OK. I’m calm. I’m cool. I’m collected. It’s very unusual for me to really lose my cool. But today, on the way to work, I really really did.

No, I did not succumb road rage. I wasn’t sent over the edge by some rude, selfish or careless driver. No, it was the Bronco Bomber.

I was listening to the news on the radio when I heard this quote from our president:

“Bin Laden sending out a tape trying to take credit for a Nigerian student who engaged in a failed bombing attempt is an indication of how weakened he is because this is not something necessarily directed by him.”

ARE YOU FREAKING KIDDING ME??!! This is exactly the kind of pants-on-head, window-licking idiocy that makes insurgency so successful. How unbelievably naive do you have be to say something so incredibly dumb. Seriously, Mr. Bomber. Who, in Alah’s name, do you think provided this “student” with military grade explosives, training on how to detonate the bomb, and thousands of dollars in cash to buy the plane ticket??!! Oh, yeah. That’s right. YOU ALREADY ADMITTED IT WAS AL-QAEDA!!

Breathe, Trint. Breathe. I’m calm. I’m cool.

I think I would be a little less put out if it weren’t for the fact that Bronco really isn’t that dumb. He just thinks that one else is! How else could he say this after he called the Fruit-of-the-Boom bomber “a member of al-Qaeda” after he called him an “isolated extremist“.

Dear Mr. President,

I do have access to the internet. I can, in two minutes, find references to your previous statements. Even if I could not, I do have the capacity to remember what you said two weeks ago. I am not an idiot. Please stop pretending that I am. You may be able to lie straight faced to Diane Sawyer’s doe-eyed allegiance, but you can’t lie to the American people.

Thanks,
Trint

P.S. I’m calm. I’m cool. I’m collected.