Triggered by the Fort Hood massacre, events of the past five days have reminded us again of a rudimentary liberal axiom:
The clearer the concept, the cloudier the conclusion. (See the Malik Hasan case.)
And its corrollary: The cloudier a concept, the clearer the conclusion. (See global warming.)
Swish — the Only Sound He Makes
Swish Obama, our first Muslim President, made two slender pronouncements last week pertaining to the Fort Hood terrorist Maj. Malik Hasan, who told a doctors group that non-believers in Islam should be beheaded and forced to drink their own blood.
His voice quivering in the first hours after the Texas slaughter, Mr. Obama said, “We must be careful not to jump to conclusions.”
Right, Chief.
Huh? said a puzzled country as the dead bodies of 13 helpless victims were counted.
On Saturday, the President was even more tragically comical: “We must not pass judgment until the facts are fully known.”
“Fully known”? Is Swish, the part-time lawyer, playing words games with us?
Only if you were sadly uninformed would you admire the President’s seemingly admirable measured response.
He Acts Like Made-for-Television
It has been Swish Obama’s history to reject the obvious and to claim the mantel of greatness for himself before anyone notices that he has swiped the nearest kerchief.
To prove, I suppose, how comfortable he is with the ludicrous, you may recall an outrageous scene from last year, the day after the election. Less than 24 hours after the votes were counted, Swish sniffily took his place behind a podium with a giant joke of a seal — worthy of Saturday Night Live — that said “Office of the President-Elect.”
Eh, what?
No more than the Easter Bunny is there an “Office of the President-Elect.”
Out of the way, boys. Here comes Swish.
As far as he and his phony herd of thugs from the gutters of Chicago were concerned, he was governing the country right now. Between Nov. 5 and the Jan. 20 inauguration, President Bush was treated by most of the media as an afterthought, as the former President.
I was thinking of that made-for-television seal when Swish was slyly shifting his cheeks and his feet as he blew smoke into the eyes of the journalists the other day who sought his reaction to Hasan the terrorist.
With as much certitude as the Yankees winning the World Series last week or the House passing its version of healthcare reform, Maj. Hasan, a radical Muslim advocate of blood-drinking and beheadings for non-believers, killed 13 helpless persons last Thursday at Fort Hood.
Maybe It Was a Lutheran or a Catholic
Not surprisingly,Swish remains enigmatically skeptical as the last holdout in America.
With the whole world watching to see how the most untested President in history would react to such a spectacular crime aganst the military and our country, Swish merely elevated his shoulders into casual a shrug, and said, cavalierly, “I dunno.”
Still, facts to the contrary, he is so certain that the Smiling Dwarf , who is gunning down courageous Iranian freedom fighters in the bloody streets, is merely a decent, misunderstand Muslim.
Still, he is so certain that the Smiling Dwarf is just pursuing yucks when he says every week that he is going to destroy Israel.
But when a fat and crazy Muslim terrorist walks into an enclave on a gigantic Army base, kills 13 and injuries dozens more, President Obama reacts the way you would to ants at a Sunday School picnic. Shoo. Go away.
He could not have been more uninvolved in Fort Hood if he had been asleep the whole time.
He possesses picklingly peculiar priorities.
Like a spoiled brat, he barks frighteningly loud about how he is going to resolve global problems that have eluded world leaders for decades.
By George, he thundered about closing down Gitmo, he thundered about pulling our troops out of Iraq, he thundered about racing to a denouement in Afghanistan, he thundered about how he was going to cure the Israeli-Palestinian dispute, he thundered about how he would make the world like us better, and he thundered about how he would establish cement-strength accord with the tyrannical Arab governments of the Middle East because he believes in the exclusivity of negotiations rather than guns.
Despite Swish’s steady chest-pounding, these pledges mostly remain dormant while the cadre of fools who form his circle of advisers keep repeating, “You’re winning, Swish. You’re winning, Swish.”
