tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post2075526385295968189..comments2024-03-25T13:42:25.771-05:00Comments on Advance Indianaâ„¢: Obama's Do Or Die Ultimatum And Other Disturbing DevelopmentsGary R. Welshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15185079937305083438noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-80776557633356923712009-02-06T11:29:00.000-05:002009-02-06T11:29:00.000-05:00We see what we want to see, Paul. I don't support ...We see what we want to see, Paul. I don't support spending money on faith-based groups regardless of their religious affiliation. I thought you liberals supported the separation of church and state, oh that's right, only when it's a Republican in charge of the program do you oppose it. You always have to drag out the old Iraq argument and something Dick Cheney said on the way out of office. The context of my comment on dire predictions related to a president's economic policy, not fighting wars. It's easy to bash the hell out of Bush for how he prosecuted terrorists, but let's just see how well Barry fares on this score. Chicago police have been torturing citizen suspects for decades and not a one of you liberal Democrats stand up and fight that system because the Democrats run the city. But let anything Bush tried to do to bring terrorists to justice and you were right there biting his ass every step of the way to thwart his efforts in order to protect the rights of foreign combatants enemies.Gary R. Welshhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15185079937305083438noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-60043566564154337962009-02-06T11:10:00.000-05:002009-02-06T11:10:00.000-05:00Gee, Gary, your site seems to be largely revision...Gee, Gary, your site seems to be largely revisionist propoganda.<BR/><BR/>"I can't recall in my lifetime a president making such a dire do or die pronouncement if his economic plan was not put into law."<BR/><BR/>Well, how about a president making a dire or die pronouncement if his foreign policy wasn't enacted? Like talk of being nuked and other WMD that didn't exist?? Is that recent enough to jog your memory? How about a former and disgraced Vice-president warning of hundreds of thousans of deaths if the newly inagaurated president enacts policies upon which he campaigned and was elected by a healthy majority of Americans??? Recent enough?? <BR/><BR/>"Massive government spending didn't get us out of the Great Depression or any other economic downturn."<BR/><BR/>No? What do you call WWII if not massive government spending? The biggest setback to recovery from the Great Depression came in 1937, following an atempt to balance the budget and reduce spending. <BR/><BR/>"Natural market forces, aided by tax cuts . . . "<BR/><BR/>Where have you been the last six months?<BR/><BR/>"With his party in total control of our federal government . . ."<BR/><BR/>Bush had this, and ran our economy and foreign policy into the ground. The concern should be that his party continues to trumpet the failed policies of the past 8 years, as if their failures had never even occurred. <BR/><BR/>'this action wiped out the totality of bipartisan spirit the appointment of Gregg was supposed to engender.'<BR/><BR/>Tell me the last time there was such a politically diverse administration. The last one repeatedly and consistently cut many cabinet members and respected congressional leaders of ITS OWN PARTY out of major decisions in their respective fields of expertise. This one brings several of the opposing party into its cabinet, but 'bipartisan spirit' is somehow 'wiped out'?? Partisans like you would not accept any cross-aisle cooperation short of a complete reversal of the the will of the American people as forcefully expressed in the last election. Comments such as this one are complete blather. <BR/><BR/>". . . emergency refugee assistance to Palestinians living in Gaza, paving the way for an influx of immigrants from this region into the United States."<BR/><BR/>Is there any support whatsoever for this rhetorical jump from refugee assistance to immigration to the US? So the US should stand by in the face of refugee catastrophe, due to unsupported fear of its effect on immigration to the US??<BR/><BR/>Your contorted views regading faith based programs, pointed out by previous posters here, are becoming even more twisted. So now they are ok unless they include such programs run by Muslims??<BR/> <BR/>"...president does not intend to follow the military commissions process which has undergone extensive legal and legislative review" <BR/><BR/>Like two Supreme Court decisions striking down the commission process as unconstitutional??? The Cole case is frozen, and will be reinstated in a constitutional process.<BR/><BR/>"When your first trip outside of D.C. is for a strictly partisan, political purpose, you aren't exactly giving the GOP a reason to give you the bipartisan support you desire."<BR/><BR/>I imagine the bulk of Bush's visits outside DC were for such purposes. The Rove inspired 'fly-by' of New Orleans come to mind. If the 2008 election and Obama's inclusion of Republicans in his administration is not enough reason for ostructionist GOP lawmakers, self-preservation ought to be.IndyPaulhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15940502801797040457noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-75748213647796871872009-02-06T10:51:00.000-05:002009-02-06T10:51:00.000-05:00Ironic, is it not?-that our new President is using...Ironic, is it not?-that our new President is using the same fear tactics that he and his party derided the previous administration in regard to the War on Terror...which yes, does exist and no doubt is comforted by the apologist mode to the muslim world.<BR/><BR/>But hey, Obama is a creature of the media, spawned by it. It shall be interesting how they respond when he REALLY screws up, poor, ill thought-out cabinet choices notwithstanding.straight uphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15153386823409367621noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-56634120880272790772009-02-05T20:47:00.000-05:002009-02-05T20:47:00.000-05:00Obama will only hasten his own downfall with his a...Obama will only hasten his own downfall with his apparent lust for micromanaging.Downtown Indyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06239811599722585898noreply@blogger.com