#freethecadets So, I've read the President's speech (still embargoed until delivery.) Here's the Cliff's Notes: I shall not go on to the end, we shall not fight in Iraq, I shall not fight on the seas and oceans, I shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in our hashtags...
His "Osama bounce" wasn't that large, nor did it last that long , and it didn't really pull up his "performance on the economy" numbers. This despite the hacks in the White House Spin Room tossing OPSEC under the bus in order to sex up the story, regardless of downstream consequences...
I'm perfectly willing to give the President credit where it's due - and giving the "go" order slots neatly into that. And ensuring, when he took office, that the appropriate people understood that bin Laden was *still* a #1 priority. All good. But to make it out like this wouldn't...
" Time-limited, scope-limited military action ." Isn't that the definition of a drive-by shooting? "But your honor, I was just conducting a "time-limited, scope-limited military action" in defense of my peeps!" Hmmmmm. Mebbe I should be a defense lawyer. Nah.
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I made this pic for Princess Crabby back during the 2008 campaign. Heh. Looking more accurate than ever, now, at least in terms of a feckless foreign policy. That whole "reset" button thing worked out real well.
How low has dipped the inspiring rhetoric of the party of John Kennedy in terms of lofty goals and ideals?Kennedy said in his speech to Congress in May 1961:"First, I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the Moon and...