Bush Speechwriter: Obama Is 'Most Dangerous' President Ever

[babylonsister]

Someone sounds 'bitter'.

http://theplumline.whorunsgov.com/terrorism/former-bush-speechwriter-obama-is-most-dangerous-man-ever-to-occupy-oval-office/

The Plum LineGreg Sargent's blog
Former Bush Speechwriter: Obama Is “Most Dangerous Man Ever To Occupy Oval Office”


Former Bush chief speechwriter Marc Thiessen kicked up a big fuss yesterday with a Washington Post Op ed slamming Obama’s executive orders by saying that if there’s another terror attack, “Americans will hold Obama responsible.”

Today Thiessen ratchets up the rhetoric a couple dozen notches in a post at National Review:

The CIA program he is effectively shutting down is the reason why America has not been attacked again after 9/11. He has removed the tool that is singularly responsible for stopping al-Qaeda from flying planes into the Library Tower in Los Angeles, Heathrow Airport, and London’s Canary Warf, and blowing up apartment buildings in Chicago, among other plots. It’s not even the end of inauguration week, and Obama is already proving to be the most dangerous man ever to occupy the Oval Office.

Obama is already “the most dangerous” President ever?

Here’s the thing about this. You have here an assertion that crosses over from mere opinion into verifiable or disprovable assertion. If you’re going to say that someone has already proven himself to be dangerous, as opposed to merely being potentially dangerous, you need to point to empirical evidence of this, such as lives lost to foreign threats on your watch. There haven’t been any such lives lost under President Obama yet, unlike other past Presidents.

That aside, whatever side of the arguments on torture and Guantanamo Bay you’re on, this is the sort of toxic rhetoric that is supposed to draw condemnation from the sort of non-partisan Beltway pundits that routinely call for “civility” and bipartisan comity in our political discourse. Yet we’re not hearing much of anything about this increasingly vitriolic attack campaign from those folks at all. And I’m not expecting to either.

[47of74]

1. Bitter, party of one...

[Deja Q]

2. Isn't "bitter" British slang for beer?

:D

[bluestateguy]

It's not patriotic to criticize the Commander in Chief

This guy needs to shut his mouth.

[47of74]

11. That's what we need to tell these four flushing talking heads.

After all, they spent eight frigging years telling us that it wasn't patriotic to criticize the President when he was their bud.

[Warpy]

3. Marc, we sincerely hope he is

because anybody who threatens you is good for this country.

[Siwsan]

4. If you're attached to the bushco-neocon criminal cartel, he is

I guess he would be considered dangerous to them and their agenda. Now that his papers are going to be open to scrutiny, I wonder if even little georgie is starting to have some sleepless nights.

[DCKit]

16. Dumbya hasn't been sober since Tuesday and it may be awhile before he is.

I'll bet he's a nasty drunk too - Who's going to take away his bottle long enough for him to sober up enough to hear the news?

[LaPera]

5. The most dangerous president to the republicans sick war-mongering imperialism & corprorate ideology

And that certainly is a GREAT thing!!

[uppityperson]

13. That is my thought also. Indeed he is dangerous.

Dangerous to those who have been profiting off the health and safety of the world. And they say it like it's a bad thing. Odd.

[Hekate]

6. Are Sarah Palin and Marc Thiessen trying to get President Obama killed with their hateful rhetoric?

"Some people" might think so.

Hekate

[tblue]

15. Bingo! That's the problem.

The incitement, in so many words.

[mattvermont]

7. regardless of tools available

The powers that be can make him "the most dangerous president in history" with a few phone calls.
Another fabricated attack is likely, if it fits the greater agenda. Prove me wrong.

[corpseratemedia]

19. I think you're right :o(

[Why Syzygy]

8. Did he bother holding Bush responsible for 911?

Goose meet Gander.

I'll agree, Obama is the most dangerous President ever for the SCUMS who would steal our Liberty.

[LakeSamish706]

9. I can hardly wait for all of the investigations to begin for the Bush misAdministration.....

Sure would be nice to see one that reopens "What really happened on 911" as well.

These Repukes are just falling all over themselves to condemn President Obama.

[Ernesto]

10. Obama Is “Most Dangerous Man Ever To Occupy Oval Office”

Tell that to the innocent dead Iraqis and their families!

[Hansel]

26. Hell, tell it to the families of the 911 victims. n/t

[book_worm]

12. Proof positive that Obama has been doing a great job.

[villager]

14. The more dangerous to the far right, the better...

n/t

[ClassWarrior]

17. Of course he is. Dangerous to the profits of the corporate criminals who...

...feed parasites like Thiessen.

NGU.

[lunatica]

18. The light of day always scares the bejesus out of the undead.

They prefer dark places like under rocks, under their beds, in undisclosed locations,and locked in secret rooms.

[DeltaLitProf]

20. Explanation for the lack of commentary on Thiessen's rant

He's a nobody.

[indepat]

21. The tens of trillions of $ damage junior's policies and actions inflicted on the American economy

and stock markets must not have risen to being dangerous. :shrug: :P

[spanone]

22. and junior* wasn't dangerous? creating terrorists for 7 years.....great googley moogley

[jimshoes]

23. He gives the chimp way too much credit

for something they had absolutely no control over. But I expect they will not miss an opportunity to try and polish the turd's record on "terra". And they always seem to forget the big one that happened while someone was asleep at the switch on Sept 11.

[MiniMe]

24. That's PRESIDENT Obama you asshat

[annabanana]

25. Marc Thiessen sounds like a loon.. He is a vintage '03 neocon.

aside from being a "B*sh speechwriter" (which is nearly oxymoronic).. What else is he involved in?

History Will Remember Bush Well
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123241445616196157.html

here he is with Rummy in '03
http://www.kennerly.com/editorial/gallery.php?page=043


Title of Image Donald Rumsfeld, Marc Thiessen et al
Credit: David Hume Kennerly/Getty Images

Date March 21, 2003

Location Washington, D.C.


(L-R) Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and chief speechwriter for Secretary of Defense, Marc Thiessen, Special Assistant to the Secretary of Defense Larry DiRita, Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz, Captain T. McCreary, public affairs advisor to Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Richard B. Myers and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Air Force General Richard B. Myers (back in foreground) work in Rumsfeld's office at the Pentagon.