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Comment by Mike Stark on October 13, 2011 at 11:50am

@glenn & elbert --

I dunno, killing the right enemy is a little more important than lapses of ettiquette. It's not exactly like the President spit in the face of a Medal of Honor awardee, is it?

 

Let's review the record

Osama -- dead

Pirate kidnappers -- dead

Libya -- France and Britain do the heavy lifting after SSGN hits Qaddafi with a whole bunch of cruise missiles and we fly a few dozen sorties. Total cost of a couple of billion, where Iraq cost nearly a trillion and counting.

Iraq -- he had the good sense to continue the Bush-Petraeus plan that is working. Whatever happens after this year ends is on the Iraqi's decisions, which is as it should be. He's a politician who won't admit the surge worked, but he's also a pragmatist who saw the surge worked.

Afghanistan -- this is the one place where I don't think things are working, but if anyone has a winning strategy I'd be happy to here it. It's a country we have the power to vaporize but not to conquer.

 

He's far from a perfect president, but we forget how incompetent his predecessor was at our peril. And given the poor economic performance of 2001-09 and the return of a GOP congress to obstruct Obama in 2011, speaking Spanish will be the least of your problems. Elect Rick Perry or Herman Cain and it will be "push 1 for Mandarin".

Comment by Elbert Steven Rakes on October 10, 2011 at 1:32am

Glenn, things may get better when we get a new Commander In Chief!   I tire of being asked to push 1 for English or 2 for Spanish and then when you push 1 for English you get someone that doesn't ?

Comment by Robert Hartman on October 9, 2011 at 5:38pm

@ Wayne, I regard your response as inappropriate. It's your right to make such an asinine statement because of people like my late friend Bill.

Comment by Glenn Jones on October 9, 2011 at 4:31pm

When we have a Commander in Chief that knows that when you put a Medal of Honor ribbon around a service members neck, you stand back and salute (even if a D.I. never taught you to salute properly), you don't shake hands like you are meeting in front of the local liquor store, and slap him on the sholder.......... give me a break! Then will things be better in this country!

 

Comment by ctyankee on October 9, 2011 at 4:12pm

@Wayne,  I don't find it at all unreasonable for Robert to have identified the *killer* as belonging to a class.  Further I would assert that had death of his friend been attributable to any of the other classes you mentioned, the loss would be no less. 

It is supposed to be a function of government to protect us from foreseeable risk... illegal aliens fit the definition, as do habitual DUI's.  Teens already pay higher premiums for insurance, and yes *some* seniors are accidents waiting to happens.  As for the WASP class you mentiones, absent the booze, the incidence of fatality as described is *VANISHINGLY SMALL*. 

So while I emphatically agree with the statement that all men are created equal, I further assert that few men remain equal! And I assert that discriminating based on demonstrated behavior isn't the social evil that so many try to make it seem to be.

My sympathies to Robert for rehashing the event, and I'd agree with Paula, the the PC thing is really tired, so tired, that I'm forced to respond to PC utterances using anti-PC rhetoric.

Comment by Paula Jones on October 9, 2011 at 3:08pm

Robert....so sorry to hear about the loss of your friend...too bad some ppl just can't leave it at that and have to make it PC.....

Comment by Wayne Johnson on October 9, 2011 at 12:03pm

To Robert Hartman,

My condolences on the untimely loss of your friend.  I find it curious that you made sure to point out that it was an ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT who caused the accident, then blamed the "no security on our borders."

Would your friend's death be any easier to take had the accident been caused by a legal immigrant? or a Senior Citizen? Or an American teenager? Or a conservative, Christian, right-wing Republican, straight white American male who had too much to drink?  Who can you blame then?

Comment by Robert Hartman on October 8, 2011 at 9:53pm

Has anyone heard about the super committee wanting to cut two carrier groups?

Comment by Ray Norberto on September 16, 2011 at 4:09pm

I haven't been here for a while, so I wanted to offer my condolences To Robert on the lost of his friend.

As for that government assistance "expansion" article, it hurts my brain.

Comment by Robert Hartman on August 21, 2011 at 3:42pm

A very dear friend of mine was killed yesterday by an illegal alien who was driving with no license or insurance. Completely ignorant of the law, he crossed through a funeral procession and killed my friend who was riding escort. One more husband, father , friend to many and a Navy vet gone because of no security on our borders.

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