Posted on 07/05/2008 1:38:16 PM PDT by Red Steel
U.S. military planners are working on how to deal with another round of major cutbacks, in terms of budgets and manpower. This is because one of the major candidates for Commander-in-Chief (president of the United States), Barak Obama, has a video in circulation, of a short speech he gave earlier this year, about how he planned on handling the Department of Defense. His major points were;
"I'm the only major candidate who opposed this war from the beginning; and as president, I will end it.
"Second, I will cut tens of billions of dollars in wasteful spending. I will cut investments in unproven missile defense systems. I will not weaponize space. I will slow our development of future combat systems.
"I will institute an independent defense priorities board to ensure that the Quadrennial Review is not used to justify unnecessary defense spending.
"Third, I will set a goal for a world without nuclear weapons. To seek that goal, I will not develop nuclear weapons; I will seek a global ban on the production of fissile material; and I will negotiate with Russia to take our ICBMs off hair-trigger alert, and to achieve deep cuts in our nuclear arsenal."
There were major cuts when the Cold War ended in the early 1990s, and when Bill Clinton won the presidency. The same drill is expected if Obama wins, and military planners are studying ways they better cope with a new round of cuts.
Obama's speech can be found on YouTube. One version is at
Great Slick will neatured us in the 90’s now Barrack wants to do the same
If Hussein occupies the Oval Office, he won’t have to cut defense. Troops will leave en masse.
Exactly. Hide the weapons and stockpile everything they can.
This is why we have a militia army of over forty million gun-owners. America’s military may get disarmed, but America Herself won’t.
Nice try, Osama, but the Founding Fathers gave us a backup for brainless peaceniks like you.
Prepare.
Stock up on food, medical supplies, ammunition and purchase a generator (stock up on fuel for it).
As bad as McCain might be, it will be a picnic compared to Obama and both Houses controlled by Democrats!
If the GOP doesn't advertise these quotes every day between now and the election it's dumber than I ever imagined.
“I’ve not accepted the inevitability of Obama or any Dem winning in November.”
I haven’t either...but I’m preparing just in case. Didn’t even wait for the Supreme Court’s decision before buying my liberty teeth.
Hear! Hear!
Texas will be defended. You can take that to the bank.
reparations.
Obamma will take your money away to pay reparations.
Get ready for the next 911 and more agitation if not outright provocation from China should that empty suit Osama get into office.
Hopefully McCain will not pussy-foot around. We are at war with the liberals. We have to be on the offensive, always!
I don’t either. In fact, I think McCain can beat Obama pretty damn easily if he runs a competent campaign, which I am not sure he can do. Seriously, Obama could not even win the popular vote in his own primary.
Considering how much the military loathed the penis in chief, I wouldn’t blame them one iota if there were more than a few high ranking officers daydreaming about a coup.
And under the right circumstances, I’d be tempted to support such an endeavor. At least we know our military is for the most part honorable, as opposed to the scum filling the seats of power these days.
Not that there’s much chance of that ever happening...
“....I will cut investments in unproven missile defense systems....”
I wonder if he cut spending on unproven global warming.
I wonder if he cut spending on unproven medical research.
I wonder if he cut spending on unproven social welfare programs.
We can not afford this guy and his gang of REDS on several levels.
The Pentagon can relax. It’s not going to happen.
The so-called Republican “leadership” in Congress had better be formulating plans for thwarting Osama Obama’s surrender plans, should he be elected.
The problem is, America wants Obama and what he offers. They have to learn this lesson once and for all, the hard way.
For way too long, we have had it really good. America has lost the ability to even think that times can go seriously bad, or that there ever will be a time like the great depression again. The entitlement mentality now spans 4 generations who have known nothing but peace and prosperity. They have come to believe it is owed to them and they won’t be denied.
It’s bound to happen again sooner or later. Take the lessons learned from the past and use them to our advantage. Prepare and prosper.
Another reason not to vote for Obama.
America is also being freaked out on a daily basis. A friend was talking about a music e-mail list she’s on, where the musicians are in full hysteria, talking about “this depression we’re in,” how people will be starving in the streets, what they heard on NPR about how the end of the US is near, etc.
They’re crazy. There hasn’t even been one month that rates as a recession, let alone a depression. But that hysteria works to Obama’s advantage, and that’s why the press is pushing it.
Obama, the human waste, will surrender to terrorists thereby destroying us and our military. I have no doubts about that whatsoever. Goodbye America and freedom; hello to the Union of Socialist Liberals.
In other words, kiss your children and grandchildren’s futures goodbye.
I couldn’t agree more. Here in SW Florida you don’t see signs for either presidential candidate. I think that many people are non-committal about who they will vote for, but when the election comes they’ll vote against Obama because they see through his hypocrisy and shallow slogans.
*The Pentagon can relax. It’s not going to happen.*
That is the thinking of 1930s Europe.
It is documented Obama will, You are into wishful thinking
to keep suckering the Third Party fools into voting for anti war Bobby Barr. Barr and Obama the same side of the coin
and I suppose Obama was for the surge in Iraq that McCain urged long ago.
We are voting for one thing, to win the war against the IslamOfascists.
McCain is for victory against the enemy and Obama is the enemy.
Another 9/11 and worse and savings, stocks, 401Ks, oil price, you name it means Sh**
They truly are the Stupid Party aren't they.
Subject: 2010 Was Not A Good Year To Be President
Introduction:
Welcome to Toastmasters, June 13, 2033. That's right: 2033.
Today Rick Campbell, one of our senior members at age 87, is here to reminisce a bit and give us a history lesson.
He says he is so old that he learned to drive an internal combustion engine car (remember those) with a manual transmission. He once owned a typewriter. He remembers when bicycles had one speed, phones had two-party lines, and cameras had something called film. As incredible as this may seem, he says that when he was young, it was common for people to smoke in restaurants and public places.
He is from a different time; almost a different world.
I'm sure all of us are far too familiar with the tragic events of 2010, so Rick is not going to plow that fertile field again. Instead, he is going to give us a personal look back at the conditions which led up to that fateful year, in a speech titled "2010 Was Not A Good Year To Be President."
"2010 Was Not A Good Year To Be President"
Yes, 2010 was long ago and far away.
As we look back on history, it appears that some Presidents had an easy ride- times of growth and stability. Teddy Roosevelt, Warren G. Harding, Dwight Eisenhower, Bill Clinton come to mind. Those were good years to be President.
Others were elected just when the Republic was facing terrible crises: Abraham Lincoln, Woodrow Wilson, Franklin Roosevelt, George W.Bush. They rose to the occasion, even though they were controversial and widely hated while in office. Not such good years to be President.
Just a few years prior, in 2008, the country began foundering. We were in the sixth year of the Iraqi Occupation, and the economy was flat. The mainstream press clearly wanted a Democrat elected.
Although we didn't know it until some years later, oil producing nations had colluded to secretly buy their own oil on the open market, driving oil prices to shocking levels above the true demand price--reaching a high of $162 a barrel in October, 2008, just before the general elections.
Their purpose was simple: to effect regime change in the United States.
And of course, the U.S. economy was already in a real estate slump and also suffering the curse of stagflation; slow growth and high inflation.
There were a million home foreclosures.
Independent truckers went under by the thousands.
Airlines failed. Airlines with names now long-forgotten: United, Delta, Northwestern, American. All now merged, of course, into the one lone U.S. carrier we love so much: Southwest.
Against this backdrop of weariness of the war on terror, and economic distress, the American people were ripe for a demagogue, and they certainly got one in Barack Hussein Obama.
He and his running mate Kathleen Sibelius inspired them with vague notions of hope and change; of a world in which diplomacy settled all international problems, of free universal health care, of abundant alternative energy, of peace and love.
It was a vision too good to resist.
The Republican nominee, a name you probably haven't heard in years anyone? Yes, it was John McCain, an obscure Senator from Arizona had no clue how to run a national campaign, and a platform nearly as liberal as Obama's.
The selection of Condoleeza Rice as his running mate looked brilliant at first. Unfortunately, black voters viewed her as white, and women voters viewed her as one of the guys.
Even so, the McCain/Rice ticket would have won the election if it weren't for the fact that 16 percent of conservative Republicans voted for anyone remember? That's right, Bob Barr, another name that's a footnote in history.
After Obama's narrow win, thanks to recounts in Broward County, Florida, the country was positively giddy. A Democrat House, Senate, and President. At last an end to gridlock in Washington. Camelot!
When Congress convened in January, 2009, the 44th President of the United States did something unique in history: he made good on his campaign promises.
Certainly most Americans never really thought he was serious during the campaign. But whether because of inexperience, idealism, or simply incompetence, he followed through.
In Obama's first One Hundred Days, the Congress passed his initiatives, and he signed them into law as he said he would.
He repealed the Bush tax cuts, and increased capital gains taxes.
He enacted a windfall profits tax, and instituted price controls on gasoline and diesel fuel.
He passed universal health care, which added an additional 10 percent tax increase on all working Americans.
He signed the Immigrant Amnesty bill which created 12 million new citizens instantly, each with entitlements.
He closed the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, and summarily released all the detainees.
He repealed the Patriot Act, and cut funding for espionage, and eliminated all terrorist listening and wiretaps.
Most important, he began the complete and immediate withdrawal of all American troops from Iraq.
He ignored the advice of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, who wanted to retain bases in Kuwait and Qatar. Instead, he went with the recommendation of Secretary of Defense Dennis Kucinich, and ordered all troops back to U.S. soil.
Viola! In One Hundred Days, by May of 2009, it was all done, and the vision was complete. He did exactly what he said he would do.
And so it was in the summer of 2009 that things began to unravel for Obama. Of course, the economy needed a tax cut, not an increase, and unemployment quickly rose to 12 percent. Even attorneys and economists were put in the bread lines. Hard times.
Price controls on gasoline immediately led to shortages and gas lines.
The global cooling trend we have seen for the past 25 years first became obvious in 2009, exposing the CO2 global warming fraud. People were justifiably angry.
Federal deficits increased massively because thousands of baby boomers, facing job loss and much higher taxes, simply gave up and took social security.
Although the superb U.S. health care system was thrown into disarray, the bright spot was the creation of the Federal Department of Health Care, and the immediate hiring of 250,000 administrators, inspectors and auditors, the only job growth in any economic sector in 2009.
By February 2010, the U.S. military withdrawal from Iraq was complete. It was a very expensive undertaking.
And then in March, the gradual Shiite insurgencies from Iran turned into a true Iraqi civil war. In May, Iranian tanks crossed the border and quickly took Baghdad. Although the exact number is not know, at least 230,000 Sunni Iraqis died as we stood by.
Iran also quickly moved into undefended Kuwait.
President Obama did exactly what he said he would. He sent Secretary of State Maria Cantwell to Tehran to meet with Iranian President Ahmadinejad.
After two weeks of high level talks, the United States agreed to allow Iran to retain Iraq and Kuwait to create stability in the middle east, with the understanding that Israel would not be disturbed.
Cantwell returned to Washington, and explained the agreement in her famous speech, in which sh e proudly noted that the Obama administration had finally achieved "peace in our time" in the Middle East.
So there was some surprise at the rocket attacks on Tel Aviv on August 14th.
President Obama said, "This is not the Mahmoud Ahmadinejad I knew."
The Obama administration decided it would be de-stabilizing to take sides in the conflict, and approximately 29,000 Israeli civilians died during the summer and fall.
American Jews were appalled at the inaction. Yes, in 2010 most American Jews were Democrats, but because of 2010, they are solid Republicans today.
As awkward as it was, everything might have turned out all right for the Obama administration going into the fall mid-term elections of 2010, if it hadn't been for the dirty bomb in the Port of Long Beach.
The administration had cut funding for the inspection of containers, because they felt it showed a "lack of trust" in the international trading community.
It wasn't really a very big bomb, and thank goodness, not a real nuclear device, but nonetheless it contaminated some expensive real estate- Newport Beach, Palos Verdes Estates- and ultimately caused the death of 14,000 Americans. People were especially annoyed that Disneyland had to be closed for decontamination.
And so, in the midterm elections, Republicans regained control of both the House and Senate, and the rest is history.
The impeachment proceedings against President Obama for "failure to protect and defend" were swift and nearly unanimous. Vice President Sibelius resigned. Newly-elected Speaker of the House, J.C. Watts, became the 45th President of the United States.
But you know the rest of the story well.
Republicans finished the war on Islamic fundamentalists, largely by aiming ICBM's at Mecca and Medina.
No Democrat has been elected President since.
Republicans have held both Houses of Congress.
History of Western Civilization and Economics are now taught in all public schools, and in English only.
Marriage is defined as one man and one woman.
And there are border fences, north and south.
We old codgers remember the ancient Confucian curse: "May you live in interesting times."
Well, 2010 was an interesting year, but it was not a good year to be President."
And becoming more so every year. Looks like the beatdown they suffered in ‘06 wasn’t enough to shake them from their stupor.
Interesting read. I’d rather not go through all that though..........
I think that there are enough reasonable people in the house and the senate who would have a nice little sitdown with barry to let him know where the bear deficates in the woods. When it comes to our national security, this little twerp will get the message soundly from the electorate through their representatives?, errh, elected senators and house members.
We might have to in order to turn this around or more importantly, for America to wake up. And, we may not have much of a say in it no matter how many of us show up at the polls.
The story was eerily prophetic, I must admit. Almost inevitable.
Really? Why not? If it was a Republican congress in place, I’d agree with you. But a Dem President + both Houses is another story.
It is quite possible that Defense spending may not decrease much (or any), but its how it will be spent that will be the problem. Look for more emphasis on veterans benefits and diversion of defense $$ to non-defense (socials) program. There will be less emphasis on operational capability (e.g., new weapons), readiness, and force size.
While veterans certainly deserve their benefits (probably more than any other group), it should not come at the expense of national security, which I fear it will. After all, Vets are just another interest group to Dems.
Nice fantasy. Unfortunately, the Republicans (the onese I know anyway) don’t have the cohones to pull it off.
McCain is only down 3 - 5 points, what’s going on with this country! I do not and will not believe anything coming out of the MSM. On a side note, I am absolutely overjoyed with three announcements this week:
1) Vets For Freedom’s plans to spend millions in tv ads and organizing this Fall to benefit McCain and other GENUINE supporters of the WOT.
2) The NRA’s plans to spend $40 million dollars in going after the messiah’s lies about the 2nd Amendment.
3) The appointment of Steve Schmidt as the campaign “manager” for John McCain. “The Bullet,” as he’s known, is ruthless and has a track record of taking the fight right to the enemy, just ask John Kerry and Phil Angelides. I found a very interesting article on “The Bullet” in the Washington Post archives, it talks about Arnold’s re-election and what his situation was when he hired Steve Schmidt. It’s very familiar to McCain’s current situation, although Mac is faring much better in the polls than Arnold did at this point during his re-election fight.
http://blog.washingtonpost.com/thefix/2006/01/calif_arnold_beefs_up_campaign.html
Watch out Obambi, Axelrod and Plouffe, here comes Steve Schmidt to the rescue:
http://www.politico.com/blogs/jonathanmartin/0708/Schmidt_takes_control_of_daytoday_operation.html
“...A competent campaign with an articulate, younger and knowledgeable VP ... hopefully more conservative than McCain”
A campaign run by Steve Schmidt, and Sarah Palin as McCain’s running mate, that’s a winning combo! Go Sarah Go!!!
Yes, Schmidt has rescued other RINOs in the past, but this ain’t Kaliforkneeya, and Ol’ Juan McNasty sure does lack star appeal.
And he's the far left candidate, further left than Hillary, in primaries where the loony left tends to dominate. Imagine how he's going to do in the actual general election. If the Republicans had a real candidate, Obama would go down in the history books - as the worst loser of a Presidential election EVER.
“I will negotiate with Russia to take our ICBMs off hair-trigger alert, and to achieve deep cuts in our nuclear arsenal.”
And when the Russians and Chinese get the advantage?
Scary part about First Strike video is that we have fewer nuclear attack resources than when it was made.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jlPEBROvR9w
Schmidt was a leading member of the 2004 Mehlman-Rove team that turned a certain landslide into a near loss against a peacenik moron snob.
Don't expect much magic from Schmidt. Remeber how James Baker was going to save elder Bush in 1992? Didn't happen, and it won't with Schmidt.
“Goodbye America and freedom; hello to the Union of Socialist Liberals.”
Don’t throw in the towel. When things get bad and times are desperate, THAT is the time “for all good patriots to come to the aid of their country!” Do not give up! Fight! Do not let the marxist sh!tdogs destroy our beloved America! Pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes, our sacred honor to save America from the marxist hellhole the traitors have planned, and keep America FREE!
FREEDOM!
Yep, I know, McCain couldn’t possibly be the death of us all on his own. I get it.
I don’t buy it, but I get it.
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