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Tue Dec-01-09 08:15 PM
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It really is refreshing to have an adult as our leader.... |
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Instead of garish and childish cartoon figures...
That is all...
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Tue Dec-01-09 08:16 PM
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1. Already unrecced, not surprisingly. K and R. n/t |
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Tue Dec-01-09 08:17 PM
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Tue Dec-01-09 08:18 PM
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4. He's making a decision that he knows will piss off a lot of people. |
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He doesn't act like he made it on the crapper or while playing pinball.
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Tue Dec-01-09 08:20 PM
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10. powerful people at that.... |
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Tue Dec-01-09 08:18 PM
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Tue Dec-01-09 08:18 PM
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6. I'm just now getting use |
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Edited on Tue Dec-01-09 08:18 PM by Cha
to it and I love it!
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Tue Dec-01-09 08:18 PM
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Tue Dec-01-09 08:19 PM
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8. No burps, coke jaw or nothing |
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Tue Dec-01-09 08:19 PM
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9. the only difference is the branding |
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from what I can see. I don't get how that is 'better'.
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Tue Dec-01-09 08:22 PM
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13. Well, he is explaining his decision process in a thoughtful and articulate manner. |
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Edited on Tue Dec-01-09 08:32 PM by WCGreen
On edit...
I never said "better' I said refreshing.
Obama is speaking after deliberating and he is speaking with a sense of conviction that runs deeper than boorish bravado.
That, to me at least, is how an adult presents a hard decision to those who will be most effected by his choices.
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Tue Dec-01-09 08:29 PM
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18. and behind that thoughtful, articulate process |
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is a grist mill of death and destruction. How it is presented means little to nothing, in my opinion. The substance of what is presented is what is important. And the substance of this process is this: a military escalation that will cost billions, kill thousands and ultimately render nothing productive in the end.
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Tue Dec-01-09 08:37 PM
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22. I don't think he for one minute he doesn't know the consequence |
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Tue Dec-01-09 08:31 PM
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19. don't you mean he is reading his decision process |
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in a thoughtful and articulate manner?
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Tue Dec-01-09 08:35 PM
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21. No, I distinctly used explaining because to me, at least, he spelled |
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out why he made his decision.
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Tue Dec-01-09 08:20 PM
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Needed to be said in a place that is so filled with acrimony lately.
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Tue Dec-01-09 08:21 PM
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12. He is certainly that. |
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No cartoon figure here...
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Tue Dec-01-09 08:22 PM
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14. That's not an adult... It's an imitation of an adult. A TV character. Selling a product. |
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Edited on Tue Dec-01-09 08:25 PM by grahamhgreen
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Tue Dec-01-09 08:24 PM
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15. No shit, that's the truth. |
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I don't know what the hell is going on around here lately. There are complete idiots posting in the "live" thread.
To anyone reading this and wondering if I'm calling them an idiot: if you have to wonder, then yes. Obama is not Bush.
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Tue Dec-01-09 08:24 PM
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16. AMEN! Yes, it is. For those who think this decision was taken lightly, |
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they are very wrong.
And he's explaining, but there are those who don't care and won't listen.
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Tue Dec-01-09 08:27 PM
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Tue Dec-01-09 08:34 PM
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and i still disagree with what he is about to do.
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Tue Dec-01-09 08:57 PM
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26. I don't like the fact that he has to take these actions in order to |
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clean up the mess left behind...
I believe that if we just shut down the process, chaos would erupt and threaten not only Afghanistan and Pakistan but the stability all around the region.
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Tue Dec-01-09 08:39 PM
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23. I think he came out and made a case for his position |
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It's a shitty situation. I respect the way he handled it, even if I'm not sure I agree with his decision.
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Tue Dec-01-09 08:58 PM
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27. I really wish he could be taking alternative measures but the last |
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Administration sacrificed quick success in Afghanistan in order to wage war in Iraq.
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Tue Dec-01-09 08:46 PM
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24. he's not a cartoon.pretty faint praise. |
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Tue Dec-01-09 08:55 PM
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25. I think being adult is all that we should require... |
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Thoughtful, deliberate thinking about goals and consequences and the willing to take responsibility are all adult traits that Obama has embarrassed.
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Tue Dec-01-09 09:07 PM
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28. for an adult he's sure acting like he's somebody's boy |
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Tue Dec-01-09 09:10 PM
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29. Refreshing indeed. Once again, he speaks to his audience like thinking adults capable of holding... |
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... a reasoned discourse and more than one thought in their heads at a time. Of course, not *everyone* is actually capable of such a thing, but it's refreshing to have him behave as though enough of us are to make a difference.
I know I've said this before, but I voted for him based on his judgment and character as I perceived them to be, rather than a rigid personal agenda. So far I have seldom been disappointed. Barack Obama is solid. He has given this situation (which we all know is a bucket of crap that got handed to him by Bush) his most careful consideration. Judgment ... Character.
Bush the Lesser and his posturing, his dress-up flight suit, his continual photo-ops with *real* soldiers, his coke-jaw, stagger, and bullying bravado, his telling us over and over to be Very Afraid -- that's who got our country into this mess. Sometimes it seems like half the people here don't remember that far back.
Barack Obama is laying out a course of action, but in his speech I also heard him calling us to our better selves, to be the people who show the world By Example what we are all about as a nation.
For instance, from my earliest childhood I was taught that no matter what a tyrant might do with POWs and other prisoners, We Don't Torture, That Is Not Who We Are. Bush-Cheney-Rove took that away from us, and we let them. It sickened me to watch torture become an official policy. We became no better than the tyrants we used to oppose.
I think Barack Obama was not only laying out his instructions for soldierly behavior, in a sense I think he was giving us back to ourselves. That part is important and transcends this particular plan for Afghanistan.
One more thing. No place in this speech did I hear him tell us to be afraid, be very afraid.
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Tue Dec-01-09 09:35 PM
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You spelled out exactly what I was thinking...
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Tue Dec-01-09 09:12 PM
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30. How dare you praise the Warmonger Obama that is no different than Booosh!!!!111 |
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You will be flamed - flamed I say
- for telling the truth!
:thumbsup:
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