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The first 100 days, yep we got change...
We tried to tell them.
Obama was not going to end the Iraq War at any point in his campaign. The rub on Bush was that it was discovered he planned on "dealing with" Saddam Hussein prior to being elected. You see, this is how it works. Often times, we use the phrase "If I were president, I would _______". Well, you'd think that if someone wins the Democrat nomination and is wildly popular would have had that thought a time or two. Since he was planning on ending the Iraq war, you'd think he and his advisers would have planned something to end the war. The war goes on.
Obama was going to close the terrorist detention center in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. I'm pretty sure he said this alot in the campaign. He's president now and he announced, in that dramatic preacher-like voice of his, that he is going to study closing Gitmo... over a period of a year. Uh, why couldn't your people have been studying it for the last year?
Obama was going to end the intelligence gathering operations that the ACLU types are all a twitter about. Well, now that he's in charge, he's not going to do that at all! In fact, he has embraced the Bush admin. programs!
Obama promised that all legislation would be available to the public for 5 days prior to being voted on. Instead, he has rammed through giant spending bills replete with tons of pork, before ANYONE - including Congress - read it! Here's a piece on that at CNN.com.
Obama said he would end earmarks. The first spending bill he signed after taking office had, wait for it, thousands of earmarks in it.
So, what has Obama been working on when he wasn't campaigning? What was his crew focusing on as the days ticked off towards inauguration? It certainly wasn't brushing up on his etiquette for meeting monarchy (unless you count the King of Saudi Arabia). It certainly wasn't studying up on the political happenings in our allies countries' - since he sent a letter to former French President Jaques Chirac looking forward to working with him for the next four years. And it certainly wasn't spent researching cool stuff to gift to visiting dignitaries.
What it looks like to me is that these guys were feverishly working on ways to screw veterans and conservatives. Yep, one of the first things the Obama administration tried to do was to make private insurers cover veterans' battle wounds. Please understand how these things are supposed to work. First someone proposes and idea, then you have a meeting of the principals, a team to draft a proposal gets named, that team does research, then drafts a proposal and presents it to cabinet people and it ultimately makes it to the President who decides to enact the idea or return it for revision. Assuming that Obama, who lacks any substantial management experience, has employed some sort of organizational management for his White House, I imagine at least 20 people had to have been involved in the creation of the idea to have private insurers pay for battle wounds.
And none of them called the American Legion. I can't imagine that they spoke to anyone with any military knowledge at all, let alone historical perspective. It is simply inconceivable to me that people who have such a dearth of knowledge of how the military works and how America regards its heroes have made it to the highest and most powerful positions on earth.
Oh, but that's not where it ends. This week, a document created by the Department of Homeland Security was leaked to the press, which can be found here. This is a summary of a larger document and was only intended for law enforcement officials and not for the public. This document basically makes anyone who has ever had a conservative thought out to be a terrorist, but one specific things jumps out at me.
Yep, I can fill in the blank now. Obama has been planning on screwing veterans. The fact that these people even have these thoughts about their nation's heroes is bizarre, that they feel comfortable enough about these thoughts to express them to each other is disturbing, and that these thoughts can make it into a briefing regarding homeland security is despicable.
Yep, we tried to tell them.
Obama was not going to end the Iraq War at any point in his campaign. The rub on Bush was that it was discovered he planned on "dealing with" Saddam Hussein prior to being elected. You see, this is how it works. Often times, we use the phrase "If I were president, I would _______". Well, you'd think that if someone wins the Democrat nomination and is wildly popular would have had that thought a time or two. Since he was planning on ending the Iraq war, you'd think he and his advisers would have planned something to end the war. The war goes on.
Obama was going to close the terrorist detention center in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. I'm pretty sure he said this alot in the campaign. He's president now and he announced, in that dramatic preacher-like voice of his, that he is going to study closing Gitmo... over a period of a year. Uh, why couldn't your people have been studying it for the last year?
Obama was going to end the intelligence gathering operations that the ACLU types are all a twitter about. Well, now that he's in charge, he's not going to do that at all! In fact, he has embraced the Bush admin. programs!
Obama promised that all legislation would be available to the public for 5 days prior to being voted on. Instead, he has rammed through giant spending bills replete with tons of pork, before ANYONE - including Congress - read it! Here's a piece on that at CNN.com.
Obama said he would end earmarks. The first spending bill he signed after taking office had, wait for it, thousands of earmarks in it.
So, what has Obama been working on when he wasn't campaigning? What was his crew focusing on as the days ticked off towards inauguration? It certainly wasn't brushing up on his etiquette for meeting monarchy (unless you count the King of Saudi Arabia). It certainly wasn't studying up on the political happenings in our allies countries' - since he sent a letter to former French President Jaques Chirac looking forward to working with him for the next four years. And it certainly wasn't spent researching cool stuff to gift to visiting dignitaries.
What it looks like to me is that these guys were feverishly working on ways to screw veterans and conservatives. Yep, one of the first things the Obama administration tried to do was to make private insurers cover veterans' battle wounds. Please understand how these things are supposed to work. First someone proposes and idea, then you have a meeting of the principals, a team to draft a proposal gets named, that team does research, then drafts a proposal and presents it to cabinet people and it ultimately makes it to the President who decides to enact the idea or return it for revision. Assuming that Obama, who lacks any substantial management experience, has employed some sort of organizational management for his White House, I imagine at least 20 people had to have been involved in the creation of the idea to have private insurers pay for battle wounds.
And none of them called the American Legion. I can't imagine that they spoke to anyone with any military knowledge at all, let alone historical perspective. It is simply inconceivable to me that people who have such a dearth of knowledge of how the military works and how America regards its heroes have made it to the highest and most powerful positions on earth.
Oh, but that's not where it ends. This week, a document created by the Department of Homeland Security was leaked to the press, which can be found here. This is a summary of a larger document and was only intended for law enforcement officials and not for the public. This document basically makes anyone who has ever had a conservative thought out to be a terrorist, but one specific things jumps out at me.
Quote:
Originally Posted by DHS
(U//FOUO) The possible passage of new restrictions on firearms and the return of
military veterans facing significant challenges reintegrating into their communities
could lead to the potential emergence of terrorist groups or lone wolf extremists
capable of carrying out violent attacks.
military veterans facing significant challenges reintegrating into their communities
could lead to the potential emergence of terrorist groups or lone wolf extremists
capable of carrying out violent attacks.
Yep, we tried to tell them.
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