THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
An Online Journal of Political Commentary & Analysis
Volume XI, Issue # 143, June 17, 2009
Dr. Almon Leroy Way, Jr., Editor
Government Committed to & Acting in Accord with Conservative Principles
Ensures a Nation's Strength, Progress, & Prosperity
PANETTA COMMENT TELEGRAPHS AMERICA'S PRESENT WEAKNESS
By Christopher G. Adamo
THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION, THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY, & THE POLITICS OF WAR & U.S. NATIONAL SECURITY:
LIBERAL DEMOCRATS PLAYING A DANGEROUS POLITICAL GAME WITH AMERICA'S NATIONAL SECURITY -- THE FIRST FIVE
MONTHS OF THE OBAMA PRESIDENCY AS AN UNQUALIFIED DISASTER -- VIEWING ANY & EVERY SITUATION PRIMARILY,
PERHAPS EXCLUSIVELY, FROM THE STANDPOINT OF ITS POLITICAL GAIN OR LOSS BY LEFTWING LIBERALISM & THE
DEMOCRATIC PARTY -- PERCEIVING FORMER VICE-PRESIDENT DICK CHENEY AS A GREATER DANGER THAN AL-QA'IDA OR
A NUCLEAR IRAN -- PRESIDENT OBAMA'S NAIVE & IDEOLOGICALLY DRIVEN DECISIONS RELATING TO THE ISLAMIST
TERROR WAR --THE OBAMA FACADE IN THE INITIAL STAGES OF COLLAPSE
FULL STORY:
Once again, a prominent Liberal Leftist Democrat is projecting his sordid political
tactics and those of the Democratic Party on the opposition. In an interview for next
month’s issue of The New Yorker magazine, CIA Director Leon Panetta asserted
that former Vice-President Dick Cheney might welcome another major terrorist
attack on America, as a means of validating his criticism of misguided Obama
administration “security” policies.
Cheney has had the entire Liberal cabal up in arms, ever since his May 21, 2009,
speech to the American Enterprise Institute in which he bluntly warned of
the dangers posed by Obama’s naive and ideologically driven decisions
relating to the terror war. Cheney flatly explained how those policies are
putting America at risk. Worse yet, at least from the Liberal perspective,
ever since his commentary, Cheney’s popularity among the American people has
risen dramatically. Consequently, the Democrats view him as a bigger danger
than Al-Qa'ida or a nuclear Iran.
One might expect that, in response to Cheney, Panetta might have simply
expounded on the new and improved safeguards implemented by Obama and his
cronies since inauguration day. Instead, he sought to vilify Cheney’s very
motive for speaking out, despite the irrelevancy of that motive as a factor
in accurately assessing the effectiveness or ineffectiveness of Obama’s
“security” program. But Panetta and his puppet masters clearly revealed
their highest priority as the need to undermine Cheney’s personal
credibility in the process.
Worse yet, such extreme defensiveness, and the scenario to which it alludes,
likely reveals a prevailing nervousness within the Obama administration to
the effect that, in the event of a terror strike, Cheney’s warnings might
stick. This is a political liability that Obama knows he and his Cabinet
could not afford. And the magnitude of the response, indicating that they
are already in “damage control” mode, is proof that the Obama facade is,
indeed, in the initial stages of collapse.
Recalling events throughout the past sixteen years that led up to the
current state of affairs, it is obvious that Liberals view any and every
situation primarily, perhaps exclusively, from the standpoint of its
potential for political gain or loss. Bill Clinton, throughout the 1990s,
was wholly indifferent to the burgeoning Islamist threat, only addressing
them, on those occasions when he did so, from a perspective of their
usefulness to distract America from his other personal problems.
Thus, “retaliatory” cruise missile strikes were ordered against empty
terrorist camps on the same day Monica Lewinsky testified before Ken Starr,
captured terror “suspects” were dealt with in the judicial swamplands of
American courts, and no coherent plan was ever devised to neutralize the
emerging danger. Even more deplorable were the actions of Clinton
administration officials such as Deputy Attorney General Jamie Gorelick, who
did not merely ignore the problem but, at the behest of Clinton, erected
barriers to any effective analysis of intelligence information that might
have alerted the right people to the imminence of the attacks that did
indeed result.
In a similar manner, Barack Obama’s first five months have been an unqualified
disaster, not just on the security front, but in every aspect of his
governing. Once an observer gets past the “hope and change” platitudes, and
weighs real outcomes against the empty promises that were offered in such
profusion on the campaign trail and during the transition period, it is
impossible to assess Obama’s tenure as anything else.
The entire “bailout” ruse of October, 2008, for which Obama and the Democratic Party
eagerly took credit at the time, has completely failed to produce any of its
promised results, while costing current and future taxpayers dearly. The
bailout sequel, fraudulently presented as an “economic stimulus,” has
likewise proven to be every bit as much of a pork-laden sham, and an
abomination to every citizen who ever held the U.S. Constitution in high regard.
Obama administration ventures into the auto industry, replete with the predictable
squandering of billions of taxpayer dollars, are proving to be just as
dismal of a failure. Car companies that had been hit hard by high gasoline
prices and the recession are now being completely strangled by meddling
bureaucrats who know nothing about building automobiles, but are fanatically
devoted to a Leftist political agenda.
Gasoline supplies for those cars remain precarious, owing to the fact that
Congressional Democrats and President Obama refuse to open American territories to oil
exploration and drilling. So despite the government’s subsidization and
takeover of the formerly private auto industry, its prospects for future
prosperity are slim to none.
At the onset of a summer that, in many regions of the country, has been one
of the coldest on record, the American worker and businessman are being
strangled and starved as their livelihoods are being subordinated to phony
allegations of “global warming.”
The hideous face behind the mask of socialized medicine, that “unholy grail”
of the Liberal agenda, is beginning to be revealed to the public. Massive
costs, restricted coverage, and ultimately, rationing of services that will
seriously degrade the quality of care received by Americans, ultimately
degrading their health and even their lives. As a result, it is no longer
resonating with the public as it did when presented in flowery campaign
speeches, adorned in those banalities of “hope and change.”
Despite Leon Panetta’s shameless finger pointing, it must be remembered that
the Democrats, the members of his party, were the ones who sought to brazenly exploit
catastrophe, whether natural or man-made, as political ammunition. From the
Oklahoma City bombing to the Mississippi River floods to Hurricane Katrina,
Liberals can be counted upon to infuse their political message into any
occasion of human suffering.
White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emmanuel characterizes this as good strategy
and the proper exploitation of an opportunity. Despite having been appointed
as the nation’s intelligence chief, as a Liberal, Panetta’s first devotion
will be to the political apparatus of his party. So it should come as no
surprise that Panetta would expect similar behavior from a political rival.
Many on the political Right are waiting for the American public to find their way past
the fraud of the Liberal press, and awaken to the abysmal realities of the
Obama/Democrat agenda. No single event would do so more quickly than another
major terrorist attack. And the Obama White House is sensitive to the dire
significance of such a possibility, if only for fear of its political
fallout.
What if national security has been as thoroughly compromised by the Obama
administration as has the free market? Leon Panetta, by his excessive and
inflamatory words, has shown his awareness of the dangerous game that is
being played with the country’s security by blinded Liberal ideologues.
Americans should read between the lines and be very afraid.
LINKS TO RELATED TOPICS:
International Politics & World Disorder:
War, Peace, & Geopolitics in the Real World:
Foreign Affairs & U.S. National Security
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U.S. National Security Strategy
Islamism & Jihadism -- The Threat of Radical Islam
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American Politics, Political Competition, & the Control of
Public Policy: Elections, Political Parties, Political Factions,
Ideologies, & Special Interest Groups
American Government & the U.S. Presidency:
Presidential Politics & National Leadership
The American Political System:
Politics & Government in the U.S.A.
The American Political & Cultural Left:
Liberals, Statists, Socialists, Marxists, & Other Leftists:
The Democratic Party, Academia, & the Mainstream Media
Liberalism Versus Conservatism in American Politics
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POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY & POLITICAL IDEOLOGIES:
COMPETING SYSTEMS OF POLITICAL THOUGHT
Conservatism
Traditional Conservatism: Questions & Answers
Conservatism: Attitudes, Types, & Present Status
Constitutional Conservatism: American & British
Liberalism
Classical Liberalism: Intellectual Foundations
Classical Liberalism: Conservative Liberalism
Manchester Liberalism & Social Darwinism
Modern Social "Liberalism": Statist "Liberalism"
Radical & Totalitarian Ideologies
Radicalism, Utopianism, & Totalitarianism
Christopher G. Adamo is a freelance writer and staff writer for the New
Media Alliance. He lives in southeastern Wyoming. He has been active in
local and state politics for many years and is a managing partner in Best
American Buy (www.bestamericanbuy.com), an e-commerce business that markets
products exclusively made in America. His contact information and archives
can be found at www.chrisadamo.com
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