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Monday, June 16, 2008

Talk About Childlike Thinking

Posted by: Carol Platt Liebau at 10:01 PM

Hard to believe, but Richard Danzig -- a top contender to become national security advisor in an Obama White House -- has opined that “Winnie the Pooh seems to me to be a fundamental text on national security,” according to this piece in the London Telegraph.

Winnie the Pooh? Are you kidding?!

Imagine if some Republican had come out with that. The laughter and jeering -- from MSM and the left alike -- would echo all the way from here to, say, Tehran. Suffice it to say that this is not a mark of serious geopolitical thought. And according to the linked account, Danzig read from chapter one of the A.A. Milne classic to illustrate the need for "change."

Well, let's just hope that Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is as charmed by the philosophy of the "little cuddly all stuffed with fluffies" as the Obama team is. Somehow, it's hard to imagine that there's much cause for optimism on that point.

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Joe writes:	Tuesday, June, 17, 2008 10:55 AM
Too bad that Muslims don't watch Pooh
Piglet is a filithy unclean creature.
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Joe writes:	Tuesday, June, 17, 2008 10:50 AM
Yes We Can Be Like Pooh Bear
Obama's foriegn policy will be shaped by...Winnie the Pooh. Richard Danzig, who served as Navy Secretary under President Clinton and is tipped to become National Security Adviser in an Obama White House, told a major foreign policy conference in Washington that the future of US strategy in the war on terrorism should follow a lesson from the pages of Winnie the Pooh, which can be shortened to: if it is causing you too much pain, try something else. Mr Danzig told the Centre for New American Security: “Winnie the Pooh seems to me to be a fundamental text on national security.” He spelt out how American troops, spies and anti-terrorist officials could learn key lessons by understanding the desire of terrorists to emulate superheroes like Luke Skywalker, and the lust for violence of violent football fans. (Lest anyone suspect that the Telegraph is exaggerating Danzig's role in the campaign, note Obama called Danzig "one of our key foreign policy advisers" in November 2007.) http://campaignspot.nationalreview.com/post/?q=NWViNzMxZTBh Yzg4Y2NlZDc3MGI4NzUyYWMxNmY4MGU= This is a perfect opportunity for McCain to hold up David Petraeus' U.S. Army/Marine Corps Counterinsurgency Field Manual as better summer reading for Barack. http://campaignspot.nationalreview.com/post/?q=MjliOWYxODE 2Mjg4Mjk5ZWQ5MmI1Njk1YTIzM2U4NGQ=
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Dottie writes:	Tuesday, June, 17, 2008 10:35 AM
Oh my!
Just when I thought it couldn't turn into a bigger cartoon.... If you think about it, Winnie-the-Pooh is a bear of very little brain (a description used in the books), and Obama when speaking off the cuff appears to be a man of very little brain....
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Fat Man writes:	Tuesday, June, 17, 2008 8:28 AM
OMG
You are kidding, right?!?!?!?
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Hector Berlioz writes:	Monday, June, 16, 2008 11:46 PM
Crybabies
Whenever my dad got on us about being lazy or wimpy, he would call us "Winnie the Pooh crybabies." Sad to see that the Obama camp actually sees it as a positive mentality.
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