Making a Big Deal

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The media is gaga over the president authorizing military action and saying what a cool guy the president is and how well he responds under pressure, that he has been weighed, measured, and not found wanting. That's not the story.

The captain of the Maersk Alabama put it correctly. The real story is that our Navy Seals are heroes. It's not about the president. It's not about the captain. It's about the brave men and women who keep America safe. Obama has done zero to keep America safe.

Yet, they make a big deal, like usual, about every minutea the president does. Every time he signs a bill, ties his shoe, digs in the garden, shakes someone's hand, we hear about it in the press. In the end three bullets were fired, three terrorists fell dead, and three men should have earned medals for service.

Obama however will pin a medal on himself. What a great guy. He was so deeply involved. The warship was ready. It didn't need a presidential signature to protect American citizens. It was deferring so as to not precipitate a larger protracted conflict, but the Somalians had already declared war by their actions. He allowed the military to act; he did not give the order to fire. That's a misconception.

None of this is by accident. They want you to think the president is a great guy. He's an empty suit. He has the thinnest resume of any man in a leadership role I've ever known. Now he won't discuss it, and we'll never be able to pin him down. Obama never does anything that isn't scripted if he can avoid it. Every time he's caught without the teleprompter he reveals himself as a mealy-mouthed demagogue interested only in the aggrandization of his own legacy and career and the ensconcement of his name in the annals of world history.

Truth is, this man is irrelevant. If the Envirostatists win, America will vanish and he will be irrelevant. If the Envirostatists lose, he will fade into obscurity as a speed bump in the parking lot of American liberty.

Much ado about nothing. And thus he clothes himself with odd old ends stolen forth from holy writ and seems a saint when most he plays the devil.

---update 15:22---

We just learned from the UK Telegraph the following:

"The on-scene commander thought that the captain was in imminent danger and then made that decision, and he had the authority to make that decision and he had seconds to make that decision."

Obama didn't order him to fire. Obama had nothing to do with this whatsoever. The President however couldn't give a flying flapjack about who really deserves the credit. He wants all the glory for things he didn't do and none of the blame for things he occassions. That Navy Commander deserves the credit for the decision. The SEALS deserve credit for the flawless deliverance of an American hostage. The President deserves nothing. Nothing.