It took a while? What is wrong with people not knowing from the BEGINNING and before the inauguration that this man was a fake and nothing but trouble? I was writing a blog then and documented all of this...(and little good it did and I took up fishing..no one would listen.) he had a postage stamp resume, was Bill Ayers buddy, wouldn't give us a simple birth certificate, wouldn't release his college records...and he is given the most powerful position in the world? Maybe the demise of this country is our "reward" for pure stupidity and for treating an election like it was a sports event and a "social statement"...well we pay the price now. But it didn't take a rocket scientist to see what was happening. And now there is "wonderment and some regret?" Fools all!
That “a while” thing gets me. As a former DCI, Gates knew darn well that anyone who pulled the stunts Obama and his flunkies did in disclosing (or not) Obama’s past would have NEVER gotten cleared to be a CIA employee or contractor. So why was it ok to be President?
Oh, I knew it too, right off the bat, as did most posters here on FR. But my point was that people like Gates, who have been used to going along to get along all of their political and work lives, and have actually developed the reasonable expectation based on experience of being able to deal with somebody in the WH who wasn’t crazy, probably found it much more difficult to accept the reality of what was happening.
Bloggers, people here, and a few columnists called attention to this, but you have to remember that the mainstream media and even a lot of relatively sane and more or less conservative commentators absolutely gushed over Obama, ignored all the glaring signs of his instability and complete unfitness for the office of President of the US, and covered up anything negative that emerged about him. So Gates would obviously have had to be either a very assured individual with full confidence in his own standards, or somebody who had a lot of institutional support (from his party). He was neither and, frankly, I’m a little surprised that he has actually gotten up the nerve to come forward at this point, late though it be.