Posted on 05/31/2008 12:41:12 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Does disdain for the military matter anymore?
If Barack Obama's candidacy is any indication, it does not. Sen. Obama gave a graduation speech at Wesleyan University on Sunday, May 25. In it, he praised students for their public service. He also asked them to forego the business world in favor of careers in public service. "I ask you to seek these opportunities when you leave here, because the future of this country -- your future -- depends on it. At a time when our security and moral standing depend on winning hearts and minds in the forgotten corners of this world, we need more of you to serve abroad. As president, I intend to grow the Foreign Service, double the Peace Corps over the next few years, and engage the young people of other nations in similar programs, so that we work side by side to take on the common challenges that confront all humanity."
Notice anything missing in that list of public service jobs Obama will push?
How about the men and women who protect us abroad?
Obama's brash omission of servicemen and women shouldn't be a surprise. After all, this is the man who stated in February 2007, "We ended up launching a war (in Iraq) that should have never been authorized and should have never been waged, and to which we have now spent $400 billion and has seen over 3,000 lives of the bravest young Americans wasted." This is the man who employed Demond Mullins, a radical ex-Marine who has slandered the troops as adulterers and murderous occupiers. This is the man who, in August 2007, remarked, "We've got to get the job done [in Afghanistan] and that requires us to have enough troops so that we're not just air-raiding villages and killing civilians, which is causing enormous pressure over there."
Barack Obama is the man who explained terrorism as a function of poverty in his 1995 memoir, "Dreams from My Father" -- then excoriated "the powerful" for their "dull complacency and ... steady, unthinking application of force, of ... more sophisticated military hardware." He is the man who actually ran a campaign ad bragging, "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 Defense Review is not used to justify unnecessary defense spending ... I will set a goal for a world without nuclear weapons. To seek that goal: I will not develop nuclear weapons."
Barack Obama is running for commander in chief of our armed forces. Yet these are not the comments of a prospective commander in chief -- they are the comments of a man who believes that the American military is a force for darkness in the world. They are the comments of a man who believes that deterrence does not matter, that our enemies are kindhearted folks looking to compromise, that military spending is provocative and disarmament proactive. They are the comments of a pacifist.
Perhaps disdain for the military no longer matters. Military heroism no longer wins elections (see George H.W. Bush, Bob Dole), and anti-war radicalism no longer spells dramatic defeat (see John Kerry). Perhaps as the number of military men and women declines, more and more candidates will emerge who openly question the validity of the armed services as a legitimate arm in defense of American interests.
Nonetheless, Barack Obama should be ashamed of himself. The men and women he may one day command are the same men and women who protect him each and every day. And no matter how many flag pins he puts on his lapels, no matter how many stars and stripes he plasters behind himself at speeches, his disgust for the military is an open blemish on his patriotic pretenses.
He didn’t mention anything about nursing either. Why go so easy on him? Where is the outrage against Obama’s anti Healthcare and anti patients tendencies?
To double the peace corps and do all of this other stuff he discusses....he has to have congress and the senate pay for it. Between the Republicans left in the senate, and Hillary...I’m guessing he won’t find too many positive supporters. If he does beat McCain...it’ll be a 52 to 48 percent vote...not enough to really say a national consensus. So we will be entertained by a guy who can’t accomplish anything for four years.
We pick on his anti-defense positions because they can kill a hundred million Americans. On second thought — those may be a hundred million metro dwelling radical leftist Democrats (San Francisco, New York City, Los Angeles, Washington D.C., Chicago, Seattle, Boston. On third thought, would the Islamists target mostly Conservative metro areas (Provo/Salt Lake City, Dallas/Ft.Worth, Colorado Springs, Phoenix/Mesa, Anchorage, Houston)?
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I like the PeaceCorp. I like the idea of missionary work.
I don’t like the idea that our military can get sent in to rescue people in far flung places without the means to protect themselves. Don’t disarm a Blackhawk and permit a MARINE to be dragged through the streets and then say to me you’ll pay for the peacecorp but not the bullets to pull their a$$es out of the muck.
Here’s something from Hot Air to back this up:
http://hotair.com/archives/2008/05/19/mccain-responds-on-iran/
VOTE U.S. MILITARY 2008
(hint...it ain’t Barry!)
Sh#t, okay I have to vote McCain. I do not like him even a little, and trust him even less.
I heard a tape on the Mark Levin Show last night of Obama, he makes me want to throw up.
So, second thanks for your service and I’ll cast a vote for McIdiot.
And just where are these "forgotten corners" of the world, now that mass media give coverage to disasters even in closed countries like Burma ("Myanmar") and North Korea? Peace Corps and other "people to people" programs would never be allowed in countries like those, anyway. (The biggest disaster in most Third World countries is corrupt and totalitarian socialist government, anyway.)
During B.O.’s speech at Wesleyan University, he kept referring to it as “Wellesleyan,” apparently thinking he was at Wellesley college. This is the same genius who thinks Sunrise, FL is “Sunshine,” and that Afghans speak Arabic.
I’m no happier about it than you are, but I can’t let our troops, police, firefighters, emergency personnel, and the next generation down by allowing Barack Obama to be elected president. Malcolm X, Jimmy Carter, Louis Farrakhan and George McGovern all rolled into one, with a Hillary clone as a spouse. NO THANKS!
“He didn’t mention anything about nursing either.”
Nor firefighters or police.
When has it ever mattered to the Left? Nothing upsets a liberal more than a military man in uniform. Such a picture reminds the liberal man that he's a pathetic pussy. And, it reminds the liberal woman that she married a pathetic pussy.
Why do you think so many liberal women are so angry...? They got sold a bill of goods. Society told them they should marry an “Al Franken type,” and it only takes a few months for them to figure out they really wanted a “John Wayne type.”
Perhaps because:
1. We are at war.
2. Lefties are known for disdain for the military
3. IT WAS MEMORIAL DAY
You’re a republican like I’m a forward in the NBA.
Ovaries of the World Unite! Rush, Laura, Ann, Greta - Time for the Ovulation!
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I live in Boston you idiot and am the furthest thing from a “metro dwelling radical leftist” you ever met.
Your post, celebrating the death of 100 million Americans, is disgusting.
Why is it that everything that has to do with Obama involves so much projection? He didn’t mention military service, thus he hates military. You have much higher chance to be a forward in NBA, then be able to sell that bull crap.
It does amaze me that his supporters reflect their neurotic sense of personal deficiency upon him. He is an empty vessel to be filled by the febrile dreams of fetishists and losers.
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