Comments Posted By retire05
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THOUGHTS ON OBAMA'S FIRST WEEK: THE GOOD, THE BAD, AND THE UGLY
"But you're the one who destroyed your party."
Say, Chuck, that crystal ball you're using (or perhaps you subscribe to the navel gazing technique) must be a bit cloudy. You ASSume I am a Republican, with a big "R". I'm not. I am a conservative, with a small "c".
So you served your country. You and how many millions? It is not a pass to be stupid.
You destroyed my "attempts" at reason? Buddy, you couldn't pull the wings off a butterfly. You obvious need to toot your own horn (capitalist, served your nation, successful business), which I have neither the desire to prove nor do I care, shows that you feel the need to try to gain the high ground. To me, it only sounds like a desparate person saying "See, I am soooooo much smarter than you."
The Clown In Chief sounded stupid and it showed that he has a "American Idol" mentality. But you have to find a way to excuse that. Can't allow him to look like the inept Chicago ambulance chaser that he really is.
It should be an extraordinarily long four years for you as you scramble to make excuses for him. Have fun doing it.
Comment Posted By retire05 On 27.01.2009 @ 10:43
Chuck, one other thing, just to inform you how damn stupid you are along with the Clown In Chief,
here are some photos of the REAL Chuck Yeager, who Sam Shepard protrayed in The Right Stuff. Shepard has absolutely no resemblance to the real thing, who, if you will notice, was a short guy. But I guess since Gen. Yeager was not six foot, he was proably a lousy pilot.http://www.achievement.org/autodoc/page/yea0bio-1
No wonder you seem to support Obama. You live in a make believe world.
Comment Posted By retire05 On 26.01.2009 @ 22:53
"You're exactly what I wanted the pilot of Air Force One to look like."
"You look like you know how to fly. You look like Sam Shepard in The Right....The Right Stuff."
WTF, Chuck. What the hell does a pilot LOOK like? So if the pilot was a 5'8" 145 lb. guy instead of over six foot like Sam Shepard, does that mean that the pilot is probably lousy? Perhaps you should take a look at the photos of the pilot that just saved many lives by landing in the Hudson River. But I guess he's a lousy pilot since he no way resembles Sam Shepard.
And they were both smiling? WTF did you expect the pilot to do? Tell the Clown In Chief, "hey, bub, I worked my ass off for this job. WTF does it matter what I look like?" Well, that would have gotten him a courts martial within about six hours flat.How about something like "Good to meet you. I understand you are the best of the best. I appreciate your dedication." Or is that too damn much to ask from someone who seems more impressed with how a pilot looks than that pilot's capabilities? Maybe you have forgotten how David Axelrod stated flatly that Obama was NOT out of central casting and was the real deal.
Seem we have a president who is obsessed with looks and not ability. What litmus test will the Clown In Chief apply to the next SCOTUS judge? That he looks like Spencer Tracy?
Never mind that we are rapidly approaching have the most corrupt Cabinet in our modern history. Tax dodges, AG's that represent Gitmo detainees pro bono, etc.
And no, moron, I don't think Obama's comments to the pilot were nik-picking. You see, unlike you, I have tremendous respect for the military and don't consider them just pawns in the military industrial, evil capitalist complex.
Comment Posted By retire05 On 26.01.2009 @ 22:43
"War is a racket. As long as business interests commercially benefit from war, it always will be."
You know Chuck, just when I think that you can't be anymore of a lunatic, you prove me wrong.
Perhaps you could go to Iran and convince the Iranians to quit making bombs they are giving to the Palestinians. Or maybe you could go to Afghanistan and Iraq, and convince the terrorists to give up their evil capitalistic ways. Explain how they are simply promoting racketeering and that it must end. Maybe you could teach them to sing "White Rabbit" while you are at it.
Is there money in the defense industry, but I bet you damn sure are glad that FDR converted auto plants in to tank plants and tin can manufacturers into bullet producers.
I bet you even have "Rules for Radicals" on a CD so you can listen to it while you are driving that evil vehicle you own. Or do you alternate with the "Communist Manifesto" just to add interest to your obviously pathetic little life?
Here is what I propose: every university student over the age of 18 who ever dunked a classmate or friend's head underwater in the swimming pool, every fraternity member who ever required to make a pledge stay up all night be located, arrested and prosecuted for crimes against humanity.
How's that for a start toward a more "civilized" nation. Then we could elimiate companies that provide our soldiers with the equipment that help save their lives, since you would prefer to see them out there throwing stones instead of making the evil military industrial complex money.
Christ man, I know you are a moron, but do you have to prove it?
Comment Posted By retire05 On 26.01.2009 @ 19:39
Last night I watched a new special about Air Force One on National Geographic. It talked about the plane itself, it's crew and the Thanksgiving surprise visit made by President Bush to the troops a few years ago and how difficult the logistics were for that trip.
At the end of the special, it showed Barack Obama being picked up in Chicago after he had won the election and was on his way to being inaugurated.
The pilot, the very best of the best our military has to offer, and who is responsible for the safety of the President, was standing at the top of the stairs to greet the new president as is tradition.
When Obama got to the top of the stairs, the pilot said "Welcome to Air Force One, Mr. President." Barack Obama asked if he was the pilot of AFO, and the pilot replied "Yes, Sir, Mr. President". Obama then proceeded to tell the pilot that he looked like he was out of central casting and looked like Sam Shephard from movie "The Right Stuff." (The pilot in no way resembled Sam Shephard either in looks or in build)
Call me crazy, but should not the President of the United States have a little more respect for a pilot who has earned the right to captain Air Force One? What is wrong with a mindset that thinks in terms of movies and movie stars when it comes to a highly trained professional pilot responsible for the most important plane in our nation?
Perhaps some will think my complaint nit-picking. But I am sorry, I think it shows a disconnect in the CIC for the acheivements of our military, and especially the captain of AFO.
We have, as a nation, acted like third graders when electing a president in 2008. And we will soon find out that he is not up to the task. Even Bill Clinton, for all his faults, had more respect for the crew and captain of AFO than our new Clueless In Chief.
Why third graders? Senario: two kids are running for class president. Johnny outlines what he thinks will benefit the kids, raise their grades, improve friendships and make them the best third grade in the school district. Janie takes to the front of the class and says "I will provide everyone with ice cream". Now she doesn't say what kind of ice cream, who will pay for it, how it will be doled out, just that she will provide everyone with ice cream. Janie wins. Third graders is what we have become voting for the one who promised ice cream.
Comment Posted By retire05 On 26.01.2009 @ 13:38
DAVID FRUM, THE BIG TENT, AND SPLENETIC CONSERVATIVES
busboy33, did you even bother to read the Pew Hispanic report? Why would I question the results of the report when they admit that their figures were taken from the CNN exit polls?
I have to also wonder, busboy, where do you live and how has ILlegal immigration affected your life?
Comment Posted By retire05 On 23.01.2009 @ 21:28
Why is it that those who claim to be "conservatives", but clearly indicate they are more center left than center right, must attach labels to people they are not necessarily in total agreement with. During the Shamesty Bill dust-up, one blogger, who claims he is a "hard core" conservative, labeled all those who objected to the Shamnesty Bill as "immigration hypochondriacs" and declared, without reservation, that the "hypochrondriacs" were destroying the Republican Party for decades.
Now we have Splenetic Conservatives. Seems labeling is not conservative by it's very aim.Our weaknesses are many; our failure to realize that a highly liberal media, educated by professors like Juan Hernandez, William Ayers and Ward Churchill would not be giving us any breaks as they finally saw the realization of their liberal wet-dreams coming to live in the form of a inexperience lawyer from Chicago. Our failure to be able to rally around a true conservative instead of a Conservative-lite, working our butts off against a media backed juggernaut, the likes that have not been seen since the campaign of John F. Kenney. The failure of our elected politicains to advise us of the movements of the Democratic party and how they were quietly, slowing gaining control without objections from Republicans.
There are those who will cry that we are not "inclusive" yet you have to wonder in our "browning" society, just how many "browns" these people have daily contact with. I see, everyday, more and more Tejanos who are coming into the Republican Party as they watch the destruction of their ethinic group through the "victimization" policies of the Democratic Party. The two major contenders for the Chair of the National GOP, oops, they just happen to be men of color.
We, as conservatives, went to the center/center-left. We offered the nation a "maverick" who took great pleasure at putting his thumb in the eye of core conservatives. We said we would move leftward and the nation would love us and put us back in power. We were wrong. We were rejected in record numbers because when given a choice between Democrats and Democrat-lite, the nation took the real thing just as much as they would chose a real T-bone over a Tofu burger.
Becoming more Democrat like will only make us Democrats, all but in name. It will not represent the views and opinions of millions of Americans who still subscribe to less government, lower taxes, maintaining traditional standards, and the right of a person not to have to use a 1.6 gallon flused toilet. We lost because our elected leaders no longer stood up to Democrats, lost their voices and adopted the "go along to git along" motto.
That might be what some "conservatives" think we should become, but as a former Democrat and now a core conservative, I can only see that the road to hell is paved with good intentions.
Comment Posted By retire05 On 23.01.2009 @ 14:06
A LATE AFTERNOON STREAM OF CONSCIOUSNESS POST ABOUT NOTHING MUCH IN PARTICULAR
Fear not; Joe (The Mouth) Biden will keep the media in plenty to talk about while they ignore that the new administration is finally taking us down that dusty road to socialism. It will be the only time the media will have not wearing their kneepads kneeling at the feet of "The One".
It will be fun to watch as "The One" signs the bill into law that Nazi Pelosi has forced through Congress deciding which of us are worthy of a "bailout" and which of us have to pay for it. But don't worry, the drive to make us a "new" more equitable society will not apply to the NBA. Have no fear that we will finally see some 5'2" inch Native American woman playing for the San Antonio Spurs. After all, you can take this equity thing just so far and some things are sacrosanct.
Rick says it has been a couple of "quite good" days for Obama.
I am sure that Obama has the problem of where to put the Gitmo prisoners already worked out. William Ayers and Bernadette Dohrn's children are grown so we can assume they have at least two bedrooms empty. If the terrorists are willing to double up, that takes care of four. I wonder how "White Rabbit" will sound in Arabic.Then there is always Rashid Khalidi's place and Louis Farrakhan has some nice digs. And they are sure to have a few spare Qur'an laying around so that eliminates that budget expense. Now we are getting somewhere. Only about 240 to go.
And while we are at it; how about that funding to organizations in other nations for abortions. Hell, if we are going to kill off our next generation, they need to level the playing field by killing off theirs. We don't really need the money dumped into our economy anyway. In 12 months, everyone will have a job. Except those who are drawing welfare. They already have a job rounding up voters for the Democrats. What do they call that? Oh, wait, it's coming to me. Oh, yeah, ACORN.
Ricks whole entry is quite funny, really. He assumes that the media is still alive and well, albeit on their knees. Me, I think they have entered the Night Of The Living Dead just about 18 months ago.
Comment Posted By retire05 On 22.01.2009 @ 20:17
As an aside:
The man who ran on his "faith" and the "faith" of his "Christian" mother and grandparents from Kansas, did not retake the1 oath with his hand on the Bible. Seems there just wasn't one handy. Was the White House cleansed of all Bibles when President and Mrs. Bush moved out?
Fakeout #1?
Comment Posted By retire05 On 22.01.2009 @ 10:14
"The only people who care about our "moral authority" are European leftists who don't grant us any such thing no matter who the president is."
This from the man who laments the water boarding of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed?
Comment Posted By retire05 On 21.01.2009 @ 01:30
