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   dtroutma said, 28 days ago

   It has been a real problem in the pachyderm ranks for a long time, every since Eisenhower cast out their most intelligent speech- MI complex- they’ve been ignoring the warning, and intelligent thought.

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   Ken Warren said, 28 days ago

   Commenting on these cartoons is fun, but he is a little bit of hard learned advice.

   It is fun to read and reply to the comments, but some people don’t want exchange views they just want to shout.

   When you encounter one of those people deal with them like you would deal with one of those people you see standing on corner shouting strange things at the world. If you feel you must say something, say it, but don’t make eye contact and then just walk away.

   Remember that when you argue with a fool you become a fool yourself.

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   fennec said, 28 days ago

   Another using the Thinker by Rodin…but this one is much more obvious i(cf. Kal’s ‘toon with Obama sitting on Afghanistan). So who has a problem with thinking about what you’re going to do before you commit to doing it?

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   petergrt said, 28 days ago

   It has nothing to do with thinking.

   Its all about pausing!

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   scottfreitas said, 28 days ago

   The idea Osama is actually thinking about Afghanistan, as in OBJECTIVELY, is a farce.

   To Osama, everything is political, everything is polling data and focus groups, everything is about HIM.

   You want a Prez who actually sits and thinks about what is best for the actual MISSION in Afghanistan, you had one until January 20th 2009. And all you did was join in alongside the liberal media and dump all over him…

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   churchillwasright said, 28 days ago

   Anyone with any intellectual honesty, and that leaves most liberals out, can see what is happening here. Here we have Obama, who spent what little time he was in the Senate, throwing stones at Bush, proclaiming that a surge would not work and that we took our eyes off the important war in Afghanistan.

   Jump to Obama’s campaign. He will never get the right’s vote, and he already has the left’s, so he needs to appeal to the center. He can’t run on a policy of cut and run, or he would appear weak on defense, and get pummelled like McGovern. So he shifts to the center, and says “Look, I’m strong on defense. Iraq was a mistake. Afghanistan is important and must be won!” (insert “O-Ba-Ma” chant here)

   Now, anyone on the right, and actually anyone with half a brain who was paying attention, knew this was a farce. After all, Obama had the most liberal voting record in the Senate. So if/when Obama pulls out of Afghanistan, and also pulls defeat out of the jaws of victory in Iraq, this should come as no surprise.

   The left, on the other hand, said to themselves “we know he has to move to the center to get elected, and appear hawkish, but that’s OK, because we know deep down inside, he’s one of us!” And of course they would have been right.

   So now here’s Obama’s dilemma. He’s no longer the guy on the outside throwing stones. He’s the President.. Now he’s the one who wakes up every day with daily terror assessments that no one else sees. He is now part of that “secret cabal”, the select few who hears from the Military Industrial Complex, and the others who really run this country. Not only how they keep us safe, but how they keep the economy running. He sees all the contingency reports.

   But he is torn, because being a part of the left, the blame America first crowd, is who he is. It is a visceral part of him. His natural instincts, his guts, tell him to pull out. But he now sees how much more complicated it is than that. He now knows, as Bush and all his other predecessors did, that everything he does has historic ramifications. It was easy on the sidelines to throw stones. Now the buck stops with him.

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   omQ R said, 27 days ago

   I like Rodin, I’ve even managed to clamber atop some of his sculptures in the Netherlands (really!). but I’ve never actually seen The Thinker myself.
   It’s meant to be Dante comtemplating before the Gates of Hell from his Divine Comedy.

   How apt.

   Edit: Taking out the reflex anti-left attacks, Church, interesting points. (hmm, taking out the anti-left rhetoric reduces it somewhat though ;-) )

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   cabrobst said, 27 days ago

   We don’t want to waste more American lives in the graveyard of empires. We do want to destroy the threat of international terrorism.
   This will take some time to think out.

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   HUMPHRIES said, 27 days ago

   I’m with you fennec, funny though how it scares the witts out of the wingnutz.

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    ahab said, 27 days ago

    Some would rather act on simple emotion. Got us there,did it not?

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    HOWGOZIT said, 25 days ago

    Yes wingnutz from the left, Humph