Comments on: Commitment http://www.neptunuslex.com/2009/11/27/commitment-3/ The unbearable lightness of Lex. Enjoy! Thu, 09 Feb 2012 23:44:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Ron Snyder http://www.neptunuslex.com/2009/11/27/commitment-3/comment-page-1/#comment-463913 Ron Snyder Sat, 28 Nov 2009 09:14:30 +0000 http://www.neptunuslex.com/?p=12631#comment-463913 Max, I agree that there is NO way that BHO will grab the opportunity to win. To the extent that he has to, BHO will keep sending enough troops to the AF in order to pacify the Right, and not seriously anger the Left -for awhile. BHO is NOT taking his eye off his primary goal of fundamentally changing this country by Federal Mandates. Apparently BHO likes the photo ops that our warriors give him. Do not know why BHO has the rep of being a great orator. Course, if I listen to him for more than two or three nanoseconds I have to head for the lavatory. BHO is a lying, traitorous, apologizing, bowing, SOB. Pelosi and Reid and their elfs have his back, for the moment at least. BHO surrounds himself with people such as Holder, Axlerod, Carville (sic), the Emmanuals, Zbigniew Bryński, Holder, Jarrett, Union Leaders and of course the esteemed Biden. Hmm, wonder how bad it is going to get? Max, I agree that there is NO way that BHO will grab the opportunity to win. To the extent that he has to, BHO will keep sending enough troops to the AF in order to pacify the Right, and not seriously anger the Left -for awhile. BHO is NOT taking his eye off his primary goal of fundamentally changing this country by Federal Mandates. Apparently BHO likes the photo ops that our warriors give him.

Do not know why BHO has the rep of being a great orator. Course, if I listen to him for more than two or three nanoseconds I have to head for the lavatory. BHO is a lying, traitorous, apologizing, bowing, SOB.

Pelosi and Reid and their elfs have his back, for the moment at least. BHO surrounds himself with people such as Holder, Axlerod, Carville (sic), the Emmanuals, Zbigniew Bryński, Holder, Jarrett, Union Leaders and of course the esteemed Biden.

Hmm, wonder how bad it is going to get?

]]> By: MaxDamage http://www.neptunuslex.com/2009/11/27/commitment-3/comment-page-1/#comment-463899 MaxDamage Sat, 28 Nov 2009 06:37:39 +0000 http://www.neptunuslex.com/?p=12631#comment-463899 The President is out of his depth, I believe. His experience is as a salesman, smile and proffer and make appropriate noises and a deal is done, both sides agree to a trade. He's never been in a situation where what he's selling didn't have a potential buyer. Diplomacy isn't so simple. Likewise, he's been concentrating on the domestic agenda and the foreign is naturally a disaster as a consequence. The standard mantra for failure is to blame Bush. I hate to say it, but I predict he will not seize the opportunity and take the risk. Obama is not a risk-taker. He is a salesman, a deal-maker. He will never look at the big reward and risk it all, his nature is to risk a little to gain a little and never set his sights higher. Too bad, really. Not just for the country, but for the next president. - Max The President is out of his depth, I believe. His experience is as a salesman, smile and proffer and make appropriate noises and a deal is done, both sides agree to a trade. He’s never been in a situation where what he’s selling didn’t have a potential buyer. Diplomacy isn’t so simple. Likewise, he’s been concentrating on the domestic agenda and the foreign is naturally a disaster as a consequence. The standard mantra for failure is to blame Bush.

I hate to say it, but I predict he will not seize the opportunity and take the risk. Obama is not a risk-taker. He is a salesman, a deal-maker. He will never look at the big reward and risk it all, his nature is to risk a little to gain a little and never set his sights higher.

Too bad, really. Not just for the country, but for the next president.

– Max

]]> By: Quartermaster http://www.neptunuslex.com/2009/11/27/commitment-3/comment-page-1/#comment-463833 Quartermaster Sat, 28 Nov 2009 01:17:10 +0000 http://www.neptunuslex.com/?p=12631#comment-463833 The financial situation is about to become a very serious limit on what we can do militarily. while the present situation is the fault of Congress going back many years, combined with Presidents that didn't have the stones to face them down, he is making things very much worse. We've been borrowing money from China to fight in the ME, and finance the deficits cause by the various unconstitutional activities the left has pursued for the last 100 years. It is not sustainable, and our power will follow the downward trajectory of our financial strength. The financial inertia is tremendous, and can not be overcome in mere months, or even a few years. The financial situation is about to become a very serious limit on what we can do militarily. while the present situation is the fault of Congress going back many years, combined with Presidents that didn’t have the stones to face them down, he is making things very much worse.

We’ve been borrowing money from China to fight in the ME, and finance the deficits cause by the various unconstitutional activities the left has pursued for the last 100 years. It is not sustainable, and our power will follow the downward trajectory of our financial strength.

The financial inertia is tremendous, and can not be overcome in mere months, or even a few years.

]]> By: Airmail http://www.neptunuslex.com/2009/11/27/commitment-3/comment-page-1/#comment-463818 Airmail Fri, 27 Nov 2009 22:58:23 +0000 http://www.neptunuslex.com/?p=12631#comment-463818 No matter what policies the White House want to implement, the plan has to include a resolution to the financial ills we face. With a faltering economy, staggering debt and no way out of the quagmire unless the economy shifts into forward and starts to accelerate, neither the left or the right can impose a strategy that costs a lot of money. If the Obama team can get this economy reved up, he will have some room to play. Right now, he is way behind the financial power curve, low and slow.... we are running out of inertia. So a large heavy aircraft with lots of inertia is a little slow...and you lower the nose to regain that 5 kts or so...result = huge rate of descent with little speed increase because of the inertia....result is ugly. Instead increase thrust and speed increases quite quickly but with little variation in approach flight path...because of inertia. No matter what policies the White House want to implement, the plan has to include a resolution to the financial ills we face. With a faltering economy, staggering debt and no way out of the quagmire unless the economy shifts into forward and starts to accelerate, neither the left or the right can impose a strategy that costs a lot of money.

If the Obama team can get this economy reved up, he will have some room to play. Right now, he is way behind the financial power curve, low and slow…. we are running out of inertia.

So a large heavy aircraft with lots of inertia is a little slow…and you lower the nose to regain that 5 kts or so…result = huge rate of descent with little speed increase because of the inertia….result is ugly.

Instead increase thrust and speed increases quite quickly but with little variation in approach flight path…because of inertia.

]]> By: redc1c4 http://www.neptunuslex.com/2009/11/27/commitment-3/comment-page-1/#comment-463801 redc1c4 Fri, 27 Nov 2009 20:03:56 +0000 http://www.neptunuslex.com/?p=12631#comment-463801 i predict he will opt for mediocrity..... cleverly disguised as abject failure. i predict he will opt for mediocrity….. cleverly disguised as abject failure.

]]> By: Mongo http://www.neptunuslex.com/2009/11/27/commitment-3/comment-page-1/#comment-463782 Mongo Fri, 27 Nov 2009 18:37:26 +0000 http://www.neptunuslex.com/?p=12631#comment-463782 Following his interview with Mr. Obama prior to the election, Bill O'Reilly opined that then Candidate Obama was a patriot who wanted what was best for the country. I've yet to see that expressed in word or deed by Mr. Obama, dating as far back as the 1997 Chicago radio interviews. 'could seize' seems to me to be mostly a matter of choice, whereas 'would seize' seems to be mostly a matter of desire. WunWhoWon wanted the Presidency, and was both fearless and relentless in his pursuit of the office. What is his true desire now? I dare say that only a few are privy to the man's real intentions, but, with actions speaking louder than words, 'Doom On You', however you choose to spell it, comes blaring from the loudspeakers of this writer's mind. Following his interview with Mr. Obama prior to the election, Bill O’Reilly opined that then Candidate Obama was a patriot who wanted what was best for the country. I’ve yet to see that expressed in word or deed by Mr. Obama, dating as far back as the 1997 Chicago radio interviews. ‘could seize’ seems to me to be mostly a matter of choice, whereas ‘would seize’ seems to be mostly a matter of desire. WunWhoWon wanted the Presidency, and was both fearless and relentless in his pursuit of the office. What is his true desire now?

I dare say that only a few are privy to the man’s real intentions, but, with actions speaking louder than words, ‘Doom On You’, however you choose to spell it, comes blaring from the loudspeakers of this writer’s mind.

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