My Basketball Diaries from the Nineteenth Hole
Just before the raid on the Benghazi consulate we were informed by the conservative media that our president had not been attending his daily intelligence briefings for some time. The reason offered up by the White House spinmeisters was that this president is just so much more intellectually advanced than all his predecessors that he could duplicate in his wondrous mind with a solitary reading, all the give and take that might arise in a daily briefing with the world’s foremost intelligence masters or their hand-picked representatives.
Boil that down to common vernacular and what they were telling us was that Obama possesses such a superior intellect that he doesn’t need these briefings by some of America’s brightest people. No, this guy, whom the we people have been told is a genius, without a single college transcript to substantiate that claim, can just absorb it all by some osmotic process while he’s playing golf or basketball or appearing on adoring television venues. What that means, America, is that our chief executive, our commander-in-chief, is just too damned smart to be bothered with going through the motions, procedures and protocols, established over long decades for that exalted position, of determining what is working and what is not.
Distilled to its essence: Barry’s above all that political process crap.
With the anniversary of our horrific and worst terrorist attack recently passed, where was our president? Well, according to public knowledge, for part of that time he was on The View, languishing in the adoration of all those liberal twits as eye candy. For another portion of it he was wallowing in Letterman’s truly icky man-love. Where he most decidedly wasn’t, was in the White House briefing room with the intelligence leaders of this nation, who might, who just might, with the reams of hyper-secrets they are privy to, have informed him of a potentially lethal threat in Libya.
Hillary Clinton was ever so right when she tried to warn the nation that Barry Obama, boy-wonder of a Chicago community organizer, wasn’t even close to being ready to handle that 3:00 am international crisis call. Hell, this guy is incapable of handling a 3:00 PM crisis call, probably because he’s out on the golf course somewhere or practicing lay-ups in the gym. But that’s OK, America, cause the dude is just so incredibly smart that he can deal with whatever comes up.
Like the Benghazi massacre? Well, aren’t we all just bowled over with how efficiently and effectively this super-smart Chicago dude has dealt with this crisis? What? You think maybe he’s not just dropped the ball but is trying to convince the public he wasn’t even a player? No, you fools, that was Hillary’s game. Our boy Bo didn’t have anything in play there. How could he be at fault when the schedule will show he was triple-checking his lie on the seventh hole just as all that diplomatic crap was falling apart? OK, well hell, if it wasn’t Hillary, it just had to be Petraeus, then, who screwed things up so badly. Yeah, this loser general who only made four stars fighting multiple wars simply must have failed to inform our national community organizer, don’t you think?
This whole Libyan mess couldn’t possibly have been the fault of the first post-racial president, an inexperienced and unqualified fool, too lazy and too arrogant to take his daily intelligence briefings, now could it? Nah, he’d rather do layups and easy puts.
Obama’s inevitable memoirs should be entitled, “My Basketball Diaries from the Nineteenth Hole.”
Category: Barack Obama/Joe Biden
Cue Insipid telling us something Bush did in 3…..2…..1
Um, um, um, Bush never missed a briefing, which is why 9/11 was his fault!
Okay. That was weak, but Twist was asking for it.
Now, where’s my coffee.
Nice job, Poetrooper! I had forgotten about H. Clinton’s 3 a.m. remark. I guess that’s why she went to work for him at a place where international crises never arise, eh? I would add that in addition to appearing on Letterman and The View, obama skipped no fundraisers (noteably Vegas where he told jokes) and had to be pressured, we were told, to appear before his beloved UN. Has he even personally addressed the nation about the attacks to date? Or is he still hiding behind the “investigation is ongoing” crappola?
Yes, he delivered pizzas to wherever it was he was this morning. What a fitting job for him. Do you think they gave him a tip?
The articlea bout the growing rift between Bo and the Clintons is priceless.
‘Bill is playing with various doomsday scenarios, up to and including the idea that Hillary should consider resigning over the issue if the Obama team tries to use her as a scapegoat.’ And if I read the disastrous mentality in effect in the Oval Office correctly, that may just happen.
Whatever you all may think of her personally, she has spent the last four years doing something very smart for someone who may/may not have presidential aspirations: she has spent her time building solid relationships with foreign governments. She has an enviable portfolio of foreign relations experience, on the order of Condie Rice’s experience.
And right now, if I were in her shoes, I would walk away and let the votes fall where they may.
Apparently, Bo has truly pissed off Mr. Bill, which is not a good thing at this point in an election year. If it appears on an online column, you can bet it will be in the bigger media before too long. I’m eager to find out what will come of the investigations now ongoing.
Thanks, Poetrooper. You made my day.
Once again, Poetrooper nails one out of the park.
With your permission (and proper accreditation), I’d like to post this to my Facebook. It’d be interesting to see whose (if anybody’s) head explodes.
“Hillary should consider resigning over the issue if the Obama team tries to use her as a scapegoat”. If? Hillary is the SoS, and if the feces hits the oscillating device, she’ll be the one to get splattered.
The motto at the White House is, The buck stops anywhere but here.
Ex, I don’t think there’s any chance that the “investigation” by the Feebs will be done anytime near the election, unless it’s to say, yep, we found a laptop the protesters dropped and the only thing in the memory is a video about the Prophet.
Two different people, whose columns I get by e-mail, are both forecasting something odd and very disruptive about this election, including Bo practically disappearing permanently from the public eye and/or being impeached and thrown out of office. And by odd, I mean real election fraud and conspiracy theories and riots, among other things.
UpNorth, I was truly being speculative. I do not envy Hillary the position she’s in right now. According to the article about the growing rift between Bo and the Clintons, Bill seems to be regretting his giving a boost to Obama, in more ways than one. Just think about the possibilities if he were to withdraw his support in any way and make it public.
Well, this is supposed to be the Year of BIG Change, so maybe that is what is happening. I sometimes get this twitchy feeling that we’re going to see things we never expected to happen. It’s like walking through your neighborhood, but you keep looking over your shoulder. I simply would not take anything for granted this time around.
Everything rolls down hill. When I said if I were Hillary, I’d get out, I meant that, but I doubt that she’ll do so.