Flashback audio: Senator Obama talks about mandatory national service
posted at 9:21 pm on August 13, 2009 by Allahpundit
Another chestnut dug up by The One’s bete noire at Naked Emperor News, destined to be the inspiration for a new lederhosen segment on “Glenn Beck.” You might recall that this issue’s come up before in the context of Obama’s campaign: For a few days after the election, Rahm Emanuel’s stated fondness for mandatory national service was a hot topic on righty blogs, especially after the Obama transition website posted an entry on national service “requiring” 50-100 hours per year from students. After the outcry from the ‘sphere, the “requirement” language was quietly replaced by more ambiguous language about “setting a goal” of 50-100 hours. I skimmed the transcript of Obama’s answers at last year’s presidential campaign forum on service and can’t find him endorsing anything like a mandatory obligation, and I find it exceedingly hard to believe that he’d have the votes for something like this in Congress when he can’t even get his health-care plan passed. But then, I’d never have guessed he’d nationalize General Motors either. Color me very skeptical that this is something to worry about — but less skeptical than I used to be.
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You’ll never get support for a national service act when you govern as a bitter partisan. Everyone will naturally conclude that you’re looking to recruit people to your political causes paid for by the taxpayers.
PackerBronco on August 13, 2009 at 10:02 PM
I’m in your “Amen Corner” there….
Ozprey on August 13, 2009 at 10:02 PM
Ron Paul’s an idiot. but jelousy doesn’t become you.
HoustonRight on August 13, 2009 at 10:03 PM
It’s a SHE! And SHE is AWESOME!
upinak on August 13, 2009 at 10:03 PM
This will become a
GovernmentTaxpayer Bailout of student loans on a grand scale which will serve a dual purpose of indoctrinating an endless supply of community organizer larvae. Simply put, they will bleed the responsible to breed the dependent.Logic on August 13, 2009 at 10:03 PM
Hey, I own a Country Squire. Great car.
portlandon on August 13, 2009 at 10:08 PM
Haven’t seen the first page of comments, but who says they need Congress for this? GM, pay czar, radio czar, Dr Ezekiel Mengele and his life depends on your worth to society…shall I continue, AP, Mr less and less skeptical?
bikermailman on August 13, 2009 at 10:09 PM
My national service will be working my ass off to make sure the voters vote out you and your party, Barack Hussein Obama.
SouthernGent on August 13, 2009 at 10:09 PM
Jackson Lee is about to be on Greta on FOX. Look forward to the post about that later. I can’t believe for a second she won’t embarrass herself AGAIN tonight.
Ozprey on August 13, 2009 at 10:10 PM
Try to at least get your facts right. Lyndon Johnson started conscription for that war. Nixon ended it in 1973. Dumbass.
jaime on August 13, 2009 at 10:10 PM
Involuntary Servitude? Who’d have thought? I guess its back to the plantation.
sibbit on August 13, 2009 at 10:11 PM
Didn’t the Stimulus contain $6 Billion for groups like ACORN to start a National Service for Youth?!?!?
TN Mom on August 13, 2009 at 10:11 PM
hey obama didnt say that!/msm
theTarCzar on August 13, 2009 at 10:12 PM
You on Joe Dan’s facebook too, huh?
bikermailman on August 13, 2009 at 10:13 PM
jaime,
Sorry that it offends you that I left LBJ off the list!
I wanted one Democrat and one Republican to even things out so I said FDR and Nixon.
Spathi on August 13, 2009 at 10:16 PM
Thanks, buddy.
Sometimes I just get so damn mad.
You know, in Vietnam, my unit was about 25% black. And there wasn’t one of us who wouldn’t have died going after another.
Come back home…and especially now, and it’s all about us vs. them.
One one one, everybody gets along. But the politicians on the Left make sure that doesn’t scale up.
guntotinglibertarian on August 13, 2009 at 10:16 PM
It’s Dumass
Spathi on August 13, 2009 at 10:17 PM
Yeah, except that the plantation encompasses 50 states now.
guntotinglibertarian on August 13, 2009 at 10:18 PM
New tapes of Nixon ordering Kissenger to bomb the shit out of Cambodia just got released I believe….bomb anything that moves.
Nixon was one sick bastard.
Spathi on August 13, 2009 at 10:18 PM
Uh, we do have a strong civilian national security force for domestic counterterrorism operations; it’s called the Department of Homeland Security, and it works alongside the Department of Justice, 2 of the most well-known components of which are the FBI and the USMS. An old woman called in to the Mark Levin Show several months ago, because she had experience with such a civilian national security force, back in the country she came from. She was terrified and in tears at the thought of Obama instituting this newest component of his ever-expanding goon squad. She was Russian. The so-called civilian national security force was called the Soviet Committee for State Security: the KGB.
Virus-X on August 13, 2009 at 10:19 PM
Your choice, kids:
1. Organizing for America
2. ACORN
3. Black Panthers
4. SEIU
drjohn on August 13, 2009 at 10:20 PM
56 kind sir….
Barack likely don’t want Texas and I know Texas don’t want what Barack is selling…
sven10077 on August 13, 2009 at 10:20 PM
yeah you’d think we were in a war or something…..
*wait*
sven10077 on August 13, 2009 at 10:21 PM
I respectfully disagree. The troops and weapons that were killing us on the ground in Vietnam were coming though Cambodia.
Would that George Bush had done as much as Nixon to interdict weapons coming into Iraq from Syria and Iran.
All very easy to argue about “borders” when the enemy doesn’t recoginize them.
Another thing entirely to lose your life to weapons that could have been stopped before they got to you.
guntotinglibertarian on August 13, 2009 at 10:21 PM
5. Minutemen
guntotinglibertarian on August 13, 2009 at 10:22 PM
The newly released Nixon tapes
Spathi on August 13, 2009 at 10:24 PM
Read up on Iron Felix and the Cheka….
Felix Dzerzhinsky
you know those cute little leftoids in the Che shirts?
they think guys like this are noble….
sven10077 on August 13, 2009 at 10:24 PM
Ha! good add, and we only need one “group”
Ozprey on August 13, 2009 at 10:25 PM
Nixon suggested a Shock N’ Awe campaign against the Cambodians.
Spathi on August 13, 2009 at 10:26 PM
Yeah, and we have a strong civilian national security force…local police, sheriffs, state troopers, etc. Of course, they know that those groups won’t be willing to do the Gestapo tactics….
bikermailman on August 13, 2009 at 10:28 PM
I don’t know how old you are, but let me tell you something.
We won that f**king war.
Until Nixon was impeached and Congress abandoned the South.
I remember watchin bulldozers push thousands of VC bodies into trenches after Tet. We knew we’d won. But between Walter Cronkite and all the other Lefties, what we bled for was turned into a defeat.
Nevertheless, we got the North Vietnamese to sign a truce.
But Congress betrayed our allies.
And millions died.
Including your Cambodians.
Read the real history. Bombing Cambodia saved thousands of American lives.
Period.
guntotinglibertarian on August 13, 2009 at 10:29 PM
“Nixon suggested a Shock N’ Awe campaign against the Cambodians.” We will eventually have to do that to the shithole known as POK-ee_stan.
theTarCzar on August 13, 2009 at 10:29 PM
5. Minutemen
guntotinglibertarian on August 13, 2009 at 10:22 PM
guntotinglibertarian: Excellent choice,’Minutemen’!:)
canopfor on August 13, 2009 at 10:30 PM
saved thousands of Khmer lives as well….
I dated Khmers growing up….
you are sadly wasting your breath on it friend….
you fought the good fight….you slowed Communist Vietnamese imperialism….
rest easy
sven10077 on August 13, 2009 at 10:31 PM
Funny on that…you notice how NO ONE ever said it that way, til The Won came around? Now they all do…
bikermailman on August 13, 2009 at 10:31 PM
but it’s OGABE’S WAR NOW….so I’ll go home….
///Moonbat Sheehan
sven10077 on August 13, 2009 at 10:32 PM
1) Our bombing of Cambodia contributed to the rise of the Khmer Rouge.
2) Reagan supported the Khmer Rouge because they opposed the communists.
3) It was the communist Vietnamese who eventually invaded Cambodia and removed the Khmer Rouge from power.
Spathi on August 13, 2009 at 10:36 PM
Is that important? Flip a f**king coin for all I care. It’s not a baseball game. Who won or lost means nothing.
Spathi on August 13, 2009 at 10:38 PM
I would have absolutely no problem with a massive nuclear strike against Pakistan.
It’s a country full of America-hating moonbats, armed to the teeth.
They’re breeding and arming the Taliban.
My calculation: 100,000,000 Pakistani lives < less than one American soldier.
Of course, Ogabe Hussein probably sees that calculation the other way around.
guntotinglibertarian on August 13, 2009 at 10:38 PM
You despicable piece of S**t. You weren’t on the ground watching men whose underwear you couldn’t lick bleeding and dying.
guntotinglibertarian on August 13, 2009 at 10:39 PM
It was American progressives whose ideas on Eugenics gave inspiration to Nazis.Now those in power ,here in the USA,proudly associate them selves with early american “progressives”.
theTarCzar on August 13, 2009 at 10:39 PM
As if I ordered them to go there…
Blame Tricky Dick Nixon.
Spathi on August 13, 2009 at 10:40 PM
I would have absolutely no problem with a massive nuclear strike against Pakistan.
It’s a country full of America-hating moonbats, armed to the teeth.
They’re breeding and arming the Taliban.
My calculation: 100,000,000 Pakistani lives < less than one American soldier.
Of course, Ogabe Hussein probably sees that calculation the other way around.
guntotinglibertarian on August 13, 2009 at 10:38 PM AGREED.
theTarCzar on August 13, 2009 at 10:40 PM
and LBJ
Spathi on August 13, 2009 at 10:40 PM
Bill Ayers was smart enough to burn his draft card and say hell no to government conscription.
Hell no we won’t go.
Spathi on August 13, 2009 at 10:42 PM
…and Prince John of Camelot.
thomasaur on August 13, 2009 at 10:42 PM
1)yeah and John Kerry took snapshots that he keeps in his secret hat….the bombings drove the Khmer Rouge towards the Plain of Jars and probably bought Phnom Penh a year or two…..
2)bullsh*t the KR was as Red as the North considering they were under Vietnamese attack starting in ’78 I guess Reagan must have had his Dhimmi Carter make-up on……CIA did aid the KR with some arms but that was part of our intelligent “let bastard a kill bastard b” foreign policy…..see Iran/Iraq
3)a byproduct of their aggressive expansionist policy you ever hear of the Hmong….?
next time you get all weepy about dances with wolves remember them m’kay?
sven10077 on August 13, 2009 at 10:43 PM
Now I just hope you contract Ebola.
thomasaur on August 13, 2009 at 10:44 PM
Hey spathi thanks to clinton,and his ill-advised(giving him some credit)misadventure into kosovo,bosnia,etc….We have opened a back door in europe to al-queada types.Thousands of churches have been destroyed,or turned into mosques for radicals,Excellent move(NOT)
theTarCzar on August 13, 2009 at 10:44 PM
and now we know why you are coming off as a complete tool…
Ozprey on August 13, 2009 at 10:44 PM
and his activities in the Weather Underground….
“intelligent”?
sven10077 on August 13, 2009 at 10:45 PM
“You’ll never get support for a national service act when you govern as a bitter partisan…”
Who says Obama cares about getting ‘support’?
Who needs ‘support’ when you have a ‘civilian national security force’?
Tailgunner on August 13, 2009 at 10:45 PM
Got a poster of Billy on your ceiling above your bed do you?
Ozprey on August 13, 2009 at 10:45 PM
evidently sporkle there didn’t get the memo….
“it’s Ogabe’s war now”….
sven10077 on August 13, 2009 at 10:47 PM
Isn’t the National Service going to be implemented by agreeing to pay people’s college education?
I think that’s already in place or close to it. I heard about that about a month ago.
TriciaNC on August 13, 2009 at 10:47 PM
“Nixon suggested a Shock N’ Awe campaign against the Cambodians.” We will eventually have to do that to the shithole known as POK-ee_stan.
theTarCzar on August 13, 2009 at 10:29 PM
theTarCzar: If the Americans had no restraints,much like
WW2,but even then,Americans protected civilians
thankfully,and the US Military used any and all
ordanance,I would think,that the Jihadys would
be scared to death,to move anywhere in PuckEStan
or Afghanistan!!:)
canopfor on August 13, 2009 at 10:49 PM
Bill Ayers was smart enough to burn his draft card and say hell no to government conscription.
Hell no we won’t go.
Spathi on August 13, 2009 at 10:42 PM
And answer me this….Killing cops at home is more honorable than serving your country? Don’t actually bother answering, we know your answer is yes.
Ozprey on August 13, 2009 at 10:49 PM
Well I can’t support violence if he did that…although he says he didn’t do any, but I think going into the Weather Underground is preferable to prison. The Government never had a right to conscript him, and worse yet, order him to shoot other people (that he didn’t want to shoot)
What happens if he were raped in prison or something there?
The other option is to flee to Canada or something, but joining a protest movement isn’t a bad option either.
It all worked out in the end though for him more or less so it wasn’t such a bad idea.
Spathi on August 13, 2009 at 10:49 PM
PAAALEEEZE.
BHO didn’t say that. That video that you’re listening to that SOUNDS LIKE him is just an “outrage”. These types of videos of him making these staments are “outlandish” and “not deserving of attention”.
When you see audio or video that attempt to show BHO saying something that a committed Soros Marxist would say you must remember this is just propaganda from the Right-wing racist KKK smear merchant Fear mongers.
Did I cover all the crap lines the liars in D.C. use or did I forget any above?
Jeesh, you can’t make this stuff up. How many things do you think he’ll try to force thru Congress before people realize that he really is…..REALLY an America-hating Marxist?
1-20-13, come soon.
PappyD61 on August 13, 2009 at 10:49 PM
” If the Americans had no restraints,much like
WW2,but even then,Americans protected civilians
thankfully,and the US Military used any and all
ordanance,I would think,that the Jihadys would
be scared to death,to move anywhere in PuckEStan
or Afghanistan!!:)
canopfor on August 13, 2009 at 10:49 ‘ AGREED.
theTarCzar on August 13, 2009 at 10:50 PM
Spathi do you think Charles Manson and his “family” were cool too?Hey they were against the war and the”man” too…just a bit more successful than the incompetent obama pal,bill ayers
theTarCzar on August 13, 2009 at 10:52 PM
Charlie was big on starting a race war like the current administration.
thomasaur on August 13, 2009 at 10:54 PM
TarCzar,
No I don’t like Manson.
I only like aspects of Bill Ayers politics. He’s a committed leftist so he’s kind of boring now days, but he was definitely correct to resist government conscription.
Spathi on August 13, 2009 at 10:54 PM
Can’t say that I would shed a single tear.
thomasaur on August 13, 2009 at 10:55 PM
In 1976, the FBI’s Chicago Field Office prepared a summary which described the activities of the Weather Underground Organization, also known as Weathermen. This organization described itself as a revolutionary organization of communist men and women. The FBI’s analysis of its motivations, beliefs, and international travels are outlined in this summary.
Ayers became involved in the New Left and the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS).[9] He rose to national prominence as an SDS leader in 1968 and 1969. As head of an SDS regional group, the “Jesse James Gang”, Ayers made decisive contributions to the Weatherman orientation toward militancy.[7] The group Ayers headed in Detroit, Michigan became one of the earliest gatherings of what became the Weatherman. Before the June 1969 SDS convention, Ayers became a prominent leader of the group, which arose as a result of a schism in SDS.[7] “During that time his infatuation with street fighting grew and he developed a language of confrontational militancy that became more and more pronounced over the year [1969]“, disaffected former Weatherman member Cathy Wilkerson wrote in 2001. Ayers had previously become a roommate of Terry Robbins, a fellow militant, Wilkerson wrote. Robbins would later be killed while making a bomb.[10] In June 1969, the Weatherman took control of the SDS at its national convention, where Ayers was elected Education Secretary.[7] Later in 1969, Ayers participated in planting a bomb at a statue dedicated to riot police casualties in the 1886 Haymarket Riot confrontation between labor supporters and the police.[11] The blast broke almost 100 windows and blew pieces of the statue onto the nearby Kennedy Expressway.[12] (The statue was rebuilt and unveiled on May 4, 1970, and blown up again by other Weathermen on October 6, 1970.[12][13] Rebuilding it yet again, the city posted a 24-hour police guard to prevent another blast, and in January 1972 it was moved to Chicago police headquarters.[14] Ayers participated in the Days of Rage riot in Chicago in October 1969, and in December was at the “War Council” meeting in Flint, Michigan. Larry Grathwohl, an FBI informant in the Weatherman group from the fall of 1969 to the spring of 1970, stated that “Ayers, along with Bernardine Dohrn, probably had the most authority within the Weatherman”.[15]
I will ask it differently….you are okay with political violence that kills people yes?
sven10077 on August 13, 2009 at 10:56 PM
spathi do u like some aspects of adolf hitler as well?he was an aspiring artist,like many leftards.does that warm your heart?supposedly he loved animals,so maybe PETA should use him in their next campaign?
theTarCzar on August 13, 2009 at 10:57 PM
Well see there might have been a fascist prison guard there.
He was much smarter to resist entirely aka
1) Refuse to go fight LBJ-Nixon’s bogus war
2) Refuse to go to prison for not complying.
Of course resisting the iron-fist of the Federal Government rarely works, but when someone manages it, I give them props.
Spathi on August 13, 2009 at 10:58 PM
hey hitler,as far as i know,never actually killed anyone.Second look at hitler? /spathi
theTarCzar on August 13, 2009 at 10:59 PM
TarCzar,
No I can’t say there is anything about hitler that I like. Sorry.
Spathi on August 13, 2009 at 10:59 PM
You don’t even know the man you dote over.
And if it wasn’t for a technicality he would have served hard time. And you would you still bow at his feet for his “ideals”.
Ozprey on August 13, 2009 at 10:59 PM
Spathi so if i disagree with obama,and murder some random peeps,im cool with you? as long as im down with the fight? /
theTarCzar on August 13, 2009 at 11:00 PM
TarCzar,
I said I can’t endorse any violence committed.
For the record:
It’s not cool if you murder some Vietnamese or the government either nor kill random policeman.
Spathi on August 13, 2009 at 11:01 PM
What an ignorant a**hat this guy is.
1. Our bombing didn’t lead the rise of the Khmer Rouge. Their leaders were trained in China, by Maoists, who were nevervous about Russia’s domination of North Vietnam. The Khmer Rogue invaded villages, slaughered anyone who didn’t support them and kidnapped their children to be cold-eyed killers.
2. Reagan had nothing to do with the Khmer Rouge. They were out of power by 1981.
3. The Vietnamese invaded Cambodia because they wanted to supplant the Chinese influence. It almost caused a war between Vietnam and China.
You have no idea what you’re talking about.
And lots of us weren’t “sent” there by anyone, you loser, we volunteered.
Because, unlike you, you pampered little f****t, we knew that freedom isn’t free.
Come talk to me about Vietnam face-to-face sometime, you scum.
‘
guntotinglibertarian on August 13, 2009 at 11:02 PM
Then I guess The Weather Underground isn’t cool now, too bad for you…
Ozprey on August 13, 2009 at 11:03 PM
Ozprey,
Jimmy Carter pardoned everyone who refused the conscription didn’t he? (????)
If he had served time, well he would have had to live with the consequences. In that case, Canada would have been the better option apparently.
Spathi on August 13, 2009 at 11:04 PM
I heard a rumor that O is going to announce a mandatory (?) service for 14 to 18 yr olds this September 11th (the announcement that is). Strange – does the President have that kind of power? I didn’t learn that in Poli Sci class…..
However, it is just a rumor and we’ll see if it’s true on 9/11/09
skree on August 13, 2009 at 11:05 PM
Wait. He’s cleared it up.
“As I’ve said many times, I never said that many times.”
guntotinglibertarian on August 13, 2009 at 11:06 PM
Chompsky and Ward Churchill would be proud of this un-American stool. (misspelled on pupose)
thomasaur on August 13, 2009 at 11:06 PM
yeah, he pardoned every cowardly f****t like you.
guntotinglibertarian on August 13, 2009 at 11:07 PM
Little panty-wearing, masturbating POS.
guntotinglibertarian on August 13, 2009 at 11:07 PM
guntotingliberal
57 states
elclynn on August 13, 2009 at 11:08 PM
He didn’t serve time because of a technicality (which I said above). In prison or out, Ayers is proud of what he did. Which makes him a souless douche. You have already stated you don’t know much about him, yet you dote like a little girl staring at a pony she loves.
Ozprey on August 13, 2009 at 11:09 PM
No, he doesn’t.
Congress would have to pass legislation.
And something tells me they’re not feeling very secure about that sort of thing at the moment.
A bill like that is the only thing that would eat into Ogabe’s base. They sure as hell don’t want to do a day’s work.
guntotinglibertarian on August 13, 2009 at 11:10 PM
Spathi if ayers had his way he wouldve made 9/11 look like a an easter egg hunt.He wanted to kill millions,is on record as saying that,and has never denounced it.As far as vietnam,i believe he was just a pussy afraid to face people who would fight back,so like most libtards,decided to attack those who wouldnt(or didnt know an attack was coming).Im soooo pleased our wonderful president has close associates like this.
theTarCzar on August 13, 2009 at 11:10 PM
guntotinglibertarian
1) Actually their leaders were trained in France, and our bombings did lead to their rise in power.
2) Reagan did want support them.
3) The Vietnamese communists invaded invaded Cambodia, capturing Phnom Pen, in 1979.
Spathi on August 13, 2009 at 11:11 PM
Me?
thomasaur on August 13, 2009 at 11:11 PM
Ozprey,
Lots of people refused the conscription though.
Cheers to everyone who resisted LBJ and Tricky Dick.
Spathi on August 13, 2009 at 11:12 PM
“Congress would have to pass legislation.
And something tells me they’re not feeling very secure about that sort of thing at the moment.
A bill like that is the only thing that would eat into Ogabe’s base. They sure as hell don’t want to do a day’s work.
guntotinglibertarian on August 13, 2009″ Heck,he can just bypass congress and name them his “Czarmy’!
theTarCzar on August 13, 2009 at 11:12 PM
No, Spathi.
Sorry for any confusion.
guntotinglibertarian on August 13, 2009 at 11:14 PM
On my LiveJournal, I used to have an icon with a picture of Che next to Reagan. It said: “Leftist Hero, Real Hero. YOU DO THE MATH.” Quite a few people liked it. Che is seen as a ‘peoples’ hero’, because he’s immorally and incorrectly portrayed as some sort of anti-oppression revolutionary. For most leftists, this twisted, intentionally twisted false history is good enough for them. Anyone that stands in the way of their ‘if it feels good, do it’ politicking is a direct representative of the forces of oppression, and the lie of Che fills the bill for a ‘hero’. He’s a ‘revolutionary’ on par with such personalities as Paul Revere, for taking up arms against ‘oppression and evil’, and laying down his life for his country. Many leftists that wear his ugly face on their shirts wouldn’t even believe you, were you to tell them that Che was a psychopath and serial killer that got off on killing, and may well have been a racist and homophobe (http://www.democraticwarrior.com/forum/showthread.php?t=97212): the very same things that liberals claim they oppose (yet support with their every word, action and vote). The support we’re seeing for the formation of the American KGB is easily explained: the DNC has always been a representative of violence, oppression, slavery, rape and other forms of evil, dating back from their split with the Whig Party and the formation of their paramilitary wing, the KKK. DNC loyalists believe that the machinery of oppression are a good thing, because they believe that machine will be on their side. The oppressive, brutal government Che fought for, communism, is seen as a great good by the left, because they buy into the promises of socialist/communist egalitarianism and equality. Like the ones I know that do, they believe that ‘we can do it better’. In spite of the failures of those governments everywhere else in the world, the delusion persists that ‘we can do it right‘. They ascribe the ‘one man can make a difference’ addage to Che. Nevermind the fact that what ‘change’ he’s responsible for is the institutionalization of murder and oppression all in the name of personal power.
Virus-X on August 13, 2009 at 11:14 PM
And spathi would be on the front lines of this”Czarmy”! haha Good times,good times!
theTarCzar on August 13, 2009 at 11:14 PM
You’ve avoided every point I’ve tossed your way by changing the subject and acting like a class A troll. I’m tired of you now….moving on….
Ozprey on August 13, 2009 at 11:15 PM
Spathi, you are a moron. Well, maybe you just studied to be a moron, and flunked the test. You must be a child who has no first hand knowledge of what went on during the Viet Nam war. You get your biased history from the left wing meat heads who think they are smart because they have Phd’s. Getting a PhD in any non-core science field only requires persistence, not intelligence. Pay attention to people who were there and you might learn something useful to replace the mush in your head.
Buford Gooch on August 13, 2009 at 11:15 PM
Bull. I’ve seen that propaganda before. Propagated by disgruntled Leftist ex-CIA officer.
Khmer Rouge were Maoist, you ignorant slut.
guntotinglibertarian on August 13, 2009 at 11:16 PM
I say cheers to everyone whos resisting the obama/democrat/msm marxist/jihadi movement
theTarCzar on August 13, 2009 at 11:17 PM
Ogabe’s Presidency is kapoot. He’s almost got a revolution on his hands now – he pushes any more – he’ll have one.
But I’ll tell you – this isn’t a guy who will go golfing for four years. He’ll make some kind of move – mark my words.
He’s in the Kobiashi Maru right now. You can’t win that simulation – Kirk beat it by cheating … because Kirk didn’t like to lose.
Ogabe … contrary to popular belief – is NOT Spock – he’s Kirk.
He’ll cheat.
Watch and see!
Glen Beck will have so much material – he’ll have to start taking nitroglycerin for his heart.
HondaV65 on August 13, 2009 at 11:19 PM
Ive reported spathi to Flag@whitehouse.gov for making joe biden seem sober
theTarCzar on August 13, 2009 at 11:20 PM
That is a mighty big “Amen Corner” and growing every day.
Ozprey on August 13, 2009 at 11:20 PM
For 35 years Ive heard this crap about how our bombing led to the rise of the Khmer Rouge.
That doesn’t even make sense. So the Khmer, pissed off about American bombing rose up spontaneously and….slaughtered their own people?
This was a lie originated by Sidney Shamberg and Bruce Palling, two communist journalists who hated Nixon.
The academia, of course, loves that story.
Which is why Spathi learned it in his Gay History of Vietnam courses, in between lowering his panties for every minority student on campus.
guntotinglibertarian on August 13, 2009 at 11:21 PM
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