ROS sent us this link, and I read the article yesterday, but I was hesitant to comment, because anything I might say can be construed as ungrateful and disrespectful. But anyway, Michelle Obama interviewed with Stars & Stripes;
“Still most Americans don’t have a connection to the military community,” she said during an interview with Stars and Stripes on Tuesday. “This is a group of individuals who give so much and don’t want to fall into the shadows. They want to know they live in a country that cares about what they do.”
So her solution is to ask Americans to volunteer to express “broader support from the entire country is needed to reach out to military families and offer them the respect they deserve”. My first reaction is not meant to be ungrateful, but, if you haven’t been moved to do these things in the last ten years, the troops really don’t need someone who wants to mouth the words and go through the motions because Michelle Obama told you to.
Even IVAW complained that Americans were generally ignoring the troops and the war. It’s pretty much too late to pretend you care because it’s the next popular thing to do with your “Organizing for America” friends.
When the wars began, I took donated pogie bait to the guys at Walter Reed, brought wives to my apartment so they could cook homemade meals for their husbands, smuggled them beer, contacted their representatives in Congress – before there was a better-organized effort by the new organizations which have sprung up. When they started doing a better job than I was doing, I got out of the way.
And that’s the best thing that these newly converted supporters of the troops can do – send your money, but stay out of the way. Or enlist.
I said I moderate the FAKE ObamaGirl, numbnuts. I really don’t care about dissent, especially when it comes from mud puddle-deep intellect like yours.
This will be my last comment on this thread. Doogie, he (sphincter) didn’t say “a kevlar”, he said “bring Kevlar”. His implication was quite clear. Now, the difference with what that conversation was and this on is that sphincter plans to come here for the explicit purpose of doing bodily harm, which is a federal offense. Sparky was talking about defending himself, not about going to somewhere to inflict bodily harm. If a young, wet behind the ears, 8th grade graduate like yourself can’t figure that out, I don’t have the time, not patience, to do so for you.
The other thing your not yet fully developed brain can’t figure out is that this is a private website and the site owner can moderate, eliminate, or stifle whatever the fuck they want. The problem you lefties have is that you can’t figure out that whole Constitution thingy and that whatever is written there is whatever you think should be on it as the mood strikes you. Go ask your 9th grade civics teacher about all that.
By the way, there’s no record of ObamaGirl in Army Knowledge Online (her real name is in her email address).
Color me shocked.
Actually, OG, Tellis and Hoser read like the group of kids at the far lunch table, giggling and typing at sites where the adults actually have something to say. Must be one of them filched mommy’s laptop, or borrowed one from the school IT room.