William Kristol: Idiot Supreme

You'd think the guy who was once Dan Quayle's brain would, I don't know, hide from humanity so that he'd never be referred to as Dan Quayle's brain.

But no...Billy Kris just has to show the world how intellectually desolate the neoconservative agenda is right now. Commenting on the address President Obama gave last night -one that everyone knew was going to be about the economy- Kristol chooses to snip at Obama's lack of warmongering:

What can we learn from the few sentences President Obama devoted to foreign policy in his speech to Congress tonight?

The main lesson is how very few the sentences were. Yes, this was a speech focused on the economy. But it was also Obama’s first address to Congress, and his first to the nation since his inauguration. Obama did acknowledge in passing that for seven years we have been “a nation at war.” But that fact was barely reflected in his text. The treatment of foreign policy was perfunctory at best.

There's nothing in the U.S. Constitution that says a President has to delve heavily into foreign policy during his first address to Congress. But if Kristol is really curious, he can do what anyone with a computer does when they want to know what the POTUS is thinking: go to the White House website. But maybe Billy expected something new and fresh. If that was the case, well, he hasn't been paying attention to what the focus has been for the last four months.

And really, he hasn't:

This was not the speech of a man who even contemplates the possibility of using force within the next year to prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons. This was not the speech of a man who thinks America needs to be reminded about the dangers out there in the world, because Americans might have to be summoned to deal with them. This was not the speech of a man who thinks of himself as a war president.

But he is.

Evidence of Obama not being a war president. More evidence of Obama not being a war president.

Uh, Billy? I think Obama knows that he's a war president, but in truth he inherited the wars like he inherited the crappy economy. And America has been dragged to the Fear Shed for eight years now; they know about the dangers out there.

And if you're going to judge a guy on one topic by one speech he on another topic, well then...I guess that's why you were Dan Quayle's brain, huh?

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