Top 5 Leftists Who Have Most Embarrassed Themselves With Their Pathetic Defense Of Obama’s War In Libya
5. Jay Carney
Sometimes I feel sorry for the press secretaries in Washington. They have to make statements that are not their own in front of often hostile reporters (especially in Republican administrations). They wind up having to bear the brunt of their statements face to face and find themselves in “kill the messenger” situations.
Poor Jay Carney. As White House press secretary, he has to stand at the podium and spout the claptrap that the administration tells him to say. This week, he was forced to play word games with the media when it came to questions about Libya. Carney found himself in the position of defending Obama’s war in Libya by saying it’s not a war.
“It is use of military force in concert with our allies,” White House press secretary Jay Carney said in response to a question asking if we are at war with Libya.
“What it is not, in the context of what we live in today — we use today, anything like a situation you have at one point 170,000 U.S. troops on the ground in Iraq,” Carney said. “That’s not what’s happening in Libya.”
Not calling this action in Libya a war gives us wacky terms like “kinetic military action” and other word games to avoid calling it what it is. Politicians, pundits and administration flacks alike on the Left will stumble over semantics all day long to get away from using that three letter word.
But, as a member of the Obama administration, at least Carney gets to make his digs at the Bush administration. “See, this isn’t a war. War is what those other guys did.” The great theme of the Obama administration is that Barack Obama is not George Bush.
If you look at what’s going on in Libya, the picture is different than the one the Left wants to paint. Missiles? Check. Covert operations? Check. Actions toward regime change? Check. Talk of “boots on the ground?” Check. Rumors of plans to arm rebels? Check.
Sounds like a war to me.
But, instead of outlining objectives or making substantive defenses for military action, Jay Carney has to stand there with a straight face and tell the media that this isn’t a war. It’s almost enough to make you view him with pity, isn’t it?
Next: One of the “usual suspects” in defense of a Democrat-declared war…
