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Category: Barack Obama/Joe Biden

  • A President is Known by the Weapons He Chooses…

    Talk about a gaffe and a tell, “AK-47s belong in the hands of soldiers, not in the hands of criminals.” To the millions of American veterans who have faced multiple enemies around the globe who were armed with the AK 47, this is such a huge admission of where the loyalties of our supposed commander-in-chief lie as to make one want to choke. The President of the United States of America just identified what he believes to be the weapon of choice for military forces and guess what? It is in fact the weapon of choice of America’s enemies.

    The AK47 is probably the most significant icon of the hostile forces arrayed against America for the past six decades. I fought against the AK47 and felt its rounds cracking past me as I saw it take the lives of my fellow paratroopers in Vietnam. A half century later that same simple assault weapon is still being employed by Afghan, Somali and Yemeni enemies to kill and maim America’s warriors. This simple, stamped-metal, efficient weapon of choice of the leftist movements of the world has killed tens of thousands of Americans serving in uniform in multiple conflicts around the world for decades.

    If in fact the Colorado killer used an AK 47, then our really lame president should have noted that the assault weapon used in this slaughter was one used by America’s enemies for the past half century to thwart American interests around the globe, distributed indiscriminately by the Russians and China to any and all who would take up arms against the Great Satan. He should have made note that this is a weapon imported from Eastern Europe or Asia most likely, not an American weapon of choice. It is a garbage bin weapon easily acquired by any mad man in any country of the world.

    But no, in our president’s mind. our president of questionable origins, and truly questionable loyalties, the first mental leap was to the AK 47, the weapon of choice of those who would destroy America. You liberals can deny, tap dance and attempt to explain away until the cows come home, but this cow is has come into the barn. This political cow, our president, is a far leftist in whose mind the weapon of choice is the AK 47, a veritable symbol of violent revolutionary communism around the world. As a Vietnam veteran, I’m telling you, Barack Obama might as well have raised a red star communist flag. Those of us who know weaponry know that a man is known by the weapons he prefers and chooses.

    Barack Obama chose the most symbolic weapon of America’s enemies.

  • How to be a media dip$#it

    You may have seen the latest breathless reporting about how some guy named Romney said something to the effect that the UK and the US understand each other because of our shared Anglo-Saxon heritage. It set off a media frenzy (what doesn’t these days, actually?) as all of the false outrage built up over the last few days in the wake of the Aurora murders exploded.

    First of all, we do share an Anglo-Saxon heritage with England. So what’s the big whoop? But, apparently, like everything else, it’s racist to say that outloud. Says the Obama camp;

    The Obama campaign swiftly responded, calling the anonymous attacks “stunningly offensive” and even the reporter who sat down with the Romney advisers warned the “remarks may prompt accusations of racial insensitivity.”

    And what’s more, according to Jennifer Rubin at the Washington Post, the quote was made up by the UK’s Telegraph and the tip had been sent to them by Team Obama in the first place;

    But that doesn’t matter. The pack journalists begin tweeting it out. The cable news people begin to chatter about it. The Romney team puts out a statement: “It’s not true. If anyone said that, they weren’t reflecting the views of Governor Romney or anyone inside the campaign.”

    Some mainstream reporters confess to the Romney campaign that their editors tell them they have to write on it. (Have to? What if it’s not true?) Well, if one of them writes on it, others will follow.

    And how did the Telegraph quote magically get to so many reporters? The Obama team sent it to them. Nothing wrong with that, if the press would be honest about the origin of the story.

    So, I’m guessing that the Romney crowd, which denies that the phrase was ever uttered by Romney, nor one of his aides, is feeling the heat from Chicago.

    Look at me writing about the campaign in the middle of the work day.

  • Obama: DoD to launch Stolen Valor website

    This probably could have gone with the next post down because it came from the same speech to the VFW, but it’s a different subject, so…

    According to the Stars & Stripes, the president announced that DoD will launch their database of awards on Wednesday. I’m sure it will be a humdinger;

    An administration official said that record keepers from each of the military services have been working to compile military awards records since the Supreme Court last month struck down the federal Stolen Valor Act, arguing that the punishments for individuals lying about military medals infringed on free speech.

    The website will initially list only the recipients of the military’s highest awards for valor – the Medal of Honor and service crosses – that were awarded after Sept. 11, 2001.

    Yeah, maybe the initial unveiling will be OK, cuz we’re only talking about twenty people more or less, and that sounds about right for three weeks work for the government. But, we’re talking about the same government that can’t get medical records from the Pentagon across the river to the Department of Veterans Affairs on Vermont Avenue in DC. And they say the services are all working together on this? I’m sure that they’re working on different operating systems and trying to get data passed back and forth. So I don’t have a lot of hope for this.

    But I guess at least they’re trying, and that’s a good sign. But, I’m sure our buddy, Doug Sterner, who sent us the S&S link, BTW, has a database that contains recent MOH and service crosses, so what is the government doing? Since 2001 happened during the computer and internet age, they should already have that database, shouldn’t they?

    Maybe I’m just too skeptical.

  • Obama to VFW: I’ve got your back

    The president spoke at the VFW convention in Las Vegas today and he closed his speech with the phrase “I’ve got your back”. The first thing I thought of was the last time I heard him mention my back at the American Legion convention last year when he said he wasn’t going to balance the budget on the backs of veterans while his defense secretary was planning to do exactly that.

    President Barack Obama gave a 31 minute speech to the VFW National Convention Monday in Reno, ending the speech by telling the vets, “I’ve got your back.”

    Obama’s remarks were often followed with cheers, applause and standing ovations.

    He promised to keep the U.S. military as the indispensable fighting force in the world and vowed to continue fighting to improve the veteran’s health-care system.

    Yeah, when he talks about the “veterans’ health care system, he’s talking about the Department of Veterans’ Affairs, he’s not talking about the DoD healthcare system that we earned. He’s trying to push us out of that system and into the VA. I don’t like the VA because it’s staffed by civilians who don’t understand me and my ailments. Army doctors do understand. VA doctors are bureaucrats, it’s been my experience that military doctors care more about what they do. The VA hospital is closer to me, but I go where there are military doctors.

    Now, I’m not sure that Romney won’t screw veterans, the only reason he hasn’t, I’m sure, is because he hasn’t had the opportunity yet. But I’m also certain that I would rather Obama have my front, because I don’t trust him behind me. And the only reason that I need someone watching my back is because of him and his administration doing their best to put it to me, so I sure don’t want him watching it.

  • Mea Culpa? Well Maybe…

    Based on the response to my most recent post, Feats of Clay, it is obvious we’re going to have to clear the air here at TAH if I’m going to continue posting. As an old soldier who first began writing for the Internet in support of the Swift Boat Veterans back in 2004, I’ve come in for my fair share of criticism. When it comes from my liberal detractors I shrug it off as meaningless and inconsequential. For them I’ve developed a hard shell. I must confess, however, when it comes from fellow soldiers and veterans, it tends to sting a bit, especially when it is misdirected friendly fire.
    First off, I am, in fact, a cantankerous old fart (a recent examining physician referred to me as irascible) with little respect for timidity or false bravado. If you believe something then be prepared to stand up and say so and then, more importantly, be able to defend what you say. I realize that many people aren’t capable of doing that by lack of forcefulness in personality. However, I’m not one of those which is why I sit here pounding this damned keyboard into expositions of my views which many of you seem to like but some of you don’t.

    As has been pointed out to Ol’ Poetrooper by editors, if your humorous writing is not perceived as humorous by the majority of your readers and you find yourself having to explain it, then you are not a very good writer of humor, so it is best to stay away from that genre. That’s good advice. However, irascible old bastard that I am, I find that constraint upon my writing difficult to observe, having been possessed since childhood with a bent toward dark, sarcastic (yes some would call it black) humor that resulted in my Army superiors frequently referring to me as Sergeant Wiseass and more than a few of my professors, especially the lefties, definitely unamused by my caustic observations.

    So periodically I return to the keyboard, hell-bent on being darkly (dare I use that word, Insipid?) funny. Obviously with this most recent piece, Feats of Clay, I failed. Few readers understood the word play of feats for the black idiomatic usage, “feets,” and the references to Greek mythology were over the top, with the upshot being I was called from the very first comments a racist and my supposedly humorous piece attacked as a racist rant and diatribe. Worse, some of you questioned Jonn for allowing the posting of such a racist rant.

    If you read my own comment following the post, you will see I am not about to allow the Left to control my speech. When the liberal trolls such as Insipid, feel free by dint of their liberal bonafides to smack us in the face with the term Nigger, which by rules of political correctness only liberals like Insipid and blacks may use, I say screw you. If I want to use that term of invective in my writings to make a point, I damned well will, liberal scorn be damned. A society where only certain persons and groups within that society can use a specific word is not a free society. Here’s what LTC Allen West, a black politician I support, has to say on the topic:

    “I don’t care about my critics; I understand that my country is at a very perilous situation and I’m going to use the type of words that are necessary to get the attention of the American people.”

    Bravo, Master-Blaster, a paratrooper politician who always wears his master parachutist wings on his suit lapels, something no other of his congressional colleagues can or would do.

    Colonel West also said this:

    I really feel that it is demeaning to me to think that I need some individual to justify me and my existence. Look, I went through 22 years being in the military, I rose to the rank of Lt. Colonel, I have a bachelor and 2 masters degrees. And for these white liberals to believe they can have this condescending manner toward black conservatives that we need to have approval from our quote unquote, I guess “masters”, for us to be able to speak–see that’s where the true racism really lies, governor, is with the white liberals who don’t want to see someone such as myself that broke away from their dependency class and is out here and able to possibly contend against them with the policies that they are promoting that’s destroying the black community. I know I’m their #1 target and it just emboldens me to speak out even stronger.”

    Sorry old racist bastard that I am to some of you, I’m getting ready to send the good colonel another campaign contribution and I’m ready to write another supportive blog post for him. While I don’t think he has the political experience to be Romney’s VP selection, I do think he would be an excellent Secretary of the Army in the Romney Administration. I have little doubt that he would do a tent fumigation of the Pentagon, sending all those politically correct roaches entrenched there running to a well-deserved drowning in the Potomac. Maybe he could just have orders cut sending them all to Ranger School, male and female alike. Yeah, that ought to please all the libs agitating for the feminization of our military. Gee, maybe I am self-censoring: the first expression that came to mind was the castration of our military.

    So those of you who were too quick to label Ol’ Poetrooper a racist, need to walk away from this with a couple of thoughts: I’m not a racist and being called one by liberals doesn’t faze me a bit. However, when it comes from fellow warriors I feel the bite. I kid you not, it hurts. Secondly, and more importantly, just like Allen West, I won’t curb my opinions or my writings to conform to some liberal (or too-sensitive conservative) imposed concept of civility. I do not write to offend needlessly but I sure as hell will not self-censor because my writings might hurt some tender sensibilities on either side of the political spectrum. Consider the Poetrooper to be an equal opportunity offender.

    And from my observation of TAH postings, if you’re too eager to be offended, you’re probably at the wrong blog.

  • When will they stop being the “Bush tax cuts”?

    The president has recently called for extending the “Bush Tax Cuts” for lower income Americans – you know, when President Bush cut the Clinton tax hikes back and probably saved the post-9-11 economy. The last of the cuts was more than nine years ago. So, I’m wondering when the president and the media are going to call them the “impending Obama tax hikes” and move past the “Bush tax cuts” phrase. From CNN:

    President Barack Obama revitalized his push for holding down middle-class tax rates Monday, calling on Congress to pass a one-year extension of the Bush-era tax cuts for people earning less than $250,000 a year.

    In a White House statement delivered while people described as working Americans stood behind him, Obama said his proposal would provide the certainty of no tax increase next year for 98% of Americans.

    Noting that Republicans seek to maintain all of the Bush tax cuts enacted in 2001 and 2003, Obama said both sides therefore agree on extending the lower rates for middle-class families.

    Of course, the one-year extension is nothing more than a campaign ploy, and not preventing the Obama tax hikes on wealthier Americans is just class warfare at it’s essence. We’re supposed to hate on Republicans because they’ll be holding up stopping the imposition of the Obama Tax Hikes on us because of their support for continued lower tax benefits for Americans making over $250k.

    But we didn’t call Bush rollback of the tax burden imposed on us by the previous administration the “Clinton Tax Hikes” so why are we still calling them the “Bush Tax Cuts”? Of course, the answer is that the media and the Democrats for so long told us that they were tax cuts for the rich, even though the current debate proves that lie is just that, since we’re all looking at higher taxes without the benevolence of this president and the Congress.

    A one-year extension won’t help the economy in the long term, though. They need to stop holding the economy and voters hostage and make current tax rates permanent.

  • Feats of Clay…

    Think about it for a moment: If that black half of Obama’s brain is as brilliant as all his impassioned people-of-color and liberal, white devotees credit him with, then the other half must be the most lacking white intellect ever to occupy the Oval Office. Seriously, folks, we’ve been told for years now that this supposedly all-knowing, Athena-wise character, Obama, who seems to have sprung like that goddess, full-blown from some unknown head of Whoziss, is the brightest light in every room, if not every country in the world. Yet, through the past three-plus years, we mere mortals have witnessed national and global events that lead us to believe this bright, shining god has some really big feats of clay. And perhaps an intellect of the same sticky substance.

    Far from the ObaMoses he presented himself as being to the world, a tan, man-god who could, among other feats, command the seas to do his bidding, our pinto-gened president, has revealed himself to be much more like the pale, foiled and wet-footed King Canute than the desert-darkened biblical savior of god’s chosen people. Yeah, his Canutian feats are all wet now and they appear to be swelling painfully and perhaps fatefully as this Janus-like, dubious deity finds it increasingly difficult to show first one face and then another, even to the shrinking crowds of ambrosia drinkers (that’s Kool-Aid for those of you out there in Rio Linda) who seem to be awakening. They, somewhat later than the rest of us, are becoming aware of the growing odor of this guy’s malodorous feats when we catch him with his political sneakers off.

    Yes, even among some of the fervent disciples, there is a growing realization that a sun-bright brilliant, black cerebral hemisphere combined with a truly dim-bulb white hemisphere (and yes, as whites, surely we all must accept the collective blame for that failure in spite of his being granted every affirmative action, educational advantage our nation has to offer) is going to yield a really mediocre result in governance and leadership, somewhere at the level of say, um, maybe an admirably and slightly above-grade performance community organizer, hmm? Perhaps even a mediocre, present-voting, Democrat state senator.

    But that could only be in Illinois or California, of course.
    In 2012, Publicus Americanus, is awakening to its own 2008 folly of believing that a god had returned to earth to save us from our myriad follies. Almost four years into the political continuum, they have had ample opportunity to learn one of the fundamental lessons of the ancients:
    Men who would be gods all too often trod across our world with feats of clay.

  • Sorry, Joe, threats won’t work either

    Joe Biden sent me this email today. I’m pretty sure it’s a thinly-veiled threat.

    Sorry, Joe but if I’m not scared of vampire wrestlers, phony SEALs who own gun stores and clowns that fall from the sky, a blithering idiot threatening to bore me into a coma over coffee isn’t going to frighten me much. You’re still not getting my last $3.