Thinking of the national security leaks from the Obama White House that seem to have been fed to the press for the purposes of burnishing the president's image, I'm put in mind of a favorite quotation of mine from Thoreau - although the quotation comes to mind without admittedly much logic of context governing the association - but it's always been a favorite quotation and it did come to mind and so that's that - namely, "some circumstantial evidence is very strong, as when you find a trout in the milk". I'm finding trout splashing about in milk all over the place with this story.
Now, no doubt the milk stained footprints leading back to Dear Leader have been cleverly concealed and no concrete proof will emerge to indicate Obama promoted, okayed or openly condoned these leaks - I don't care, cause the story fits perfectly with what I've been saying about him for quite sometime: he's a political animal who will do and say anything to get reelected and to that end the operatives and machine backing him are shamelessly manipulative and guided by a disturbingly messianic sense of privilege. That Obama or one of his people would think it fine to myopically subordinate national security to a political agenda does not surprise me at all - seems to be coming as something of a shock to others - but remember I'm the guy who, when OBL was knocked off and others were seeing nothing but good, saw grievous strategic mismanagement caused by a myopic prioritizing of purely political objectives [see Gates' reported extreme criticisms of leaks regarding sensitive details of the OBL raid, leaks which Gates' clearly seems to have viewed as politically motivated - ie to feed narrative of Obama the strong, heroic leader].
