Thursday, September 13, 2012

Marines not allowed live ammunition while guarding U.S. Embassy's in the Middle East!

http://freebeacon.com/reports-marines-not-permitted-live-ammo/

Well now we know why the marines were not able to defend United States soil (yes an American Embassy anywhere in the world is considered United States Soil) in either of those attacks on 9/11/12, and it's not acceptable, at least not to me.

Over the years I have known quite a few United States Marines, and I will tell you now that NONE of them are at all happy about this decision by the current Government to restrict their ability to protect and defend the very people they took an oath to "defend against all enemies, foreign and domestic."

I see no reason to send more Marines to "defend" our Middle East Embassy's if all they are able to do is "apologise" for their short comings, My Lord what have we become?

Tom Ford

NO. 1054



76 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Further Marine spokesman at Pentagon Lt Col Chris Hughes says these reports are NOT true. This is on the record:

“The Ambassador and RSO have been completely and appropriately engaged with the security situation. No restrictions on weapons or weapons status have been imposed. This information comes from the Det Commander at AMEMB Cairo.”

This appears to be a rumor. Maybe the rumor got started at the same Mr. Romney was screwing up and making a complete fool of himself about this whole thing.


6:10 PM, September 13, 2012  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I think the Story was generated on Marine Corp Blogs...I have more faith in the words of blogging marines that put their lives in danger... than the Obama administrations consistent spins.

6:43 AM, September 14, 2012  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

http://freebeacon.com/reports-marines-not-permitted-live-ammo/

6:45 AM, September 14, 2012  
Blogger Crestwood Independent said...

6:10 PM Blogger: Well it has been reported by some very credible sources, (The Drudge Report,Time Magazine Blogs, Marine Corps blogs, and, well read this for yourself.

http://freebeacon.com/reports-marines-not-permitted-live-ammo/

If your theory is correct then why didn't the Marine Detachment fight back as they have in the past? If they had ammo, were they told to stand down, and if so why?

BTW, Mr. Romney spoke the truth, he did NOT screw up. he did NOT apologise for our freedom of speech, that was Mr. Obama!

Tom Ford

6:45 AM, September 14, 2012  
Blogger Crestwood Independent said...

U.S. had credible knowledge of the Embassy attack day's before but chose to do nothing!

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/politics/revealed-inside-story-of-us-envoys-assassination-8135797.html

Still believe in the Obama administration's ability to protect America? I don't!

Tom Ford

6:54 AM, September 14, 2012  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I will respectufuly disagree. Mr. Romney released a statement condemning the administration's actions 6 hours before the attacks even began. What he was attacking was a statment released by the embassy over there trying to calm the waters so an attack perhaps wouldn't happen. It was inflamatory and was designed to score cheap political points. Even when it was revealed how incredibly screwed up his timing was and that our citizens were killed, he still "doubled down" and continued to make a fool of himself. Those in his own party called him out and told him how inappropriate that was. We have ONE president at a time, whether Mr. Romney likes it or not. Reagan knew that and said so, the first Bush knew that and said so. Romney blew it with this. I was going to vote for him, but his behavior with this tells me he is NOT ready to take the reigns. Cooler heads than this need to be in charge. I am very disgusted with him and his campaign right now.

7:19 AM, September 14, 2012  
Blogger Crestwood Independent said...

7:19 AM Blogger: Tell us why Mr. Obama is ready to "Keep the reins" please?

1. Failed policies in the Mid East.

2. Failed economic policies.

3. Over 16 trillion in debt.

4. Bank breaking health care ideas.

5. Total failure to lead.

Anything here that tells us to vote for Obama?

Tom Ford

8:08 AM, September 14, 2012  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

it appears you have confused my discontent with Romney with any type of endorsement of Obama. What I said was I was very disappointed in Romney's actions. I made no ringing endorsement of Obama. You're reading words that weren't there.

8:47 AM, September 14, 2012  
Blogger Crestwood Independent said...

8;47 AM Blogger: Well I m glad to hear that as it seemed to me that since there are only two candidates (if you disregard the usual crew) to vote for, you were now a fan of obama!

Try Mr. Romney's site on face book for accurate information on what he said V what the media reported, you may be surprised.

Tom Ford

9:19 AM, September 14, 2012  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

well, with all due respect to Mr. Romney, I think I'll not trust his own website to "fix" my perspective. I have no doubt Mr. Romney has a very nice website, but I feel more comfortable searching for my own information rather than relying on whatever spin he wants me to see.

9:45 AM, September 14, 2012  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

This is, after all, a man who just stated that $250,000 is "middle income". Maybe in his world of overseas bank accounts and car elevators, but surely not in mine. I have increasing doubts about Romney as a viable candidate.

10:26 AM, September 14, 2012  
Blogger Crestwood Independent said...

10:26 AM Blogger: Know what? HE BUILT THAT WEALTH! In my world it's OK for him to do with it as he wishes.

Did you know that he paid over $2 MILLION in income tax last year? (look it up) and contributed to more charities than Obama and Biden put together?

Have all the doubts you want to have. One thing is crystal clear, under Obama / Biden you will never ever see any accumulation of any sort of wealth personally.

Tom Ford

3:31 PM, September 14, 2012  
Blogger Crestwood Independent said...

OH, and by the way:

http://www.cnbc.com/id/49037337

Our (the United States) credit rating was just cut AGAIN! Thank you Mr. Obama, we all wanted that to happen, right?

Tom Ford

3:42 PM, September 14, 2012  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

mr. romney built what he inherited, did he? Okay, whatever gets you through the day. It is well known that to get through college and right after he was selling off many stocks. My guess he didn't BUILD THAT, that his father did. and 2 million dollars in taxes? That's barely a rate of 10%. Not impressed. And please, please don't tell me that the ten percent of his income he gives to the Mormon church is charitable giving. That is required of all church members. yes, I know this first hand. And why are you shouting? Did I shout at you? Why are you being so rude? What happened to civil discourse? I am not allowed to have doubts about a candidate that I actually prefer to vote for? Do you treat everyone on this blog like this?

4:15 PM, September 14, 2012  
Blogger Crestwood Independent said...

4:15 PM Blogger: Well, well, now where did you get those "facts?"

Here is a Biography of Mitt Romney that speaks the truth, try this on for size.

http://www.biography.com/
people/mitt-romney-241055
?mkwid=s2wG86QRt_pcrid_
13829896608_pkw_
mitt%20romney%20bio_pmt_b&utm_source=google
&utm_medium=cpc&utm_term=mitt
%20romney%20bio&utm_campaign=Political+
Figures&paidlink=1&cmpid=PaidSearch_google_
Political+Figures_mitt%
20romney%20bio

Rude? Come now, what happened to "civil discourse" is a group known a liberals, they don't want it, nor do they allow it.

You seem to be having a fine time with your doubts here (minus the "deleting" of your posts,) so please "discourse" away.

By the way, never ever confuse passion with rudeness, or for that matter "treating everyone on this Blog like this," whatever that is.

It has been said that if you come at me with a BB gun I will respond with an atomic bomb, and I guess that's the gospel truth.

Thank God we still live in a Republic that allows us to read or not read what we please. Your choice is crystal clear, stay and defend your position, or.........

Tom Ford

5:29 AM, September 15, 2012  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I was brought up to believe that it is not only our right but in fact our responsibility as citizens to question those who claim to be fit to run out country. Romney, who had my vote locked up, has recently done some things that caused me to pause and question my decision. Nothing more. I was merely voicing concerns and doubts. I didn't need an atomic bomb, thanks. I pln to vote for him, I don't believe he walks on water.

6:30 AM, September 15, 2012  
Blogger Crestwood Independent said...

6:30 AM Blogger: No one walks on water as you stated not Mitt or obama, nor the minions that claim to be our "leaders!"

I guess you know that the QE-3 program set out by the Fed. is on track to put yet even more people out of work, and the National credit rating will be downgraded yet again.

That is but one example of the pathetic leadership we have seen recently. I would feel better if they just said we have no idea what to do, and sat on their collective hands!

Is Mitt Romney any better than BHO is? I really don't know (no one possibly could or does,) but if he can get elected with the right team in place, then by the grace of God the Republic may indeed be saved!

Under BHO we have charted a course to sink further into the abyss of a false monetary system and a political standing in the world comparable to the worst third world nation you can imagine.

When BHO was elected he stated that under his leadership the Muslim world would be calm and look what we now have. Can Mitt Romney infuriate them any more than BHO apparently has?

I know that this so called spontaneous Arab up rising is said to be over some idiot U tube film, but is it really? No it is not by a long shot.

You don't have 400 people show up with RPG's and explosives in hand out of the clear blue, ERGO I lay this one directly at the feet of BHO.

Mr. Obama has now been in office for over three years, it's time he took responsibility for his actions is it not?

By his own words he proclaimed that unless he could not fix the unemployment and economic malaise he did not deserve another term. I will take him at his word and help to vote him out of office.

Tom Ford

7:31 AM, September 15, 2012  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I agree with most of what you said, but I am curious about how you connect the White House or anyone in it to the video that triggered much of the violence that's happening over there. If there is a connection, I have missed it.

7:51 AM, September 15, 2012  
Anonymous Anonymous said...


OBAMA FLASHBACK: The Day I'm Inaugurated Muslim Hostility Will Ease.


Why would our Marines guarding our Embassies in Muslim countries need ammo after BHO was elected? Plus every one I know says Islam is a religion of peace and love!

10:05 AM, September 15, 2012  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Ambassador Chris Stevens did not have a Marine detail in Benghazi, Libya. But White House Senior Advisor and Obama confidante Valerie Jarrett has a full Secret Service detail on vacation in Martha’s Vineyard, according to Democratic pollster Pat Caddell. That’s the pathetic foreign policy of the Obama administration, says Caddell today in an exclusive interview with Breitbart News. “Jarrett seems to have a 24 hour, around the clock detail, with five or six agents full time,” Caddell explains.

10:19 AM, September 15, 2012  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

We now live in an INEPTOCRACY
(in-ep-toc'-ra-cy) = a system of government where the least capable to lead are elected by the least capable of producing, and where the members of society least likely to sustain themselves or succeed, are rewarded with goods ad services paid for by the confiscated wealth of a diminishing number of producers.

10:49 AM, September 15, 2012  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

10:49 poster: wow. Your feelings about this country are awful. I wonder why you don't move? I hear Canada is nice, and they have much better health care than we do. The scenery is fantastic too, I'm told.

2:11 PM, September 15, 2012  
Blogger Crestwood Independent said...

7:51 AM Blogger: I lay the unrest in the Middle East directly at the feet of BHO for more than one reason.

Reason number one is that he is seen as " weak" by the militant Arab leadership, and they know he will do nothing, ERGO the attacks.

Reason number two, he has cosied up to the likes of Hugo Chavez, and heaped praise on the Castro regime. Once again the see a person who is Marxist leaning, and one they can take advantage of.

I could go on, but you get the drift. We have a person who in my estimation is far weaker than even Jimmy Carter.

The Arabs know it, they have exploited it, and it will continue until they get what they want (everyone in the Muslim faith) or we, the infidels are dead and gone.

So yes indeed, I lay this at the feet of BHO, and for very good reason. Libya tried this when Ronald Reagan was president (killed Americans,) and he bombed the tent of their leader Gaddafi.

Relative peace and quiet reigned for almost 23 years, that is until BHO started bowing to their Sheiks and apologizing for America, now look.

Tom Ford

3:36 PM, September 15, 2012  
Blogger Crestwood Independent said...

10:49 AM Blogger: Come now my friend, that is the opinion of the writer and we must allow them to do it, right?

If we are to rebuke every comment not our own then what happens when our comments are rebuked and removed?

Please re-read the comment, in the context of where we are right now it's not a far fetched as you may think.

We cant keep giving everything to everyone, especially illegals or sound bodied individuals who will not work, and maintain the Republic we love (including the poster.)

All the poster has done is to illustrate with some (Wit added)the plight of the Country as they see it today. It's OK by me, how about you?

Tom Ford

3:47 PM, September 15, 2012  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

INEPTOCRACY, is what we live in when, 70% of taxes are paid by 2% of the tax payers, when 50% of us don't pay taxes, and demand the other 50% pay more in taxes to provide for the social programs they receive.
When 45% of voters polled support the current president who under his plan has has more Americans on food stamps EVER in our history.

5:36 PM, September 15, 2012  
Blogger Crestwood Independent said...

This is a good read on what actually started the problems in the Middle East, and the writer opines that it was not a U tube video! You be the judge.

http://www.weeklystandard.com
/articles/video-didn-t-do-it_
652387.html

Tom Ford

5:41 PM, September 15, 2012  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

well, if the Arab people attack based on seeing our president as weak, what does that say about Bush and Reagan?

6:07 PM, September 15, 2012  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

relative peace....so...9/11 was the Arab world congratulating us on our wonderful foreign policy and a thumbs up for Bush?

6:41 PM, September 15, 2012  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

"so...9/11 was the Arab world congratulating us on our wonderful foreign policy and a thumbs up for Bush?"

Not by a long shot!! 9/11 was brought about by the failure of Bill Clinton to take OBL when he was offered to him.. 9/11 was the result of Clinton treating terrorism as a crime vs. an act of war, like he did with the first World Trade attack. Clinton showed no spine or desire to send in or troops to root out the nest of terrorists, but instead lobbed a few cruise missiles at them, missing OBL by a week on in one attack and blowing up a powder milk factory in another.
Terrorist warfare is like guerrilla warfare. The terrorist hides in the general population, they attack the weakest point with their goal to inflict the largest number of dead and wounded. Like guerrillas, terrorist final hope for victory is to force their enemies into such upheaval in their society, that the will to defeat the terrorist is not deemed worth the cost. Terrorist do not fear appeasers.

7:32 PM, September 15, 2012  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

okay, whatever you say.

8:23 PM, September 15, 2012  
Blogger Crestwood Independent said...

8:23 PM Blogger: No, not "OK, whatever you say," it's the truth!

Please read the true history behind the Arab attacks on the U.S. and Israel, and for that matter the rest of the Christian world for yourself.

The "Jihad," or so called Holy war against the "infidel" (read unbelievers) in the world started way before Bush (either one,) and will continue until they are defeated decisively for once and for all.

Read what the children (boys only)have been, and are being taught in the "Madrases" and then come back and tell us that "it was Bush's fault."

Sorry but the poster is completely correct when he / she stated that "terrorist's do not fear appeasers!"

Tom Ford

6:46 AM, September 16, 2012  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

terrorists do not really fear anyone. It doesn't really matter what era and who is president or what party they are from. There was an attack in 1958 under Eisenhower. There were 3 attacks under Nixon. There were 3 attacks plus the hostage situation under Carter. There were 3 attacks under Reagan, and another one under HW Bush. There at least 3 under Clinton, and there were 7 embassy attacks, plus the big one, 9/11 under Bush. I just think it's an unrealistic statement to say that either party is any better at it than the other. Do we blame Eisenhower for these embassy attacks today? Why would we blame anyone? Why does there always HAVE to be blame? There's too darned much finger pointing in the country.

8:40 AM, September 16, 2012  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

"Why does there always HAVE to be blame?There's too darned much finger pointing in the country."
Tell that to the liberal demorats!

9:46 AM, September 16, 2012  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I would tell that to BOTH parties. Neither is innocent in the whining and finger pointing, and to say otherwise is simply untrue.

11:16 AM, September 16, 2012  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

So you feel the solution is to not vote or to vote for a party that has zero chance to win?
Take a stand on what will be the best for us over the next 4 years.

BTW, RE: the attacks listed from IKE to present, how many of our Ambassadors were murdered in those attacks, how many had 3 days warning of the attacks, how many were done by Islamic terrorist and how many were answered by military responses vs. apologys?

12:30 PM, September 16, 2012  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I heard no apology this time if that's what you're indicating, and I still say neither party can stand up and claim to be innocent in any mess we're in. They are both to blame. I don't know who the libertarian candidate is, so I cannot comment on that.

1:07 PM, September 16, 2012  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Then you are deaf

4:34 PM, September 16, 2012  
Blogger Crestwood Independent said...

8:40 AM Blogger: This has gone on all the way back to the beginning of this Republic (remember that "Shores of Tripoli" stanza in the Marine Corps hymn?)

The difference here is that NONE of the former president's (not even Carter of Clinton) ever APPOLOGISED for America,( or for that matter "bowed" to their leaders,) obama has, and he did (apologize) this time as well!

In a word, PATHITIC!

Tom Ford

5:04 PM, September 16, 2012  
Blogger Crestwood Independent said...

1:07 PM Blogger: If you missed his latest apology I am sure we can dredge it up for you, just ask someone.

Better yet, become informed and look it up yourself, it's all over the net.

Tom Ford

5:06 PM, September 16, 2012  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Okay, I give. You'll have to show me a quote or something, because all the quotes I can find have nothing even resembling an apology. Help me out.

6:53 PM, September 16, 2012  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Wait a minute ... I thought that this was the Arab Spring! That this was President George Bush's doing! At least that's what FOX News said before the attacks and things went south.

Remember GW ... the one that blew the hole in the deficit with his 2001 tax cuts? The one that brought us into a war that was based on faulty intelligence?

11:06 PM, September 16, 2012  
Blogger Crestwood Independent said...

6:5 PM Blogger: Well my friend I will give you the response that your liberal icon Harry Reed did when he accused Romney of not paying taxes.

Prove that it didn't happen yourself, this is so important that it's up to you to prove it didn't happen!

Tit for tat if you will, sounds fair to me, no?

Tom Ford

7:53 AM, September 17, 2012  
Blogger Crestwood Independent said...

11:06 PM Blogger: You must mean the war that ALL the democrats in the House and Senate voted to start right?

The 2001 tax cuts have done more to stimulate the economy than all of obama's slush fund infusions have, and you know it (or you should.)

Try repealing the tax cuts and there will be a dearth of layoff's, business closings, and even obama will fight to restore them.

John F. Kennedy (D) knew that the way to grow the treasury was to cut taxes, he did it and result was prosperity.

He also was he one with Robert McNamara who sent a lot of us to war in Vietnam, but that's a story for another thread.

Faulty intelligence? If you think that was bad, try the obama network of fools who couldn't find their assets with radar. We knew about the attacks three days in advance (that's been documented, look it up) but I guess obama was out playing golf, so we had four people killed for nothing!

Tom Ford

8:05 AM, September 17, 2012  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

you apparently have misread my intentions. I am not in any way trying to be argumentative or unpleasant. I honestly couldn't find any statements that were apologies. I looked everywhere I could think of, from Fox News to CNN. Not a single word uttered by the presidnet or any of his reps had an apology in it, so I am truly trying to figure out what you're talking about.

8:06 AM, September 17, 2012  
Blogger Crestwood Independent said...

8:06 AM Blogger: First of all go to the Drudge report on line.

Now, this is the best analogy of this mess I have ever read, and it's not by either party, so give it a read and tell us what you think please.

http://www.jpost.com/Landed
Pages/PrintArticle.aspx?
id=285034

Tom Ford

9:05 AM, September 17, 2012  
Blogger Crestwood Independent said...

Look who has troops in Syria!

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/09/16/us-iran-syria-presence-idUSBRE88F04C20120916

Marvelous, as Clint Eastwood would say!

Tom Ford

9:51 AM, September 17, 2012  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

9:05 posting: I read the article, thanks for the link. I did not see anything about any apologies, and I thought it wasn't particularly correct, but some of the insights were compelling.

10:24 AM, September 17, 2012  
Blogger Crestwood Independent said...

9:05 AM Blogger: You missed it? It clearly stated that "tweets" were sent out!

Remember the Ambassador of ANY sovereign nation Never, ever says a word on foreign policy with out the express consent from the highest level in Washington!

Now who do you suppose uttered that consent, Hillary/ Nope not high enough! Not much space above her, right?

Tom Ford

10:59 AM, September 17, 2012  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

this is the actual statement issued by the embassy:

"The Embassy of the United States in Cairo condemns the continuing efforts by misguided individuals to hurt the religious feelings of Muslims – as we condemn efforts to offend believers of all religions. Today, the 11th anniversary of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the United States, Americans are honoring our patriots and those who serve our nation as the fitting response to the enemies of democracy. Respect for religious beliefs is a cornerstone of American democracy. We firmly reject the actions by those who abuse the universal right of free speech to hurt the religious beliefs of others."

I see not one apology here. I see a stament trying to tell the people that the US government did not produce that video. I see a re-statement of basic American freedoms, freedom of religion being one, freedom of speech mention as well. I see no apology. Please show me the apology, because honestly cannot see it.

12:27 PM, September 17, 2012  
Blogger Crestwood Independent said...

12:27 PM Blogger: OK, not a problem, try this one and see if you see it here.

http://news.investors.com/ibd-editorials/091212-625547-september-11-2012-and8212-why-does-obama-apologize.htm?p=full

4:13 PM, September 17, 2012  
Blogger Crestwood Independent said...

12;27 PM Blogger: here is another guy who heard and saw it.

http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront
/inhofe-obama-apology-appeasement/2012/09/17/id/451996?s=al&promo_code=10178-1

Tom Ford

4:21 PM, September 17, 2012  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

well, thank you. I did not see a single apology.

6:22 PM, September 17, 2012  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Tom, don't think that Clint would say "marvelous" anymore. He's too busy talking to an empty chair.

9:19 PM, September 17, 2012  
Blogger Crestwood Independent said...

6:22 PM Blogger: Well it's obvious to me that you never will, you really don't want to, therefore "it never happened" no matter who said it did.

Tom Ford

5:00 AM, September 18, 2012  
Blogger Crestwood Independent said...

9:19 PM Blogger: True enough, but that "empty chair" will cause all of us to say "marvelous," and a lot of other things before it's over.

Tom Ford

5:02 AM, September 18, 2012  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

to the 5:00 post, perhaps that is quite true. Perhaps, though, given your familiarity with that mind set, you will insist on seeing apologies that aren't there, no matter who tells you they're not there at all.

7:10 AM, September 18, 2012  
Blogger Crestwood Independent said...

7:10 AM Blogger: Well if that's true I am in very good company, as there seems to be quite a few people that "see" them.

My mind set is pro America, and America first. Now the question is where is yours focused? (and no, that's not a question of your patriotism.)

Tom Ford

9:12 AM, September 18, 2012  
Blogger Crestwood Independent said...

Imagine that! Report (with proof) says that the JUSTICE DEPARTMENT under Eric Holder (of fast and furious fame) has enlisted "media Matters" to run the "spin game" for them.

Now why would the "Justice Department" need to "spin" anything if in fact they were on the up and up?

http://dailycaller.com/
2012/09/18/emails-reveal
-justice-dept-regularly-
enlists-media-matters-to
-spin-press/

Tom Ford

9:24 AM, September 18, 2012  
Blogger Crestwood Independent said...

How the Democrat Leadership looks at their followers-



‎"Ideologies aren't all that important. What's important is psychology. The Democratic constituency is just like a herd of cows. All you have to do is lay out enough silage and they come running. That's why I became an operative working with Democrats. With Democrats all you have to do is make a lot of noise, lay out the hay, and be ready to use the ole cattle prod in case a few want to bolt the herd. Eighty percent of the people who call themselves Democrats don't have a clue as to political reality.What amazes me is that you could take a group of people who are hard workers and convince them that they should support social programs that were the exact opposite of their own personal convictions. Put a little fear here and there and you can get people to vote any way you want. The voter is basically dumb and lazy. The reason I became a Democratic operative instead of a Republican was because there were more Democrats that didn't have a clue than there were Republicans.Truth is relative. Truth is what you can make the voter believe is the truth. If you're smart enough, truth is what you make the voter think it is. That's why I'm a Democrat. I can make the Democratic voters think whatever I want them to." - James Carville

From another forum (Culver pages) but somewhat relevant to this thread, so..............

Tom Ford

9:50 AM, September 18, 2012  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Yes, I'm sure Mr. Carville does feel he can make people think what he wants them to. Maybe he can. But problably no more or less than Mr. Rove, or the Koch brothers, or anyone else at the top pulling the strings. The question is, do we buy into it? If so, which story do we buy and why?
I am and have always been pro-america. I choose my candidates based on what the individual offers at the time. I do not judge based on the drivel coming from a politcal party. I refuse to be a sheep, blindly following party lines, chanting party soundbites. I told you I didn't see any apologies because I didn't...not because some party told me to. Do you insist on seeing them because your party told you they were there? I do not know, only you know that answer. But I know I will never vote for Mitt Romney now, even though mere weeks ago he had my vote. Why? The disdain he holds for a huge portion of his own country doesn't sit well with me, and I can't abide it. I am not talking about Obama, notice, but Mitt only. I do not trust him now.Part of the 47% of the worthless population that he has no interest in are my parents. They worked their whole lives, but now get so little in retirement they don't qualify to pay income tax. They pay every other kind of tax, but not income.They are not laya bouts begging for a handout, they are hard working people who raised kids, worked their whole adult lives and never once accepted charity. They got along on what they had. He apparently feels they are not worth his time, so he will never get my vote. I think he should look at exactly who he's referring to in his 47%.

11:30 AM, September 18, 2012  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

"Mr. Rove, or the Koch brothers, or anyone else at the top pulling the strings.", and watch out for those black helicopters too!!
Look, if the 47% of us that Romney said are dependent on the govt checks want to prove they aren't, let them stop cashing their checks.

Romney was not calling them "laya bouts begging for a handout", his statement was the truth, 47% of us get checks from the govt. With only 5 workers paying into S.S. for each person on S.S. how long will it be before the money runs out? With only 16 people working for every unemployed person getting some form of govt benefits, how long will it be before there is not enough money, or workers? With the failed programs we have seen in the last 4 yrs from this President, what will another 4 years do to our economy? You can take every bit of wealth from every American right now and that would still not pay our current debt. Taking more from the producers to operate govt is not the answer. NOR is the redistribution of wealth by taxation.
The answer is to remove these crazy anti business, anti private sector creating job rules and taxes and get out of the way! The income produced will handle the upcoming S.S. default as more of us go back to work and pay in to the S.S. system, taking care of you parents as they deserve to be. Stop the job killing EPA, stop Obama-care and it's business choking rules, stop allowing public sector unions to run the day. It can and must be done or else the direction this President is leading us will lead us into a Greek like situation.

3:41 PM, September 18, 2012  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Your anti obama rant may well be accurate and justified, but it has little to do with Romney and his aparent inability to even comprehend the vast population he wishes to govern. He was, I believe, referring to those who do not pay income tax. Did he take a split second and mentally check who those people might be? The elderly, for example...who are on tiny fixed incomes? Students, for example...who have student loans and tiny jobs? People who have had a drop in household incomes temporarily? This, in my mind, has not one thing to do with Obama, or Paul Ryan, or any other person. This had to do with a small window into Romney's opinion opening up and I really didn't like what I saw. I refuse to lay that at anyone's feet, because Mitt Romney said it all by himself and not one person out there made him utter those callous, elitist words. He had no clue he was being recorded, and even less of a clue to whom he was referring. And THAT is what has truly turned me off.

3:56 PM, September 18, 2012  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

sure, let the elderly in that 47% stop cashing their checks so Mr. Romney can care about them again. His affection and concern is worth spending the last years of your life eating cat food because the social security checks you used to get had to be stopped so that Mr. Romney could be right. Good plan. I imagine that will go over very well.

4:13 PM, September 18, 2012  
Blogger Crestwood Independent said...

3:56 - 4:13 PM Blogger: I think you know full well who Mr Romney was speaking of, don't you.

Check out the Drudge report.com for a look see at what Mr. Obama has said today.

Today he did actually say that he is for "REDISTRIBUTION" of wealth! That said, all your ideas are moot as you will have only what the "Regime" allows you to keep.

You know the old, "To everyone according to their needs, from everyone according to their needs.!"

I think (and you know,)that was a communist named Karl Marx who had that idea, no? Now our President has the same idea, can it be "background and breading" that has led him to this socialistic / Communist way of life?

Tom Ford

4:26 PM, September 18, 2012  
Blogger Crestwood Independent said...

Here is a good read on the 47% obama, and the liberals keep harping about.

http://
economywatch.
nbcnews.com/_news/2012/09/18/13939069-the
-47-percent-heres-who-pays
-no-federal-income-tax?lite

Tom Ford

5:00 PM, September 18, 2012  
Blogger Crestwood Independent said...

Sorry, my 4:26 PM Post should have read, today it was revealed that Mr. Obama has said, "he is for "REDISTRIBUTION" of wealth!" and not "Today he did actually say that."

Tom Ford

5:05 PM, September 18, 2012  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

see, again with Obama. I am not terribly interested in discussing him. My problem is with Romney. He's the one I wanted to vote for and HE'S the one I am so disillusioned with I don't know what to do. I don't understand why we keep going back to Obama. He has nothing to do with my Romney issues.

6:12 PM, September 18, 2012  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I saw that story. It was from something Obama said in 1998. If we refuse to let Romney's constant changing of his stances from years gone by be held against him, then I won't play that game with Obama either.

6:38 PM, September 18, 2012  
Blogger Crestwood Independent said...

6:38 PM Blogger: "We" haven't refused to say anything about Romney my friend!

No, in fact the so called media, and the democrats have pounded on it almost daily.

I guess you missed that ?


Tom Ford

5:02 AM, September 19, 2012  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

okay, thanks.

5:38 AM, September 19, 2012  
Blogger Crestwood Independent said...

It seems that the administration lied about the roll on the two EX NAVY SEALS in Libya!

http://www.washingtonguardian.
com/revising-Libya-story

Now as disgusting as that is why did they do it? Do they care that little about the families of those that died trying to protect fellow Americans?

Oh, by the way they also lied about it being a "spontaneous" attack. I seems that AL Qaeda was squarely behind this. No time to meet with the Israeli P.M. but all the time in the world to go on Letterman, ETC. Pathetic!

Tom Ford

6:25 AM, September 20, 2012  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I absolutely agree. I am equally pi$%ed off over the republican blocking of the veteran's jobs bill. I find that to be disgusting as well.

12:28 PM, September 20, 2012  
Blogger Crestwood Independent said...

12:28 PM Blogger: I am going to look into the so called Veterans jobs bill. Something here dosen't pass the smell test my friend.

What else is in this bill that would cause ANYONE to block it in an election year?

Follow the money and you will find a democrat waiting on the other end to spend it.

Tom Ford

5:14 PM, September 20, 2012  
Blogger Crestwood Independent said...

12;28 PM Blogger: I thought there was a good reason for this, and that is it violates the Senate agreement put forth earlier this year by both parties!

By the way, democrats control the senate so if they wanted it passed it would be.

This is nothing more than show boating just before the elections! Another thing, the veterans would be tending to trees and trash in the park system's, is that the best we can do for those who fought for us?

http://www.google.com/hostednews
/ap/article/ALeqM5ghM9nEutX3aze
lv65wophg1bWFZQ?docId=36ac85822
20c4faaa24c7cb0e5cb3714

If you want them to have jobs (and we all do,) vote out Mr. obama, stop the regulations by the EPA on business, repeal obamacare, and watch the economy take off.

Tom Ford

5:31 PM, September 20, 2012  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Gaaa! another liberal conspiracy!!

7:56 PM, September 20, 2012  
Blogger Crestwood Independent said...

The Washington Examiner is running a story named "The Obama you don't know," interesting.

http://washingtonexaminer.
com/obama#.UFsQT41lQ18#LPFWLP_S

Tom Ford

6:41 AM, September 21, 2012  

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