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2008-06-30 -Short Attention Span Theater-

The Saddest Thing About Barack Obama's Available Military Expertise...

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Posted by Mike 2008-06-30 16:54|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 Kucinich for Secretary of Defense.

Posted by tu3031 2008-06-30 17:00|| 2008-06-30 17:00|| Front Page Top

#2 Whoopie Goldberg for Secretary of State

Posted by Muggsy Gling 2008-06-30 17:04|| 2008-06-30 17:04|| Front Page Top

#3 The Saddest Thing About Barack Obama's Available Military Expertise...

The fact he has none at all?

Posted by Besoeker 2008-06-30 17:09|| 2008-06-30 17:09|| Front Page Top

#4 #3 The Saddest Thing About Barack Obama's Available Military Expertise...

The fact he has none at all?

Even sadder, the fact that he thinks he does!

Posted by Shemp 6680 2008-06-30 18:38|| 2008-06-30 18:38|| Front Page Top

#5 I read a story by Viktor Suvorov about a Russian Army officer who was a disaster. Utterly incompetent, his one ability was to memorize dialectic. At a formal dinner, he got very drunk, pulled down his pants, stuck a fish skeleton in his bum and called himself a mermaid while dancing on the table in front of senior officers.

The fastest way for his unit to get rid of him was to promote him, give him a glowing recommendation, and transfer him to their higher headquarters.

Higher headquarters quickly learned he was a schmuck, so gave him *another* promotion, and sent him back to his old unit. By bouncing around like that, as well as parroting dialectic, he soon became a very senior general.

This reminds me of Weaseley Clark, though Alexander Haig would be a close second. As the saying goes, "The cream rises to the top, and so does the scum."

Posted by Anonymoose 2008-06-30 19:19|| 2008-06-30 19:19|| Front Page Top

#6 I read that story too. I think it was by Nabakov, altho maybe he used a different name. Many Stalinist alagories along with some anti-captialist warnings. Very odd in it's own way.

Posted by .5MT 2008-06-30 19:39|| www.cybernations.net]">[www.cybernations.net] 2008-06-30 19:39|| Front Page Top

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