Obama scandal!
Posted at 07:15 AM ET, 05/16/2013
By Tom Toles
... The left is angry at Obama because his administration has overbuilt the national security state, and the right is mad because Obama is Obama, still, and still president, so whatever will do ...
The size of the national security state is an argument that is overdue ... The problem .. is .. too many people .. WANT an overblown national security apparatus ... They will gladly stroll into a medical system that regularly mis-diagnoses and mis-treats and kills tens of thousands of them each and every year .. but the .. remote possibility that a TERRORIST might do them in, and that’s a death worse than fate ...
.. why did Obama change up his promised restraint on national security? Guessing time! Here’s MY guess! He saw some .. alarming intelligence ... He might have also run the political calculation. How would Americans respond to ANY kind of lapse in security? (Hint: BENGHAZI!) Conclusion? Little downside in the direction of too much security ...As long as “the FIRST job of a president is to protect the safety of the American people” is an applause line, that’s the direction we’ll be going. If Obama falters here, Americans .. have their shoes off ready to throw ...
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/tom-toles/post/obama-scandal/2013/05/15/3db088e2-bd82-11e2-89c9-3be8095fe767_blog.html
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