the answers yet. And I would caution against jumping to conclusions until we have all the facts," Funny how that didn't stop him when when Henry Louis Gates was arrested at Harvard. Of course, this has nothing to do with "jumping to conclusions." It has everything to do with political correctness and misunderstanding the Jihadist threat to the West. |
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