The Dems and their Lumpy Obama Bed

So are you saying that Hillary Clinton would have been a more formidable candidate?

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http://www.Florida-Michigan.com
http://www.WallStreetChange.com

"And I guess Soros and his ilk believed him. Evidently John Dean et al believed him."

Not to mention HOWARD Dean.

Kyle-Anne, why would you fearr that? I for one am praying for it!
Hopefully George Soros will be wearing another
"Twenty-four Million Dollars and ALL I got was this lousy Obama T-shirt".

The American public will definitely be short-sheeted if Obama wins in November.

As for Hillary, this past week or so has been blessedly free of "news" re: Clinton family and I don't really miss it.

Ms. Shiver, thanks for your always great articles. Here is another possible lump: Since Senator Obama also has deep roots in Kenya, shouldn't someone do an investigation of his relationship with his fellow Luo tribesman, Raila Odinga? It is difficult to get accurate information about what is really happening in Africa at the best of times (it is impossible to get from the "drive-by" media), but apparently Obama has campaigned for Odinga; according to some sources this man seems to have promised to institute Sharia law in Muslim regions; pro-Odinga thugs burnt churches and started a series of brutal tribal killings, which were at times perpetrated in the name of Islam. Dare we investigate this man's political tactics, his alliance with the Muslims of Kenya (cf. http://eakenya.org/newsevents/article.htm?id=8), and his relationship to Obama? Or would that be racist and therefore off-limits? Yet it would be germane to understanding his foreign policy.

Taking a cute phrase and stretching it a little too thin IMHO.

The problem isn't Obama. The problem is the 45% of voters who will choose him. That percentage will go even higher if conservatives of all stripes stay home and sulk in November. Staying home on election day should never be an option.
The American voter will get the government he deserves in November, just as Democrats got the candidate they deserved this primary season. No one forced Obama on any of them. No one forced Hillary on any of them. There were many other choices. No one forced McCain on GOP voters. We also had many other choices. We rejected them. Both parties nominated the candidate deemed to have "the best chance to win in November". That's our fault, not theirs.
If we can get past column b when casting our vote then neither major party has any reason to listen to us. Democrats and Republicans are all we'll choose from and they know it. We deserve what we get in November.

Always good articles. Thanks for telling it like it is. Continue.

Anyone that discounts George Soros does so at his peril. I know for a fact that there are a number of like-minded hedge fund titans that are backing the Marxist BO. Basically it is liberal guilt but the end result will be a disaster for this country. Cheers.

B. Hussien Obama should have used a club to take out the lumps in his bed before going to his master, King George Soro's for his blessing. But since he didn't, hopefully his "followers" will begin to see the light and abandon Hussien's campaign in droves. But it is unlikely since B. Hussein Obama is the Pied Piper of the far lefties..

All this may be true, but I don't think people care. The problem is that many people WANT a messiah, and faith can excuse or overlook a lot of inconvenient facts. People have fallen in love with politicians before despite dubious family connections: JFK's father is a good example. Unless something stupendously scandalous emerges before November, I think the Reps are doomed.

Hasn't Obama said something to the effect that he would be sending massive aid to Africa? Would that aid all end up in Kenya in the hands of Odinga? Obama-Odinga!

Willi

You got to credit Limbaugh for rumpling the bed up nicely. I agree in principle with what you say, it is left as an open issue whether the Republicans have the brains or the wherewithall to take advantage. After watching the larded up farm bill passage, I have my serious doubts. Republicans, and especially John McAMNESTY can't seem to figure what their path is, it's clear as a bell.

Drill here, drill now, pay less -- Change you can believe in. And skip the global warming hoax.

The Democrats plan on running on a three legged stool -- Raise taxes, raise taxes, raise taxes.

In the end it really is about the economy.

Yankeegirl:

'The American public will definitely be short-sheeted if Obama wins in November.'

Don't worry, Obama will NOT win this election because of a number of factors, one of them being AT. This zin is very popular, you know. Obama has too many enemies to defeat.

Obama is doomed to lose against McCain, not just because McCain has made some good proposals, but also because Obama himself is a traitor whose friends, mentioned above, have been revealed to be subversives. No friend of William Ayers will ever win the WH.

Stupendously scandalous? Don't you think that Wright, Farrakhan, Phleger, Ayers, Dohrn, Rezko, continuous fibbing and his big mouthed ungrateful America hating wife is scandalous enough? Have we set the bar so low that these things alone aren't enough to submarine this guy? I still think it's amazing that the Democrat leadership allowed this guy to be their center stage candidate.

Ms. Shiver,

Another great article.

The challenge is airing this lumpy bedding in front of the ho-hum, always vote Dem voters. Or rather reaching them before they turn out in droves for the demagogic party candidate.

To elaborate on the problem, I refer to a Sean Hannity bit called "man on the street" in which an intern hits the streets of Manhattan and picks generic passers-by for the host to ask questions.

The vast majority are poorly informed knee jerk "dimocrats." They're not necessarily liberals, but have heads full of mush. Two memorable questions these folks couldn't answer were "who is the Vice President?' and "Name one thing Hillary Clinton has accomplished as a Senator?" Obviously the second one is a trick question because the answer in NOTHING, but when questioned by the host these folks uniformly explain that they vote dim because dimocrats "are nice and care about people" while republicans are "mean spirited heartless skinflints in bed with evil corporations, or redneck backward racists, blah, blah blah," or words to that effect.

Getting to these victims of public school indoctrination and MSM gate keeping is the key to reaping the benefit of outing BHO's sordid associations and ideology. The politically aware are already following each sequential disclosure of rot and filth; the left with angst and cover-up, the right with glee and vindication.

But the knee-jerks are the perfect dupes for BHO's vacuous hope and ambiguous change message. Short of buying add time on MTV or VH1 (assuming these Viacom owned siblings of c.B.S. would even sell time), I'm not clear on how to reach this important audience and offset the shear lack of awareness or "rock the vote" bias that plays for the other side.

BO, nice touch!

One question that looms beyond this election, Do you want your billionaires backing the presumptive democratic and republican candidates AFTER "the people" have voted, or will you accept all candidates being pre-selected by the billionaires BEFORE you vote.

If Barack Obama is successful, and perhaps even if he is not, why would any democrat consider running in four years if they don't have George Soros' approval?

Obama is running on the false promise that he can turn back the clock to Sept. 10, 2001 and make all the ugly realities of this decade go away. The problem is that he's selling snake oil. We are locked desperately in a war for survival between competing civilizations. And when one side unilaterally decides to stop fighting a war, they usually don't last too long. If our enemies are sharks, then such a unilateral retreat is like dumping buckets of blood into the water.

In other words, this loser is going to get millions of innocent American civilians killed with his deceiving rhetoric. He is unwittingly sending out messages to ever terrorist on the planet to simply wait until he's elected, then they can have their way with us. "Bend over" will become our new foreign policy directive.

Soros is a factor but Barry prints money every time he sends out an email. And these are small donors so they can keep on giving, if they are inclined. The fundraising reveals a level of hostility to liberty and openness to socialism that is nauseatingly deep and broad. So much that it gets even Lefties to open their checkbooks. If Barry does go down, in the election or after being elected, these people will not follow easily. The stupidities of President Obama will never be admitted no matter how glaring. But in a way we are blessed with the recent gas prices as an issue. This is one even Maverick cannot cock up and the Dems are married to the wrong side of the issue. So maybe marriage should be reexamined as an institution. Strange bedfellows...

CSM hit the nail on the head. It is not that most who vote for the Dem candidate are leftists. It is that the majority of the electorate is appallingly uninformed or misinformed. Most voters do not do any homework on the candidates or the issues. They tend to accept the distorted version of the facts that is relentlessly spewed out by the MSM as being more or less true. But the problem is not just that the Dims are able to successfully foster the big lie that the Repubs are selfish and evil. The bigger part of the problem is that the Republican party lets them get away with it. GWB is a perfect exasmple - He rarely articulates why his policies and proposals are the right ones. I have never understood why conservative leadership does not launch a massive PR campaign in which they demolish the Dim positions with devastating facts and logic, and explain how and why the conservative solutions would improve conditions for all, including those at the lower end of the socioeconomic scale.

If anyone would like to correct my calculations, please do so as I want my numbers to be accurate.

I seem to recall a statistic that the United States Military consumes 15,000 gallons of gasoline a second. if this is true, then the US military is putting a billion dollars a day into the hand of the oil countries.

365 billion dollars a year is a rather significant amount of money to buy american real estate with, especially as rising petro prices reduces existing real estate value, which in turn creates secondary streams of income via the interest on debt.

I would say that the concept of only fighting a war elsewhere and having no resources left to reduce billions upon billions of dollars of damages occuring via the midwest floods is a bit insane, no?

I'm as conservative as they come, but I've seen this show before when I was in college - The Clinton Show. I will bet any of you dinner, drinks, whatever, that Obama is elected in November. Like I said, I saw this before in 1991-92 when hardly conservative publications like 'TIME' wrote articles specifying why Americans couldn't trust Bill Clinton. Guess what? He was inaugurated in Jan of '93. Yes, yes I know Perot split the conservative/independent vote, but Bob Barr is looking to do the same this time. Also, remember, George H W did a lousy job of campaigning and seemed old and uninterested - exactly what McCain looks like now. So back then, even with some critical stories of Clinton in the mainstream media, he still won the Democrat primaries and went on to be the nominee and eventually won the general election. Remember - Clinton was young - and the next JFK - he promised his own brand of 'change' to remedy the 'worst economy in the last fifty years' Anyone remember that ABC special about him called 'The Man From Hope'? Sound familiar? On the other side, H W Bush was really a third term for Reagan, but he botched it up with his bipartisan dealings. During his re-election bid he seemed old, people were angry at him because of the recession, and they overall felt he didn't give a damn; he represented the old way of doing things - stale - wanting freshness.

Today, nothing is different except the press is just so nakedly liberal and is practically supporting Obama openly and glossing over all his flaws - all the while painting McCain as a third term for Bush, coloring him as old, and questioning his mental faculties.

And you know what? Just as they did in 1993, the American people will once again elect the fresher face in 2008. Logical arguments won't work. Rush won't work....Rush was around in 1993 too and in 2006 when we lost the congress.

I saw this happen as a young, silly college student, and I'm going to see it again as an older, wiser professional. As much as it pains me to say this....

Obama will win in 2008

The MSM has technology to iron out all the lumps or wrinkles, whatever in their messiah. They just don't cover, or just lie.
I'm still waiting for the one big scandal to hit the ceiling. Unfortunately, it's up to whoever has courageon the right.

There is a lot more than money and the drive-by parrot media. To see the effect look at the polls on drilling, global warming and taxes.

How I wish Ms. Shiver's prediction that Obama's got so many problems he can't win. Unfortunately, as some other posters have already pointed out, countless ourageous facts from his past (and present) have already come to light, and it doesn't appear to put a dent into what voter's think. It's as if those who support Obama do so despite anything that may come to their attention. Truly frightening.

Related to that, there have been so many anti-Obama pieces on the AT site for months (which has saved my sanity), but at the same time I read a lot of hesitation from readers to back McCain. I understand (or at least I think I do) that McCain is not conservative enough for many. But, if you don't support McCain (and not just by voting for him, but by working for his campaign), then, we will likely get Obama. And if the prospect of an Obama presidency concerns you more than the prospect of a McCain presidency, then it seems like a no brainer as to what to do - help elect McCain.

I'm a former Democrat and just as McCain may be too far to the left for some, he's too far to the right for me. But, Obama is out of the question. In any case, as I make the case to many friends and neighbors, if you don't elect someone who will at least get it regarding national security, all the rest is moot.

P.S. Thanks for the article, Ms. Shiver. Whenever I see a piece authored by you, I know it will be a great read, irrespective of whether I agree with all of it or not.

Michael Murray,
I agree with your analysis except for one point: in 1992 the Cold War had ended and the Democrats had regained a small amount of credibility on defense owing to their not blocking the liberation of Kuwait. People felt they could afford to vote Democrat since defense wasn't a high priority.
People may well elect the "fresher face", as you put it, but for a lot of people it will be because McCain presented just as unappealing a candidate as Bush did in 1992.
Remember the story about Bush appearing amazed at the scanners in grocery stores? The press used it to portray Bush as remote. In 1992 Al Gore made up for Clinton's lack of military service and he looked a lot better than Dan Quayle.
Maybe the VEEP pick really will matter this year. Like you, I foresee an Obama victory and it's not pretty.

ZM:
"No friend of William Ayers will ever win the WH."

How many voters even know the history of this man? Most Obama supporters have no idea who he is or what his history is and, to top it off, they couldn't care less.

Millions of Hillary supporters are moving over to supporting John McCain!!
http://www.hcsfjm.com

I had an exchange with a conservative friend this morning over a thought which seems to apply here:

Those who do not heed history are doomed to repeat it.

It's as true now as it has ever been. The trouble with this notion today? The liberals control the education system, so history is, well...HISTORY. It's not being taught, so the lessons are lost. The disaster of electing a 'fresher face' (which got Carter & Clinton elected) hasn't been drilled into any heads currently filled with mush. As for Ayers, you would have to take out full-page ads in the NYT to get to where the average American would feel the first tingle of alarm.

The problem isn't intelligence. It is ignorance, coupled with apathy. I have heard too many times the moan, "well, I don't follow politics" or it's alternate of, "it doesn't really matter, does it?"

This country is on the verge of the worst disaster in its history. Another post for this article asked why the conservative Republican leadership doesn't respond to the current threats facing us in this election cycle. The answer to THAT question is quite simple:

THERE IS NO CONSERVATIVE REPUBLICAN LEADERSHIP!

Kyle-Anne, PLEASE keep up the good work!

Long on snide, short on substance.

I can understand the occasional snark, but if the facts speak for themselves, why couch them all in a dripping mass of schoolyard spitballs?

But then, what should I expect from someone who openly disdains intellectualism? (And on a website called American Thinker, to boot! That part never ceases to amuse.) Never mind the fact that virtually all modern technological innovations owe their origins to scientific methodology, which is inherently an expression of intellectualism. Never mind the fact that the Founding Fathers were some of the great intellectuals of their day. Even Thomas Paine, who wrote Common Sense, was an intellectual, particularly by today's standards.

He also came to be reviled over time by many for the ideas he expressed in Common Sense. I guess it's not easy to keep a fickle, anti-intellectual, provincial population satisfied by maintaining one's integrity. Therefore, since appeasing an ignorant people is necessary, we have the time-honored practice of pandering.

And it seems that you, dear, in telling your audience precisely what they want to hear, are plying your pandering skills quite well with your chosen faction. This won't win you any converts, of course, but by elevating emotionalism over intellectualism, you may forestall enough critical thought to slow the hemorrhaging of constituents from your party. It's kind of a platelet strategy of politics. Congratulations on your efficacy as a clotting agent.

http://clintons4mccain.com/

Some Republicans on this site are sure that Obama will win, and some are sure that he cannot win.

Historically, Obama cannot win because the American people always reject Socialist candidates: McGovern, Dukakis, Mondale. Gore and Kerry did somewhat better by actively concealing their Leftist leanings, but the only two Democrats elected to the presidency in the last forty years were the least ideological, Carter and Clinton. And Obama is the Left-most ideologue since George McGovern, if not Henry Wallace or Leon Trotsky.

Most American voters are not yet engaged in the electoral process. The selection process to date has been run by True Believers, balancing their fondest hopes against their assessments of reality. McCain, warts and all, is Centrist where most American voters are. Obama is not only the Left-most ideologue ever to grace the presidential selection process, all of his previous associates seem to be racists, criminals, and terrorists. And then there are his current associates, who are not only worse, but who flatly contradict Obama's promises of new, non-corrupt, politics; George Soros, Jim Johnson, and Eric Holder are examples.

Hillary did massively well against Obama in West Virginia and the rust belt states, not because she was less Leftist than Obama (she was not), but because voters, to the extent they are paying attention at all at this early date, already know that Obama is an elite Leftist ideologue, precisely the type person they do not want in the presidency. Obama cannot win the presidency on Soros's money, dewy-eyed young people, college professors, and NYT staffers. There are huge numbers of Americans out there who are utterly turned off by these poseurs.

Ironically, the Soros/Obama Leftist elite effort in America is juxtaposed against a massive shift in perceptions in Europe. The elite Leftists in Europe have been supplanted by Sarkozy, Merkel, and Berlusconi, not to mention Harper in Canada. There is much talk of antipathy for America in Europe, but this talk is by European and American Leftists. Poland, Estonia, and Eastern Europe emphatically embrace the same ideals that Conservative America embraces. While our Allies are adopting more Conservative positions, Obama is making a play on a platform that the American people have always rejected, and that our traditional Allies are rejecting also.

We are in a position to massively reject elite Socialist buggers and humbuggers in the 2008 election. The danger is that Conservatives will forget their principles, as they did in 2006.

George T,
You hit the nail on the head! The MSM combined with the school system in the US, is the prevailing problem. The MSM constantly advances the socialistic tenets of the Democrat party, and the government school system is riddled with true socialists that teach our kids to hate the capitalist system. Most of them have no idea that the capitalist system is what provides freedom and choice. Their idea of freedom is some check from the government. McCain and Obama are both in the same league. The Republican party used to stand for conservative principles. For some inexplicable reason, they abandoned them when they controlled all three branches of government. Sometime back in the late '80s, Florida required economics to be taught in school. It's obvious that most of those teachers leaned left. What are we to do??? There needs to be a grassroots movement by conservatives to educate the populace in other ways about how our capitalist system has allowed those on the bottom of society to rise up and become the masters of their own destiny.

You're not really going to clump Bill Clinton and Obama into the same category, are you?

Bill Clinton left office with a projected 3 trilion dollar surplus, George Bush has turned that into a 5 trillion dollar deficit.

Granted near the end of Clinton's term the economy was cycling in a not too good way, but we are talking huge swing in the deficit nonetheless.

How did the US "beat" the Russians back in the 90's? I seem to recall it had to do with bankrupting their economy.

When a country is so beaten that trying to reduce a slow motion flood's damage is not even attempted by the present regime, damage that is still a week or two off, we may have already lost the war and hit rock bottom.

http://www.WallStreetChange.com

The reason the Dems let BO be their candidate is because the high ranking Dems that control the votes are his buddies and they are just like him. The party needs a total makeover tossing out the big whigs and getting new people with values in their place. Rep party needs to do the same!

Barack Obama must not be elected President of the United States, because of his ideas. Absolutely not because of his pastor or college friendships or his wife, come on people! Is that the Republican way of winning a Presidency? By attacking his character and not his policies? By making unwarranted claims about his wife? Sure, the things you say may or may not be true, but that is not going to be the key to winning this election. You, who are trying to make sure that he isn't elected, all need to get out there and actively support John, make calls, pound the pavement, just get busy and be active. Do all you can do to help your cause, don't simply sit there and bash Barack, it ain't gunna work. The Republican candidate fights for what he believes, he should be celebrated as a true patriot and fighter for causes that matter most to him. Sitting on your butts thinking up ways to discredit Obama is a waste of time, as some of you have obviously pointed out, those criticisms aren't going to do anything to prevent Barack from undeservedly winning the white house. Focus on the policies and the issues and how those decisions will really effect you and me for at least the next four years. Avoid the rhetoric game, people do not relate with that, they do not want to hear it! To win this election, we need to show every voter that John has better ideas than Barack, it is as simple as that. The ideas need to be debated and the ideas from both sides need to be listened to and critiqued but in the need, the quality of ideas must ride out any personal past associations one candidate or the other had with anyone. I'll bet the winner of this election is the one who's ideas and plans for the future resonates best with the American people. All we can do is make sure that every voting American, black, white, hispanic or asian, clearly understands the differences between John's and Barack's ideas and plans for the future. We can tilt this election by helping John get his message out! Of course he can it, the democratic ideas are not what most Americans desire. In the end, there is no way to know for sure if you could have made a difference unless you get out there and find out. This election is just as much of a personal test of will as it is one for this country. So, what are you going to do?

Senator Obama does indeed sleep in a bed of unruly tangles. His ardent followers of Hope see only a smooth comforter that glows, even in the dark. Are these Stepford minions blind? I think not. They seem simply to ignore all logic and historical fact. The messiah has smoothed out the rough places for those who follow. With the echo of a million million Hail Baracks still sounding, the Yes We Can generation gently closes their eyes to catch the sweet truth of their against-all-odds adventure.

I imagine I hear the following:

Groupthink has eliminated the need for individual knowledge. Barack will tell us what to think and what to do. And when he seems to scold us for our lack of commitment to the necessary class struggle that will set us free, we truly feel our guilt and thank him for teaching us to feel and act.

We are bumps under the covers as well, but bumps that have flattened our critical thinking to the point that our presence is barely noticable. Such a large bed, and it grows each day.

Once in a while, when the covers are lifted and light flys through our flattened intellects, there is a flash of a green utopia where we all live in harmony with equal access to everything we need. It is the dream of the ages and we count ourselves fortunate to be bringers of the new order. If we look for the good old United States of America, we only frown because it has fallen out of our sight. Such a wonderful hope. Such a delicious dream.

Now back to reality:

I truly pray that we, as a nation, wake up and claim our legitimate part in our ongoing grand experiment of democracy called the USA. If enough of us wake up, the Barack comforter can be pulled from the bed to reveal the truth.

Sheri, it was all George Soros, and then Soros created his network of media matters, Move on, Huffington Post, and then that was used to get MSNBC on board, and even CNN.

Fox television was actually the only one defending Hillary Clinton and that really threw them for a loop.

Well...I think that whenever a figure runs for office these days... he needs backers..that is clear. All politicians are supported by and related to someone who has done some wrong, scratched their crotch, fished in their nose or been accused of some bad things. ALL politicians. If you can say one thing about Obama and Sorros...I can say something about Bush and the Saudis. I most certainly do not disagree that Obama is no messiah of purile spokesman borne from Jesus's loins....but why would any intelligent person pretend that they ALL aren't soiled in some way? " Brother....why do you point out the straw in my eye...when you have a rafter in yours"?

'Bill Clinton left office with a projected 3 trilion dollar surplus, George Bush has turned that into a 5 trillion dollar deficit.'

The yearly budget surplus that Clinton left for Dubya was less than $700 bn. The annual budget deficit will be $407 bn in FY2009. The debt, which has grown by 5 trillion USD since 2001, is a different issue.

The surplus that Clinton left Dubya morphed into a deficit because of the GWOT.

Kyle-Anne: Superb artical
I wonder if there are really enough chambermaids and other household staff (read that MSM, Move-on.org,etc,etc)to keep the "lumps", the full chamberpots, the dust balls under the bed and the cobwebs in the corners "all neat and clean". Sooner or later this "trash" will see the light of day.

I can't help but feel there is yet a big "lump" to be found that will really expose this clown for the con-man he is. It could come from Kenya, south Chicago, WDC or from Harvard?, or ??. It's there, it will be found.

PC is Thought Control
LEE

PMK:

'How many voters even know the history of this man?'

That's why conservative columnists (incl. AT staff) are writing articles about Obama.

Mr. Machi be reasonable,

"You're not really going to clump Bill Clinton and Obama into the same category, are you? "

Why not? He and his wife were socialists - they lost the congress because of the fears of many voters of their plans. At least Obama is upfront about it.

"Bill Clinton left office with a projected 3 trilion dollar surplus, George Bush has turned that into a 5 trillion dollar deficit.
Granted near the end of Clinton's term the economy was cycling in a not too good way, but we are talking huge swing in the deficit nonetheless."

Please...sir, the republican congress had to twist Clinton's arm up and sideways to get him to sign on much of the spending reforms. Plus, it wasn't in the trillions, it was on paper, and was largely due to the tech bubble.

"How did the US "beat" the Russians back in the 90's? I seem to recall it had to do with bankrupting their economy."

Ummmm I seem to recall it happened in the 80's under the iron will of Ronald Reagan, who, though he was scoffed at and lampooned with his star wars policy, managed to bring down the Reds by convincing them that it was futile to catch up with us technologically. Of course, yes, the berlin wall fell in 1991, but that was a culmination of Reagan's policies in the 80's. *cough*

"When a country is so beaten that trying to reduce a slow motion flood's damage is not even attempted by the present regime, damage that is still a week or two off, we may have already lost the war and hit rock bottom."

Huh?? What, who are you talking about? What regime? The Bush Administration? What war? I didn't know there was a war here in the US....

Kyle-Anne, I will comment here on an article that had appeared on your website, where comments cannot be posted:
You said that your brother was sent "to Germany instead to war", and "So the only contact I have with military men and women is stateside and cursory.".

Kyle-Anne, your brother was not sent 'to Germany instead of war'. Your brother was fighting a war - the so-called Cold War. He was stationed in West Germany, which was the country most likely to be invaded by the Soviets during the Cold War. The Soviets have developed many war plans during the Cold War, but all of them called on the Soviet military to overrun Germany. Moreover, until 1988, the Soviets did not have any defensive war plans. Until 1988, when Gorbachev asked the Soviet General Staff to develop a few such plans, the Soviets have only had offensive war plans, many of which assumed that the Soviet military would conduct a nuclear first strike against Europe, Canada and the US. So your brother on the frontline of the war. His task was to defeat Soviet aggressors if they would attack.

So your brother has actually served during a war.

All American servicemen who served in Germany during the Cold War are war heroes. They've been defending that country against a likely aggressor. The risk that Russia would invade Germany was 99%.

bill t-b: The Dhimmis' actual platform (courtesy of Neal Boortz) -- Socialism, Surrender & Higher Taxes. In reality, though, with Iraq, et al., "off the table" for the moment, and the Islamonazis "quiet" for now, it comes down to Socialism (or, more correctly, "Liberal Fascism" - be sure and read Jonah Goldberg's newest tome of the same name - or, you can call it pure, good 'ol Soviet Marxism-Communism, since that's what it is, and perforce same would include onerous taxes/fees, etc., on everybody - except the Liberal Elite, of course).

Yes, I, like you, want 90% of my net income to go to the magnificent, extraordinarily efficient, big-nanny federal government: Vote Doh!Bhama '08!

New Wrinkle: Israelinsider carries an article today suggesting BO's birth certificate as posted on Daily KOS is photoshopped and the seal is fake.
http://web.israelinsider.com/Articles/Politics/12939.htm

If he wasn't born in Hawaii as claimed, where was he born? It may be the post-racial New Messiah isn't a natural born American afterall--His parents are both deceased, so no corroboration there. "Her Thighness" shouldn't release her delegates yet!

Quo usque tandem abutere Kyle-Anne et al. patientiae nostra?