TNR Fellates Obama
By Larry Johnson on August 2, 2009 at 2:10 AM in Current Affairs
(Bumped up from Saturday evening.)
The New Republic discovers a new way to get that tingle running up and down their magazine leg as they take their sexual fantasy about Barack Obama to crazier extremes. Check this out:
Whether he is shaping the White House’s message on Iran, or personally cajoling Asian leaders to crack down on North Korea, or brokering power deals among NATO allies, Obama has, in effect, been his own national security advisor and secretary of state. Unlike Bill Clinton or George W. Bush, who had world events thrust upon them, Obama seems to be more in the mold of Richard Nixon or George H.W. Bush–a president involved in foreign policy because of, not in spite of, his priorities and personal interest. “He’s very engaged, very hands-on,” says his longtime foreign policy adviser, Mark Lippert, now chief of staff at the National Security Council (NSC).
WTF!!!??? Obama “shaping” messages? What drugs are these clowns using?
Are they describing the same silly Obama who refused initially to say anything about Iranian protestors being murdered in the streets of Tehran? Is Michael Crowley writing about the same reckless Obama who pontificates on stupid police in Cambridge without taking time to get facts? The same shameless pandering Obama who genuflected before a Saudi Prince and yucked it up with Hugo Chavez?
Ready for another laugh? Michael Crowley not only swigs the kool-aid. Hell he makes up a batch.
In the normal course of Washington events, the creation of talking points often involves several aides, who bicker and rewrite for hours until they’ve come up with a simple message for their boss. In the Bush administration, that process might have been perverted so that the vice president was telling his nominal boss what to say. But the Obama administration apparently operates differently. Rather than calling in his top foreign policy aides or formulating a stance that advanced his own agenda, Biden turned directly to Barack Obama. “The vice president said, ‘What do you want me to say?’ And the president and the vice president sat down and did them together,” explains a senior White House aide. “And then they presented them to us.”
Joe Biden may have loose lips and lack political discipline but he is no fool when it comes to foreign policy. Yet Michael Crowley, the TNR writer, peddles the hilarious notion that Biden, who is one of the most experienced politicians when it comes to foreign policy, seeking the advice of this inexperienced kid from Hawaii who failed to hold a single hearing during his brief stint on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee?
Crowley’s act of political sexual submission before the altar of Obama worship is but one more reminder of the hackery that has immolated what once was a serious magazine. I don’t know about you but I find Crowley’s deep throating of Obama is embarrassing and shameful. It is one thing for a state media in the old Soviet Union or the current North Korea to fawn over their “dear” leaders. But this cult of hero worship of Obama the Messiah is wearing thin. Decider my ass!
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