I just listened to what I consider to be a priceless opening segment on The Situation Room on CNN. The ever popular Wolf Blitzer began the show with Robert Gates upcoming biography Duty which will be released a week from today. After watching the segment, I would consider it not only my duty, but the duty of every American to buy a copy. In the segment a reporter mentioned that Duty has already received some serious buzz especially on the New York Times and Washington Post websites. Click on the links below to read them:
New York Times Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/08/world/asia/obama-lost-faith-in-his-afghan-strategy-memoir-asserts.html?ref=robertmgates&_r=0
Washington Post Link: http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/robert-gates-former-defense-secretary-offers-harsh-critique-of-obamas-leadership-in-duty/2014/01/07/6a6915b2-77cb-11e3-b1c5-739e63e9c9a7_story.html
I'm also going to throw in a couple of other links make that three other links for good measure:
Swampland: http://swampland.time.com/2014/01/07/in-memoir-gates-slams-biden-reveals-he-nearly-quit/
Visalia-Times Delta: http://www.visaliatimesdelta.com/usatoday/article/4358481
Washington Examiner: http://washingtonexaminer.com/robert-gates-notes-that-joe-biden-is-always-wrong-about-foreign-policy/article/2541712
In the interview, Gates writes that Vice President Biden has been wrong in every major foreign policy in the past 40 years while praising him as a man of integrity. John McCain proceeds to support that assessment later on in the interview. Gates also writes that although President Obama was not afraid to make tough decisions regarding the War on Terror, he was not confident in his war strategy. After learning these bombshells, I won't be sleeping better at night knowing this.
The CNN reporter proceeds to mention that one of the tough decisions that President Obama made against the advice of his advisors was and I quote "The killing of Obama...oops I meant Osama bin Laden." Did he say his true feelings about the president? Well Jay Leno will likely have a field day about this as well as every late night comedian.
Another note about John McCain's propfest when it came to Vice President Biden, Mac proceeds to all but announce that he will be running for a sixth term as a U.S. Senator from Arizona. he states that he is at the top of his game and he is not afraid to continue on serving as the Senior Senator from Arizona. Wolf Blitzer then says that he hopes that McCain "continues on as Senator for a very long time." McCain proceeds to reciprocate that he hopes that Blitzer "continues on in The Situation Room for a very long time." Looks like another propfest is on!
Well, I've been watching The Situation Room since the epic opening segment and all I can say is that it has lost edge despite the fact that a CNN reporter quipped that New Jersey Governor Chris Christie will "piss off some people" since he signed an immigration bill today. Now I will be waiting to see when the latest sounding off by Dennis Rodman will regain the momentum that tonight's opening segment had. I know I haven't watched The Situation Room in years, but it looks like that it's becoming as entertaining as Shepard Smith aka the Jim Rome of news broadcasting. Like Romey, Shep is not afraid to dish it out as needed.
Everyone I'm now going to write another chapter for Deception which I hope is finished and published later this year. Stay warm. It's 4 degrees in East Rochester with a wind chill of at least -15 and this is considered to be warm as compared to the rest of the nation! Even Alaska is warmer than us!
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