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If I were a betting man ... I'd bet his 'handlers' would sure try to talk him out of it ...
Seems they're ded set on trying to do nothign but ake the high road .... which, with this bunch in the White house now, is losing tactic.
True on all accounts!
Oh, no doubt .... it would also take away the left's favorite whine-line .. "You're racist" .... because West would set them all straight.
His propensity to 'talk straight' is probably the one thing that will prevent him from ever being picked for VP, or nominated as President.
Sadly.
You know his men would have walked barefoot over broken glass for him, after that!
And that, my friends is why I like Allen West.
He doesn't need a teleprompter in front of him to think.
I almost wish that was the reason! LOL
Yep. Only reason to call 911 is so they can take a report ..
Yes sir ... pretty much all the time.
No, not even! LOL
Brief Obama meet for Rolling Thunder delegation this year
By Jennifer Harper
May 25, 2012, 03:29PM
Rolling Thunder made it to the White House this year. But the experience for the motorcycle-riding patriots was more clinical photo op than heartfelt meeting with President Obama, members of the group said Friday.
"Well, we had a good meeting with [Mr. Obama's] staff and a defense official. But we were supposed to have time with the president," founder and Executive National Director Artie Muller told The Washington Times in an interview after the meeting.
"When we were there in the past, the president himself talked to us about the issues that concern us — veterans' health care, the fate of prisoners of war, and those missing in action. This was more or less a handshake and a photo op for the White House — and that's all it was," Mr. Muller said.
During his time in office, former President George W. Bush made a point of meeting with Mr. Muller, Rolling Thunder officers and Nancy Sinatra, the iconic pop singer who has long supported the groups causes. In 2004, for example, Mr. Bush brought the group to the Oval Office and accepted and wore a leather vest emblazoned with the Rolling Thunder logo.
"We went to the White House with all good intentions. We tried. But you know what? This is our country, and we're tired of veterans getting overlooked and treated badly," Mr. Muller said.
"The President was pleased to meet with members of Rolling Thunder today at the White House. This Administration is committed to the POW/MIA mission as well as to our veterans and their families. The members of Rolling Thunder also received a briefing on POW/MIA and veterans issues from National Security Staff and the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Prisoner of War/Missing Personnel Affairs," a senior administration official told The Times.
This year's 25th annual "Ride for Freedom," scheduled for Sunday, has drawn some 500,000 riders to the nation's capital this year.
According to Nancy Regg, who handled the group's communications, Rolling Thunder representatives arrived at the White House in mid-morning, took a brief tour of the executive mansion and ultimately met with retired U.S. Army Maj. Gen. Montague Winfield, deputy assistant director at the Pentagon for prisoners of war and missing personnel. A photo session with Mr. Obama followed, then the group was ushered out.
Mr. Obama did issue a proclamation recognizing the 50th anniversary of the Vietnam War on Friday.
"Let us renew our sacred commitment to those who answered our country's call in Vietnam and those who waited their safe return." Mr. Obama said in a statement.
"While no words will ever be fully worthy of their service, nor any honor truly befitting their sacrifice, let us remember that it is never too late to pay tribute to the men and women who answered the call of duty with courage and valor."
Mr. Muller said he is troubled by the difficulties veterans still encounter buying prescription medicines, obtaining affordable health care and navigating the government bureaucracy. He is also concerned about the greater implications of as the new national health care law is rolled out.
"Will our vets have to pay more? Will they be paying $36 for a prescription when they should be paying $9? And why should they have to wait forever to get a claim filed?" he asked. "Senators and representatives in both parties are pretty rich, but they're getting better care than our vets."
Still, Mr. Muller, an Army vet himself, has a message for those arriving in Washington from all 50 states for the Memorial Day weekend of events and for all Americans.
"I want to tell people that this is a heartwarming thing to see the turnout we get here. And here in the capital, Memorial Day is back. It's real. This a patriotic event for everybody," he said. "Maybe folks think we're just dirtbags on motorcycles, but most of us are vets. We love this country and would do anything.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/blog/inside-politics/2012/may/25/no-obama-meet-rolling-thunder-delegation-this-year/
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Well, our Commander in Chief saw fit to use the visit of the Rolling Thunder Representatives .. for a (brief) Photo Op ... which will likely be used somewhere in his campaign to show his dedication and concern for our veterans. His staff then released a statement which makes it sound like the President actually spent a little time with these guys and gals ... and that he cares deeply.
Horsefeathers. He appeared for a photo OP .. that's it ...
The Commander in Chief actually cared enough to spend the time to get his picture taken with these veterans.
Remember that on election day in November .... when you mark your ballot for Mitt Romney.
Brief Obama meet for Rolling Thunder delegation this year
By Jennifer Harper
May 25, 2012, 03:29PM
Rolling Thunder made it to the White House this year. But the experience for the motorcycle-riding patriots was more clinical photo op than heartfelt meeting with President Obama, members of the group said Friday.
"Well, we had a good meeting with [Mr. Obama's] staff and a defense official. But we were supposed to have time with the president," founder and Executive National Director Artie Muller told The Washington Times in an interview after the meeting.
"When we were there in the past, the president himself talked to us about the issues that concern us — veterans' health care, the fate of prisoners of war, and those missing in action. This was more or less a handshake and a photo op for the White House — and that's all it was," Mr. Muller said.
During his time in office, former President George W. Bush made a point of meeting with Mr. Muller, Rolling Thunder officers and Nancy Sinatra, the iconic pop singer who has long supported the groups causes. In 2004, for example, Mr. Bush brought the group to the Oval Office and accepted and wore a leather vest emblazoned with the Rolling Thunder logo.
"We went to the White House with all good intentions. We tried. But you know what? This is our country, and we're tired of veterans getting overlooked and treated badly," Mr. Muller said.
"The President was pleased to meet with members of Rolling Thunder today at the White House. This Administration is committed to the POW/MIA mission as well as to our veterans and their families. The members of Rolling Thunder also received a briefing on POW/MIA and veterans issues from National Security Staff and the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Prisoner of War/Missing Personnel Affairs," a senior administration official told The Times.
This year's 25th annual "Ride for Freedom," scheduled for Sunday, has drawn some 500,000 riders to the nation's capital this year.
According to Nancy Regg, who handled the group's communications, Rolling Thunder representatives arrived at the White House in mid-morning, took a brief tour of the executive mansion and ultimately met with retired U.S. Army Maj. Gen. Montague Winfield, deputy assistant director at the Pentagon for prisoners of war and missing personnel. A photo session with Mr. Obama followed, then the group was ushered out.
Mr. Obama did issue a proclamation recognizing the 50th anniversary of the Vietnam War on Friday.
"Let us renew our sacred commitment to those who answered our country's call in Vietnam and those who waited their safe return." Mr. Obama said in a statement.
"While no words will ever be fully worthy of their service, nor any honor truly befitting their sacrifice, let us remember that it is never too late to pay tribute to the men and women who answered the call of duty with courage and valor."
Mr. Muller said he is troubled by the difficulties veterans still encounter buying prescription medicines, obtaining affordable health care and navigating the government bureaucracy. He is also concerned about the greater implications of as the new national health care law is rolled out.
"Will our vets have to pay more? Will they be paying $36 for a prescription when they should be paying $9? And why should they have to wait forever to get a claim filed?" he asked. "Senators and representatives in both parties are pretty rich, but they're getting better care than our vets."
Still, Mr. Muller, an Army vet himself, has a message for those arriving in Washington from all 50 states for the Memorial Day weekend of events and for all Americans.
"I want to tell people that this is a heartwarming thing to see the turnout we get here. And here in the capital, Memorial Day is back. It's real. This a patriotic event for everybody," he said. "Maybe folks think we're just dirtbags on motorcycles, but most of us are vets. We love this country and would do anything.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/blog/inside-politics/2012/may/25/no-obama-meet-rolling-thunder-delegation-this-year/
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Well, our Commander in Chief saw fit to use the visit of the Rolling Thunder Representatives .. for a (brief) Photo Op ... which will likely be used somewhere in his campaign to show his dedication and concern for our veterans. His staff then released a statement which makes it sound like the President actually spent a little time with these guys and gals ... and that he cares deeply.
Horsefeathers. He appeared for a photo OP .. that's it ...
The Commander in Chief actually cared enough to spend the time to get his picture taken with these veterans.
Remember that on election day in November .... when you mark your ballot for Mitt Romney.
Pretty good ad, for sure. Talked a lot without saying much .. must be a natural born congressman! Sounds like he might be a good one to sit down with and have a cold one too.
Thanks for posting that one. Definitely worth the time to watch!..
The name sounds like she's Vietnamese ... just wonder if that had anything to do with it ???
Now doesn't that just frost your balls!
Americn tax dollars keep them afloat, and they show their gratitude by building a factory in China ...
Yep, sounds like time to head to the Ford dealer!
I wold have certainly felt better!
But, the good part is .... that sucker is till out there somewhere!
Wonder if Obama will be there? If not in body, then certainly in spirit.
Where you getting this 'we' stuff? Got a mouse in your pocket? LOL
The way I've been going the past few days, I wouldn't want to place any bets on my fishing abilities .. I've caught several, but the biggest one I've boated over the past week has been maybe 2 3/4 pounds ...
O course, as usual, I had a huge one hooked yesterday afternoon, and after trying vainly for nearly two minutes to get him under control, he got tangled up in one of the many submerged cedars we have here, and snapped the line. I am certain it was the biggest bass I've hooked since moving here in '02. I literally got physically sick after he got away like that.... had to sit down a couple of minutes. I'm talking huge fish here .... and this isn't a fish story. In my life, I've caught three bass over 8, and several over 7 ... and I honestly believe this one was bigger than any of them. Man, it was a heartbreaker!
Why, yes, silly me!
I just haven't been blessed with the vision needed to figure this stuff out, I reckon!
:)
Great ... but they still can't cure a cold!
LOL
Well, you wouldn't be there very long!
That's what amazed me by the way Obama just ran over the Clinton 'machine'. That was unheard of prior to Obama ....
Good one stock hoarder! Like it!
We'll just hope they make it through the democrat governor. They should. Though a democrat, Nixon does display some common sense, and does the right thing in most cases.
I'd take him over some of our so-called Republicans in congress, from Missouri.
Oh, I imagine he let them have sloppy seconds!
He is a generous kind of guy, you know!
Man, that is the total truth, Walk.
This is our 'zero hour' ... and we must step up to the task!
Sure it is deliberate. They always deliberately do things, or don't do things as the case may be, to try and make Obama look as good as possible.
We don't have a real media any more in this country. We have a democratic national committee propaganda section.
Yes, he did at that.
The men he just had shot, and the women, he raped.
HOT LEAD VERSUS COLD BLOOD
By Massad Ayoob
Holcomb, Kansas, late 1950s. Two vicious punks named Perry Smith and Richard Hickock invaded the farmhouse of the Clutter family. Minutes later, Herb Clutter and his wife, and their son and daughter, lay dead. In April of 1965, both of the murderers would die at the end of righteously-tightened nooses…but it would not bring back the four innocent lives they had extinguished. The killers, motivated by the erroneous belief that the prosperous farmer had a safe full of cash, left the murder scene with approximately forty dollars.
This mass home invasion murder in a rural home was the focus of Truman Capote’s classic book “In Cold Blood.” I read it as a high school kid when it came out in 1965 or ’66, and reread it over the past few weeks. I was reminded of the same stark lessons I’d seen when I first read it.
The Clutter home was not an unarmed household…but the guns weren’t where any of the victims could reach them in time. Capote wrote that the police “found some shotguns in a closet.” They didn’t do much good there when the murderers, armed with a hunting knife and a Savage 12 gauge shotgun one of the parolees had taken without permission from his parents’ home, caught Herb Clutter alone and unarmed and forced him to lead them to the bedrooms where, one by one, they bound and then murdered his wife and his son and his daughter, and Clutter himself.
A gun you can’t reach in an emergency is useless. When I read that book as a high school kid, it struck me that since I had long possessed guns in my bedroom including a loaded Colt .45 automatic, I would have had a lot more options than Clutter’s son did when the homicidal intruders entered his bedroom…and, knowing my dad, in Herb Clutter’s situation my old man’s regularly-carried Colt Cobra .38 revolver would have probably gone into action long before things got even that far.
In a lifetime among cops since, I’ve noted that investigators who piece together the aftermaths of home invasion murders tend to keep their guns on all the time after that, even when off duty in their own house, and keep them by the bed when they go to sleep.
They have learned from the helplessly-murdered dead.
The rest of us can learn from them in turn.
If an intruder’s footsteps sound outside your bedroom right now, how soon will your hand be able to reach something with which you can defend yourself and your loved ones?
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http://backwoodshome.com/blogs/MassadAyoob/2012/05/22/hot-lead-versus-cold-blood/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+MassadAyoob+%28Massad+Ayoob%29
Indeed ... but really, Arkansas voters can be bought for a cigarette and a can of PBR ....
Wouldn't have taken too much money! LOL
(I'm Arkansas born and raised, so yes, I am entitled to talk about it!)
K2 - Yep, read that. But, after working on the Joint Staff when Powell was the Chairman .. I can say with confidence he will vote for Obama again.
Powell is only playing hard-to-get with the media because he needs the coverage ... I mean he 'needs' it. He is a political animal, and seems to base his self worth on how much attention he gets.
I'm betting there's no doubt in his mind that he will vote for Obama. There's none in mine ...
Well, it IS Arkansas ....
So far ... 4 of 75 counties reporting:
Obama leading 76% to Wolfe's 23%
Anyone interested can check results here, on the Arkansas SecState's website, updated periodically:
http://results.enr.clarityelections.com/AR/39376/82710/en/summary.html
Sorry. What can I say?
Have fun!
Well, it took me to the YouTube site, and the video site, but couldn't get it to play.
I'm not a big blues fan anyway, but I appreciate the effort.
Yes, I agree ... that one and "He ain't Heavy" ....
They did some good cuts, but those two were the best, IMO.
Ah, another of the great ones.
Yes, that's exactly what it means.
"Good day, sir, we are from the Department of Homeland Security, and are here to search your residence, vehicles, and all your personal property, because your neighbor reported you have firearms and ammunition in your possession. When we find them, we will arrest you due to your failure to comply with the United Nations Arms Control Treaty."
Yes, that is what it means.
This narcissistic, self-appointed "King of the World" is determined to destroy America, and trample our constitution into the mud.
Cory Booker 'Fit To Be Tied' After GOP's 'I Stand with Cory Booker' Email
By Molly Hunter | ABC OTUS News – 3 hrs ago...
NEW YORK - For the second day, Newark Mayor Cory Booker scrambled to clarify his comments criticizing the Obama campaign's assault on Mitt Romney's job creation record at Bain Capital after he sent the Obama administration into full blown damage-control while the GOP continued to take full advantage of the New Jersey mayor's blunder on "Meet the Press."
Booker called Team Obama's Bain attack "nauseating" political discourse with which Booker has become "very uncomfortable," on CBS' "Meet the Press" on Sunday.
The GOP quickly responded by sending out an email today to supporters reading, "Do you know what Obama does with people who stand up for job creators? He silences them. That's right. By Sunday evening the Obama campaign had pressured Booker into taking back his support of the free market … Don't let the White House silence free enterprise! If you agree, then please sign our petition: I STAND WITH CORY BOOKER" And if you missed the email, the landing page for www.GOP.com currently reads: 'I stand with Cory.'"
Booker responded to the GOP's email on MSNBC's "Rachel Maddow Show" on Monday night.
"That slogan had me and my entire staff really fit to be tied," he said. "Here they are plucking sound bites out of [the 'Meet The Press'] interview to manipulate them in a cynical manner, to use them for their own purposes … I'm very upset that I'm being used by the GOP this way."
Booker told Maddow that he doesn't plan to stay quiet.
"If anything, they've turned me on to work harder for the next six months. I thought I was going to be quiet, but you're going to hear a lot from me," he said.
Booker's MSNBC appearance tonight followed Team Obama's efforts on Monday to distance the campaign from Booker. Chief Obama strategist David Axelrod publicly rebuked Booker earlier today, saying he was "just wrong."
"I agree with what [Booker] said later. I think this was a legitimate area for discussion," Axelrod said of Booker's subsequent comments clarifying the issue.
Booker attempted to explain his comments, again, on MSNBC tonight.
"Obviously, I did things in the 'Meet the Press' interview that did not land the points [I was trying to make] … When [Romney] says, I'm a job creator, I think that's a characterization of his record that deserves inquiry, and I think the way the president himself is talking about is something I will defend, in fact something I will echo," he said.
Booker emphasized the common ground he shares with President, noting that no one put him up to tonight's appearance.
"They have never pressured me to do anything," said Booker. "I certainly did talk with campaign officials but they didn't force me to do anything. Especially after hearing the president's remarks on this issue, where he was not condemning all of private equity, he was not condemning any particular firms, he was focusing in on a guy who's bragging about his job creation record - all of those things made me say, you know what, I need to go on and clarify."
And for anyone not watching MSNBC tonight, Booker has taken to Twitter.
"Let me be clear, #IStandWithObama," @CoryBooker tweeted moments after going off the air tonight.
http://news.yahoo.com/cory-booker-fit-tied-gops-stand-cory-booker-103428028--abc-news-politics.html
Oh, they probably dangled his political life in front of him .... or threatened his family ... who knows?
This is a mob of Chicago thugs we're talking about here, capable of anything.
Yes, it is a shame people can't even speak their minds without this thug regime we now have intimidating them back into submission and compliance.
Booker is just the latest victim.
Well K2, I see Booker 'saw the light' and 'repented' Sunday night, with some sort of You Tube video saying it is fine to exmine the records of Bain, and the Obama had done a good job and deserved to be re-elected in November.
I imagine his ear is still burning from the phone call he received from someone pretty high up in the administration, after his pronouncement Sunday morning about Bain.
Good stuff th!
Thanks for sharing!
Thanks, buddy!