SEALs’ good name hijacked for political hackwork
Our fellow Americans at Fox News and at conservative political blogs around the country continue to be enthralled by a political group that calls itself OPSEC — short for operational security — and that is fronted by ex-Navy SEALs, among others.
OPSEC’s main message is two-fold: President Obama has taken much too much political credit for the killing of Osama bin Laden, and has endangered troops and intelligence-gathering by talking too freely about how it was done. In expressing those concerns, the group claims to be absolutely nonpartisan.
“This issue is more than just politics,” as OPSEC founder and ex-SEAL Scott Taylor says. “Folks from this group, including me, have buried enough of our buddies.”
“Mr. President, you did not kill Osama bin Laden. America did,” another ex-SEAL, Ben Smith says in a highly sophisticated 22-minute video released by OPSEC. “We have become a political weapon. We are not.”
But you are wrong, Mr. Smith. That is precisely what you have become — a rather dull-edged political weapon, and no more than that — and you have done so by your own choice.
Taylor, for example, ran for Congress in 2010 in Virginia, losing in the Republican primary with just 8 percent of the vote. On his personal Facebook page, Smith has referred to Obama as “the Heir Communist-in-Chief Hussein Mao-Bama,” claiming that during his 2012 State of The Union Obama wore “some bad tan lotion because he looked like an old bruised Banana which made me think that Harry Belafonte was walking out to give his rendition of ‘Day-O’ before ‘ole’ suck and blow’ was to come out and enlighten us with his blasphemous spew.”
“You are an Imposter,” Smith wrote on another occasion. “You are a Muslim (Cassius Clay, Lew Alcindor, Barry Soetoro), You are the Manchurian President and may you go back to the country you were born in when you are deposed you little, little man (and take all your communist sympathizers with you). You insult everything that was considered American. May you and your administration be a lesson to history and your posterity be lost to the rebirth of AMERICAN PATRIOTISM!”
To be blunt, these are not the words of a calm-minded nonpartisan military professional offering his expert judgment to the American people. They are the unhinged rantings of a racist zealot enlisted to serve as a frontman for the real money and brains behind the effort, whom OPSEC refuses to disclose.
One more thing: In my mind, any conversation about politicians shamelessly trying to horn in and take credit for military success should begin and end with one fellow in particular. You probably recognize him:
As MC Hammer used to sing, “Can’t touch this.”
– Jay Bookman
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Adam
August 23rd, 2012
1:37 pm
What is very questionable, can America withstand the people that would vote to continue Obama in office?
I find this kind of logic similar to making up biological nonsense to justify a government regulation of sex, or quoting the Bible to claim the earth doesn’t revolve around the sun, or claiming that HPV vaccines cause mental retardation because “that’s what someone told me.”
Why? because if you believe the answer the question CLEARLY indicates that you SHOULD believe, then you would have no problem suppressing voters you disagree with.
Mick
August 23rd, 2012
1:37 pm
reb
Quoting rush limbaugh is not a sign of higher level thinking…just sayin…
Erwin's cat
August 23rd, 2012
1:38 pm
Adam – Recon: shameless leaking of classified information and the attempts to use the OBL take down for political advantage.
Excuse me, but what did you call “You’re either with us or you’re with the terrorists”?
I call it unclassified information
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
August 23rd, 2012
1:38 pm
You can really tell the libs. are worried when Jay stoops this low.
Being a former military fighter jet pilot, President Bush had the right to wear that uniform as he put his life on the line just learning to fly military jets.
What uniform are you authorized to wear Mr. Bookman ?
Fred ™
August 23rd, 2012
1:38 pm
Mick:What blues? Oh and BITE ME.
Adam: I guess I missed fast and furious too lol.
SFD: Well actually yes I DO scroll by most of what Scout posts…….. oops. I thought I was being discrete about it………..
150 more days
August 23rd, 2012
1:38 pm
Fly-On-The-Wall
August 23rd, 2012
1:00 pm
These scumbags never stop. I can’t believe that they call themselves American – given how they speak about a duly elected President
Hey Fly, you should be ashamed of your self.
These are the people who fight and die for you to have an opinoin, just as they are entilted to their opinoins.
Adam
August 23rd, 2012
1:38 pm
Fred: You forgot Adam Kam. He hero worships Obama as well.
I don’t, and I’m not Kam. I post as only ONE name here.
getalife
August 23rd, 2012
1:39 pm
Stands,
Now think what the gop would do on this issue.
Nothing but help our banks.
Recon 0311 2533
August 23rd, 2012
1:39 pm
Adam, sorry but I don’t get your question or what it has to do with my previous post.
JohnnyReb
August 23rd, 2012
1:39 pm
Yea Mick, but its fun to kick the ant hill
Granny Godzilla - Union Thugette
August 23rd, 2012
1:39 pm
Stevie Ray..Clowns to the Left of me Jokers to the Right, here I am…
August 23rd, 2012
To be fair, your guy’s campaign is 100% focused on fear and smear without any substance.
YEP all us Muslim, Socialist, Communist, Terrorist, Kenyan,
mouth breathing, basement living, un-American, foreign, Negro (et al),
god hating, america hating, baby killing, drug doing, golf addicted,
married to an ugly woman, black panther wannabe, gay, elitist, arugula
eating, limosine liberal, kumbaya singing, community organizing, treasonous traitors…..think thats CRAP
Mick
August 23rd, 2012
1:39 pm
recon
What exactly was the shameless leaking of intelligence information? We eagerly await some evidence, thanks…
Adam
August 23rd, 2012
1:39 pm
Erwin’s Cat: I call it unclassified information
Do you also call it “not using something for political advantage”, which was the point I was making AND YOU KNOW THAT?
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
August 23rd, 2012
1:40 pm
“The main problem liberals have is that they could not exist without conservatives to defend their freedom and support them economically.”
stands for decibels (SfBA)
August 23rd, 2012
1:40 pm
How’d the frowny get there? Supposed to just be an open parenthesis!
Same way that poor Scout keeps on posting a smiley-sunglasses emoticon EVERY. TIME. he does one of his stupid copy/paste countdown list from his wingnut email pile.
Basically.
or, put another way–in your case, there was a colon just before the open parens, which tells the blog “incoming emoticon!”
finances not accounted for
August 23rd, 2012
1:40 pm
OPSEC’s main message is two-fold: President Obama has taken much too much political credit for the killing of Osama bin Laden..
______________
Who will take credit for the amount of “money” that was spent/wasted for this war as well as the rebuilding of Iraq?
Granny Godzilla - Union Thugette
August 23rd, 2012
1:41 pm
OH AND
I missed another dozen or so….
Madmax
August 23rd, 2012
1:41 pm
$15977208651598.82 or $50,984.84 per capita. What did O’ster do about it today?
JohnnyReb
August 23rd, 2012
1:41 pm
What is this BS about hardly anyone from the Left posting here giving Barry a free pass? Of course the Left here gives him a free pass. They will vote for him. That’s a free pass. Disagreeing with him on dying his hair or using three taxpayer paid planes to get him and Mushell to vacation does not count.
Mick
August 23rd, 2012
1:41 pm
reb
Yes, but don’t stand too close to watch cause they’ll sneak up and sting you!!!
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
August 23rd, 2012
1:42 pm
“Socialism only works
in two places:
Heaven where they don’t
need it and hell where they already have it.”
-Ronald Reagan
‘The trouble with our liberal friends is not that they’re ignorant; it’s just that they know so much that isn’t so.’
-Ronald Reagan
‘Of the four wars in my lifetime, none came about because the U.S. was too strong.
- Ronald Reagan
‘The nearest thing to eternal
life we will ever see on
this earth is a
government program.’
- Ronald Reagan
“If we ever forget that we’re one nation under GOD, then we will be a nation gone under”
- Ronald Reagan
Mick
August 23rd, 2012
1:42 pm
0311
That comment is ridiculously lamebrain…
Keep Up the Good Fight!
August 23rd, 2012
1:43 pm
You forgot to quote your source, Scout:
The main problem liberals have is that they could not exist without conservatives to defend their freedom and support them economically
Thomas Jefferson, p. 36, fn 10 from Spammed Nonsense and False Claims Pulled Brought Forth By the Flying Monkeys Coming out of my toushie (Birther edition)
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
August 23rd, 2012
1:43 pm
Mick:
I would expect it to be to you.
Paddy O
August 23rd, 2012
1:43 pm
normal: these guys are NOT active duty. the entire post of FB by Lujan should not have been made – eliminates him from the professional ranks – he IS active duty.
Adam
August 23rd, 2012
1:43 pm
Recon: Sorry, maybe it wasn’t clear.
“You’re either with us or you’re with the terrorists” was a direct line intended to bring up 9/11 for political advantage. Using things like that for political advantage is WHAT PRESIDENTS DO. To make a claim that you are somehow outraged over that, but NOT over Bush doing the same thing, shows that you either do not understand that or are just making as many excuses as possible to prop up your side and put down the other side.
stands for decibels (SfBA)
August 23rd, 2012
1:44 pm
Now think what the gop would do on this issue.
Well, obviously they don’t care about individual homeowners; if they did, they’d be giving Obama holy hell for screwing the pooch on HAMP. But amazingly, they don’t even bother touching that one.
(Still, Obama deserves personal blame for that pooch-screwage.)
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
August 23rd, 2012
1:44 pm
Keep Up the Good Fight!
May I recommend “Born Fighting” by Democrat Senator Webb then get back to me.
getalife
August 23rd, 2012
1:44 pm
Great job Jay.
Another day of con’s heads exploding.
You are on a roll
JohnnyReb
August 23rd, 2012
1:44 pm
Mick, they try but I have old thick skin.
Have a good day; I’m back to work.
Fred ™
August 23rd, 2012
1:44 pm
Adam
August 23rd, 2012
1:38 pm
Fred: You forgot Adam Kam. He hero worships Obama as well.
I don’t, and I’m not Kam. I post as only ONE name here.
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Reading comprehension is desired Adam. I was TALKING to Kam, not saying YOU were Kam. Kam is a left winger who also listens to the other side. He is a carpenter, (you are afreaid to say what you do). He lives In North carolina, (You are afraid to say where you live). Trust me, I in no way would EVER mistake you for Kam
As to being an Obama hero worshipper? Show me one post where you criticized him. LOl better yet, let’s leave it to a forum vote.
ATTENTION ALL: Is Adam an Obama worshipper, a homer ect or not lol. Yes means he is, no means he isn’t.
Granny Godzilla - Union Thugette
August 23rd, 2012
1:45 pm
150 more days
August 23rd, 2012
1:38 pm
Fly-On-The-Wall
August 23rd, 2012
1:00 pm
These scumbags never stop. I can’t believe that they call themselves American – given how they speak about a duly elected President
Hey Fly, you should be ashamed of your self.
These are the people who fight and die for you to have an opinoin, just as they are entilted to their opinoins.
Nobody denies that
Nobody
We also have the first amendment right to completely and utterly
excoriate them for there shameless crap.
Grasshopper
August 23rd, 2012
1:45 pm
“Who will take credit for the amount of “money” that was spent/wasted for this war as well as the rebuilding of Iraq?”
21 Democratic senators voted for the Iraq war resolution. Shall we start with them?
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
August 23rd, 2012
1:45 pm
decibles:
Good diversion post when you have no ammo.
Dixie Chicks
August 23rd, 2012
1:46 pm
Are you cons still proud of George W. Bush?
Granny Godzilla - Union Thugette
August 23rd, 2012
1:46 pm
Got excoriate right and there (their) wrong…
so it goes
Dixie Chicks
August 23rd, 2012
1:46 pm
21 Democratic senators voted for the Iraq war resolution. Shall we start with them?
____
What about President Obama?
Adam
August 23rd, 2012
1:47 pm
Scout: The main problem liberals have is that they could not exist without conservatives to defend their freedom and support them economically
False. Blue states subsidize the red states: http://reason.com/archives/2011/07/14/the-redblue-paradox
We hear it all the time: Red states are for limited government; blue states are for heavy spending. While this may be true when it comes to broad political preferences, it’s false as measured by patterns of federal spending.
When you compare the 50 laboratories of democracy after sorting them based on how their citizens voted in November 2008, only 10 Democratic-voting states are net recipients of federal subsidies, as opposed to 22 Republican states. Only one red state (Texas) is a net payer of federal taxes, as opposed to 16 blue states. One blue state (Rhode Island) pays as much as it gets.
Oh look, it’s from Reason.com! Guess they must be LIBERAL
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
August 23rd, 2012
1:47 pm
“Every man thinks meanly of himself for not having been a soldier, or not having been at sea.”
Samuel Johnson
Some walk the walk and some talk the talk.
Recon 0311 2533
August 23rd, 2012
1:47 pm
Mick, please…the leaking of the SOCOM unit (SEAL TEAM 6), leaked detail about the operation itself resplendent with pictures, identifying the Pakistani who provided essential intelligence, the exaggerated details of how Obama approved the green light. Last but not least a movie coming out just before the election depicting Obama as a heroic president. Shameless!
getalife
August 23rd, 2012
1:47 pm
Stands,
My expectation of our President working with this congress was extremely low.
I hoped he would save our country and he did so he met my expectation.
I think it is insane to go back to gop so they can destroy our country again..
Fred ™
August 23rd, 2012
1:48 pm
JohnnyReb
August 23rd, 2012
1:41 pm
What is this BS about hardly anyone from the Left posting here giving Barry a free pass? Of course the Left here gives him a free pass. They will vote for him. That’s a free pass. Disagreeing with him on dying his hair or using three taxpayer paid planes to get him and Mushell to vacation does not count.
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That’s very southern and chivalrous of you Johnnyreb to insult the Presidents wife like that. I am SO impressed with you now.
I mean it takes a BIG MAN to insult the presidents wife. He, gain more “biggness” he has two little girls. You can insult them too.
Junior Samples
August 23rd, 2012
1:48 pm
i’ll take a SEALS word on the subject vs the fraud in the WH everytime.
Adam
August 23rd, 2012
1:49 pm
JohnnyReb: They will vote for him. That’s a free pass.
So, are you giving Romney a “free pass” on:
-Being pro-choice
-Supporting climate change
-tax returns
-Bomb bomb bomb, bomb bomb Iran
-Lying about welfare reform rules
-Lying in general
by voting for him?
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
August 23rd, 2012
1:50 pm
Adam:
You post has nothing to do with the total volume, percentages, ownership of job producing corpoations, etc., etc., etc.
Bottom line:
Libs. are protected and supported by in large part by conservative police officers, military personnel and job producing entities.
stands for decibels (SfBA)
August 23rd, 2012
1:50 pm
21 Democratic senators voted for the Iraq war resolution. Shall we start with them?
Sure. One of those Democratic senators tried to run for the Presidential nomination and lost, largely because of that vote. Because primary voters had had enough of rewarding stupidity, and went with the guy who’d been CORRECT about the invasion and occupation from the beginning.
So if we’re assigning some credit, how about to those voters, in 2008, who held Hillary Clinton accountable, even though they may have been tremendously fond of her, otherwise, as a candidate?
Adam
August 23rd, 2012
1:50 pm
Fred: He is a carpenter, (you are afreaid to say what you do).
I am on record several times as saying what I do.
ATTENTION ALL: What do I do for a living?
And by the way, I HAVE criticized Obama before. Guess you just didn’t notice.
Money for Iraq’s rebuilding has vanished into thin air
August 23rd, 2012
1:51 pm
Where’s the outrage from the self-styled paragons of budgetary virtue, led by tea party adherents and right-wing Republicans, over the final U.S. audit of the reconstruction effort in Iraq that says billions of dollars have been wasted?
Is it possible that the Republican majority in House of Representatives, which has been harshly critical of the way Democratic President Barack Obama has managed the public treasury, won’t delve into the waste of taxpayer dollars in Iraq because Republican President George W. Bush was the architect of the military invasion of that country?
http://www.vindy.com/news/2012/aug/04/money-for-iraqs-rebuilding-has-vanished-/
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
August 23rd, 2012
1:51 pm
Junior Samples:
Thank you ………… the libs. are really getting worried.
They sense a Carter/Reagan debacle in the making for themselves.
This is going to be fun !!!
Recon 0311 2533
August 23rd, 2012
1:51 pm
Adam, huge difference using lexicon to motivate Americans verses leaking sensitive classified information potentially dangerous to our military for political purpose.
Adam
August 23rd, 2012
1:52 pm
Note, I did not say “ATTENTION ALL, What do you THINK I do for a living?” Only people who have actually seen me post several times what I do for a living are to be taken seriously.
And Fred, I don’t have a fear of saying where I live. I just don’t feel a need to share that with anyone.
Madmax
August 23rd, 2012
1:52 pm
Adam – paid blogger?
Keep Up the Good Fight!
August 23rd, 2012
1:52 pm
Shameless made up poutrage Recon….
Much less that tampering with the threat system to raise the threat level to the country right before the election….. but hey, I am sure that your pout was directed at Bush for that.
getalife
August 23rd, 2012
1:52 pm
The birther is free to run his kooky mouth.
He hates our President like the rest of the cons.
Just another chapter in the book called Unhinged.
Williebkind
August 23rd, 2012
1:52 pm
“False. Blue states subsidize the red states:”
False, Blue states created the dependent population that is subsidized.
Adam
August 23rd, 2012
1:53 pm
Scout: You post has nothing to do with the total volume, percentages, ownership of job producing corpoations, etc., etc., etc.
Oh? So I suppose that now that you are making a COMPLETELY NEW argument, that you have facts to back up your implied assertion?
….that’s what I thought.
Fred ™
August 23rd, 2012
1:53 pm
Junior Samples
August 23rd, 2012
1:48 pm
i’ll take a SEALS word on the subject vs the fraud in the WH everytime.
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You obviously haven’t worked with them lying backstabbing POS before then.
And how ids Obama a fraud? Is he NOT the President of the United States?
RB from Gwinnett
August 23rd, 2012
1:53 pm
0311, in fairness to liberals, we do need them to deliver pizza.
Adam
August 23rd, 2012
1:54 pm
Recon: Adam, huge difference using lexicon to motivate Americans verses leaking sensitive classified information potentially dangerous to our military for political purpose.
Oh? What proof do you have that classified information was even leaked at all regarding the bin Laden raid?
LOVEUBARRY
August 23rd, 2012
1:55 pm
puh leez. Everyone with half a brain knows that Osama was taken out single-handed by the greatest president ever to live. Seals are just tools and they shouldn’t speak out. You’re hired to defend democracy, not practice it. So shut up, knuckle-draggers and obey! BO can kill more terrorists from the gold links in 104 rounds of golf than Bush ever dreamed. So what if Bush actually served in the military AND can fly combat aircraft? BO can drive a golf cart while calling in drones! That’s overqualified! BO 2012 4EVA!!!!
Williebkind
August 23rd, 2012
1:55 pm
How are the job creation coming along? I know after Biden talkes in Florida the jobs will come pouring in.
Adam
August 23rd, 2012
1:55 pm
Recon: Perhaps this article would be of interest to you. Then again, perhaps not, since it is factual information that refutes your deeply held belief that Obama leaked classified info:
http://www.cnn.com/2012/08/17/opinion/bergen-obama-swift-boat/index.html?hpt=hp_t2
Is there any merit to these serious accusations?
In fact, Obama and his national security team made every effort — successfully — to keep the intelligence about bin Laden a closely held secret for almost a year, from the time they first identified what they believed might be the al Qaeda leader’s hideout in the city of Abbottabad, Pakistan, in August 2010 until May 1, 2011, when the raid was launched to kill him.
The raid itself was conducted as a covert operation under the overall direction of then-CIA Director Leon Panetta.
getalife
August 23rd, 2012
1:55 pm
Perhaps Jay can use his posts to write the book called Unhinged.
I expect a share of the royalties.
Fred ™
August 23rd, 2012
1:56 pm
Adam: Give me an example of said criticism. I’m all ears, (well since this is a blog, EYES).
Oh and saying you are in Atlanta or Florida would SO get you stalked right lol? Right………… We know, you are a damn New Yorker and are just too ashamed to admit it. I don’t blame you.
Mick
August 23rd, 2012
1:56 pm
recon
Please..we do have freedom of the press and you didn’t list one thing that wasn’t common knowledge about that operation. They had to be more forthcoming, we invaded a sovereign nation to undertake a law enforcement action, clearly a violation of international law…
Adam
August 23rd, 2012
1:57 pm
Adam – paid blogger?
This is not a guessing game. I have already publicly indicated what I do for a living, and it has nothing to do with blogging and it is a paid job and doesn’t involve a tent or a park or any other nonsense many people from inside the bubble have tried to say.
Recon 0311 2533
August 23rd, 2012
1:57 pm
Keep you should really keep up…”made up poutrage” allegations won’t win you an argument. You’ll have to do a lot better.
South going down
August 23rd, 2012
1:59 pm
Spending on domestic programs that the tea party and the GOP find so unpalatable pales in comparison to the $1 trillion-plus cost of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq that were launched in response to the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attack on America’s mainland. Tales of pallets of plastic wrapped $100 bills being shipped to Iraq and then simply disappearing are legendary.
But now, with the final audit report from the Office of the Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction Funds, the public has been given an upclose look at how well its money was managed. It isn’t a pretty picture.
http://www.vindy.com/news/2012/aug/04/money-for-iraqs-rebuilding-has-vanished-/
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
August 23rd, 2012
1:59 pm
Adam:
See Williebkind @ 1:52. He explained it all for you quite succinctly.
Fred ™
August 23rd, 2012
1:59 pm
RB from Gwinnett
August 23rd, 2012
1:53 pm
0311, in fairness to liberals, we do need them to deliver pizza.
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Wow you found a job that Romney CAN’T outsource to China…………..
Recon 0311 2533
August 23rd, 2012
2:00 pm
Mick, it became common knowledge after the operation. How did that occur as it was or should have been classified?
stands for decibels (SfBA)
August 23rd, 2012
2:01 pm
I guess we’re far enough into this thread that I can go slightly off-topic to ask–anyone hear this piece on ATC yesterday afternoon?
http://www.npr.org/blogs/itsallpolitics/2012/08/22/159791065/despite-fact-checks-romney-escalates-welfare-work-requirement-charge
This is the bit that made me do a forehead-slap…
(emphasis mine.)
Even a Republican architect of the law, Ron Haskins, told NPR: “There’s no plausible scenario under which it really constitutes a serious attack on welfare reform.”
Still, the accusation endures. The Republican National Committee released an ad Wednesday noting the 16th anniversary of the law, and stating: “If Barack Obama had his way, this day would have never happened.”
And the Romney campaign put out a memo Wednesday repeating the claim that Obama gutted the Clinton-era welfare reforms after taking office.
So why continue beating this drum?
Partly because people believe it.
“We think that the fact that the work requirement has been taken out of welfare is the wrong thing to do,” said Peggy Testa, attending a Tuesday rally near Pittsburgh for Romney running mate Rep. Paul Ryan.
When told that’s not actually what had happened, Testa replied: “At this point, [I] don’t know exactly what is true and what isn’t, OK? But what I do know is I trust the Romney-Ryan ticket, and I do not trust Obama.”
I just don’t know what to say about people like this. I don’t want to say “they’re hopeless,” but really, what else can you say?
Joe Hussein Mama
August 23rd, 2012
2:01 pm
Paddy O — “these guys are retired. they have freedom of speech.”
Nope. You clearly don’t understand how security clearances work.
Stevie Ray..Clowns to the Left of me Jokers to the Right, here I am...
August 23rd, 2012
2:01 pm
FRED and GRANNIE,
http://blog.stephenleary.com/2008/09/intelligence-budgets-during-clinton.html
I suspect motives were pure but…
Pizzaman
August 23rd, 2012
2:01 pm
larry @ 1:06 yep, same ole Boone!
Fred @ 1;16 you say he’s not wearing Navy Wings on his name tag that says George W Bush Commander in Chief. Then Sir! just what is he wearing?
Granny Godzilla - Union Thugette
August 23rd, 2012
2:01 pm
Williebkind
August 23rd, 2012
1:55 pm
How are the job creation coming along?
I suggest you ask that question of Mr. Speaker Boehner or did you forget that republican big win in 2010 claiming they’d bring us
jobs, jobs, jobs
I was awake during that, were you?
Paddy O
August 23rd, 2012
2:01 pm
Adam is a gullible liberal lemming
Adam
August 23rd, 2012
2:01 pm
Give me an example of said criticism. I’m all ears, (well since this is a blog, EYES).
I criticized Obama for drone strikes, and actually had a brief argument with Jay over it. I criticized Obama for his pandering to big oil.
I have more examples if you like, but I don’t keep copies of the exact posts I made because I don’t feel a general need to PROVE that I am not a blind supporter. I’m a supporter with open eyes. I realize some people might think that I must be insane to STILL be a supporter, knowing things, but in my view that is because I have facts and they have straw men. It is rare for me to encounter someone who wants to support Romney, but vote against Obama, on the merits of their ACTUAL plans as opposed to lies and nonsense that has been made up about either or both of their plans, but when I do I acknowledge their valid points and explain my own for why I feel Obama support is best this election cycle.
Pass the Cheesy Grits Please
August 23rd, 2012
2:02 pm
This is just this cycles “Swift Boating”
Obama will be able to withstand it and fire back. Unlike Kerry.
Pass the Cheesy Grits Please
August 23rd, 2012
2:02 pm
How are the job creation coming along? I know after Biden talkes in Florida the jobs will come pouring in.
Just give guys like Romney another tax break.
Then you will see them start to trickle down baby !!!
Adam
August 23rd, 2012
2:03 pm
Scout, Williebkind, read the article I posted and THEN get back to me. Because Williebkind’s 1:52 is also False.
St Simons - he-ne-ha
August 23rd, 2012
2:03 pm
oh puke, the captain codpiece picture.
I can’t WAIT til Little Nero w/a/ Cowboy hat comes flying into the
Con-vention in his suit to deliver the the keynote address.
Can you wait? Can you WAIT for that, Republicans? Aren’t you Proud?
Surely it’ll be in Prime Tiiiime. Right after Sarah Palin’s warmup.
Fred ™
August 23rd, 2012
2:03 pm
Gee Recon: I am SO glad to know that there aren’t republicans on the Ways and Means committee, the Intelligence Committee, OR the Armed Services committee…………
thanks for that info.
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
August 23rd, 2012
2:04 pm
O.K. Brosephus ……….. are YOU on board ??
Headline: “Immigration agents sue to stop Obama’s non-deportation policy”
“Saying they’re fed up with being told they can’t do their jobs, 10 immigration agents on Thursday sued the Obama administration to try to halt the president’s new non-deportation policy and an earlier memo instructing them not to go after rank-and-file illegal immigrants.”
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/aug/23/immigration-agents-sue-stop-obamas-non-deportation/
Adam
August 23rd, 2012
2:04 pm
Paddy O: If I’m so gullible then you should have no problem convincing me to support your side this election cycle.
MiltonMan
August 23rd, 2012
2:05 pm
Instead of celebrating that we live in a country where we can express our right to free speech let’s tear the guy down.
Little Bushie has alot more right to wear a uniform over “never served the military because I was too important at Harvard” Obozo.
Paddy O
August 23rd, 2012
2:05 pm
joe – you are blabbering. the guys in this organization are retired. thus, their statements have no impact on intelligent folks’ impression of the active military. however, asinine idealism liberals could be a another story, as they are painfully gullible lemmings.
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August 23rd, 2012
2:05 pm
Adam:
Disagree ………… see you November 6th !
Quagmire
August 23rd, 2012
2:05 pm
I’m not in the military but my Father and Uncle served. Military personnel did kill Osama, but someone had to give the Executive Order and someone had to verify the information…………………Thank You President Obama……..
President Obama – Killed Bin Laden
Former President Bush – Mission Accomplished…………..you be the judge
After President Obama wins in November, all the neo-cons can go back to calling all African-American males Thugs except the ones on their favorite college football team……………
Road Scholar
August 23rd, 2012
2:05 pm
Stevie:”Obama shouldn’t be hogging the credit..they didn’t do it themselves, the government did..”
Pres Obama has; he singled out the seal team as the real heroes. But Pres Obama gave the order to move forward!
Oh, and where is the “Mission Accomplished ” banner behind Bush?
Paddy:” Bush flew fighter jets. ”
And how many into the ground? (that we know about)? And did he really attend to duties when he was assigned in Alabama? Vwhere are his papers..records?
Paddy O
August 23rd, 2012
2:05 pm
adam – no point.
Adam
August 23rd, 2012
2:06 pm
Scout: Care to make a wager? $100?
BS Aplenty
August 23rd, 2012
2:06 pm
They are the unhinged rantings of a racist zealot enlisted to serve as a frontman for the real money and brains behind the effort, whom OPSEC refuses to disclose…
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And clearly Bookman you should recognize a RACIST when you see one. Like everytime the current president comes on TV, or whenever Jeremiah Wright shows up on late night TV, etc., or whenever YOU look in the mirror.
I mean, come on, the guy DOES look like a bruised banana (that is classic).
Adam
August 23rd, 2012
2:06 pm
Missouri Survey of 500 Likely Voters
Conducted August 22, 2012
By Rasmussen Reports
http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/elections/election_2012/election_2012_senate_elections/missouri/questions_2012_missouri_senate_august_22_2012
Uh oh…..
Stevie Ray..Clowns to the Left of me Jokers to the Right, here I am...
August 23rd, 2012
2:07 pm
STANDS,
Is it cowardice to evaluate each issue on it’s own merit as opposed to, in your case I suspect, defending anything your guy sez or does and ridiculing and smearing everything the other guy does?
Its cowardice to be a blinded (…”mindlessly passing the time in the grasslands awayyyyyyyy”) sheep who just follow a particular flock? Sadly many of far left and right get caught up in this meaningless minutae and are incapable of seeing the big picture…our country is on verge of financial devastation..regardless who is president, I expect the deficit to soar well past $20 trillion over the next four years..
And you want to focus on who tells more campaign lies….
BTW, do you really think the DEMS are less guilty of flinging BS than the others???
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
August 23rd, 2012
2:07 pm
Well, there you go !
Headline: “Lynyrd Skynyrd legend Ronnie Van Zant ‘would be a Republican’ now, says brother”
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/aug/22/skynyrds-tampa-gop-gig-suits-van-zant-fine/
Adam
August 23rd, 2012
2:07 pm
Paddy O: adam – no point.
Correct. Because I’m not gullible.
Dapper Dan
August 23rd, 2012
2:07 pm
MiltonMan
And you served when?
Keep Up the Good Fight!
August 23rd, 2012
2:07 pm
Recon: ..”made up poutrage” allegations won’t win you an argument
Sorry Snookums…. your pout and nonsense does not deserve serious time… we’ll just add it to your many poutrage lies and blabber.
Go Navy
August 23rd, 2012
2:08 pm
Obama/Biden 2012