Comments on: Attention Bush Apologists: Reagan Greeted Fallen Americans at an Air Force Base, Idiots

By: boing3887

boing3887 — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 22:12:28 +0000

well, please give us a link to the new source that confirmed that the families pulled out of the photo-op. besides, why isn’t it that the families pulled out because they are against the war, and not against obama? if the assumption is implicitly that they don’t like obama because he’s not “fighting hard enough,” then they should actually LOVE him since he’s escalating the war in afghanistan and pakistan.

By: akw1

akw1 — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 03:39:29 +0000

Reagan didn’t do what Obama did. Reagan was attending a public ceremony at Andrews AFB. Obama took a photo crew to a private transfer of fallen soldiers at Dover. Initially, 6 of the 18 families had agreed to allow journalists to photograph the transfer. When they found out that Obama was going to be there to turn it into a photo-op, 5 of those families withdrew their permission.

By: wedidit

wedidit — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 23:47:38 +0000

Agree!!

By: wedidit

wedidit — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 23:46:20 +0000

Yeah, over at Huffington, Reagan and Bush supporters are saying those two “would never” do what Obama did.

So I showed them that Wikipedia pic.

By: dakine01

dakine01 — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 21:08:02 +0000

Yeah, I joined the USAF in late ’76 and was always fairly happy that even with the death of the service members in the Iranian desert during the failed hostage rescue, that there were far fewer service members KIA during Carter’s one term than probably any other presidency in our history.

Then St Ronnie of Ray-gunz was elected and that ended that.

By: SouthernDragon

SouthernDragon — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 21:02:31 +0000

In the Navy I got to do the Cuban Missile Crisis and Taiwan Straits Patrol under Kennedy, then under Johnson and Nixon I got to do Nam. That was enough. I bailed under Ford.

By: Spiffarino

Spiffarino — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 20:54:53 +0000

I assumed a “snark” tag wasn’t necessary.

By: kaylaspop

kaylaspop — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 20:53:52 +0000

Not quite all, I was in the US Army during Jimmy Carter’s (Rethugs say worst president ever) term & there wasn’t a war for me to go to, thank god. Worst Pres. my patooty!

By: Clavis

Clavis — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 20:49:14 +0000

There will, it seems, always be right-wing authoritarians.

The question is whether any particular society is more or less immune to their toxic parasitism.

Our society, which has many poorly-educated, ignorant, fearful people and a complicit corporate press, is ill-equipped to deal with right-wing authoritarianism.

So the “liberal media” publicly announces that it’s going to pay more attention to what the Teabaggers say, and “Matt Drudge rules our world” and “the job of a journalist is to repeat unsourced gossip that helps people in power remain in power” and so on, and every national conversation gets ruined because the right-wingers rush in and start crapping in the punchbowl.

Think about what weak antidotes Watergate and “At long last, Senator, have you no sense of decency?” would be to today’s GOP villains. They regularly laugh off such light scrutiny. The weapons that used to be sufficient to combat the darkness are sufficient no longer. I don’t know if we’ve got anything to replace them.

More and more, America seems doomed to fall to the same evil authoritarian traitors that have destroyed so many previous cultures.

By: SouthernDragon

SouthernDragon — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 20:32:48 +0000

I do, I do.