“That said, I hope we can stick to attacking Obama’s policies. So far they have been so atrocious that there is no need to get personal.”

Oh yeah…there WAS a theme to this post wasn’t there?

I was reading the daily newspaper of the city on a bay of the Gulf of Mexico that I happen to be in at the moment, and there was an absolutely wonderful letter to the editor by a woman.

She observed that the order by that fellow who claims to have been born in Hawaii re-establishing Federal aid for foreign organizations that do “family planning and pregnancy counseling” is a mighty strange priority for His Alleged Hawaiianness to take, given the parlous state of our economy.

Folks are losing their jobs and their homes, and the US government is now subsidizing abortions for foreigners.
(I know, I know…Obama claims the money won’t go directly for abortions, but let’s be real here…the funds that these organizations no longer have to spend on “counseling” because of the generosity of our Enlighted One, will be available now to fund abortions.)

Anyhoo, the letter had the pragmatic good sense that only a woman with her head bolted on straight can muster.

And I might add that I can think of nothing else more likely to raise America’s stature in the world and foment goodwill for us among the foreigners than a refrigerated shipping container full of aborted children.

“Made Possible by a Gift of the US Taxpayer.”

I can just see it now, in some ghastly clinic of some third world shit-hole, a woman up in the stirrups, dilated, and as her unborn fetus is Hoovered out of her uterus, she exclaims:

“Thank Obama! God Bless the USA!”

Man…it’s enough to make you want to ululate, ain’t it?

“Punk” accurately describes your post. The KOS kids must have let you out for a few unguarded moments. You are living proof that the same obsessed bedwetters suffering from Bush Derangement Syndrome merely grabbed their ankles to become Obama Buttboys.

That said, I hope we can stick to attacking Obama’s policies. So far they have been so atrocious that there is no need to get personal.

http://greensrealworld.blogspot.com/2009/01/only-in-america-morphing-washington-to.html

“I should look to other people for validation.”

You’re already doing that.

Your problem is that you’re not casting as critical an eye on one set of people as you are on the other.
You’ve been programmed to be so hypercritical of the character and agendas of those you swore an oath to obey that you never paid any mind when your political comrades,(who have absolutely NO agenda of their own, naturally), snuck up behind and “pantsed” you.

That’s why you’ve got a nice view of the tips of your dress shoes and a chronically thrusting pain in your ass. (You might want to apply some ointment on that….)

“I shouldn’t accept the narrow-minded attitudes and information from the media.”

You should treat what they put out for you to consume with at least as much suspicion and distrust as you would a pronouncement from the RNC or Fox News.

“You’re right. You’re absolutely right”

Yep…I am.

Look, lad, you were part of a good and noble endeavor, to remove a threat to our nation,(and despite what those folks taking turns standing very close behind you say, Iraq WAS a threat to us…I spent a good chunk of the mid and latter 1990’s in the Persian Gulf and Diego Garcia, supporting the effort to keep Sadaam in his cage. That was mostly an Air Force and Navy show, so you may be forgiven for thinking that we were at “peace”…we were nothing of the sort),and you helped to liberate the Iraqi people from the tyranny of a monster by doing so.

Why can’t you accept that as the fact that it is and be proud of the mission you accomplished?

“And if it takes a few more flaming children to get there, so be it. I’m willing to sacrifice them.”

Is that your “brass tacks” question?

My reply is another question:

Would you rather sacrifice an AMERICAN 5 year old girl?

Or how about that 5 year-old boy today, who might have to show up 15 years down the road and fight in Fallujah all over again?

Would you sacrifice him?

I’m not sure if it’s sunk into your nugget yet,kid, but to me, YOU are that snotnosed, shitty-diapered child of 1990 and 1991, and you’ve had to complete the job that we were not allowed to finish.

What I have to say to you is that I’d have preferred that we have done Sadaam in back then, even if it meant a longer time in Scud Alley for me personally.
I’d have rathered it fall on me than on you.
That’s what sacrifice means, kid.

Will you be able to say the same to the “you” of the future when you’re 10 or 15 years removed from the self-serving certainties that you take such cynical comfort in today?

“… bring peace and prosperity to America and to the world.”

We can only bring peace and prosperity to our own nation, others will have to see to their own well-being. We can show them the way it has worked for us, but that’s ultimately a path that they must trudge on their own account.

“All it took was a day or two on this board to see the error of my ways.”

That’s not as much a jest as you would like to think it is, sport. You’re not that poker-faced. I’ve planted the seeds in your mind, and I don’t think there are many here who don’t recognize that they haven’t been.

I can only give you a course heading back to recovering your honor, but like Iraq and Afghanistan, whether you get there or not is a choice and a commitment that will be entirely yours.

“And so thankful to you for showing me the way.”

Actually, son, it is I who am thankful to you and your gallant fellow soldiers. Y’all took care of some unfinished business of mine.

I don’t want your money, and I don’t want your ass and I’m not running for office, so I don’t want your vote.

All I want is that you take some pride in what you did and show some self-respect for what you were,(and could be again)…and stop being such a damned punk.

You’re right! I’m sorry! What was I thinking? All it took was a day or two on this board to see the error of my ways. I’m too patriotic and not patriotic enough. I should look to other people for validation. I should think the world can be a better place, that there is change possible, change we can believe in. You’re right, I should not give in to the defeatist mentality. I shouldn’t accept the narrow-minded attitudes and information from the media. I’ve been brainwashed! I should be bolder, braver, more committed to the audacity of hope. You’re right. You’re absolutely right. I’m so sorry. And so thankful to you for showing me the way. Go Sarah! Go Mitt! Go Rush. I can’t think of better people to step up and reshape our moral character and bring peace and prosperity to America and to the world. And if it takes a few more flaming children to get there, so be it. I’m willing to sacrifice them. I wasn’t before, but now . . . well . . . who gives a sh*t, am I right boys? Consider me converted. Now I know what you’re thinking . . . did he fire six shots or only five. Well to tell you the truth in all this excitement I can’t remember myself. So you have to ask yourself one question, “Do I feel lucky?” Well do ya, punk?