Donald Rumsfeld On What Network And Said What? "……Trained Ape?"

The emergence of a past seemingly long forgot!

How many years and months was the US spared the inane and ridiculous appearances of former Bush Administration officials spewing pure drivel for ratings hungry media. They also spew to a public that has proven it too soon forgets its past. A public that may not mind the damnation of repeating that past.

The Bush Administration left the nation so deep in the doldrums of an economic and international abyss, history has already started its legacy development. Bush, Cheney, Rice, Rumsfeld, Powell, Tenet, Rove et al. have a place in our lives that should be quarantined into the recesses of our minds never to be allowed to across our brain Cortex. 

The GOP and RNC conducted national events over a six-year period without appearances from Bush/Cheney/Rumsfeld. During the 2012 RNC Convention Rice was paraded out as a “trophy” to spew “lockstep” rhetoric. Why the 2014 visuals accompanied by utterance nonsense? His most recent comments will be considered racist by many people. 

The Bush Administration ghosts.

Bush starts to make appearances. Cheney is actually allowed to speak via Fox News and certain Sunday Morning (GOP leaning) news shows. Hosts actually sit across from Cheney and ask questions, then sit back while Cheney spews pure jingoist garbage from the corner of his crooked mouth. Rice has crawled into the public eye since the RNC Convention and with each statement makes a complete fool of herself.  

Imagine this as Rice contemplated Putin’s invasion of Crimea.

Condi Rice: The U.S. Can’t Step Back And Let Others Lead

If I may posit.  No one from the Bush Administration should be given a platform to criticize the very president who has worked tirelessly to clean-up the utter mess they left for us all.  As politics has sallied over time, we cannot expect republicans to follow the old adage taught to me at a very young age.

“A fool will never be discovered a fool if he keeps his mouth closed.” 

Since, politics forces the fools upon us, I cannot help but lay blame to ratings seeking media.  

Think for a moment. Have we grown to the point our memory is so short and shallow we forget the dark ages of the Bush years?  On what basis can media simply pluck the non-credible from the shadows of the shamed, to speak on camera and microphone? Rice spoke of “allowing others to lead.” How about the leadership from the Bush cabinet? Leadership that included outing an active CIA Agent.

Rumsfeld now ventures into criticism of President Obama and he does so with analogy that some will be label racist.

After The Raw Story embed and advertisement,  catch my close.

The Raw Story

Read more after the break below

Donald Rumsfeld: U.S. diplomacy would be better if Obama was a ‘trained ape’ (via Raw Story )

Former U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld on Monday blasted President Barack Obama’s diplomacy, saying a “trained ape” could do a better job. In an interview with Fox News host Greta Van Susteren, Rumsfeld complained that relations with…

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Diplomacy; “trained ape” 

OK, so a “trained ape” could do a better job of International diplomacy! Seriously, he goes there? From a man who’s would send Bush Iraq War memos laced with quoted Scripture? He has the temerity to reference Obama’s diplomacy while some of us clearly remember this….

George Bush got memos from Rumsfeld that used Scripture to push Iraq war

 

We understand the shallowness of media that broadcast or write about comments from Rumsfeld. We can only hope the American public is far beyond Fox News propaganda from the Right and well beyond thinking media today is about delivery of news. Media, both Left and Right, has metastasized into communication wings for their respective ideology.

The Johnson Tapes..Nixon’s Treachery

Richard M. Nixon, harbinger of things to come!

While baby boomers have for decades  wondered about how our leaders perpetrated the Viet Nam War, I must admit the recent publication and release of President Johnson’s (LBJ) Oval Office tapes has provided an official and formal ‘jaw-dropper’. The BBC has published (and released) yet another legacy destroying expose on Richard Nixon.  

I could not help but wonder, as I listened to the short segment with LBJ speaking about Nixon.  I wondered how so many people actually cast votes and contribute money to the GOP. The party has dissolved into a shameful shell of a party long dead, but not yet buried.  It seems over the past two weeks revelations about political and social malfeasance from the Right have sprung-up like irritating dandelions in a well manicured lawn. My wonderment was heightened by exhibitions of pure racism and unfair treatment of  a visitor at the annual GOP CPAC “ooze”, Christe’s use of the word “boy” in yet another angst filled tirade for the rotund governor, and the release of the Iraq War Reconstruction SIGIR study. History will also chronicle the Showtime Dick Cheney special replete with “If I had to do it all over, I would not change a thing.” How can people continue to support a party that is so riddled with the cancers of defeat, it appears to soak-up chemo treatments with ongoing exhibitions of the unbelievable? And, when history reaches from the ages to deliver such lessons the wonderment becomes all the more intriguing (and yes rewarding).  

History is a phenomena that never fails to intrigue.  What we do not know can be psychological shattering once we come to “know”. I find myself feeling angry and manipulated as I come to “know”.  If you do not feel same, you might want to consider counseling.

I wrote earlier the week about how powerful men use us (common folk) like chess pieces. The powerful maneuver us like pawns in games that do little more than advance their agendas. Or, they play the game for iniquitous satisfaction of their ego, paradigm, beliefs, and elitist desires.

The revelations of Nixon’s treasonous malfeasance provides yet another view of Republican governance, while in some way reminding of things to come with Bush/Cheney/Rumsfeld/Rice/Tenet/Powell. 

             
We are going to post a 1:47 minute excerpt from a 58 minute portion of one of LBJ’s comments about politics and Nixon.   we will post more below as the story takes a fascinating turn and may involve monitoring a senior GOP adviser. Johnson mentions possible involvement the adviser he refers to as a bit of a looker in this MSNBC segment . 

The British Broadcast Company (DURATION: 01:47)

“If it was made public, it would rock the nation” 

How Richard Nixon destabilised the Vietnamese peace talks in 1968 to enhance his chances of victory in that year’s American Election. 

Using newly released White House recordings, David Taylor completes an investigation begun by his colleague Charles Wheeler into the extraordinary actions of Richard Nixon as he attempted to sabotage the Peace Talks over the Vietnam war in 1968.

Here we offer the full 58 minute audio. You will be linked to a page that will only require a simple click of an icon.  The page also allows listening to individual clips vs. the entire 58 minute release.  Note: it is not the easiest audio to understand unless you have perfect hearing ability and the opportunity to crank up the volume.

The revelations are not new.  As you have heard and observed in the video above, the story went silent in the 1990s. 

The BBC News Magazine story is linked here. (good read)

The Daily Kos provides a comprehensive treatise on the issue. 

Ngô Đình Diệm
President of the Republic of Vietnam

Romney with Bush as "Man in the Mirror’ and a Stumbling Ryan

 

The Romney Campaign: a campaign that begs for the return of Bush/Cheney/Rumsfeld/Tenet/Rice…..and the horrors of 2001 – 2008.

Watch the newly selected Romney VP choice “tough guy” Paul Ryan. Ryan was misguided and manipulated in 2002 n the Run-up Charge of the Bush Brigade into Iraq. He is misguided and ill-informed now. Now, however, he could be in a position to show a penchant for misguided at the expense of you and me.

The Romney campaigns doubles-down on the misguided Ryan, they assign a noted Right-wing propaganda mouthpiece as his chief adviser. Ryan has been turned over to Dan Senor.

  Join the piece after the break just below….

If you want to see an example of ‘playing to the base’ and GOP jingoism, watch the following video. I will not ask that you expose yourself to the overwhelming sadness of the entire interview. Within, 40 seconds of the start of the video, Ryan shows a degree of naivety and lack of common sense that can be compared only the the likes of Sarah Palin and Dan Quayle.  He takes a shot at “having more experience than Barack Obama” as he has been in Congress longer, he goes on to make a half-assed and less than confident expression of , “…..I have voted to send people to war”.  Wow, I have to wonder if that one was not of the Dan Senor play book. 

Wathc the first 40 seconds. Or, if you are a sado-masochist, watch the entire video.

Yes, detractors will rant about the majority of the US Congress voted similarly.  I offer up a major distinction to the ranters.  Those members of Congress who are still seated are not standing on camera ‘bragging’ about having voted to send people to war, ” in an effort to disparage a president who has proven more than capable in international affairs.

While we have focused on the ‘misguided’ Paul Ryan, this piece is a bit of a double-entendre. There is real critical importance in realizing that the advisers and surrogates we see and hear form the Romney campaign will occupy offices in the White House Thus, they will become core advisers to a president who appears increasingly remote, distant and non-attentive.  Does that remind of George W. Bush or what?  The one thing Bush did not appear to hold dear to his inner being: personal financial secrecy when secrecy is ill-advised: tax returns.

Let’s place this screed in perspective.  Romney, serial lair and secretive to a major fault (possibly hiding felonious tax information), Ryan a young ideologue who just recently disavowed love for Ayn Rand (thus influence-able from sources he should have placed in perspective as undesirable), Dan Senor who has significant experience turning  (combat and administrative)  losses into verbal declarations of wins, quack Sunnunu replete with irascible tendencies that appear as dangerous, Rick Gorka (“kiss my ass” aide to Romney). and the inimitable “etch-a-sketch man (name  do not remember and I will not seek) as core occupants of the White House and the Executive Branch of US Government.

Well, I may have written myself into consideration of reversing the double-entendre with contemplation of the latter vs the aforementioned misguided Ryan as the central subject of the piece.

The GOP never ceases to amaze.  It is much like Dr. Brzezinski once told Joe Scarborough, (on-air) “..you are remarkably shallow”.

On May 1, 2012 the DIJA closed at a four year high (Post Bush)

DJI‎ – Dow Jones Industrial Average 

13279.32 +65.69‎   May 1, 4:06pm ET –
Open:  13214.16 High:  13338.66 Low:  13174.65

On Inauguration Day 2009, President Obama was sworn into office as the Bush Era Great Recession was infull bloom.  Obama inherited the worst economy handed to a president since the early to mid 29th Century.  The Bush Administration denied the Great 2007 Recession until after the 2008 General Election. In December 2008, The Bush Administration admitted the recession  started in December 2007.  The reason for the subterfuge was obvious. Admitting a recession would add fuel to the weakened opportunity and bode poorly for the GOP candidate in November of 2008. How many millions believed the Bush Administration’s one year lie? How many deferred taking steps to minimize investments loses based on the Bush recession lie?

Despite hiding or shipping George Bush, Dick Cheney and Condi Rice out of sight during the 2008 GOP Convention, their legacy exuded throughout the convention; the economy had officially crashed around September 5, 2008.  The impact of the crash could not be mitigated by their absence and their absence did not dampen a national aversion to Bush’s conservatism.

Let’s take a ride back into time.  

If you watched the documentary, The Inside Job,  you know the Sub-Prime Bubble contributed to ‘great’ financial times for the Bush early years. The documentary was narrated by Matt Damon.  The Inside Job, fully explains “The Bubble” that burst in early 2007. The Bubble was a major blister on the US economy, strictly based in greed and self-serving money grabbing. When it burst in 2007, the graphs below show how our world changed.  The documentary is an absolute must watch.  If you have not sat through The Inside Job, consider doing so. I assure you pure anger as the movie comes to an end.  Oh, for the Bush lovers out there, the movie includes culpability for Bill Clinton and, yes, President Obama is sharing in the economic crash. Clinton for his ideal that all American should have opportunity or home ownership and Obama for retaining a few of the same characters who moved the nation to the brink of a Great Depression.  The real fault lies in “The Bubble” (between Clinton and Obama). The Bubble: A period of  NO REGULATION, few audits, ignored messages, ignored warnings,  greed, lobbyist, greased palms, and disregard for all that was decent in America. The documentary won an Academy Award.

Dow Jones by Google (Interactive tables and available charting)

December 16, 2007 (After The Bubble burst) through January 20, 2009 

(President Obama Inauguration Day)

Date Dec 17, 2007 13,167.20 Jan 20, 2009    7,949.09 President Obama Inauguration Day (Jan 20,2012 to May 2, 2012 Jan 20, 2009    7,949.09 May 1, 2012   13,279.32

The DIJA  data represent a stark reality.  Especially when, I hear almost daily how President Obama has a failed Administration. They say President Obama is not getting the job done. We often hear how the GOP can do a much better job of fueling and running the US economy.  Well, if you reed a few articles on this web page, including the Data Scroll Page, you will see that talking-point by the GOP is pure “Poppycock” (to keep it clean).

Before the Huffington Post article, it is worth noting the Dow indicator on the day Obama took office:  7,949,09 (Market CLOSE)

On May 1, 2012, the Dow Jones hit a four year high. 

Huff Post – BUSINESS 

NEW YORK — The fastest growth in U.S. manufacturing in 10 months gave stocks a lift Tuesday and pushed the Dow Jones industrial average to its highest close in more than four years.

Manufacturing expanded last month at the strongest pace since June, according to the Institute for Supply Management. Orders, hiring and production all rose. 

A measure of manufacturing employment also reached a nine-month high, a hopeful sign ahead of Friday’s monthly jobs report.

The manufacturing news jolted stock indexes out of a morning stupor, although the gains waned throughout the afternoon. The Dow added 65.69 points to 13,279.32, its highest closing mark since Dec. 28, 2007, during the first month of the Great Recession. 

“It definitely changed the direction of markets,” said Jack Ablin, chief investment officer at Harris Private Bank.

As I close the Dow May 1, 2012. 

13,279.32 (CLOSE)

Do the math!