Posted by
flagwaver on Tuesday, January 18, 2011 10:19:06 AM
Forget nearly everything that I wrote commending President Obama on his recent speech in Tucson. While it remains one of his better speeches, and it still conveyed the correct tone and message, it turns out to have been the piece of political theater that many conservatives said it was from the jump.
I wanted to give the President credit for not rushing to make a political issue of this tragedy, yet I am today confronted with reports that his White House was doing just that in the initial hours after the attack. It seems that people inside the White House were coordinating with their media allies to link the attack to the Tea Party, the health care debate, or to the political right in this country in some manner. The t-shirts that I said I had no real problem with have now become a problem for me, since they are said to have been produced by Organizing for America, the group that was once Obama's campaign organization which now has a new name. There are also reports that the Obama team is hoping like hell that Rep. Giffords' husband flies the next shuttle mission so that they can make some sort of political hay out of that. If you want to see where I got my information, it can be found at
The Prowler on the American Spectator site.
So I stand corrected in my commendation of President Obama. I was fooled by the spin from the media, including Fox News, that painted the speech in the best light possible, and I genuinely thought that Obama did a good job...and I didn't want to believe that he and his White House were such ghouls as to use mass murder as a tool for political advancement. I guess I was the sucker on this one and now I know exactly what to expect of our Ghoul-in-Chief; nothing, not even the deaths of innocents can be "wasted" in the pursuit of political gain.