How ready is Obama to actually become CIC? “People who start a job believing that they are smarter than everyone else have a hard time learning that they have incomplete knowledge.” This quote reminded me that the American people just elected a CIC who, in front of the press, didn’t know the difference between Memorial Day and Veterans Day. Obama also couldn’t explain the difference between a strategic initiative and a tactical initiative. But he got another free pass on that one too. Your average GI Joe foot soldier apparently knows more about running the military than Obama. In other words, Palin’s 18 year old son is actually more qualified to run our military than Obama is. But I forget, that the liberal media will tell us that all the nations of the world will now all of a sudden be in love with the US because Obama is now our new leader.
Les Miles should have announced that he planned to hire Obama as the new DC at LSU. In that situation people would have cared about how unprepared Obama is.
Yeah, while bullets are flying over their heads it's going to matter to our soldiers that Obama mingled Memorial and Veterans Day. :rollseyes: In the meantime, you were willing to vote for a 72 year old heartbeat away from a woman who couldn't name a single source for her news, couldn't name a Supreme Court decision, didn't know a thing about NAFTA, thought foreign policy experience consisted of seeing Russia out her window, and thought Africa is a country. That's just your mischaracterization of one of many of McCain's silly little debate moments. Having run a brilliant campaign, I dare say Obama knows quite a lot more about strategy and tactics than does the car- and plane-crashing McCain. Well, you're entitled to your silly and petulant message board opinions. Did you actually enjoy being hated while getting nowhere in Afghanistan and Iraq?
You think Bush had better experience? He failed at everything he’d done prior to being gov. of Tx., and does anyone think he’d have gotten that or the presidency if his daddy was not Bush 41? Clear case of money, party affiliation, and name recognition winning the presidency. Obama had none of those advantages, he earned it on his own. Did all of Bush's experience as gov of tx make him a good president? No. The people have repudiated Bush II and the republicans strongly. Bush mislead us into the Iraq war which turned into the quagmire Cheney predicted it would become back in 94, and Scott McClellan from inside the admin has stated we were mislead into the war. We don’t want our attorney gen. trying to justify torture (or pics of naked Iraqi’s in a pyramid, or with hoods on and wired up for shock treatment), we don’t want our “justice dept” firing US attorneys who don’t persecute dem candidates (even when they say there is no evidence to bring charges), we don’t want a repub congress that passes a $100 billion a year medicare prescription drug coverage with no tax to pay for it (and makes it illegal to negotiate vol. discounts, what a bone to big pharma CEO’s who now get guaranteed 10’s of millions in stock appreciation, but that’s ok cause they’re not poor people), we don’t want huge annual deficits (doubled the debt in 8 years, added 5 trillion to the debt) that devalue the dollar by half against the Euro (its primary competitor), we don’t want inflation caused by the high deficits, over aggressive expansion of the money supply and holding interest rates too low for too long without reason. I could go on. I can’t name you Bush’s signature accomplishment. I don’t even see one. Bush kicked Carter out of the cellar as worst president in my lifetime. Obama got elected, the sky is falling!!! Give the guy a chance, he hasn’t even been inaugurated a day.
Like it or not, the job the incumbent did ALWAYS is a big factor in the election. Bush was not running, but he headed a REPUBLICAN ADMINISTRATION that controlled the congress also for 6 of his 8 years. Bush failed, and the republican party failed also. Whether you call it Bush's failure or the republican party failure, most americans see that as no difference. McCain had to run on the record of the republican administration, and it was judged to be poor, and not worth continuing. Dancing in the street? I'll wait and see what happens. Obama inherited a tough situation. If he can restore some fiscal responsibility, I'll be happy. He doesn't have to balance the budget, we've only had it twice in the last 50 years, but working in that direction would be good. The first few years, he'll probably have to spend heavily to ward off the recession slipping into something worse.
