Comments on: Remembering MacArthur

By: Bryan

Bryan — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 01:54:30 +0000

He needs to start hammering on some people and start sending out surrogates to the media shows. The GOP is sucking up all the air time with their message.

Let’s forget all of the wasted effort on “bipartisanship” and do what needs to be done.

By: Scorpio

Scorpio — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 23:08:36 +0000

I recently started thinking that perhaps Obama should take a page from Truman. I loved his message that stimulus is spending -- for those in Congress who needed a clue. Scorpio´s last blog post..A Good Fix

By: Bryan

Bryan — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 16:58:03 +0000

Dwight Eisenhower was once asked if he knew MacArthur and replied: “Know him? I studied dramatics under him for seven years!”

Yes, MacArthur had a larger ego than even Patton or Montgomery, two other generals who had publicity staffs.

By: jams O'Donnell

jams O'Donnell — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 09:09:57 +0000

I don't doubt his bravery butMacArthur always struck me as haveing even more of a monstrous ego than the typical general and that is a huge ego! jams O'Donnell´s last blog post..Ode to a mammoth cheese

By: Bryan

Bryan — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 21:39:34 +0000

MacArthur was a flawed individual, but after the first 40 years you tend to believe your own publicity. He did, however, have victories as a general in the two World Wars before he decided that he could make policy decisions, and a Congressional Medal of Honor and 7 Silver Stars to vouch for his courage. Petraeus is a bit short on the experience and honors, but it doesn’t take much to impress politicians who were AWOL or had other priorities.

If he expects to retire on the pay of a four-star, he had better learn to offer his advise only to those cleared to hear it, and save his politicking for retirement.

By: Comrade Kevin

Comrade Kevin — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 18:02:44 +0000

MacArthur was vain, egocentric, and completely insubordinate. Truman didn't have much choice but to fire him (and had always rubbed the sometimes-prickly Truman wrong). Comrade Kevin´s last blog post..Hardly, David

By: Badtux

Badtux — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 08:30:47 +0000

Petraeus could get whatever he wanted from the Boy Wonder. I doubt he’ll be as lucky with Obama. Obama runs a tight ship and doesn’t tolerate anybody breaking message discipline, I was quite impressed by his team’s message discipline throughout both the primaries and the election season. There were only a couple of lapses, and they were quickly addressed by the culprit being promptly shitcanned. I was unimpressed by Obama’s policies (he was basically my 5th choice, behind pretty much everybody else in the Democratic race), but when it comes to running a tight ship, he ran one that was running on all cylinders. And folks who think otherwise are, I suspect, about to get a rude awakening.

Maybe we should start a General Petraeus Firing Watch, heh :-).

– Badtux the Observant Penguin