the voters as Judge Smails from Caddyshack: “Spaulding! You’ll get nothing, and like it!”

I’m sorry but that is what that clip reminds me of.

I tried, really I did. That lease deal was a stinker for lots of reasons, which I pointed out and sourced. But he is still a believer that Obama = McCain, or is better than McCain.

funky chicken on February 27, 2008 at 3:35 PM

The way McCain fought to kill that lease deal was the biggest red flag about his approach to national defense. The lease deal was not good, but it was forced because the Clinton administration balked at spending the necessary funds to upgrade the aging KC-135 tankers. McCain fought it because it was expensive, but I note he offered no alternative.

When your back’s against the wall, you spend what you have to. Refusing to spend the money for what you need is not good management. Good management is not letting yourself get forced into that position to begin with. The real world is that sometimes you can be forced into that position anyway through the action or inaction of others.

But it’s a choice between McCain and a man wanting to disarm the nation at a dangerous time. The choices suck. McCain is a less sucky choice.

I don’t know where this came from (I got it from Andrews Dad), but is is worrisome.  While controlling spending is certainly advisable, and butting waste is essential, this contains far too many sweeping generalizations.  It seems to me that…

That’s Barack Hussein Obama for you! His pal Farrakhan would be proud!

funky chicken on February 27, 2008 at 2:07 PM

Kini on February 27, 2008 at 2:20 PM

Voidseeker on February 27, 2008 at 2:27 PM

Maybe their is a bit of confusion. I said this:

Why not give them 25 billion or so for the effort versus spending 100 billion in harware that is not needed.

“Effort” read, reasearch and development. “Hardware not needed” read, new hardware for new hardware’s sake versus efficacy and efficiency. Take stealth ships for example. Developing them is fine. Creating a whole new fleet that can evade radar, who’s radar? The mighty Chinese
Navy? We own the sea, no need for that now.

From the article Kini linked:

For now, SDI already is paying big dividends in research and technology advances. On the near horizon are spinoffs,for the space program, civilian industry; and medicine.

How is my position at odds with this article? I want R&D, I would be willing to directly compensate defense contractors for R&D. What I am against is unneccesary or unwise implementation for implementation’s sake. The “virtual” border fence would be another good example. Bush scratched Boeing’s back big time. They get to field thier equipment, which they’ll no doubt use to sell this technology to other countries, which they would have done anyway even without Bush giving them the perfect platform to field test their technology. We got a virtual fence, just because.

Makes me wonder what his, and his owners, true strategic goals are.

It’s not like I want the Messiah to win, I don’t. I just made a observation that’s all.

I have known for decades that about half of the electorate has been very much ‘dumbed down’, but that this guy is considered a viable candidate for President is proof that America does not deserve to survive any longer.

This guy is obviously not really Barack Hussein Obama (middle name added merely for exact identification), yet is worshiped by millions. He is the illegitimate offspring of Louis Farrakhan and Cindy Sheehan.

Seems to have forgotten that Iran and North Korea are not exactly “team players.”

This is a street corner activist that has the possibility of being the most powerful man in the world. yikes! I have the “audacity of hope.” I hope that the American people reject his candidacy swiftly and resoundingly.

I tried, really I did. That lease deal was a stinker for lots of reasons, which I pointed out and sourced. But he is still a believer that Obama = McCain, or is better than McCain.

There’s a lot to be said about closely scrutinizing procurement in light of our current and likely future conflicts, and I have a great deal of confidence that McCain would do that (moreso than most Republicans). The problem is that I thoroughly believe Obama isn’t interested at all in actually looking critically at modernization, but simply in stopping as much of it as he possibly can.

Dude….that is his Audacity of Hope!

- The Cat

What rhymes with a bell?

Kini on February 27, 2008 at 3:00 PM

I believe it’s “what’s brown and sounds like a bell?”

At any rate, it’s a good idea, except my girlfriend gets upset when I burn mine.

Lance Murdock on February 27, 2008 at 3:12 PM

Spin…warp factor 5!

He said it but she posted it! Damn her anyway!

Reagan wanted that too, but (as Thatcher realized) it wasn’t going to happen.

Ha ha ha ha ha! We are, as Derbyshire likes to say, doomed. Doomed.