And the beneficiary is Barack Obama

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PS – Special thanks to NWberry for passing this great video along!

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Best News I have heard in a while!

That old fossil, George McGovern (finally recovering from the beatdown he suffered at the hands of Richard M. Nixon back in 1972), crawled out of his hole earlier today and saw his shadow! Political junkies know that this means at least another six weeks of Democrat primaries.

KSFY reports…

Fmr. Sen. George McGovern Switches His Support

By Robert Wilson

A day before Senator Hillary Clinton is scheduled to visit Sioux Falls for a campaign rally, a long time Clinton supporter is backing someone else.

Former Presidential Candidate and South Dakota Senator George McGovern now says he will support Senator Barack Obama.

McGovern told KSFY telling President Bill Clinton about his decision was tough and he expects talking to Hillary will be very painful.

Senator McGovern said he’s thought about switching his support for sometime, but never felt it was the right time to do so until the results from North Carolina and Indiana came in.

In the name of unifying the party behind Barack Obama, McGovern says Hillary Clinton should step aside.

It’s just gotta’ hurt when George McGovern tells you that you can’t win.

“I don’t want to diminish the feeling I have for Hillary Clinton..she’s one of the most intelligent women in this country today,” said Fmr. Sen. George McGovern.

McGovern says it was the way Sen. Obama has planned his campaign and gathered grassroots support. He compares the Illinois Senator’s bid to his own run for the White House in 1972.

From your lips to God’s ears, Sir!

“Nobody thought I had a prayer. Who is this Junior Senator from South Dakota?” said Sen. McGovern.

He was (and is) an obnoxious nobody, and he was (and is) a loser.

And in Obama, McGovern says he sees something special. Something that makes Senator Obama worthy of being compared to someone else from Illinois: Abraham Lincoln.

“I’ve held that bar about as high as you can get it to think you might be another Abraham Lincoln,” said Sen. McGovern.

Interesting! Obama reminds me of….George McGovern!

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Bill struggles to stay awake

In between political events attacking Barry Obama, and employing those ‘politics of personal destruction’ that he otherwise decries, President Clinton managed to shoehorn into his busy schedule an event honoring Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. But he must be quite busy, as it was clear that he was out of gas, nodding off during the service.

The NY Post called it right – “Bill Has a Dream.” Literally – he was sleeping and dreaming about something (the family nature of this blog prevents me from speculation about what he may have been dreaming about).

Bill Has a Dream

Bill Clinton showed yesterday why he made it into the book “The Art of Napping.”

During an appearance at the Convent Avenue Baptist Church in Harlem, the former president was caught nodding off.

Clinton was there during a service to honor Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., while his wife was nearby at Abyssinian Baptist Church, where she was endorsed by its minister, Rev. Calvin Butts.

Clinton has had napping episodes before. Among others, he nodded off at a Mets game and at Ronald Reagan’s funeral.

When he was president, he told Dan Rather, “If I can take a nap, even 15 or 20 minutes in the middle of the day, it is really invigorating to me. On the days when I’m a little short of sleep, I try to work it out so that I can sneak off and just lie down for 15 minutes, a half an hour, and it really makes all the difference in the world.”

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“Is God proud of you?”

On September 11, 2001 the world stood still as Islamic terrorists used four planes as lethal weapons against innocent Americans. The 9/11 Commission was formed to determine how such an attack could happen, and its report documented the trail from the 1993 World Trade Center bombing to the tragedy of that September morning.

ABC is commemorating the 5th Anniversary of the attacks with a two part tv movie, ‘The Path To 911.’ It draws from the 911 Commission Report, published accounts, and interviews to create a dramatization of the events surrounding the incident, tracing the roots back over 8 years to the first WTC bombing in 1973. The primary character is FBI agent John O’Neill, who had a ringside seat at how ineptly the Federal government handled the growing Islamic terrorist threat in the 1990s.

The first part was long but good. It covers a lot of ground but it’s never particularly dull. Hindsight being 20/20, the errors in judgment on the part of the Feds is remarkable. It’s clear from the dramatization that the Clinton administration was just incapable of taking a strong posture as terrorist attacks grew more bold.

President Clinton, Madeline Albright, and Sandy Berger in particular have objected to the representations in the film. Putting aside the unintentional comedy of Bill Clinton stressing the value of telling the truth (remember he manipulated his wife and members of his cabinet to go around on tv shows and interviews and repeat his lies regarding his perjury & obstruction of justice charges), let’s just say that ‘Clinton’ and ‘Credibility’ aren’t exactly synonymous. Sandy Berger, the guy who stuffed documents from the national archives in his socks and panties, similarly isn’t Mr Credibility when it comes to matters like this. The Democrat leadership have gone so far as to lean on ABC to not air the film, which really demonstrates how far they have fallen in the modern era.

Dramatizations do put words in peoples mouths that they may never have said. Dramatizations also puts people in situations that may not exactly reflect the real-life incidents. Too bad for the Clinton crew that it doesn’t matter – that’s the nature of dramatizations and everybody knows it. While the words and situations do not literally portray what happen, they do dramatize a basic truth – the administration didn’t have the wits to recognize the growing threat, nor the will to handle the growing threat.

I’m reluctant, and always have been reluctant, to be a ‘blamer.’ The people to blame for the 911 attacks are the attackers themselves and the organization that made their mission possible. That being said, the 911 Commission’s mandate was not to lay blame but rather to find out what went wrong and to make suggestions to make things right for the future. Whether it succeeded or not is not yet clear, but there is plenty to learn from the failures of the Clinton & Bush administrations.

We can’t fix a problem if we can’t first isolate the problem. Political figures taking a posture of ‘don’t look at me’ is embarrassing. Indeed, it smacks of ego – people who really think the lessons of the ‘Path to 911′ tv movie as primarily about them have a lot of ‘problems.’

I’m sorry to say that it appears that we have quite a few people along the political landscape with a lot of ‘problems.’

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