...or at least spoke, at a luncheon Rumsfeld hosted for his "message force multipliers" on December 12, 2006, and what he said was remarkable. (Yeah, I know, there's been nary a word of this from any media outlet save the 20 April 2008 story in the New York Times and follow ups in the blogosphere thanx, skippy. But you certainly know that Obama is a lousy bowler, right?) From an audio recording in response to a question from paid shill Lieutenant General Michael DeLong, he says:
Delong: Politically, what are the challenges because you're not going to have a lot of sympathetic ears up there.Amazing. What was needed on 12 December 2006 in order for the GOP to prevail was another terrorist attack on the US. Much better commentary here, here & especially at Newsvine but as for myself, I am dumbfounded. The bastards, the sorry bastards, please tell me again that Bushco did not have foreknowledge of the 9/11 attacks and did not let it happen on purpose in order to wreck this country, as they have done, and to destroy this constitutional republic, again as they have done.Rumsfeld : That's what I was just going to say. This President's pretty much a victim of success. We haven't had an attack in five years. The perception of the threat is so low in this society that it's not surprising that the behavior pattern reflects a low threat assessment. The same thing's in Europe, there's a low threat perception. The correction for that, I suppose, is an attack. And when that happens, then everyone gets energized for another [inaudible] and it's a shame we don't have the maturity to recognize the seriousness of the threats...the lethality, the carnage, that can be imposed on our society is so real and so present and so serious that you'd think we'd be able to understand it, but as a society, the longer you get away from 9/11, the less...the less...
