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Beyond Ingratitude

Hey, remember when Obama got all huffy with the Unelected One-Eyed Scottish Dwarf when the latter spilled the beans about the Obama Administration's having been in the loop the whole time about the release of the Lockerbie mass murderer (who just died, btw)? If you do, this will not come as any particular surprise:

In short [. . .] the Obama administration falsely claimed that the Bush administration had done no planning or analysis regarding the worsening situation in Afghanistan, even though it (1) knew this was false, (2) had asked the Bush administration not to disclose its work, and (3) relied in part on the same work it claimed the Bush administration had not performed. Paul [Mirengoff] judged that what Cheney described went beyond lack of class to demonstrate bad character on the part of the Obama administration.

Now comes the Weekly Standard's Stephen Hayes to examine the issues of fact raised by Cheney's account. In "Obama's minions are ingrates," Hayes documents the formal review conducted by the Bush administration that was turned over to the Obama team and inquires whether (as Obama press secretary Robert Gibbs has charged) the Bush team sat on a request for increased troops. Hayes confirms Cheney's assertions as a matter of fact.

Steve adds this pungent quote from a Bush administration insider: "If it's true that the Bush administration sat on these troop requests for eight months, is the White House suggesting that the Pentagon was incompetent or negligent or both? That would be a good question to put to the defense secretary--and President Obama is in a position to make him talk."

I wonder what the So-Called Founding Fathers would think. Here, by the way, is what you get when you Google up the phrase "so-called founding fathers," just to provide a little context on the kinds of intellect Obama finds congenial.

Dan Collins

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