And Now the Shoe is on the Other Foot

"And now the shoe is on the other foot" goes the old saying, and Democrats now learn that the shoe is tight.

Throughout President Bush's administration - an administration that had to deal with a terror attack the likes of which the world has never seen - Democrats were constantly jibing at the Bush Administration. "Fear Instigators" they called whenever Bush spoke of Al Qaeda or the Axis of Evil.

And now the shoe is on the other foot.

When former Vice President Dick Cheney criticized the Obama administration this week for pretending the country was not at war after last week's 2 attempted terror attacks, White House spokesperson carelessly chose his words.

He criticized Cheney and his likes for attacking the administration and not the attackers; adding that eight years of Bush era public intimidation produced no results. Funny. Is that not what he is doing right now, fear instigating? How are Cheney's remarks different than those of Democrats throughout the Bush era who attacked Bush rather than the 9/11 terrorists?

And now the shoe is on the other foot and it's tight. The Obama Administration must deal with threats not dissimilar to those faced by the Bush Administration with one hand tied behind its back. A hand Democrats' themselves tied in the recent elections.

So getting out of Iraq will take 4 years instead of 10 months (as McCain stated in his campaign), more troops are heading into Afghanistan instead of out (anybody remembers Democrats' criticisms of Bush for getting into Afghanistan?), Guantanamo will be shut down but transfered to Illinois (no more secret prisons, no more gross Human Rights violations rings a bell?) and who knows what's next? Indeed the Obama administration is slowly untying its hands. But ut has to be careful, for the American public remembers that when it comes to terror, Republicans' hands were free all along...