Tarheel Pundit

The good news:  we’re not using jeans and cigarettes as currency yet.

The bad news:

We Are Sitting Ducks, Thanks to a Lame One;  Update on the Christmas Day Bomber

Remember the Fruit of the Boom bomber?  The so-called “Eunuch-bomber?”  Chestnuts roasting on an open fire?  The fool who blew his manhood off in a plane over Dearborn, Michigan on Christmas Day, just this past year?  Well, not only was he interrogated by the FBI for less than an hour (total!!) he was also mirandized and took the fifth.  Just shut his piehole and refused to indict himself any further.  He’s not a US citizen, nor is he covered under the Geneva Convention.  He is a terrorist, yet he’s been extended the same rights  that any American citizen would get if they were to set their crotch aflame midair.  From the AP

Since the attempted bombing, several prominent lawmakers have argued he should have been placed immediately in military custody, and the nation’s top intelligence official said he should have been questioned by a special group of terror investigators, rather than the FBI agents who responded to the scene.

That’s a great idea and all, but last year  Obama disbanded the group of highly trained interrogators needed to get the DL out of high value terrorists, and hasn’t bothered to assemble a new group.  Just isn’t a priority right now, it seems.  So we’ve got nothing in place as far as intelligence gathering goes, were another crotch bomber or some other sort of terrorist (Ft. Hood) to attack our soil.  And based on Obama’s previous actions, the CIA would want no part of interrogations unless they are specifically given the green light, for fear of legal retribution.

So there’s that.

Propaganda That Would Make Stalin Proud

There is a professional astroturfer named Ellie Light who’s been published in numerous newspapers all over the country, supporting Obama and begging the public to understand that he has a difficult job.  Oddly, Ellie claims to live in each of the cities where the editorials were published.  Obviously this is some sort of astroturfing from the Obama camp, whether directly or indirectly.  It’s hard being president, y’all!  Can’t the man just eat his waffle?  HillBuzz has a lot of good info on this story.

And Then There’s This:

“I’d rather be a really good one-term president than a mediocre two-term president,” he told ABC’s “World News” anchor Diane Sawyer in an exclusive interview today.”

As Brit Hume quipped, he may end up “being neither.”

Is Obama planning on dying in office or something?  Is the world going to end before he’s crowned for a second go-round?  Wouldn’t a “really good” one-term president automatically become a two-term president?  Has this ever happened within the office of the presidency without death being a factor?  And we’re still supposed to believe that this man has an IQ that’s “off the charts” and he’s “probably the smartest man to ever hold the office of president.”

If you are loathe to watch the State Screwing of the Union speech Wednesday night, I am going to attempt to live blog it.  He’ll drone on, I will translate.