Posted on 11/24/2014 10:24:01 AM PST by SeekAndFind
RE: RE: How many Secretaries of Defense is this under Obama?
Two down.... how many more to go? Who knows?
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My mistake, actually three down....
Robert Gates, Leon Panetta and Chuck Hagel.
No
It just means Obama’s inner circle a sistas pushed him out
Imagine
america run by an effete black man and 3 black women
My grandfather would never believe the wonderful progress
/bitter dripping clinging venomous sarcasm
Well, I don't know your grandfather, but I know your posts and virtually always nod in support.
But I bet even your fine Grandpa would have been surprised just how right he turned out to be.
Hagel was chosen explicitly chosen to be fired at a convenient time of obama’s choosing. He has changed the subject from the invasion. He has changed the subject from the obama/iranian negotiations. Hagel was also meant to be sacrificed.
Then I certainly defer to your first hand knowledge.
No, Hagel’s ouster was a classic Soviet-style purge. He’s lucky he wasn’t sent to Guantanamo as an Enemy of the State.
As Charles Krauthammer recently observed, Obama will suffer incompetence and cluelessness, but not criticism.
The initial announcement yesterday morning or early afternoon said it was NOT a resignation. Now during the day it seems to change.
Clearly, it was not voluntary resignation on his part. If not a firing it was a forced resignation.
Like everything else in this presidency, this appointment reflects mediocrity.
I feel your pain and anger, but part of me is with your other side...ie... let it burn. Let this man continue to enrage us to the point that it engages us as it did during the Carter years.
We need a Ronald Reagan to rise from the ashes. Who can it be? Rick Perry or some other governor. I can’t see us hitching to another Senator as they are political in everything they do. We need a leader, a doer, a person strong enough to take on the public unions and slice the federal gov’t bare, focusing solely on our national defense.
My grandfather was a rich man in Jackson Mississippi in the war years who made his fortune building military bases in the buildup and war years
He had 100s of black employees and they were always around our homes families from cooks to drivers to skilled labor to horse training and deer camp work
As the whole segregation thing was reaching a boil he took a moderate tack and elevated some to supervisory slots and refused to join the popular uptown Klan.....The Citizens Council
We even were friendly with Charlie Evers and Aaron Henry and attended Vernon Dahmers funeral.....
But watching it all turn to crap he warned before his death in early 60s that Generosity breeds dependence breeds resentment beers ultimately contempt
My dad echoed the same sentiment
They were right.
Sounds positively Faulknerian, in every complicated and interesting sense.
I have spent only a little time in the South, primarily in Mississippi (this was some 20 years ago already) and I was clueless and awkward but I felt the power, the soul of the place pervading me.
I still remember it with great wonder and fondness.
Yes, the older ones saw the trouble coming, didn’t they? Although they probably didn’t see the cynicism or the viciousness (or even the sheer numbers) of those bringing it on.
This administration was a hot mess from the moment Barry tapped Joe Biden as his running mate.
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