Comments on: How Can We Win The War With Troops Who Are So Ignorant Of The Issues?

By: merkwurdiglieber

merkwurdiglieber — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 01:09:41 +0000

If HRC wants to be taken seriously she needs for Bubba to shut up, he
is yesterday’s news and has done enough damage already, but he keeps
cruising around explaining it all for us like we need his help with HRC
and her candidacy… for me he is the proverbial turd in the punchbowl.

By: RevBev

RevBev — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 00:58:57 +0000

The local coverage about Paul is that he has so turned off much of his district that he may not succeed in his reelection. They don’t like all that get the troops out talk. According to one speaker, he has been pretty far removed in recent years, so much of his stance is new to the home folks.

By: RevBev

RevBev — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 00:54:10 +0000

In the last Congressional race a very interesting woman candidate challenged the Repub Rep. She did not win, but she got good attention; she is so credible. Will be very interesting if there is a more successful challenge coming up.

By: tanbark

tanbark — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 23:45:10 +0000

Regarding the “intelligence” of our troops in Iraq. We all know the lower-ranks are at the bottom of the slope, and there’s that old saying about “shit flows downhill”.

Where the change in attitude and “intelligence” will come from is from that portion of our military commanders—our ACTIVE DUTY military commmanders—which is sick of being used to cover george bush and the republican’s asses for their monumental fuckup.

There are a LOT Of them.

And the quickest way to get them to speak out, is by nominating a candidate, and Commander-In-Chief-to-be, who does not have one iota of political capital invested in keeping this fucking mayhem-opera going, to try to cover a vote for it, and to try to cover a refusal to admit what a bloody, cynical, mistake it was.

And that candidate, if anyone is in doubt, is Barack Obama.

By: mls78

mls78 — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 22:47:30 +0000

And that overthrow from within would be the only way to overthrow the U.S. government. And they would be doing it because they “hate our freedoms”. Damn freedom interferes with their power. It used to be hard to believe that traitors are in our government. Not any more.

By: bobh

bobh — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 22:34:08 +0000

Perhaps the soldiers would like to ponder how many tours McCain’s “100 years in Iraq” implies for them? How are their families going to feel about that?

By: Blue Texan

Blue Texan — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 22:11:20 +0000

My reaction was why slam, even in satire, one of our candidates?

To expose the level of idiocy and hatred from the right. I’ve written “Barack Osama” before for the same reason. Obviously I don’t think the troops are “ignorant of the issues” either.

By: MarilynSanAntone

MarilynSanAntone — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 21:59:47 +0000

Having carefully read the post, it appears (darkly thru a mirror) that the author was reacting to an article written by the retired colonel. However, the adjective ‘cut and run Hilery’ was offered by Blue Texan. My reaction was why slam, even in satire, one of our candidates? Not trying to nit pick, just saying…

By: republicanSScareme

republicanSScareme — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 21:41:44 +0000

I wouldn’t be so quick to assume our military people have been dunned down.

Whether you like Ron Paul or not, he is the only candidate who is flat-out against the war and wants to bring our troops home ASAP. Our military personnel donate more money to him than any other candidate, so what does that say about their intelligence? It sounds like, when they let their money do the talking, they’re smarter than the average American.

Just an observation.

By: tanbark

tanbark — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 21:26:46 +0000

MarilynSanAntone@140; that was BlueTex being sarcastic. He might should have wrapped that phrase in quotes, but I guarantee you it’s not his; it belongs to Limbaugh, Coulter, and their ilk; lock, stock, and barrel.

And, if the “candidate slamming” is accurately pointing out the facts about the candidates, particularly, if there are links to them speaking the words that give us a true picture of their ideas and feelings about such important issues as the war, then it can only help us get the RIGHT nominee.