lead MY Troops into the battle.
But first, I need a round of Golf.
Oh. And I need my blue Blanky!
I need my blue BLANKY, dang It!
Posted on 06/24/2010 1:58:40 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
General Stanley McChrystal’s interview in Rolling Stone Magazine will do a lot to damage further President Obama’s standing among liberals and Democrats and will undermine his chances of keeping control of Congress in 2010.
To conservative voters and commentators, his comments underscore doubts about Obama’s competence. To the Administration’s spokespeople, the interview shows a lack of proper subordination in the chain of command. But to the voters of the left, the key import of his comments is that the general in charge of the war in Afghanistan basically said the war is not being won, and perhaps cannot be won.
Obama’s decision to fire McChrystal guarantees that the story will now share page one with the Gulf oil spill, focusing liberal attention on Obama’s two cardinal sins in liberal eyes – the oil spill and the war in Afghanistan. Relieving the general of command sends a message that Obama is thin-skinned, arrogant, and easily offended.
Coming at the same time that the failure of the Obama Administration to clean up the oil spill in the Gulf is already rankling liberal voters, the McChrystal comments will add to their doubts about Obama. They already are against his decision to send additional troops there and have long believed that we should not be fighting in Afghanistan. By calling attention to how badly the war is going and the disarray in the president’s foreign policy apparatus, the McChrystal interview can only highlight and underscore these concerns and further dampen liberal enthusiasm for Obama.
Neither the oil spill nor the Afghan War will drive any liberals to vote for conservatives or induce Democrats to vote Republican. But they both will hold down Democratic turnout and reinforce cynicism about the Obama presidency on the left. Those initially attracted by Obama’s charisma will be driven away by these twin failures.
The Democratic Party is really a synthesis of environmentalists and peace advocates with a few gay rights activists and public employee unions thrown in. Now, Obama has alienated both the green and the anti-war segments of the party. And the continuing spillage from the Gulf oil well and from the General’s mouth will further damage his standing with his political base.
Whatever the fate of General McChrystal or of the American involvement in the war, the mounting casualty lists will drag down Obama’s prospects in November still further and depress his ratings in the days ahead.
That he is black and is not Bush - all else is secondary.
How often is Morris right about anything?
They don’t think much at all, they emote. They strive to live in a fantasy world as much as possible, where all hedonistic impulses become realistic goals.
Dick Morris is a creepy weirdo. He seems like the kind of guy you might find loitering near a truck stop restroom.
probably less than your average stopped clock.
Or more correctly they elected a none American citizen and now an usurper got his foot fraudulent into the door of the AMERICAN's W.H.!!!
IIRC did he not had a gig with Soetoro’s cousin Odinga???
Wife and I then are mostly the only sane in our whole family!!!
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He misses on what comprises the Dem party, accurate as far as the white liberal component, but I guess on purpose he misses out on the racial/ethnic hustle groups which sell block votes to the Rats.
There will be a public pissing match, IMO, but I don’t think Karzai will be the only one going after NObama.
NObama doesn’t understand how to fight an enemy. I have serious doubts that he considers the Taliban or Al Queda an enemy in the first place, since I firmly believe NObama is a Muslim in the first place.
Another look at his incompetance is by looking at the composition of the ‘commission’ he is appointing to look into the reasons for the Horizon drilling rig failure & the subsequent oil leak.
There isn’t a single engineer on the commission.
There isn’t a single oil company person on the commission.
There isn’t a single geologist on the commission.
There isn’t a single “Red Adair” type person on the commission.
There are only Enviro Greenies who hate oil companies & their advocates.
When the fire occurred on the drilling rig- altho there were losses of personnel, there were many more that had time to escape from the disaster.
How long did it take the Coast Guard to arrive at the burning rig?
Did the CoastGuard even have the correct training to deal with the fire on the oil rig? The correct equipment? Did they use water on an oil fire? Did it just spread the fire?
Did the massive amounts of water used by the Coast Guard on the rig cause it to ‘swamp’ & sink? These rigs are built to ride out class 5 hurricanes.......WHY did it SWAMP?
Did the swamping of the drilling rig cause the riser pipe-all 5000 plus feet of it— to be ripped apart & buckle & cause the oil leak to occur?
Did ANYONE call for experts from the companies that fight blowouts-pipeline leaks- oil fires- to come & give advice or services? There are plenty of such companies world wide.
Was there an oil leak from the very beginning of the oil rig fire? Or did that leak start 2 days later- after the rig swamped?
The timelines are unclear in every account I can find.
I wonder if there was no leak until the rig swamped-—& who is actually responsible for that?
IF it is the USA Coast Guard, then BP may have a future field day in court with NObama’s heavy-handed moves over the past 65 days.
Who can fill in some more of these timelines?
Obama Jr. and McChrystal Lite!
Perhaps you will explain the relevance of his kinky inclinations to the quality of his political analysis. Then, again, I think you--or anybody else, for that matter--would be hard-pressed to find any connection.
Such as the contractors who dealt with the mess left by Saddam in the Kuwait oil fields in 1991-92.
Your questions are intriguing and should be posted and sent to Hannity and Glenn Beck.
Obama has no plans to win this war. He is using this war to crack the US military and demoralize it. Thats why our soldiers are carrying out impossible orders that make them a target of disadvantage. The leftists will love seeing our troops demoralized.
Apparently he and H. Karzai are on good terms now! At least they seemed to be when the latter came to D.C.. I could be wrong; that could all be an illusion!
“I’m not sure any democratic government in which everyone votes can survive indefinitely.”
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I am TOTALLY CERTAIN that it CANNOT! It is like running a kindergarten in which all the five year old children have the same vote as the teachers. The little kids are not going to vote for anything that demands they give their best, they are going to vote for free ice cream. For this nation to rise from the muck in which it is mired and return to greatness and survive would require that Americans IMMEDIATELY start thinking of what they can do FOR the long term good of the country rather than how they can suck another dime out of it to benefit themselves.
The nation’s finest who are daily risking their lives in the wilderness of Afghanistan or elsewhere have no more voice in national decisions than the drug addled wimps who depend on their parents to support them until they are turning gray. In fact the nation’s finest who VOLUNTEER to risk their lives are likely to have their vote stolen by the disqualification of their absentee ballots. One military man should have more say than a hundred bloodsuckers who wouldn’t work as a taster in a pie factory
and that includes the vampire in the white house.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W91RCYt94wI
That is what so many are missing. That is true everywhere but in some parts of the world it is everything.
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