Comments on: Growing Into It

By: Quartermaster

Quartermaster — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 02:56:47 +0000

But, did he stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night?

By: Quartermaster

Quartermaster — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 02:53:58 +0000

I think it was Mark Steyn that called he Incompetano. A rather neat pejorative play on her name, and a rather accurate one as well.

By: wolfwalker

wolfwalker — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 01:42:19 +0000

I agree, Liz: the rescue attempt should not have been needed. Carter screwed up the whole Iran situation. However, I’ve often thought that the measure of a man is best taken by how he responds to a crisis. So I find it curious that the one time Carter was truly under the hammer, he did try a military solution to the crisis, and a pretty ambitious one at that. It suggests there once was a bit more to the man than the lunatic he is today, and perhaps he wasn’t quite as bad a president as he is an ex-president.

By: Eric Hines

Eric Hines — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 20:07:24 +0000

No. No lessons learned here. This just is more Obamatalk: idle chit-chat with no intention actually to do anything.

Eric Hines

By: BillT

BillT — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 17:05:21 +0000

Obama and other officials repeatedly noted that the watch-listing system that failed to flag the suspect, Umar AbdulMatallab, was put in place under the Bush administration.

MI5 warned HLS of li’l Umar’s radicalization after Britain put him on the “No Entry into the UK” list.

Umar’s *dad* notified DoS that his son had been radicalized and was planning a trip to the US.

The watch-listing system didn’t fail — the people who were supposed to keep it current failed.

By: Kris, in New England

Kris, in New England — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 17:05:01 +0000

more carefully calibrated spin

That’s what I think it is. Obama doesn’t have the chops to actually take the action necessary to back up the words.