Webb Master

The former Senator from Virginia and Viet Nam veteran, Jim Webb, is toying with the idea of running for president in 2016 as the anti-war candidate on the Democrat ticket. I still believe that Hillary won’t run and, if the war against ISIS is going badly by then … almost a certainty, given the fecklessness of our Commander-in-Chief, Obama … Webb might just have a shot at the Democrat nomination. To read a lot of the back-and forth about his possible dovish candidacy … with lots of quotes from him and third parties … see: The Washington Post Article. (You might also note that the Post has already subtly taken sides in this imagined dog-fight.)

But Hillary does have one ardent supporter … Don Imus. The other morning on his Fox Business show he said that, because of the growing ISIS threat, he was going to support Hillary. He added, “if the Clinton's are willing to kill their friends, they certainly would be willing kill those ISIS dudes.”

Ba-da-bing.

Sandy Burglar

Sandy Berger, President Clinton's former National Security Advisor and admitted stealer and destroyer of National Archives classified documents ... for which he surrendered his law license, paid a hefty fine, and had to perform community service ... was invited to the White House last night for dinner with the president and a number of former foreign-policy experts ... see: Weekly Standard Story for the full list of attendees (but no Susan Rice, the current National Security Advisor!). This is obviously a bit of staging for tomorrow night's prime-time address to the nation by the president on the ISIS threat.

Let us hope that they counted the White-House silverware after Sandy Berger's departure.

Dear Brutus ...

The fault lies not in the stars, but in ourselves ... Staying with my recent theme that our fearless leader is clueless about what threats are facing the United States ... we now see that Obama is trying to offload blame for his policy blunders toward Iraq on his intelligence agencies ... see: Breitbart Story. 

However, it is well documented that President Obama attends very few of his morning intelligence briefings and this may be one reason for his fecklessness on this crisis. Team Romney recently pointed out this foible ... but was rebutted by a Washington Post article that claims that Obama now attends 100% of these briefings ... see: AEI Story

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I am very dubious about the veracity of this WaPo coverup ... and this is because President Obama didn't seem to realize the seriousness of this ISIS threat until he took a limousine ride with his Joint Chief of Staff head, General Dempsey, who apparently then clued him in on how bad things really were ... see: Bloomberg Story. I would think ... no I am certain ... that this same information would have been transmitted if Obama had attended any of the many morning briefings that the WaPo claims he had.

Et tu ...

Afterward: And let us not forget that Susan Rice is Obama's National Security Advisor. She is as out to lunch as he is.