Perfect It Aint

As the title indicates, perfect it aint. I'll rant and rave, maybe even curse once in a while. You are welcome to join me with your comments. At worst I'll just tear out the rest of my hair. At best, I may agree with you. Or maybe I'll just ignore it, because you know, perfect it aint!

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Retired, Financial and Management specialist, lived all over country, but for some reason, decided to retire to West Virginia (that's the new one, not the Richmond one). Please note that all material appearing on this blog is covered under my own personal copyright as creator, except those items appearing in the Comments that do not appear under the screen name of Tanstaafl or are attributed to others by citation. No license is intended or given to copy or redistribute anything appearing in this blog unless written permission is first obtained from the author.

Monday, May 07, 2012

Squt II

Now I realize just why I seldom if ever post anymore - I am getting to be an old man and do not really have the spare time to wait fifteen minutes for this  to load every time I feel like posting.  It is a heckuva lot easier to just grin and bear it.  Like all those servicemen who were asked to shoulder their own insurance costs for service -related ailments a while back.  What do you mean, you don't remember all that hoopla?  Jeez, you musta just crawled out from under a rock.

Well, anyway, to refresh your memory, our revered leader (pardon me while I puke!!), was called to task because he felt, justifiably so to himself I guess, that if you volunteered, you volunteered all the way.  When chastised for his outrageous view, here is his defense - as NBC is wont to say, "In his own words..."

"Look, it's an all volunteer force," Obama complained.  "Nobody made these guys go to war.  They had to have known and accepted the risks.  Now they whine about bearing the costs of their choice?  It doesn't compute..."  "I thought these were people who were proud to sacrifice for their country, " Obama continued.  I wasn't asking for blood, just money.  With the country facing the worst financial crisis in its history I'd have thought that the patriotic thing to do would be to try to help  reduce the nation's deficit...I guess I underestimated the selfishness of some of my fellow Americans."

You know, if every American would keep nothing in mind except the above when they step into that polling booth in November, America would have such a rejuvenation of patriotism and right thinking that the Democrat Party would be a thing of the far distant past forever.  Even hard-core liberals would shrink away from such utter idiocy as the man shouts.

But, unfortunately, only about five, maybe ten percent of the American people have even heard this diatribe, as the lame-stream media sure as heck did not publicize it.  I saw and heard it on Fox, but was unable to get it down in writing at the time.  I am indebted to another source which is unaffiliated with any media for the actual verbiage.

NOBODY MADE THESE GUYS GO TO WAR.    False.
 Nobody made these guys volunteer for the armed services, but the line and staff of the military services DID make them go to war.  Sure, they knew and accepted the risks, because they were patriots and because they recruiting staff did such a great sales job on them, why they actually promised them that the Veterans Administration and the Federal Government WOULD take care of any medical and rehabilitation bills they might encounter as a result of their sacrifices.

NOW THEY WHINE, etc.    False
That is not a whine, you silly goose, that is the growing anger of a group of patriots and their compadres in civvies who have just about had enough of you and your idiocy.  Good God, Obama, even a kid knows how wrong you are to try to stick the very patriots who went to war for this country with the total costs of their own medical and rehabilitation expenses, especially after being promised that the national government would do so.

I WASN'T ASKING FOR BLOOD...    False
Yes, you were.  For money is the very lifeblood that keeps this country, and by extension, all its citizens healthy.  When you ask for money. you are asking for the butter on the jam on the jelly on the peanut butter on the toast that sustains the American economy.  You know, for a street organizer, you just aint got too many smarts, here, Obama.

I GUESS I UNDERESTIMATED...    Yeah
You did.  But the selfishness is not with your fellow Americans, it is with you.  I know, Jeremiah Wright told you different.  But he was wrong.  Just as you are wrong on so many things.  Indeed, I haven't forund one single thing that you have been right about since you first popped on the scene.

Look, Obama may be a great Dad, a good husband, an all-round good fellow, BUT, he is also the worst walking disaster that the USA has ever known, at least among all those that I have had any current knowledge of (read that as while I have been alive.)  Great God Almighty, FDR was bad, Carter was worse, and Truman, Kennedy, Johnson, Clinton were no great shakes, but this, this, this, poseur of as President is going to take the whole darned country to Hell with him, unless the American people do wake up and carry such diatribes as that posted above with them, discuss such idiotic ravings, understand what it means to the American public as a whole. 

Remember that the president represents you in all foreign countries as well as here at home.  Are you proud of America as it is today?  Can you project four more years of this dedication to American destruction?  Could you actually go into the voting booth and vote for him?

I am only one who is pissed off.  Wonder how many more agree?

3 Comments:

Blogger ohio981 said...

So tell us how you really feel about our commander in chief.

I have a son who reports to Parris Island in August for his Marine boot camp. I hope whoever is president doesn't waste his life on some lamebrain decision.

10:31 PM, May 08, 2012  
Blogger tanstaafl said...

To tell you the truth, ohio981, I can only tell you that the very worst person I can think of is our County Commissioner, Bob Bailey. To me he is as useless as teats on a boar hog, has never had a really good idea that would benefit his constituents, has had a plethora of bad ones, and in general is about as worthless an SOB as I have ever met. This county has suffered immense damage under his 18 years of stewardship. To say nothing of his personal traits and parentage.

I'd vote for Bailey for president, were he running against Obama.

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I recall a song about the sinking of the Thresher. The writer opines that the worst of men must fight and the best of men must die. I do not hold to that tenet myself. I think all the men who fight and all the men who die are the best.

A few decades ago I would not have said that, as every man was subject to the draft and many were the worst dregs of society - but when they died, I have to agree that they were the best of men.

And I paraphrase another man who said that if old men had to fight, there would be a lot fewer wars.

I, too, hope whoever is president next year and beyond wastes no lives with lamebrain decisions. Unfortunately, based upon the past twenty years, I have little hope.

Like Merle Haggard said, it seems we are headed downhill on a snowball headed to Hell. And that slippery slope is getting slipperier (hey, is that a word?) as the weeks go by.

But, then again, who am I to say?

Pax vobiscum!! Gloria!!

5:01 PM, May 09, 2012  
Blogger kelsie said...

Obama's comments are as asinine as he is.Believe me, I laughed my butt off when I learned a convicted felon had captured 40% of the Democratic vote in the primary. Unfortunately since the three of us voted on the GOP ballot, we didn;t have that option. I kind of like the felon over Romney, too.....but I digress.

I am glad I decided to check your blog out today..I did not hear O's rant against our troops. I know how your internet works, or doesn;t on occasion, so I will email you something that was sent to me a couple days ago. A letter from a former SEAL to Obama, and it is not pleasant.You might say he is rather pissed off himself....

10:54 AM, May 10, 2012  

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