"Jim DeMint says Obama too soft on terrorism"

Jim Demint is out and about using the attempted terrorist attack to drum up support for the GOP notwithstanding 9/11, the shoe bomber, antrax, falsified intelligence on Iraq, etc.

http://www.greenvilleonline.com/article/20100104/NEWS/1030334/1011/NEWS03/Jim-DeMint-says-Obama-too-soft-on-terrorism

to Google searches of all the times Obama has discussed terrorism recently. Plenty of bloggers have already pointed out that he doesn't have a problem discussing "terrorism" per se, he just chooses, as policy, not to see it as a thing one necessarily wages war on--it being a tactic, not a nation, people, or even definable entity. Also, contra Cheney, he knows we're at war because he finds himself the Commander-in-Chief in a time of it.

It's really astonishing how bull-headed these critics are--like a rodeo steer with his head caught on a barrel, charging anyway for sheer rage.

As to the "can't chew pretzels and watch tv at the same time" charge that Obama has been distracted by other things, it seems to me that Bush managed to wreck the economy with tax cuts, gifted the pharmaceutical industry with some Medicare Part D something or other, and threatened the security of the older population by wanting to fiddle with one of our more revered entitlement programs--whilst being at war in Iraq and Afghanistan, if not at war with the whole idea of terror itself. In addition to meddlings big and small in the intelligence, justice, and interior fields, appointed a variety of foxes to oversee industrial and financial henhouses, and all other manner of mischief. In the vernacular--he got'er done on a regular basis, probably to the sheer delight of his Pioneer-level fundraisers.

Apparently, the job description of "POTUS" involves "multi-tasking."

that nobody would be able to get in who might ask him why he's holding up the nomination ...

He's playing to the radical right and teabaggers. He's an ass and if he ever does make it to the WH, we'll be longing for the good old days of the Dubya/Darth regime.