Obama’s Associate Deputy AG vindicates John Yoo and Jay Bybee
The WSJ reports and editorializes on a significant story you may not have heard about thanks to it (conveniently) being dumped on the news media on a Friday night:
Cheney to O’Biden: Before you take credit for Iraq, thank Bush
Responding to Puff, the Magic Biden’s preposterous remarks from earlier this week in which VP Biden suggested that Iraq could be one of Obama’s “greatest achievements,” former Veep Dick Cheney didn’t pull any punches:
Puff, the Magic Biden: Iraq could be one of Obama’s “greatest accomplishments”
Top of the Ticket’s Andrew Malcolm reports this morning on comments the allegedly “smarter” half of the O’Biden ticket made on CNN’s Larry King Live Wednesday night on the highs and lows of President Obama’s first year (via Memeorandum):
Richard Reid and Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab: Double standard in reax?
Predictably, when they can’t defend our celebrity President’s decisions and actions, the left turns to the “blame Bush” game in response – and why shouldn’t they, when the President himself and his administration have set the example that nothing bad that happens is his fault? So far, most on the left haven’t been able to put up a solid, sensible defense of this administration’s poor handling of the attempted terror attack on the Detroit-bound flight 253, so their response is to … ridicule the Republican response to dear leader’s incompetency, and to point out alleged “double standards” when it comes to examining the GOP’s reactions to the aftermath of the attempted attack last week versus their response post-Richard Reid’s attempted attack back in December of 2001. Anything to deflect.
George and Laura Bush’s visit to Fort Hood
In the aftermath of last week’s horrifying attack on Fort Hood, which left 14 dead – including an unborn baby – former President George Bush and his wife Laura held a secret visit with those who were wounded in the attack, and their families. It wasn’t widely reported in the press … because that’s the way they wanted it: