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They Know Who Wears the Pants in This Country
The Corner National Review ^ | March 21, 2011 | Mark Kirkorian

Posted on 03/21/2011 9:03:43 AM PDT by La Lydia

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I think Mark has done a good job of summing the reservations about what is going on that many of us are feeling.
1 posted on 03/21/2011 9:03:44 AM PDT by La Lydia
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“It was obvious to most of us that Hillary has more, uh, stones than Obama”

What? Talk about buyers remorse.

2 posted on 03/21/2011 9:12:02 AM PDT by 2001convSVT (That Beck guy was right about gold, too.)
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To: La Lydia

Our enemies absolutely FEAR a 2013 presidential inauguration of a certain,gun toting,grizzly mama who would not be afraid to pull the trigger.


3 posted on 03/21/2011 9:14:39 AM PDT by Le Chien Rouge
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To: 2001convSVT

I guess the problem is that it took so long for so many to catch on to this anatomy lesson. I am still slightly taken aback by the ease at which we all discuss this, uh, situation in such terms.


4 posted on 03/21/2011 9:16:28 AM PDT by La Lydia
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To: La Lydia

Good ol’ Crusty http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/652652/posts

You can’t keep a good pantsuit down, but you can stand it up in a corner.


5 posted on 03/21/2011 9:17:24 AM PDT by tumblindice (It's Howdy Doody time!)
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Now that is funny, right there!


6 posted on 03/21/2011 9:20:40 AM PDT by bigbob
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To: La Lydia
We are in for a heap of trouble.

What's this we have now, honey? Tried to buy gas or food lately?

7 posted on 03/21/2011 9:22:03 AM PDT by Tax-chick (Nadie me ama como Jesus.)
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Our enemies absolutely FEAR such a development, as do the mainstream media, the Left and many Republicans. Hmmmm.


8 posted on 03/21/2011 9:22:06 AM PDT by La Lydia
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To: La Lydia

There used to be an old, old newspaper comic strip titled “Mr Millquetoast”. Obama fits.


9 posted on 03/21/2011 9:22:06 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar (Visit the TOMMY FRANKS MILITARY MUSEUM in HOBART, OK. I did, well worth it!)
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Our enemies absolutely FEAR a 2013 presidential inauguration of a certain,gun toting,grizzly mama who would not be afraid to pull the trigger.

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Agreed, as well they should.

10 posted on 03/21/2011 9:25:29 AM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: La Lydia
The terms could be a throw back to Roman times, where you had to have a set to have any standing in Roman politics or the Roman military.
11 posted on 03/21/2011 9:33:01 AM PDT by 2001convSVT (That Beck guy was right about gold, too.)
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To: La Lydia
FLAKES
12 posted on 03/21/2011 9:36:44 AM PDT by FrankR (The Evil Are Powerless If The Good Are Unafraid! - R. Reagan)
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At the risk of unfair stereotyping; Libya does seem like a "woman's war"; insofar as it's supposed to be a "humanitarian" war. Q'Daffy was said to be slaughtering civilians (ignoring the heavily armed, but uniform-less rebels, who were attacking his regime) & that was cited as the casus bellum. A stereotypical "men's war" would have to involve something more -- external threats, for instance.

In addition, the war was sold to the public on the basis that it would just involve creating a no-fly zone. As if a no-fly zone could be created without breaking any windows; or as if preventing planes from flying would be sufficient. Only someone with no military experience -- even including armchair generaling -- would believe that.
13 posted on 03/21/2011 9:38:34 AM PDT by USFRIENDINVICTORIA
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Bubba goaded him into it, not just Hillary. Bubba shamed him into it, or convinced him using a corollary of Bubba’s Law: It’s not actually war if you don’t insert male members of the military into Libya to perform actual physical combat. “If they ask you, look ‘em in the eye and say you did not make war on that man, Colonel Khaddafi.”


14 posted on 03/21/2011 9:40:55 AM PDT by 668 - Neighbor of the Beast (Public education is WELFARE.)
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15 posted on 03/21/2011 9:41:30 AM PDT by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet - Visualize)
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Our enemies absolutely FEAR a 2013 presidential inauguration of a certain,gun toting,grizzly mama who would not be afraid to pull the trigger.

So would all of our friends and allies.

16 posted on 03/21/2011 9:55:40 AM PDT by Riodacat (And when all is said and done, there'll be a hell of a lot more said than done......)
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To: JoeProBono

Definition of PUSILLANIMITY —
the quality or state of being pusillanimous : cowardliness


17 posted on 03/21/2011 10:00:06 AM PDT by W-Girl
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With respect, I think this is an ancillary issue that touches on a broader and more dangerous one. The weakness of the President here is more a matter of image and public relations than otherwise: a man with a dependable staff may be properly guided and advised no matter what the plumbing of the staff members happens to be.

But yes, 0bama has adopted the image of the neutered progressive male: caring, sensitive, surrounded by bullish, aggressive and rather unpleasant women who show very little signs of respecting him. He is, as is a constant comedic refrain on FR, a rather effeminate individual with a veneer of machoism constructed around gang signs and the basketball court. In a bar fight one might expect his worst bruise to be caused by the door hitting him on the ass during a hasty retreat. This may be all perception - I don't know the fellow personally and don't care to - but if so it's a nearly universal one.

The problem, though, is that he is a failure as an executive and has built a staff that is better at advancing the ideological objectives of its members than protecting and guiding the boss. In Susan Power we have, at the National Security Council, an individual whose first priority is neither nation nor security, but the subordination of her country into a grander internationalist world order. In Hillary Clinton we have a feckless amateur at the State Department whose expertise and interests are purely domestic, attempting to learn a difficult and demanding job on the fly and perceived still by 0bama's real inner circle as a rival, not a team member. These are not the only ones by far, but the author pointed them out and, I think, rightfully so.

The problem is made worse by the apparent fact that 0bama doesn't really possess any strongly-held doctrines of his own in these arenas, at least insofar as they might diverge from the mind-numbing academic cant that now populates the halls of the highest offices in the land. "Responsibility to Defend"? Sure, Susan, that sounds terrific in the postdoc seminars, let's go bomb somebody on its basis. What is missing here isn't masculinity, it's a dose of common sense.

In fact, what foreign leaders perceive happens to be the embarrassing truth: 0bama is a weak, flighty, poorly-educated mannequin stuck into office on the basis of empty celebrity. He is very much a product of a society besotted with popular culture and superficiality. He is playing President for people who are playing government like an amateur talent show, convinced that the applause is real.

And the real danger in this is that he will be swayed in matters of foreign policy not by any threatened damage to the United States but by a threat to the damage of his image. A foreign leader careful to repeat the politically correct liberal verities of the moment and sufficiently adulatory in public (one can imagine what they say in private) will be able to make this empty puppet dance because he or she has seen others do it. And those others are his staff, and their foremost interests are not those of the nation.

18 posted on 03/21/2011 10:05:13 AM PDT by Billthedrill
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pyoo-suh-lan-uh-muhs

–adjective
1.
lacking courage or resolution; cowardly; faint-hearted; timid.

2.
proceeding from or indicating a cowardly spirit.


19 posted on 03/21/2011 10:11:11 AM PDT by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet - Visualize)
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20 posted on 03/21/2011 10:24:05 AM PDT by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet - Visualize)
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