Andrew Cross said: Mel,
It doesn't take a lot of man hood to say kill on sight. Last I checked neither Bush, nor Obama were the ones capturing or executing Saddam or Osama. Their lives weren't at risk like the millions of soldiers in the field. In all honesty I think the easiest decision for those two presidents in their entire political careers was to say kill those two evil men.
And I think Obama is a terrible leader, he talks about uniting America in his speeches then everything he does is vilify the Republicans. This war on women does not exist, I believe there is a prominent female democratic senator, from Missouri I believe, that even went on record stating that exact thing and that the democrats need to stop it.
Just my 2 cents, and with inflation may not be worth anything at all.
Andrew, I will give you your opinion on my example of showing manhood of the last two presidents, and I concur it is the soldiers out in the field risking everything, (although has it been millions? Maybe over the 10+ years they have been fighting, but such a small percentage of our population.)
You can have your opinion on President Obama as a leader. I think he has a different leadership style that was more like, "this is what I think we need to accomplish as a country, congress it is your job to come up with something the American people will accept and improves the country." I think his style of leadership would have worked many years ago, as there were many moderates on both sides of the aisles that would have come together. I do think at times I wish he would have stepped up more and delivered his message better and maybe told what he might have been doing behind the scenes.
In this political climate, we almost need a leader to micromanage things, and even then it will be a tough road. As far as vilifying republicans, that is your opinion, and I do start to see him lay out the choices we get with a republican leading the country compared to him, he is now in campaign mode. But when we want to talk about vilifying people, just look back to when the president took office, from day one republicans were out to make him a one term president. There were many instances that the president I feel caved into the republicans when he was trying to work with them, he extended the Bush, now Obama tax cuts for all, (I personally would have just ended them for everyone, if we are so concerned about debt.) He gave the republicans a lot of what they wanted with the health care reform. The individual mandate (which as history has shown was a republican idea) didn't really become an issue until the tea party jumped on it, then many republicans saw that as a way to align themselves with the base, (my opinion). I understand that with the debt ceiling crisis, it did sound like the president would give into some republican issues, but from reporting I remember he would not follow through to help his base.
As for my one senator, I think she says some of that about war on women, just to help her re-election chances here in this state. I do agree that the democrats should concentrate more on what they have accomplished on the economy. I do think there is a war on women in some states (my opinion again), they are trying to roll back legislation that had been law for equal pay for equal work? Maybe Wisconsin? But how is it our place to comment on that actually, we should be asking women that question, how do they feel about legislation that forces ultra sounds on someone thinking about an abortion, or not allowing abortions, as Sandy said earlier I believe in another post, that is between her and her god, why is government (led by republicans) interfering with what they might want to consider? And also on that issue, why aren't they doing something about jobs, that's what they ran on in 2010. It is those issues that are being legislated that are aimed directly at women, (well men don't get abortions, or have other such issues) that is being declared as the war on women, maybe that term "war" is the wrong term. Maybe discrimination against women would be more appropriate, but let's hear from the women on the issue.
And don't forget what started this, someone tied manhood into leadership abilities, I still haven't heard the explanation on that.
Mel