one hand i just didn t hear details that i thought were new except for perhaps about yemen and lifting the ban on sending gitmo prisoners back to yemen. on the other hand, it certainly stirred up republicans. how did you take let s start with you, mr. speaker, how did you take that speech? i think it s just stunningly breathtakingly naive. he said at one point wars have to end, you may not care about war, but war cares about you. right after you have somebody beheaded in london, a bomb go off in boston, you have the iranians as you were just told by congressman mccaul every day trying to penetrate our system with cyber, you have an iranian nuclear program underway and the president announces cheerfully the war s going to end because i m not happy being a war president. well, the question is whether that is those are threats and tho one is denying those are real threats, the question is whether they fall under the
ten-part series, and we did a lot of the new work into the future on the obama who is a very efficient war president. he is developing, and talking about cyber space and space and cyber space development, and full spectrum dominance, but we put a tremendous effort in space, and refuse to sign the united nations treaty and o outlier, israel and us. about not weaponizing space. we have weaponized space with drones and alfred mccoy, the university of wisconsin talks about a three-tiered system from 250 miles up to about 50 miles up. very dangerous. electronic frontier and can blind a foreign army. we are in charge of it, and the chinese are not stupid and neither are the russian, but it is dangerous. one thing that comes across in untold history is that two things that dominated the american political landscape is space and nuclear weapons. we are still in space, and we still have nuclear weapons.
want just as well without going through combat, intense combat, over some of these legislative issues, especially the budget stuff right away. it seems to me what that sounds like, i want to get joy in the panel, that sounds what you hear from washington democrats, every time they are losing is a symbolic fight. you know who doesn t think it s a symbolic fight, the republicans don t seem to think this is a symbolic fight. the republicans don t think this is a waste of, quote, political capital, joy, the republicans seem to think it is worth going hard at the war cabinet of this war president. the republicans aren t good at distinguishing between necessary and unnecessary fights. they won a fight over susan rice. they have gone from advise and consent to don t even think about it. before anyone is nominated, don t even bring that person over here. if barack obama backs down two senate republicans on this, it s going to set a stage for the beginning of his second term that the se
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a swiftboat used to be just a boat, until it bake shorthand for karl rove era conservatives going as far as to attack and lie about a combat hero s service record. and president bush s own avoidance of serving in vietnam through well-connected assignments, that issue somehow became a scandal working in the president s favor rather than against him on a disputed cbs news report on the subject led to the forced resignation of dan rather as that network s main anchor. dan rather has a new book out that in part re-litigates that issue of george w. bush s vietnam-era service still today. barack obama is a post-vietnam war president, our nation s first. he was a toddler when the war started. he was barely a teenager when the war ended. but his opponent in the general election this year, mitt romney, is a generation older than president obama. he is right in the sweet spot in terms of his age group.