I say this in serious concern that some DemoCommie operatives are reading this blog and I will be tracked by URL and hassled out of a job because I don’t “love the Emperor” as they used to accuse people during the Napoleonic period. Based on what the Policeman in Iowa is going through, it sure seems to be a looming issue.

I can see where the “he’s a muslim” ideas come from but I respectfully disagree. For the same reason his “Change” message is a joke – He is so beholden to the ultra Left (what Dems call “Moderates”) that he has no choice but to close Gitmo. They will turn on him like a pack of hungry dogs and he knows it. Nothing worse than being fresh out of friends in DC – ask Carter with a 21% prime rate in ‘78. He couldn’t get a cup of coffee back then.

I still have more respect for him than the turncoat Senators with R’s behind their names (can’t bring myself to call them Republican) who voted for what I like to call the “Print it, Spend it, run away with whatever’s left over!” bill.

My rant for the night.

Yeah. The images coming from Vietnam of dead soldiers had no part in turning the public against that war.

As if the public isn’t against the war now without images of dead soldiers. Try again.

Those who gave their lives defending this country in a war most of them supported deserve more respect than being used as propaganda by those who would just as soon spit on them…something they also did during the Vietnam war.

On February 10th, 2009 at 11:08 am, swmntman said:
Wow – anybody get the feeling that some little-leaguers are in town trying to play in the big leagues?

I’ve felt that way since November 4th. I used to have confidence that the American people would do the right thing, until reality set in on Nov. 5th.

The new President’s approval ratings have fallen from a stratospheric 83 per cent to a more modest – 51 per cent.
IN TWO WEEKS!!!

I like pollster.com for tracking public opinion polls because they aggregate a bunch of different polls. They currently have his approval rating at 62.5% down from a high of 70% (which occurred before he took office!) Two weeks ago he was closer to 65%. That doesn’t seem like too drastic of a jump to me, especially considering how tough the stimulus package has been.

He either did not know how to answer it or is incapable of giving straight forward answers, and that’s just sad.

The latter would be my bet. He’s a well conditioned socialist, Marxist, do they really have the ability to answer a question never mind answering it truthfully?
NO!

Yeah, yeah. Real powerful. I’m sure it would change things.

Yeah. The images coming from Vietnam of dead soldiers had no part in turning the public against that war.

“Let him who wishes to know what war is look at this series of illustrations. These wrecks of manhood thrown together in careless heaps or ranged in ghastly rows for burial were alive but yesterday…

Many people would not look through this series. Many, having seen it and dreamed of its horrors, would lock it up..that it might not thrill or revolt those whose souls sickens at such sights. It was so nearly like visiting the battlefield…that all the emotions excited by the actual sight..came back to us. (It) gives us….some conception of what a repulsive, brutal, sickening, hideous thing it is, this dashing together of two frantic mobs to which we give the name of armies…”

–Oliver Wendell Holmes

And I am still waiting to hear what Malikin’s friend’s insights were into Obama’s position on Boumediene .

What exactly is he wrong about with respect to that case?

On February 10th, 2009 at 12:14 pm, chapoutier said:

Some feel, not unreasonably, that images showing rows of flag drapped coffins is a powerful way to do this.

Yeah, yeah. Real powerful. I’m sure it would change things.

Now; compare that to what they’re asking us to fork over for this ’stimulus’.

They never talk about it in the same report.

…just worng.

Chap has his GITMO like Rusty had his Leviticus. I like to think of it as misplaced passion.

On February 10th, 2009 at 12:14 pm, chapoutier said:

These soldiers belong to their families, it isn’t Obama’s place to allow the press to plaster them all over the front page for titillation or shock value.

I tend to agree with this first part, but it is hardly an issue of some prurient interest in seeing dead coffins. I am sure everyone would agree that the true cost of war should be known. Some feel, not unreasonably, that images showing rows of flag drapped coffins is a powerful way to do this.

Imagine, if you will, the reaction of the American people to photographs of the rows and rows of flag-draped American coffins off-loaded from Navy transport ships during World War 2. On D-Day, June 6, 1944: “The breakdown of US casualties was 1465 dead, 3184 wounded, 1928 missing and 26 captured. Of the total US figure, 2499 casualties were from the US airborne troops (238 of them being deaths). The casualties at Utah Beach were relatively light: 197, including 60 missing. However, the US 1st and 29th Divisions together suffered around 2000 casualties at Omaha Beach.” http://www.ddaymuseum.co.uk/faq.htm One day.

The anti-war activists, those who want to “show the true cost of war,” want this as a propaganda tool. They don’t know a damn’ thing about the “true cost of war,” and they don’t care. End of story.

ECS

bluesoc said:
I believe his approval numbers are still quite high.

The new President’s approval ratings have fallen from a stratospheric 83 per cent to a more modest – 51 per cent.
IN TWO WEEKS!!!

an issue of some prurient interest in seeing dead coffins

You’re on a roll today. Have you ever seen a “live coffin”?