Charley 164
Great comments but Obama is a student of Saul Alinsky an avowed Marxist. Those of us on the right are opposed to the socialist Marxist theory and if I could make a comparison to Obama and the Dems in generals they remind me of your pre WWII Prim Minister Neville Chamberlain. In recent past I read “Troublesome Young Men” and gained an even more jaundiced opinion of Chamberlain. Hind sight is always 20 -20 and we had our similarly persuaded Americans too but none surrendered a country to Hitler without its president or elected officials present or worked out back door deals with Mussolini as France did. America was so inclined to be isolationist with so little emphasis on the military that we put ourselves at risk. And I know of no reasonable premise that convinces me a nation is better served from a position of weakness and that is the Dems and too much of NATO belief or Afghanistan might be in a better position. And on the Iraq UN sanction. Saddam violated his sanctions more than 17 times. Europe wants to talk but when does talking end? In the Chamberlain way??
Obama’s and his party had almost total responsibility for the financial debacle that bundled subprime loans to banks through out the world and our biased press failed to report this decades of financial malfeasance and every attempt the Republicans made to correct the Dems successfully opposed. This was one of the major dominoes that started the current financial crisis along with the Dem philosophy of no drilling for oil in the US. And it is lost to almost the entire American population that that Evil Bush was almost the only individual trying to correct the Fannie and Freddie financial mess that could have delayed if not stopped this current financial crisis. And if you are a military dude and having that bunch of yokels along with so many of the carrying Euro Dudes squawking so much that the solider may go to jail for protecting himself because the Dems and state side protest have convinced the Dems to adversely affect the GIs rules of engagement (ROE). It is not my opinion that the Dems have the military as a high priority past (1970s) present and future. Being a military under the Dems reminds me of Kipling’s poem “Tommy”
Poem lyrics of Tommy by Rudyard Kipling.
I went into a public-’ouse to get a pint o’ beer,
The publican ‘e up an’ sez, “We serve no red-coats here.”
The girls be’ind the bar they laughed an’ giggled fit to die,
I outs into the street again an’ to myself sez I:
..O it’s Tommy this, an’ Tommy that, an’ “Tommy, go away”;
But it’s “Thank you, Mister Atkins”, when the band begins to play,
The band begins to play, my boys, the band begins to play,
O it’s “Thank you, Mister Atkins”, when the band begins to play.
I went into a theatre as sober as could be,
They gave a drunk civilian room, but ‘adn’t none for me;
They sent me to the gallery or round the music-’alls,
But when it comes to fightin’, Lord! they’ll shove me in the stalls!
For it’s Tommy this, an’ Tommy that, an’ “Tommy, wait outside”;
But it’s “Special train for Atkins” when the trooper’s on the tide,
The troopship’s on the tide, my boys, the troopship’s on the tide,
O it’s “Special train for Atkins” when the trooper’s on the tide.
Yes, makin’ mock o’ uniforms that guard you while you sleep
Is cheaper than them uniforms, an’ they’re starvation cheap;
An’ hustlin’ drunken soldiers when they’re goin’ large a bit
Is five times better business than paradin’ in full kit.
Then it’s Tommy this, an’ Tommy that, an’ “Tommy, ‘ow’s yer soul?”
But it’s “Thin red line of ‘eroes” when the drums begin to roll,
The drums begin to roll, my boys, the drums begin to roll,
O it’s “Thin red line of ‘eroes” when the drums begin to roll.
We aren’t no thin red ‘eroes, nor we aren’t no blackguards too,
But single men in barricks, most remarkable like you;
An’ if sometimes our conduck isn’t all your fancy paints,
Why, single men in barricks don’t grow into plaster saints;
While it’s Tommy this, an’ Tommy that, an’ “Tommy, fall be’ind”,
But it’s “Please to walk in front, sir”, when there’s trouble in the wind,
There’s trouble in the wind, my boys, there’s trouble in the wind,
O it’s “Please to walk in front, sir”, when there’s trouble in the wind.
You talk o’ better food for us, an’ schools, an’ fires, an’ all:
We’ll wait for extry rations if you treat us rational.
Don’t mess about the cook-room slops, but prove it to our face
The Widow’s Uniform is not the soldier-man’s disgrace.
For it’s Tommy this, an’ Tommy that, an’ “Chuck him out, the brute!”
But it’s “Saviour of ‘is country” when the guns begin to shoot;
An’ it’s Tommy this, an’ Tommy that, an’ anything you please;
An’ Tommy ain’t a bloomin’ fool — you bet that Tommy sees!
