Obama “out-Cheneying Cheney”

Firedog Lake’s Kevin Gosztola , “The Dissenter” wrings his hands over a segment on Chris Hayes’ show the other day in which Hina Shamsi from the ACLU’s National Security Project complains that President Obama “has been “out-Cheneying Cheney” by “running an assassination program where in a two week span in Yemen he killed three US citizens, none of whom had been charged or indicted or charged with any crime.” ”

Of course, the real crime here is that Liberals are talking badly about their candidate in an election year, not that three Americans are dead. For eight years we heard about President Bush shredding the Constitution, we listened to the Left’s sympathy for Jon Walker Lindh and Adam Gadahn, we listened to the complaints about the mistreatment of Guantanamo’s detainees and the violations of their basic human rights, but now when someone mentions Obama’s adherence to the same policies on hella-doses of steroids, the Left counters with the fact that it’s getting mentioned in an election year…like some liberal won’t vote for Obama because he’s like Bush.

Scahill stated “the most dangerous thing” the US is doing “besides murdering innocent people in many cases is giving people in Yemen or Somalia or Pakistan a non-ideological reason to hate the United States, to want to fight the United States.” Hayes told Scahill calling it murder is a “provocative” way of describing what is happening and he wanted Scahill to defend using the word murder.

Oh, but we’ve all heard this before…for eight fricken years, we heard nothing but. However, all it really does is make the Left look like partisan hypocrites who are only classical liberals when some other party is in charge. After all, the only reason that Obama is taking this hard line against terrorism is because he’s trying to attract conservative votes – because in the previous three years, he nearly coddled the enemy. He couldn’t even put a number of troops into the “surge” that would have had an impact on the war.

Don’t get me wrong, I fully support the eradication of terrorists in large numbers irrespective of world opinion and how many people we anger in that corner of the world. I’m just going to lean back in my chair, put my hands behind my head, and watch as the best of all worlds swirls around – lots of dead terrorists and Leftist heads exploding – what could be more funner?

Category: Liberals suck, Terror War