Fourth Grader Vs. Stanford Lefty
It’s the fourth grader in a TKO. The fourth grader, fighting above his weight, is more adept at the sweet science than the Stanford student who took on Condi Rice. The grade schooler asks a better question, doesn’t leave any opening to be shown to be an ignorant kneejerk moron, in the latest lefty prizefight with Condi. Washington Post:
Misha Lerner, a student from Bethesda, asked: What did Rice think about the things President Obama’s administration was saying about the methods the Bush administration had used to get information from detainees?
Rice took the question in stride. saying that she was reluctant to criticize Obama, then getting to the heart of the matter.
“Let me just say that President Bush was very clear that he wanted to do everything he could to protect the country. After September 11, we wanted to protect the country,” she said. “But he was also very clear that we would do nothing, nothing, that was against the law or against our obligations internationally. So the president was only willing to authorize policies that were legal in order to protect the country.”
She added: “I hope you understand that it was a very difficult time. We were all so terrified of another attack on the country. September 11 was the worst day of my life in government, watching 3,000 Americans die. . . . Even under those most difficult circumstances, the president was not prepared to do something illegal, and I hope people understand that we were trying to protect the country.”
Misha’s mother, Inna Lerner, said the question her son had initially come up with was even tougher: “If you would work for Obama’s administration, would you push for torture?”
“They wanted him to soften it and take out the word ‘torture.’ But the essence of it was the same,” Lerner said.
Maybe it’s because the sophisticated child, while infused with an earnest sense of moralism fueled by innocence, still has an open and curious mind, in contrast to the child-like Stanford student’s steel-trap sense of moralism sprung by Bush Derangement Syndrome, which ended up snapping shut on his own ankle. Though in fairness, unlike the college lefty, the kid did get adult assistance.
Unclear from the kid’s question whether he is aware that Obama has left the door open on harsh interrogations, black sites and rendition, and while the president most earnestly desires to close the hated Crusader gulag at Guantanamo and provide illegal enemy combatants with full constitutional rights, he just floated a trial balloon to see if he can’t fire up the Bushitler regime’s loathsome drumhead trials again.
Well, young Misha has years ahead of him to learn about life’s complexities …
Rice did not seem to hold Lerner’s boldness against him. Because he missed the group photo she took with his classmates, she posed for a couple of solo shots with him — and chatted briefly with him about Russia, the land where his parents are from and the one that Rice, a Russia expert by training, had told the students was her favorite abroad.
Aw, that’s cute. Brings to mind my favorite Condi-ism: “Punish France, ignore Germany, forgive Russia.” Nowadays I think you could reverse that, though.
In other Owkwardness that’s hot today, here’s Hot Air and Malkin on the Obama admin’s threat to sic its yappy lapdog, I mean the snarling hounds of the White House press corps, on Chrysler. Related via Gateway, the pup wags for Obama.
Powerline on the growing evidence that Obama’s foreign policy is influenced by Andrew Sullivan’s Daily Dish. That’s odd. Everytime I go there I just see him regurgitating other people’s material, obsessing on Sarah Palin, and not making much sense when he does attempt any original thought. Doesn’t the president of the United States have anything better to waste his time on? It probably says a lot that Barack Obama may be influenced by a guy who changes his mind every five minutes, and has managed over the last eight years to hold every position imagineable on the war or terror.
Horrible truth via Surber, “If you want to stop a conversation in its tracks, just question something President Barack Obama has said or done. It’s not open to debate — and I don’t think that’s healthy, for the country or the president.” Tell me about it. It’s kind of like in the old days, saying something like, “Thank God George Bush is in the White House.”
Discuss amongst yourselves, via Malkin: The DHS chief who wants to target war veterans and conservative opponents as potential rightwing extremists … for the Supreme Court.
Topics: Guantanamo, Obama, hated Crusaders
Posted by Jules Crittenden at 10:55 am on Monday, May 4, 2009
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May 4th, 2009 at 9:27 pm
I’m not at all sure that Obama’s foreign and domestic policies are influenced by any of today’s hourly prognosticators. He may pay attention to polls, but IMHO those are are, let us admit, weak indicators.
This is a man who was raised and mentored by people (some white, some black) who believed in communism, and its softer, public-relations-ready version, socialism. When he married and took on a more politic persona, he adopted the church of his socialiist-indoctrinated African-American wife, along with her race-obsessed resentment, and spent twenty years listening to a purveyor of the bitter litany of victimhood and rage.
Everything he has done since he took office reveals his innermost philosophy: equality of result, not equality of opportunity, closely tied, I believe, to race. Resentment against those who have managed to rise to the top (equating them with those who inherited their wealth, as if they had no ambition to continue), and basic antipathy to a system that provides the broadist aid to the lowest, neediest level of humanity that has ever existed in human history.