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1. #1
   On October 30th, 2010 at 9:50 am, stillontheroad said:

   Once again I thought this was an Onion spoof but it isn’t. I can only shake my head.

2. #2
   On October 30th, 2010 at 10:00 am, flmom said:

   Once again I thought this was an Onion spoof but it isn’t.

   The last two years feel like an Onion spoof, along with the 111th Congress and this Administration.

3. #3
   On October 30th, 2010 at 10:14 am, thejim said:

   We can’t be rid of these embarrasing imbeciles quickly enough. I just hope that Tuesday is a huge step in the right direction, but I fear that too many citizen/voters still don’t get it.

4. #4
   On October 30th, 2010 at 10:38 am, ArizonaNeanderthal said:

   Happy Whelp Day Little Man
   Happy Whelp Day to You
   May you be hanged by a Jew
   Happy Whelp Day to You

   Tweet Tweet

5. #5
   On October 30th, 2010 at 10:56 am, chapoutier said:

   Tis is beyond pathetic, Doug.

   There is no doubt in anyone’s mind, or at least anyone who is being intellectually honest, that it was tongue-in-cheek. Especially considering Crowley’s tweet that IMMEDIATELY followed that you conveniently omit.

   The text:

   Your 54th year was full of lost opportunities. Hope in your 55th year you will open #Iran to a different relationship with the world.”

6. #6
   On October 30th, 2010 at 10:57 am, TigerLady said:

   ArizonaNeanderthal said:

   Funny stuff. However, the fools running our country are not the least bit funny. It’s like someone playing a game with a venomous snake and not expecting to be bitten and die. The level of stupidity in our leadership is mind boggling. If it didn’t put me in risk I might laugh but this is heart attack serious. God help us.

7. #7
   On October 30th, 2010 at 10:59 am, Cogs said:

   Our State Department is so lame (as is this entire administration). My kid’s eighth-grade class could do a better job than these clowns. The only thing I would send Ahmadinejad would be ticking.

8. #8
   On October 30th, 2010 at 11:06 am, Virginia Patriot said:

   It is becoming difficult to distinguish satire from reality.

   Please God, Save America……

9. #9
   On October 30th, 2010 at 12:34 pm, rocketman said:

   ***
   President Ronald Reagan knew how to send a “message” that people like the Iranian Hitler could relate to–and really understand. The Libyan dictator got one after his group bombed a German nightclub and killed a few G.I.’s. Duck and Cover, Loser!
   ***
   How about a WW2 type message–like the Japanese medals wired to the fins of 1000 pound bombs and returned to Tokyo by General Jimmy Dolittle’s B25′s?
   ***
   Can you tape a birthday card to the tail fins of a Hellfire missile? I think we have a customer waiting for a birthday “hug” now.
   ***
   John Bibb
   ***

10. #10
    On October 30th, 2010 at 1:03 pm, sbw999 said:

    Really, just what the hell is the point of that tweet to Iran’s insane leader? A joke? Not funny. Serious message…delusional. Oh what clowns we have leading us.

11. #11
    On October 30th, 2010 at 1:24 pm, plymouthacclaim said:

    For A-jad’s birthday, let’s send him a cake with a stripper inside… Helen Thomas.

12. #12
    On October 30th, 2010 at 2:37 pm, Rogue Cheddar said:

    Hey “Foggy Bottom” tweet this! (insert graphical euphemism of your choice here)

13. #13
    On October 30th, 2010 at 3:06 pm, TigerLady said:

    For A-jad’s birthday, let’s send him a cake with a stripper inside… Helen Thomas.

    Where’s the site to support this suggestion. I’ll help pay for this.

14. #14
    On October 30th, 2010 at 3:08 pm, TigerLady said:

    I love what Dennis Miller said about A-jad–that he looks like a rat who gnawed through an electric cord.

15. #15
    On October 30th, 2010 at 4:22 pm, BrianNY said:

    #5 said:
    

    There is no doubt in anyone’s mind, or at least anyone who is being intellectually honest, that it was tongue-in-cheek.

    I guess that one man’s “tongue-in-cheek” is another man’s “knife-in-the-back.”

    Back in the summer of 1990, members of my immediate family had their worlds turned upside down when the body of their (our) good friend, Colonel Rich Higgins was executed and videotaped by Hezbollah, hanging from the ceiling of a Lebanese hell-hole, for my family…and the entire world to see on the nightly news.

    Colonel Rich Higgins was a hell of a warrior, a Patriot and a good man.

    Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is a sack of Iranian crap who deserves to be dropped like a rabid animal.

    I only wish that my State Department (and a guy like Crowley, who spent 26 years in the US Air Force before retiring into the arms of George Soros and the Center for American Progress) would feel the same way…instead of playing digital footsie like a 12-year old girl at a pajama party.

    Please, bring back the adults.

16. #16
    On October 30th, 2010 at 5:28 pm, Mister P said:

    MIne would be:

    Happy B’day A’hole, look out your window and watch your nuclear “facilities” blowing up.

17. #17
    On October 30th, 2010 at 7:29 pm, chapoutier said:

    I guess that one man’s “tongue-in-cheek” is another man’s “knife-in-the-back.”
    

    and I guess one man’s “knife-in-the-back” is another man’s “deliberate-irrational-response-to-a-freaking-tweet-that-was-clearly-a-sarcastic-jab-at-a-ruthless-leader-who-is-acknowleged-as-such-by-the-tweeter-but-which-is-ignored-for-no-other-reason-than-rank-partisanship-and-for-which-you-would-be-rolfing-and-high-fiving-for-its-”spunk”-if-had-been-tweeted-by-Palin.”

18. #18
    On October 30th, 2010 at 11:17 pm, BrianNY said:

    #17:
    

    [a] deliberate-irrational-response-to-a-freaking-tweet-that-was-clearly-a-sarcastic-jab-at-a-ruthless-leader

    Tweeting a sworn enemy of the US on his birthday is itself a “deliberate-irrational-response,” akin to Obama taking his Presidential capital to a venue like the “Comedy Channel.” It’s bad form that only hurts the stature of the sender.

    It was already a given that Ahmadinejad is a douche. Now, Ahmadinejad has electronic evidence that Crowley is as well.

    What really bugs me? Twitter appears to be the strongest weapon that our current, Assistant Secretary of State (a former Air Force Colonel)has in his arsenal.

    …and-for-which-you-would-be-rolfing-and-high-fiving-for-its-”spunk”-if-had-been-tweeted-by-Palin.

    Hey, I only made it through a 10th Grade Business Law class, but I think that this is conjecture.

    Besides, Palin appears to understand the potentially negative ramifications, for a US government official, of playing “Twitter” games with a sworn enemy who wants to see you dead.

19. #19
    On October 31st, 2010 at 10:19 am, rocketman said:

    ***
    HI BRIAN NY–#15. I also remember the murder of Colonel Rich Higgins by Hezbollah. The U.S.A. needs to develop a Julius Caesar mentality regarding our enemies and suitable punishment for them.
    ***
    Pirates kidnapped Caesar and held him for ransom when he was a young man. When he finally captured them later–they all got crucified.
    ***
    I hope there is a Predator Drone with a few Hellfire Missiles in the Hezbollah murderer’s future. We don’t do crosses any more–but some suitable payback needs to be done. President Reagan didn’t let killers get away–he avenged their deaths. U.S. Citizenship meant a lot more in the old days than it does now.
    ***
    John Bibb
    ***

20. #20
    On October 31st, 2010 at 2:10 pm, chapoutier said:

    Besides, Palin appears to understand the potentially negative ramifications, for a US government official, of playing “Twitter” games with a sworn enemy who wants to see you dead.

    The only thing Palin understands is the potentially positive political ramifications of riling up her base over nothing.

21. #21
    On October 31st, 2010 at 2:42 pm, Rogue Cheddar said:

    Chap, why can’t you admit that the tweet from the SD was wrong and beneath what should be the stature, giving the nature of the recipient? You know it to be true.

22. #22
    On October 31st, 2010 at 3:29 pm, chapoutier said:

    Chap, why can’t you admit that the tweet from the SD was wrong and beneath what should be the stature, giving the nature of the recipient? You know it to be true.

    Because it wasn’t wrong, and certainly not to the extent portrayed here.

    Much ado about nothing…Mountain out of a mole hill…Sound and fury signifying nothing…take your pick. All are applicable.

23. #23
    On October 31st, 2010 at 5:40 pm, Rogue Cheddar said:

    Hillary: Kewl, Ahmadinejad just friended me on Facebook!

    Chap, if this happens will you concede they’re wrong?

24. #24
    On October 31st, 2010 at 8:51 pm, BrianNY said:

    #20:
    

    The only thing Palin understands is the potentially positive political ramifications of riling up her base over nothing.

    The only thing? Isn’t there a chance that she also understands the ridiculousness of this matter – in that a a 26-year-former Air Force Colonel is conducting himself like a 12-year old girl in regards to state matters…and with a sworn enemy of the US, no less?

25. #25
    On October 31st, 2010 at 9:07 pm, BrianNY said:

    #19 rocketman said:

    HI BRIAN NY–#15. I also remember the murder of Colonel Rich Higgins by Hezbollah.

    I’m glad that you do, I wear a KIA bracelet in Colonel Rich Higgin’s memory.

    I also wish that PJ Crowley remembered before he sent such a childish, birthday meme, to a Hezbollah supporter like Ahmadinejad, while in his State Department capacity.

    He actually seems like a perfect tool for a Hillary Clinton-run State Department, but I’m puzzeled why a ball-less wonder like a PJ Crowley could also command for 26 years within the United States Air Force.

26. #26
    On November 1st, 2010 at 1:02 am, American Elephant said:

    OUR STATE DEPARTMENT IS “TWEETING”???!?!?!?!!?

    What’s next? “Friending” Kim Jong Il on Facebook???

    Could we PLEASE put the adults back in charge!

27. #27
    On November 1st, 2010 at 8:33 am, chapoutier said:

    Isn’t there a chance that she also understands the ridiculousness of this matter – in that a a 26-year-former Air Force Colonel is conducting himself like a 12-year old girl in regards to state matters…

    Ummm…Palin wasn’t criticizing him for using twitter. She was falsely criticising him by deliberately distorting the message and tone of the tweet. You might notice her “response” (and I use that term lightly) was in the form of a tweet as well. In fact, that seems to be all she does lately. Which makes perfect sense because any idea that is more complex than 140 characters long seems to addle and anger her.

28. #28
    On November 1st, 2010 at 8:57 am, Rogue Cheddar said:

    Then you can make the same case for our current State Department.

29. #29
    On November 1st, 2010 at 9:06 am, chapoutier said:

    Then you can make the same case for our current State Department.

    Uh…no. I never said that applied to all twitter users. Just the ones whose takeaway from “Happy birthday, now free our freaking people you have held captive” is “Happy birthday bff! Luvz ya lolz!” Hell, maybe 140 characters was being generous. Based on this incident, her attention span seems to be about 40 or so. Seems she only got up to that before she got distracted by a shiny bauble or something.

30. #30
    On November 1st, 2010 at 9:37 am, Rogue Cheddar said:

    Your vitriol against Sarah is quite palpable and a typical leftist diversion. I’m surprized you’re not guest hosting on Andrew Sullivqan’s blog and breathlessly shouting “Trig is not Sarah’s baby!” as the daily meme.

31. #31
    On November 1st, 2010 at 9:37 am, Rogue Cheddar said:

    Sullivqan = Sullivan. (slap!)

32. #32
    On November 1st, 2010 at 9:56 am, chapoutier said:

    Your vitriol against Sarah is quite palpable and a typical leftist diversion.

    Diversion? Huh? My vitriol against Palin was squarely focused on her response to the tweet in question. Doug made a particular point to quote this response. Her response to this reinforces every vittle of vitriol I have tossed her way on this thread. How is that a diversion?

33. #33
    On November 1st, 2010 at 10:08 am, Rogue Cheddar said:

    Because your focus is on Sarah Palin and not our pathetic State Department. I guess we’re even, we have Sarah Palin, you have Joe Biden, um… on second thought, we’re not even, we win!

34. #34
    On November 1st, 2010 at 10:19 am, chapoutier said:

    Because your focus is on Sarah Palin and not our pathetic State Department.

    No. My focus is on Palin’s response to the tweet which, by the way, mirror’s Doug’s response as well as the response of many posters here. So if you would prefer, just replace Sarah’s name for Doug’s or anyone of the other posters that has said the same thing.

    Honestly, I don’t know what is more disturbing: the fact that she can deliberately and so obviously distort the meaning of the tweet, totally ignoring the actual message and focusing entirely on the obviously sarcastic lead-in, or that so many fall for it hook, line and sinker.

35. #35
    On November 1st, 2010 at 11:14 am, rocketman said:

    ***
    HI AGAIN BRIAN NY–#25. Good observation on types of commanders. I served as an Army draftee for 2 years, and worked around lots of Military Personnel during my 41 year engineering career. I also read some insightful comments on the Nazi Germany Military.
    ***
    In the U.S. Army there seems to be a “dividing line” between most of the enlisted and officer personnel above Lieutenant Colonel (O5) and the higher ranking (O6 Bird Colonel and up) officers and Generals.
    ***
    Those below the “dividing line” seem to be more objective and detail oriented people. Those above the line seem to be much more political “go along to get ahead” consensus building people. Us draftees used to call these types the A** KISSERS.
    ***
    The standout leaders were individual thinkers with clear thinking and iron will to win. And they were closely connected to combat realities. Think of George Washington, General Grant, General Curtis LeMay, etc. Real “junk yard dog” types. I think the guy that “tweeted” the Iranian Hitler is in the go along group.
    ***
    It takes all kinds to build a successful military. Let’s hope for an explosive “tweet” for our country’s enemies.
    ***
    John Bibb
    ***