Thursday, November 20, 2008

Ayman al-Zawahri, Newt Gingrich in Drag?

Upon reading Ayman al-Zawahri words on Yahoo News after Al Qaeda posted their first web broadcast in response to Barack Obama’s win of the United States Presidency, it was clear his pitch was no different than the Extreme Right in American government. After witnessing media’s coverage of the fall out of Obama’s cabinet appointments, it was extremely clear that tactics that Al Qaeda uses are no different than those used by Newt Gingrich. Obama’s transition team has been faced with the dredging of ex-president’s Bill Clinton’s impeachment, an absurdity that cements the fate of the Republican National Party and its failed “Contract with America.” George W. Bush’s fate was sealed the same way with a shallow policy of “Take power no matter what.” His last eight years in the White House vicariously re-living his own childhood schoolyard antics with Osama Bin Laden are enough. The United States needed more than what has become a lifelong feud between recalcitrant spoiled children fighting over who gets the oil. While probably it is necessary to question whether Bill Clinton’s post-presidential philanthropy could effect Hillary’s effectiveness as the future Secretary of State, the bigger question taunting America is how two candidates that spent two years running against one another now effectively can work together in the future president’s administration. The answer is simple. It is the definition of the word politics, something our current slate of lawmakers in Washington have forgotten. Without effective politics America can expect nothing more than the stalemate that has plagued the federal government for eight years. While it is a true test of the American peoples’ sensibilities to see Barack Obama offer amends so quickly to John McCain, Hillary Clinton, and Joe Lieberman, acutely he understands that to solve the existing problems facing America good politics is needed. Carrying the competitive tone of a presidential campaign into the White House may not prove as effective working with an incumbent Congress. The media has made that clear with its reporting in the last two days. Not only has Al Qaeda appeared for the first time, but the vetting of Bill Clinton’s Foundation has resurrected Newt Gingrich’s crusade against the Clintons. In retrospect does anyone have respect for a man who wasted the country’s time and money impeaching a president for actions that should have been kept personal? Gingrich’s politics are startlingly similar to Al Qeada’s. He simply throws mistruths at his adversary as antagonism. It will come to pass what opened the door of the White House to Barack Obama will prevail in helping him solve the problems of America.