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Homeland Security Chief, Michael Chertoff responds to criticism from Paula Abdul that he didn’t really “sell” the old B.J Thomas tune and needs to “make it his own”….

You would think that some of the qualities you’d look for in a Homeland Security Chief would be steely-eyed rationality, an over-arching intelligence and the ability to present a calm, competent image in a crisis.

And if you can’t get that, maybe someone who uses a Ouija board to forecast terrorist attacks.

At the very least, Michael Chertoff should have had a “gut feeling” that he should keep his gut feelings to himself when it comes to assessing the terrorist threat level.

Unless he owns stock in The Daily Show, it’s hard to figure out why Chertoff would let himself in for the kind of abuse he’s taken over his recent comments. Jon Stewart should definitely make sure he buys Chertoff something nice for Christmas.

I’m going to give Chertoff the benefit of the doubt and go with the idea that he’s carefully analyzed intelligence reports and reams of data on global terrorism. He may, for all I know, have a good track record of playing his hunches.

But, in the interest of not having the color-coded threat level system become more of subject of ridicule than it already has been, you have to keep your personal feelings to yourself or risk gaining a reputation as the boy who cried Yellow-Elevated Wolf.

Given the current debate in this country about Iraq, Scooter Libby, stem-cell research and immigration, the last thing we need right now is have another administration official operating on an emotional, gut level decision making basis.

“All these years I’ve been wandering around,
Wondering how come nobody told me
All that I was looking for was somebody
Who looked like you….”

Take us home John, Paul, George and Ringo (SIMS):

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