The slowest blitzkrieg in history

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by David Safier
I got on Clint Bolick of the Goldwater Institute for his ridiculous email blasting Obama for his speech to school children.

One passage from the email I highlighted was,

The blitzkrieg approach to the national message caught parents and school officials unaware.

Blitzkrieg is defined as "war conducted with great speed and force." Bolick, I assume, is saying Obama announced his speech so late, everyone was caught unawares and had no time to prepare for it.

How about two weeks notice. Is that a blitzkrieg? I'm taking this from Sonoran News, which bills itself as "The Conservative Voice of Arizona," so I doubt if it's going to distort the facts in Obama's favor:

On Aug. 25, the U.S. Department of Education sent out an e-mail through crisisalerts@vipconsulting.com signed by Secretary of Education Arne Duncan to school principals across the nation, announcing, since it was the first day of school for many children across America, President Obama would be delivering a national address directly to students on the importance of education.

If G.I. wants to draw a silly Hitler mustache on its Obama poster by using a "blitzkrieg" metaphor, it should have a bit more factual basis than, oh, say, someone holding a crayon-drawn sign on a street corner.

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