1.  Liberals were having fits when some of us called Nidal Malik Hasan’s actions terrorism.  In fact, some accused us of being racists or bigots for even floating the idea that Nidal’s actions were terrorism.  How dare we accuse a Muslim of terrorism when there are so many law abiding Muslims in this country.  But reality is that it was liberals who saw this man’s religion as a reason for our pointing out that this might be a terrorist act. We sensible thinking Americans only needed to read about Hasan’s opposition to the war and his calling for people to strap on bombs in Time Square to make an educated assumption that his actions on Fort Hood could be a terrorist act.  Well now ABC reports that U.S. intelligence agencies were aware months ago that Army Major Nidal Malik Hasan was attempting to make contact with people associated with al Qaeda.  SURPRISE!!!  Not.

2.  And it should come as no surprise that Attorney General Eric Holder plans on giving the keynote speech at the Muslim civil rights group, CAIR. Yes, CAIR, which supports the terrorist group HAMAS that is been responsible for thousands of Israel deaths, will have the honor of having the Attorney General has their speaker.  I guess no one has told Mr. Holder that the agency he’s responsible for has a ban on CAIR.  Then again, I don’t think he really cares.  Maybe he can brag how he’s investigating our brave CIA agents and get a standing ovation for it.

3.  Democrats in New York are shaking in their shoes after Governor Patterson demanded cuts in education and at hospitals before year end.  You see, when Republicans tried to educate these liberals about raising taxes on the rich, explaining that it would decrease revenue by causing the rich to flee the state, Democrats refused to listen.  Guess what?  As Reverend Wright would say, “the chickens have come home to roost”.

4.  Obama’s faux review to decide whether or not to send more troops to Afghanistan is complete with the President deciding to provide most of what his General requested.  I write “faux”, because many Washington insiders predicted that the President would authorize more troops to Afghanistan within two weeks of last Tuesday’s election.  Politics seems to be at play here.  Insiders say that the President didn’t want to upset his liberal base and was hoping to keep their support solid leading up to Tuesday’s election.

5.  And to address a few comments left on my blog.  As an international celebrity blogger, I am much more well-known and popular than Clay Aiken. In fact, when people hear his name they immediately think of me. If anything, Clay Aiken needs to ride my coattails to popularity.

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Senate Homeland Security Chairman and former Democrat Vice Presidential nominee Joe Lieberman wants a probe of the “terrorist attack” on Fort Hood.  Lieberman told Chris Wallace of ‘Fox News Sunday’, “There are very, very strong warning signs here that Dr. Hasan had become an Islamist extremist and, therefore, that this was a terrorist act.”

In other Fort Hood news, former President Bush and former First Lady Laura Bush, paid a secret visit to Fort Hood late last night.  The former first couple spent about two hours meeting with the wounded, family and soldiers, talking quietly and at times hugging them as they did in private at other times of crisis such as post-9/11.  President Obama visited Camp David and lobbied for passage of his Health-care bill.

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Tonight I could probably write about the 10.2% unemployment and mock Vice President Biden for saying that the stimulus bill was working better than he imagine.  I could also write about Pelosi’s health-care bill that would allow American citizens to be arrested for non-compliance for failure to get individual health insurance.  Or I could write about Nidal Malik Hasan’s comments that he was first a Muslim and then an American and he’s radical writings on the Internet calling for Muslims to rise up.  All of that would be very interesting, but I think tonight I would just like to post an article written by NBC in Chicago questioning Obama’s leadership and lack of sensitivity.  You be the judge.

President Obama didn’t wait long after Tuesday’s devastating elections to give critics another reason to question his leadership, but this time the subject matter was more grim than a pair of governorships.

After news broke out of the shooting at the Fort Hood Army post in Texas, the nation watched in horror as the toll of dead and injured climbed. The White House was notified immediately and by late afternoon, word went out that the president would speak about the incident prior to a previously scheduled appearance. At about 5 p.m., cable stations went to the president. The situation called for not only his trademark eloquence, but also grace and perspective.

But instead of a somber chief executive offering reassuring words and expressions of sympathy and compassion, viewers saw a wildly disconnected and inappropriately light president making introductory remarks. At the event, a Tribal Nations Conference hosted by the Department of Interior’s Bureau of Indian affairs, the president thanked various staffers and offered a “shout-out” to “Dr. Joe Medicine Crow — that Congressional Medal of Honor winner.” Three minutes in, the president spoke about the shooting, in measured and appropriate terms. Who is advising him?

Anyone at home aware of the major news story of the previous hours had to have been stunned. An incident like this requires a scrapping of the early light banter. The president should apologize for the tone of his remarks, explain what has happened, express sympathy for those slain and appeal for calm and patience until all the facts are in. That’s the least that should occur.

Indeed, an argument could be made that Obama should have canceled the Indian event, out of respect for people having been murdered at an Army post a few hours before. That would have prevented any sort of jarring emotional switch at the event.

Did the president’s team not realize what sort of image they were presenting to the country at this moment? The disconnect between what Americans at home knew had been going on — and the initial words coming out of their president’s mouth was jolting, if not disturbing.

It must have been disappointing for many politically aware Democrats, still reeling from the election two days before. The New Jersey gubernatorial vote had already demonstrated that the president and his political team couldn’t produce a winning outcome in a state very friendly to Democrats (and where the president won by 15 points one year ago). And now this? Congressional Democrats must wonder if a White House that has burdened them with a too-heavy policy agenda over the last year has a strong enough political operation to help push that agenda through.

If the president’s communications apparatus can’t inform — and protect — their boss during tense moments when the country needs to see a focused commander-in-chief and a compassionate head of state, it has disastrous consequences for that president’s party and supporters.

All the president’s men (and women) fell down on the job Thursday. And Democrats across the country have real reason to panic.

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Tragedy and terrorism came today to Ft. Hood, Texas as Army Major Nidal Malik Hasan open fired and killed several soldiers returning from overseas.  Hasan’s cousin told Shepard Smith of Fox News that Hasan was a life-long Muslim.  Retired Col Terry Lee, a former superior of Hasan told Fox News that Hasan supported Obama, but became upset when the President failed to follow through on his promise to end the war in Iraq.  Lee added that Hasan wanted the Muslims to rise up against the infidels and occupiers in Iraq.

While the facts of this tragedy are still be sorted, what is known is that terrorism has once again sadly struck at America.

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