Lynne Sweet of the Chicago Sun-Times describes how the blowhard Barack Obama, freshman Illinois Senator, on Tuesday squandered six of his seven minutes of question time for General Petraeus by flapping his own jaws.
After what Sweet called Obama’s “lecture” of Petraeus (and Iraq Ambassador Ryan Crocker) concerning the troop surge, the Senator had left time for only one rambling question — asking for essentially the same information Crocker had just given to another Senator. In the end, Crocker offered a rushed and truncated summary of the earlier answer, and Petraeus didn’t get a chance to respond at all.
That paved the way for the zinger of the day from a GOP committee member:
Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) followed Obama. He told Petraeus and Crocker, “As you have found, our hearings are more about listening to ourselves than listening to our witnesses.”
It’s so nice to hear the unvarnished truth now and then.
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Obama was not asking a question, he was campiagning for President.
The liberals are holding a hearing to find the truth, they decided long ago that the truth is whatever helps them get elected, The hearing is being held to belittle anyone not toeing the line on their position.
Go Jim DeMint GO!
tellitlikeitIS bubba!!!!
Obviously Obama can’t multi task as he got his campaigning mixed up with his Senate job. When campaigning they tell you not to give ammo to your opponents. Obama is obviously showing his inexperience. I guess he had better hope HELLary still wants him for her running mate.
Idiot liberals! What is wrong with the Democrat party? Harry Reid says this is “Bush’s War??”
And Dennnis Idiot Kucinich goes to Syria and bashes Bush and calls Assad “His Excellency??”
The Demonrats are treasonous traitors!!
If the truth ever got through to the public, we would be hanging them from lamp posts.
Two weeks ago I attended part of a joint House-Senate legislative hearing on the Texas Youth Commission, then watched the rest on the web. The total time taken up was 8.5 hours, and no kidding probably half or more was devoted to John Whitmire talking. He’d intervene to answer questions by other senators when his bureaucratic favorites were on the stand, then ruthlessly gruel anyone who said TYC hasn’t been 100% improved (believe me, it hasn’t) since the scandals came out this spring. I’m not sure that qualifies as a “treasonous traitor” (isn’t that redundant?) but it was one of the most dispirting political spectacles I’ve watched in a while.
To be fair, grandstanding is a bipartisan pastime, but it can get really annoying at some of these long hearings. At least in Washington the Senators have time limits.
#5, Zinggg!
Howdy,
#5 - Yep, no matter what party.
I don’t think I’d be going against my Oath of Enlistment if I put a set of lumps on those clowns.
Semper Fi!
Daniel
No matter what party, absolutely. But still, democrats are even worse. Both are bad, but I don’t see any Republicans going to Syria and calling Assad “his excellency.”
T-Hawkk, do I HAVE to go find the photo of Rumsfeld shaking hands with Saddam Hussein? Please!
We were using Saddam as leverage against Iran. Do I HAVE to explain international politics?
Do I HAVE to explain the difference between that and Koo-koo-cinich cozying up to a current enemy?
Dims - alQueda in DC?
T-Hawkk - Yeah, and about the same time Reagan was arming Iran and using the money to finance the Contras. Then Saddam turned around and “gassed his own people” while we supplied him weapons. That all turned out well, didn’t it? Today Iran is more powerful than ever, Iraq is a catastrophe, and Daniel Ortega is president of Nicauragua. Please tell me again how great Rummy and the GOP were at playing the “international politics” game with Saddam.
Kucinich would say there are reasons related to “international politics” that dictate why we should talk to Syria and Iran, and I agree.
Anyway, having your photo taken with dictators is a bipartisan pastime, or do we also need to find pictures of Bush with Saudi princes (where were those hijackers from again … Baghdad? … uh, I can’t remember).
Grits,
How great were the GOP in international politics? Last time I checked, we won the Cold War. Not only that, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia owe their existence to us when Saddam decided he wanted to control the Middle East.
Contrast that with Democrat failures the past 30 years. They failed to protect our interests in Iran (whom at the time was one of our best friends in the MidEast), leading to the capture of 52 hostages and is the direct source of the current state of affairs there. They withdrew from Somalia, emboldening Osama Bin Laden to plan further attacks on the US, including 9/11. They signed a treaty with North Korea in exchange for a promise not to develop nukes. Oops. They got blindsided when India and Pakistan both developed nukes without their knowledge. They were humiliated by Yassar Arafat, when he turned down the peace deal in 1999 they worked so many years to broker.
But hey, they caught Milosovich. 1 out of 6 ain’t that bad, right?
But since you agree with Dennis the Menace, it doesn’t surprise me that you don’t realize that there is a world of difference in meeting with an ally and meeting with a dictator that is a recognized enemy of the US.
One final point, Rummy didn’t badmouth the US while meeting with Saddam. Kucinich did badmouth the US military while meeting with Syria. That wasn’t a very smart move for someone running to for President of the United States. That you agree with him says quite a bit about you.