Stan---your post would be better, in my view, without the constant demeaning adjectives. Since I trust and like you, I hope none of them are directed at me personally.
I have no problem with someone having a position. I respect your right to see it as you day as long as you show equal respect when your side isn't in power in all ways. The beauty of America is the free press and freedom of speech attached to it. In some other countries on this earth, you and I would both be cell mates, brother! |
Regarding Obama "the wise" taking out Osama; see the Hollywood blockbuster "Zero Dark Thirty" (beaufortcountynow.com). From that film, it is suggested that it took Obama over 100 days to act on actionable intelligence gathered during the Bush administration, when they actually did catch, and then well interrogated terrorists to the point that they learned valuable intel.
While The Amateur has made a political living bashing Bush, the best this political punk could do, when he had his own 9/11, was whine about an American exercising his free speech rights to discuss his beliefs of Islam. Obama and his Lawless Attorney General put the American film maker in jail for nearly two years for that "despicable video". After Benghazi, when The Amateur and Hillary B. (Benghazi) Clinton whined about this video, I remember mindless Liberal after Liberal in the OMG, and elsewhere - the true "Hope and Change" believers - parroting that "despicable video" stupidity, also know as Democrat "Talking Points". I don't hear their insipid comments anymore. Stupid people, with big mouths, are like roaches when the adults turn on the lights. They always end up scurrying for the shadows. You Liberals need to cease and desist treating this whole War on Terror as if it is this grand game of Capturing the Flag, where the killing of one man ends the game, this War on Terror, and then this propaganda becomes your president's sole foreign policy initiative in nearly six years. I realize that Liberals are not capable of true cognitive reasoning; however, when Liberals are elected to give away the People's treasury to buy the votes of their low-information electorate, they could always hire the much smarter, much wiser non Liberal to deal with foreign policy. The key here is: Will the elected Liberal act on the better advice of the better informed non Liberal? Usually not. Generally, its just more Democrat talking points for their "low-information" base vote. The fun part is to watch well dressed idiots that begin the spreading of the this ridiculous tripe. |
:I'm gonna disagree with you on Carter. He was a Washington outsider who tried to make a difference in a closed system of influence. The only criticism that might stick was that he tended to micromanage his Administration.
Just like the pressure on President Obama, the hot head want an instant military solution to everything. The media had their little nest with the countdown on hostage days. That pretty much closed any doors to negotiation as the Iatolla had the news every night and he wan't worth the spit it would take to blow him away. Carter called together the Arabs and Israelis for as stab at peace. It ultimately failed with the assassination of both Sadat and Began by their own people who do not know what Peace means. If you can explain to me how a declaration of war would have gotten hostages released, I would love to hear it. As it was, a Special Forces attempt was made and forever after any President knows a failed secret try could doom his presidency. President Obama certainly knew this when he ordered the attack on Osamma ben Laden. In that case, it worked. Even so there are claims that the whole thing was a farce and the terrorist leaders still rambles the desert. No matter what dismissive things Conservatives say, Obama got Osama when Bush failed. Carry on, my brother with your dismission. You and others have only less than 2 years to carry that bag of bull. It's not working anymore than an attempt to Impeach him. Bush did so many more Executive Orders that it's not funny. Again, read "Worse Than Watergate" by John Dean, big player with Nixon. |
Yeah, Carter. I just love the way he left those hostages there to rot, rather than risking a real rescue. What was it - 456 days? We lost so much credibility worldwide, and here at home. What do you think Israel would have done in that situation? Why do you think they gave up the hostages just as Reagan was coming into office?
While that was going, Carter gave away the Panama Canal for some unknown reason. I will never understand that move. America's greatest statesman president of modern times could well be a tie between Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan. Nixon was no Conservative, but he was probably the most intelligent president in modern time, with, and I hate to say this, Bill Clinton. Nixon thawed relationships with the Soviet Union, China, and was about to get us out of Vietnam with some respect until Democrat defunded the war. Ronald Reagan was much smarter than they gave him credit for, plus he stood on his principles, while negotiating us through some difficult times. He was the last Conservative president, and I hope to another in my lifetime. |
I love you, man --- for sure, you stick with your opinions!
Please watch the "liberal" invective in comments toward me. I would more accurately call myself a "liberal conservative." That will drive everybody somewhat crazy. In other words, I try to look at things with a "don't throw out the baby with the bathwater" outlook of the extreme. I personally think ANY President has great angst over Terrorism. To date, no Administration has found a way to defeat it. With Bush, he inherited it from Clinton and the bombing of the Cole with great loss of life and damage was the result under Clinton. Carter was the last true Statesman in the Oval Office in my view. He got the Arab Oil Embargo, but refused to send our troops to take over the Middle East. Bush committed troops and established military bases, strangely, on a proposed Oil Line to the Arab Gulf. He declared the "end of war" with great gusto, but the bombings of our forces continued as if nothing had changed. President Obama is trying to use both Advisers and Diplomacy this time around. Who knows what that success/failure might be. For sure, no matter what a President does, he is wrong in the eyes of some. It is a position where you have to make some kind of decisions. For better or worse, Carter sent Special Forces to free hostages from the Iatolla. It failed in an unexpected sand storm at the rondeveux point. The hostages were only released as Reagan was sworn in so, in a way, Terrorists had a great influence on that election process. Reagan got caught in the "Arms for hostages" scandal as Ollie North went wild. I guess, "Expect the Unexpected" is the only mantra of accuracy for our elected leadership in Washington. My daddy would warm my bottom if the "N" word escaped my lips --- as it did my SC / Democrat / Farmer granddaddy's lips without any guilt on his part. We are both making progress, hopefully, on prejudice. I totally agree with you that "reverse racism" is not helping at all. Prejudice is simply EVIL, in my view. |
I am sorry Gene. I don't use that word, never have.
I just despise total incompetence, especially when there was no redress because of the reverse racism from the Liberal establishment, the OMG. That is slowly changing, and once the liberal media figure out that they were co-conspirators in America's downfall, some, maybe enough will jump ship on The Amateur, and he will be viewed in the clear light of truth. In the mean time, you Liberals need to work on all that racism you are so imbued with, and by. It causes all of you to take the rest of us for granted, and that will be your downfall. |
You are using the same "opposite of what I really think" psychosis of those saying, "I am not a racist who hates our 'N-Word' President."
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I don't hate Obama; hate is a strong word, but I do despise him.
I respect the office, but I don't respect those who don't - The Candidate is a fine example of such. Obama, among many other insufficiencies, is a coward, and the American military will suffer because of it very soon. |
Let me encourage you to drop the steady stream of invective. They are getting old and samo-samo, my friend.
Hindsight is 20/20 and become more so with each passing year. I encourage you to read John Dean's insider report on Bush I which came out just before Bush II. If you have the guts to read it, you might get a wider perspective on President Bush who got us into the Middle East War we can't seem to shake! I, too, listened to the President's address to the nation. He sounds more like a Diplomat than a War Monger to me. Despite all the Fox News consistent commentary along with Limbaugh / Hinaty / all other Conservatives on the Blaze Network along with Newt Gingrich (fellow Emory alum)-- all spouting pretend piety over war. I shall, again, respectfully disagree with the dismissive verbosity. I make up my own mind as an Independent voter who leans Democratic. In some ways I play "devil's advocate" so BCN does not appear to be a one-eyed mule of Conservatism. My granddaddy plowed them and one was what he called a "2 - 2X4 mule" = you had to hit him upside his head with a 2X4 to, first, get his attention, then break another one over that hard head to get the message across! |
I have been in 2 pulpits where the faces I saw were as the emoticon. The trouble is always with "hate you can't defeat, no matter what you do."
Being a public figure in politics, you should know that hate is strong and love is long absent from America today. The more religious some folks get, the more they want a Carry Permit ---- and that's more than sad. |
Gene,
Don't confuse hate with actionable intelligence coupled with full-on patriotism. |
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The great story in the future may well be: Where have all the principled journalist gone? In my small way, very part time, I take about two or three of their places, while I still do many other things.
The colleges that create these indoctrinated fools should be ashamed of themselves. In the meantime, with more than 60% of all journalists unprincipled and not even smart to really understand what they are reporting on, you will have to depend on the many free agents like myself, however part time.