Posted on 01/08/2014 3:12:29 AM PST by Reaganite Republican
There is a great difference between thinking a thing and saying it; and between saying a thing and writing it down. When I was in business negotiations, the scariest thing that could happen to a bully was when someone took the time to write down their opinion of the bully’s behavior, even if tactfully, and to explain why it was not productive for the bottom line. You never saw people change course so rapidly, even if initially to punish the messenger. The keyboard remains mightier than the sword.
Agreed.
Your response to Ken is a likely possibility, OzD
And your observation re. ‘far worse’... I definitely DON’T get the feeling Gates is doing it now for $, like somebody suggested earlier in this thread... it IS gutsy to do it now, and imho there is some other reason than $ he felt a sense of urgency to speak about this vile regime
Will Obama leave office? I think not. If he changes laws why not just stay in power/ The MSM would hail this move to 3rd world dictaorship as a bold step. Only until he turns on them.
Well stated. I totally agree.
To: ClearCase_guy
“I suspect there will be worse, when he eventually leaves, hopefully in 2017.”.......
Why not today? We all know sooner is better than later and the sooner he is “gone”, certainly things will improve albeit a bit later.
As the Secret Service dude (I forget his name) running for congress said, "It's worse than people think."
(I tend to buy some of the speculation about drugs and uh... certain personal proclivities.)
It just might be a moot point though. By January 2017 it may be too late, and we'll still have chickenhsit Republicans posing as the nearest thing to an opposition party.
My frustration with 2x Obama voters knows no bounds...
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My frustration with the voter fraud that allowed that second election knows no bounds. I do not believe he actually had the votes.
Would it not have been gutsier before Obamao’s 2nd coronation? How many lives among servicemen might have been spared if Obamao had not been crowned once again?
Gates was an ass while SecDef, and apparently an idiot. He was shocked to find out what people in fly-over country knew all along.
Odd, isn’t it. I retired the month before Obama was elected, yet I could have ‘revealed’ all the stuff that Gates was shocked to learn. What does that say about Gates?
Dare I suggest that we turn Kenya into a 21sr Century Liberia?
The absolute worst Sec Def post WW II was Robert Strange McNamara. I loathe and detest that man. It took him 50 years to write a book in which he confesses that some of his policies and strategies in Vietnam weren't the best possible ( at a cost of 50,000+ US lives) It only took Gates 2 years to do the same..
Six hundred pages. My guess is that he struggled mightily with the anger and rage he felt at the betrayal of our forces, with his long service involving loyalty to the highest reaches of the governments he served and the military tradition of loyalty to the CIC, with his disbelief that so brazen and heartless a display of unconstitutionality and cynicism could really have happened. He says as much about his astonishment at the purely political manipulation of the war that Obama and Hillary admitted in front of his face.
He must be on his knees and trembling, especially with every revelation about the Holder DOinJ, the IRS and NSA scandals and the thrown-to-the-wolves fate of four patriots in Benghazi, all while this lengthy book was in the stages of editing and publication. He has probably had to seek legal counsel at many points along the way.
I didn't always agree with Gates: far from it. But God bless and keep him now. At last, someone has dared to smash the fragile amphora of Political Correctness and call it like he sees it. Better late than never.
"Obama loved it when I did this to him. That's how I got the VP nod."
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