Never thought I’d quote Rush Limbaugh

Well, positively, anyway. Here we go:

President Obama has continued the Bush policies of keeping a military presence in the Middle East. He did not scrub the mission to get Bin Laden. In fact, it may be that President Obama single-handedly came up with the technique in order to pull this off. You see, the military wanted to go in there and bomb as they always do. They wanted to drop missiles and drop bombs and a number of totally destructive techniques here. But President Obama, perhaps the only qualified member in the room to deal with this, insisted on the Special Forces. No one else thought of that. President Obama. Not a single intelligence adviser, not a single national security adviser, not a single military adviser came up with the idea of using SEAL Team 6 or any Special Forces.

I just feel so proud of him (Obama, I mean – but, actually, Rush too): the guy (Obama) who was just a freshman Senator when he moved me to goofy adoration in our high school gym. I remember thinking, then, that I’d look back at these pictures and marvel at how I got to meet him, and at how un-gray his hair was.

My point exactly

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Just like 24, and no need for Jack Bauer

It’s like the TV show 24: at 6:28 pm the car appears on video. Two minutes later the T-shirt vendor gets suspicious, finds a convenient mounted policeman who sees the fireworks and propane tanks and clocks inside and decides, at 6:33, to evacuate Times Square.

If it had been 24 Faisal Shahzad would have been arrested at 11:45 that night, but in our real world two nights later is just as good.

That’s pretty impressive counter-terrorism. I’m sure, though, that Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh and John Yoo will find one thing missing.

So you don’t have to listen…

There’s some site that calls itself Watching Fox, so you don’t have to,” or something like that. Well, since I love wordclouds so much, here is “Wordclouding Rush Limbaugh, so you don’t have to listen” (from yesterday’s radio show):

Think he’s obsessed at all? And why do you think the word “White” is so big?