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Administration Aggrandizes President, Demonizes Others

Written By : B. Daniel Blatt

Look, it’s entirely fair to criticize the Bush Administration for not adapting our military strategy to meet changing circumstances in Afghanistan, but it’s unbecoming for the incumbent Administration to act as if they’re the first ones to ask critical questions while the previous one did not:

One of President Obama’s top advisers said Sunday the Bush administration failed to ask critical questions about the war in Afghanistan, leaving the Obama administration starting from scratch — and leaving the war “adrift.”

“The president is asking the questions that have never been asked on the civilian side, the political side, the military side and the strategic side,” White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel told CNN’s “State of the Union.”

Emphasis added. This response is almost narcissistic. Questions that have ” never been asked on the civilian side, the political side, the military side and the strategic side”? Oh come on, now.

Instead of trying to portray Mr. Obama is a bold and daring leader, doing what no president has done before, why not simply say, “the President has been asking a lot of tough questions to make sure we have a strategy that leads to a decisive victory and advances our long-term national security”? Instead of attacking the previous Administration for not asking tough questions, why not simply focus on what you’re doing?

Why this persistent “need” for Administration officials to find an adversary to attack?

I mean, why did the President attack insurance companies on Saturday instead of making the case for his healthcare reform proposal? Moe Lane calls it a “two-minute hate“*:

The President doesn’t handle opposition to his will all that well, does he? Even the New York Times is forced to admit that this was ‘unusually harsh;’ Instapundit was harsh himself, but mostly just accurate when he called this ‘desperate.

Via Instapundit.

The more they attack, the more people question the President’s commitment to that new kind of politics he touted so regularly in his campaign last fall.

Crossposted at GayPatriot.

Mike_M

"Why this persistent "need" for Administration officials to find an adversary to attack?"

Simple. They need to perpetuate the crisis mentality that (they think) allows them to ram through their agenda without regard for the voters, the Constitution, or apparently our allies around the world.

Obama has absolutely no idea how to govern. How would he, never having had any experience? Everything to him is a perpetual campaign. Of course, now that he's in charge the campaign has to become the blame game because he refuses to accept responsibility for anything once things start going wrong.

How quickly "HOPE" has envoprated into a thuggish, petty, arrogant, and short-tempered Presidency that is utterly lacking in the charisma and excitement the people expected.
tazzmax

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http://networdblog.blogspot.com/ Christopher_Taylor

That kind of makes the Secretary of Defense, Robert Gates, look stupid and wrong… he was there in the Bush administration too. He didn't bother asking these questions?

Or are these questions being asked just silly and nobody in their right mind would ask them, like… "how much Jerky does the Taliban eat in an hour?"
http://conservativebootcamp.com martinhale

The more they attack, the more people question the President’s commitment to that new kind of politics he touted so regularly in his campaign last fall.

I almost choked with laughter when I read this. "New kind of politic"??? The Chicago/Illinois style is politics in it's oldest and basest form. And in Mr. Obama, Mr. Emmanuel and Mr. Axelrod, you have three of the more ardent practitioners of that Chicago/Illinois style of politics.

Maybe I'm too cynical, and maybe I've observed too much politics in my life, but the thought of anyone actually believing that "open & transparent" claptrap Mr. Obama uttered during the campaign is just astounding to me. One would have to be a)breathtakingly stupid, b)hopelessly partisan, c)bought and paid for, or d)Pollyanna-ish in the extreme to believe in that fairy tale.
http://networdblog.blogspot.com/ Christopher_Taylor

Well its pretty much new compared to President Bush. Its a huge change to go to scummy, corrupt Chicago machine politics from him.