Mark Steyn on the Benghazi Debacle

Pretty much what I want to say, only with far more flair. A bon mot: 

"The government dispatched more firepower to arrest Nakoula Basseley Nakoula in Los Angeles than it did to protect its mission in Benghazi."

At Least One Person's Excited About the Idea

LOL: Best Quip About the DNC

Context: Bill Clinton gave his speech after the DNC had three shambolic attempts to re-insert references to God and Jerusalem into the party platform.  Then someone quipped:

So, after they denied God three times, the cock crowed.

Kudos!

Bubba's Speech at the DNC

I can't believe some of the stuff he's saying, but it sure sounds nice.  Well, he's not called "Slick Willie" for nothing ... and he is a very, very skilled  liar public speaker.  (By the way, Hillary is AWOL from the DNC. Heh.)  Oh, and Stephen Green is bravely drunkblogging this thing.  I hope his liver is up to the challenge!

Election Politics Turn Into "Midsummer Night's Dream"

Because I can't find another way to explain Bill Clinton's metamorphosis into Puck.  This time  I really have to hand it to the guy for the delayed timer on this beauty.  Playing the long game, are we, Bubba?  Even if this all is simply accidental, it's too good to ignore.

Quote of the Day: Clinton on the Middle East

Quoth Bill Clinton recently:

"The two great tragedies in modern Middle Eastern politics, which make you wonder if God wants Middle East peace or not, were [Yitzhak] Rabin's assassination and [Ariel] Sharon's stroke."

Oh, come on, Bubba!  So God doesn't want Middle East peace?  But I thought Jesus supported Abbas's UN bid for a Palestinian state!  Of course, this discussion so far only covers 2 of the 3 members of the Trinity.  No word yet on what the Holy Spirit thinks.  I repeat my disdain for people who muddy up foreign policy by invoking religion, especially where it's completely unnecessary and irrelevant.

Life Imitates Iowahawk, and the Taiwanese News Animators Are There

I just didn't know what to say about last week's tidal wave of lunacy in Washington, so I ended up not posting on any of it -- especially since it's exam time on campus.  

But now in retrospect, what a weird week it was!  From Obama's peevish lashing out at everybody at that presser (and how un-presidential is it to call the opposition party "hostage-takers"?  so much for post-partisan politics, though we've never heard anything this blatantly hostile -- hey, CHANGE!) ... to goofy, elderly Vermont socialist senator Bernie Sanders ranting for 8 hours (somebody give him some Jimmy Stewart DVDs and send him home!) ... to the total unbelievability of Obama's other presser with Bill Clinton -- if we can even call it Obama's, since he bailed not five minutes into it and left us all the spectacle of Slick Willie pontificating at the podium as in years of yore.  (See this snark.)  I practically got whiplash with deja-vu.  Well, if nothing else it was a press conference that was -- for once -- worth watching.

The whole incident looked horrible ... and isn't most of public relations about "optics"?  And, possibly worst of all, Clinton looked and acted presidential, calm, confident, warm.  Obama didn't.  Truman's adage about the heat and the kitchen proved true again in spectacularly public fashion.  Obama's turning into the Incredible Shrinking President.  In fact, he's shrunk so much he literally became the President Who Wasn't There.  He used his wife and a Christmas party as his excuse and fled the press conference.  I'd never seen anything remotely like this.  It was weird.  It was embarrassing.  

So I leave you with two thoughts:

1. The whole thing reminded me of this prescient satire by Iowahawk from way back in 2008.  Iowahawk, we are not worthy!
2. You have GOT to see this new cartoon by those brilliant Taiwanese news animators.  It just hit YouTube yesterday.  Check out the Clinton version of the Bat Signal!  The first time I saw this video, I laughed out loud.