Oh Good Lord...WHAT?!

Former NBC Nightly News anchor, Tom Brokaw was on Good Morning America on Tuesday morning and actually said to Matt Lauer, "Well in my adult lifetime. Certainly FDR did have these challenges. But in my adult lifetime and as a reporter, here you have a president who has two wars underway, is engaged in really what is a third war. The world's third largest economy, Japan, has been gravely wounded by a tsunami and an earthquake - now has a nuclear meltdown....And then we have, here at home, a recession that we cannot completely get out of yet. And political paralysis in Washington over the budget. All of that has arrived at, at the Oval Office, at the same time... but there have been few that have come as swiftly as all of these have from unexpected circumstances."

Yeeeah. So in his "adult lifetime" no other president has had to face the colossal challenges that Obama has had to. Well, that's the job of a world leader. He's not the bringer of potato salad anymore. He actually has a real job now that will throw things his way (that he obviously cannot handle and needs the establishment media to help and bail him out of all his ineffectiveness) But let's take a look at what Brokaw said there.

"Well in my adult lifetime...there have been few [events] that have come as swiftly as all of these have from unexpected circumstances."

Do I have to? Really?

Let's just mention real quick that even the lefts ultimate hero, JFK and Lyndon Johnson had to deal with the Vietnam War and civil rights, Johnson also had to deal with Cambodia, and Laos, not to mention the assassination of Kennedy.Reagan had to deal with the economic mess left behind by Carter, Iran, the Cold War, Nicaragua, Chernobyl. Also Reagan and Ford had to deal with assassination attempts on their very lives. George W. Bush had well, a commenter came up with a good list, some things I forgot about or didn't even know about (thanks MSM) like...

"Well, right out of the starting block, he inherited an on-going game of cat an mouse in the skies over the coast of China - Clinton had been warned that it was getting dicey, and sure enough, soon enough one of our spy planes collided with one of their less talented fighter jet boys, and a darn hostage situation arose. Our true to form MSM didn't miss a beat - they were already experienced in dealing with Republican presidents - there was no history in place, from the previous administration, that will be mentioned again.

Everything bad from this point on, would be created/caused by the new president. This MO will reverse as soon as the next Democratic president takes his seat - you see. Bush inherited the fallout from the collapse of the DotCom bubble in March of 2000. Results - a recession and a quick return to massive federal (and state) deficits. You see - trillions in predicted federal tax receipts dried up with that collapse.

Bush inherited a military - devoid of parts, supply, and soon to be needed modern battle ready equipment to protect our troops from what else he inherited...

9/11.

Bush inherited a dangerous housing bubble, born of Clinton and Andrew Cuomo's HUD. We know how that ended up. That ole Clinton, man of many bubbles. Oh yea - and that there deregulation of Clinton's.

Bush inherited a historic spiraling out-of-control HIV/Aids and malaria pandemic in Africa and other 3rd world countries.

Unlike his predecessor, he would propose, submit, get passed, implement, and complete on schedule and on budget while meeting/exceeding all of his goals in saving perhaps millions of lives and in preventing the spread of HIV/Aids to many millions more. The left is outraged here, that Obama is not filling the over-sized shoes that Bush left behind for him to step into.

He also inherited the aftermath in Africa of the most deadly conflict since WWII - in the DR Congo. Following Clinton's promise to the Rwandans, next door, some 3 1/2 million human beings would die - many in genocide - by the time Clinton ran out the door saying, "aye, I was great, wasn't I?"

Speaking of Africa - he'd inherited a uprising in Liberia - shut that down very quickly (Bush is a hero down there), and the aftermath of the conflicts in the Ivory Coast, Sierra Leone, and a rebirth of the ages old conflict in the Sudan. The MSM which had looked the other way during the Rwandan and the DR Congo conflicts - doing their best to protect Clinton's legacy, would be quick out of the starting gates to challenge Bush to do more in Darfur.

Down in South America, Bush inherited a terrible crisis in Colombia. Here however, Clinton had just put in motion a $5 billion Plan Colombia mostly disguised as a drug war, but just as serious in providing military aid to defeat the leftist rebels who'd been blowing up oil facilities for the past decade and taking Americans hostage (over 100 in captivity when Bush came in). Bush took control, beefed up some of the plan - to the horror of the MSM and the left - and by time Bush left office, Colombia had returned to normal, and Al Gore's old buddies Occidental Pet, had pulled out.

Also along the way, during the Clinton years, someone running the ship in Washington had not done their job when a "humanitarian" (not the first one I mentioned here) crisis was unfolding in Afghanistan as the radical Taliban seized control of this once proud country in the mid-90's, and subsequently giving a home to al Qaeda, so that they could plan 9/11. We've mentioned that before.

Not to be outdone, in the humanitarian crisis area, N. Korea was still reeling from the 2 million of it's citizens who had died during the late 90's famine, while it was reneging on it's agreement with Clinton, to abandon it's nuclear bomb program.

There was more. Ain't it just amazing that a national news anchor who'd sit there as all of these events unfolded, and not recall any of them."

What say you Brokaw?