I used to include a word of the day on my old blog, but it kind of fell by the way­side.  I have decided to start it back up; but this time, it will be polit­i­cally– and current-event-oriented.   And coin­ci­den­tally, Dictionary.com’s Word of the Day fits right in with what I was thinking.

Obfus­cate \OB-fuh-skayt\ , tran­si­tive verb;

1. To darken or ren­der indis­tinct or dim.
2. To make obscure or dif­fi­cult to under­stand or make sense of.
3. To con­fuse or bewilder.

Eric Holder, Dear Leader O-bow-ma’s illus­tri­ous Attor­ney Gen­eral, has man­aged to define this word recently using all three def­i­n­i­tions.  I’ll give you some examples:

1.  Holder obfus­cated the future of the War on Ter­ror by allow­ing the 9/11 mas­ter­mind Khalid Sheik Mohammed and his cohorts to have a “fair trial” in civil­ian courts, even though Holder admit­ted we’re at war and these guys were caught on a bat­tle­field in a for­eign coun­try by our troops.

2.  Holder man­aged to obfus­cate his deci­sion by giv­ing dodgy answers in the Con­gres­sional hear­ing yesterday.

When he was asked what would hap­pen if the ter­ror­ists were acquit­ted, he replied:  “Fail­ure is not an option.  These are cases that have to be won.  I don’t expect we’ll have a con­trary result.”   Wait…what??  I thought the whole rea­son for our court sys­tem — a civil­ian jus­tice sys­tem — was to pro­vide those on trial with a fair one, where they are inno­cent until proven guilty?!  And yet both he and Dear Leader Obama have already given the ver­dict of guilty to these ter­ror­ists even before the trial has started!  If that is the case, then these guys can never receive a fair trial in a civil­ian court — which leaves only one con­clu­sion:  This will be a show trial (i.e. cir­cus) in which our inter­ro­ga­tion meth­ods, the CIA, and our national secu­rity will be judged and not these ter­ror­ists.  This will directly result in a weaker national defense, and we’ll be less safe than we were before 9/11, if we’re not already.

3.  And with his deci­sion, Holder has man­aged to obfus­cate the pub­lic and no doubt the fam­i­lies of all the 9/11 vic­tims.  All we can ask is, “Why?”