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Inspiring: Former President George W. Bush Rides With Wounded Warriors at His Texas Ranch

May 26, 2013 at 6:53pm

In reply to time2reboot.

Bingo! For all the crap that the left throws at this man he continues to do all the little things right. I begin to think that those who attack this man do so to avoid having to confront their complicity in the Iraq war. It was a highly popular war. So much so that the opposition Democrats asked for a vote in Congress to show that they thought it was a good idea too!

I think it is interesting that people keep trying to hang the lives of Iraqis killed by Iraqis on Bush but forgets the millions (between 5-10 million based on current estimates) of people who his PEPFAR saved in Africa. If not for Bush and his program of providing retrovirals to Africa we would be looking at a massive depopulation of a continent. It would seem that in the left’s eyes the saved lives are worth far less than those taken. Maybe it’s racial.
Pelosi on Holiday-Time Fiscal Cliff Gridlock: ‘Is There Not an Appreciation for…Kwanzaa?’

December 13, 2012 at 9:24am

Pelosi wants an excuse to permit as many Democrats as possible to miss the votes being taken on the fiscal cliff. That way it becomes easier to pin the disaster on Boehner and the Republicans.
Bad Sportsmanship? Indiana Girls Basketball Team Blows Out Opponent 107-2

December 13, 2012 at 9:19am

In reply to noproblems.

First, let’s note that the Arlington coach is a SHE not a he. That is just reading the article. I expect that both coaches knew that a blowout was possible. I have had situations like that where I had the better team and situations where I didn’t. The only times the game got out of hand were when I didn’t talk to the other coach beforehand. We never lost a game we were supposed to win and we never won a game we were supposed to lose but we all had a better time playing because the coaches communicated beforehand.

If, for example, Arlington was working on a particular offensive scheme, the opposing coach could have chosen a defense designed to counter a different threat and so give Arlington some room. This wouldn’t have changed the outcome but could have given both teams some needed practice on other aspects of their game.

As it was, the game was a wasted opportunity for practice for somebody because the coaches didn’t communicate ahead of time in what was probably a well known mismatch. If one of the coaches reached out and the other didn’t respond there is one culprit, if neither one thought to contact the other they are both at fault. If they spoke and didn’t come up with a game plan that worked they were merely ineffective.

I agree with those who say that it isn’t the job of the winning coach to stop his team from scoring, but both coaches have a responsibility to their players to use the game to their benefit. Sounds like that didn’t happen.
White House Planning Military Strike Over Libya Terrorist Attack?

October 15, 2012 at 6:54pm

Watch out aspirin factories everywhere!! Wag the dog anyone?
ABC News appears to ask Jennifer Granholm if she faked it

September 27, 2012 at 7:37pm

“When Barry met Jenny…”
Obama on Romney’s Embassy Statement: ‘Tendency to Shoot First and Aim Later’

September 12, 2012 at 5:27pm

If the speaker had a history of having decent aim this might be a reasonable criticism. Unfortunately for the President the current situation in the Middle East is indicative of an overthought intellectual approach to a group who responds emotionally, i.e. poorly directed. Perhaps a little shoot first, aim later might make for better results.
Graphic Photos Allegedly Show ‘Attempts to Rescue’ U.S. Ambassador (CONTENT WARNING)

September 12, 2012 at 1:13pm

In reply to Tankertony.

The Ambassador is an American too. The possibility that your friend was killed in combat while the Ambassador was killed in cold blood doesn’t change that. I despise those who kill from manufactured outrage regardless of their victims. I mourn Americans who die from doing their duty in a foreign country regardless of what that duty is. No death at the hands of a mob is more or less painful to our country.
Nervous? Obama Camp Distances Itself From Video Played at DNC That Says We ‘Belong’ to Gov’t

September 5, 2012 at 9:47am

In reply to Forward.

I prefer to take the position that O doesn’t own the language and that the word “forward” has a personal derivation. If O wants to buy the language he better come up with something better than taxing me to get the money to do so…
Nervous? Obama Camp Distances Itself From Video Played at DNC That Says We ‘Belong’ to Gov’t

September 5, 2012 at 8:21am

Interesting that they only distanced themselves after someone else pointed out the phrase. Sounds like they were okay with it until someone else indicated that being slaves of our government isn’t necessarily the sound bite they wanted to define the convention…
Chris Matthews: Romney Campaign Is ‘Race-Baiting’ & ‘Encouraging White Anger’ to Win in November

September 4, 2012 at 7:48am

Nothing but a campaign tactic folks. The black vote appears to be more willing to sit this one out in comparison to 08. The Democratic campaign needs to energize the base so time to trot out the ‘racist Republican” meme. The funny thing in all of this is that folks like Matthews or Toure or O’Donnell (funny how they are all on MSNBC) have had to stretch SO far to make this stuff up that people like Mika or Mitchell can’t even go there with them.

The sad thing in all of this isn’t the effort by the dweebs to find racism where it isn’t, but that these ludicrous attacks will find willing believers and will have the designed result. Sad how the first “post-racial President” may only have a chance to win a second term by appealing to the base racial preferences of hyphenated Americans. Beyond sad, pathetic, and ultimately crippling to our society as a whole. As someone who originally told us that we were all Americans, President Obama seems to be gleefully reminding us now of our divisions, real (few) and imagined (many).

This election will tell us whether we, as a people, are willing to leave the fantasy world for the real world and act like adults, or whether we are destined to fade as Europe has, in a perpetual adolescence, and let this grand experiment in freedom and liberty, with its obvious benefits, fade with it.