Let us start the day with a rant.
Chuck Hagel. This is a guy who's got to go.
What's he running for President? Okay, so folks running for President, I'll go along with this, need to provide an alternative to the current administration. I understand politics and everything, democracies.
Even the cowards and kooks deserve representation is what I'm saying here.
DO THE CANDIDATES TO THE KOOKS REALLY NEED TO COME FROM THE REPUBLICAN POLITICAL POOL?
Why can't the Democrats provide candidates for those who want to cut and run, for those who want to criticize to the side like an insane Greek chorus-pointing fingers and shout-singing as if a Stephen King movie, for those who are cowards and would just as soon die as lift a finger in defense?
The Republican party should be a little more cohesive, don't you think?
I listened to Hagel and wanted to spit and here I am working in the kitchen...so unsanitary.
They never have one single concrete suggestion. Never one word beyond the same old, same old..."didn't take enough troops into Iraq", "should have kept the Sunni army", "many mistakes".
Just the fact that these pontificating politicos are so teeny-tiny as to come out with silly talking points when they couldn't have done nearly as good as this administration has done since 9/11.
For five years, out of a nation of almost 300 million people, a nation fairly free of movement despite airport lines, we've managed to hone in on homegrown terrorists, we've managed to keep the rest of the planet on their toes as don't tell me those oversea's arrests weren't aided by American surveillance, we've managed to thwart shoe bombers and crazy American "journalists" still carrying dreams of delusion from the sixties.
All the while, mind you, keeping this economy humming and rolling and perking along. Americans live fairly peaceful lives, when all is said and done, in a world where many must constantly flee their precious homes for Hezbollah missiles and crazy North Korea keeps testing nukes.
Facts are facts. Look around. Get in your car and drive down to the grocery, or gather the kids and go on a day trip.
You can you know. With little fear of terrorist attack though hey, we all know one day it might happen.
It would have happened a long time ago had the Democrats, Biden or Chuck Hagel been in charge.
I'd love to write Dubya's after-presidency story. He's got a whole lot to tell.