The television screens and the cups of coffee in the District of Columbia on Saturday were under severe alert, and it wasn’t primarily because of the Washington Nationals this time.
They were in a surly precarious position, especially if either one of those two items were near the premises of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. And you wouldn’t be thinking farfetched ideas to consider that both a venti of Starbucks and a Sony flat screen TV kissed each other like they were “Wall-E” and “E.V.E.” in the nation’s capital.
If you didn’t think that scenario was possible, then you surly lived through a multitudinous amount of “What the (fill in the apoplectic connotation) is he doing” and the now proverbial comment from a GOP strategist saying “We’re (well, yeah).”
What caused such strong and shocked reactions from George Bush and his administration, along with the rest of the conservative nation and the John McCain camp? What caused them to go into damage control like a “Code Red” warning was being issued?
It was something that Keith Olbermann, Rachel Maddow, Laura Logan, and even Barack Obama (through he came a very close second with the beginning of his trip overseas) couldn’t do: Be the prime minister of Iraq and basically have carte blanche to take the Presidential race to a level only that person could take it.
Nouri al-Maliki, what audacity of him?! Is he trying to write his own “Audacity of Hope”? He is playing politics, our figurehead that we put in charge over there? How could he tell Del Spiegel of all magazines how he feels?!
That was the feeling for those on the “right side” of the country on the wrong side of the final thing they considered their last definitive strength. The flood gates had opened, their levies had broken, and their minds were in full disorder. Because when Maliki spoke once again about a time table needing to be implemented for U.S. troops to leave his country, to make sure that the first time was no fluke of a moment, the actions of the White House and anyone involved in the Republican party was desperation at its finest.
And even more disturbing is the pathetic things that they have done to try and distort the news that they didn’t want to hear. When Maliki’s statements hit their eardrums, they didn’t just press the panic button once. They had a case of ADD with the number of times they pressed it. Instead of trying to come up with concrete ideas for the millions of problems surrounding the country that they have played a major role in, Bush & company demonstrated their mafia like tendencies that have become more of a hallmark than any greeting cards.
Overlooked in Maliki’s basic accord with Obama’s plan is the lack of coverage with how the Prime Minister of Iraq was covertly hectored by an executive office with an approval rating about as low as Verne Troyer (and his sex tape sells). The execution of their tactics was the usual level of what to expect from the former governor of Texas and his staff: a one track belief that what they do is for the good of the country, only for it to come out in a way where their very questionable backup theories (conjured up at the last moment) would be suffice enough for the people’s minds.
Which are their innuendos for saying, “Only we can tell anybody else what to do, and that is it, no matter if it doesn’t favor common sense. As long as it favors our sense. “
At first, their attempt to keep their response to Maliki’s unambiguous statement was totally laughable. If the prime minister’s statements delivered egg on their faces, then their massive blunder of leaking their reaction to the media placed an outside shell on their facades as well. They tried to make the U.S. Central Command be this beacon of journalistic integrity, issuing a rebuttal by spokesman Ali al-Dabbagh that Maliki was “misunderstood and mistranslated” by Der Spiegel. His quotes misconstrued three times, THREE times, by this German newspaper trying to cause trouble, huh?
Only for them to even have more yoke on their noses when Der Spiegel , a paper that battled Communist East Germany back in the day, confirmed what Mailik said was indeed true with no distortions. Except the ones that Bush, Dick Cheney, McCain, and anybody not favoring the Illinois Senator wanted to here. And everyone in the liberal community had a good time with the failed attempt of their adversaries’ desire to not control a beast that they never wanted out of the cage.
It was the latest gift basket given to them in the month of July, relegating Phil Gramm’s whining comments to a website that hasn’t been refreshed in the last few days.
But to look closely though at this dramatic turn of events, first off, there was no dramatic turn of events. Maliki had planted the seeds two weeks ago on requesting a timetable for US troops. He was the official voice for the Iraqi community that needed someone to fully represent how they felt about the situation.
Yet the mainstream media in this country were indeed complacent enough to let this story wither away as the Bush administration hoped it would do so. They figured that Maliki’s initial statements were just a blip on their radar of keeping any hope alive of convincing a majority of the America problem that keeping troops in Iraq was the way to go still. No matter if their reasons to stay switch faster than the tires in a Formula one race as the days past.
Even more concerning, however, than the news outlets letting Maliki’s first statements evaporate quickly, was the consistently deplorable actions of the Bush administration. To try and first belittle his understanding of the magnitude of what he was saying, and then coerce a takeback from his office after the explosive call they made overseas is typical of the shameful actions of arguably the worst cabinet in U.S history.
Their conduct here is just unbelievable, but why is it shocking in the first place? With what has transpired over the last seven years, to think they couldn’t do something like this is critical thinking in its lowest possible form.
Still, though no where near the level of Watergate of course, the plans to keep their thoughts away from the media and develop a cover up that they could make stick, only to get caught in their attempt to do so, is a failure in sneakiness that would make Henry Kissinger go back on Fareed Zakaria and talk about just this.
The damage has been done.
No vice presidential candidate can give Obama what Maliki (and a few others in the government in Baghdad) gave him this past weekend. Not Joe Biden, not Kathleen Sebellius, not Evan Bayh, not Jake Reed, not Chuck Hagel, not Howard Dean or anybody else.
And yes, that anybody else includes Hillary Clinton, plus Bill Clinton and Al Gore, as well.
He gave Obama, or rather, those still in denial, the debatable advantage now in the area of national security over McCain, who doesn’t know that the Czech Republic and Slovakia aren’t one anymore, nor that Afghanistan and not Iraq borders Pakistan.
Yes, there will be some that will continue the banal and nauseating “McCain was right, the surge has worked, and Obama was wrong on the surge” belief that has spread so bad, you wonder if anchors and reporters have lost their ability to actually do an in depth fact check on that “holy” proverb. And yes, there will be those that will continue to believe that despite his numerous horrible statements that McCain still has an advantage in this area (as well as the never debated myth of him more ensconced ina town hall debate setting than his younger competitor).
But no matter how some will try and trade their souls more times than they already have to spin this news as a victory for McCain (since they already based Maliki’s statements on the “surge”, and only the “surge”, improving “conditions on the ground”), only the delusional and sad fool would dismiss how much of a blow these agreements with Obama’s plan have done to McCain, Bush, and the Republican party. And only that fool, or select group of them, will believe that the "time horizon" that Bush has now stated had nothing to do with the impact of both Obama and Maliki's plans on him.
And how they could have also caused major injuries to fresh brews of cappuccino and plasma HD’s across the country.
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