Posted on 11/09/2008 4:23:21 PM PST by Melissa 24
Thanks; I didn’t know that. It would certainly be interesting, but, on the other hand, I think it was the Chinese who originally coined the phrase, “May the gods shield us from interesting times.”
"We cannot continue to rely on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives that we've set. We've got to have a civilian national security force that's just as powerful, just as strong, just as well funded." Emphasis added.
I know one thing for sure about the Left: it understands incrementalism and sells bad things to the electorate by giving them good-sounding names.
It’s all a little ominous-sounding; however, I’ve been thinking about it, and, let’s face it, this guy’s gonna be inheriting an administration that’s already up to its neck in debt, and he wants to instigate all these enormously expensive social programs? Sure, you can raise taxes for a quick fix, but that runs down the economy after a while, and you can only get so much from the well before the bucket comes up less and less full. And let’s not forget that the economy’s pretty much in the tank at the moment; he has to fix that, too.
Plus, he’ll have his hands pretty full with all the international stuff and a major terrorist threat, plus he has to do something about Iraq and Afghanistan.
I think he’s a guy who loves the sound of his own voice, but once he gets in there and actually has to do something for a change, he’ll find out what reality tastes like.
And, on top of all that, there’s always the wild card of an unforseen, major crisis arising, such as Joe Biden predicted.
I have a distinct feeling that he’s gonna be kept pretty busy just doing all the endless stuff all presidents have to do, plus the stuff that’s on the president’s plate right now, plus the new, and urgent, stuff that comes along. He may not have as much time for creating all these fancy-sounding and radical programs as he now imagines. Let’s hope so, anyway.
He's just a puppet. He'll sit on a very comfortable shelf until he's needed for The Show.
“He’s just a puppet. He’ll sit on a very comfortable shelf until he’s needed for The Show.”
Yes, I think you are right. He’s just a puppet. He don’t have the brains to do these things himself. But he does have thousands around the world backing him. He won’t be doing it alone.
This is a hoax. A couple of US Dems and distorted quotes form overseas, including quote from Garth Evans, NOT Kevin Rudd. UK quote was about UK threat(s). Dems porbably referring to issue of Iran?israel and Obama’s actions/inactions therein.
Ditto that.
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