Category: Barack Obama/Joe Biden

I hate Rick Maze, he’s the most dishonest reporter on the staff of Military Times, and he’s blocked my email address, the prick. But he wrote this article at Military Times on the American Legion’s and Military Officers’ Association of America’s concerns about balancing the federal budget exclusively on the backs of veterans. So if you read something that might sound opinionated in the article and it doesn’t have quotes around it, that means Maze made it up in his own mind then regurgitated it on to his monitor. I’ve dealt with that liar before;

“By increasing, and in some cases quadrupling, health insurance fees for military retirees, you are sending a powerful message to those in uniform and to their families that their decades of service and sacrifice are unappreciated,” said Fang Wong, the the Legion’s national commander, of the Pentagon’s plans for higher Tricare fees for working-age retirees.

Wong also said the Pentagon proposal to create a Retirement Modernization Commission to recommend changes in retired pay could “encourage people to leave the military for a safer and less demanding career in the private sector.”

Yeah, well, Commander Wong was in the room at the same time I was when President Obama told us to our faces that he wouldn’t balance the budget on the backs of veterans;

The president of the Military Officers Association of America called the proposed Tricare fee increases a “breach of faith” and accused the Pentagon of using “bait and switch” tactics because modest increases were approved last year and were believed to be the final word on changes.

Norbert Ryan, president of the more than 370,000-member MOAA, said Congress ordered last year that future Tricare enrollment fees be capped at no more than the cost-of-living increase in military retired pay, but now the administration is proposing massive fee increases to be phased in over five years.

Yeah, well, if all you’re going to do is sit back and snipe at the President in the media, you’re not going to get anything done. Be Dave Rehbein and stomp into the Oval Office and lay down the law. Filtering your message through partisan hack and known liar, Rick Maze, ain’t gonna help much either.

I got this email yesterday from the Obama Campaign and the DNC telling me about how they’re forming a “Truth Team” to arm me to fight against the lies you conservatives are telling me about his accomplishments;

Ace of Spades mentioned it yesterday calling it “Get in their faces redux”.

Zombie couldn’t help but make it into a comic book feature. I mean “Truth Team”? Seriously?

Go read the rest.

John Bolton, the former US Ambassador to the United Nations told the attendees at the Conservative Political Action Convention that all President Obama did in regards to the Navy SEALs’ execution of Osama bin Laden was “get out of the way” according to the Washington Times;

“Basically what Obama did was get out of the way,” said Mr. Bolton Saturday at the annual Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington. “It was a decision that 99.99 percent of the American people would agree with. That does not equal a foreign policy.”

That kind of puts in perspective the story that Bite Me told earlier this week about Obama’s “gutsy” call;

“The president, he went around the table, with all the senior people, including the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and he said, ‘I have to make a decision, what is your opinion?’ He started with the national security adviser, the secretary of state, and he ended with me. Every single person in that room hedged their bet, except (then-CIA director) Leon Panetta. Leon said go,” said Biden.

Biden told the president “my suggestion is don’t go,” saying there were more details that had to be checked to truly ascertain if bin Laden was indeed in the compound.

So yeah, it was “gutsy” to make the decision in that room where all of the pussies were afraid to pull the trigger, but when you’re talking about making the decision in the middle of the country that mostly wanted to see bin Laden dead or imprisoned, it doesn’t look so “gutsy”, then does it? It looks like the politically correct decision in that light.

I still think that the decision to kill bin Laden was also the political equivalent of “asking for forgiveness is easier than asking for permission”. It was easier than taking him alive and then dealing with the political fallout of his prison conditions and the lawyer-employment opportunities.

In an interview with NBC yesterday, the president assured us that he’s getting better at being president as time goes on according to The Hill;

“What’s frustrated people is that I’ve not been able to implement every aspect of what I said in 2008. Well, it turns out our Founders designed a system that makes it more difficult to bring about change than I would like sometimes. But what we have been able to do is move in the right direction,” Obama said.

“And you know what? One of the things about being president is you get better as time goes on,” he added.

Well, that’s great, I suppose that means he’ll be a super president if we reelect him. All of those things he promised to give away will be possible in another term. I’ve been looking for a reason to reelect him and now he’s finally given me one. Cuz, lord knows, I don’t want to vote against him if I don’t have to – that would make me racist.

I mean, after all, he ‘deserves” a second term, he says;

“I deserve a second term, but we’re not done,” Obama said during a pre-Super Bowl interview with NBC’s Matt Lauer, who noted that Obama had told him in a 2009 interview that if the economy was still recovering in 2012, he would be a one-term president.