Link to: The Churchill of Our Time

By: Frank Gaffney Jr.
Monday, October 26, 2009 1:16 PM

Americans tend to revere our pre-eminent honorary citizen, Sir Winston Churchill. That view is apparently not shared by Barak Obama, who unceremonious returned to the British embassy the bust of the great wartime leader (which George W. Bush had received from Tony Blair shortly after 9/11). ¶ >snip< He was reviled and treated as a political pariah for taking to the floor of parliament again and again to warn that another conflagration was coming. His enemies belittled him; he largely lived in self-imposed internal exile; and his public friends were few. ¶ >snip<

Today, there is a Churchill in our midst. ¶

Like the original “Last Lion,” he is loathed and slandered by his critics. His utterances about the present and growing threats and his past service to his country are savaged by the national leadership, even as they try to dismiss him as “discredited” (as Sen. Carl Levin put it on Sunday) or a liability for his party (as innumerable political operatives and pundits insist). ¶ >snip<

Our Churchill’s name is Dick Cheney. ¶ >snip<