These anti-intellectual roots had a revival in the 1950s, until Sputnik and McCarthyism shook the country out of its stupor. The current right wing branch of the Republican party yearns for the simpler days of the 1950s and the social values of that era. Creationism and climate-change denial fit right into the anti-intellectual bender they are on. Witness Santorum calling college-educated people “snobs,” watch “Mad Men,” think of the trend among fundamentalists for home schooling and their complacency about dismantling public education, their claim to know the whole truth in tandem with their toleration for outright lies. It is all of a piece: anti-intellectualism in American life.

You don’t have to like the fact that Obama is following his responsibilities as commander in chief instead of pandering to your simplistic simpering demands but you are failing in your unwillingness to recognize that you are beating a very dead horse on this issue. Your position has been demonstrated to be invalid (i.e. without a basis) repeatedly over the past month. Even Romney has backed away from the Fox/Rush BS on this point.

The U.S. voting public, in the states that count, are voting for Obama and his advisors rather than Romney/Ryan/McConnell and their Bush II advisors who took us into two unjustified wars founded on lies and Republican testosterone.

Wadr, you have demonstrated that you do not have “a lot more” or more clear understanding of national security than I do.

Nitey – nite.

Obama does not have to defend his decisions to the right wing media nor to know-it-all bloggers and trolls. He has no responsibility to draw conclusions, many of them internally inconsistent, based on partial information. All prior terrorist attacks are not yet revealed at all, let alone within a matter of hours or even weeks and many of them may not be revealed for a long time depending on security needs. Even the full information on the Bush failures leading to and following from (9/11) are not yet public knowledge nor should they be. This is the 21st century. It is not WWII any more dude, nor even Korea nor Vietnam. Security needs change.

Disclosure of national security information may make you feel all giggly but it is not necessarily the right thing to do if the Commander in Chief and his generals believe it is not appropriate.

Your positions, though you try very hard to make them sound reasonable, are simply reflections and reiterations of commentators with limited knowledge and less understanding of national security, very large egos and massive pressure to influence the presidential election and the potential for having one more giant war in the middle east.

Make no mistake, I am not an unqualified supporter of some of this administrations failure to disclose internal domestic actions and decisions nor of this administrations’ attacks on whistle blowers and even some of those who have spoken out on the problems of the administration’s conduct with Guantanamo and drones. But I will support Obama a hundred times over Romney and Ryan who have demonstrated time and time again that they will defer to the worst of the Bush advisors on national defense and war powers and lead us into another destructive and self destructive war.