Abe, what’s the opening line for the Obama groupies? “I know $3.6 trillion sounds like a lot of money, but. . . ” I really like, “Oh don’t worry about the $645B on healthcare — that’s just a down payment!” And of all the weekends to do this, don’t you think the timing is sort of bad to go representing the gang that couldn’t figure out how to keep AIG from giving away the bonuses?
There is an irony here. The country is filled with ground-up, somewhat amateurish political events. People who never got into politics are now out in force. They are of course going to “tea parties” to protest the president’s bailout-mania. So in a way the president is still inspiring his fellow citizens to take matters into their own hands and not let the Beltway Crowd run roughshod over the little guy. Unfortunately, he’s now “The Establishment” and lots of average citizens are mad as heck — at him and his policies.
Personally I’d rather hear President Obama’s take on Freeman’s rant. But as the AG said, we are a nation of cowards and I’m sure no one in the media would dare ask.
those who hired him?
NObama, his senior advisor Dave Axelrod the P.R. guy who directed his campaign, and Valerie Jarrett and Rham EManuel
they are living up to their reputation
these people are certain of the direction they want to take this country
and that agenda trumps the economy and anything else
actually, the deeper the crisis the more likely a radical agenda can get introduced
rick says:
“Personally I’d rather hear President Obama’s take on Freeman’s rant”
we can just read his teleprompter…..I hate the way he whistles through his dentures
Either most of Freeman’s views were in sync with those of Obama (especially those vis a vis the Middle East) –hence he saw nothing wrong– or that was amateur hour big time by this Administration with
Obama as the delegator in chief.
If Freeman was Blair’s first choice for the job it’s going to be really interesting to see his second choice. Hey Joe Wilson’s not doing anything is he? He’s got some relevant experience.
re: Those who hired him.
Am I the only one who remembers the pro-Palestinian remarks the president made while he was a state senator? The friends he had, the contacts he made, the efforts on their behalf? I’d be surprised if Freeman’s parting shot didn’t dovetail pretty neatly with the president’s closely held views.
Nolanimrod,
I live in Chicago, and I think you may well be right. That’s why we’re so lucky to live in a democracy, where the power of the head of state is limited by the influence of members of Congress, journalists (like Bret Stephens), and yes, lobbies.
Somebody has to get the backstory on Chas’s withdrawal. Who told him to go? It obviously wasn’t Blair. Or was it because the guy didn’t want to make the required financial disclosures?
Jennifer Rubin, you are perhaps the most inarticularte and irrelevant writer throughout the blogosphere.
Ach, Sadie, with your Joe Wilson! You just ruined what’s left of my evening.
Jeremy: You are soooo articulate. Your spelling needs a little work though.
Jeremy: didn’t your mother tell you that, when you get mad or are shown up, you should not just yell, or in this case write, insults?
You may disagree with Jennifer — even passionately disagree, as I’m sure you love to say (because you are a very authentic, very passionate person, no doubt) — but please don’t confuse your dislike of what she has to say with a distain for how she says it. Her entry, above, is very well written. Its sentence structure is complex. And she has a novel turn in her observation about the inevitable, but poorly executed, withdrawal of Freeman. There is nothing inarticulate (you misspelled it, in case you didn’t notice) or irrelevant in what she wrote or in her writing in general.
I hate to be critical, and hesitate to do so on such limited evidence as the one sentence that you could scrape together, but I would have to say that, comparing your entry with hers, yours is sadly lacking, in style, in articulateness, in relevance and, most important, in thought. But I did like the “perhaps” — just what your junior high teacher taught you was stylish writing, I’m sure.
Come On Jennifer..you know how we roped in the Chinese to help us. We control the Chinese take out market
My big problem now is how do I stop Freeman’s son from punching me in the nose
Jennifer Rubin is surely on to something in stating that the Freeman appointment, reflects a great deal upon DNI Dennis Blair. Anyone interested in the intramural machinations whereof an outlier like Freeman gets appointed to one of the most sensitive posts imagineable in a very green administration must look to Blair, and perhaps James Jones, as attempting to tilt US policy toward Israel’s enemies.
Jennifer, his reputation isn’t dead, but solidified with his friends across the Mideast.
Now when he frequents Riyadh, he’ll share with his creepy hosts what it was like to endure the attentions of the uber-powerful Jewish lobby.
And they’ll hang on his every word.
This clown will come out of this more wealthy than ever.
And are Freeman’s views “in sync” with Obama’s?
Answer: No.
Obama’s views are MORE RADICAL and more pro-Arab than Freeman’s. Of the two, the bought and paid for hack is probably more rational.
Of course that presents a conundrum.
Which of the two is the “bought and paid for hack?”
Soros did a great deal of buying, along with the creepy residents of the palaces in “saudi” Arabia.
Dennis Blair is a four-star admiral and served as CINC of U.S. Pacific Command. Sure, you torpedoed a qualified appointee who had the temerity to question Israeli government policy, but are you third-rate hacks seriously going after Blair next? I think you’ll find his reputation exceeds Jennifer Rubin’s, Jamie Kirchick’s and Michael Goldfarb’s.
One thing more too.
WHERE, OH WHERE is General Jim Jones in all of this?
Where’s he been?
Wasn’t it just yesterday that he was braging about the order and the discipline he was going to impose on national security matters.
So where’s he been.
Yea, we’re going after Blair too, and he can take his stars and he can shove ‘em, and he can shove ‘em where Arafat liked to have things stuck.
Fallon, Sestak…………………… Husband Kimmel…………..
We’re not about to fall over and go all reverential when it comes to Navy brass, especially when we recall their jihad against Billy Mitchell back in the day, and especially when we recall how their typically got their heads handed to them in night surface actions against the Japanese Imperial Navy.
We have a much more sober minded assessment of the Navy’s performance of late, especially of their brass.
re 16&17…
…these are excellent points…where is/was the general in all of this? surely the NSA cares about the NIC…and surely a former CINC should have a better sense of the sort of intelligence synthesis he wants from the IC…
…for me, the fascinating thing in all of this is the vituperative nature of freeman’s defneders…
why couldn’t they have taken a ‘more in sorrow than in anger’ defense of their man and point out that there were innocent ways of interpreting his seemingly intemperate remarks? why couldn’t they point to books or articles the man wrote that would effectively ‘shut up’ his detractors…why did they choose to make the battle about the jews and israel and dual loyalties…
if there’s anything that should ‘creep out’ us freeman critics it’s that freeman wasn’t defended, his critics were attacked….
…as for ‘contentions,’ posters here would have been better off pointing to the breadth of freemans’ conflicts of interests and, umm, bizarre comments…if he hadn’t breathed a word about israel but we had kept his china commentary and his saudi support, he would still be a marginal candidate
# 3, The racial agenda has already been introduced. But sotto voce.
The interest in new, minority-conscious guidelines for foundations is just
the beginning. [http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=prnw.20090304.DC79003&show_article=1&catnum=3
What we are witnessing in this massive transfer of wealth underway, is reparations
in the guise of stimulus.
It is a somewhat inctrovertable fact that many very senior military officers, in the U.S. Britain, Israel and elsewhere could give lessons on pusilanimity to many hardened “realists” at the Foggy Bottom, the Foreign Office and similar precints.
The notion of the infallibility of such people, whatever their genuine accomplishments or even heroism maybe is unfortunately quite prevelant among most Americans and not merely among the lunatic left.
Obviously this propositon does not apply to the large number of officers who are not only accomplished and heroic but also prudent and wise, the kinds of officers whose work we’ve been privilaged to witness over the last couple of years. The notion that 4 stars ineluctably confers on its weared the mantra of good sense, however, needs some considerable examination.
Cavalier, BINGO!
However, you were far too kind to the brass, many of whom are careerists and toadies, and when the balloon goes up, such careerists get men killed, and killed in droves.
So don’t be overly kind.
Men like Fallon are disasters, and they are inclined to give ears to other disasters, guys like Thomas P. Barnett, {that man is more dangerous than cold steel in the hands of a raving fanatic}.