Ol’ Harry Truman was a dirty socialist? Who knew?
President Harry Truman
A reader, the daughter of a now-deceased reporter for the Atlanta Journal, was digging through some old files of her father’s and came across something that she thought I might find interesting. She was right.
It’s a clip of a story written by her father, Odom Fanning, in 1949, reporting on a debate sponsored by the Gate City Lodge of B’nai Brith. Read the first two paragraphs alone, and you get the flavor of the piece. The parallels with today’s debate on health care are uncanny, missing only a reference to Marxist anti-colonial Kenyans out to destroy this country from within.
The president pushing the program at the time was Harry Truman, the man who had dropped the A-bomb on Japan and who, a year later, would commit U.S. troops to a land war in Asia, trying to block the invasion of South Korea by North Korean and Chinese communists.
– Jay Bookman
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fair and balanced
September 20th, 2012
9:09 pm
“”"”"”"”"The president is the representative of the whole nation and he’s the only lobbyist that all the one hundred and sixty million people in the country have.”"”"”"”"”"”"”"”"”
Harry S Truman quote
Keep Up the Good Fight!
September 20th, 2012
9:09 pm
Towncrier plays the race card…. guess he never heard of the Beatles white album…
Let us know when you engage the brain, otay pumpkin.
Keep Up the Good Fight!
September 20th, 2012
9:12 pm
But I do have first hand experience with this particular segment (I know someone who owns and rents a good number of houses to such women) so that is the example I used.
Whole Foods is now doing rental homes in Aisle 6.
getalife
September 20th, 2012
9:12 pm
“Final Troops From Afghanistan Surge Head Home” Aol.
Thank you President Obama.
Lets get the rest home earlier and pass the Keystone Pipeline .
TaxPayer
September 20th, 2012
9:14 pm
The school on Little House on the Prairie was a private school and it served everyone. The whole community pitched in and paid for a teacher based on what they could afford and it was all working just fine until Obama came along. Then the added cost of providing separate facilities and lunchrooms and wagon buses with back seats was just too much for the town so they abandoned the private school model and opted in to the public education system and it has been down hill ever since. Just ask any Republican and they’ll tell you it’s the truth.
Kamchak - "Socialism" is just a code word for "fear," the monster under you bed ~ Kamchak
September 20th, 2012
9:14 pm
(I know someone who owns and rents a good number of houses to such women)
My girlfriend’s hairdresser’s husband has an uncle that worked with a guy that knew someone who owns and rents a good number of houses to such women, too.
independent thinker
September 20th, 2012
9:16 pm
“”"”"”"”"”"If you want a friend in Washington, get a dog”"”"”"”"”"”"”
Harry S Truman quote
Towncrier
September 20th, 2012
9:17 pm
“Towncrier plays the race card…. guess he never heard of the Beatles white album…”
Of course I have…but I have never seen someone reference it in relation to the 47% of a population spoken of by a politician. Next batter.
They BOTH suck
September 20th, 2012
9:17 pm
Jam
It isn’t over, but the right is getting nervous.
For all this talk of the about how close it is, Obama is up more today than he was at this same time in 08………..
UH OH
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2012/president/obama_vs_romney_compared_to_obama_vs_mccain.html
It is hilarious to hear the right talk about how great McCain and Palin did during the debates, but this was the very time frame that Obama sealed the deal on that weak ticket.
Erwin's cat
September 20th, 2012
9:18 pm
good show on pba “The Jewish People:A story of Survival”…a good watch
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
September 20th, 2012
9:18 pm
“Monica Lewinsky is promising to reveal secret love letters to Bill Clinton and his penchant for kinky sex in a new tell-all about her days as his favorite intern.”
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/monica_on_bill_the_kink_and_a5gZIiDHRMxISyZvYcxsAI#ixzz273xEth49
Methinks Bill is hoping Hillary will take a trip to the Far, Far East for a Long, Long time.
TaxPayer
September 20th, 2012
9:19 pm
Not to worry, oldguy. If your boy Mitt has his way, you’ll be lucky to get a voucher from Medicare large enough to cover the cost you incur just searching for a health insurance plan that offers you a discount on your Walmart prescriptions. Your life will be so much better once Republicans take your Medicare dollars and use it to fund another bigger tax cut for the wealthiest.
Karl Rove
September 20th, 2012
9:19 pm
““Never kick a fresh turd on a hot day.”
from Harry Truman
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
September 20th, 2012
9:19 pm
Mohammed watched Porky Pig cartoons.
Towncrier
September 20th, 2012
9:20 pm
“Whole Foods is now doing rental homes in Aisle 6.”
“My girlfriend’s hairdresser’s husband has an uncle that worked with a guy that knew someone who owns and rents a good number of houses to such women, too.”
Dumb, Democratic Deflection – or, as I like to call it, “triple dunce talk”.
Keep Up the Good Fight!
September 20th, 2012
9:21 pm
Senior Digits, be brave child. If you are going to try to incite violence, post your real name and address.
Erwin's cat
September 20th, 2012
9:21 pm
tdt?
Towncrier
September 20th, 2012
9:24 pm
“good show on pba “The Jewish People:A story of Survival”…a good watch”
A symposium on why Jews are liberal – a good read:
http://www.commentarymagazine.com/article/why-are-jews-liberals-a-symposium/
Mr_B
September 20th, 2012
9:25 pm
TC: I appreciate your response. But your “solution” involves destroying what little family structure these women have, and I suspect that you would not consider that a desirable outcome either. So unless you’re willing to forcibly break up families, how would you propose to give the children at least a minimum shot at breaking out of the cycle?
Redneck Convert (R--and proud of it)
September 20th, 2012
9:26 pm
So one of my heros, Truman, was a Socialist. Next thing I see, they’ll be saying Santa Claus messes with little girls. There’s lots of things I learned on here I never wanted to know. It’s just a bad day to be a Republican.
Erwin's cat
September 20th, 2012
9:26 pm
Tc – thanks…i’ll look after the show…my dvr recorded it for me
Keep Up the Good Fight!
September 20th, 2012
9:28 pm
Kam, isn’t this the same poster who under another sock puppet name claimedt he had a friend who had rental homes that had tenants who were living high on the hog while getting “illegal Section 8 benefits: but when told he should report his “friend” the cheating landlord, suddenly claimed it was all legal (or that he had no idea if it was “illegal”).
Kamchak - "Socialism" is just a code word for "fear," the monster under you bed ~ Kamchak
September 20th, 2012
9:28 pm
Dumb, Democratic Deflection –Richly deserved derisive mocking of a bullsh*t derivative story told almost thirty years ago by Reaganoldguy
September 20th, 2012
9:29 pm
Funny Taxpayer,
I don’t recall the Republicans saying they were going to take ANY money out of Medicare, only Obama has actually passed a law to do that. How about a link to that promise.
I will give Old Harry Truman kudos for being up front and honest……Probably the last Democrat to do that.
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
September 20th, 2012
9:30 pm
Keep
Yep.
Mr_B
September 20th, 2012
9:30 pm
Keep: I remember the exchange, but I don’t think it was TC.
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
September 20th, 2012
9:32 pm
Mohammed rode girl’s bicycles.
DebbieDoRight - A Do Right Woman
September 20th, 2012
9:32 pm
Oh goody! Scout is on the blog! Hiya Scout! I have a question for you. Remember when the Trayvon Martin case was all over the headlines and you were saying he was just a punk that jumped poor George Zimmerman and blah blah blah blah blah?
Well, funny thing happened in Florida today……
Only DNA from George Zimmerman was found on the grip of the gun that was used in the fatal shooting of unarmed teenager Trayvon Martin, according to DNA test results released Wednesday. …………….The tests on the gun and the holster were performed by the Florida Department of Law Enforcement. They found Zimmerman’s DNA on the gun but could not find any of Martin’s…………………….
Mr_B
September 20th, 2012
9:32 pm
Gotta go…. little capitalist minds to wash in the morning. Daspidanya!
Mick
September 20th, 2012
9:33 pm
0311@9:19
Isn’t that part of the problem in this world today, disparaging someone else’s prophet or diety???
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
September 20th, 2012
9:33 pm
Keep: I remember the exchange, but I don’t think it was TC.
Not under that name, no.
It’s how we keep track of the various sock-puppets people use.
Keep Up the Good Fight!
September 20th, 2012
9:34 pm
Mr.B, i recall it was under another name, but a derivative of the same false claims.
Ricky Bobby
September 20th, 2012
9:36 pm
Hell. One thing we ain’t got in ‘merica is socialists. Heck, I doubt even them 47%ers are socialists.
Keep Up the Good Fight!
September 20th, 2012
9:36 pm
Dang it Debbie, stop confusing us with facts and evidence. He must have had on gloves and then someone removed them… why its soooo obvious.
They BOTH suck
September 20th, 2012
9:36 pm
Mick
Apparently he is showing is good Christian side.
Jesus would be proud for sure
TaxPayer
September 20th, 2012
9:37 pm
oldguy,
Your inability to recall the Republican plan to destroy Medicare, as well as every other aspect of the socail safety net, in order to fund more tax cuts for the wealthiest should also concern you.
DebbieDoRight - A Do Right Woman
September 20th, 2012
9:37 pm
Hiya Keep!! I know, I know………
FACTS are cons Kryptonite…………..
Jm
September 20th, 2012
9:38 pm
Scout. Mohammed is in a book. Is that against the rules?
Towncrier
September 20th, 2012
9:38 pm
“But your “solution” involves destroying what little family structure these women have, and I suspect that you would not consider that a desirable outcome either. So unless you’re willing to forcibly break up families, how would you propose to give the children at least a minimum shot at breaking out of the cycle?”
I don’t so much have THE solution as I have an understanding that there is a problem that needs to be resolved – and not ignored with people throwing up their hands in defeat. I am an engineer by profession and engineers solve problems – not run away from them or let them persist year after year, decade after decade.
I can tell you that there is a lot of partying, drinking, promiscuity and keeping up with the Jones’ (in terms of large screen HD televisions, cell phones, music systems and the like) in these homes. There isn’t much of a family structure there to begin with. So maybe the government could start by checking in on these recipients at their homes and demanding some kind of responsibility and accountability. Drug testing was a first step towards this in some states. It had a LOT of opposition (go figure) from some quarters.
On your side, if liberals are unwilling to take some strong steps to correct the problem, then it only proves they are not serious about solving it.
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
September 20th, 2012
9:39 pm
One man’s opinion but worth listening to ………. echos of Nam:
Ex-Navy SEAL: “This ‘moron’ endangering lives”
“Training Iraqis and Afghans to maintain western-style security is a waste of time and U.S. military leaders are so afraid of offending people that they refuse to do what’s necessary to win.
That’s the thesis of a very blunt book by former U.S. Navy SEAL Carl Higbie, entitled “Battle on the Homefront: A Navy SEAL’s Mission to Save the American Dream.”
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Higbie tells us of his two tours in Iraq and the stunningly inept Iraqis he was ordered to train.
“It was unfathomable how dumb the people were over there,” Higbie told WND. “It’s difficult to get them to do basic tasks such as reading a map or doing jumping jacks. And we’re giving them guns!”
He says simple concepts are impossible for them to grasp, so expecting loyalty to a Western nation or thinking they will comprehend a security strategy is a waste of time.
“They don’t reason like us, they don’t think like us. They’re not capable of learning complex things, especially loyalties to Western democracy.”
Higbie served in Iraq under President Bush in 2007 and in 2009 under President Obama. He claims there was a “night and day” difference in policy, including the Obama administration directive that U.S. troops not carry live ammunition.
“They want to tie your hands as soldiers so they don’t have an ‘incident.’”
Higbie says these rules of engagement are handcuffing our forces and preventing them from winning wars.
In fact, the ex-SEAL saves his harshest criticisms for military leaders for agreeing to wage a culturally sensitive war to win hearts and minds rather than kill our enemies.
“We need to fight to win or come home.”
He specifically lashes out at Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Gen. Martin Dempsey, calling him a “moron” for not fighting to change policies on joint security patrols in Afghanistan until Afghans had killed more than 50 of our own troops.
Higbie recounts how misguided rules of engagement put his own life in danger, how his book led to his dismissal from the U.S. Navy and what the response has been from officers and enlisted personnel.”
http://www.wnd.com/2012/09/ex-navy-seal-this-moron-endangering-lives/
Mick
September 20th, 2012
9:42 pm
That’s probably the one thing we can all agree on, out of afghanistan – tomorrow!
Towncrier
September 20th, 2012
9:42 pm
“Richly deserved derisive mocking of a bullsh*t derivative story told almost thirty years ago by Reagan”
Nope. Dumb, Democratic Deflection
Keep Up the Good Fight!
September 20th, 2012
9:42 pm
So Townie, have you reported your “landlord friend” to the authorities yet for aiding and abetting these frauds?
Keep Up the Good Fight!
September 20th, 2012
9:44 pm
DDR, I see Senior Digits is suddenly silient on that case…
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
September 20th, 2012
9:44 pm
1) “Isn’t that part of the problem in this world today, disparaging someone else’s prophet or diety???”
Only for Islam ……….. the rest of us just shrug our shoulders and move on.
2) “Apparently he is showing is good Christian side. Jesus would be proud for sure”
“You brood of vipers, how can you who are evil say anything good ………… ?” Matthew 12:34
The above was said to the religious rulers of His day.
He called ‘em like He saw ‘em !
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
September 20th, 2012
9:45 pm
Debbie:
What’s your point?
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
September 20th, 2012
9:45 pm
My girlfriend’s hairdresser’s husband has an uncle that used to work with a guy that knew someone who was an engineer by profession.
He walked 15 miles to Ga. Tech barefoot in the snow, uphill both ways, 365 days a year to earn his degree.
Towncrier
September 20th, 2012
9:46 pm
“Remember when the Trayvon Martin case was all over the headlines and you were saying he was just a punk that jumped poor George Zimmerman and blah blah blah blah blah?”
And weren’t you saying Zimmerman was a racist murderer or something along those lines…blah, blah, blah?
Towncrier
September 20th, 2012
9:47 pm
“So Townie, have you reported your “landlord friend” to the authorities yet for aiding and abetting these frauds?”
Dumb, Democratic Deflection.
They BOTH suck
September 20th, 2012
9:48 pm
And I am calling them like I see them
You are pretty selective when you call them like you see them
Just helping you out
DebbieDoRight - A Do Right Woman
September 20th, 2012
9:48 pm
scout: He claims there was a “night and day” difference in policy, including the Obama administration directive that U.S. troops not carry live ammunition.
LIES. Dudley just CAME from Afghanistan and is home on “leave”. I asked him if that was true, and he told me that only an incredibly ignorant person would believe something as stupid as that.
I’m going to tell Dudley to call you. YOu seem to fit the bill.
Keep – Yep — it seems that scout doesn’t want to talk to me when I pull out stuff that has real life links to it that refute the crap he cuts and pastes, (without links — 99% of the time).
But, i bet he’ll email Jay to tell him how “mean” i’m being to him…….
kayaker 71
September 20th, 2012
9:49 pm
Poor Trayvon. Screwed around with the wrong guy. Who’s DNA would you expect would show up on the weapon that did him in?
Towncrier
September 20th, 2012
9:49 pm
“Debbie: What’s your point?”
A question for the ages. You’ll be spending two days getting to that, Scout.
Mick
September 20th, 2012
9:49 pm
The more the republicans have to actually reveal the truth of their governing policies, the more the people recoil in horror – yes it’s that bad! Obama is not beating you, rather you are beating yourselves. Entitlements? Yes for republicans their sacred entitlements are no compromising in protecting the wealthy among us via taxes, a lot of their rubes are starting to climb out of the coma…
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
September 20th, 2012
9:50 pm
Dudley? Dudly who?
M.O.S. ?
SEAL?
P.S.
If you notice I said, “one man’s opinion” but worth the read.
They BOTH suck
September 20th, 2012
9:51 pm
What exactly was this no ammo directive? When was it issued and what was was the actual policy in terms of when and where they could carry ammo?
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
September 20th, 2012
9:52 pm
Towncrier:
Maybe they struggled over the gun and maybe they didn’t. I don’t know.
What I do know is that if someone has me down on the ground and is pounding my head into the pavement and I can get to my gun ……………. well …………. case closed cleared (as we used to say
in the business).
They BOTH suck
September 20th, 2012
9:53 pm
DDR
I google that “directive” and the only thing came up was the same site that Scout posted.
Keep in mind that this is the same site that has pushed and at times still pushes the “bither” bs.
Soon as you see WND.com get ready for some “whoppers”
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
September 20th, 2012
9:54 pm
Going to watch some football …………. everyone be nice to other posters.
Keep Up the Good Fight!
September 20th, 2012
9:55 pm
Oh well, typical conned failure of integrity… Townie compaints about “some” people who allegedly commit fraud but not those who aid and abet in the profiteering. No surprises there. Fake stories, no integrity.
Mick
September 20th, 2012
9:56 pm
**everyone be nice to other posters.**
What exactly does that mean? Like not incendiary?
They BOTH suck
September 20th, 2012
9:57 pm
Scout
Thanks for backing up that “directive” that YOU knew didn’t exist.
But per your usual tripe, you still pushed it……………
Get your eyes examined. Your calling them like you see them is getting fuzzier by the post
Keep Up the Good Fight!
September 20th, 2012
9:57 pm
pounding my head into the pavement
Hmmm… assuming facts not in evidence.
Tundra Dude
September 20th, 2012
9:57 pm
And Germany’s socialized medicine system was initiated by that great Marxist, Otto von Bismarck in the 1880’s
Ashamed to admit it, but it seems my homie (of Prussian stock) started this mess.
Correction: He was not a socialist, but quite the opposite, he passed a bunch of anti-socialist laws.
He started the “socialist” health care to counter the power of the Social Democrats, who were creeping into congress running as independents.
Thulsa Doom
September 20th, 2012
9:58 pm
“The parallels with today’s debate on health care are uncanny, missing only a reference to Marxist anti-colonial Kenyans out to destroy this country from within.”
Well its missing a couple other references also. Looks like you left out that Florida Dem Congressman’s reference to the GOP health plan that “the Republican plan is for seniors to die, die, die”. And of course who can forget the reference to Paul Ryan pushing Granny off a cliff regarding Medicare.
Keep Up the Good Fight!
September 20th, 2012
9:58 pm
Mick, I always take it for Senior Digits code “do as I say, not as I do”
They BOTH suck
September 20th, 2012
9:58 pm
Mick
That is his MO at times. Drops some BS that he knows he can’t substantiate but he willingly brainwashes himself with, then leave before being challenged on that bs.
kayaker 71
September 20th, 2012
9:58 pm
So, now it appears that Bozo and the gang are finally admitting that the fiasco in Libya was a terrorist attack. But, as i understand, it wasn’t a bunch of crazed, fanatic Muslims that did it. You know we can’t blame these poor misunderstood sons of Allah for being the way that they are. They love Bozo, the one person “with a Muslim background” that could put us on better footing with these idiots. All of those posters that they burned with some guy that looked like Alfred E Newman with the missing tooth just couldn’t be Bozo. Nah. Must be some mistake.
Towncrier
September 20th, 2012
9:59 pm
“Monica Lewinsky is promising to reveal secret love letters to Bill Clinton and his penchant for kinky sex in a new tell-all about her days as his favorite intern.”
That won’t faze a liberal one bit – some like DDR say we shouldn’t care who (or what) the POTUS sleeps with (even if he is married with children) and how many times he does it. He is not dishonoring his position as world leader by having sex and committing adultery in the Oval Office with a woman who could be his daughter. There is no chance of blackmail in such cases. Shoot, he may have let the dog hump his leg for all DDR cares. NO BIG DEAL. But let a candidate for office not release 10 years of tax returns and THEN (in her twisted mind) he is not acting “above reproach”. And you thought to ask her if she had a point? I bet you won’t do it again.
They BOTH suck
September 20th, 2012
9:59 pm
Keep
Exactly
They BOTH suck
September 20th, 2012
10:00 pm
TC
You cry about liberals, but I see ole Vitter from LA, Mr “I love to visit Houses of Ill repute” was reelected and still in office.
Were those liberals who voted him in?
kayaker 71
September 20th, 2012
10:04 pm
Slick Willy was eating a pizza, getting a BJ and talking to some general on the phone about troop deployments….. all at the same time. Liberals call that multi-tasking. Hell, I have never been able to concentrate on anything when that happened to me.
Thulsa Doom
September 20th, 2012
10:04 pm
Scout,
When my brother was in Iraq the big issue he had was with the pay and the greed of the Iraqi officers. At first we would pay the officers and they would then disburse payments to the Iraqi enlisted men. When it was found out that the Iraqi officers were keeping most of the money and paying the enlisted men a pittance the U.S. officers had to step in directly and pay the officers and then pay the enlisted men their due wages to make damn sure they got paid. I still have some hope for the Iraqis allthough they are still a bunch of backward ass folk but as for the Afghans there is no hope for their sort of backwardess. Those folks are beyond help.
Keep Up the Good Fight!
September 20th, 2012
10:05 pm
Hell, I have never been able to concentrate on anything when that happened to me.
eating pizza?
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
September 20th, 2012
10:05 pm
“There is no nation on earth powerful enough to accomplish our overthrow. Our destruction, should it come at all, will be from another quarter – from the inattention of the people to the concerns of their government, from their carelessness and negligence … I fear that they may place too implicit a confidence in their public servants and fail properly to scrutinize their conduct; that in this way they may be made the dupes of designing men, and become the instruments of their own undoing.”
Daniel Webster
scott
September 20th, 2012
10:06 pm
zzzzzzzz………..man you are terrible Jay.
JamVet
September 20th, 2012
10:06 pm
cat, yes, a very good program.
A primer and must watch for any and all Christian fools who think that they are somehow qualified to define who is a Jew and who isn’t.
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
September 20th, 2012
10:07 pm
Vitter from LA, Mr “I love to visit Houses of Ill repute”
Ah yes, David “Diaper Boy” Vitter, but let us not forget:
Larry “Toe Tapper” Craig
John “I Did My Best Friend’s Wife” Ensign
Mark “I Walked The Appalachian Trail to Visit My Girlfriend In Argentina” Sanford
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
September 20th, 2012
10:07 pm
“What exactly does that mean? Like not incendiary?”
Has Mohammed been posting on here ???
They BOTH suck
September 20th, 2012
10:07 pm
Scout
How about that “directive”?
You damn well know if it was true, you would have been glad to post the info because you would have already had it.
I appreciate the man’s service, but someone is LYING
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
September 20th, 2012
10:07 pm
P.S.
If he does ………. be nice to him ………. he’s a “poster”.
Thulsa Doom
September 20th, 2012
10:08 pm
“Monica Lewinsky is promising to reveal secret love letters to Bill Clinton and his penchant for kinky sex in a new tell-all about her days as his favorite intern.”
Come on now. That bit about the kinky sex seems like a cheapshot towards Clinton and serves no effing purpose except to embarrass a U.S. president. Besides I would imagine we all got some freakiness about us.
Towncrier
September 20th, 2012
10:08 pm
“You cry about liberals, but I see ole Vitter from LA, Mr “I love to visit Houses of Ill repute” was reelected and still in office.”
Most of the Republicans involved in sexual trysts have left office (or never get elected initially or again – as with Cain and Gingrich). There are always exceptions. The point is this: no one excuses them. Democratic leaders arguably have a MUCH worse “record” in this area (JFK, LBJ, Clinton, etc.) and people like DDR EXCUSE their behavior as if it were nothing. That is both problematic and disturbing.
kayaker 71
September 20th, 2012
10:09 pm
JamVet, 10:06,
Is that any different than a bunch of Jewish fools seemingly qualified to define what a Christian is and who isn’t?
Keep Up the Good Fight!
September 20th, 2012
10:10 pm
Most of the Republicans involved in sexual trysts have left office (or never get elected initially or again – as with Cain and Gingrich). There are always exceptions. The point is this: no one excuses them
Not intended to be a factual statement.
bman
September 20th, 2012
10:10 pm
Doom .. .. But it will help to sell the book. It’s her turn to cash-in…
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
September 20th, 2012
10:11 pm
BOTH:
I said, “one man’s opinion” when I posted that. I am NOT going to call him a liar.
I know from my own experience in Nam that there were some pretty STUPID (and life threatening) orders that were given (sometimes in writing but most often verbal).
For example ………. both sides agreed to a 24 hour “Christmas Truce” (1967). I was at a very forward firebase near the DMZ. They blasted the hell out of us and we were ordered not to respond.
So ……………. if someone tells me they were ordered not to put a magazine in their weapon or chamber a round or whatever ……….. I will believe them until it is proven otherwise.
Towncrier
September 20th, 2012
10:11 pm
“That bit about the kinky sex seems like a cheapshot towards Clinton and serves no effing purpose except to embarrass a U.S. president.”
As if he could be embarrassed any more than he was.
Thulsa Doom
September 20th, 2012
10:11 pm
I think Miss Lewinsky’s writing about Clinton is just plain crappy. But if she does she should at least give the book a good name. “Bill’s freakshow” would be a good title.
DebbieDoRight - A Do Right Woman
September 20th, 2012
10:11 pm
k71 – That upright citizen Zimmerman said they were FIGHTING over the gun. You see the point now?
scout; If you notice I said, “one man’s opinion” but worth the read.
You also quoted the part that said that Pres. O ordered NO AMMUNITION for the soldiers on patrol Really? How is THAT an opinion? There either IS an order by the President that says that – or there ISN’T. It’s not an “opinion” it’s either the truth or a LIE.
Tundra Dude
September 20th, 2012
10:11 pm
German health care, my “poll”.
I most recently lived in Candler Park (Atl).
I frequently ran into homies in Va-Highlands, d/town and Buckhead.
I always tried soliciting their opinion of their high taxes and their soc med.
I stopped doing that……I kept getting the same opinions….everyone…100%
liked their “free” health care. Of course, they knew it wasn’t free…but they had
freedom from worry.
my 2 farthings, from the Tundra
Towncrier
September 20th, 2012
10:12 pm
“Not intended to be a factual statement.”
Not intended to be a factual statement.
Mick
September 20th, 2012
10:13 pm
0311
OK, ok, play your little games but just remember that we are both part of this hypocrisy but never, never think it applies to my family…
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
September 20th, 2012
10:15 pm
Par for the course:
Headline: “Republican senators decry ‘useless, worthless’ Clinton briefing on Libya attack”
“Several high-level GOP senators emerged from Thursday afternoon’s classified briefing with top administration officials incensed that Obama team had offered them no new information and answered none of their questions about the Sept. 11 attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi that resulted in the death of four Americans.”
“That was the most useless, worthless briefing that I have attended in a long time. Believe me, there is more written in every major and minor publication in America about what happened.” said Senate Foreign Relations Committee member Bob Corker (R-TN), emerging from the all-senators briefing that included Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Deputy Secretary of Defense Ash Carter, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, and Joint Chiefs Vice Chairman Adm. Sandy Winnefeld. “It was like a one-hour filibuster with absolutely not one single bit of new information being brought forth… very disappointing.”
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
September 20th, 2012
10:15 pm
“OK, ok, play your little games but just remember that we are both part of this hypocrisy but never, never think it applies to my family…”
Translation: I have no good comeback.
Towncrier
September 20th, 2012
10:16 pm
“Well its missing a couple other references also. Looks like you left out that Florida Dem Congressman’s reference to the GOP health plan that “the Republican plan is for seniors to die, die, die”. And of course who can forget the reference to Paul Ryan pushing Granny off a cliff regarding Medicare.”
Yeah, TD. Jay sometimes – or maybe a whole lot of times – forgets details like those.
Mick
September 20th, 2012
10:16 pm
Gee the republican senators are upset, I’m shocked…
Mick
September 20th, 2012
10:17 pm
0311
Actually it was a great comeback, it just went over your head, ready to retreat now?
JamVet
September 20th, 2012
10:17 pm
Is that any different than a bunch of Jewish fools seemingly qualified to define what a Christian is and who isn’t?
And who is this bunch of Jewish fools you speak of?
They BOTH suck
September 20th, 2012
10:17 pm
Scout
If that was a true “directive”, you would have posted it.
Google only gave me that same article.
Wonder why no one else has mentioned. That didn’t cross your mind?