Showing posts with label swift boat. Show all posts
Showing posts with label swift boat. Show all posts

Monday, July 20, 2015

Jeb Bush is outraged (Outraged I say!) over Donald Trump's disrespect for John McCain's military service. Seemed less so when it was John Kerry being disrespected.

So as you can see Jebbie is livid that "The Donald" would suggest that John McCain should not be considered a hero because he was a POW during the Vietnam War.

And that should be admirable.

Except for the fact that Jebbie sent this letter to the men calling into question the heroism that earned John Kerry's a Silver Star during the same war.

So to be clear, it is outrageous that people would dismiss John McCain's heroism over the fact that he was captured by the enemy, but suggesting that John Kerry did not earn his medals while fighting for his country is perfectly reasonable.

Did I get that right?

(H/T to Crooks and Liars.)

Saturday, July 06, 2013

Insignificant Sarah Palin now growling and snapping at the heels of Secretary of State John Kerry.

Palin aims and fires her Facebook torpedoes at John Kerry and his boat..
Courtesy of the ghostwritten Facebook page of a has been:

Must I Repeat? Quit Making Things Up! Outrageous. (I always like how the queen of deception and obfuscation tells other people not to make things up.)

Once again the cover-up is worse than the “crime.” Secretary of State John Kerry WAS on his boat while Egypt fell into turmoil resulting in an overthrow of its new government ruled by the Muslim Brotherhood that the Obama Administration had so recently supported and may still support. (That, however, we do not know because President Obama's absolutely dithering foreign policies, his "leading from behind," and his benign statements on the Muslim Brotherhood make no sense to sensible people.) 

(Now HOW John Kerry could have prevented the overthrow of Morsi by the Egyptian people I have no idea. What does Palin suggest? That Kerry had put troops in there to stand against the will of the Egyptian people and the military? The Secretary of State has no such power, and no such right.)

The State Department categorically denied Kerry was on his boat. Yet CBS had pictures to prove it. Goodness. There is no need to lie, even on such a "little" thing as the location of a government leader during a military confrontation happening in real time. (Benghazi? Ring a bell? (Still gnawing on that Benghazi bone Sister Sarah?)There still isn't anyone in the media who'll find out where our Commander-in-Chief was that night.) Come on, Obama Administration! It's no big darn deal that Kerry was on his boat! We expect, and deserve, to assume that our highest ranking public servants to whom We the People have given the most responsibility are always working – even when they're clearing their heads and breathing in some fresh air on a yacht, or sweating away stress on a basketball court, or yukking it up with pals on the fairway... let's trust they're always preparing for the proverbial 3:00 AM phone call. 

Now sadly Palin is right that Kerry was on his boat in Nantucket celebrating the 4th of July with his family, and that when originally asked his people denied that. They have since released this statement: 

“While he was briefly on his boat on Wednesday, Secretary Kerry worked around the clock all day including participating in the president’s meeting with his national security council," spokeswoman Jen Psaki said, according to Politico.

This rather unflattering picture was also taken of Kerry which makes him appear to be an Inspector Clouseau-like figure, bumbling around while Egypt burns.

Of course this is the same attack used against the President when things happen during a vacation, even though we know that people at this level of responsibly are NEVER really on vacation, and are constantly being briefed about breaking news all around the world.

But blood in the water, regardless of how minimal, is still blood in the water, so shark-like Palin goes in for the "kill."

Being on his boat isn't the issue. Blatantly deceiving the American people is the issue. (Yes the American people have lost all faith in government because somebody did not know John Kerry was on his boat.)

Our government, yet again, either had no idea where the boss was, or worse yet, they lied to us. (Oops-a-daisy. Correction. In Obamaspeak, we were told the "least untruthful statement.") Our government directed its swift-ly boat changing denials to what one can only surmise is their perception of who we are: a nation of sheep – heads down, grazing away, gullible, ignorant, and undeserving of truth. (Did you see what she did here? Using the term "swift-ly" she gets to not so subtly bring up a connection between this incident and the swift boat attacks against Kerry in the 2004 election.)

Confronted with photographic evidence, the State Department merely tossed the public a handful of hay today in its tepid effort to kinda-sorta explain the whole thing away. Something about, well, yeah, so the evidence contradicted all their public claims, but… eh, no harm, no foul. And like good herder dogs, with calm authority to avoid commotion, the bureaucrats barked the suggestion that we all just move along now. (So the media are sheep I take it. Again, so subtle! What is "calm authority to avoid commotion" by the way?)

No. You move along, little doggie. (That's "dogies" and refers to cattle, NOT puppies. Moron!) Enough is enough. It's unacceptable. Remember, the nation's Mama Grizzlies don't just rise up to swat away threats to protect the next generation. They also school, scold, and signal to teach a lesson. (And bitch at the President, and get fake breastessess so people will stop ignoring them, and put their children on reality shows to get them to shut up, and have people write their Facebook posts for them. There, fixed for ya!) One lesson taught all children is if you lie on the little things, you'll lie on the big things. (Only MOST parents use proper grammar when teaching their children not to lie.)

George Orwell wrote of a time when citizens could no longer trust big government, and by wearing down the citizenry through doublespeak and lies a tired country finally retreated to its dark and depressing demise. (Hi RAM!)

America, we shall not go there! Why? Because if we know from our nation's forefathers that weariness is not in our blood! It's not in our DNA to retreat. Have faith that there are enough patriots in our exceptional nation willing to fight together for what is right. Proof of this is all the families still encouraging and supporting their loved ones who choose U.S. military service. (Yep, she's suggesting military action in Egypt alright.) And proof of a unified commitment to defend our republic is what the independent tea party movement is all about. (Does she mean the same Tea Party started by the Koch brothers and tobacco companies?) Disregard the constant criticism, mocking, and flagrant lies about this diverse, proud movement that still spew from big government cheerleaders and their lapdogs in the media. (I'm a lap dog?) Despite harassment and intimidation, commonsense conservatives are rising up again to get a better view of what is ahead. They are identifying threats to our Constitution and our children's future. (That is why virtually the ONLY laws that the Tea Party backed politicians have tried to pass since coming into power are laws that restrict a woman's control over her own body. You know, for the kids.) The permanent political class angrily bemoans this because they know our diverse working class – those who make the world go 'round – can shake off the slumber, unify, and effectively encourage others to come out of a 2012 hibernation and demand accountability at the 2014 ballot box. It's there we prove the average, everyday American's ferocious strength when exercising that beautiful belief in loyalty only to a government of the people, by the people, for the people. Until then, we mustn't have the fighting instinct of sheep. Pay attention, do your own homework on candidates and political machines, turn off media that would disrespect you by continuing to deceive, and keep the faith. (This is the point where I imagine Palin jumping up and down on her skinny legs shaking her fake pom poms at the computer screen. "Sis boom bah, rah rah rah, rick'em rack'em ruck'em, get out there and really f...ight'em!")

While celebrating America's glorious Independence this week, be secure in knowing that there are more of us who support men and women ready and willing to fight on our behalf for freedom and truth than those who would continually deceive us. (In other words Track's warrior body is ready for action. Not for actual combat of course, because bullets hurt and all.) Thank God. And thank a Vet.

State Department: say you're sorry and don't ever do this again. CBS News: thank you for doing your job on this issue. (Did Palin just give a shout out to the "Lamestream media?" Oh the horrors!)


 Happy 4th of July weekend, America. 

- Sarah Palin

Well I have to hand it to RAM she was in rare form here.  There was red, white, and blue enthusiasm, an incredibly overblown attack on a politician who has probably never spent more than five minutes thinking about Sarah Palin, and a call to get more of our fellow American killed in yet another war of choice that probably sent a thrill up the atrophied legs of the scooter bound Tea party faithful and a chill down the spine of every young soldier hoping that finally the twelve years of constant war are coming to an end.

This is why only the grownups are supposed to make policy decisions, and NOT the lunatic fringe.

Decisions, by the way, that they can undoubtedly make both on land, or on a boat.

Friday, August 17, 2012

The Swiftboating of President Obama. Yes, believe it or not, they are actually going to go there.

I am not usually a fan of Michael Smerconish, but I think this is an episode of Hardball that all of us need to see. Though I doubt you will like it very much.


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What Jon Solz says about that birther general is absolutely correct, which you can read here for yourself:  

President Barack Obama is a socialist, was raised by communists, and wasn't born in the United States, according to the former Navy SEAL who founded the group Special Operations Speaks (SOS), which aims to portray Obama as anti-military in this election season. 

Earlier this week, a different group of former Navy SEALS calling themselves the Special Operations OPSEC Education Fund rolled out its campaign to criticize Obama for leaking national security information and taking what it believes as undue credit for the killing of Osama bin Laden. That group claims to be non-political. 

But the founder of SOS, a similar group with the same mission and the same tactics, says he has no problem admitting that he is against Obama's politics, personality, and believes that America's current president is lying about his origins. 

"I have to admit that I'm a Birther," said SOS founder Larry Bailey, a retired 27-year veteran of the Navy SEALs, in an interview. "If there were a jury of 12 good men and women and the evidence were placed before them, there would be absolutely no question Barack Obama was not born where he said he was and is not who he says he is."

So there you have it, right there is the mindset that is behind this scurrilous and hateful piece of propaganda. This POS is an embarrassment to his rank, to his service, and to his country. Obviously a man completely lacking in honor.

These Right Wingers are desperate to find something, ANYTHING to use to go after this President and they are demonstrating that there is nothing that is too low for them to use to smear him and keep him from serving a second term. Personally I am disgusted with these assholes!

Wednesday, May 09, 2012

Here is the group planning to "Swift Boat" President Obama.

Joel Arrends
Courtesy of Think Progress:  

A secretive right-wing group, Veterans For A Strong America, is attempting to do to President Obama what the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth did to Sen. John Kerry in 2004. And they aren’t shy about it. The group’s leader and sole employee, Joel Arends, told Mother Jones, “Yes, it’s the swift boating of the president.” 

Arends said his goal is to take “what’s perceived to be [Obama's] greatest strength” — the successful raid on Osama Bin Laden’s Pakistani compound — and make it “his greatest weakness.” The effort started this week with a web video attacking Obama for taking too much credit. Here’s what we do know about Arends and Veterans For A Strong America: 

1. In four days, the first ad by Veterans For A Strong America garnered almost 1 million views on Youtube. It has also been played frequently on TV news shows. 

2. Veterans For A Strong America is seeking to recruit Navy SEALS to attack Obama. “In the wake of a warm conservative reception for a web video trashing the president for ‘spiking the football’ on the anniversary of Osama Bin Laden’s death, the conservative group Veterans for a Strong America plans to gather Navy SEALs and Special Forces operators to criticize the White House during the 2012 campaign.” 

3. Arends also tried to Swift Boat Obama in 2008. Arends, under the auspices of a similar group called “Vets for Freedom,” ran an ad accusing Obama of refusing to meet with wounded soldiers from Illinois. 

4. Arends worked as a consultant for the Koch Brothers’ Americans for Prosperity. “Though he doesn’t list it on his public resume, around 2006 Arends went to work for Craig Dewey, the state director of Americans for Prosperity, an advocacy outfit that’s Astroturfed everything from the tea party and the Wisconsin union fight to public-school segregation.” The Koch Brothers and their allies have pledged to spend $100 million to defeat Obama. 

 5. In 2008, Arends — posing as a “journalist” — organized and participated in a taxpayer-subsidized propaganda trip to Iraq. “American taxpayers are paying for politically slanted, pro-McCain, anti-Obama ‘reporters’ embedded with U.S. troops in Iraq. Vets for Freedom – a pro-war organization that buys attack ads against Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama – assembled a team of eight military veterans with dubious journalistic credentials to report ‘objectively’ on what is occurring in Iraq…Joel Arends, another “reporter,” is VFF’s executive director and was on McCain’s campaign payroll between March 2007 and February 2008.” 

 6. Arends is coordinating with key Islamophobic figures on the far right. He regularly appears at events with anti-Islam conspiracy theorist Frank Gaffney, who has been condemned by mainstream conservatives for his intolerant views. He is also alligned with William “Jerry” Boykin, who was found to have violated Pentagon rules by expressing his anti-Muslim views in an official capacity. 

7. Arends helped promote a documentary advocating war with Iran. Arends appeared on a panel in March 2011 in South Dakota promoting the documentary Iranium, which strongly suggests beginning a war with Iran. 

8. Veterans for A Strong America is fully endorsed by Karl Rove. The man known as “Bush’s Brain” tweeted his support of their first web ad. 

We know that the Republican party is in serious disarray, and that there is much infighting within their ranks, but that still does not mean that these scurrilous attempts to damage the President will not have an impact.

So I think we all need to keep our eyes peeled for these kinds of heavily funded groups that will be determined to undermine the President's success, and attempt to make him vulnerable enough that even a candidate as incredibly flawed as Mitt Romney

Remember the GOP is NOT going to want a fair fight, so they will cheat, lie, and steal in order to get THEIR candidate into the White House.

So please tweet, or Facebook, your friends and keep getting the information out there.

All we have on our side is the truth, but it does little good if nobody hears it.