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2008-06-30 -Short Attention Span Theater-

The Saddest Thing About Barack Obama's Available Military Expertise...

blogger "Confederate Yankee"

...is that though he has Wes Clark in his corner, the only person he knows with the experience of getting a bomb on target is Bill Ayers.

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Posted by Mike 2008-06-30 16:54|| || Front Page|| [11130 views ] Top

#1 Kucinich for Secretary of Defense.

Posted by tu3031 2008-06-30 17:00|| 2008-06-30 17:00|| Front Page Top

#2 Whoopie Goldberg for Secretary of State

Posted by Muggsy Gling 2008-06-30 17:04|| 2008-06-30 17:04|| Front Page Top

#3 The Saddest Thing About Barack Obama's Available Military Expertise...

The fact he has none at all?

Posted by Besoeker 2008-06-30 17:09|| 2008-06-30 17:09|| Front Page Top

#4 #3 The Saddest Thing About Barack Obama's Available Military Expertise...

The fact he has none at all?

Even sadder, the fact that he thinks he does!

Posted by Shemp 6680 2008-06-30 18:38|| 2008-06-30 18:38|| Front Page Top

#5 I read a story by Viktor Suvorov about a Russian Army officer who was a disaster. Utterly incompetent, his one ability was to memorize dialectic. At a formal dinner, he got very drunk, pulled down his pants, stuck a fish skeleton in his bum and called himself a mermaid while dancing on the table in front of senior officers.

The fastest way for his unit to get rid of him was to promote him, give him a glowing recommendation, and transfer him to their higher headquarters.

Higher headquarters quickly learned he was a schmuck, so gave him *another* promotion, and sent him back to his old unit. By bouncing around like that, as well as parroting dialectic, he soon became a very senior general.

This reminds me of Weaseley Clark, though Alexander Haig would be a close second. As the saying goes, "The cream rises to the top, and so does the scum."

Posted by Anonymoose 2008-06-30 19:19|| 2008-06-30 19:19|| Front Page Top

#6 I read that story too. I think it was by Nabakov, altho maybe he used a different name. Many Stalinist alagories along with some anti-captialist warnings. Very odd in it's own way.

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