Are the Benghazi attacks the equivalent for Barack Obama?
They should be.
Gerard Van Der Leun
Happy Rebirthday!
Baumgartner
…is about to jump. He’s almost to altitude. Here’s a live link. He just beat Kittinger’s altitude record on his way to his ultimate altitude.
[Update a while after the successful dive and landing]
Here’s the Gray Lady’s take:
“It was harder than I expected,” Mr. Baumgarter said after returning by helicopter to mission control in Roswell. “Trust me, when you stand up there on top of the world, you become so humble. It’s not about breaking records anymore. It’s not about getting scientific data. It’s all about coming home.”
I’m going to have to add this to my space safety paper. No one in the government was responsible for regulating his safety to jump from a balloon. Why would they do it for him to jump from a rocket?
[Update a few minutes later]
An interesting coincidence (it has to be that, because he wanted to do it earlier this week). The first supersonic flight of a human in a suit took place on the 65th anniversary of the first controlled supersonic flight of an aircraft. And he’s going to do it again with an F-15 to commemorate it.
[Update a couple minutes later]
Talk about one giant leap for a man.
Only In LA
“Politicized Benghazi”
…distracts from Big Bird. A must-read from Mark Steyn:
“There’s only one candidate in this race who is going to continue to fight for Big Bird and Elmo, and he is riding on this plane.”
She’s right! The United States is the first nation in history whose democracy has evolved to the point where its leader is provided with a wide-body transatlantic jet in order to campaign on the vital issue of public funding for sock puppets. Sure, Caligula put his horse in the Senate, but it was a real horse. At Ohio State University, the rapper will.i.am introduced the President by playing the Sesame Street theme tune, which, oddly enough, seems more apt presidential walk-on music for the Obama era than “Hail To The Chief.”
I can’t figure out who’s the bigger embarrassment to the Dems, Debbie Blabbermouth Schultz, or Stephanie Cutter.
Hillary’s Bus
Will this Obama/Biden message of “We killed Osama but they forgot to remind us about the blowback” really carry them past the election? The buck stops where?
I suspect that Mitt will make this a (to use a Bidenism) big effing deal during the debates.
[Update a couple minutes later]
More Hillary bus thoughts at PJMedia.
That Hit Piece On SpaceX
I critique it, over at PJMedia.
Mitt’s Nightmare
Joe Biden for his VP?
And the Biden-as-president scenario is the nation’s nightmare.
Biden’s Performance
Good for the comedians, bad for the campaign.
I’ll be very interested to see what SNL does with it, if anything. It’s hard to see how they could resist.
Blue On Blue
The incipient war between the White House and the Clintons:
As of Friday afternoon, the White House, the State Department and the former president’s office did not return requests from The Daily Caller for comment on Klein’s reporting.
But as for the chance that Hillary Clinton would resign, Klein said in the interview: “At this moment, it appears unlikely that she’s going to do that. I mean that would be an extreme step for her to take.”
“Not only would it be hard to predict how it would play out as far as Hillary is concerned in the future, but it would certainly damage Obama’s chances for re-election if she resigned,” he said.
They say that like it would be a bad thing.