http://www.prospect.org/cs/art.....al_mission

“He (The Moron) has already come some way in changing the culture of politics, including acting with respect toward those whose party was defeated in the last election. Though Obama has frustrated some progressive Democrats who see him as caving to the enemy, this is his attempt to defuse the winner-take-all culture of Karl Rove-era politics. To do the same in the economy, he’ll have to create an alternative to this particular form of capitalist culture. Obama will have to build institutions that foster a new culture, one still driven by the quest for growth, innovation, and profit but where the returns are more broadly shared and where stewardship and sustainability are valued more than today’s share price. And if this time it is politics that reshapes capitalism, then the new culture that emerges will be one where even the winners in the economy appreciate that their wealth was made possible by a collective enterprise, government.”

For those of you thinking this is just politics as usual, take heed.

The psychopaths are coming out of mommy’s basement.

But SJ correctly pointed out that he should be ignored.

Save your brainpower for the adults on the site.

I do not pretend to speak for the military in the comments below, but from one who has been there, currently wears the uniform and has experienced the medical system first hand (illness not wounds) let me pass on my thoughts:

“He also spent time over in Afghanistan where our CIA had trained another guy named Bin Laden.”

Never happened. Might want to read “Ghost Wars” – probably the most objective account of Afghanistan I’ve read. Bin Lauden is a product of Saudi and Paki intel subsidies, not CIA/US subsidies. He was under the radar as far as the CIA was concerned, because the Taliban was the clear and present danger up through 9-11.

“and was actually at the airport in Kuwait liberating that country from the grasps of a man that was an ally of HW’s.”

Well actually this is “an enemy of my enemy is my friend” logic. Yup, we funded Hussein and even supplied him with chemical weapons (oops, that means he really did have WMDs, ’cause we had the receipts!). Iran was and is a larger strategic threat than Iraq, and if Sadaam was willing to wage a war to weaken them and tie down their move towards regional hegemony, well sometimes in the real world you take ugly deals that are available to advance your strategic interests. It’s not pristine, but it works, and both Democrat and Republican administrations have used this tactic.

“how bout when he comes into office and leaves with a 6 trillion debt after 8 years. He also squandered that 500 billion surplus that was left behind”

Well there was this little attack on our economic system as well as our country that played a tinsee, weensie role in this issue. Just sayin’…

“As for reducing spending, how bout W who let our soldiers come home w/brain injuries and rot like the facilities at Walter Reed Medical which is the VA facility for these guys. Once they were here he didn’t give a damn about the fact he was sticking these guys in a hospital room with mold on the walls.”

Actually this is not the scandal it is purported to be. The facilities are always the lowest of funding priorities, and oh by the way, if memory serves, the DEMOCRATS held a number of war funding bills hostage to social program growth. Basically those moral paragons would rather fund welfare for the non-productive over facilities for veterans, but I digress!

The care at Walter Reed is incredible for wounded veterans (combat illness is a different and less positive story). The housing facilities for long term recuperative care was derived from mothballed facilities pressed into use because of high demand. Not saying this is OK, but the Army doesn’t just put people in moldy substandard rooms if better facilities are available, and they can’t just magically make facilities appear over night. This was an example where a level of risk was accepted by the senior leadership in the Army, and that risk came back to haunt them. And something that has never happened before to a DEMOCRAT politician (OK, maybe it happened once…), people were held accountable and lost careers over the issue!

“While in Iraq they were very poorly equipped while Halliburton made over 1 billion on a 7 billion contract and then stole another billion of it.”

Sorry, we were not poorly equipped. We had the best equipment available in quantities the DEMOCRATS allowed us to field – while I bitch about the Democrats, truth is it was enough, and of good quality. Bush was 2 years into his presidency before he had his first shot at the POM (military budget process). The issue now is we have not mobilized for war economically, and there is an issue on the near term of worn out equipment that will need to be addressed, but that’s a different issue than we are “poorly equipped.”

As to Halliburton, they are one of about three companies worldwide that have the cash flow, cash reserves, workforce, and expertise to provide rebuilding a national infrastructure and simultaneous supporting a deployed combat force (KBR and a French company are the only two others I am aware of, but there may be more). They take incredible economic risk in a project like this, and like it or not, in a free market high risk generally equals high reward. There is nothing immoral about this. If Halliburton lost 1 billion on a 7 billion contract would you be griping about how unfair the US defense contracting remuneration is? Didn’t think so.

I could go on, but this post is too long already, and likely wasted time any way, because you appear to have a mind of cement – all mixed up and permanently set!

why would you, for even a second, accept, believe or repeat a single word that The Moron says?

- It’s clear he intends to destroy the economy and replace it with Socialism.

- It’s clear he intends to rig the electoral process to insure radicals are in office forever.

- And he might be trying to destroy our military strength. It’s not yet 100% clear, and it on the surface somehing that looney seems unbelievable. But understand that the left WANT a world government under the U.N. They HATE the United States of America and everything that our country has stood for.

So I think there is a substantial chance that he is in fact trying to destroy our national security.

THEY wouldn’t risk a cent to protect anyone but themself…….and then only if they could do it from the rear.

“Don’t forget 1st, 4,000 of your comrades died in a war to find a man reading poetry in a hole when the true problem lies over in the mountainous regions of Afghanistan and Pakistan. Hope they send you soon. Mission Accomplished.”

Cretin

and the U.S. didn’t destroy Hiroshima in one day either.

xoxoxoxo is so concerned with Bush’s economics but could care frigging less about tripling the deficit the first month in office.

That’s called “being brain dead”

Clinton’s claim of a balanced budget is a lie. Since the government uses voodoo economics, he could claim it, but it wasn’t true by any rational accountant’s standards. For example, you could put any amount “off-budget” and then claim the stuff you left “on-budget” was in-balance, couldn’t you. But you would be an idiot at the level of xoxoxoxo to believe it.

In one minute, here is what I heard and saw.

-Lip service paid to a significantly less-than-enamored US military…those who were somehow “asked” to be there. (anyone who’s a veteran will know what I mean)
-A very good impression of George C Scott, doing an impression of “Il Duce” when Mussolini would “make a statement of fact” during one of his “talking down to the Italian people” moments, then folding his arms and sticking out his chin and pressing his lips in a defiant look and nodding.

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. Body language is key.

I happened to hear he intends to increase the number of soldiers. Enlistment right now is already pretty high, so it’s not like he can claim responsibility for that. But remember folks, simultaneously, he will most likely cut funding for equipment. And, like Carter who somehow expected us to utilize broken, worn out, ancient equipment, I guess if you have a bazillion troops with slingshots, that’ll get the job done.

Since most civilians nowadays have never even been NEAR a military installation, let alone served on active duty or the reserves/guard, there’s an interesting phenomenon that happens.

They actually think that a 25 year old jet that’s never been in combat, is just as good as a brand new one. In one conversation with someone of xoxoxox’s ilk, the notion is that an F-16 sits on the ramp, fueled and “ready-to-go” but since it was never used in combat, is actually never used. Much like the gun that sits in the night-table drawer awaiting the moment when a burglar comes into the house.

No thought (key point) is given to the concept that all military members USE this equipment in the capacity for which it was intended, to stay practiced in the “art of war”. They think the same about the Army and its tanks, Hummers, etc. That in a peacetime military, all that equipment that was “jut parked and waiting” suddenly gets mobilized and sent off to wherever.

This fallacy, born of phobia, mostly, and a desire and choice to NOT understand how the military works, runs headlong into the more pragmatic theory of operational readiness. But liberals, during the Reagan years loved to use phrases like “bristling with weaponry” and “chock full with ammo” and similar emotionally generated, notional ideas that evoke images of a military just waiting to pop out mortars like a PEZ dispenser on some unsuspecting (and innocent) child who was just playing with a kitty.

Which brings me to the next fallacy: That liberals believe military people LOVE the idea of going to war.

Well, there is no way to explain to a liberal the basic fundamental difference between a young person who has raised their right hand and sworn to “uphold and defend the Constitution of the United States” versus someone who wants to study global warming and make sure that trees have rights, too.

But to put it simply, they answer to and adhere to a much higher ideal than the tree rights activist. It takes absolutely NO courage to stand up for the rights of trees. None. To say otherwise is ridiculous.

And I say “higher ideal” because they, as young as they often are, are acutely aware of the ridicule and downright hatred they will face from their high-school and college friends who still say that “war is about killing people, and it’s ikky and stuff”. And, because they enlist while completely understanding they may have to defend the rights of the tree-rights activist some day.

And yet they do it anyway. Not because they WANT to go to war. In fact, war is usually the LAST thing they want. But they understand that there are bad people out there who want what we have. Yes, even in this marvelous, modern age we live in.

If 9/11 is but a foggy memory to the average liberal….it is very much in the minds of young people who still feel compelled to protect what we have and what we are. It’s not of the desire to kill people. In fact, one of a soldier’s most ponderous moments is of the time when they are called upon and actually have to kill another human being. It’s not a “fun” thing for any of them. It’s a responsibility of enormous weight. And, the military spends a great deal of time to prepare a soldier for that moment. And, for those liberals who think it’s a “gung-ho” blood fest hoopla of an event…I would ask you to attend the classes these soldiers take, that are taught by careful, thoughtful people who don’t,in any way, encourage senseless violence. Quite the opposite.

In any case, Bo-Bo will never understand that. Indeed, by watching his arrogance, I’m sure he quite believes that he does. Having never worn the uniform, and never held a job, never been responsible or accountable, his is the mind of a dreamer. A raconteur of stories that were told to him by hateful people and thus, his touchstone is only the experience of others.

It physically hurts to even watch him address our military members….100%VOLUNTEER military members and treat them as a used car salesman treats his marks in the lot.

In the words of an Indian chief, a friend of mine who died some time ago, I will say this about Obama, “He thinks he is important. But what he says is not and I do not hear his words.”