IT'S ALL THE SAME, IT'S ALL THE SAME – AT 11:29 A.M. ET:   We tend to give Hillary Clinton the benefit of the doubt here because she's one of the more moderate, relatively speaking, voices in the Obama internship program.  But occasionally, and especially recently, she's gone into high grovel and has started to sound ridiculous.  From CBS News:

In a town hall meeting in Abu Dhabi on Monday, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton decried the man who shot Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords as an "extremist" - and urged the audience not to judge his actions as representative of American ideologies.

When asked by a student why many in the United States target the entire Arab world in reference to the 9/11 terrorist attacks, Clinton condemned "extremists and their voices," and said both countries had to work to overcome the strong influence of those voices, according to the Associated Press.

"We have extremists in my country. A wonderful, incredibly brave young woman Congress member, Congresswoman Gifford[s], was just shot by an extremist in our country," Clinton said.

"The extremists and their voices, the crazy voices that sometimes get on the TV, that's not who we are, that's not who you are, and what we have to do is get through that and make it clear that that doesn't represent either American or Arab ideas or opinions," Clinton continued.

Right.  They're all the same, don't you understand?  The guys who pulled off 9-11, which left 3,000 dead, are no different from the guy who shot that gun on Saturday in Arizona. All the same, all the same.

I guess that's what you have to say in the Arab world, but the net effect is to prolong Arab delusions.

As far as the shooter being an extremist, we actually don't know what exactly he believed.  "Mentally ill" would appear, to this layman, to be a more accurate label.  Oh, by the way, when did the Obama administration ever refer to Major Hasan, the Fort Hood mass murderer, as an extremist?  I don't recall the time.

January 10, 2011