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Spc. Krystal M. Fitts
I cannot accept battlefield roles for our girls. Nope, never, nada. This should not have happened.
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| -Election 2012 |
| A Reaction to the Obama Scandal at Columbia |
| 2012-08-07 |
| by Steve White Sometimes as a moderator you miss things and then see them pop up on the Burg. I was going to post the article, Obama's College Classmate: 'The Obama Scandal is at Columbia' last night but didn't, thinking it might take us away from the WoT. But screw it: after re-reading it I've come to the conclusion that this is exactly what Mitt Romney should do, each and every time Champ and his minions (particularly and especially the odious Harry Reid) demand to see Romney's tax records. Mitt Romney has been forthcoming. He's released a lot of financial information about himself. There's little doubt that he's wealthy, that he has paid taxes, and that he has a comfortable income. There's also little doubt that he's complied with the law: that's what tax accountants are for, and he's hired the very best. Digging through his tax records might find an issue or two that could be twisted by the Washington Post, but there is nothing remotely illegal. Mitt Romney also has been forthcoming about his personal life. We know the details of his birth, his childhood, his young adult years, his work at Bain Capital, and his work as a governor. We know about his family life. Not all of it is complementary; that is normal for any good person. Mitt Romney also is well vetted: he ran for President in 2008, he's been a governor, he ran for the Senate (and lost to Kerry), and he's been CEO of a US Olympic committee. If he had skeletons in his closet we would have heard about them by now. He might not be squeaky clean, but he's remarkably transparent. So why the drumbeat about his tax records? Three reasons come to mind. First, it's a diversion. The longer the Democrats and the MSM (but I repeat myself) talk about this, the less they have to talk about the horrendous economy and unemployment news. Obama desperately wants to talk about anything, anything at all, other than the economy. Second, it's part of Obama's way of politics, refined over the years by David Axelrod and Valerie Jarrett. In 2008 they planted stories about McCain's supposed mistress -- not true but the New York Times didn't care, they were just "asking questions" after all. In the 2004 U.S. Senate race in Illinois they unsealed Jack Ryan's divorce records. There's a reason why courts seal divorce records, and sure enough a week after the records were released Mr. Ryan was out of politics. Perhaps Mr. Obama would have won that election anyway, but it didn't hurt at all that the Illinois Republicans imploded completely. Obama managed to get his old mentor knocked off the ballot when he first ran for the Illinois state Senate. In short: Obama is dirty. He's a Chicago pol. This is what they do, and so it's no surprise that he and Axelrod and Plouffe and the campaign are looking for a way to dirty up Romney. But finally and most importantly, it's a diversion away from Obama's own issues. Remember, the best defense is a good offense. The more the Democrats and the MSM (but I repeat myself) can accuse Romney of some hidden malfeasance, the longer they can avoid talking about Obama's completely opaque history. It's not just the transcripts, though (as the article posted by Beavis makes clear) those would be interesting to review. It's the trip to Pakistan -- how did he do that? It's the attendance at Trinity United Church. It's the overlap between his path and that of the Chicago socialists like Bill Ayers and the New Party. It's the various grants for the Chicago public schools that he controlled. Who wrote his books? What was his citizenship when he attended school in Indonesia, and was that changed when he returned to the U.S.? And just how did he afford Columbia University? Obama won in 2008 because he and a compliant media ensured that anyone who asked about these things would be seen as a fringe person -- a 'birther'. We won't doubt or contest that he was born in Hawaii. That is clear and it is not the issue. The issue is a simple one: what about the rest of his life? Update: Ed Morrissey at Hot Air makes a good counter point: that by doing this Mitt Romney would in effect be punching below his weight, and that this would be a distraction at a time when "it's the economy, stupid" resonates with voters. Fair enough, and perhaps Mitt doesn't need to be the one demanding that Obama open up his past. Campaign surrogates could do this, but they wouldn't get the attention. We certainly can't count on the MSM, and conservative media (e.g., the Weekly Standard) don't have the required heft. It's frustrating because we'd like ALL our presidents to be well vetted. Obama wasn't, and apparently he won't be. |
| Posted by:Steve White |
| #8 Our people are getting slaughtered and the Obama re-election MSM is covering it up. The Obama re-election committee is pulling out all the stops to re-elect this murky Manchurian Candidate. They don't want the economy, any off-teleprompter comments, the war, anything to upset his applecart. Only the ends are important to this bunch not the means. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2012-08-07 19:19 |
| #7 I didn't say noone was helping the Taliban. I merely took exception to the by-now standard piece of propaganda that the US (via its intelligence agencies) was (and still is) responsible for the existance and prosperity of the Taliban. I doubt you really care about Obama one way or another, as long as you can use it to deliver your real payload to the audience. |
| Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain 2012-08-07 18:12 |
| #6 Spc. Krystal M. Fitts I cannot accept battlefield roles for our girls. Nope, never, nada. This should not have happened. |
| Posted by: Deadeye Gluger6540 2012-08-07 18:07 |
| #5 You see that? |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2012-08-07 17:42 |
| #4 July 17, 2012 -Spc. Krystal M. Fitts July 17, 2012 26 Houston, Texas, USA Female Engagement Team (FET) member I watched senior leaders lure these innocent 21 year old female soldiers into the FET's and send them out on patrols and Shuras [useless Afghan townhall meetings], or to laise with indigenous females. It was just a matter of time before they turned up KIA. Very, very sad. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2012-08-07 16:17 |
| #3 KIA. Our people are getting slaughtered and the Obama re-election MSM is covering it up. |
| Posted by: Spomotle Dingle8685 2012-08-07 15:47 |
| #2 SOMEONE is helping the Aghan Taliban... August 1, 2012 -Lance Cpl. Curtis J. Duarte, 22 – Covina, CA -Spc. Kyle B. McClain, 25 – Rochester Hills, MI July 29, 2012 -Gunnery Sgt. Jonathan William Gifford, 34 -Gunnery Sgt. Daniel Joseph Price, 27 July 28, 2012 -Pfc. Jose Oscar Belmontes, 28 – La Verne, CA -Sgt. 1st Class Bobby Lee Estle, 38 Lebanon, OH July 27, 2012 -Pfc. Theodore Matthew Glende, 23 – Rochester, NY -Spc. Benjamin Carlos Pleitez, 25 – Turlock, CA July 26, 2012 -Sgt. John Eric Hansen, 41 – Austin, TX -1st Lt. Sean R. Jacobs, 23 – Redding, CA July 24, 2012 -Sgt. Justin M. Hansen, 26 – Traverse City, MI -Pfc. Adam C. Ross, 19 – Lyman, SC July 23, 2012 -Sgt. Eric E. Williams, 27 Murrieta, CA July 22, 2012 -Staff Sgt. Richard L. Berry, 27 Scottsdale, AZ -Pfc. Julian L. Colvin, 21 – Birmingham, AL -Spc. Justin L. Horsley, 21 – Palm Bay, FL -Pfc. Brenden N. Salazar, 20 – Chuluota, FL July 21, 2012 -Petty Officer 2nd Class Michael J. Brodsky, 33 – Tamarac, FL -Staff Sgt. Brandon R. Pepper, 31 – York, PA July 19, 2012 -Cpl. Joshua R. Ashley, 23 – Rancho Cucamonga, CA -Spc. Darrion T. Hicks, 21 Raleigh, NC -Pfc. Jeffrey Leon Rice, 24 – Troy, OH July 18, 2012 -Sgt. Jose J. Reyes, 24 – San Lorenzo, PR -Sgt. Daniel A. Rodriguez, 28 – Baltimore, MD July 17, 2012 -Spc. Krystal M. Fitts July 17, 2012 26 Houston, Texas, USA Female Engagement Team member July 16, 2012 -Spc. Sergio E. Perez Jr., 21 – Crown Point, IN -Spc. Nicholas A. Taylor, 20 – Berne, IN July 14, 2012 -Staff Sgt. Carl E. Hammar, 24 -Sgt. Erik N. May, 26 July 13, 2012 -Sgt. Michael E. Ristau, 25 – Rockford, IL July 11, 2012 -Spc. Sterling W. Wyatt, 21 – Columbia, MO July 8, 2012 -Pfc. Trevor B. Adkins, 21 – Spring Lake, NC -Spc. Erica P. Alecksen , 21 – Eatonton, GA -Spc. Jonathan Batista, 22 – Kinnelon, NJ -Pfc. Alejandro J. Pardo, 21 Porterville, CA -Staff Sgt. Ricardo Seija, 31 Tampa, FL -Pfc. Cameron J. Stambaugh, 20 -Spc. Clarence Williams III, 23 July 7, 2012 -Cpl. Juan P. Navarro, 23 – Austin, TX July 6, 2012 -Capt. Bruce A. MacFarlane, 46 July 4, 2012 -Staff Sgt. Raul M. Guerra , 37 – Union City, NJ July 3, 2012 -Pfc. Cody Otho Moosman , 24 – Preston, Idaho |
| Posted by: Spomotle Dingle8685 2012-08-07 15:45 |
| #1 They're all good questions, but part of the problem is that you're walking into a battleground that's already prepared against you. Even if you _do_ start asking the Unanswered Questions, there's someone ready to answer in a manner that's superficially conservative _but_ echoes all the standard communist/islamonazi talking points... over on the other thread someone's drooling forth the typical talking points, that we invented the Taliban then (never mind that the Taliban didn't start up until Bhutto decided they were a great idea for taking over Afghanistan in the mid-90's), that the CIA is behind the Taliban today (Which is both the typical communist and islamonazi talking point today, their top people never repeat it outright, only infer, while the proxy spokesmen at the bottom and at pravda.ru do. They spread the real bile, which the people at the top avoid, but always manage to say something that rhymes with the bile)... I think you probably had a lot of this with the birther crap... he kept it going because it was a way to suck his critics into a nonproductive dead alley. I doubt he was a CIA agent, even the CIA isn't that incompetent. |
| Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain 2012-08-07 13:33 |
