Obama, You are moving me to activism. You have already suffered one of the most brutal defeats of any midterm elections on record. You will be a has been with absolutely no legacy of note it you keep going the way you are going. I for one want you to secure the borders and buildup the national guard in our border states; not decimate the guard. Two: Get the hell out of Iraq and Afghanistan much faster than you are doing now. You will lose in 2012 miserably and put more Republicans in office if you don’t get it right. Don’t blow it, listen up and represent the people instead of your own out of touch agenda.
Uh, the Army is out there on the People's business, or had you forgotten?
Osama Bin Laden's whole strategy since before the Khobar Towers was to get us to come up there into Afghanistan, onto his prepared battlefield on which he had just defeated the Russians, and do a "Rope-a-Dope" war with us. Whenever we got tired of punching and went home, he'd declare victory, reveal himself to be the new Saladin, stake his claim to be the Protector of the Shrine Cities, and kick the House of Saud out of the Arabian peninsula.
It's always been about Osama, Lion of Islam (and you ain't).
For us, it's about thousands of dead, the prospect of millions of dead, and cleaning these fanatics out the way the British did in in the Sudan in the 1880's and 1890's: Grind them down, make their Mahdi into a liar and a false prophet, and wait for his own fuzzy-wuzzies to kill him.
I wasn’t so sure we’d have a 2010 SElection.
Thankfully, to whatever good, we did.
I’m even more skeptical we’ll have anything like a normal 2012 SElection . . . or even if the Republic will be holding together very remotely well at all by then.
It is clear that Reid ‘won’ by very corrupt and skillful ballot stuffing, essentially. Alaska may be similar. Certainly Tom Mullins in NM suffered from such.
The bosses were not about to lose their decades long death grip on the Senate wholesale—regardless of what it took.