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2008-12-16 Home Front: Politix

Haig on Obama: 'Reason to be Optimistic'

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Posted by Besoeker 2008-12-16 10:23|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top

#1 General public on Haig: FOAD !

Posted by Woozle Elmeter 2700 2008-12-16 11:39|| 2008-12-16 11:39|| Front Page Top

#2 Haig played a large "crisis management" role as the Watergate scandal unfolded. Haig has been largely credited with keeping the government running while President Nixon was preoccupied with Watergate.

Should this more appropriately be posted under....'Signs, Portents, and the Weather?

Posted by Besoeker 2008-12-16 12:01|| 2008-12-16 12:01|| Front Page Top

#3 Wadda putz.

Posted by Elmusoger Grundy5049 2008-12-16 12:18|| 2008-12-16 12:18|| Front Page Top

#4 Ah yes, Al "I'm in charge here" Haig. I don't recall asking for his opinion.

FWIW - I was coming back from lunch (my office is across the street from Obambi) when I noticed the streets blocked off. Then, there he was! the Great Man himself in a motorcade (cop cars ahead, 6 to 8 black SUVs, a small bus, an ambulance, more cop cars) going the wrong way up Clark street. Be still my heart.

Posted by Spot">Spot 2008-12-16 12:50|| 2008-12-16 12:50|| Front Page Top

#5 Abrasive old fart.

Posted by bigjim-ky 2008-12-16 13:56|| 2008-12-16 13:56|| Front Page Top

#6 Must be "Ask an Irrelevant Public Figure a Question" day...

Posted by tu3031 2008-12-16 13:59|| 2008-12-16 13:59|| Front Page Top

#7 Obama has yet to proclaim "Islam is Peace," and waste billions to create the messes of neo-taliban Afghanistan and dueling-Islamofascists (Sunni-Shiite) in Iraq. Before-Bush's alliances with Islamofascism-lite, seculars were much better off in the Muslim world.

Your orders: write a report on the state of secularism in post-Bush islamania, and attribute cause to said state. Don't treat objectivity as a thought crime. Bush deserves each and every diatribe and shoe that goes his way.

After Inauguration, there will be as many public Bushies as there were Nazis after Germany was conquered. Cowards.

Posted by Jitch Protector of the Nebraskans3505 2008-12-16 14:43|| 2008-12-16 14:43|| Front Page Top

#8 Do define Bushie, Jitch Protector of the Nebraskans3505 dear. Do you mean those who voted for the gentleman? Because more voted for him than either Al Gore in 2000 or John Kerry in 2004. Do you mean those who support his efforts in the war we've been waging since 2002 on the jihadis/caliphatists? Because then you refer to the American, Canadian military, police and intelligence forces, not to mention most of those who visit Rantburg, small though that number might be.

Or perhaps you mean those who support every word President Bush has spoken and every action he has taken? In that case even President Bush himself would not count as a Bushie, given that he has changed how he prosecuted the war on Muslim terrorists, as the situation and his understanding have changed. But more importantly, even though President Bush has not done everything perfectly, nonetheless he started the fight against those who would make you and yours slaves of the caliphate, and me and mine very, very dead. For this alone I would support President Bush, even had he not achieved the primary goal of this first stage of the war on jihadism -- clear defeat in battle of Al Qaeda and the Afghani Taliban, and denial to them and their Iraqi colleagues of their chosen safe havens. That tens of thousands of jihadis have been killed in the process is a side benefit, as is the revelation and destruction of their members and supporters in Europe, the Americas and elsewhere around the world, leaving Al Qaeda in Pakistan literally begging those remaining for men and money.

Posted by trailing wife">trailing wife 2008-12-16 19:57|| 2008-12-16 19:57|| Front Page Top

#9 Jitch etc. is our periodic troll from the western parts of Canada. Just figured y'all should know so you can decide how much effort to put into responding to him/her/it.

Posted by lotp 2008-12-16 21:40|| 2008-12-16 21:40|| Front Page Top

#10 And I am the regular troll from Kentucky.
Tee hee hee!
Everyone look at me!!!

Posted by bigjim-ky 2008-12-16 22:33|| 2008-12-16 22:33|| Front Page Top

#11 bigJim-ky - aren't you better than that?

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2008-12-16 23:26|| 2008-12-16 23:26|| Front Page Top

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