Maggie's Farm

It's no secret to people who eschew the MSM and go on-line to get their news that large cuts to Medicare, specifically to Medicare Advantage, were coming in order to fund the Dems' takeover of everyone's healthcare through Obamacare. After that law was passed, I asked various people who run the Medicare Advantage program at my HMO, Kaiser Permanente (which strongly supported the passage of Obamacare, btw), what they would do once Medicare Advantage was abolished and their funding was eliminated. Not one of them was aware what was in store. They were totally ignorant. Keeping people in the dark was the Dems' plan all along, it's what they do: make promises no one can keep, kick the can down the road, and HOPE(tm) things will work out. That's a heck of a way to run a railroad.

From the link to Ira Stoll's post:

William Manchester, in his 1967 book about the Kennedy assassination, The Death of the President, reports that nine agents of the White House Secret Service detail were out after midnight on November 22, starting with “beer and mixed drinks.” One agent was out until 5 a.m. Manchester wrote, “Fellow drinkers during those early morning hours included four agents who were to ride in the president’s follow-up care in Dallas, and whose alertness was vital to his safety.”

Drinking is not the same as "being drunk". Government employees on the clock---and Secret Service agents who are on detail are on the clock 24/7---should not be drinking at all, period!, but that's not to say the agents on the Kennedy protective detail were "drunk." Maybe they were, but there's nothing in Stoll's article in the way of proof. Nor is there anything to show that, had they not been carousing the night before Oswald shot JFK, history would have turned out any differently. The failure to foresee Oswald's plan and to prevent it from happening would have to be "blamed" on the SS advance team, not the protective detail, but Stoll offers no evidence that the advance team was in any way derelict in their duty to protect the president.

B.L., I think you've come up with the perfect campaign slogan for The One, "Furtive!" Much improved over "Forward!" which only emphasizes to everyone how often The 1 says he likes to lead from his behind. When President Pinocchio gets back from his courageous mission to Afghanistan, where he is (sort of) putting his own life on the line instead of those of others like Seal Team 6, you should submit it as a suggestion to the WH.

re: Obama jumps the shark over the assassination of bin Laden

It take real gall for Bill Clinton, of all people, to raise the completely made-up issue, the strawman, of whether Romney would have given the go ahead for the mission to capture/kill bin Laden. As summarized nicely at Noel Sheppard's Newsbusters:

"Scheuer later described to me in a lengthy interview numerous missed opportunities by the Clinton administration relating to bin Laden all of which quite verified by the 9/11 Commission report.

'As I wrote at the time, "[T]here were three good, documented chances to take out bin Laden in about a nine-month period between May 1998 and February 1999. In all three, information and intelligence were not the problems. Some person or persons not being able to decide to act was.'
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"HARRY SMITH, CBS: Let's talk about what President Clinton had to say on Fox yesterday. He basically laid blame at the feet of the CIA and the FBI for not being able to certify or verify that Osama bin Laden was responsible for a number of different attacks. Does that ring true to you?

"MICHAEL SCHEUER: No, sir, I don't think so. The president seems to be able, the former president seems to be able to deny facts with impugnity. Bin Laden is alive today because Mr. Clinton, Mr. Sandy Berger, and Mr. Richard Clarke refused to kill him. That's the bottom line. "

Recall that Clinton turned the final review and approval for all drone attacks over to a bunch of lawyers. Without their prior authorization, the military was not allowed to go after targets on the ground. All this talk comes in a disgraceful effort to make an inept president Obama look like a hero. Talk about a case of Stolen Valor!