Their magic is what they keep quiet. MSM.

When I saw the president’s speech yesterday and the follow up comments by John Brennan and Janet Napolitano, it became painfully clear that these folks actually believed that there really was no terrorism threat and that President Bush and Vice President Cheney were making it all up or at least exaggerating the threat for political gain. This explains why Obama, Panetta, and National Counter Terrorism Center director Michael Leiter didn’t cut their vacations short and rush back to Washington once they learned of the Christmas Day almost-massacre. It also explains why Napolitano couldn’t believe how determined al Qaeda is and that they would use a single suicide bomber.

It was surreal to see Obama, Brennan, and Napolitano stand in front of the American people and the world and act all shocked that radical Islamic terrorism actually does exist and that we are at war against terrorists who are determined to destroy our way of life.

On the one hand it is a relief to know that they finally understand what we are up against. But on the other hand, I’m angry because 13 soldiers were needlessly slaughtered at Fort Hood and 287 more people could have been killed on Christmas Day because of their ignorance and naivete.

And now President Obama and his team have to rebuild the anti-terrorism intelligence network – the very network that kept us safe for seven years – because they dismantled it after President Bush left. President Obama can’t say he wasn’t warned. Dick Cheney tried to tell him a number of times to not mess with the system that was already in place.

Then 13 American’s were killed by a radical, a little press, little outrage. A plane load of Americans almost blown out of the sky, some polite outrage.

Obama gets a little grief, because MSM loves him and thinks he has the right balance between protecting lone terrorists and the Muslim community or something. Yes it would be bad to have Americans killed…….but from a MSM point of view I wonder how bad? The briefing with Brenner and Napolitano was pathetic, it sounded like they were taken by surprise. Did they get briefed on their new posts or did the Obama administration skip the briefings because they thought Bush was way too extreme. I think that they thought they knew the job and skipped the briefings.

Obama tells us again the we are at war with al Queda, not all Muslims……..like he just realized the problem. How many time in the last 8 years have we heard the same talk? Then he tells us we will keep vigilant. Please, just do it stop talking, I don’t believe him anyway…….words are his thing……doing something, not so much.

With 1 in 6 Americans looking for work not finding it, nothing less than a four figure death count terrorist attack with really 9/11/2001 visuals will make the American public pay attention to poor protectin from foreign terrorism.

What is really damning, and what the American public is paying attention too, is the Dec 2009 BLS jobs report that fiscal and regulatory policies by the Obama Administration and Democratic Congressional legislation are causing.

We now have hard documentation of the small business and big capital investment strike informed people predicted that Democratic policies would cause in Sept 2008:

See this link from the WSJ:

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703278604574624711732528426.html

Congressional “reforms” of the American health delivery system have gone through dozens of versions. The separate bills passed by the House and Senate worry small businesses, in particular. They fear their labor costs will increase because of mandates to spend much more on health insurance for their employees. The resulting reluctance of small businesses to invest, expand and hire harms households as well, because it slows the creation of new jobs and the growth of labor incomes. …

Several pieces of evidence point to extreme caution by businesses and households. A regular survey by the National Federation of Independent Businesses (NFIB) shows that recent capital expenditures and near-term plans for new capital investments remain stuck at 35-year lows. The same survey reveals that only 7% of small businesses see the next few months as a good time to expand. Only 8% of small businesses report job openings, as compared to 14%-24% in 2008, depending on month, and 19%-26% in 2007.

and it has killed job creation for as long as those Democratic policies are either in place or in serious consideration of being emplaced:

Government statistics tell a similar story. Business investment in the third quarter of 2009 is down 20% from the low levels a year earlier. Job openings are at the lowest level since the government began measuring the concept in 2000. The pace of new job creation by expanding businesses is slower than at any time in the past two decades and, though older data are not as reliable, likely slower than at any time in the past half-century. While layoffs and new claims for unemployment benefits have declined in recent months, job prospects for unemployed workers have continued to deteriorate. The exit rate from unemployment is lower now than any time on record, dating back to 1967. …

These facts suggest that it was a serious economic mistake to press for a hasty, major transformation of the U.S. economy on the heels of the worst financial crisis in decades.