Just when you thought Barry could do no more damage.

[gsvol]

President Barack Obama has nominated Harvard professor Ashton Carter, a leading authority on arms control and a longtime academic, to serve as the Pentagon’s chief weapons buyer, the White House announced Monday.

He served in a senior Pentagon policy post from 1993 to 1996 under the Bubba Clinton administration.

From his perch at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, Carter has been criticizing the Pentagon for buying too much armament it does not need.

I'll sleep better tonight knowing Barry has got some Ivy League pencil necked geek deciding how our troops will be armed, especially one who is a specialist in disarmament.

Instead of a 'walk softly, carry a big stick' America we have become a 'talk loudly carry a wet noodle!!'

 

[BigPapaVol]

This is the type of shenanigans that ruined the Clinton admin.
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[SavageOrangeJug]

I hope all 69,456,897 morons that voted for that damn fool are happy. He's a freakin' joke of a President. Calling Obama unqualified for the office is being generous.

 

[gasguy98]

I hope all 69,456,897 morons that voted for that damn fool are happy. He's a freakin' joke of a President. Calling Obama unqualified for the office is being generous.

He can do no wrong in their eyes, ever.
No matter what happens or what insane things he does his rabid supporters will think he is the greatest thing there is.
That is yet another difference between rational thinkers and sheep.
I full admit that W screwed up a lot of things, as most of us do.

 

[Cartervol]

His rockstar status says he can do no wrong right now. He's taking full advantage of that.

 

[gsvol]

I hope all 69,456,897 morons that voted for that damn fool are happy. He's a freakin' joke of a President. Calling Obama unqualified for the office is being generous.

I would guess that figure to be more like 55 million, the other 20 million +/-, would be dead, fictional or acorns with multiple personalities.

Still, 55 million who believe we are having a climate crisis is scary.

 

[kev20]

hey savage, I like your sig, but you may be missing an "O".

 

[rjd970]

He can do no wrong in there eyes, ever.
No matter what happens or what insane things he does his rabid supporters will think he is the greatest thing there is.
That is yet another difference between rational thinkers and sheep.
I full admit that W screwed up a lot of things, as most of us do.

I, for one, disagree with him on a number of issues. Primarily his healthcare garbage and union pandering.

However, using your labeling, I would venture to say most who didn't vote for can see no right he will do, in there eyes. No matter what positive thing happens you will think he is the worst president ever.

There are rational thinkers and sheep on both sides here.

 

[OrangeEmpire]

I, for one, disagree with him on a number of issues. Primarily his healthcare garbage and union pandering.

However, using your labeling, I would venture to say most who didn't vote for can see no right he will do, in there eyes. No matter what positive thing happens you will think he is the worst president ever.

There are rational thinkers and sheep on both sides here.

He has had one?

 

[rjd970]

He has had one?

I rest my case.

 

[OrangeEmpire]

I rest my case.

No further questions your honor.

:hi:

 

[joevol320]

He has had one?

if positive things are defined as breaking the nation's wealth, then he's the most positive person.

 

[VolsNSkinsFan]

Dang they are definitely going to cut the F-22 which A) is badazz and B) is built up the road from me in Marietta, GA

I see them all the time, pure awesomeness

 

[OrangeEmpire]

Dang they are definitely going to cut the F-22 which A) is badazz and B) is built up the road from me in Marietta, GA

I see them all the time, pure awesomeness

Obama has already ordered 2,000 of these...

 

[SavageOrangeJug]

hey savage, I like your sig, but you may be missing an "O".

Excellent idea! :worship:

 

[gsvol]

I, for one, disagree with him on a number of issues. Primarily his healthcare garbage and union pandering.

Rahm's Emanuel's brother, named White House health care policy adviser.

He advised Clinton White House on health care issues.

Dr. Emanuel served on the ethics section of former President Clinton's Health Task Force, the National Bioethics Advisory Commission.

He holds a Ph.D. in political philosophy from Harvard University. In addition, in 1987-88, he was a fellow in the Program in Ethics and the Professions at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard.

Article written by Emanuel.

No single principle is sufficient to incorporate all morally relevant considerations and therefore individual principles must be combined into multiprinciple allocation systems.

A look at the Emanuel plan.

In HealthCare, Guaranteed, Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel proposes a bold plan for health care reform that offers free, high quality health care to all Americans. No premiums. No deductibles. Low-co-pays. Under this plan, the government insists that all insurers offer the same comprehensive benefits to everyone, including: office and home visits, hospitalization, preventive screening tests, prescription drugs, some dental care, inpatient and outpatient mental health care and physical and occupational therapy. These benefits are more generous than Medicare’s and more comprehensive than what 85 percent of all employers offer their employees.

How do we fund it? Emanuel, who is the Director of the Clinical Bioethics Department at the U.S. National Institutes of Health, proposes a 10 percent Value-Added Tax (VAT) on consumption. For a median-income family earning $50,000 a year and spending virtually every penny, this means that they would pay $5,000 a year (10 percent of $50,000) in taxes on their purchases. But in return, they would receive health care benefits worth more than $12,500 (the current average price for comprehensive insurance that covers a family.) In addition, because The Guaranteed HealthCare Access Plan would replace employer-based coverage, many workers could expect a raise roughly equivalent to what their employer now pays toward their premiums.

Here is how the plan works: Every American would receive a voucher for individual or family coverage. The vouchers would be of equal value and all insurers would be required to offer the same comprehensive benefits package to anyone who applied—young or old, sick or healthy.

Insures would report to 12 Regional Health Boards.

etc etc

“We cannot spend more than the VAT brings in. If Americans want more health care services, they will have to lobby and convince Congress to increase the VAT.”

Oh wait, where have I heard that before???
(actually what he is selling looks good on paper, worth further study imo.)

However, using your labeling, I would venture to say most who didn't vote for can see no right he will do, in there eyes. No matter what positive thing happens you will think he is the worst president ever.

There are rational thinkers and sheep on both sides here.

Both sides of what???

 

[gasguy98]

I, for one, disagree with him on a number of issues. Primarily his healthcare garbage and union pandering.

However, using your labeling, I would venture to say most who didn't vote for can see no right he will do, in there eyes. No matter what positive thing happens you will think he is the worst president ever.

There are rational thinkers and sheep on both sides here.

I think it is time to get out of Iraq.
Reasonable people will be able to find things that W did right and that Obama will do right but for the most part rabid Obama supporters refuse to admit he can do wrong.
A great friend of mine is a Ph.D. and You would be amazed how even he has a hard time admitting faults with Obama.
However with me callinghim on these issues he has eventually admitted that this thing is not starting out like he envisioned.