I agree with Doug, Politics stinks. At ODS (in Kuwait) before this all kicked off I remember hearing a phrase from a Warrant Officer . . . “Politics always trumps mission and lives”, there is no more stirling example of this than the constant efforts to compromise our successes (and encourage belief in our failure) by our fellow countrymen the “Progressives”. This thread was focused on the responses of the two candidates to the criminal disaster taking place in Georgia. Progmeister (and others) deny, distract and counter accuse rather than write coherently on the subject at hand (I guess because they realize how lame and weak their chosen one’s response is). Same behaviours they displayed when the butchery in Rwanda was going on, same as with Moghadishu, Biafra, etc.

Damned not just by their words (or incoherence), but by their consistent lack of action in the face of ANYTHING except the acquisition of power.
Maximum range of an excuse is zero meters, all we hear from “Progressives” is excuses.