Obama, the Smart Shopper!

Although various politicians have denigrated the citizens
who actively participated in the April 15th “Tea Party” protests
as fringe elements or an “unhinged mob”, the majority of
Americans supported the protests, while the mainstream media
outlets gave it sparse notice, and were often quite disparaging.

Not surprisingly, President Obama took notice, and in his first
full cabinet meeting, he announced that the government agencies and
departments were going to cut $100 million dollars in government
spending (from the $4 trillion planned for this year!!).

Here’s another way to look at it. If you had 40,000 piles of money,
each with enough hundred and thousand dollar bills to make a
pile of $100 million dollars, you would be looking at $4 trillion dollars
(and you could proudly say to everyone – put it on my tab!!!).

A Better Commander-in-Chief?

Say what you will about George W. Bush, but following September 11, 2001, he took whatever steps he felt necessary – with the consent of both parties in Congress – to secure and defend our country.   The record shows that he was successful;   we were not attacked again while he was in office.

Three news stories today painted a disturbing picture of our new Commander-in-Chief’s program:

1. Medvedev Announces Plan to Rearm Russia

2. Gates readies Big Cuts in Weapons

3. Obama might make wounded vets pay for treatment

Read them carefully – they may chart our country’s new direction. Each article sheds a little light on the “Obama Way”, which sadly reminds me of a world leader during the 1930’s.

Two Presidents – One Marine Corps

I have a high regard for marines and the Marine Corps.
The vast majority of marines consider their honor one of
their greatest possessions, and they highly value courage,
loyalty, and achievement – that whole “getting it done!” thing.

They say there are no “former marines” – you are a Marine for
life (with the exception of Jack Murtha – see notes at the end),
and their assessment and evaluation of the character of an
individual is based on what that person does, not what he
or she says.

Thus you might find the following YouTube video
informative, if not instructive.  It shows the response of
marines to our current and former presidents:
Marines’ receptions of the two presidents.

Of course, if you are one of the unenlightened folks who
think that Marines are close relatives of Neanderthals,
then their evaluation may not impress, but it carries a
certain weight with me.

Thanks to Glenn Reynolds of  Instapundit, and Roger
Kimball of Roger’s Rules for pointing me to the video.
Other bloggers who filed similar stories were
Gateway Pundit and The Astute Bloggers.

Notes:
John “Jack” Murtha is the despicable Pennsylvania congressman
who verbally tried and convicted the Haditha marines of
war crimes, while deflecting investigation into his own misdeeds.
He initially avoided some investigations back in 2004/2005  by
changing sides and coming out in opposition to the Iraq war,
after having initially supported it.  Thus any prosecutions would
have had the appearance of retaliation, and so he seemed to benefit
greatly by this change of position.   There are many vets and
marines that are disgusted with Murtha, and consider him,
along with Lee Harvey Oswald, to be an “Ex-Marine.”
There is much info about him on the web;  some of it is gathered
here.