Shockingly Stupid
I’m watching yesterday’s Fox News Sunday program and Claire McCaskill’s defense of Obama’s reaction to the Russo-Georgian Olympics war is laughable. Did you watch that? She’s almost shockingly stupid (emphases mine):
WALLACE: Senator McCaskill, one of Obama’s top foreign policy advisers, Susan Rice, went after McCain this week, and let’s take a look at what she had to say. “John McCain shot from the hip a very aggressive, very belligerent statement. He may or may not have complicated the situation.”
Senator, how did McCain complicate the situation? Or was he just quicker than Obama to understand and recognize Russian aggression?
MCCASKILL: Oh, listen, there’s no question that Barack Obama understood this as Russian aggression and took a strong and principled stand against the actions of Russia, but this is not a time to make political points. What Barack Obama has said…
WALLACE: But I mean, excuse me. But I mean, it was Susan Rice who was making political points, Obama’s top foreign policy adviser.
MCCASKILL: I think John McCain’s reaction to what happened in Russia did not reflect well on the position he should have taken, and that is one of understanding we have one president in this country, and that Secretary of State Rice and President Bush need the support of both presidential candidates in a very tricky time as it relates to Russia and the neighboring states that are trying to establish democracies.
Here are two Obama surrogates —Susan Rice and McCaskill— who are utterly blind to their own man’s idiocy. Is it possible that Obama’s campaign believes that McCain has antagonized or goaded Russia into seizing more and more control of Georgia? That’s ridiculous. The only people John McCain has goaded is their crew. Or is it all somehow related to the Obamans’ claims that McCain adviser Randy Scheunemann is somehow manipulating events in Georgia, too? What nuttiness.
Far clumsier is McCaskill’s idea that Obama respects the prerogative that Bush and his Secretary of State must exercise in dealing with what is actually quite a shocking development, when you stop to think of it: Russia has attacked one of its former Soviet republics? Amazing development. But, in fact, it’s obvious that Obama regards himself as a world statesman already —a citizen of the world, one is tempted to add— who is in no need of deferring to a mere President of the United States on such minor issues as our withdrawal from Iraq or from NAFTA or on other foreign affairs.
McCaskill is a frivolous hack who expects her rewards in an Obama Administration, but who will get none and justly. The idea that this country would surrender itself to the absurdity of this Democratic phenomenon becomes smaller in my mind all the time. But I fear it could happen, even though it must not.
We need this Democratic Convention to be a huge disaster. Things need to go viral and haywire —shockingly stupid. Obama can get the stupid started tomorrow by picking someone other than Hillary. Please, please, let it be Joe Biden.
