Posted on 08/29/2014 1:16:03 PM PDT by right-wing agnostic
Everyone’s making fun of the tan suit President Obama wore in Thursday’s press conference. I can’t lie and say I liked it, of course, but neither do I really care. There was something about the content of his remarks, though, that reminded me of this old World War II joke about the Allies giving the Italians a pounding.
The Germans decide to send one of their generals to meet with the Italian general in Sicily to improve matters. The latter is standing in front of his headquarters, filled with anxiety. The German general arrives dressed in a magnificent red tunic. “What a gorgeous tunic!” the Italian says. The German replies, “See! This is what is wrong with you guys. You see this and think of beauty whereas I wear it to improve troop morale!” He explains that if he ever gets wounded, his troops won’t see him bleeding and will continue fighting. The Italian takes this message to heart and shouts, “Giuseppe! Fetch me my brown pants!”
It wasn’t the suit that screamed “brown pants” to me so much as everything else that happened Thursday.
The most obvious error was that President Obama publicly announced something that’s been obvious for months — he has no strategy for how to deal with ISIS/ISIL. I don’t want to completely attack this, although the problems with this public announcement are many. At the very least this comment suggests that President Obama knows that we should have a strategy. We haven’t had a coherent strategy for how to deal with Iraq going back four presidencies.
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When I first heard that joke, it was a Brit Redcoat and the French. This later version is a canard and slur against Italians.
ROTFLOL! Glad I wasn’t enjoying a beverage when I read that.
The clothes have no emperor.
Excellent!
Unless you are backing out golf/vacation time, it’s been over SIX and a half years of OJT for Mean Mr Mustard seed man.
I’d like to fetch him an orange jumpsuit and some leg irons.
2014.6+ minus 2009.1- equals 5.5+/- of OJT.
Taupe-a-dope.
THERE we have it!!!
Thank you.
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