(God forbid) this terror plot had been successful, guess who the lefty BDS crowd would be blaming for it?

Bush is damned if he does and damned if he don’t.

speed647 on August 11, 2006 at 10:22 PM

You’re right, but let’s be fair: the Bushies claim credit for our (praise God) not being hit again. Well, take that to its logical conclusion. Sauce for the goose….

What reflexive BDS sufferers don’t understand is that when all they do is carp, carp, carp about everything George Bush does and doesn’t do, and everything George Bush says and doesn’t say, they strike non-BDS sufferers as nothing but a bunch of self-deluded, self-important, infantile whiners.

And they call themselves “the reality-based community.” What more elegant proof is there of just how out of touch they really are?

Spurius Ligustinus, you’re right on the money.

Bush is damned if he does and damned if he don’t.

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At the time I talked with a friend who was convinced that, unlike some on the looney left, Richard Clarke was “a common-sense guy talking sense” on several “key points”. (I don’t remember what they were; it was more the overall feeling of ‘lingering credibility’ that remained.) That’s why I’m wondering:

1. Is there anything Clarke did well, or said/phrased properly, in recent memory? AFAIK this friend is still convinced that, despite some clumsy errors, Richard Clarke was still basically “telling the truth” in his book. (No opinion from me since I didn’t read the thing.)

2. Are there any good or preferred resources for fisking Richard Clarke’s oeuvre / persona?

If the guy is as dirty and “exposed” as conventional blog wisdom suggests, then I’m hopeful.

***SCROLL FOR UPDATES*** I could throw together a link round-up of all the updates on the UK terror bust, but folks like Michelle Malkin have done that here, and HotAir’s AllahPundit here, here, here, and here. All of those are……

RH

He’s no longer in charge now, and we foiled an attack.

Speaks volumes to me.

Clarke is a failure. And a moron.

We don’t need any Clarke’s in intel gathering.

To which my response was, “And of course, you realize that means I don’t have to take anything you say about him seriously.”

What reflexive BDS sufferers don’t understand is that when all they do is carp, carp, carp about everything George Bush does and doesn’t do, and everything George Bush says and doesn’t say, they strike non-BDS sufferers as nothing but a bunch of self-deluded, self-important, infantile whiners.

Clarke and his ilk seem to have never learned a basic lesson of life that most of the rest of us figured out on the elementary-school playground: people hate whiners. They never seem to realize that the look of disgust that others have when listening to their petulant sulking isn’t directed at George Bush, but at them.

Which goes a long way, incidentally, toward explaining their lack of electoral success in 2002 and 2004. And why their premature celebrating about November, 2006 is just that.

And they call themselves “the reality-based community.” What more elegant proof is there of just how out of touch they really are?

Clarke. The perfect democrat.

Rememeber they voted for the war in Iraq before they voted against it!

Imagine if Mr. Chirac would represent a superpower. Years of sheer grand waste, he is. And he’s the conservative over there!

This is the most important task we have from now until Nov. 2006, and then after:

…he used to be the country’s go-to guy on anti-terrorism.

What Clarke is now, is one more argument to keep every Democrat as far from the levers of national security power as possible. The Republicans aren’t perfect, but at least they’re not–literally–defeatocrats.

Thank goodness Clarke is the ‘used to be’…better sooner than later to discover such political egomaniacs who put their zeal ahead of country and survival.

If the Bush administration somehow ended all terrorism forever, these same people would claim it as a failure.

No, they would say that “the movement was about to run out of steam as a natural course of events, and President Bush had nothing to do with it.” At least that is the leftist view of Ronald Reagan defeating the Soviet Union. According to the lefties, the USSR was about to collapse under it’s own weight anyway and Reagan didn’t do anything.

Perhaps we have reached “1984″: good is bad, success is failure, Richard Clarke is an idiot. Oh wait, that last one is true.