Bond: "Obama Apparently Doesn't Want To Be Commander In Chief"

Yesterday, Sen. Kit Bond visited the offices of The Hannibal Courier-Post, and delivered his usual rhetoric about why he opposes the health care reform and climate legislation before the Senate. He doesn't have any substantive counter-proposals, of course, but what else is new? 

And when attention turned to Afghanistan, Bond unleashed some serious fearmongering and accusations about Barack Obama.  Here's an excerpt from the video posted by the Courier-Post:

Not only are his comments way over the top and insulting, but Bond really seems to be oblivious to the fact that reasonable people disagree on the best course of action in Afghanistan.  Just because Bond's preferred route hasn't been adopted by Obama in haste, Bond somehow interprets the current deliberation as evidence that Obama "doesn't want to be Commander in Chief."

If you mess up Afghanistan, there will be hell to pay in America. And while we're talking about health care, while we're talking about cap and tax [sic], if we are hit again and even again by al Qaeda, nobody's going to worry about health care.  They're going to worry about staying alive...

Obama, apparently, doesn't want to be Commander in Chief. He wants to be 'talk show host in chief,' he wants to focus on his very liberal agenda, which requires keeping his left wing in the buggy. And he is afraid, I fear, of taking any action in Afghanistan or against Iran that would alienate the MoveOn.org ACLU George Soros wing of the Democrat [sic] Party.

In reality, the American public has a lot of doubts about Afghanistan. In a recent NBC/WSJ poll, 51% of respondents opposed sending more troops to the country, and nearly 60% were "less confident the war will come to a successful conclusion." 

Sadly, Bond has chosen to push for his preferred course of action like a bully, instead of making a rational argument (which could still be passionate) about the best course of action.

The Courier-Post, which seems impressed most with the fact that Bond is still showing up to work, didn't appear to challenge Bond on any of his assertions or accusations.  Their piece leads with the fact that Bond has allegedly "refused to coast" in retirement, and then quotes him at length with very little context or outside information.