WH: Some Critics ‘Serving the Goals of al Qaeda’*

As much as people complained about Bush/Cheney, people felt safer under their administration than they do under the current one.
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An asinine, self-serving statement….I for one certainly never felt safe with Bush\Cheney war-mongering and utter disregard for the Constitution..

Funny, when Obama was in the Senate he thought it proper to criticize any and all war efforts on an almost weekly basis. Now however it undermines our ability to wage war and encourages our enemies. Got news for you Mr. President, it did as much damage then as it does now.
The panty bomber was stopped by a civilian on the airplane, not by Obama or his people. Stop trying to claim credit for it. The government did not stop the panty bomber, civilian intervention stopped him and as far as I know, no one has asked about his party affiliation.

As much as people complained about Bush/Cheney, people felt safer under their administration than they do under the current one. ……..Yes, Cheney made me feel safe when he was putting anthrax in the mail!

Shorter Obama White House:
If you criticize us, you’re helping the terrorists.
Hmmm. Sounds a lot like what the Bush Administration used to be accused of saying, no?
CHANGE?
Nope.
SAME.

These anti-American Mofo’s occupying the WH would love to have Americans/US believing that!

I guess it only matters if you or yours are on the particular plane. One day, one of these poorly trained and equipped zealots may succeed in killing themselves and dozens more. That’s not fear mongering.

I’d feel safer this administrations wouldn’t put time deadlines on when we plan to withdraw out there. I’d feel safer is waterboarding terrorists was still being used. I’d feel safer if miranda rights weren’t given to non-citizen enemy combatants. I’d feel safer if terrorists weren’t turned back to Yemen. The Obama administraton is WEAK!!! I’m not afraid because of the warnings, I’m concerned because of what the Obama administration is and isn’t doing. He gets EVERYTHING wrong!

And all the Bush bashing from the Democrats helped. This Administration is becoming more frightening every day. Someone better take off the tutu and put on some pants. At least Hilary wears pants.

Liberals are insane. Their man-child is a narcissist. How many critics has the Bolshevik not attacked? Talk about a warmonger on freedom of speech!

Oh, the delicious Hypocrisy of the Obama Administration.
Where have we heard the ‘you are either with us or your against us’ line before?
Now its, you either blindly and uncritically support Obama’s decision to treat terrorists like pick-pockets or you are in league with Al-Qaeda.
Obama must realize this will only damage his polls by alienating more Americans?

Another excuse for incompetence.

Hillary Clinton told us that it was patriotic to disagree with a sitting administration. Of course, at the time, the sitting administration was a republican one. My how things have changed.

anybody who thinks Obama knows what he is doing must be living under a rock……

Obama’s message to voters: ‘don’t believe your lying eyes, ears, and minds.’
Where’s the wide-spread consensus among the intelligence community that Obama’s ‘new’ way of dealing with terrorist attackers and spies is the way to go?
Selective ignorance more than anything else enabled 9/11. Obama has proven he’s up to the task of Changing things Back to our pre-9/11 ignorance.

Hey rich. Twice as many terrorists killed during Obamas admin than bushs. Look it up. Obama increased the military presence in afghanistan. I assume u didn’t know that since your statement is so ignorant. Oh. And 9/11 happened under bush’s watch.
But you probably forgot that too

Look – no administration can make everyone (mostly the right wing paranoid nuts) completely safe. It’s humanly impossible. Somebody is likely to slip thru and do some damage. It’s a scary world but don’t let the right wing scare you into staying home. They whip up hysteria and bloviate about how Obama is soft. In the end, they stand out as wackos who don’t have anything useful to do

This administration would be hilarious if the situation wasn’t so serious. Thanks so much, America, for voting in such a complete imbecile. Say what you want about Pres. Bush’s intelligence, but he surrounded himself with great people. This guy? Not so much…

This is just another attempt on the WH’s part to close the gap between patriotic Americans and terrorists. Questioning your government is not only patriotic, but it is necessary according to the founding fathers. This government has not been checked for over a hundred years and it is high time for the people to reclaim their voice in this political system.
To the WH… The ability to embolden terrorists belong only to you. The criticism from the people of this country is due to your attempt to Socialize every aspect of our lives and economy. We are critical because you have earned it. If this government returns to principles of liberty and fiscal responsibility, then I suspect you will hear crickets from the silent majority.

For eight years the Democrats and their media buddies eviscerated the Bush Administration in any way they possibly could. Many Democrats are on record for calling our troops disparaging names and accusing them of some awful things (with no evidence I might add). People like Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton and others went on foreign soil and denounced Bush to overseas audiences. There was never any concern of what impact this behavior would have on the country or our safety. The agenda was to discredit Bush and his party at all cost to allow Democrats to win back power. Well, they achieved their objective. Millions of ignorant people voted for this administration and put Democrats in complete control of the legislature. You asked for it, you got it. How’s that Hope and Change working out for you?

Is this really happening? Or is this some strange parallel Universe. This White House has OFFICIALLY gone off the deep end. How can anyone say these things with a straigt face. The volumes and volumes of hatred, and disgust and vitreal and venom expressed toward Bush during a war with Al Queda cannot be quantified. And the ring leaders sat in Washington DC. How can we forget Hillary’s shrill monologue about how tired she is of being called unpatriotic every time someone criticizes the Bush administration. How stupid does this White House think we are. I am personaly offended and insulted that they think no one would notice this GINORMOUS hypocrisy. I am completely dumbfounded by this.

The arrogance of these fools never fails to amuse me. I really believe that if alQaeda wants to destroy this country, they better hurry before Obama and his crew do it first.

What a Laugh from these thin
skinned, short memory, clueless
idiots. Be very afraid!

We shouldn’t worry about a little thing like terrorism when we have to worry about melting ice caps and rising seas. We should be sandbagging our shorelines and building arks DAMN IT! How that “HOPE AND CHANGE” working for you?

Didn’t you guys get the memo? Anything that goes wrong during the first year of your administration is to be blamed on your predecessor. Therefore 9/11 was Clinton’s fault, not Bush’s. Although you never heard Bush say that.

I guess Obama’s, Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, and John Murtha’s not stop ridicule and undermining of our troops during the Bush administration didn’t encourge terrorists in Iraq, Afghanistan, and worldwide?
ps Mr Brenen the Iranians are making Jackasses out of you too.

This administration deliberately blurs the distinctions between civil trials and military tribunals in order to appease Al Quaeda. They were ready to have civil trials in NYC until American citizens stopped them!!!
The Great Appeaser Obama is constitutionally incapable of understanding that it’s not a good idea to dress up like Ahmidinejad when addressing him. Holder is equally incompetent.

The White House critics aren’t the ones serving Al Queda’s goals. The White House and this administration does that quite nicely – ON THEIR OWN!
It’s “Terrorist Handling Amateur Hour” from trying to close Gitmo… to giving the terrorists miranda rights. It’s National Security – not time to coddle the poor burned terrorist (who was trying to bring down a plane over Detroit!).

So giving Miranda Rights to terrorists and trying them in a civilian court doesn’t assist Al Qaeda? These things don’t send the message that this sitting boy wonder is WEAK on terrorism? These things don’t embolden the terrorists totry harder next time if all they will get is the right to remain silent and then end up in a kangaroo court with free representation and the same rights as American Citizens although they are enemy combatants and try to kill innocent civilians and military personnel one in the same? No wonder we the people despise the way this country is being run! Some say it is a continuation of the Bush policies, Bush would have never given them miranda nor allowed them trial in US civilian courts. And, for the record, Reagan would allow them to be tried by the military and faced the firing squad to recieve their 72 virgins and their check slip from Gitmo. Not a vacation trip to Bermuda and fancy hotel with swims in the ocean before rejoining their Al Qaeda buddies in Yemen.

God, can you move 2012 here a little faster, so we can remove this ^$%#$ from our House.

Eddie: So, under that logic it’s fair to say all the 911 hijackers were Clinton’s fault? That blame game’s been played right and left for too long.
Honestly, as an independent, I’m drawn away from the rhetoric of both party extremes right now. I long for a President with the guts to: admit when he’s wrong, listen to her critics, not hide behind the flag and (most importantly) not try and re-write the constitution to suit their agenda.

Another self-serving article for inclusion in the Obama Presidential Library aka The House of Lies.

“Brennan writes that politics ‘should never get in the way of national security. But too many in Washington are now misrepresenting the facts to score political points, instead of coming together to keep us safe.’”
That’s absolutely HILARIOUS coming from a Democrat. No, really, I nearly peed myself. Great stuff, John. Keep it coming.
And as long as indy_voter is yammering on about “asinine, self-serving statements,” he’d be well-served to take a look at this gem from let’s talk about safe:
“Like it or not, calling a billion or more people who have claimed a 1500-year old religious identity “fascists” and offering other terminology that make it seem like it’s the religion and faith you have a problem with, instead of politically-motivated terrorists, make a whole bunch of people who have nothing to do with anything feel victimized and assaulted….Preposterous as it may sound, the Bush/Cheney admin gave the impression, fed the unfair image, that one billion or more people of this world were not human beings but rather some sort of disembodied “evil.” Despite any of Bush’s sayings to the contrary, the milieu of that administration made a billion people or more people’s lives feel victimized, oppressed, hated.”
Fluffy, revisionist nonsense. And yes, it sounds preposterous. Why don’t you tell us about your “milieu”?
There have already been three terrorist attacks/attempted attacks on American soil since BHO took office. Yes, compared to 9/11 they were unspectacular, but it is undeniable that these lunatics have been reduced to such crude methods/retarded recruits (Detroit) because of the risks the Bush administration took to cut their legs out from under them.
If “the Obama administration and the Clinton State Department have taken tangible steps to calm the storm and to recognize the humanity of others,” why are ‘others’ still attacking us? Let me guess: Much like BHO, they still haven’t shaken off the lingering vexation caused by Bush/Cheney.

all terorist should be tried by the military and if convicted hung. people have forgotten already . us troops being dragged through the steets or their heads cut off . bush is not our president anymore just thought the left should know

oops spelled terrorist wrong

Really, no one should have skipped a beat when Big Sis Jan assured us “the system worked” in the case of the panty bomber. People can be so unreasonable!
And, ofcouse, it goes without saying, Americans are upset with Obama’s policies “because they have been misled” by the dangerous forces of extremist right wing evil. Get it right people.

Funny… now isn’t that the pot calling the kettle “black”…
You need go no further than the Apology Tour speeches Obama spewed as well as Holder’s intentional treatments of enemy combatants. This “Administration” is sympathetic to Al-Qaeda. “Fundamentally transform” America, Mr. President? It seems you’re willing to hand it over to our enemies.

The statement about this administration killing or capturing more Al Qaeda than Bush did in 2008 is 1) ONLY true if you take out actions in Afghanistan and Iraq and 2) ONLY true for that one year, the year Bush was a lame duck with Democratic Congress So….IT’S REALLY JUST A BUNCH OF HOT AIR!

Here we go again! President Barry Barack goes out of his way to make the United States impotent when it comes to his foreign relations, especially against those that are, contrary to his opinion, at war with us. Now that he sees our enemies laughing at the “great Satan”
and seeing how the Messiah II and his minions are trying to give all out enemies equal protections under the Constitution and he blames us, his critics. Maybe Barry ought to look in the mirror and see just who is at fault. We don’t need press interviews. We don’t need presidential lectures. We don’t need finger pointing. We don’t need airhead subordinates telling us how things “worked” when we can tell that the system failed internally. What we do need is what we have a total lack of: LEADERSHIP.

The Obama administration is doing what they can to keep the war off of American soil. He nor you can control every move another person makes (unless we live in a communistic country). You people need to open your eyes and recognize the accomplishments he has done thus far within his rookie state of presidency… It is hard to pick up positive points in a transition and ignore the negatives… At this point, the current President Obama has tackled presidency when there are extremely tough issues on the table… You ignorant people out there bashing our president… You would not be able to do better, nor fill a toe portion of his shoes…

Oh, I get it. Dissent during Bush/Cheney was patriotic. Dissent during Obama/Biden serves the goals of terrorists.
Surely somewhere in DC are adults who can take these children to task.

What happened to “dissent is patriotic”?

It was stupid of the Bush administration to read Richard Reid Miranda rights, and it is stupid of the Obama administration to do so with Abdulmutallab. Richard Reid was a citizen of the United Kingdom, by the way, not of the United States, if I recall correctly. The Bush administration did a number of idiotic things in the name of political correctness, including its refusal to apply profiling in screening airline passengers. Little old white ladies were subjected to enhanced screening while young men from Yemen and Somalia were allowed to pass right on through. Well, Bush is history. Haven’t we learned ANYTHING in nine years? Sadly, we replaced an occasionally stupid administration with a TERMINALLY stupid and socialist administration.

Proving once again that giving The Gang That Can’t Shoot Straight more time doesn’t improve thier message or credibility. Experience does matter.
And was it Kit Bond that authorized Miranda rights?

“We must stand up and tell this Administration that WE ARE AMERICANS, and WE WILL NOT BE QUIET WHEN WE DISAGREE”…
Hillary Clinton.
“THE WAR IS LOST.”
Harry Reid.
“Those Marines LOST IT. THEY KILLED INNOCENT WOMEN and CHILDREN, IN COLD BLOOD.
Jack Murtha.
Dissent is the “NEW PATRIOTISM”.
The LEFT.
“I APOLOGIZE FOR MY COUNTRY.”
Barak Hussein Obama.

Saying I am emboldening terrorists because I criticize this administration is plain, flat-out, outrageous! I criticize because I see how things are being mishandled.
Following 9/11, Bush used a heavy hand in dealing with terrorists. We did not have an attack ONE. Since BHO has been in office we have had what…five or six attacks? Ft. Hood, recruiting office in Arkansas, the BVD bomber, among others. Even one was more than Bush had following the implementation of Homeland Security and TSA.
These clowns think they can sit down and reason with these people. If we only let them see we are a peace loving people, they will back off. BS! They want to kill us. Talk all you want but they want to kill us. We need to find the serpeants head and cut the damn thing off.
In his campaign, he said he was going to do what Bush failed to do…take out bin Laden. Well? We’re waiting. Mr. Big Talk with the teleprompters, it ain’t so easy now, is it?

President Obama has the domestic finesse of Jimmy Carter and the international diplomacy credentials of Neville Chamberlain.
Oh God, please help us survive till 2012..

They must be mistaken here because it’s the White House that’s ‘Serving the Goals of al Qaeda’.

Pot, meet Kettle.

wow! what a load of crap. These people is the White House and the liberals are such liars!
And these morons that voted them in!?!?!!?!
Wow!
It is simply amazing to see what they will say next!
Keep talking liberals….. keep talking!
I cannot WAIT for November!
tick tock

The main terrorist organization that America should fear is the Barack Hussein Obama administration. I dare to say that Al-Qaeda and Hellbollah are more american; I fear them less.
Bin-Laden isn’t confiscating more of my earnings. Bin-Laden didn’t take over G.M.. Bin-Laden isn’t trying to take away my health care plan and herd me into some cuban-styled health care plan. Bin-Laden isn’t trying to force me to pay higher taxes than an a person who belongs to a union that contributes to Obama. Bin-Laden isn’t saying that my charitable contributions shouldn’t receive the same tax treatment from the I.R.S.. Bin Laden isn’t trying to let openly gay men serve in the armed forces. I haven’t seen any members of Al-Qaeda making fun of the Special Olympics or any members of Bin-Laden’s staff calling people retards.
Now in terms of coordinating the hijacking of airplances and using them as missiles against buildings, I think Obama is a better american than Bin-Laden on that count. But that’s about it.

Pretty simple, you tell the terrorists your buddy told us where you are and then you think they might move?
Nah, the Obama administration thinks that the terrorists are as naive and wet behind the ears as they are.
Barack, next terrorist’s (God Forbid) may not have a mommy or daddy to come here and tell their kid to talk.
You liberals made the Iraq war a political game and now you cry when you are caught with your naive actions.
Please!!!

So far in the past year we have had 2 terrorist attacks no matter what you want to call them. The second one just didn’t work. I have news for you, no matter what we say it is not going to embolden the terrorists. They are already bold.

Did Bush critics help the terrorists??

Obama’s critics aren’t encouraging al Qaeda… the ones who refuse to acknowledge that we are battling terrorists are! This administration can’t even call these guys terrorists… rather, they call them extremists. You know, not everyone with extreme views BLOWS PEOPLE UP. This administration is so morally confused… and to top it off, they are pathological blamers. They have all the power, and they STILL try to blame republicans for their own failures. Scott is right… they are truly little children.

james, no one is buying your idiotic theories. the muslims were jumping for joy at 9/11 if i recall correctly seeing on tv. also i don’t see any u.s. oil tankers filling up in iraq. we didn’t get any oil contracts last year. you need to go educate yourself and loose the ideology. bush kept the u.s. safe and didn’t cry everyday about bill clinton’s failures.

Talk about the pot calling the kettle black. The anti-American Dems raised hell every day and lied about the president everyday for years, but they were being patriotic! These fools are unbelievable!!!!!

It isn’t the criticism directed against the President that helps al Qaeda, its the fact that the criticism is clueless. You know, like al Qaeda. And the Republicans.

You have got to be kidding me! Obama’s problem is that he’s got critics on both sides of him with scant support in the middle. He campaigned on closing Gitmo within a year, not done. He stated that we should not be in Iraq, we still are. And he’s added 10′s of thousands more troops in Afghanistan, all while finding time on his busy schedule to apologize to every two bit dictator and tyrant known to Man. It’s hardly unpatriotic to criticize someone who has basically done the exact opposite of what he campaigned to do.

“Politically motivated criticism and unfounded fear-mongering only serve the goals of al-Qaeda.”
Actually, in obama’s never-t0-be-humble opinion, ANY criticism of obama, his “administration”, or Democrats in general “only serve[s] the goals of al-Qaeda” (or any other obama bogeyman du jour)!
As for “Vicodumb”, and his ilk, CONSTANTLY BLAMING BUSH WILL NOT ERASE or EXCUSE obama’s blunders…
But since obama himself doesn’t know that, we can hardly expect you to either!

So the B.O. administration is resorting to this now? Hmmmm, seems like I recall the Dems caterwauling about President Bush for years, and the media never (not even once) making the case that the left was helping AQ… guess it just depends on whose side the media are on. Not lost on the American public, it’s also a function of how much class the reigning administration has. The American people see through this ploy… just like the billboard in Minneapolis asks: “Ya miss me yet?” [G.w. Bush]

FACT. Bush was right. Even the lawyer / professional politician is following Bush’s lead. The liberals panties must be in a bunch. What I have been hearing from Obama is “Bush was right”. Obama lied to become president and now is following Bush’s lead.

And Al Queda said one of his goals was to bankrupt America from within. Looks like the WH and congress is trying to meet that goal.

This is about national security and not about Bush or Obama. The problems that we are facing got created way back when we decided to rely on satellites rather than human intelligence – without assets on the ground conducting good old fashioned intel gathering – we have had catastrophic results under both democratic and republican watches.
Should we be allowed to criticize – YES – this is America
Should the criminals and terrorists be accorded the rights as specified by our constitution – hmmmm… what should we do now?
If we don’t have principles – what do we have left
last observation – every new administration seems to have a rocky first year. Look it up – Reagan, Clinton, Bush (up until 9/11), now Obama. It’s a big job and it appears that the first year is spent being idealistic, the second grudgingly compromising, the third doing actual work, and the fourth being a lame duck. Doesn’t sound too efficient.

How dare you disagree with us!

@JOAN..
Yeah he did, and also said he would go on to show himself having a “spine of steel” But apparently that steel spine is covered with skin of tissue when it comes to taking criticism of any kind.

The title of the article is incorrect. It should read, “White House: Obama ‘Serving the goals of al-Qaeda’”

Obama the appeasing surrender-ist in chief has lost ground in EVERY international foreign policy
Area….yet he still blames his predessor! Iraq victory will be lost soon, afghan 3rd rate cave dwellers become fearless, Russia and China grow brave against us openly undermining our every move, terrerists return to our soil without fear of gitmo interrogations, …. Even France (compared to Omama) becomes seen as a lion! Illegals and who knows what terrorists stream across our borders with obama stopping the fence-building (and the REAL I.D. Checks at voting booths,schools and colleges and subsidized public social services, etc

does anybody see the distinction with the shoe bomber? He is an American citizen who is entitled to the protection of the Constitution. The underwear bomber is a foreign national who was trained as an enemy combatant who was conducting an operation against his sworn enemy. If he deserves protection of his “Constitutional” rights, doesn’t every enemy combatant on the battlefield deserve those same rights before any military action? frankly, if I am in a firefight, I do not want to delay the return of fire until I have mirandized the enemy.

LOL NOW THATS FUNNY. Talk about being clueless and hypocritical. These are the same socialists who called Bush EVERY VULGAR NAME IN THE BOOK for 8 years and now noone can say anything about THE ONE, THE ALMIGHTY HUSSEIN OBAMA!!!!! Listen this president is a disgrace. He and his band of communist thugs dont have a clue, arent ready for prime time, are making every mistake in the book and constantly have shown bad judgement for the last year. THEY ARE PUTTING US ALL AT RISK from weak defense polices like giving rights to terrorists and treating terrorists like American citizens. REMEMBER IN NOVEMBER WE WILL TAKE AMERICA BACK!!!!

the fbi couldn´t even catch Al Capone. The CIA. NASA do more . The perception is the Dems are soft on terrorist. his apontments haven´t changed anyones mind on that.

“Dissent used to be the highest form of patriotism…not so much anymore, eh?”
Posted by: PA | Feb 9, 2010 9:34:01 AM
2008: Dissent is the highest form of Patriotism.
2009: Dissent is the highest form of Racism.
2010: Dissent is the highest form of Terrorism.

The true terrorist are the ones undermining our currency. When the value of the dollar becomes zero then the enemy will have won. HMMM who is destroying the value of the dollar?

Welcome to Bizarro America! Up is down, left is right, yes is no…
First, these “progressives” told us that the economy was in terrible shape at the time it really wasn’t.
Second, we (not me but the majority) voted them in (in 2006).
Third, since then they’ve done everything they possibly could to wreck the economy.
We need to not allow the MTV Generation to vote. I’m ready to pass an amendment to the Constitution that says only responsible (those committed to working and taking care of their family) citizens can vote.
Tough love baby!

Seems like Obama is just reinforcing that George Bush was right all along.
I’m ashamed to say I voted for Obama.

For years the Democrats have criticized Bush and in the process helped our enemies. So as usual, the hypocrisy of the left is exposed

Shame Shame Shame…….well it should come as no suprise when the checks and BALANCES get elected in the fall……

Here we go again… Let the blame game begin… oops… I meant… Let the blame game continue! So freakin’ unbelievable.

Americans are either with Obama or with the terrorists, I guess.

So now we are cowards AND terrorists. Are there any grownups in Washington? Are there any traditional Americans that respect the right to disagree? Just keep it up dummies…we’ve got the broom out and we’re comin’ for you all. Stunning failures…a lesson to be learned about electing community organizers. All they know how to do is agitate.

More of the same.

These people get more and more like GW Bush everyday.

Barry has already shown the world he is weak. He let Putin push him around on the missile shield in Eastern Europe, he stood paralyzed in fear of offending Muslims when the 4 Somali pirates held the tanker captain hostage. He turns a blind eye and plays golf for 3 days in Hawaii before issuing a robotic, teleprompter speech on the underwear bomber. Never mind he ran all over the Muslim world apologizing for the US and pledging a new era in relations with the Muslim world. Plus the rush to blame and criticize Isreal at every chance. Iran is ultra defiant and will have some type of weapon nuke built before too long.
To Bin Laden, al-Qaeda, Hamas, Iran and everybody other member of the “religion of peace”, Barry has telegraphed his weakness by doing all he can to “appease” The terrorists sit back and laugh at Barry, as if peaceful overtures by Barry mean something to them.
When Isreal has been wiped out, the West destroyed and Islam has dominated the world (as told by the Koran), only then will there be peace.

unbelievable. the dems have been the party of undermining the war on terror for the last eight years. this is an incredible statement. heck, the dems care and give more rights and comfort to al qaeda and the taliban then their own american children who they enslaved under massive chains of debt. ripping off rights of the children and giving rights to the enemy thats obama.

IS THIS DUDE SERIOUS???? This twerp is 2nd in charge of Homeland Security? What a nauseating report. Someone stuff a pacifier in his mouth to shut him up. What drivel.

More projection from the second Carter administration….demonize critics- in this case, the American people- for wanting a government to do what it is supposed to do: defend and uphold the Constitution of the United States and defend it’s citizenry from all enemies, foreign and domestic. I guess increasing taxes, instilling socialism, and revising history can do that………..HA!

OUT: Stickin’ it to the Man.
IN: Gettin’ the Man re-elected.

This coming from those who have done the most damage to our National Security. More than even Al Qaeda.
The only thing deeper than the Snow in D.C. is the BS coming out of 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.

Good job Jake!!!! When is the next message from Rahm arriving?

New name for Obama -Elmer Gantry

Um, Isn’t this exactly what the Democrats did to George Bush? These guys are morons.

“Brennan writes that politics “should never get in the way of national security. But too many in Washington are now misrepresenting the facts to score political points, instead of coming together to keep us safe.” ”
And the Obama administration should know – they misrepresented the War on Terror at every turn, just to score political points.
Hypocritical and clueless, indeed.

Spending a billion dollars on a show trial (Obama and Holder’s words not mine) that gives terrorists a huge world platform to sell their crazy does help terrorism. I am sorry if the obvious truth hurts, they are horrible on terrorism. They aren’t even bringing a knife to the gunfight. It’s more like bringing a legal document to gunfight.
He’s doing a good job in Pakistan, but secretly and unlawfully invading a country like Pakistan was what he was completely and utterly against…
But let’s be honest all of Washington is horrible. We can send troops over and spend trillions of dollars on security or we could have a domestic energy policy that destroys all of our enemies without lifting a finger.

So when the ‘left’ used to criticise the Bush administration; were they helping Al Qaeda?

This isyet again Obama’s way of saying na, na na na naa! We elected Peewee Herman as President. What a joke. Him serving as president does more for Alquieda than any other thing!

I thought during the Bush that you were an incompetend boob, boy was I wrong you are just a spineless boob.

This is just another weak exercise on part of the Obama camp to silence their critics. They’ve already called us all sorts of other names next they’ll probably threaten that we must not like kittens. Only a jerk would not like like kittens, right? These people are not only incompetent but they are dangerously so and we desperately need to wake up to and be vigilant about what we are facing here. These folks are trying to con us. This administration is a horrible mistake that will only get worse. Very sad for our great nation and also very scary not only for us today but for our future generations. There are principles involved here that need to be defended that are being dodged by these guys. Wake up America. It’s time to wake up.

Of course, what the Democrats did for 7 years of the Bush Administration was “legitimate criticism?”
Bien sur!

No, you fools! What we critics are trying to do is jolt the American people into awareness that the engines of our national security are being driven by people who are clueless at best and malignantly subversive at worst. And we will continue to criticize, more loudly if necessary, until the last straggler in this gaggle of Marxist clowns walks the plank.

Counter intuitive but not surprising coming from the administration. What people are saying is that the President is serving the goals of al Qaeda by assuring them that will get their chance as our guard has already been lowered. They don’t need US to remind them!

Give me a break. Do you think we are that stupid.
Obama is the one helping Al Queda big time.

The “Audacity of Hope..
…that no one remembers what we said a few years ago”

So he says we basically treat them the same now as when they were in military custody, and that the same practices implemented under the Bush administration are being used today, and that they work… so if it is the same treatment, and it worked, then why the need to change it? And secondly, if you call today’s critics hypocrites for being silent when Bush was doing these things, then shouldn’t you also call Bush’s critics hypocrites for being silent now?

LMAO Obama grasping at straws to save the failing and collasping presidency
Obama: don’t they know how important and smart I am

I guess we see now who really understands “democracy.” Not once during his term did President Bush or any high level aid ever attack his critics as “serving the goals” of the enemy. It’s just another indicator of how low the current administration has sunk.

Just what are the goals of Al-Qaeda? I don’t think anyone has bothered to publicize them.
I think the primary goal is simply to spread Islam around the world, and to eliminate all other religions.
Most everything else is secondary.

Why not, if we can’t blame Bush, or Fox,or Tea “Baggers”, then let’s blame critics as traitors.Next, we can silence critics as enemies of the State!

And, can this White House drop the “Richard Reid” thing?
Reid was 3 months after 9/11 – and there were no special terrorist ops responders like we supposedly have now (hmmm….where was that special ops group in the underwear bomber case, Brennan?) and no military tribunals/terrorist interrogation procedures set up in 2001.
We supposedly have all of that in place now, right Brennan? Then why didn’t you use it?
There was NO NEED to mirandize the underwear bomber. He’s a foreign terrorist who should have been interrogated by the CIA and NSA. But, Brennan and Obama think foreign terrorists have the same rights as Americans. That’s the point.
Brennan and Obama are incompetent. This article proves it.

LOL I think we need to stop the prisoner taking business and start the terrorist killing business hehe lol IB

Ummm, actually, it’s Obama’s policies that are helping serve the goals of al-Qaeda. Between the desperate Christmas Day attempt and the cryptic message Obama bin Laden left shortly thereafter, I would give a 95% chance they’ll achieve that goal in 2010.

“We must stand up and tell this Administration that WE ARE AMERICANS, and WE WILL NOT BE QUIET WHEN WE DISAGREE”…
Hillary Clinton.
“THE WAR IS LOST.”
Harry Reid.
“Those Marines LOST IT. THEY KILLED INNOCENT WOMEN and CHILDREN, IN COLD BLOOD.
Jack Murtha.
Dissent is the “NEW PATRIOTISM”.
The LEFT.
“I APOLOGIZE FOR MY COUNTRY.”
Barak Hussein Obama.

I remember when the Dixie Chicks were calling our President names when the war started and all the Demos
stuck up for them..now they are complaining about free speech?

Okay, okay, we get it. obama “inherited” terrorism.
When next thousands of Americans are killed by terrorist, obama will be to blame and he will not be allowed to blame his predecessor. This administration will be the death of this Republic and its people.

Just another problem that doesn’t get solved because of partisan bickering. Get off you high horses on both sides and start thinking country first.
You think this country got through previous wars by arguing who is right? This country is in dire straights because neither party wants to give up political advantage. If you are one of these politicians, then GET OUT of my government, I don’t want you!
I am sick of all this bickering on both sides. This isn’t why you were voted into office to obstruct the running of this country.
For all you adding to this bickering, you only inflame an otherwise already bad situation with the constant flaming of the other side, ENOUGH OF THIS CRAP!

HA HA when the critics were ripping BUSH a new one over Iraq.. it was “Freedom of speech” when someone does it to a screaming liberal its “helping our enemies” Love the double standard that the left allways plays with impunity.

God help this country. obama won’t.

David Steiner: I left the Democratic Party because of what I witnessed during the 1990s-to include Chinagate. That party is deeply penetrated and as a result this angst and conflict whewre there needs to be one tight fist.
This party deliberately neglects national security wholesale, then complains when confronted with the results of this neglect-when criminal malfeasance charges are well in order.

What do you expect from a communist administration! How’s your hope and change!! I know it’s Bush’s fault!!!

Ried: this war is lost Mr. president
Pelosie: the surge will not work and is a waste of our national treasure
Obama:I oppose this Unjust war against muslims
Murtha: those Marines are murders
Do they think we forget that quickly?
Did those and other statements prolong the conflict?

Our politicians shouldn’t spend our money building up armies of other countries and spent time trying to fix our declining country. Strengthen our borders and attack hard whenever someone messes with us. Don’t get involved in tribal squabbles. The people we are giving aid to now switch sides without hesitation. Keep out of other countries except when we have to respond d to a significant threat or to an attack. Should we have bombed a Islamic extremist country after 9/11? Yes! Should we leave after making a powerful response, to send a message not to mess with us? Yes! Obama, Democrats and Republicans have made mistake after mistake in economic and military security matters. Should we criticize? Yes, because some of us saw have predicted things accurately from the start but people don’t listen to us because we don’t give the rosy picture double tongued politicians dish out. Register Independent to vote both parties out! No more two party system unless you want to destroy this country!

Question: Wasn’t criticism and dissent during the Bush Admin. categorized as the highest form of patriotism?

In reality the only thing serving al Qaeda is keeping buffoons like Brennan in office.

King Obama and his Seven Dwarfs are mad because after only one year his Presidency is a lame duck. Health care, poor terrorist policies and his neglect of the job crisis were his waterloo. His influenece is over, he has only a 20 % Independent approval rating ( TERRIBLE LOL) and dems are running away from him in droves. He could pass a sobriety test let alone a major bill.

In what way is “Kit” Bond an expert on terrorism? He rubber stamped the war in Iraq, even though Saddam Hussein had nothing to do with 9/11. He finds nothing wrong with torture, even though that’s an extemely inefficient way to get terrorists to cooperate.
The GOP is simply trying to get publicity. They really don’t care about national security. If they did, they’d do something about global warming, which will generate massive global unrest, rather than pretending it does not exist.
P.S. Let’s not forget that Kit Bond wants C-17 transports built in his state, even though the Defense Department does not want the plane. So much for being a fiscal conservative.

How can you tell if the White House is lying? Answer, their lips are moving.
Critics helpilng al Qaeda? That’s a new low for the White House. I suspose the snowfall is also critical of global warming?
Blame, blame, blame, no accountability in D.C. any more, just finger pointing at non-existent other guys.
Give me a break?

Finally the Administration has uttered the words “goals of al-Qaeda” which a majority in the country have been concerned about for a long time. Maybe Mr Brenan can transition from the “overseas contingency” mentality to actually fighting a war against radical Islamic extremeists. Welcome to the real world.

Everything about Obama and his WH is about politics! As Bill Cristal pointed out, and they continue the path of debating this in public, which is bad for them! For the common people, terrorists whould not be read Miranda’s rights, they should be kept in Guantanamo, they should not be tried in civilian courts, and we should waterboard them or use any enhanced technique to extract information for them! Most common people are for those things above! They are clueless about what people think!

But Hilary said is was ok to debate and disagree with this administration. I’m so confused. Did she just mean THAT administration?

Obama please report to Gitmo for further processing and deportation. Thank you for your cooperation.

What exactly is Mr. Brennan’s position, where does he fit in the chain of command, what are his responsibilities and powers?
I’ve heard his company is a contractor to the Government in the area of security, exactly the area where he is an “adviser”.
Can you imagine the hullabaloo in the press if this clear conflict of interest existed in the Bush administration?
Where is the media on this guy…?

Obama is basically saying – you are either with us or with the terrorists which is taking a page out of Bush’s book.

THE SILENT MAJORITY IS SILENT NO MORE!!!! We really are taking america back! Cant wait till november!!

This white house has NO shame!

This is by far one of the most politically motivated administrations I’ve ever seen. Anyone who elected this guy thinking that the era of bipartisanship was going to end should be greatly disappointed. Where is the better world we were promised?

Comrade Obama will put more Al-Qaeda members in US prisons so they can personally recruit and train new Muslim converts to become the home grown variety of terrorist.

The WH policies to treat terrorism as ‘one-off’ events, to encourage ‘patience’ towards those commiting terrorist acts, to donate US funds to muslim nations, and to purchase costly obsolete body scanner technology have failed to stop terrorism. The people speak because of many concerns about jobs, safety, and the economy. In response, the WH mocks the concerns of its citizens rather than to fix and address the core issues and problems.

Oops, I forgot to add “and its all the previous adminstrations fault” that they can’t get their stuff together to keep the American people safe even after one whole year in office. Consider that Obama started running to be President in 2007, thats 2 whole years for him to have gotten his stuff in order, but he seems to have done little to get prepared. Maybe being President isn’t as easy as he thought it would be, when all you have to do is blame Bush. HUMMMMMMMM

Another mouthpiece for the empty suit trying to BS the populace….

Once again, this administration is hypocritical to the max. So, if someone criticizes THEIR glorious leader, that person is helping Al Qaeda…but, when all the Democrats were protesting George Bush and talking trash about his administration, they were just righteous dissenters? More LEFTIST B.S. Come on November…remember my fellow Americans, THINK, then VOTE!

Obama when you say the truth about Fort Hood, or your birth cert, or anything else, call us. Until then stop talking you liar.

Prove it thou, my accuser.

Hmm, what’s going to be proposed next? Herding critics into interrment camps? How about secret police monitoring street corner discussions? Commizars in every company to observe protocol violations? Gulag’s for those who continue to be “troublesome” to the administration by asking tough questions or attempting to hold them responsible?
If Obamarx acts quickly he can head off the 2010 elections and ensure his party is Always in control!

What is a person in his capacity doing writing an op ed? Propaganda!! GET TO WORK AND QUIT THE POLITICAL BULL!!!!!!!!!

Isn’t this the guy who is still looking for the smoking gun??

The man has beclowned himself yet again. This is quickly moving from funny to pathetic. And be sure not to miss the “Bush did it” theme.

And Al Queda also said they wanted to bankrupt America from within.

Here’s an idea. All of the would be defense lawyers for these terrorist; make them hold there pre-trial meetings on the border of Pakistan and Afghanistan. Just a thought.

Why does the administration continue to call this Christmas Day bomber a “failed attempt”? It was not a failed attempt – it worked, its just that the mechanism of the detonation failed. And – this country’s defense mechanism against this type of attack failed.

Obama and Holder are traitors aiding and abetting Terrorists.
The Attorney General and the President of the United States, the Commander-in-Chief of our armed forces, are responsible for preventing the immediate interrogation of an enemy combatant from taking place.
Terrorist Abdulmutallab’s failed bombing attempt on the civilian U.S. airliner on Christmas day led to his immediate capture. Before even an hour had passed, Attorney General Eric Holder, acting under the authority of Barack Hussein Obama, provided an attorney for this enemy combatant, forbidding the gathering of enemy intelligence crucial to the safety of the American people from future terrorist acts.
Holder’s decision to protect Abdulmutallab from interrogation has facilitated enemy efforts to continue surprise terror attacks against American citizens at home and abroad. Thus, Holder and Obama have given a measure of aid to our enemies.
Whatever cripples our efforts to close with and destroy our enemies empowers those enemies to kill and maim us. Knowing that their captured comrades will not be subject to standard military interrogations doubtless comes as a great relief to our sworn enemies. Al-Qaeda leaders know full well that the granting of constitutional rights to their fellow terrorists helps keep secret the time, nature, and place of their future attacks. Thus, Holder and Obama have given not only aid to our enemies, but a measure of comfort as well.
Holder and Obama cannot take back or justify what they have done. However hard they may try, their propagandists cannot tinsel over Holder’s and Obama’s dereliction of duty by cleverly embellishing their excuses. By protecting the terrorist from immediate interrogation, Holder and Obama delivered a sledgehammer blow to the framework of our national security. Who knows how much crucial information on planned enemy strikes has been lost as a result of their ineptitude and betrayal of the public trust?
Upon taking office, Holder solemnly swore that he would “support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic.” Yet instead of supporting and defending the Constitution against foreign enemy Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, Holder shielded the terrorist from interrogation, using our founding document as his pretext for doing so. There is no provision in the U.S. Constitution for granting constitutional rights to enemy combatants. By granting Abdulmutallab such rights, Holder has violated his oath of office.
In the event that anyone has missed the point, here is the crux of the matter: Instead of acting to protect us from enemy combatants, Eric Holder acted to protect an enemy combatant from revealing what he knew about planned terrorist operations directed against us. In doing so, Holder has demonstrated an unfathomable indifference to our national security and person safety.

If you disagree with us, you are an Al Queda terrorist sympathizer.

The criticism is valid and necessary. The Obama Administration is releasing information that the Underwear Bomber is talking as a “see, I told you we knew what we were doing” ploy. Now, any information this guy knew or MIGHT HAVE KNOWN is no longer good. And training camps he attended are not empty. Any future plans he may have overheard are now changed.
But Obama feels better about himself. Who exactly is helping the terrorists?

Evidently, they haven’t read Al Kiada’s stated goals or listened to any of the tapes.
If they would have, they would hear the very words of Obama’s speeches and the Democratic party’s stances on issues.
This president is enabling the terrorists to advance and just like Jimmy Carter allowed this whole thing to start, Jimmy Carter on steroids (Obama) is going to get millions or perhaps billions killed due to their incompetence.
QUESTION AUTHORITY!!!! (esp. these guys)

Is BHO now invoking the burka rule to silence Americans against his policies & leadership? BHO & his ilk have only the destruction of our Constitution & America as their twin objectives. Only a fool cannot see that BHO has a big chip on his sholder and he is getting even with us/U.S.A.

How can you be so stupid as to tell
your enemy where you intend to strike
in the new offensive in Afgan.
The people and the enemy are leaving
the area through the valley in droves.
During WW II Germany had to count the
rolls of toilet paper in order to
learn how many troops we had in the
area.
Now the idiots tell the enemy any
and everything we intend to do.
What the hell is this. Make the fight
fair ?

Strange this tune was not being sung a few yrs ago when the left was ripping Bush on every front on the war on terror. How is it that now any criticism helps the terrorists? These people were actively helping the enemy by saying the war was lost etc and yet not the hot shot in the White House can’t stand up to criticism of any kind, without whining about how it is all Bush’s fault. Well if it is all Bush’s fault and you can’t handle it get out of the kitchen and bring Bush back. At least he was a man and never whined about what was left for him to clean up, never whined about Clinton, never attacked his critics and told them to shut up. He was a man and a leader, not a man-child and a whiner.

“beclowned”? I didn’t even know that was a real word, but it is fitting.

Four things that are scary beyond belief
1. Obama administration is in charge of national security
2. Obama administration is messing with the economy
3. Biden is number 2 in succession
4. Pelosi is number 3 in succession
Talk about a complete obliteration of hope, optimism and any chance of positive outcome……

I guess when you criticize a Democratic president on terrorism policy you are helping al queda. When you criticize a Republican president on terrorism policy you are being patriotic and your patriotism should not be questioned.
When will the Elites in power now see through their double standard? The Elites think that us Common Folk are dumb and can be taken for a ride.
One more thing: on the issue of the current administration doing a better job because they have disrupted dozens of plots against the homeland. Well the Bush administration must have disrupted some plots too because their were no attacks after 9-11 on his watch. If the current administration is disrupting more plots, that means there must be more attempts on his watch. I guess going out of the way to show good will gestures to that part of the world didn’t work.

Soooo….. When George Bush was prosecuting a war against Al Qaeda, criticizing everything he did was patriotic; it was the right thing to do. Now, if anyone criticizes President Obama, they are ‘helping Al Qaeda’.
The hypocritical and disingenuous nature of the Democratic Party is beyond belief, as is the bias of the mainstream media.

By the White House standard, doesn’t this mean that all the criticism from the Democrats and the Left when Bush was in charge mean that they were helping our enemies? For that matter, didn’t they help the North Vietnamese during that war? Didn’t the network press corps do the same thing?

“Politically motivated criticism and unfounded fear-mongering only serve the goals of al-Qaeda.”
Oh, I get it. Criticizing the trying of a terrorist as a US citizen, giving miranda rights to a terrorist, closing down Gitmo where we can keep these terrorists actually serves the goals of terrorists but those actions do not. Unfounded fear-mongering my arse! We are living in opposite world now!

This statemrnt shocked me back to the 50′s when I was a duck and cover kid, it sounds like a TASS press release written by the KGB from that era. The American people are not the enemy, radical Muslims are; focus on them not us .

“If you disagree with us, you are an Al Queda terrorist sympathizer.”
I didn’t write this…My post was much more colorful….the voice of the people and such.

FEARmongering will only continue to result in more and more of our civil liberties being violated.
UBL is sitting in his posh digs, laughing his a$$ off right now reading the comments left by the jokesters on this article.

“Brennan writes that, “Terrorists are not 100-feet tall. Nor do they deserve the abject fear they seek to instill.”
umm, they killed 3000 innocent people that had no idea why they were even targeted. I say the have istilled terror. Plus, I would like to keep my head above my shoulders.
Brennan, you sir, are an IDIOT.

Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.

the headline is wrong. it should read “critics: wh serving goals of al qaeda”.

Does anyone here really think the CIA, FBI, the US military, are not doing every single dang thing they possibly can to prevent terrorist attacks? I mean, c’mon, seriously. Really. People who have made their entire careers, their entire lives even, in devotion to their service. Are they going to knowingly allow something bad to happen on their watch>>>>
On;y fools and knaves would think that our country is not doing everything possible to ensure our safety and security (did you know over sixteen F-15′s were on CAP’s – combat air patrols – over the super bowl this weekend? Or how many thousands of soldiers and police were mobilized from across the COUNTRY to protect the folks who bought tickets to the big game? Two decades ago that would have been unthinkable).

Didn’t this argument go on during the Bush administration? The White House said that criticism undermined the nation and emboldened Al-Qaeda, while the democrats maintained they were free to criticize as they saw fit?
Funny how things go full circle. As it turns out, in their eyes, criticism of an administration at war is not so helpful (When your party runs the current administration).
They hypocrisy in politics defies all logic and common sense.

Why is it if Bush did it must be terrible unless or when it serves their purposes for it not to be. Time for this group of amateurs to start taking responsibilites for their mistakes.

If I hear the Richard Reid shoe bomber defense one more time, i.e. Bush arrested a terrorist and that was okay, blah, blah, blah, I think my head is going to explode. The fact is that that was then and this is now. Situations change and after eight years of the war on terror we, the people, just don’t want foreign terrorist brought to our country and given all the rights of an American citizen. We don’t want our tax dollars going to pay for their lawyers. We don’t want our taxes paying for a billion dollar New York trail. Obama and his idiot administration need to get a grip on reality. And, finally, BUSH IS NO LONGER PRESIDENT! WE DON’T CARE WHAT BUSH DOES OR DID! WE ONLY CARE ABOUT WHAT’S BEING DONE RIGHT NOW!

Shame on ABC! I’m really! give me a break, what a disgrace! So anotherwords, support Obama and you will be fighting terrorism. ha ha ha ha make me freaking laugh some more.

here we go again. The WH telling us to SHUT UP and Follow like good little sheep.
Hey WH, you guys should have lightened up on Bush, Oh I forgot this is his fault to.
Here is what I know best, You have 3 years left, enjoy those date nights and golf games on my buck.

Day after Day this administration and all its lackeys develop more and more arrogance. Do they even wonder why people have such gutter contempt for them? Like the Clown and Chief says…
Fired Up, Ready to GO? Yes we are sir…November we are so fired up and ready to go, that you truly will be able to kick back in your unbuttoned sport shirt, light up and camel and go play golf everyday….Your a lame President now, you’ll be a lame duck after November….you’ll be able to scratch you head and ask….What was all that about? If you could only stay off the media so we wouldnt have to go through the drama everyday with someone as thin skin and insecure as yourself. Do like the peanut farmer did…go to Plains, and fade away till its time to do volunteer work…

The Panty bomber is talking once again!!!!
WE brought his FAMILY in to help us get him to talk!!! He is SINGING like a a canary!!!!……..Incompetent fools

Guess the “everyone-who-criticizes-me-is-a-racist” line wasn’t trending well.

Really? REALLY? You commenting idiots are going to take a Bush OR an Obama side? Really? WHEN, on God’s green earth, are you going to realize there is NO difference whatsoever. NONE. It’s all corrupt and we haven’t been a democratic society in decades. The economy is Bush’s fault, and Obama’s, but even more so Clinton and Reagan…NO DIFFERENCE. Bigger gov’t, bigger corporations and SLAVE LABOR. Welcome to the new millenium people.

What’s funny is the racist followers of Odumbo will all sit up straight in their chairs and say, “Yeah- stop helping the terriorists!”. Of course, room temperature Murtha never helped them nor Harry “The Living Dead” Reid when he declared, “The war is lost.” Or Nancy “Stretch” Piglosi. Rot in hell libs.

Reportedly, when Obama’s passport file at the State Department was breached in March before the 2008 presidential election, it was JOHN BRENNAN who headed the firm (The Analysis Corp.) that employed the breacher. According to a report by Kenneth Timmerman, the breacher “cauterized” Obama’s records of “potentially embarrassing information.” And what might that information have comprised? Surely nothing pertaining to Obama’s citizenship of whichever country (countries). /Sarcasm off
At that time, Brennan was an Obama campaign adviser. Does anyone think the Obama-Brennan relationship has changed since then, or that Brennan’s job is not to (allegedly) obscure Obama’s actions/history?

We are supposed to assume that what the Obama Administration is doing in regard to terrorists is the correct thing to do. I will continue to critisize and do what I can do to unseat Obama as long as my lifestyle continues to deteriorate while he is in office. That includes any politician who believes that they can manage my life better than I can.

So let me get this straight – the democrats, the liberals, Hollywood and entertainment types criticized Bush from 9/12 and accused Bush of creating terrorist….and now criticizing the president helps the terrorists..????
What a wimp…what a sissy wimp this adminstration and democrats are! Get out of the kitchen and get out of the way…let someone with intelligence, common sense and a pair of cahones (None of which the current president has!) govern this great nation!!

I’m really getting sick of all the stupidity coming from the White House and the Liberal media. Maybe if the idiots hadn’t placed an unqualified lying moron Hussein Obama in the White House wwe wouldn’t be having all these problems. Get rid of Obama and his commie czars and take our country back. Hussein Obama is the biggest threat this country is now facing.

Gee – I guess Dems didn’t criticize Bush for all those years …

Why is KSM being afforded American constitutional rights while predator drones operate on a presumption of guilt?
I agree with the newly elected senator from Mass., “We should spend our money on systems to defeat our enemies, not defense attorneys to protect them”. No wonder the ACLU wants to try all of our enemies! They want to get PAID!!

Once again the WH is trying to act like they got everything covered when in fact they have nothing covered. Since Obama became Prez, He has tightened the rules of engagement to the point it is now costing more American soldiers lives not to mention the injured. The bad guys snipe us & all out fire on us then drop their weapons knowing our soldiers can’t fire back. Even when Bush was Prez, the ROE’s were ridiculous mainly because the bleeding heart Libs cried so much, & accused us of being the terrorists. Obama doesn’t even try to hide his support for the bad guys. Just look at what he has allowed since becoming CiC. Giving the terrorists rights as you would an American, stopping all military tribunals etc. h e ll, most of the Muslims really think Obama is one of them, & they know by this mans history, he will prosecute the American soldiers before he’ll do anything to the terrorists. If Obama would just allow our soldiers to do the job they are so well trained for,we would be much farther along… This oped is a joke ! ! ! If anyone is serving the goals of terrorists, it would be Obama & his cronies…that is indisputable, & this is why he is losing support by the day, & this is why 80% of the military isn’t supportive of him…

I like our President. I think some of his policy decisions are worthless. But I believe he means well and could be great. But this spokesman deserves to fired!-posted by Harnes
——————-
Why fire the messenger? Do you think President Obama knew nothing about this op-ed?
Presidents use their aides and advisors and directors and whomever to release this stuff so they can remain ‘above it all’.
I have absolutely no doubt this came from President Obama and was released at his choice of time.

Im a huge critic of this administration!
Come and get me.
What a bunch of LOSERS.
And Im not fully comfortable with calling them losers since it does not convey my entire disgust with them all.

aaaaaaaaauuuuuuuuuuuuggggggggggghhhhhh
HOW DARE THESE HYPOCRITICAL PIGS ON THE LEFT………7 YEARS OF BASHING BUSH WHEN WE WERE BEING BLOWN UP AND NOW THEY NEED SOMEONE TO BLAME FOR THEIR IGNORANCE….OBAMA IS LIKE CARTER, NEVER MET A TERRORIST HE DIDN’T LOVE…….
LISTEN BARRY YOU TOLD THE TERRORISTS EXACTLY WHEN WE WERE LEAVING THE WAR.
WITH BUSH THE PLANE BOMBER WOULDN’T HAVE BEEN ALLOWED ON THAT PLANE AND IF HE DID HE WOULD WAKE UP IN GITMO, NOT HAVE SKIN DRAFTS AND A LAWYER………..
AMERICA IS WATCHING, WE KNOW WHO IS ON THE TERRORISTS SIDE, YOU AREN’T CALLED COMMIES FOR NOTHING, YOUR DEEDS GIVE YOU AWAY LIBERALS AND MEDIA, YOUR DEEDS – WE QUIT LISTENING TO YOUR LIES….

This adminstration is the biggest bunch of losers possible. BO just plain stinks it up. Almost everbody hopes he fails now.

Whew! The Democrats sure don’t understand why they were elected… they are proving worse than Bush on just about every issue.
And oh, for those of you who felt indefinite detention and water boarding was inhumane… how about killing without warning in the middle of the night via remote control (i.e. 10x increase in the use of Predator Drones.) Is that humane?
It certainly solves the Guantanamo problem… if we take no prisoners we don’t have to house or try them!
The whole situation is dripping with irony… if only they had the honesty to recognize it!

I guess the next step is for B.O. Plenty and his band of socialist idiots to come up with a new motto (a modern version of Sieg Heil)and to start teaching it to school children the next time the Messiah visits an elementary school with his teleprompters.
What a bunch of raving lunatics!

What happened to the dissent is patriotic line the Liberals used under Bush? It seems to me that the Obama Administration are acting like spoiled children. If they don’t get “Their” way they pout and throw temper tantrums. It just displays the fact that Obama just isn’t ready for prime time. Take away the teleprompter and you have a know nothing, left wing, ideologue, with no business or military experience. He will be a one term President just like the second worst President in history, Jimmy Carter.

Obama wants us to call him a patriot for doing his job. But wait.. we were told that true patriotism was being critical when it was Bush doing his job.
I’ll tell you what I call Obamao.. hes a con man.. hes a weak sister.. a scrawny child-man.. a whiney socialist.. a thinker not a do’er.. everyone is afraid to tell him off.. liberals speak truth to power! I double dog dare you.. just do it.. unleash your inner screams.. treat Obama like you would Bush, press boys. He deserves it a lot more then Bush did. Speak now or forever hold your ideas to yourselves. Obama=fail…lmao

According to the MIAC report and HLS the American people are the real terrorist. Own a gun? Carry a pocket Constitution? Then you are a terrorist. Refuse to play Divide & Conquer? Have a Ron Paul bumper sticker? Then you are a terrorist. Home school your children? Protest against these illegal wars? Then you are a terrorist. Against this governments foreign policies? Then you are the terrorist! The Patriot Acts, the Veterans Disarmament Act, the Freedom Initiative Act, Body Scanners,FEMA Camps and Homeland Security etc are all for us! The Flu Pandemic was a hoax! The Bankster Bailout was a hoax! Global Warming is a hoax! 9/11 was an inside job! Al-CIAda is a hoax! When the hell are you idiots gonna wake up!

Installing them on OUR soil, and TRYING them in our courts, really encourages them.

The “white house” (Obama) is attempting to vilify free speech. Make anyone that disagrees look like a bad guy. Pretty nasty of you Mr. Obama, pretty nasty. Vote him out!

Re-elect no one.

Who can we blame now………….um um….aah…….um….Cheeny?
Um…. Let me be perfectly clear…..The problem was inherited from the previous administration. DC has a spending problem….that needs to be resolved. The deficit has grown under my watch……but that is due to my intentions to blame Bush and pass Pelosi’s pet projects. Since the Mass. voters……really never had a problem with me….I hear their anger.
As my administration moves forward with my agenda…….we will move towards deficit reduction. My office staff….at this moment….is working on new, low-cost ways of blaming Bush.
Oh, and I pledge to work for more bipartisianship……with the other party. Of course…with the full intention….of blamming them for my failed policies. I..want and deserve all the glory….as Americans recover despite government //…..my spending.
I um…. it was due to the past eight years of mismanagement from the previous administration so I will BLAME BUSH um um…. I mean Cheeny.

Murtha’s criticism of the Iraq war intensified in 2006, when he accused Marines of murdering Iraqi civilians “in cold blood” at Haditha, after one Marine died and two were wounded by a roadside bomb.
When the left critisizes the Potus then it is considered patriotic……

Put a warfighter into Brennan’s position. Get rid of this politcal hack. Obama seems to be working hard to raise Jimmy Carter’s legacy above his own.

I thought criticism was a sign of patriotism. At least that’s what Obama thought before November 2008. Oh, how things change. As for the important info gathered from the 30 minute interrogation of the Christmas bomber was his name, country of origin and the name of his new attorney.

I am reading the previous posts and it’s very sad that NO ONE can be objective here. It’s all partisan. I mean if anyone wants to have a logical discusion about what works and what doesn’t I would rather listen to the experts, thank you very much. The only thing we need to compare is the facts. Take the Reid “shoe” bomber and the Chrismast day “underwear” bomber. Compare how both cases were handled and then we can have an honest discussion of the facts, no spin. You guys are too political and when people are like that you can’t have an honest discussion with them. There may be things that Obama is doing that might not make us stronger in terms of fighting terrorist, and there may be things that Bush did that made us weaker. It’s better to say lets review the system and correct the wrongs but not to politicize every event. Totally interllectually dishonest!!

If I were the terrorists reading these comments I’d say we had done a good job weakening America. There are enough defeatists on the inside of the country wanting the President to fail that all we have to do is wait for them to prevail.

Ok, please correct me if Im wrong, but in military court dont you have to prove your innocence, whereas in civilian court your innocent until proven quilty. If I’m correct then there is a big differnce between the two courts Mr. Brennan!

“This administration’s efforts have disrupted dozens of terrorist plots against the homeland and been responsible for killing and capturing hundreds of hard-core terrorists, including senior leaders in Pakistan, Yemen, Somalia and beyond — far more than in 2008.”
Clue…It’s Bush’s fault LOL

Gee. I remember when Hillary said she was ‘sick and tired of those who disagree with this administration being called un-American’.
Whatever happened to that, Democrats???

Globally the POTUS is loved by many and feared by NONE!!!
Yes Yes Yes, he and most Dems are DELUSIONAL. Just add it to the list of Obamas first year of “You LIE” administration……!
1. “will not sign any non-emergency bill without giving the American public an opportunity to review and comment on the White House website for five days.” then violates that in his first month in office.
2. “no more pork in the bills that I will sign,” then signs the 787 billion stimulus with 9297 plus pork projects added.
2a. “we must hurry and pass the monumental 787 billion stimulus bill so that unemployment will not go over 8%,” really…. unemployment has peaked at 10.2 percent and is currently at an adjusted rate of 17% or 10% unadjusted. Looks like it will jump up higher for Jan 2010 (can’t wait for the millions and millions of jobs created and saved rebutal speech again).
3. “lobbyist will not influence legislation,” then makes health care deals with big pharma, insurance companies, hospitals, medical device companies, AMA, AARP, unions, etc plus sweet heart deals with unwilling senators and congressmen.
4. “I guarantee you can keep your current Insurance if you like,” if you believe this God help you.
5. “negotiate health care reform in public sessions televised on C-SPAN,” who knew?
6. “I will close Guantanamo Bay in one year” still waiting.
7. “we’ll eliminate the no-bid contracts that have wasted billions in Iraq,” in January awarded a $25 million no-bid contract for work in Afghanistan to a company owned by a Democratic campaign contributor.
8. “I will barr people who were paid lobbyists from serving as administration offiials” over a dozen individuals currently employed by hs administration.
9. “allow bankruptcy judges to modify terms of a home mortgage,” thousands each month are losing their homes without a single judge ordered modification.
10. “I will give annual State of the World address,” this is when he believed he was the “chosen one” and now he is loved by many globally and feared by NONE!
11. “recognize the Armenian genocide,” forgot to mention because he became dizzy after bowing to the Saudi King on his 1999 middle eastern “apology tour”.
With his lack of confidence and experience he continues on playing the blame game. Costantly refers the the past 8 years when trying to defend his failed polocies from his critics. Then claimes, “people still upset for the past 8 years and, thats why they made changes in voting for Scott Brown”. So the understanding is the Mass voters were so angry at Bush they decided to vote for another Rep …. makes logical sense if you a drone Dem
The #1 concern for most all Americans is JOBS JOBS and more JOBS. Why do the Dems refuse to acknowledge this FACT? Its about control and power (tyranny), that’s why they have put the cart before the horse by pushing for Health Care legislation!!!!
To all you Dems, Libs, and Progressives let it be know that the American sleeping giant has been awakened and he likes TEA parties plus people who drive American made pick-up trucks.
Get ready for the Dem motto for all elections this year, “when in doubt BLAME BUSH”!!

Sounds like they’re thanking the “Critics”.

It’s downright laughable that this President and his lackeys who spent an entire campaign making false promises and blaming Bush for everything while ignoring the fact that he was in the Congress that got us into the mess can’t handle any critisizm at all without pointing the finger at someone else.
Furthermore, now to critisize the handling of a Nat’l Security matter is to be a traiterous alqueda sympathizer.
These people have no shame nor honour.

Since it’s on the record, the media should fact check and report on Brennan’s statement that “hundreds of terrorists have been convicted in criminal courts.” Is he speaking historically or over the past several years? When figures such as these are announced, the media have a responsible to research the numbers.

These people are scary, they call you a terrorist sympathizer if you speak out against their socialist agenda.
They’re more concerned with putting their own citizens in place than anything else.

Laughable and sad at the same time. This from an administration that does not even utter the word “Terrorist” or “the war on terror”. After all Ft. Hood was a “man caused disaster” wasn’t it. Let me get this straight, the man who wants to bring KSM to NYC for trial, gives miranda rights to AL Qaeda and other terrorists, fly over the pit that used to be the WTC for a photo op causing a panic in Manhattan, bows to Saudi kings among others, befriends known (Ayers and Bernadine)terrorists and dictators (Hugo Chavez), Wants to close Gitmo, Issued a report on Ft. Hood never mentioning islamic terrorism, Want’s to prosecute CIA and other intel people for interrogating Al Qaeda,Allows a court martial of Navy Seals because they punched a known terrorist in the face who hung Americans off a bridge in Fallujah,Gave up a missile shield to protect our troops and Europe from Iran or other rogue regimes and received nothing for it, interrogated the underwear bomber for 50 minutes and then told us “the system worked”, told us in March or April of 2009 that he had set the policy for Afghanistan then only months later changed the policy, this occured only after the military had to wait for Obama to come down from the mountain carrying two tablets with the new policy, announced publicly timelines on withdrawal from Iraq and Afghanistan so our enemies can simply wait us out and on and on and on. After all that why should we the American people doubt this administrations will to fight terrorism.
This is what happens when you hire the man handing out the towels in the mens room to run the restaurant.
p.s. is it 2012 yet ?

The critics are simply following the precedent set by the critics of the last president. I hope they enjoy trying to fight a war when half the country is against you, I know the previous president got to enjoy that….
If the current batch doesn’t like this
pressure, perhaps they shouldn’t have set the precedent that they did?

WHERE IS OBAMA? When one of his dim-witted bureaucrats can’t seem to know when they should keep their mouths closed and stop adding to the injury they are doing to America, Obama is no where to be found. Instead now we will have to hear from his stooge Gibb again.

The next time you have the opportunity of electing someone who can read from a teleprompter but who has less EXPERIENCE than the neighborhood girl scout selling lemonade at MANAGING anything, STOP, i repeat STOP and THINK about what you’re doing !!!!!!! This BOZO is at a TOTAL LOSS. The DUMMY thinks he’s still campaigning. You got elected, try and lead

Helping terrorists? Helping terrorists would be to support civilian trials for these bums.

Well, he might be right. But on the other hand, the current critics have a point that the people now in the White House were not at all capable of holding their tongues over the previous 8 years, so they are no doubt now getting the type of support from their political adversaries that they asked for. Get real, Mr. Brennan.

Oh c’mon. All you right wing f a c i s t s would have accused ANYONE who criticized president Bush of being traitors. And yet…it’s okay to complain about EVERY SINGLE THING the predsident does…even when he does it right.
I dunno, your false indignation grows old after awhile…you guys are starting to sound like a one-trick pony with an obsession to destroy all those who disagree with you…including the president.
Gee, sound familiar? Maybe we should start calling you al-Republicas.

So what’s next arresting everyone who criticizes the president?

Priceless criticism from the Whitehouse.
By this logic Al Qaeda should have attacked us repeatedly from 2001 to 2008 under the Bush Administration years.
What ever happened to Free Speech rights?

“The danger to America is not Barack Obama but a citizenry capable of entrusting a man like him with the presidency. It will be easier to limit and undo the follies of an Obama presidency than to restore the necessary common sense and good judgment to a depraved electorate willing to have such a man for their president. The problem is much deeper and far more serious than Mr. Obama, who is a mere symptom of what ails us. Blaming the prince of the fools should not blind anyone to the vast confederacy of fools that made him their prince. The republic can survive a Barack Obama, who is, after all, merely a fool. It is less likely to survive a multitude of fools such as those who made him their president.”

Just wait till the hundreds of thousands of Iraqi civilians who lost loved ones start “serving the goals of Al Qaeda”.
If our leaders had any intelligence they’d of just ignored Al Qaeda like the attention seeking children they are, instead – just like a bad parent – they play right into their hands with lots of attention, showing them clearly how they can get more attention: more attacks!

Mr. Brennan, perhaps you should counsel your boss regarding ‘politically motivated comments’ when addressing national security issues…I* never heard you or him complain when the NYT published classified information AFTER Pres Bush asked them to desist.(It is very difficult when you are on the recieving end, eh?

The snow job in Washington continues. Any opposition is UN AMERICAN, no one but the democrats know what is best. A good example is the healthcare proposal. The Republicans and the majority of American says no and they stick their heads in the sand and move ahead without us. Then they tell us we are the ones who have a problem. This includes Homeland Security. This administration is more of a danger to us than terrorists!! They are destroying us from within. I thought our government was supposed to work for us but Obama & Chicago politics think we work for them.

Me thinks that the WH is thinned skin. Mum should have been the word from Gibbs. Earth to the WH….Just do the freaking job and shut the heck up. Whining might just be your favorite color.
The man-child needs to control his children.

The groups actually helping terrorists are all far left organizations like Code Pink, ACLU, SEIU, ACORN, Greenpeace, IPCC and Al Gores Green police, oh, and Hollywood. Traitors the lot!

Just keep quiet please and show mw the birth certificate

They are bragging how good they interrogated this guy. He should not have even made it to the plane. If not for other passengers he still might have brought the plane down in a ball of fire. Sick of this whitehouse spinning everything. Just trying to cloud the fact their intelligence system dropped the ball using a non-issue.

So are the Dems admitting that THEY served the Goals of al Qaeda everytime they critized Bush?

It’s patriotic to protest.
Remember?

“The “white house” (Obama) is attempting to vilify free speech. Make anyone that disagrees look like a bad guy. Pretty nasty of you Mr. Obama, pretty nasty. Vote him out!”
The funniest part in that is that is exactly what Bill O’Reilly was saying about people criticizing Bush’s decisions when he was president.
You support the president in time of war, to do otherwise is treason, unAmerican and aiding the enemy. Was Bill’s exact mantra then….
Now, he and Fox News are criticizing EVERY move Obama makes and completely forgetting the past.
It really is funny when you think about it.

If the goal of the terrorists is to reduce America to a third-world has-been world power then it is this administrations’s misguided policies that are in league with them, not the critics merely pointing out that fact.

when bin laden/al qaeda THEMSELVES got on video tapes stating that the demoncrats were the “party of al qaeda” I believed it. Demoncrats have invited terrorism and caused deaths in iraq/afghanistan for YEARS when Bush was in office with their constant lies and bashing. We all know who the real weak, evil, terrorist inviting folks are, the ones who give them US CITIZEN RIGHTS and TAX PAYER PROVIDED defense lawyers. What a joke.

Now wait a minute! We Dems have been on the same page as Al Qaeda for years. We bash America like our Al Qaeda brothers do and now the credit goes to our critics….That’s unfair! Give credit where the credit is due….to US!

First I was a racist, now I’m a traitor?

WHAT BS! They can hear the people disagreeing with them on their ridiculous, liberal ways they are trying to “fight” this WAR against the terrorists. They didn’t even want to use the word WAR….REMEMBER?????
But none of these fools can hear anyone of the majority of Americans who are telling them “KEEP YOUR HANDS OFF MY HEALTHCARE”. Go figure.

There are hundreds of editorials and news stories every day, some criticizing the president, and others complementing him. If the White House spends all of its time reacting to critical stories, how can it get anything done. Does anyone remember any previous president in history so thin-skinned that they have to defend themselves over any criticism? Can you imagine Bush reacting to every critical article? This guy is paranoid and a danger to our country.

The depth of the stupidity in almost all the comments on this story is astounding.
Fox News drones… keep drinking the kool-aid.
Us thinking people are getting quite a laugh.

Brennan must have slept through the Bush era.
John @ 11:26, We actually could defeat al Qaeda by treating them as outlaws (in the original “outside the protections of the law” sense), if we had the political will to do so.
We don’t.
That means we have to use the military.

Can a man who needs a teleprompter when speaking to sixth-graders really be counted on to defend us????

Now, look. It was just a few days ago when OBL released his ‘algorant’, an executive shortening of ‘Al Gore rant’.
During the diatribe, OBL espressed fealty with the ideas of the far, kooky Left Wing U.S. DeamonRAT Party.
So, let’s not confuse ourselves with this. OBL is HAPPY as a claim with the DeamonRATS, NOT the ReBoobs.

Now wasn;t this the same gang that said it was patriotic to be a critic of the Bush administration, but now you are helping the enemy if you are a critic of Obama? And the drive by media like ABC, NBC and CNN actually help by putting out stories in a fashion that favors the anointed one! What a bunch of thnned skinned, spineless, weak bunch of jelly fish the Obama administration and the Democrats( excuse me – communinsts) really are!

Blah blah blah
These babies can’t take criticism, although they were pros at dishing it out.

It really is amazing as I don’t remember Bush ever criticizing the ones who were constantly criticizing him. But if you say one thing against Obama and/or his administration, then you are automatically a racist, unamerican, a tea-bagger, a right-wing extremist, or now serving the goals of al-qaeda. Whatever happened to freedom of speech. This administration is retarded.

Barack Hussein Obama is trying to distract everyone from questioning his impotence towards Iran.

This guy, Brennen, was a failed Operations Officer at the CIA who was promoted above his level of competence to be a Chief of Station, and now he is WAAAAYYY out of his element in the White House. But then, he fits right in with all those other morons in the White House who are totally and completely incompetent, including the President.
Since Obama is only interested in Domestic Policy, it it any wonder the vacuum he has created by ignoring Foreign Affairs is being criticized? The “son of an unmarried woman” is clearly incompetent in all that he has undertaken.

They killed more AQ leaders in 2009 Bush killed in 2008, and 2007 too I suppose
Let’s see now, WHERE and WHEN did the
O’ Admin develope the Current Drone
System, must have been during the 08
Campaign, ore es that Campane, Corpse?,
Core?, Koar?, Whatever, facts do not
MATTER!

how pathetic and thin skinned can an administartion be? when you apologize to the world for being an american you are going to be abused by those you suck up to.america is the best country in the world bar none.please quit trying to tear us down.

Everything that happens in DC would be hilarious …..IF IT WAS HAPPENING IN ANOTHER COUNTRY! Sadly, no, tragically, it is happening in ours. We do a lot of things pretty well in this country, but choosing our leaders is not one of them.
There are two wings of one ruling party in our country. One of them likes big government at home and pretends to dislike it abroad, and the other likes big government abroad and pretends to dislike it at home.
As long as they can continue to convince us to pick one of the two sides and spend our time calling each other names, liberty and prosperity will continue to vanish out of our pockets and into the pockets of the ruling class. (I know, the “liberty in a pocket” picture doesn’t work very well, but you get my point….)

Senator Bond: Don’t back down by being put on the hate list!

How does it feel Obama?
You left wingers spent the whole Bush Admn fighting every move they tried to make for our security.
You definitely helped the terrorists while Bush had to fight them with one are and fight you with the other.

This is laughable. These twits raised a fortune by criticizing Bush.
What hypocrites!

Brennan should resign immediately. In fact, all Obama appointees should resign forthwith. These are the same morons that called Bush a baby killer. These are the same people that accused Bush of playing politics with people’s lives. These are the same fools that called Bush a liar for 5 years. What gives them the right to play hypocritical games like this?? You have to be a grown up to govern. Keep your foul “hope and change”. I reject it.

Wow…how quickly we forget. Does anyone remember all the network news anchors, leftist columnists, Democratic members of congress and all the rest being so critical of Bush? What a bunch of hypocrites?
How does if feel Mr. President?

The Democrats have spent 8 years helping Al-Queda. Murtha aka “worm food” and “the porkmeister” accused MArines of raping and killing just to deflate the war effort and bring Bush down a notch. Hillary did her part as did Pelosi, Reid, and don’t forget Defamed Daschle. Obama – the putz that he is – at least didn’t pretend to be for the US then bash the war effort – he was the only one that was against it from the beginning which at least I can respect because he didn’t lie like the rest of the bunch……but this is just ridiculous.

Doesn’t this just scream that we need REAL change in Washington?! To say that if you don’t agree with the President that you are aiding terrorists is laughable, not surprising anymore, but laughable if not completely offensive. We’ve got to kick these idiots out and get a government that wants to help this nation.

I wasn’t so sure, but after reading some of these posts, I think he’s correct, this whole thread is politicized with barely a semblance of rational thought, just the usual crude and vulgar idiocy

The comments from this “whine seller” are the type that has come to be expected from the office of the boy king! Never take responsibility for anything which you can blame on your opponents. This time his apologist is blaming Americans who can see that the emperor has no clothes, and have been speaking up about the ineptitude of these morons to effectively protect the country. As long as BHO and his fawning minions continue to treat al Quaeda as merely criminals, and not the hate filled insane terrorists which they are, this country faces continued attacks. With any luck at all, and with some divine intervention this Fall, the American people will terminate the employment of those in Congress who have spent the entire length of time since the turn of the century, doing nothing but giving aid and comfort to those who wish to end the American way of life. To blame those who elected the current occupant of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue would only be stating the obvious. The real blame should fall on the shoulders of those who go on political hiatus for the four years between presidential elections, only to resurface long enough to pull the lever for the party, not the candidate, of the party whose name they hear the most, for whatever reason, during their enforced political stupor. There is a saying that “a country gets the government it deserves”, but I fail to see where any country could possibly deserve this group of incompetents. The article only serves to prove this to be the case!

Following this logic, one could say that every problem we have with terrorism today is due to 8 years of liberal criticism of every little thing the Bush administration did. These people can dish it out but put some on their plate and they get political indigestion.

ok WH you stepped in this one. Name them. And if you can’t Brennan should be fired. in fact, obama should be fired

NOW WAIT A MINUTE – IT SEEMS THOSE COMPLAINING IN THE WHITE HOUSE NOW WERE THE TRAITORS (BY THIER OWN DEFINITION) JUST OVER A YEAR AGO WHEN THEY SOUGHT TO DESTORY OUR WAR ON TERROR EFFORT. LETS QUIT REWRITING THE HISTORY. IF THE BONEHEAD MISTAKES BEING MADE NOW MUST BE IGNORED – “IN THE INTEREST OF PROSECUTING A WAR” – I DON’T BUY IT. THEY JUST WANT IT OUT OF THE HEADLINES

The only set of folks who are helping al qaeda is you, Mr. President and democrat congressional cronies, with your ineptitude.

This “president” (in name only) is a lying, anti-American clown. How he even manages 44% ‘approval’ rating is a mystery – most likely people afraid to tell the truth about what they really think.
A glorious show would be the dumbocrats having to impeach their own clownish jerk in order to remain a political party.

I see the Coward-Americans are posting in earnest, begging us to re-stoke terrorism fear and give up rights and freedom to the government in exchange for security.
tsk tsk.
This person is telling you, don’t be such a wuss. Don’t cry like a child over terrorism. Man up!

This noise by Brennan is outrageous. Regardless of whatever was done in the past, it was absurd to tell Abdulmutallab that he had “the right to remain silent.” Anyone who can’t see that is unfit to serve in the security services.

This is the best we have here today? We all knew the country would take a real intellectual hit once G-Dub hit the road. You’ll all be just fine once we get that “how’s all that changey stuff workin out for ya” gal in there.

This administration is intent on prosecuting terrorists as if they are common criminals, just like former President Clinton did as well. Look at what it did for Clinton: Navy ship attacked in Yemen, U.S. embassies in Africa attacked, World Trade Center attack ’93, attack on oil tanker. This adminstration is attempting to further deflect blame for its continued failures. Truth be told, for all of GW’s issues with the press, I felt much safer with him in charge. Think about it.

Obama helps Al-Qa’eda.
It’s pretty obvious.

I certainly can’t be the only one who remembers the howls of protest when, during Bush II, some accused the Dems and the media of abetting the enemy when they criticized the war effort.
Hypocrites.

“” Kevinsart posted “Excuse me, but who was in charge of this nation during 9/11? – The LARGEST security FAILURE in the history of this nation. Go back and research the SECURITY FAILURE hearings and then compare that to the failed bombing attempt on Christmas day. These media terrorist republican neocons are freakin’ psycho.”"” ———————————————————-You have to be kidding, right? The only obvious psychotic behavior is coming out of Obama and his cast of criminals.

I seem to remember the Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi declaring that dissent was “patriotic”. Now, suddenly it’s not? To quote the Senate Majority Leader Dirty Harry, “The War is lost”. Need I go on? The Republican leadership has raised some serious issues regarding the Obama administration’s questionable policies regarding the prosecution of the War on Terror and now we’re being told to shut up? Wait until November, it’s going to be awfully lonely up on Penn Ave.

The most troubling aspect of this administration is how stupid they believe the masses are, how easily they believe we the people can be manipulated, how totally disconnected they are from the majority of Americans. The big lie being laid before us now is the administration simply hasn’t done a good job explaining all of their great ideas to the population. Translation, we’re too dumb to understand what’s good for us. If the administration thought differently, they wouldn’t make such outrageous statements that defy history, logic and current memory.

I can not wait to throw this BUM out of the white house.
The obamanation is a miserable failure!

“…one of the things that we have to change in our politics is the idea that people cannot disagree without challenging each other’s character and patriotism. ” – Candidate Obama
No surprise that Candidate Obama and President Obama are on opposite sides of this issue; why should this issue be any different from every other issue?

Dang ol blah blah blah talkin bout under thong plane Mucktallah rights Miranda and dang ol over lookin there all sudden BOOM.
Like waterboard and all that should hmmm.

Nobody helps AlCIAda more than the main stream media and the left wing ..for ABC to be posting story’s like this is simple turd licking..ABC MAY AS WELL START WEARING TURBAN WHEN THEY BROADCAST THE NEWS!

health care is more important that terrorists,
you can not disagree, or give any criticism of Obuma and the clown crew.
they do not like it an have to get
offensive, an blame everyone else but
them selfs.
when are the people in this admin. going to get some balls and tell this jerk off.
2010/2012 can not come fast enough.

So far,..every step this administration takes to keep us safe, put’s us deeper into harms way-This white house works and gives more to those who try to harm us then to America’s own people! When Barack said he wanted to rebuild America, I guess Americans didn’t understand-To rebuild something- you must first bring it down! EVERYTHING that comes from this crew in the white house is all based on smoke and mirrors! Don’t believe a word!!!I wonder why the liberal don’t make more of a stink about Barack and his “private” BB?!?!

“Does this make anyone who disagrees with Obama a domestic terrorist?”
Why not…that’s what happened to anyone who disagreed with Bush!

I see, so it was patriotic to express differences when Bush was in office. Now it’s helping the enemy. I guess this is possible in Obama’s Bizzaro world.

“It’s hard to believe you are still trying to sell Obama’s snake oil by smearing Bush.”
You’re right there…Bush’s smearing sells itself! lol Obama is infinitely more competent than W. Bush ever was.

Wow — the White House really doesn’t have ANY class. The White House attempt to demonize or vilify those who disagree with their ultra-liberal social views is…disappointing.
Is it 2012 yet?

And all the criticism of Bush and calling for withdrawal from Iraq by Democrats was harmless. Politicians are shameless. Everybody, open your eyes and stop gulping Kool-aid.

Is this grasping at straws, or what?

I am sorry, but this is pathetic. Seriously. The Mad Fools are in charge.

Obama is the ideological love-child of:
* Saul Alinsky (political trickery & deceit);
* Jeremiah Wright (hatred of America and whites);
* Antoin “Tony” Rezko (Chicago-style political corruption), and;
* William Ayers (anti-military/anti-business).

Hijinx, the numbers you quote on terrorist convictions in criminal courts are (intentionally) misleading. The Democrat party quotes them because they sound good for them, but include largely non-Islamofascist offenders.
Althought the idiots from ELF or PETA or Sea Shepard should be locked-up and terror statutes are used to help get that done, they are not the type of terrorists most people are referring to in “The War on Terror”.

Democrats are engineering the eradication of the party from power.

Stupid!

Don’t you people believe what Obama tells you to believe?
We are all a bunch of “ignorant, uneducated country-hicks” who spew “hatred” because we don’t want higher taxes, government-funded abortions, gay marriage, freedom OF religion, and safe borders.
Sigh.
This just proves how OUT-OF-TOUCH the Obama Administration has become from the rest of America. It is almost as if they truly believe that most Americans are ultra-liberals. Of course, they still want to force their expensive, ultra-liberal policies on us even if we do NOT embrace them.
Obama is quite the “audacious” know-it-all…who raises his nose at the rest of us non-liberals from real America.

I believe that the liberals considered crticism of the president okay when Bush was in office. It wasn’t serving Al Qaeda’s purpose then. They said it was good for the country to have a certain amount of dissent. What’s changed? Only that a Socialist is in the whitehouse. Now you dare not have a dissenting voice. Sounds very Third World and USSR ish.

O.K. Let me finish wiping away the tears of laughter from my eyes………There, done. Now, let me take you on a little trip back to 2004/2005, remember those days. Now let me remind you of the mantra…..
ATTACKING AND DEMEANING THIS ADMINISTRATION IS THE HIGHEST FORM OF PATRIOTISM!!! Remember that great stuff??? Well, if it was true then, why not now?

How’s that hope and change thing working for you?

Obama has become a laughing stock of the entire world. Just read the couple of on-line newspapers. For example, Der Spiegel. Not only is Obama incompetent, he seems to have surrounded himself with dolts that he believes makes himself look good.
A joke!

LOL, great joke Obama! Now put your big boy pants on and stop whining. If you can’t handle the critics, how do we expect you to keep the US safe from people who really want to kill us?

Gee, that is the same thing that was said about those that opposed Former President Bush….

“How’s that hope and change working out for you?”
A lot better than the previous 8 years that left our country in this current mess…huge deficits and economic fallouts don’t happen in one year people! Pull your heads out. Obama is trying to undo the damage that took Bush 8 years to do. It takes time. Or you could all just keep patting each other’s backs like the good sheeple you are.

So the millions of Americans that are against the 1 Obama is helping the Terrorists?
The answer is obvious, Mr. Obama, you should resign, and that way save us all.

LOL — gotta love the 9/11 conspiracy nuts and the Obama lovers…..

Apparently this incompetant fool Brennan was asleep for the last nine years when it was patriotic to bash a President during a war. He has an awful reputation and needs to lose his job.

I am convienced Obama appoints these light weight losers because it supposedly makes him look smart.
Until you realize who their boss is.

I say we get Mr. T in the Oval Office. ;) Fool. At least he says what he means and does what he says. No foolary. I am counting around a dozen or so really pathetically sorry things this administration has done that show there is something missing upstairs, and that is quite scary indeed. Leaders with no couth. Enough is enough already. People are fully entitled to their opinions, esp. when said respectfully. But now there is no respect for the people that voted them into office in the response.

This is how they see and resolve terrorism? I really don’t think it is that simplistic.
Would be funny…instead it is frightening.
I trust those that voted for the Hope and Change are proud of themselves.

I would rather trust our 007s folks!
- The former CIA official also asserts that the Obama administration is doing a better job than the Bush administration did in taking the fight to al Qaeda. “This administration’s efforts have disrupted dozens of terrorist plots against the homeland and been responsible for killing and capturing hundreds of hard-core terrorists, including senior leaders in Pakistan, Yemen, Somalia and beyond — far more than in 2008.”

In an article I read today,Mr. Mukasey seems to disagree with Mr. Brennans supposition on the guidelines. According to Mr. Mukasey, the guidelines that Mr. Brennan is referring to applies to intelligence gathering. They do not deal with whether someone in custody is to be treated as a criminal defendant. Second, as for gathering intelligence, it begs the question about whether he (Abdulmutalab) should have been designated a criminal suspect. According to Mukasey, there is nothing in those guidelines that makes that choice. I’m curious why ABC didn’t mention this part of the story.

Y’know, it seems that the President would get over the “Blame Bush” game and stop trying to point out who caused the mess and try and fix it, we should also point out the failures in this current administration and the President should not be the one saying, “It’s not my fault if it doesn’t work, Bush caused it.” The President shouldn’t be a Michael Scott, “It’s simple, I want to take all of the credit without any of the blame.” I supported Bush, for the most part, but I do realize the failures in his administration that we all should be able to criticize, just like in the current administration. But let’s get past the “Bush caused it” or the “Clinton caused it” and get to work on fixing problems.

One problem is that Obama is technically a bigger threat than Al Quaeda.

Doen’t it seem like the Obama administration just can’t take the heat? How about this, instead of being in perpetual “campaighn mode”, do your job and keep the people who want to kill me and my family from blowing us up. This would require Obama to stop living by opinion polls and start showing some spine. He has pent more time proterating himself in front of foreign leader than he has protecting US citezens.

ohhh, so it’s folks criticizing Obama that makes terrorist want to blow us up, not letting those terrorist out of prison to do it again, not showing weakness to Iran as they mock Obama, of course it has nothing to do with sharia law. it’s Fox news!it’s Glenn Beck! Can anyone tell me, who else used tatics like this? Don’t watch fox or cnn, don’t criticize the fueher/savior.

Wa, wa, wah. The some leftists that attacked bush and war on terror for 7 years. Those that turned Guantanamo into a political issue now are acting like babies. Your proving what we knew all along, you are not fit to lead.

Here lies the problem -
He calls it “naive to think that transferring Abdulmutallab to military custody would have caused an outpouring of information. There is little difference between military and civilian custody, other than an interrogator with a uniform. The suspect gets access to a lawyer, and interrogation rules are nearly identical.”
We are in a war against terrorist. These terrorist are enemy combatants. They should not be given access to U.S. lawyers and be afforded rights similar to U.S. citiens BECAUSE THESE TERRORISTS ARE NOT U.S. CITIZENS!
Number of terrorist attacks/attempts within U.S. borders since 9-11 under Bush – 0
Number of terrorist attacksattempts within U.S. borders since 9-11 under Obama – 3 (all within first year of this ass-clown’s presidency!)
So, whose policy is really more effective, Brenner!?!?

As for myself, BHO scares me way more than OBL.

Can it with the balloon juice, Sara. For eight years (during an administration I DIDN’T support, btw), we heard folks like yourself say “dissent is the highest form of patriotism.” Now that your Commander-in-Thief is in there, it’s “can’t we all just get along?” Here’s 1.6 trillion dollars; buy a clue.

Miss me yet? heh, heh, heh.

Mob rule means lynch mobs. The rule of law equals a civilization. You republicans that want endless war and government sponsored torture are fascists, nothing more. Go curl up in front of the fire with your Mien Kampf and stay very very afraid of loons that pack bombs in their underpants.

Critics helping terrorists…??? So is the Left apologizing for 8 years of badgering Bush?

criticizing the president’s policy does aid and abet the terrorists. George Bush, Karl Rove and their bosses at Haliburton told us so for years.

Not that I care for Comrade Barack, but the GOP does fire up the fear campaign to get the sheeple moving in the direction of their agenda.
If Obama really was a change agent he would have done a 180 degree turnaround on foreign policy so that the people with nothing to live for might decide to try to make their life worth living. “Conservatism” means conserving money(ala balanced budgets) & conserving lives. That’s why the GOP isn’t conservative.

David GS see my comments to Willard they apply to you also.

There are some legitimate complaints but the overall flavor of the GOP & right wing view of Obama is that they want him to fail & or he & all of his people are failures. They would know after GWB 8 years what failure looks like, not to belittle Obama’s issues, but come on, on each and every issue the right/GOP is the party of no. No cooperation with Obama or the Democrats & absolutely never any praise or approval of anything the Obama administration or democrats do. Hey, this is Bush2 in reverse- Get over it YOU LOST THIS TIME, what about US the USA the citizens, we are sick of all the figthing & partisanship, and if you think electing Palin would cure it your wrong…2012 will be interesting but clearly the GOP fears an Obama 2nd term, so obstructionism is the name of the game. attack, etc. How about getting together to fix some problems as opposed to just bytchin, sick of Hannity, Beck rants & Obama anti-Fox rants….elect a 3rd party that is not a right or left wing bastion…what an idea!!!

Terrorism only affects those foolish enough to reside in the likely target cities – urban liberals.
When the next 9/11, or worse, happens, it’ll be Obama base voters who do the dying….so, I could care less.

I was talking to my father while we watch the SuperBowl. My father was born Maryland in 1936. He, an economist, worked for government for over 40 years. I don’t know his party affiliation, but I know he does not suffer fools. Our discussion, during a commercial break, happened to meander to talking about Obama. He said, and I quote,”most of the criticism this guy gets is rooted in racism.” Needless to say, i was shocked. When I asked him to explain. He gave the simple rejoinder that Obama had done a great job with a crap hand…and like him or not, folks should treat him with respect. He is the duly elected President of the United States and that the majority of his critics can’t accept the simple fact of his ethnicity. My dad has never spoken so explicitly about race–ever. I take his comments seriously and I wonder what folks in this forum think. Is antipathy to Obama partly rooted in a resistance to the end of the White dominance in the United States? Just askin…

Jake Tapper is the brand of liberal who believes he is one of the smartest people in the room.
Most liberal believe that anyone who does not agree with their ideas is either too stupid to understand how great their ideas are, or is an evil racist.
I bet he truly cannot remember how much vitrol his paper shoveled at Bush during the war.
The problem with journalist is that they get the job and then slap each other on the back with awards and the honors from like minded liberals who are beltching the same crap on paper.
Reporters like this tool are the prime reason print is dead.

To “Mike Ross” My whole family is Republican and we don’t want continual war. Hitler was Socialist Dictator. If you read “Mein Kampf” you’ll see that his policies were very socialistic. If he were a conservative fascist, he would have been a monarchist. Next, the article states that there is very little difference between civilian detainment and military detainment. If that statement is true, then why is the administration trying so hard to keep the terrorist in civilian custody?

I think that just as big a story would be all the predominantly anti-Progressive, anti-Obama comments on this ABC news story and message board. America is waking up. Only time will tell if we woke up in time to prevent irreparable damage to our country.
My opinion is that mostly all of the MSM (excluding MSNBC, of course) are discovering that we the people are so sick of the Obama media lovefest. If they want to draw viewers, they need to get back to objective journalism, which was conspicuously missing leading up to and during the elections of ’08. Of course, they could still cling to their ideologies like NBC and continue to get their collective clocks cleaned in the ratings. For those who don’t buy my assertion, watch and compare MSNBC to Fox News. Obviously, one leans right, and the other hard left; almost horizontal. But look deeper; MSNBC seems to now have more commercial content than actual news programming. For goodness sakes, MSNBC regularly goes from commercial break, to maybe 2 minutes of continued news, than back to another commercial break. I am in the broadcast media profession, and one of the first things you learn is how to pay the bills. Good ratings transcends into low volume-high price advertising rates. Low ratings transcends into high volume-sell at costs as low as necessary advertising rates. While the rest of the MSM is finally getting the point, MSNBC languishes with all their “colorful” punditry. I see a day soon, where MSNBC becomes the 24 hour “To Catch a Predator” channel.
Lastly, I wonder why Fox doesn’t run a 6:30PM nightly newscast on all their broadcast affiliates. That would be a true game changer. The broadcast audience is much, much larger than the cable news audience that Fox regularly dominates.

Republicans wanted Obama to fail? Really? I recall all the support Democrats gave to GW’s policies and how well Bush was treated in the media and how civil the “dissent” was back in the days.
BS.
Republicans, particularly Conservatives, want the United States to succeed. This cannot be said of Democrats and certainly not the Obama –never let a crisis go to waste–administration. Sorry it’s suck a bitter pill to swallow.

Welcome to the good old right wing USA. I want everything, but i’m not paying for anything. I want no government, but God help you if you dont keep me safe. I want to run around the world bullying other people, but if the hit back i’ll be crying on my knees for the next decade. Why dont you just out and say it “we want african americans back in shackles, all muslims are terrorists, all hispanics are illegal aliens, and only white christian men are worthy of being called American…at least then you would have one redeeming quality… honesty. And don’t you dare call me liberal, those idiots could’nt tie their own shoes. CAN WE PLEASE HAVE A FISCALLY RESPOSIBLE, SOCIALLY PRUDENT PARTY. While I’m on the little rant…

It is clearly the fear mongering of the right that has led to this claim from Obama, but did not Bush2 say the same thing? Did not BUSH2 try the show bomber in civil court & read him his rights soon after arrest? Does Senator Shelby really get to freeze 70+ appointments because he wants money/earmark for Alabama & Airbus a European Co. things are not always black & white (hummmm could that be a % of it?) there is alot of green
involved….the dollar needs protection & neither Obama not Bush2 did such, if
they dont the Chinese wilL!! PS- I am & was a Liberal…TJ!

The only group Obama’s critics are helping is the American people by saving them from his socialist policies.

Anyone who voted for this a**clown of a president should have their civil rights taken away, drug into the streets and shot in the head, and strung up in town centers and pelttheir lifeless bodies with sticks and stones, a la Musolinni.
The Progressive movement should be branded as the terrorist/communist orginization that it is, and should be banned from the United States. And anyone who votes Democrat should be branded a criminal for the rest of their days.

You republicans, conservatives and democrats stop your whining on who is better. The country is in need of unity right now not division. Learn from history you ignorant. This great division will bring us closer be our end. It is time to stop whining and support our country. Start with yourself, stop hating and start doing something about it, write your congeressman, write the president, do something useful for once.

We reserve the right to kill all Muslims for their oil. How dare a few of them stand against us.

so Obama has made us all into racists.. terror supporters.. and conservatives.. how the messah has fallen.. we also ele cted him.. remember that?
He won by lieing his ass off on his programs.. America is wakeing up to his con man hand fakes.. the war is still going on.. in Iraq for years more.. more killing in Afganisatn.. Gitmo is open.. no open government.. he follows crooks in congress on what ever they want.. corporations buy him with every bill.. I think he’s just like Bush.. except Bush held out for his own ideas. Obama is not black.. he’s clueless.

“Conservatism” means conserving money(ala balanced budgets) & conserving lives. That’s why the GOP isn’t conservative.”
So true! I pray that the Tea Party is collectively wise enough to fend off GOP scalawags/clingers-on. The Tea Party may be our country’s last hope of any form of representative democracy. We need a viable 3rd party option. Bush, Clinton, Bush, and Obama have lead us off a cliff. I hope we survive the fall.

Nice comment Andy so do you go by progressive if you can’t handle being called a lib?

Obama has far more glowing things to say about muslim nations than the one he was elected to protect. He calls patriotic Americans who attend town hall meetings and Tea Parties “bitter clingers, domestic terrorists in the making, extremists” and more, but calls terrorists “these folks”. He’s a complete disgrace, unpatriotic, un-American and a traitor, giving comfort and constitutional rights to our enemies. And now he says that those who criticise him are aiding Al-Qaeda. Un-freaking-believable.

What did the Bush critics do then?

Progressive Mama, enlighten us. What is the progressive agenda in the U.S. Is it “redistribution of wealth”, Higer taxes and more government control? What do you mean when you say that you are a “progressive?”

Americans are awake, and progressivism is dying before your very eyes. It’s long overdue.
Posted by: Mary | Feb 9, 2010 1:59:35 PM
Ah yes– the sleeping giant roars. The neanderthals are paying attention because a Democrat is in office again, and they’re making all the same mistakes because they’re brains are the size of peas– but they’re the real Americans (you know, the ones who can be tricked into yelling at a tea party that all descendants of European immigrants should just go home– lol!!) We know, we know. We’ve heard all about it. But the Boomers and their older counterparts won’t be around forever. Thank God. I wouldn’t count progressivism out just yet there. Sooner or later everyone gets sick to death of negative nellies stuck in the way past with no economic sense whatsoever.

It is the Obama administration that has the impression terrorists are larger then they are. Obama is the one running away from calling them terrorists, running away from tough interrogations, running from the war on terror, running from swiftly prosecuting and executing them, and running all over the world apologizing for American strength and exceptionalism. What a bunch of academic babies.

just curious… can someone point out the socialist in the whitehouse? I keep hearing about one, but everytime I look its Americans doing the job of fixing the debt and keeping our country safe… So do you oppositionists have anything besides socialist slurs to support your point, or are you content to be haters?

AND
The Obama adminstration now has the policy that with “special permission” Americans can be assassinated!
Maybe Republicans ought to think twice about not complying with Obama, eh?

and here I thought that “dissent is patriotic”

Yeah, Obama killed at that meeting with the Pubs. He beat that strawman unmercifully. Turned it into a corpse-man.

Read “The MIND of HITLER” by Langer and you’ll come to KNOW the mind of Barack Hussein Obama…!!
Also you’ll know the minds of Obama’s associates: William Ayers, Rashid Khalidi and Jeremiah Wright…!

“Sooner or later everyone gets sick to death of negative nellies stuck in the way past with no economic sense whatsoever.”
Progressive programs have produced $107.7 TRILLION in unfunded liabilities for Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid. The government is only projected to bring in $2.2 TRILLION in tax revenues this year (it’ll be less), and they project a $1.6 TRILLION deficit (it’ll be more). Progressivism is dying because Americans are sick to death of its ideas that are destroying our republic and bankrupting us all. How’s that for “economic sense”?

progressive mama…taking the greatest country in the world a marching it toward 3rd world socialism is not progress its regress. i am tired of the media calling liberals progressives. its an oxymoron. they should be called the regressives.we cant all get along in the world never have and never will.

Wow! We’ve come full circle. Remember when Obama said it was patriotic to criticize and question Bush?
Now that the shoe is on the other foot it’s unpatriotic huh?
One term president for sure.

So now it is helping the enemy to criticise the government and the liberals posting here don’t see the irony? Are you blind or stupid or both…I ususlly consider liberals to be stupid…but am willing to go with blind if you admit to the hypocracy of Obama on this one.

This administration is the biggest bunch of babies I’ve ever seen. They cry and whine about fox news. They cry and whine about the Republican congressmen and senators who are in a superminiority, whine about talk show hosts, whine about change being tough. This my folks is what you get when you hire a community organizer into something well over his head.

Mama, that is not the political definition of a progressive at all. Political progressives believe that that Government should control our lives to the extent that we have social perfection in the country. They want to tax those who earn lots of money and give it to those who have less. If necesarry they believe in controlling the economy even to the extent of seizing control of private businesses such as GM and Chrysler. They do not believe the U.S. Constitution is an adequate document and want to circumvent it. Progressivism is simply another term for liberal or socialist.

I wonder if the democrats can take in the irony of what this official effectively said – that criticism of the administration only serves the goals of the enemy. This was the issue that the democrats flipped out about for the last decade – that the Bush White House intimidated them.
Bush said “Either you’re with us or you’re against us”. Now Obama’s administration is saying the exact same thing. The difference however, is that the Bush administration really believed that the country was in danger, whereas the Obama administration is just trying to shame us into not criticising them.
Do these people realize the level of hypocracy to which they have sunk? Shame on you!

This White House is “clueless” when it comes to either the economy or national security. The faster we dump the Obama Marxist Administration the faster we can recover our lost edge against IslamoFascist terrorists.

Isn’t this what the Left mocked Pres. Bush and the rest of us for when he said “if your not with us, your with the terrorists?” Boy, they thought that was just war-mongering rhetoric that should not be tolerated. Wasn’t it considered Patriotic when they criticized? Why is it that criticism of THEIR terrorism policy isn’t ok now, but it was then? Same old, same old politcal crap.

Hmmmm Muffy, Al Quaeda began to surface during Clinton’s Administration, so I guess it was the Clinton Democrats that helped create the “BS” as you call it. And since Great Britain has been our staunch ally during all of this, I suppose that the British Government had some part of creating Al Quaeda also? And what about Osama Bin Laden? Does he ever exist?

When president Bush was in charge the liberals fought every effort to stop the muslin terrorists. The liberals would have considered losing a major city in America to a sneak nuke attack a major democratic victory just to have a reason to hurt America and Bush. Now we have a million reasons to reject obama! It will take way too much time to stop us all on all of them!

It’s good that the liberal left nor “any” of the socialist democrats ever criticized President Bush while he was in office…. isn’t it.
(anybody at ABC News want to find some quotations from the looney left during that time that might have underminded the war efforts and given aid to the enemy?)

USA today is absolutly correct about Americas security. This administration is totally amatuer hour. Come to think of it Obama looks a lot like Barney Fife with a suntan.

Awesome. Love seeing the FNC idiots tactics turned around and used on them.

Where is the hypocritical Left leadership, crying out that Obama is a war criminal for using all the Drones in Pakistan that kill innocent peasants indiscriminately, yet he is so quick to give proven enemies of the state Constitutional rights and civil trials?
As usual, the Liberal thinking in this area, as with economics, is fatally flawed!

Mama, I think if you do a little research you will find out that I am right. Do you believe in the Constitution of the U.S. or do you find it outdated? Do you want the U.S to be more like the European Socialist countries. Oh by the way I am not home schooled. I have 3 college degrees and I know what I am talking about. I don’t think you really know what a modern political “progressive” really is. It doen’t just mean moving forward, it means moving forward in a specific political way. A way in which the majority of Americans do not want.

Oh, I see…it’s Obama’s CRITICS who are helping Al-Quaida, here. Gee — and I thought it just might have been Obama himself. Silly me.

It’s okay for the Dems to criticize President Bush while he’s in office but it’s a little different with O’Bama in charge,huh?

The terrorists have been given the rights of U.S. citizens because of comrade Hussein’s allegiance to allah. He, and sadly, the Demoncrats, or at least most of them, owe no allegiance to the U.S., but rather to the marxist/progressive movement. Total destruction of the U.S., and its culture and economy is the goal of comrade Hussein and his progressive gang. We have perhaps one chance to stop this madness in November, but don’t bet on it, as marxists and jihadists will never concede defeat, or stop trying to destroy us.

Does this means the Lefties has been serving al Qaeda for decades.

But there seems to be one misstep after another. Anti-terror departments don’t work together, minimum safety precautions are not there, and there’s no knowledge of best procedures once a terrorist is caught. Actions speak louder than words. All the anti-terrorist departments come off looking as spacey as Condi Rice ignoring the words “iminent attack.”
I see a pattern of this throughout Obama’s government. Don’t criticize this? Somebody needs to.
In my opinion, this is squarely the result of Obama’s appalling lack of leadership ability. He’s reactive and passive. He lacks mature, seasoned advisors. He’s completely unaware that he can set the agenda by sticking to the liberal Democratic party goals. He wants to “work with Republicans” so badly that he waters down changes too much.
I voted for him, but wow he’s not what our country needs today.

Uh-oh, looks like the Drudge-bots are descending on the comments section. Armchair critics thinking they know jack about anything after listening to Rush Limbaugh. Hey, you think any administration is going to tell us about every attack they have foiled? And, funny how these same kind of comments by Brennan were used by the Bush team, and I’ll bet you didn’t say a word back then. Bunch of partisan stooges..

Liberals lie to support their cause. A proven fact! Ideology is far more important than truth……..just look at “Climate Change” or “Global Warming” the lies just keep unfolding. If they do it for one, they will do it for all.

You’re kidding, right? Were the Looney Left afraid or the ACLU (but I repeat myself) afraid of helping Al Qaeda when Bush was president. They undermined our troops during war time at every possible chance.
Grow up, obummer. Your magic is gone.

I don’t see why so many are bothered by the fact that he was read his rights. I would of covered my bases too. Because we all know he will probably end up with an American lawyer or an American trained one. Who would probably bring that up, since he/she would be looking for anything and everything. I believe, they should just pull him off the plane and shoot him in the head. End of story. But if we are going to do the whole trial song and dance, then you should definitely read him his rights. Period.

I love it. The dems make it their “right” to make all kinds of comments about George Bush and our military…mostly just looking for self promotion at the cost of our warfighters…now, they are on the other side and all of the sudden it becomes a problem? For whom? The left has never given one second of thought into anything until it ends up hitting them in the face. Obama doesn’t want us to listen to political news on “cable channels”, they don’t want us to listen to “am talk radio” and now, they don’t want us to have “our own opinions”…all they want is our vote and they wonder why we are pushing them out of office as fast as we can vote. Thanks Murtha for not having us wait so long…mean, yeah maybe but what comes around goes around. Obama must be swazi for Stalin…2014 cannot come fast enough.

Claiming that the Obama Administration has done more to fight terrorism than the Bush Administration is like claiming President Obama cares more about the unborn than President Bush. This article is one of the biggest pieces of fiction I have ever read (and I read a ton).
I’m not from Texas (one of the greatest states in the Union) but if I may borrow an expression from those brave folks in regards to these ridiculous claims:
That dog don’t hunt.

Dave,
If your tormented by the fact that Prescott Bush helped fund Hitler’s rise to power.
Why don’t you check out John D. Rockefeller’s involvement with the Germans.

baloney

Wow, you don’t have a clue what conservatism even means! Or progressivism for that matter!
Posted by: Mary | Feb 9, 2010 2:45:31 PM
i didn’t say anything about conservatism— I said what I’m not. And most on the Right can’t say they haven’t voted for candidates from a party that isn’t associated with those types of things that I’m not– at least not honestly. Have you talked to many tea party ‘conservatives”? Interviewed them? Do you get the differences between the tea party populists, the standard Republicans, the neocons, the more cerebreal/intellectually elite libertarians and true independents– do you know textbook cases, real life not-so-perfect examples and where most the garbage in the comments here fits? Do you know the difference between a Dem, a centrist Dem, a liberal, a socialist, a communist, a progressive and so on, or do you lump them together and then act all arrogant when someone doesn’t like the party you associate with for stereotypical reasons? I’m a progressive independent who tends to vote Dem in national politics because I think Republicans are morons– BUT i carry a gun, and I do want the government out of my business. if my gay cousin wants to marry, I don’t want to hear what you have to say about it– or the Rethugs you vote for. If my sixteen year old niece is sexually active, i don’t want your reps getting up all in her business either. I think untying health care from employment and making it single payer is a fantastic idea that promotes entrepreneurship– and art. (I own a gym and I write so i’m all about the small business owner and the self-employed.) I hate the corporate nanny state and parties with no ideas.
I’m probably more conservative on certain things than you are. But I’m not a Republican.My ideology isn’t fixed and rigid and I’m not into clinging to the past or being xenophobic.

Dear N.S.A.:
Given that all electronic communications in the U.S. are intercepted, would you please post the intercepts of the world’s most dangerous person:
former President-VICE Richard B. Cheney.
Thanks for your patRIOTism,
Kilgore Trout.

And we thought George Bush was stupid. He had the intellect of a rocket scientist compared to these morons.
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George Bush – rocket scientist? I don’t think so. He couldn’t even successfully run the businesses he was eased into by his father and his father’s friends.
You discredit your argument with such nonsense.

Terrorism is more CIA war propaganda. It’s being used to take away freedom. Any future attack will be helped out by the CIA.
Propaganda example: “Support the Troops” what they really mean is “Support U.S. foreign policy” obviously our Foreign policy is detrimental so the media replaces “foreign policy” with Troops. Classic Propaganda tactic from “Crystalizing Public Opinion.”

First they said that people who criticize Obama were racists. Then they said that people who criticize Obama were stupid. Now they are saying that people who criticize Obama are supporting Al Qaeda. So much for bringing hope and change to Washington.

This is the essential shameful hypocrisy of the Republicans. Hundreds of terrorists were tried in criminal courts by the Bush administration – yet for political points – the Republicans pose as is the Obama administrations is somehow ‘weak’ for doing exactly the same.
Shameful hypocrites = Republicans.
Slow on the uptake here little lib…This was done prior to us delcaring war on Terrorism, which made the military tribunal a reality.
We all argue these points as though we are the worst of the worst…For my money, I would just as soon do to the terrorists what their people do to those of ours that get captured…Save the tax payers a load of cash, and we can’t be any worse than Satan, right?

@Pat Riot(or anyone else). Forgive me for being didactic. However, could you name specific Communists, Marxists and/or Socialists in the Obama Administration? Also, as the son of an economist, what are your credentials on the economy? Have you taken any graduate level economics courses? Undergraduate? High school?
I ask these questions because a lot of folks spout nonsense in these forums. For instance the lede (above) discusses price-gouging by an insurance company that made over huge profits last year. Clear-cut, right?
Yet, a majority of the posters are up in arms defending the company’s rank exploitation of their consumers. Why? Well, if Obama is against it, we must be for it.
My citizenship comes before my partisanship. My golden rule is empiricism, if it works…good. Generally, Obama’s policies have been well thought out and well within the toolkit of centrist public policy (I have an Masters in Public Policy). My biggest pet peeve is the high level of ignorance about economics and public policy in these comments fields. Talking point after talking point, blah, blah, blah, ALL CAPS SCREEDS, blah, blah. No ideas, no intelligent discussion, just the inchoate ramblings of the intellectually bankrupt.
Is it any wonder we are at the historical pass we’re in. GWB ran the country into the ground. None of you said anything. Now, instead of joining the effort to clean up the mess, you whine, you obstruct, all for short term advantage, patently ignoring our crumbling national infrastructure, our remedial educational system, our overpriced and woefully inadequate healthcare system.
Guess what? We NEED to raise taxes. We NEED to cut military spending and we NEED healthcare reform. If we don’t we f’ed. I say this as a 40 yr old man with no children. I’ll be fine. I’ve dual citizenship and an Ivy League education, I’m marketable globally. I feel sad for the inbred goobers screaming “Socialism!” They’re f’ed and they know it. Unfortunately, like any drown victim, they are fighting against their last best hope of rescue.
O’tempore…

“The problem is not that we have too many fools, it’s that the lightning isn’t distributed right.” – Benjamin Franklin
I think he was talking about Obamaniacs.

*Hundreds of terrorists were tried in criminal courts by the Bush administration – yet for political points – the Republicans pose as is the Obama administrations is somehow ‘weak’ for doing exactly the same.*
Which hundreds? The ones I hear the WH touting were either set up (1) BEFORE 9/11, when we WEREN’T at war, or (2) shortly AFTER 9/11, BEFORE the military tribunals were set up to handle such prosecutions.
Personally, I’d like to hear more about where the WH is getting this “hundreds of terrorists” number from.

What hypocrisy!!! For 8 years, democrats and the U.S. Media did everything they could to undermine the war on terror, malign the U.S. military, and cement the resolve of Al Qaaeda and boost the morale of our enemies.

Everyone knows the Al Queda sham is a cover story so the imperialist Pentagon planners can raid any country they wish of national resoutces (i.e. oil and gas)

I think when an administration says when they will pull out of a theatre of operation, they have alerady lost the war.
Which does more harm? Telling the terrorists we don’t like our president’s actions, or telling the terrorists when we are pulling out?

Liberals think VP Cheney is more dangerous then OBL !!!!
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Cheney and Halliburton are the military/industrial complex President Eisenhower warned us about.

LMAO – So, tierra, you are saying that the administration gets it’s info from ABC News?

Ah the Obama/DNC do as I say, not as I do administration.

I wonder if the Administration has considered the awful down sides of their choice of venue? What if one of their very own super liberal judges tosses their case because of the myriad legal questions that simply do not come up in a military court? If such a disastrous decision happens will they still wish to brag about our wonderful legal system? Be afraid!

“Fear mongering only serves the goals of al Qaeda”… Really? My question is this: why shouldn’t we be afraid? Al Qaeda means to hurt us. They’re proven to us that they’re very serious about that. And when you consider that our borders are porous, we almost lost 300 people on a plane on Christmas day, 14 people were slaughtered by an Islamic militant at Ft. Hood, radical imams deliver their message of hate every day in mosques and madrasses here in our own country… why shouldn’t we be afraid? The far-left progressives have destroyed the very fabric of our security with their socialistic, politically correct nonsense. Damn right I’m afraid. Afraid that this president and his cronies do NOT fear the enemy enough. Obama obviously does not understand the nature of our enemy, nor does it seem that he even believes we’re fighting a real war. We don’t even use the coded threat levels anymore. Even in Britain they haven’t abandoned that.
Vote them out, America. The sooner we vote all these anti-American, fascist, communist progressives out of office and send them all home, the safer we will all be.

All of the hysteria plays into Bin Laden’s hands, regardless which side invokes the hysteria. Bin Laden stated long ago that his goal was to defeat America economically, not militarily. Bin Laden is winning. America has bankrupted itself since 9/11 mostly with the excuse of fighting the war on terror. The Abdul Mutallab action probably cost less than $20k and we react by spending almost a billion, plus split the country even further politically. Whether you politic from the left or right, the partisan politics defeat ourselves. Brennan is correct.

Mama, I’m shocked. I’m not a registered republican either and I have many libertarian tendencies. However, I do believe in fiscal responsibility. I tend to vote for Republican candidates because so many democrats want to spend so much money. I think, after all, that you and I have many of the same political ideas, but I think I am correct. I don’t think you’re a true progressive.
Posted by: L RAy | Feb 9, 2010 3:19:12 PM
Perhaps I’m not a typical one– I think I’m a progressive libertarian– sorta kinda, in the same way that I’m a liberal, but a rather classical one. After all, our country was founded on liberal– and beatuiful, imho– ideals. Fortunately, the left isn’t as hell-bent on bizarre “purity tests.” I voted for both Bill Clinton and Barack Obama because they were/are moderate. I’m definitely left of center on social issues/equal rights (gay rights, pro-choice)– and moderate to conservative on fiscal issues. Maybe more moderate, in our times, because I do think big corporations need to be held in check, and that we need some regulation and regulation reform– and because I’m geared toward increasing the middle class and small business opportunity. In my lifetime that has tended to occur under Democratic presidencies, not Republican. Moreover, the Republicans are the ones who have increased the deficit and not given a crap. More than once, and over my entire adulthood.
To me the difference between right-leaning and left-leaning libertarian types is that right-leaning libertarians wish to weaken the state without simultaneously weakening other institutions that have grown fat on the state– corporations and the military-industrial complex, for example. To me, they underestimate the extent to which state coercion has initiated and perpetuated corporate power– and they want to perpetuate the status quo there. I value cooperation, equal opportunity and a safety-net (even with less production, if that turns out to be the cost, as it might not) over competition and a bottomless pit of despair (even with more production, if that turns out to be the benefit, as it might not).
Personally, I’d prefer no war, and no need for TARP or ARRA– but I do believe the latter two were necessary, and that I’m not going to see world peace in my lifetime(understatement). I also believe if the Republicans had acted in good faith, health care reform would look different and include both tort reform and more portability/choice– but they go nuts when a Dem is in office. They screw up, then go into scorched earth mode when they lose power. I can’t stand it. Its no good for anyone. And the tea party types? They’re just ticked — and they’re going to end up voting in the same kind of tools they’ve voted in previously as standard Republicans, imho. Seriously, who do they have to vote in that is any good at all, and who ultimately won’t end up representing big corporate rights over the rights of the people?
Anyway… enough about me and my pontificating. LOL. (I know, I know.. who cares.)
I’ll move on to the topic..
James wrote: Now they are saying that people who criticize Obama are supporting Al Qaeda.
Actually that’s not what they said. They said that unwarranted fear-mongering helps further the terrorists’ goals (because it spreads fear, anger and “terror”…. get it? Forehead slap!)

So let’s see telling our president he’s an ### for mirandizing terrorists, giving them lawyers telling them not to talk when they tell us there’s 300 more of them waiting to attack, leaking information that the terrorist us talking so Al Qaeda can hide and adjust, for bringing terrorists responsible for 9/11 into New York endangering the city and costing it a fortune, for closing guantanamo and releasing fanatics that will kill our troops while we’re still at war is the problem. Telling the jackass in the white house he’s doing all these things is helping Al Qaeda yeah right! I hope all you fools that voted for this moron have had enough!

Bin Laden stated long ago that his goal was to defeat America economically, not militarily. Bin Laden is winning. America has bankrupted itself since 9/11 mostly with the excuse of fighting the war on terror. The Abdul Mutallab action probably cost less than $20k and we react by spending almost a billion, plus split the country even further politically. Whether you politic from the left or right, the partisan politics defeat ourselves. Brennan is correct.
Posted by: Independent1959 | Feb 9, 2010 4:27:03 PM
Totally agree. Well put.

Wow obama sound sjust like someone else. Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.

Aren’t these the same people that bashed Bush and America for 8 years to score political points? Hypocrisy is on full display

BRENNAN NEEDS TO RESIGN NOW!!!

Any criminal attorney knows that all interrogation of the suspect stops as soon as a letter, phone or fax is sent from the attorney so stating. They cannot continue interrogating. That is a huge difference from military custody. Brennan does not know the law. Even in civilian custody, the administration could and should question him. The responses could not be used against him in a court of law, but the point is to prevent the next attack and save lives.

Oh really? Now what? Your going to start interrogating and holding them as “terrorists” if they don’t like the President’s agenda and actions? You will have to use the U.N. to get that job done, because I don’t think American soldiers are going to be on the same page.

These incompetent buffoons are more of a threat to this country than any grubby terrorist.

Obama:
Gives terrorists rights as common citizen criminals!?
Plays down the terrorist connection to the Fort Hood shooter!?
Bows to foreign dignitaries showing weakness and compliance?!
Creating a nation of dependent ninnies, preferably without firearms?!
Turning his back on the Constitution by refusing to settle the dispute regarding his qualifications for President and Commander in Chief as being a “Natural Born Citizen.” ???!!!
Seems to me that Obama is doing the kind of thing that helps Al Quaeda

A pathetic op ed piece and, as pointed out graphically above, hypocritical and untruthful
a. When an enemy combatant is turned over to military, he does not get lawyered up.
b. Full interrogation in 50 minutes is IMPOSSIBLE. Are regular FBI agents even familiar with terrorist interrogation? I seriously doubt it.
c. If our system and the DoJ are so great, why was the Black Panther case, in which the accused refused to show, resulting in a default and automatic conviction, thrown out by DoJ. Is that not proof that the Administration cares not a whit for the rule of law?

By the amount of sheer idiocy displayed in these comments, this story MUST have been linked from Drudge.
You morons are shining examples of our failed education system.

Looks like it the return of “Real Americans” versus us Ersatz-Americans. Is there anything this guy (BHO) does that isn’t GWB?

Real laffer! Obama IS al queda!

I see how it works. When libs hammered Bush, that was patriotic. When the masses dane to criticize the Big O, we’re helping al Crapola.

Next Time you Americans Elect a MOTIVATIONAL SPEAKER, remember this: “Change Can Also Be Downward.” Obama should not only have renounced receiving the Nobel Prize (the only WORSE one was given to Yassir Arafat, who invented the Infitada and Airplane Hijackings), he should RESIGN from the White House for the Good of the Nation. I never fell for his phony emotional manipulation of the public. His record spoke volumes, a record of nothing but political ladder climbing and arrogance of image, hypocrisy. No?? One of his VERY FIRST acts was the nomination of THREE Tax Cheats in a Row. Geithner got in and Daschle and a woman withdrew the very day the N.Y. Times published a highly critical editorial. Go, Barack, Go….Home. Make room for someone who doesn’t talk down to Americans, respects CONSERVATIVE VIEWS without VILIFYING those Americans who hold them. And most importantly, someone who can lead with conviction and good sense for the DANGEROUS time we are in. Barack–do you REALLY want Islamist Radiological Bombs dropping on America?? We NEED “racial profiling” at airports. Its not even THAT because Muslims and Islam are not “racial.” We also are going to need to bomb the hell out of Iran before it is too late and Americans wind up with Radiation Sickness through Iran’s terror proxies. Do the patriotic thing and resign…

I am so sick and tired of people who have a different view in our country now feel the need to trump up and distort facts. We have turned into a country of weasels. where truths are ignored and hype and lies given access to the media pulpit.

Obama is creating more new terrorists. He is using predator drones increasingly in Pakistan resulting in civilian collateral deaths. Bombing villages and killing babies in the dark of night.

John Brennan needs to be fired or if he has any conscience or is man enough resign.
I am an American by birth, (something OBAMA can’t prove) and if I want to disagree with OBAMA and his moronic dangerous policies, it is my right.
It doesn’t make me unpatriotic or
aid the enemy. OBAMA and his policies have done more damage to America
than any other president. Benedict Arnold should have done so well!

Wait a minute, I thought criticizing the President was a patriotic duty and a cornerstone of democracy…that’s what the Democrats said when they were demonizing Bush for 8 years.

Politics should never get in the way of national security? Ok, braniac, tell that to the mantra our joke of a President ran on. The passive ankle grabbing and clueless ignorance he displays as he bows whenever he has the opportunity to apologize for a strong America and assure them that he’ll correct our ‘woes’ by fundamentally changing our nation with progressivism policies and agendas that would make marxist dictatorships proud has only WEAKENED our image abroad to those that matter in terms of our national security. Every move this president makes ridicules the rule of law, the Constitutional principles our nation is founded upon, and has brought disgrace and ineptitude to the White House.
More attacks after 9/11 were thwarted under the Bush administration.. and since Obama’s taken office, we’ve already had deadly attacks that could have and should have been easily prevented with common sense but were instead successful with this politically correct administration in charge.

I was waiting for this one.

Doing a better job than the Bush administration? Really? I know Christmas was a bit more than a month ago, but didn’t Obonehead have to come on the TV and admit they weren’t doing such a great job at that whole “protecty-defendy” thing?

Dear Kukulcan,
Since your a liberal let me speak slowly.The Drudge Report is a list of links to articles and stories, most of them from mainstream liberal sources such as the New York Times and the Washington Post. Matt Drudge is not a commentator. You are trying to blame the messenger for the message. Is that the world you really want to live in? Where only your views are heard. Im very conservative. I dont wanna shut down Olberman. Huffington, or the Dailey Kos, I enjoy their display of stupidity. Why is it that liberals cannot tolerate dissent or political “diversity”?

So we cannot criticize the White House when a democrat is in office, because it is harmful, but if a Republican is in office, no problem? The audacity of this administration has no bounds.

Of course, Obama and his tribe are going to call the conservative Republicans akin to the terrorists. Obama has run out of steam on his own agendas, and now he is going to “play dirty”, or “hit below the belt”, as we used to say. Obama has, or is now, becoming unhinged, and perhaps it is now time for he to resign and let someone run the country who is not only legally allowed to do so, but able to do. We can skip the vp, and the next few. There just HAS to be someone out there who can do the job, but I don’t see anyone at this point.

The hypocrisy of this administration is astounding. This one billion dollar charade of trying KSM in NYC is for purely political purposes, and serves only to embolden terrorists.

It is interesting that when Bush was in office every liberal and major news media can rip the President on every little issue, reveal strategic war information, and lie out their sphincter and view themselves as doing what was right and just for the American people. But when the libs and news media support the President any opposition is seen in the harshest light. Its amazing these people have the balls to throw this kind of story after the stunts they pulled on the previous administration. I have NO respect for them and will never support them.

If the Underwear Bomber was “thoroughly interrogated and provided important information” then why is it that he is now providing information? I thought the FBI got all the information that would ever be available in the 50 minutes of initial interrogation!

Well isn’t that special. Obama claims criticism of the anointed one helps Al Qaeda… So is that a freudian apology to GEORGE W. BUSH…We’ll give them some slack when they admit they systematically tried to destroy Bush. Blaming him for everything from mudslides, global warming, hurricane patterns, and of course the failed war on terrorism (their words, not mine). The reason Obama is being criticized is because his academic, pointy headed, liberal leadership really sucks. Oh the irony…The most vocal critic of Bush now whines that he’s being criticized. That’s better than poetic justice.

I still think obama smacked his head too hard on the white house window when he tried to walk through it. or maybe it was out of the helicopter – that was obama, wasn’t it? of course, i didn’t like him before that either so who knows.

@ Jason.
Some of us have read our history and our philosophy. What is one man’s good for the nation is another man’s anathema.
While I earnestly agree significant health care reform is needed, doing the wrong thing is even worse than doing nothing at all. Insurance reform with nothing to contain costs is not going to solve anything, other than the short term benefit to the currently uninsured.
Long term solutions require far more drastic measures. Either we go down the European path and create a completely different set of problems in our health care system(we are well down that path already considering over half of all insurance is publicly administered now), or we get serious about actually incentivizing competition in the marketplace. This is the part that has never even been discounted by the left as it is so against everything they believe in they cannot even fathom it. Gut the employer provided structure completely by giving the tax breaks companies get for providing health care to individuals. The money they currently spend on health care (5k per employee per year or so) could be added to salaries or placed in tax free HSA’s, then people could shop for the insurance they want and need in a truly open market, with the government playing it’s actually important role as referee. No preferences to one company over another, no tax breaks nor subsidies, capitalism not corporatism.
You are right, the founders are rolling in their graves as they see any vestige of a free and open society slipping through the cracks and into the dustbin of history. America is an experiment, and it has become what it is by being different than the rest of the world. By innovating and trying new ideas.

The Demorats like to say Bush forced the intell people to accept HIS war.. but intell people kept leaking stuff to the press to make bush look like a bad leader.. so now Demorats are in power, and Obama is forceing his intell people to say obama’s handleing of the war is even better then Bush’s was.. the intell is still being leaked that shows the lie to this one too. if political leaders would get out of the way.. the intell and military would solve this in short order.

shades of nixon and the anti vietnam movement: if your against the war, your against america! Is obama stupid?

Democrats from 2001-2009: “Dissent is the highest form of patriotism!”
Democrats from 2009-present: “Dissent is helping the enemy!”

Ergo, critics of the Bush administration also served Al Qaeda’s goals.

Yet another intelligence lapse from the White House.
How do you guys sleep at night? I know I don’t sleep as well knowing the idiots we have guarding the county. I know the troops certainly can’t be getting any rest at all with the keystone cop mentality that this administration is displaying. What a bunch of morons.
Why don’t you guys invite the terrorist over to stay in the Lincoln Bed Room…. bet they would like us a lot more than they do now.
Does anyone out there not get that the Obama playbook is to apply his faults and failures to anyone else beside himself.
Type this into your teleprompter next time you speak Mr. Prez….. “I accept full responsibility for the actions of my administration because if it were not for Bush and Fox News we wouldn’t be in this mess.”

You guys keep this up and I’m telling MY MOM!

BTW… Anyone know where I can get one of these “saved or created” jobs? I just don’t know how much more of this Hope and Change I can stand.
Signed… One of the 10% that wasn’t going over 8 or 9 but is really over 17% criticizers of the Obama administration.

Interesting, this from those that criticized our troops in the battlefield and did everything they could to destroy George W. Bush in fact there were times when the words of OBL matched the words of the Democrat leaders. Another point that the media doesn’t push is to ask the Obama Administration since they feel that using an matrix that is unprovable i.e., saved or created jobs to tout their economic recovery plan isn’t then fair to give George W. Bush the same kind of accounting for all the Saved American lives that Bush was responsible for by proactively removing Saddam Hussein from power in Iraq and installing a civil, democratic form of government there? I mean does anyone actually believe that Saddam Hussein was not emboldened by Al-Qaida’s success on 911 and even if he was not in direct coordination with that terror group it was evident that he had the resources to fund, equip, train, terror groups or affiliates to carry out similar attacks on America which because he acted never materialized.
Seems like Obama only wants to talk about the things that work to his agenda that is not bi-partisanship that is DICTATORSHIP and America is waking up to it. We will not be ruled by a scoundral or a tyrant because WE ARE A COUNTRY THAT SELF GOVERNS. Progressives like Obama haven’t figured that out yet.

Let’s enjoy our 1st Amendment while it lasts. Yay Patriot Act! Gun owners, Libertarians, conservatives, and returning veterans are all considered potential terrorists. Wake up to the false Left/Right Paradigm. It’s all WWE Wrestling. These guys at the top are all buddies. It’s a giant theatrical pageant of deception. We thought Bush was bad, then we got Obama. Everyone woke up to Obama, now Palin is posing as the savior. Thanks New World Order – we love our enslavement. More American Idol anyone? I’d like to go back to sleep.

Posted by: Tom | Feb 9, 2010 9:53:05 PM
“Jason….characterized by arrogance! You obviously neglected to study the last two world wars. Obama is taking America on the road to financial perdition.
Did I spell everything correctly??”
Yes, you did. And you also proved my point: your reference to the last two WWs is entirely moot, i.e. an invalid argument against my own. A sampling of some of the posts here further proves my point. Neither, incidentally, does the bravery and good virtue of your ancestors excuse the state of your country today, nor, again, does it invalidate my point.
Oh, and one last point: “Obama is taking America on the road to financial perdition” ? Really, Tom? I’m truly sorry, but this just seems to me to be almost wilfully ignorant of your economic history, or, for that matter, just plain chronology. Do you really think your country’s budget deficit, long term debt and future liabilities all happened in the last 12 months? The Chinese bought over $700 billion dollars worth of your Treasury bills and accumulated $1.2 trillion of reserves in US currency – in the last 12 months? Really, Tom?
I’m afraid your ill-thought-out tirade only serves to demonstrate the distinct lack of intellectual rigour you and your compatriots are known for, and, in this case, it further serves to validate my own argument. It must be hard living a life where someone else does all of your thinking for you. Try doing some for yourself sometime.

If we disagree, we are racist. If we critize, we are helping the enemy. This Admin is very Chicago style predictable. This country can’t afford any more lost time with this!

HA HA HA!! What a joke! Good try, Obama! Remember when Pelosi tried to DE-FUND the war?

The dissent and criticism of those who do not agree with Obama’s policy seem to me to be a highly patriotic activity.
It’s the ludicrous policies of the Obama Administration that are quite suspect, i.e. that are far more likely to be helpful to our nation’s enemies than are those who protest them .
I hope and pray that Americans send a strong message of dissent to the antics of this very, very liberal administration in the November 2010 congressional elections.

So is 0bama now saying that all of President Bush’s critics, 0bama himself included, were aiding and abetting the terrorists too?
Or is 0bama somehow special?

Can the Obama administration do anything besides blame Bush or anybody else? Instead of making Americans feel safe, I honestly feel they have no clue we are at war. Democrats were so consumed with a government takeover that they are at a loss of what to do besides use their blame tactic. You would think that at least one of them could come up with a better solution. Just more of the same.

WoW! It took them one year to come up with this one!!! They are stupid!!!

Ah when the Libs were criticising the previous administration that was simply patriotic and their constitutional right. Now that Obama is on the receiving end, it is helping Al Q. Ironic isn’t it? So, when the NY Times published secret info was that helping Al Q? When Bush had to fight the war on Terror and the war with Democrats was that helping Al Q? Interesting how the perspective changes eh?

Did…did not, did…did not. Ugh, I miss having adults in charge. Must be time for another world apology tour.

Since it’s in politically correct California, I trust the new sign will also be written in Spanish for those illegals that came across the border.

umm, my name is jason, and like obama is like a god, maybe a demi-god at least, i voted for change,or emm something.

In an oped in USA Today, John Brennan — Assistant to the President and Deputy National Security Advisor for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism — responds to critics of the Obama administration’s counterterrorism policies by saying “Politically motivated criticism and unfounded fear-mongering only serve the goals of al-Qaeda.”
He suggests that many critics are hypocritical and clueless.He notes that failed shoe bomber Richard Reid “was read his Miranda rights five minutes after being taken off a plane he tried to blow up. The same people who criticize the president today were silent back then.” HE FORGETS THAT THERE WERE NO TERROR LAWS NOR GITMO THEN SO WHAT ELSE COULD BE DONE.
He also asserts that the Obama administration is doing a better job than the Bush administration did in taking the fight to al Qaeda. “This administration’s efforts have disrupted dozens of terrorist plots against the homeland and been responsible for killing and capturing hundreds of hard-core terrorists, including senior leaders in Pakistan, Yemen, Somalia and beyond — far more than in 2008.” HE FORGETS THAT IN LESS THAN 12 MONTHS WE HAVE HAD 2 MUSLIM TERRORIST ATTACKS ON US SOIL AND UNDER BUSH THERE WERE NONE AFTER 9/11.
Of course some others he mentions who were caught and read miranda rights were actually US citizens and not technically enemy combatants so again, what alternative was there
Loose cannon or naive fool. Either way, its bad news for us considering the position he is in.

What a bunch of bs. America is not so dumb anymore so just keep it up.
Terrorists…lol…tell the cia to quit paying them and they’ll quit being terrorists. simple…