The White House on Thursday forcefully rejected criticism from former Vice President Dick Cheney and other Republicans that President Barack Obama's Afghanistan decision is taking too long.
"What Vice President Cheney calls dithering, President Obama calls his solemn responsibility to the men and women in uniform and to the American public," White House press secretary Robert Gibbs said. "I think we've all seen what happens when somebody doesn't take that responsibility seriously."
Besides, the previous top U.S. commander in Afghanistan, Gen. David McKiernan, submitted a request for more troops that went unfulfilled by former President George W. Bush.
Obama partly granted that request in March when he ordered an additional 21,000 U.S. troops to go to Afghanistan this year.
Republicans will say and do anything.
23 October, 2009
16 October, 2009
racists are still with us
A Louisiana justice of the peace said he refused to issue a marriage license to an interracial couple out of concern for any children the couple might have.
Keith Bardwell, justice of the peace in Tangipahoa Parish, says it is his experience that most interracial marriages do not last long.
Neither Bardwell nor the couple immediately returned phone calls from The Associated Press. But Bardwell told the Daily Star of Hammond that he was not a racist. Yeah right!
Keith Bardwell, justice of the peace in Tangipahoa Parish, says it is his experience that most interracial marriages do not last long.
Neither Bardwell nor the couple immediately returned phone calls from The Associated Press. But Bardwell told the Daily Star of Hammond that he was not a racist. Yeah right!
13 October, 2009
republicans side with the Taliban
Somebody explain this to me: The president of the United States wins the Nobel Peace Prize and Rush Limbaugh joins with the Taliban in bitterly denouncing the award? Glenn Beck has a conniption fit and demands that the president not accept what may be the world's most prestigious honor? The Republican National Committee issues a statement sarcastically mocking our nation's leader -- elected, you will recall, by a healthy majority -- as unworthy of such recognition. Why, oh why, do conservatives hate America so?
The Nobel Peace Prize is universally recognized as a stamp of the world's approval. Let the rejectionists fulminate and sputter until they wear their vocal cords out. Politically, they're only bashing themselves. "I'm With the Taliban Against America" is not likely to be a winning slogan.
The Nobel Peace Prize is universally recognized as a stamp of the world's approval. Let the rejectionists fulminate and sputter until they wear their vocal cords out. Politically, they're only bashing themselves. "I'm With the Taliban Against America" is not likely to be a winning slogan.
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