Obama: "I Once Considered Joining the Military"

The Patriot Room ^ | September 6, 2008 | Bill Dupray

[Bill Dupray]

Good enough for me. He can be Commander in Chief. From CNN.

Sen. Barack Obama — locked in a tight presidential race against Sen. John McCain, widely considered a war hero — said in an interview broadcast Sunday that he once considered joining the military himself.

Speaking to ABC's "This Week," Obama said, "You know, I had to sign up for Selective Service when I graduated from high school. And I was growing up in Hawaii, and I have friends whose parents were in the military. There are a lot of Army, military bases there. And I actually always thought of the military as an enobling and, you know, honorable option.

"But keep in mind — I graduated in 1979. The Vietnam War had come to an end. We weren't engaged in an active military conflict at that point. And so, it's not an option that I ever decided to pursue."

Yup, the reason he didn't join was because the war was over. Just the bad luck of being born too late. He is implying that, had he graduated a few years earlier, he would have joined out of dedication and service to the country. A frustrated patriot - that's Barry.

It is probably more accurate to say that he's lucky he's not a few years older, because guys like him, radical left-wingers, were burning the flag, running to Canada, and trying to blow up the Capitol and the Pentagon. And that usually disqualifies you from being President.

[steel_resolve]

this is why I love FR - the lies get corrected immediately. Fire for effect!

[Malone LaVeigh]

Obama: "I Once Considered Joining the Military"

You lyin' maggot!

[The_Media_never_lie]

Somehow I just can't see Obama in the Army.

Had O joined the military, it probably would have been in the JAG corps prosecuting soldiers for war crimes.

[Army Air Corps]

I wanted to be an astronaut when I was a kid. I guess, according to ObamaThought (a thought process where intentions are the equal of actions), that means that I have interplanetary experience and can run for president.

[Red in Blue PA]

ROTFLOL!

[TomasUSMC]

And so, it’s not an option that I ever decided to pursue
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Instead you decided to persue cocaine and homosexuals?

Like Larry Sinclair?

http://larrysinclair-0926.blogspot.com/

Ole obami is getting desperate. He doesn’t want to go face to face with this new team of GOP Angry Maverick Enemies, cuase the got G.A.M.E.

[pabianice]

“I love the smell of Obama fear in the morning! It smells like...victory!”

[Lancey Howard]

I once considered becoming an astronaut. And being the first man on Mars!
Another time I considered being a fireman.

I could go on. And on.

[kcvl]

In Obama’s book, Dreams From My Father. He writes about “a poet named Frank,” who visited them in Hawaii, read poetry, and was full of “hard-earned knowledge” and advice. Who was Frank? Obama only says that he had “some modest notoriety once,” was “a contemporary of Richard Wright and Langston Hughes during his years in Chicago...” but was now “pushing eighty.” He writes about Frank and his "old Black Power dashiki self” giving him advice before he left for Occidental College in 1979 at the age of 18. This “Frank” is now believed to be Frank Marshall Davis, the black communist writer now treated by some to be in the same category of prominence as Maya Angelou and Alice Walker.

“In Davis’s case, his political commitments led him to join the American Communist Party during the middle of World War II—even though he never publicly admitted his Party membership.” Tidwell is an expert on the life and writings of Davis. source: Accuracy In Media '

Professor Gerald Horne, a contributing editor of the Communist Party journal Political Affairs, talked about Obama's connection with Davis during a speech last March at the reception of the Communist Party USA. source: archives from the Tamiment Library at New York University. The remarks were posted online under the headline, “Rethinking the History and Future of the Communist Party.” Horne, a history professor at the University of Houston, noted that Davis, who moved to Honolulu from Kansas in 1948 “at the suggestion of his good friend Paul Robeson,” came into contact with Barack Obama and his family and became the young man’s mentor, influencing Obama’s sense of identity and career moves.

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[ducdriver]

Do Muslims go to Hell for lying?

[George Smiley]

Yeah, riiiight. Probability of that is about the same as me saying, "I once considered voting for Obama."

The Brits have a term for people like him: Lying git.

[ANGGAPO]

I doubt if he could have cut JAG. But since the rank of “Yard Bird” had been retired he didn't sign up.

[TomasUSMC]

for which country ?
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Considering that his mother and father met in Russian class, I’d say in 1979 he would have joined the KGB. Humm maybe he did.

Little punk couldn’t have made Cub Scouts.

[kcvl]

Barack Obama’s first public speech was at an Occidental College event sponsored by the Students for a Democratic—Society a militantly leftist organization. 60’s radical Tom Hayden played a pivotal role both as founder and as principal author of this student group’s basic manifesto, the “Port Huron Statement.” This document condemned the American political system as the cause of international conflict and a variety of social ills — including racism, materialism, militarism, and poverty.

Barack Obama does not include his time at Occidental College on his resume but old friends and former teachers remember his role in protesting college investments in firms doing business in South Africa during the apartheid era. [...]

1969 Hayden’s students for democracy group began imploding into factions. One of them, a group calling itself Weatherman, was elected to SDS leadership and proclaimed that the time had come to launch a race war on behalf of the Third World and against the United States. The Weatherman declared “war on AmeriKKKa” at its Flint War Council in 1969.

The new entity dissolved Hayden’s Students for a Democratic Society and formed a terrorist cult in its place, which was given the name Weather Underground.

Is it really surprising then that after his first public speech at Occidental College Barack Obama would just happen to find himself working several years with William Ayers, the founder of the terrorist cult Weather Underground, in Chicago?

http://tinyurl.com/5ww5pu

[Lancey Howard]

Hillary once tried to join the Marines. She didn't just consider it - - she claims she actually went to a recruiting office! See, she lies much better than Obama. But then, she is married to the master.

[wideawake]

This is excellent. He will say literally anything to anybody to get elected now.

[HANG THE EXPENSE]

Who says he didnt?

[GulfWar1Vet]

Trust me, he wouldn't have made past the first day.

[kcvl]

In the 1970s the Obama family became friendly with Frank Marshall Davis (1905-1987), a black writer and fellow Hawaiian resident. Davis wrote for the Honolulu Record (a Communist newspaper) and was a known member of the Soviet-controlled Communist Party USA (CPUSA). He soon became the young Barack Obama’s mentor and advisor.

In Dreams From My Father, Obama writes about Davis but does not reveal the latter’s full name, identifying him only as “a poet named Frank” — a man with much “hard-earned knowledge” who had known “some modest notoriety once” but was now “pushing eighty.” (Several sources — including Professor Gerald Horne, Dr. Kathryn Takara, and libertarian writer Trevor Loudon — have confirmed that Obama’s “Frank” was indeed Frank Marshall Davis.)

Obama in his book recounts how, just prior to heading off to Occidental College (in California) in 1979, he spent some time with “Frank and his old Black Power dashiki self.” Obama writes that “Frank” told him that college was merely “an advanced degree in compromise,” and cautioned the young man not to “start believing what they tell you about equal opportunity and the American way and all that sh—.”

http://tinyurl.com/6fv6qd

[SampleMan]

And Stalin considered the priesthood. The only difference is that I actually think that Stalin actually did consider the priesthood (before they refused him).