Obama has been catching flak from the Right and the Washington Consensus makers for failing to panic when a young man set his pants on fire. I am not sure how better served we would have been had Obama flown home on Christmas day and held a press conference to reassure the American people they have nothing to fear from incompetent idiots, or to jump to conclusions based on half-baked information. As it turned out, the national security and intelligence services dropped the ball. Again.

In the minds of not a few of my compatriots, Obama is to blame. After all, we all know he’s a secret Muslim agent sent from Kenya to destroy the America, the light and beacon of the First World. They have this all wrong. Obama was hatched in a secret lab run by the Democratic Leadership Council, from the same exact DNA centrist scientists had cloned Bill Clinton, but modified to be younger, smarter, less passionate and more disciplined. No drama. No blowjobs. This guy will not freak out in the face of the ginormous challenges the American Empire creates for itself. The problem is that the right views caution and deliberation as signs of weakness and fear, or even worse, the work of the Devil, he what planted dinosaur bones to fool scientists with satanic Darwinism. Failing to panic and to fan paranoia among the people provides aid and comfort to the enemy. Because Cheney said so. Or some shit.

Tags: barack obama, fear, racism, religion, terrorism, underpants bomber, war, war on terror

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