Yes, Fallenmonk, the DoD under Obama is definitely a chickenshit outfit, the same sort of crap that caused me to leave after 8 years. Nixon started talking about looking at military benefits, and that wasn’t a good sign. It took a law suit for my Dad to get back some of the benefits he had when he retired. They subtracted his Social Security benefits from his military retirement, even though he separately qualified for both, and the military billed Medicare after he reached 65. That’s how they support the troops.

That’s the crux of the problem, Badtux, racism on the part of too many liberals. Nobody wants to say that allowed, but that’s the reality. Obama was stereotyped because of his skin, and few bothered to look at the “content of his character”.

50 years ago, back before the Southern Strategy was adopted and led to the black population abandoning the Republican Party, Obama would have been a conservative Republican. The only reason he’s a Democrat now is because today’s Republican Party has become the RepubliKKKan Party, the party of racists, crazies, and idiots. I must admit to find myself more and more amused by the gyrations of Democrats upset that Obama “betrayed liberal ideals”. Uhm, no. Even a brief glance at his web site in December 2007 made it clear that Obama was no liberal. Being black doesn’t automatically make you a liberal by any means — indeed, I’ve known a number of black middle class professionals, and for the most part they are what I call “Bill Cosby Democrats” — very law-and-order, eager to shout “Pull your pants up and behave like a human being!” to black youth with sagging pants, and quite religious in a fundamentalist sort of way albeit a white middle class person attending one of their churches would probably find the experience strange (they have their own religious traditions developed over the years that aren’t exactly white bread). The only reason they aren’t Republicans is because the Republican Party has become mean-spirited, racist, and, well, stupid… otherwise that would be their natural home. And if the white liberals who voted for Obama had looked at his record and policy proposals rather than the color of his skin, they would have realized that, but they were operating from a racist premise (“black = liberal”). Siiiiigh!

Well, seven more years. At least Obama is a sane conservative who is unlikely to get us into any more insane wars and not likely to do much harm otherwise :(. But we could have done so much better…
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It’s 26 people who have to be in their 80’s and have been receiving this money for years, and they just cut them off. How much money could they possibly save, a few thousand?

The damn politicians talk a good game when it comes to “support the troops” and then they turn around and screw them over whenever they want to look like they are saving money. If they want to save some real money, go after the contractors who cheat left and right.

that, and ignorant too.