The Reuters headline put it this way: “Pirates Pose Annoying Distraction For Obama.”
So many distractions, aren’t there? Only a week ago, the North Korean missile test was an “annoying distraction” from Barack Obama’s call for a world without nuclear weapons and his pledge that America would lead the way in disarming. And only a couple of days earlier the president insisted Iraq was a “distraction” – from what, I forget: The cooing press coverage of Michelle’s wardrobe? No doubt when the Iranians nuke Israel, that, too, will be an unwelcome distraction from the administration’s plans for federally subsidized day care, just as Pearl Harbor was an annoying distraction from the New Deal, and the First World War was an annoying distraction from the Archduke Franz Ferdinand’s dinner plans.
While Obama is “distracted” with the scourge of Somali piracy, his Sec. State – Hillary Clinton – seems to find the whole thing rather silly:
While Clinton was yucking it up, an American was being held hostage by these murderous thugs. Classy, just like her husband, the former Philanderer-in-Chief.


Published Sunday, April 12, 2009 at 3:41 pm
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