The Port Deal - WH tactics coming back to haunt them?

[brooklynite]

When this story broke, what occurred to me was a little different than what I've seen discussed elsewhere. It seems as though, whether this deal makes financial and security sense or not, the Administration's political tactics have backfired. In the post-9/11 period, they've been perfectly happy to let Ann Coulter and Mike Savage and other firebrands regularly castigate Muslims in general and Arabs in particular (with nothing but an occasional "tut tut"), as long as it helped rile up the base in support of their military plans. Now when business decisions are being made, they find that the beast they've unleashed can't be tamed.

[Mrs. Overall]

1. Yes, Exactly Right!!

[ChairmanAgnostic]

2. ah, the penny drops! You caught on perfectly. that is precisely the issue

let them arab-bash at will, until their own insider deals become at risk. (Carlyle stock, anyone?)

[MadMaddie]

3. That's a good point...

I think they completey miscalculated the outrage that has been raised on the Port issue.

I think they are going to face the same backlash when another major city/community gets hit by a natural disaster...and it's a predominately white population...when those people realize that they are seriously on their own...

There is some of that going on now in the Gulf with predominately white populations.They are in utter shock...that there is no help coming!!

They have lost control of their carefully crafted machine!!!!

[formercia]

4. this one got away from them.

make a junkyard dog and one day he won't let you in the junkyard.

[The_Farouk]

5. Good point

I never thought of it that way but thats really true. This debate should be about american jobs, but it has turned into the "attack of the Arabs" Both sides look real dumb right now when its more about that an Arab country is doing this and less about outsourcing.

[babso1]

6. You are absolutely right.

The White House and its stooges cannot continually scream the fundie arabs care coming to get us every time and then leave US security to the same people that are supposedly trying to get us. You can't have your cake and eat it. An email to jack Cafferty on yesterday's Situation room puts it best... "this white house is pouring water on our feet and then telling us its raining...". It is becoming obvious that this white house is leveraging terrorism to scare people if it doesn't see a problem with leaving US security upto UAE.

[newyawker99]

7. Hi babso1!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[The_Farouk]

9. Another good point

It seems that more thoughful discussion is arriving here than all of the mass media combined.

[librechik]

8. yeah,effective demonization doesn't turn on a dime

it took them 30 years to turn those overly brainy egghead busybody Dems into a party of "No ideas"--(after decades of popular new social programs and education plans...)