Dear President Obama: Were you high when you decided to appoint Charles Freeman to ANYTHING, let alone the NIC?

Mr. President, it seems fairly clear to me that you're still doing the herb before you make your personnel selections.

Choosing someone who is a total and complete scumbag for any responsible position in your Administration is just another of your increasingly long string of incompetent moves.

Our enemies are laughing at us, Mr. President. And when they laugh... people start to die.

"[T]he truly unforgivable mistake of the Chinese authorities was the failure to intervene on a timely basis to nip the demonstrations in the bud, rather than -- as would have been both wise and efficacious -- to intervene with force when all other measures had failed to restore domestic tranquility to Beijing and other major urban centers in China. In this optic, the Politburo's response to the mob scene at 'Tian'anmen' stands as a monument to overly cautious behavior on the part of the leadership, not as an example of rash action. . . .

"I do not believe it is acceptable for any country to allow the heart of its national capital to be occupied by dissidents intent on disrupting the normal functions of government, however appealing to foreigners their propaganda may be. Such folk, whether they represent a veterans' 'Bonus Army' or a 'student uprising' on behalf of 'the goddess of democracy' should expect to be displaced with despatch [sic] from the ground they occupy."

While I'm sure that Freeman would have done a dandy job as either an SS officer or a KGB hit man, putting scum like that... or putting ANYONE who believed the Tiananmen massacre of people demanding freedom into our government is simply beyond the pale.

Mr. President, you have to do much, much better then this... or Americans are going to start to bleed as a direct result of your monumental ineptitude.