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04-26-2009, 09:58 AM
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04-26-2009, 11:03 PM
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holy smokes who does this guy think he is disrespecting my beloved corps like that i have done 2 pumps in iraq and 2 pumps in afghan.. thats some serious bs my fellow MARINES and myself have put our lives on the line and this is the thanks we get
04-27-2009, 11:59 AM
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Not really.
I'm not saying the MOH ball was any more or less important, but it's ignorant to say the disrespected them completely by not showing up. I think in his situation, there are things you can and cannot do (especially when guys in Colorado are being arrested for conspiracy to assassinate him BEFORE he was even elected) and I think attending the ball was one of them. I feel the same sentiments that the MOH recipients do, that "there are much more important issues to dwell on."
Does that change anyone's perspective?
I'm not saying the MOH ball was any more or less important, but it's ignorant to say the disrespected them completely by not showing up. I think in his situation, there are things you can and cannot do (especially when guys in Colorado are being arrested for conspiracy to assassinate him BEFORE he was even elected) and I think attending the ball was one of them. I feel the same sentiments that the MOH recipients do, that "there are much more important issues to dwell on."
Does that change anyone's perspective?
04-27-2009, 08:57 PM
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I can tell you already have your mind made up, so I am not even going to try to convince you otherwise, but I will say that I pray this kind of trivial drama is all that you haters have to harp on. If that's the case, he should be 100 times better than our last Commander-in-Chief...
04-27-2009, 09:43 PM
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If Obama and his people had invited the MOH winners, then I am impressed. There is no sarcasm in my statement. I NEVER heard about this and feel that is one of the best 'olive-branches' being extended around here. That to me would be showing SOME respect.
04-27-2009, 10:11 PM
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"Shortly after we posted this story, we heard from Josh Earnest of the Presidential Inaugural Committee. He told us that the president only attended the 10 official ***** organized by the PIC. (The Salute to Heroes is organized by the American Legion and is unofficial.) But, Earnest told us, "in order to show due respect to the Medal of Honor winners, they were special guests at the Commander in Chief's ball," which the president attended early in the evening. Earnest didn't know how many Medal of Honor recipients accepted the invitation to the Commander in Chief's ball, which is primarily targeted to military personnel, but added that the PIC also subsidized hotel rooms and provided ground transportation for the recipients while they were in DC."
I agree, at least it is something. I don't know the ins-and-outs of the decision not to go, but at worst I think it was just a poor decision. Like a lot of things in politics, I just don't think it's as big of a deal as everyone is making it out to be.
04-29-2009, 06:51 PM
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wow...just wow.
im not a member of any armed service but i was looking into the Marines at one point. i do respect all armed forces and what they do for our country and for our freedom, but to see any uniform disrespected like that...thats just terrible.
im sure mr. 50 cent wont be reading any hate mail or anything, and im surprised nobody on the production staff thought it was a bad idea
im not a member of any armed service but i was looking into the Marines at one point. i do respect all armed forces and what they do for our country and for our freedom, but to see any uniform disrespected like that...thats just terrible.
im sure mr. 50 cent wont be reading any hate mail or anything, and im surprised nobody on the production staff thought it was a bad idea
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Well the first part is Obama's stance on partial birth abortion. Granted I might have exaggerated (however slightly) on the week before part but it's up to like 36 weeks out of 40.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...040102197.html
http://www.associatedcontent.com/art...tialbirth.html
Basically they take an 8 month old baby (it stops being a fetus around week 10), and they extract the baby except for the head, and then take scissors, to its skull and extract dead baby. I'll leave you with a video of a doctor's video explaining it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6vnOaq7nWU
The above part to me is disgusting, and makes the president disgusting to me. I thank God I never had to serve with him as my Commander in Chief. Give me back Bush any day of the week over this long winded, look at me I'm a celebrity now sob. And the great thing about this country is I'm perfectly entitled to that opinion, and I actually have fought for it.
The second part was government health insurance, the military has had it available for a very long time (VA hospitals) and there is a reason dying people come to the US from Europe and Canada (where they have government health insurance). It's kind of like Communism, sounds great on paper, but the execution is absolutely horrible as most Communist parties have proved.
Hope you get to see this elaboration, I bet it gets deleted.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...040102197.html
http://www.associatedcontent.com/art...tialbirth.html
Basically they take an 8 month old baby (it stops being a fetus around week 10), and they extract the baby except for the head, and then take scissors, to its skull and extract dead baby. I'll leave you with a video of a doctor's video explaining it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6vnOaq7nWU
The above part to me is disgusting, and makes the president disgusting to me. I thank God I never had to serve with him as my Commander in Chief. Give me back Bush any day of the week over this long winded, look at me I'm a celebrity now sob. And the great thing about this country is I'm perfectly entitled to that opinion, and I actually have fought for it.
The second part was government health insurance, the military has had it available for a very long time (VA hospitals) and there is a reason dying people come to the US from Europe and Canada (where they have government health insurance). It's kind of like Communism, sounds great on paper, but the execution is absolutely horrible as most Communist parties have proved.
Hope you get to see this elaboration, I bet it gets deleted.
05-16-2009, 12:13 AM
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Well the first part is Obama's stance on partial birth abortion. Granted I might have exaggerated (however slightly) on the week before part but it's up to like 36 weeks out of 40.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...040102197.html
http://www.associatedcontent.com/art...tialbirth.html
Basically they take an 8 month old baby (it stops being a fetus around week 10), and they extract the baby except for the head, and then take scissors, to its skull and extract dead baby. I'll leave you with a video of a doctor's video explaining it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6vnOaq7nWU
The above part to me is disgusting, and makes the president disgusting to me. I thank God I never had to serve with him as my Commander in Chief. Give me back Bush any day of the week over this long winded, look at me I'm a celebrity now sob. And the great thing about this country is I'm perfectly entitled to that opinion, and I actually have fought for it.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...040102197.html
http://www.associatedcontent.com/art...tialbirth.html
Basically they take an 8 month old baby (it stops being a fetus around week 10), and they extract the baby except for the head, and then take scissors, to its skull and extract dead baby. I'll leave you with a video of a doctor's video explaining it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6vnOaq7nWU
The above part to me is disgusting, and makes the president disgusting to me. I thank God I never had to serve with him as my Commander in Chief. Give me back Bush any day of the week over this long winded, look at me I'm a celebrity now sob. And the great thing about this country is I'm perfectly entitled to that opinion, and I actually have fought for it.
The second part was government health insurance, the military has had it available for a very long time (VA hospitals) and there is a reason dying people come to the US from Europe and Canada (where they have government health insurance). It's kind of like Communism, sounds great on paper, but the execution is absolutely horrible as most Communist parties have proved.
Hope you get to see this elaboration, I bet it gets deleted.
Hope you get to see this elaboration, I bet it gets deleted.
From what I have seen, those hospitals don't turn people away for not having insurance. They don't wait in the waiting room, bleeding and coughing to death, until their insurance is verified. I don't think the goal here is communism, that's a bit extreme (OK very extreme) IMO. The goal is to provide everyone with access to medical coverage. Of course, I haven't had to use any doctors or hospitals outside of the VA since I got out of highschool, and I have been pleased so far, so maybe I'm a little off base here. Maybe I'm just being a little more optimistic. 
