Arkady's Thoughts

Barry did it again and has somehow managed to piss off both sides of the ideological spectrum.   Tonight we will be informed of a formal decision to commit 30,000 additional troops to Afghanistan with a specific time frame.  People on the Right are upset for two reasons, both have merit.  Firstly, they are upset it took Barry this long to come up with a decision and do not understand why a troop surge could not have been performed earlier.   Secondly they are upset that we are publicly disclosing a time table and this sends too much information to the Taliban.  Logical, although someone who lacks any experience what so ever is not supposed to make decisions quickly. Frankly announcing to the enemy one's exit strategy strikes me as painfully brain dead. People on the Left are upset for two reasons as well and only one has merit.  First they are upset because they feel betrayed by a president they believed was anti-war.  Much like many clueless independent Americans crying about

In a grizzly act of savage violence four police officers were gunned down by a man whose criminal past shocked authorities.  Maurice Clemmons the alleged shooter does have an interesting past and it is inexorably tied to Mike Huckabee a 2008 presidential candidate and former governor of Arkansas.  Huckabee was touted during the campaign as someone utilizing the commutation power a bit liberally and liberal is a rather appropriate choice of words in this particular case.  In an interview , Huckabee states: "If I could have known nine years ago, looked into the future, would I have acted favorably upon the parole board's recommendation? Of course not," he said. "One of the things that is horrible and just, again, one of the realities you have to confront is the criminal justice system is far from perfect, and in this case it failed miserably on all sides." Huckabee can blame the justice system all day long, but there is no escaping that it was Huckabee'