Comments on: Deconstructing straw men arguments about the way conservatives view Obama

By: Bookworm

Bookworm — Tue, 06 Nov 2012 22:43:50 +0000

Thanks, Karl. Fixed it.

By: Karl

Karl — Tue, 06 Nov 2012 22:38:06 +0000

Nitpick, illustrative of how typos breed once copy has been put to bed…

“In addition, Eisenhower was president during piece time.“

By: Charles Martel

Charles Martel — Mon, 05 Nov 2012 18:27:21 +0000

If all goes well tomorrow, Brandus’s essay will be a classic example of too little, too late.

I think we’re in fox and hedgehog territory. Most of us here are foxes who know many little things. Those include Obama’s bows to dictators, his contempt for flyover country, his endless string of vacations and distractions, his anti-Semitism, his dislike of the military, his crypto-Marxist economic illiteracy, and so on.

But the majority of voters is hedgehogs—they know one great big thing. And that thing is the economy, which is in tatters. In the voting booth they have to decide whether they want to continue a wild, careening ride on the wrong side of the freeway, with the whiny promise of “Trust me, I’ll get you there soon!” Or they can take up the Highway Patrol officer’s polite offer to leave their boyfriend’s fast-lane race to nowhere and start heading in a real direction.

Hmmm, which great big thing to choose?

By: JKB

JKB — Mon, 05 Nov 2012 17:50:09 +0000

The Arlington myth taps into what I just read posted by Michael Yon. Revered Pilot Comments on Dust Off Failures A Vietnam MOH winner comments on the Obama-Panetta doctrine of not sending support to troops in the field when you don't have full knowledge. In this case, the slow deployment of medivac choppers which results in more casualties. Basically, Obama is paralyzed by fear. It has resulted in micro-managing medivacs and not sending support to Benghazi. To name a few. I remember a small comment by MOH winner Dakota Meyer on the Daily Show. In describing his actions, he referenced the repeated denials he got when he asked to go in after his fallen comrades. He and the other soldier finally ignored those orders. Denials from people in the rear with the gear running their time-consuming risk algorithms. see if this sounds familiar: This aversion for risk dominates Dust Off rescue operations where, in addition to an unconscionable reaction time, risk assessment is the primary consideration for mission launch – not patient care. In two years flying Dust Off in Vietnam, I never heard that term, nor did any Dust pilot I know. The ASOs, remote from the battle, have developed time-consuming algorithms to analyze risk while the patient bleeds, something that’s impossible to do by anyone other than the pilot and the ground forces at the scene.