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It has been a week since I blew the whistle on Barack Obama's secret $439 billion plan for a mysterious initiative called the "civilian national security force."
We don't know any more about this plan than we did when Obama announced it July 2 in a speech, with the relevant part covered by almost no media with the exception of the Chicago Tribune and Congressional Quarterly.
Does Barack Obama really intend to push the idea of spending as much on the State Department as America currently spends on defense? This should be the No. 1 question he is asked at every campaign stop until we get a coherent answer.
INTERIOR, OLD BEN’S HOME a ramshackle adobe room of an older survivalist, homemade furnature and wool blankets cover the walls from were they have been drying providing some coolness to the hot dry air. OLD BEN is talking with LUKE
OLD BEN: Here, your father wanted you to have this when you were old enough, but your uncle wouldn’t hear of it.
LUKE (admires the T-handled batton. Swinging it and twirling it about in his hand using the short handle) You knew my father?
OLD BEN: It is called a TONFA STICK. A more elegant weapon from a more elegant time. Not as clumsy or random as a TASER. Yes he was an old school SKULLTHUMPER like myself. Before the dark times, before the martial law. He was good driver and a good friend. We fought in the Revolt together.
LUKE: My father wasn’t in the Revolt. He was a truck driver that died in the third LA Riots.
OLD BEN: That’s what your uncle told you. (Inspired) You must master the TONFA and learn the ways of a SKULLTHUMPER if you are to join me to WASHINGTON.
Epic tale continues through two more movies and prequel trilogy that was sub par due to whiz-bang effects over substance of engaging story, unsympathetic characters and poor acting.
Lets keep the war in Iraq full steam
Originally posted by jetxnet
You can make the Star Wars analogy. Senator Palpatine got power through loopholes and while promising change. He promised Unity and gained power right under everyones nose and consolidated control in the form of a dicatorship.
The American people should be very concerned.
[edit on 21-7-2008 by jetxnet]
Originally posted by Dronetek
Lets keep the war in Iraq full steam
Why do you guys keep saying stuff like this? Its OBVIOUSLY a distortion.
Mccain and all of us want out as soon as possible, but McCain doesn't want to do it before the Iraqis are ready. You are such a hypocrite.
It's too bad that Barack Obama probably won't stick to his 16 month plan. He's simply telling the voters what they want to hear..
Originally posted by Daedalus24
Catch up on yesterday's news, al-Maliki wants us out of his country by 2010, That sounds oddly familiar...Perhaps Obama's 16-month exit plan? But sure, what do the Iraqi's know about their situation...
I admire the way you defend Obama and admire the ones who defend McCain but in the end the next President will carry out what his party desire or what Congress will give him, not what the candidate campaigned on. Jimmy, Ronald, George, Bill, George all learned the hard way. Even when Congress does agree with the President, Congress finalizes everything the way they see fit.