Out Of Touch

It never fails to stun me how out of touch with the real issues the liberal left is. At a time when we're at war, when at this very minute people somewhere in the world are plotting to kill Americans (for no other reason than they ARE Americans), people who are in a position to act on our behalf are not concerned with this issue. What are they concerned with?

While in a attendance at the Clinton Global Initiative, Ted Turdner was interviewed by CNN (can you imagine if Ann Coulter had her own network, then was interviewed on it? The libs would have seizures!). The interview ran on September 26th. Turdner was asked by the reporter what he felt the biggest threats facing the world today are. His response was surprising only in that global warming wasn't listed first.

The biggest threat he could identify was that the world's nuclear arsenals are on "hair trigger" alert, where an accidental launch will end the world in an afternoon. He said this like Homer Simpson was sitting in a room drinking beer with a single red button under his thumb that would launch every single nuke 'round the world at once. It's ironic then, that while he's so concerned about nuclear weapons that Iran's efforts to build a nuclear weapons program did not register as a threat.

His second threat was predictably global warming. Yawn.

When asked what he would do differently he said he would stop doing "stupid" things like bombing third world nations. OK, like Iran...which is trying to build...nuclear..weapons. Wasn't that his primary concern for the world? This is one of the larger problems with the libs. They can't even be consistent within their own series of statements.

Where was the rise of Islamo-fascism on his list? Not even mentioned.

Now, Ted Turdner isn't one of our elected officials, but he donates to and supports the causes of the liberal left and owns one of the largest lefty propaganda machines in all of cable news, so his views definitely are a problem for our country.

Now, on a day to day basis I don't know how much the average citizen worries about Islamic terrorism, but that's only because we've not suffered a catastrophic attack on our soil in over six years. If we hadn't foiled the plot to blow up the Sears Tower, or foiled the plot to blow up the pipeline that supplies jet fuel to JFK International Airport, or foiled the attack on Fort Dix - I can cite other examples, but you get the picture - things would be different.

The fact is that fundamental Islamists are a threat to Americans, to our way of life. The libs on the left try to act like that's not the case, but they know that it is, or they wouldn't spend so much time and effort trying to divert attention away from it.