We're the Military and Airpower Guys of Jonah Goldberg of National Review Online + a stray we found wandering around looking lost. All original material JHD, BHD, JR, WT, and KA 2003-2010 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2010/09/the_presidents_1.html Sat, 24 Mar 2012 14:58:13 Z Movable Type 4.12 en Copyright 2012 http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2010/09/the_presidents_1.html http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2010/09/the_presidents_1.html Wed, 01 Sep 2010 07:27:28 -0600 I can not stand the fact people label him in Orator.

People have been doing that despite the proof to the contrary in every speech he gives.

He reads. He can't extemporize without lapsing into deer-in-the-headlights stuttering. His malaprops are worse than Bush's were.

I've always said that I could make a fortune by selling dog crap wrapped in gold foil at a dollar a chunk, and now all I have to do is get some gold foil and the DNC's voter address list...
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I can not stand the fact people label him in Orator. To me he isn't a orator at all, he's reading a flippin speech. Theres no oration there. He didn't memorize the speech or work it off the cuff.

Just infuriating
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Only a couple of more days before the "Summer of Recovery" kicks in...
]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2010/09/the_presidents_1.html#comment-112371 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2010/09/the_presidents_1.html#comment-112371 Thu, 02 Sep 2010 04:12:31 -0600 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Never_was_so_much_owed_by_so_many_to_so_few

This the one you mean?

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Sadly, I believe he does not actually give a darn about the American soldiers or their families, and views them as a wasteful expense undercutting his grand socialist strategy.

He has no taste for victory, nor American exceptionalism, nor even the very concepts of freedom and liberty.

It would have been "better to remain silent and merely thought to be a fool than to open [The] one's mount and remove all doubt."

Our troops deserve better leadership, deserve greater (and sincere) thanks for their services, our nation deserves clear vision for our future, and our enemies need clear warning that we will not tolerate attacks on freedom.  We got none of that, and probably will not until January 20, 2013.  If we are not crumbled into bankrupcty and socialist servitude to the state by then.

Next time, the networks should run reruns of any show at all.  Beavis and Butthead would provide a reasonable facsimile of the wisdom available from Obama and Biden.
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@LarryC, As I read your comment, in a strange way, this wise old man answers your question. To paraphrase it, "What do our Troops really expect from the Commander-in-Chief?" The wise old man wrote, paraphrasing, 'A Soldier is disciplined and a warrior is not.' "Grumpy, is the Military the only way to gain this discipline?" My reply, "If you learn discipline or rebellion, it permeates  your whole life. A soldier takes an oath of loyalty to US Constitution, to honor and obey it, not try to find ways to circumvent it.   There are other places to learn discipline.  If you haven't learned to obey, you're not fit to command! This is *the* answer."

@11B40, I haven't seen a "President, or even a Presidential candidate", that I respected, as a person, for decades. History is that nasty, unforgiving teacher. The more you know, the madder you get.

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They threw up every obstacle they could to impede its implementation and success, and they did everything they could to tarnish the credibility and reputations of honorable public servants like GEN Petraeus and others.

I don't expect any POTUS to be perfect.  They're human and they're gonna get some things wrong. But I do expect leaders to acknowledge their errors and acknowledge those who were right.

Considering all the bashing Obama's done, I would have declined to accept Obama's call if I'd been Bush.

I know. I'm petty.  Thank God Bush wasn't ...... in so many ways.]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2010/09/the_presidents_1.html#comment-112325 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2010/09/the_presidents_1.html#comment-112325 Wed, 01 Sep 2010 13:24:13 -0600
As a printer by trade, I'm very much a "visual" person.  Several times, during our President's speech last evening, I thought I saw the same look I used to have on my face during my periodic trips to the principal's office at St. Margaret Mary's Elementary School back in the Bronx.  As much as lying can delay an outcome, it tends to get exponentially more difficult with the passage of time.  ]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2010/09/the_presidents_1.html#comment-112321 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2010/09/the_presidents_1.html#comment-112321 Wed, 01 Sep 2010 12:53:17 -0600 the best speech is from Churchill and just be pleased that you aren't in the position now that he was then. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2010/09/the_presidents_1.html#comment-112309 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2010/09/the_presidents_1.html#comment-112309 Wed, 01 Sep 2010 12:04:13 -0600
(and the speech gets 3 out of 5 Disdainful Putin Sneers.  I've seen better writing on Craigslist)
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Semper Fi]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2010/09/the_presidents_1.html#comment-112301 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2010/09/the_presidents_1.html#comment-112301 Wed, 01 Sep 2010 11:14:59 -0600
Semper Fi]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2010/09/the_presidents_1.html#comment-112300 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2010/09/the_presidents_1.html#comment-112300 Wed, 01 Sep 2010 11:12:00 -0600