Staff Sergeant Eric Alva, U.S. Army Major General Vance Coleman, and Navy Capt. Joan Darrah all testified on the devastating impact of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” on the military today.

Rep. Murphy is correct: “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” is an insult to all of our troops. It’s also a danger to the American people, since thousands of qualified, capable members of our armed services are losing their jobs for no other reason that their sexual orientation. (more…)

Susan Nieman had an Op-Ed in the New York Times, of all places (what us be sycophants?), telling the REAL deal in her piece, “Change Germans Can’t Believe In.”

In her very good piece Ms. Nieman had this to say:

Barack Obama’s speech in Independence, Mo. (6/30/08)WITH gestures that ranged from a wink to a sneer, most anyone you met here this week volunteered the view that Barack Obama’s visit to Europe caused unprecedented frenzy. But it’s been hard for me to find a European, aside from two Harvard-educated friends in Paris, who confessed to excitement — not just about the visit, but the prospect of an Obama presidency.

It is true that Der Spiegel, the German newsweekly, featured Mr. Obama on its cover, topped by the words “Germany Meets the Superstar” — but the cover was satire, and nasty satire at that. The editors managed to find the ugliest photograph of Mr. Obama ever taken. It caught the senator at a moment that might be exhaustion but looks like conceited smirking. When Der Spiegel featured Mr. Obama on its cover in March, the cover line was “The Messiah Factor.” Must one add that this, too, was not meant to be taken at face value?

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“So if you want my take on this, if you want to remember one thing about this trip, is that Barack Obama chose to work out rather than see the wounded troops because he couldn’t bring Katie Couric, Charlie Gibson, and Brian Williams with him.” — Sean Hannity

See my original story, “Barack Skipped Visiting Wounded Troops in Germany.” And check out Memorandum.com’s coverage of the controversy.

Here’s more from “The Sean Hannity Show” (syndicated AM radio), July 25, 2008 (SusanUnPC’s Note: I disagree with many of Hannity’s political views, particularly on health care, but on this issue he is 100% correct. Obama could have gone “solo” to visit the troops. That would have been the right thing to do. I cannot fathom his excuse that he didn’t go because his campaign staff wasn’t permitted to accompany him.)

Sean Hannity: “You know I’ve found one article — I hadn’t known this — I was telling you earlier the Obama campaign tried to blame the Pentagon. Here he was scheduled. He wanted to go visit this military hospital. It was on the campaign sheet to go visit the military hospital in Germany. And we find out that the only restrictions the Pentagon wanted to impose was their rule against turning visits by politicians into campaign events. (more…)

Caption: “Wounded American soldier Ryan Newberry gives a big hug to Eddie, a black lab from the American Red Cross Pet Visitation program. Newberry is recovering at the Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Germany and said he really enjoyed the visit.”

… The German magazine Der Spiegel is reporting online that Obama has “cancelled a planned short visit to the Rammstein and Landstuhl U.S. military bases in the southwest German state of Rhineland-Palatinate. The visits were planned for Friday.”

“Barack Obama will not be coming to us,” a spokesperson for the U.S. military hospital in Landstuhl told Der Spiegel. “I don’t know why.”

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From my YouTube video of June 7, 2008:

To the members of the Democratic National Party, Sponsors of the Democratic National Convention, Endorsers, MSM,Officials, & Democrats Up & Down the Ballot for the November General Election, Selected Members of the GOP

First, DNC, as I have changed party affiliation to Independent, please remove my information from your system. As I am sure that you receive countless emails on a daily basis, I am under no assumption that it is easy to respond to each and every individual email.  Therefore I decided it would be easier to send my message in person, therefore I made special remarks, especially for you, due to your hectic schedules I am sure many of you have since it is the job of many of you to represent your constituents:

“Message to Democrats Up & Down the Ballot”

“How to lose an Election: Trample on Freedom of Speech”

“The Battle May be Over but the War Has Just Begun”

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The Democratic party needs a updated lesson in politics.  I have never, ever seen anything such as what I have witnessed. I have only one recommendation, move away and separate the government policies and the military service of your opponent in your criticism, they don’t mix or belong in the grand scheme of things.  It’s not a requirement for the position they are seeking to attain,  and should be left out because there are hundreds of other issues that can be addressed that affect ALL the American people in our country as a whole on a daily basis. When you open the door to these type of comments, it has the ability to get out of hand and hurt more than help, when people become over zealous in their attempts to prove a point, that they eventually cross the line.

Anyone who has the audacity, the sheer gall to write an article stating any veteran received a lenient form of torture as a means to discredit the source, or attempt to paint a former prisoner of war as some form of war criminal, just to show someone else in a positive light, does not grasp or truly comprehend the possible backlash that could result from these articles. When those who have lost loved ones, or who have friends and family already deployed, and come across comments such as this:

 

 

"What I’ve never understood is how getting shot down, captured, and tortured makes one a hero. I’m willing to concede the point, but still, I’ve always thought that heroism required some special sort of action, like the private who throws himself on the grenade to save his buddies or the guy who braves enemy fire to take out an enemy position or the Swift Boat officer who takes off into the brush, disregarding his own safety, to go after someone who attacked him and his men. I’ve never thought that everyone who is in the military or even who sees combat is therefore a hero. I thought that to be a hero was a matter of special distinction even within the military fraternity."

"A president who breaks the law is a threat to the very structure of our government….President Bush has repeatedly violated the law for six years." Al Gore

by psnyder on Mon Jun 30, 2008 at 07:46:16 PM PDT

It opens a flood gate that no matter how you may spin it, will come out as being unpatriotic and out of touch.

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The youth vote has been basically dubbed Obama’s strongest, most reliable voting bloc. There is, as we all know, a weird phenomenon amongst the youth that so vigorously supported him, and I have seen it first hand.I am a student, as my name would suggest, at the University of Iowa, Iowa’s largest school. A large percentage of these kids come from the Chicago-land area. I have had a front-row seat to Obama-mania, or Obama-cultism for over a year. This is a phenomenon that should be studied more, but I first want to address something else. 

I wish people on all sides of this race would stop painting the youth vote as all going for Obama.There is a large percentage of young voters that went for him, and almost nowhere was this more true than in Iowa, but there are kids who thought this decision out rationally. I am one of them.

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“If they bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun. Because from what I understand, folks in Philly like a good brawl. I’ve seen Eagles fans.”

This man’s arrogance is so boundless, he believes that he can get away with anything.

– He grabs his wife’s ass on stage before a TV audience of millions.

– He has invoked hip-hop singer’s Jay-Z “battle” anthem: “Stab the Ladies…Middle Finga To The Law” by giving Hillary Clinton the middle finger (by running his middle digit down his cheeck) and dusting her off his shoulder. Obama is a professed fan of Jay-Z, whose lyrics begin:

If you feelin’ like a pimp nigga, go and brush your shoulders off
Ladies is pimps too, go and brush your shoulders off
Niggaz is crazy baby, don’t forget that boy told you
Get, that, dirt off your shoulder (Read all.)

– He has quoted, numerous times, the words of Malcolm X in Spike Lee’s film (see the “Bamboozled” video below the fold).

As Mike’s America at the Flopping Aces blog asks, depressingly, “And they call Bush a cowboy?” Tom Maguire hits the nail on the head in his post, “The Chicago Way” at his blog Just One Minute:

1. I deplore this exhortation to random gunplay - what sort of a message does this send to America’s youth, too many of whom have grown up in a culture glorifying violence? Is Obama a serious Presidential candidate or yet another rapper with yet another beef?

2. I deplore the imagery of a black man waving a gun to settle a dispute …

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