Comments on: War, and War’s Alarms

By: Skippy-san

Skippy-san — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 16:33:58 +0000

Re: The 2.9% pay raise.

It would be interesting to see what DOD asked for, before going overboard in blaming Obama for that. For the last five years, the DOD request was lower than the final amount, and in two of those years the original DOD going in position was no pay raise. It was Congress that voted a higher raise than what the President asked for.

I’ve tried to find an actual copy of what DOD requested of OMB , but I cannot find it. I’ve been told that the DOD submission is considered an internal document. However it would be interesting to see what kind of a pay raise DOD asked for-I’ll bet it was 2.9 %-and its tied to projections about the CPI.

We do some of this to ourselves.

By: Dave Thul

Dave Thul — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 01:57:55 +0000

I was impressed that the new Pres called the old Pres before the speech to give him an update.
But considering the dozens of times that the Pres, the VP, or new cabinet officials have blamed current problems on the last occupant of the White House, an official mention in the speech was clearly in order.

By: John

John — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 00:29:36 +0000

I watched his speech, and unlike any other time I have ever sen him, Obama showed no enthusiasm or even sincerity in his remarks. Besides being disrespectfully late (without even offering an apology) he almost seemed resentful of having to show up at all.

I mean, this is the guy who can say with a straight face and great [sounding] conviction “there are no earmarks in this bill” when it has 9,000 earmarks.

Perhaps his eloquent vocabulary failed him, but neither the word victory, nor its synonyms were heard from his lips.

He took this opportunity to announce there will be a military pay raise. I appreciate his honest statement of that fact, but note that he failed to say it would only be 2.9%, while he is giving untold millions to mortgage scofflaws and “community organizers” like ACORN.

Like in the Carter and Clinton eras, they will obey the Commander-in-Chief’s lawful orders. But I am afraid they will need to be very alert to detect any which are not lawful orders.

Our troops deserve better.

I don’t see how they can ever respect this President.

By: virgil xenophon

virgil xenophon — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 23:40:35 +0000

SJBill/

You just CAN’T leave the poor guy alone, can you? Picky, picky, picky…..

By: SeniorD

SeniorD — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 23:02:52 +0000

Cap’n,

Those Marines standing behind the first Marxist President elected in this Country look like they could chew nails.

And that’s just the women.

By: Skippy-san

Skippy-san — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 22:58:31 +0000

You forgot the most important part of the quote: “At the risk of heading into la-la land,”