Here’s Your Answer, Ed
In Ed Morrissey’s post on the Hillary/Obama State Department’s failure, Ed asks an important rhetorical question: Hillary Clinton and the Obama administration have been in place for over eleven months. When do their failures start being their own? The opening paragraph of Ann Kornblut’s Washington Post article provides the answer to Ed’s question:
President Obama has performed a difficult but familiar balancing act over the past few days: ordering new security measures in the wake of an attempted airliner attack without excessively alarming the public or triggering an outcry from civil liberties advocates.
ANSWER: Never as long as President Obama’s phalanx of sycophants still have a major newspaper to write this type of garbage from.
The reality is that President Obama’s State Department and his Homeland Security Department FAILED MISERABLY. Ed quotes this Washington Post article saying that “Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab’s father in Nigeria reported concern over his son’s ‘radicalization’ to the U.S. Embassy there last month” and that “intelligence officials in the United States deemed the information insufficient to pursue.”
Putting all the niceties aside, President Obama’s new approach to national security issues has been a failure. I don’t care whether “President Obama has performed a difficult but familiar balancing act” or whether he ordered “new security measures” after a potential mid-air disaster was avoided or whether he did so without “triggering an outcry from civil liberties advocates.”
The bottom line is that his administration failed miserably. This didn’t have anything to do with President Bush’s administration, as Robert Gibbs has suggested. It’s time for the children in the Obama administration to start taking responsibility for their failures.
There was a time when nespapers held administrations accountable for their failurs. Apparently, reporters like Ann Kornblut have dismissed those responsibilities. The good news is that citizen journalists like Ed have stepped into that gap.
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Cross-posted at LetFreedomRingBlog