Posted on 01/14/2014 6:00:54 AM PST by Kaslin
Listening to the interview, I’d say he didn’t know how to say what he really wanted to say.
State partially controlled Medical Insurance is Socialism, where competition is allowed.
State totally controlled Medical Insurance is Communism, where competition is not allowed.
Socialist Medical Insurance constitutes a partial violation of US Anti-Trust Laws.
Communist Medical Insurance constitutes a full violation of US Anti-Trust Laws.
Senator Harry Reid, Rep. Nancy Pelosi and B. Hussein Obama all have voiced support of a single payor Medical Insurance system, totally controlled by the US Federal Government.
Gates come off as a simpleton. He finds intelligence and hard work in Hitlery and deep down admires the phony jackass America has saddled itself with in Barry.
As far as Scranton Joe is concerned, Gates superficially discusses only one serious flaw: he doesn’t know anything about foreign relations. He doesn’t speak to the serious flaw that Biden has: he is inanely stupid.
Much more fun reading Charles Krauthammer’s recent collection of some of his most interesting columns.
I still have problems believing the whole Osama bin laden thing was for real. Dude had been dead for years.
The country comes first for most presidents —but for this one it’s golf outings and vacations.
I’d say he didn’t know how to say what he really wanted to say.
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Gates is a creature of Washington. Nobody in DC speaks directly, honestly or plainly. If you have something to say, at least be clear about it. But that is not the Washington Way.
I agree. I still have not seen any evidence at all that the raid actually occurred and that bin Laden was killed. I don’t believe anything this government says due to their established pattern of lying to the people all of the time.
So why can’t these people start saying things when it matters instead of writing books for profit afterward?
Yeah he
s a ‘different kind of President’!!!! He’s the first who hates America and wants to see her standing in the world diminished and her economic viatlity dimisnished and her ties to the Almighty diminished! He’s a rotten rat bastard traitor!
A stupid, ridiculous comment like that makes it hard to take seriously anything else Gates has to say.
In Obama’s case is that all bad?
BTTT
ditto. The “Islamic burial tradition” they followed was BS. http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/europe/05/09/osama.bin.laden.burial/index.html
bin laden raid decision was courageous? That was an easy decision for a commander-in-chief.
Mr. Barone, you are a dumbass of biblical proportion. Stop your political commentary immediately, as it evident you are either 1) incapable of seeing what is right in front of your face, or 2) too gutless or afraid to write it down for print.
“As for Vice President Joe Biden, Gates writes that he “has been wrong on nearly every major foreign policy issue”
I bet Gates was a fan of McCain. This is pretty much the exact words Biden said about McCain in the 2008 debates.
I didn’t hear the interview, but I think the book gives that impression too. People here are criticizing Gates for making the stock positive comments about Obama, but they’re just the usual disclaimers. It was obvious that Obama is entirely different from the others he worked with, and not in a good way at all, but in such a way that he’s almost afraid to say it.
There was a critical column on the book today in the WSJ complaining that Gates was just a hack, a climber, he’s just doing this because he doesn’t have a position anymore, he shouldn’t have “betrayed” goings on in the WH, etc. The last point was very odd, because it followed Gates’ remarks on how secretive the WH was and how Obama really didn’t make policy (or have it made for him) through the people theoretically in charge of these duties, but through his mysterious political aides. Surely the commentator must have realized that this is exactly why Gates had to go public: even the fawning press isn’t allowed to cover anything except photo-ops anymore, and the Obama WH keeps everything so tightly under wraps that the only way to get anything out is through this sort of “expose.”
And then the commentator remarks that if Gates didn’t like it, he should have said something earlier and quit. In principle, I agree, but I honestly think that Gates, a not very exciting but competent career bureaucrat who regardless of what you think of him, had seen many presidents and administrations, really couldn’t believe what he was seeing this time around and didn’t know what to do.
Did he use the fords “lazy” or “shiftless”
dammit... WORDS... not ‘fords’
grrrrrrrrrrrrrr I am useless at proofreading
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