i'm not one of those…

… weird ass conspiracy theorists, but even I can smell a rat through my allergy-ridden noseholes.

Bo posted a map detailing the mayhem spilling throughout the world today. I'm also given to understand that rioters are having anti-American fits of pique in Lebanon, and that there are even military bases under attack.

But we don't even have the Lightbringer attending foreign policy briefings? Including right before the September 11 attacks? And nobody's saying a damn word?

Empty chair, indeed.

I am of the opinion that yes, this was all preplanned, and that the anger over the film was just a pretense. A convenient pretense. And I am afraid of what this augurs for the future.*

The entire Muslim world goes fucking apeshit sixty-odd days before an election that could eject the worst foreign-policy chief executive since Carter, one who is known to be soft on defense, positively deferential to Islam and its leaders, and a sure source of funding. 

The administration's first knee-jerk response is to apologize for the movie, then makes a half-hearted statement about being sorry they have to find another ambassador to Libya before scurring off to Las Vegas, pointedly dissing Israel and yet finding plenty of time to have high up cabinet members meet with an Egyptian official. But nothing's wrong here….

(Nice rant on the same subject here, if you've the time. And here, by the great Mark Steyn. Worth the read and the listen.)

But back to my first sentence. Four the last four or five presidential elections, there's been talk of the October Surprise, that major coup of a publicity rout (bad or good) that supposedly gives one side or the other a push over the finish line.

Hizzoner and I were discussing this tonight, and floated the theory that this was part of the rumblings for the Anointed One's October Surprise. Would he be so idiotic, yet so dastardly, as to risk the lives of thousands of troops and innocent people in an attempt to stamp himself militarily savvy? Just to show he too knows how to put down a riot?

Makes me sick to my stomach to think about it. Because yes, I think he's that cold-blooded, that self-aggrandizing, that bloody-minded, and that willing to go so far as to create an artificial state of emergency that might warrant suspending the election.

Oh, you can shake your head at me all you want, but since several universities in this country also went on various states of lockdown today, I posit that this could, in fact, happen. 

And that scares me to death. What scares me even more are those who remain ignorant of what this man is capable of, and who he really is. And then defend him and his positions from that point of view.

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*Which is redundant, but there you are.

 

Comments

[Carla in MT]

In the tradition of the British parliment... here, here!! That is what scares me the most - that the administration could really be that cold & calculating. We were stationed at
Embassy Algiers just prior to Desert Storm. 6 months before we were evacuated (before the shooting war started), we had employees come to us who had just been released from the Iraq hostage stuff! So, I know how security is supposed to be done, and just as scary... how politically it gets muffed up. Sadness & prayers to the 4 families.

And prayers for our country....

[Terri]

I am worried. And I am skeered. Very. And now: http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/09/14/As-world-burns-Obama-parties-beyonce
the Obama campaign tweeted, “Beyoncé and Jay-Z are hosting the President in New York—your chance for two spots on the guest list ends at midnight.”

[Jeanette]

Have you given thought of running for office????

[Karen]

I mentioned the other day to my friend that I was more concerned about what he would do if Romney gets elected. I'm seeing marshall law and all that stuff. It is a scary world we live in.

[Cindy in un-Happy Valley]

OK...now you've really got me scared. This never even occurred to me. And I take my cynicism seriously!

[Chris]

I don't think you are crazy. But I also don't think he can handle the rioting and will get no traction if he tries to put it down. It will be all too easy to point to his unbelievable ineptitude between now and if/when he would take military action. I just don't think he has a clue what he's doing, never has, never will. And those who he would expect to vote for him are no more paying attention to the rioting as they are to the economic issues of the day. They are too involved in their Jersey Shores/Idol/Voice episodes. They really aren't going to turn out for him. The thrill is gone. The people who are already fanatics are going to vote for him, but they will be counteracted by the others who are scared to even have this guy in office one more day longer than they have to.