tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4567168789336947243.post3572353399241971866..comments2024-02-25T09:45:48.931-05:00Comments on Lally's Alley: OBAMALallyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05310472614196384595noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4567168789336947243.post-91509812710445036412007-11-11T07:40:00.000-05:002007-11-11T07:40:00.000-05:00We are still blessfully attack free. I don't think...We are still blessfully attack free. I don't think reports accompllished that. Congress pursuing their right to investigate the executive branch did not accomplish that. It is within the realm of possibility that vigorous exective lead offense aainst folks who wish to kill us accomplished that.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08914280712531959761noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4567168789336947243.post-18551247404532898942007-11-10T12:05:00.000-05:002007-11-10T12:05:00.000-05:00With regard to the question "Who would have predic...With regard to the question "Who would have predicted on 9/12/2001 that we would not have had a major attack from Islamofascists in the good old US Of A." <BR/><BR/>I suggest reading the 9/11 Commission Report. The Commission was, as I remember, headed by Tom Kean (a Republican) and was bi-partisan.<BR/><BR/>In addition, quoted below are two articles that state POINTS OF FACT regarding your question:<BR/> <BR/>BUSH WAS WARNED BIN LADEN WANTED TO HIJACK PLANES <BR/>By DAVID E. SANGER <BR/>Published: May 16, 2002<BR/>The White House said tonight that President Bush had been warned by American intelligence agencies in early August that Osama bin Laden was seeking to hijack aircraft but that the warnings did not contemplate the possibility that the hijackers would turn the planes into guided missiles for a terrorist attack. <BR/><BR/>''It is widely known that we had information that bin Laden wanted to attack the United States or United States interests abroad,'' Ari Fleischer, the president's press secretary, said this evening. ''The president was also provided information about bin Laden wanting to engage in hijacking in the traditional pre-9/11 sense, not for the use of suicide bombing, not for the use of an airplane as a missile.'' <BR/><BR/><BR/><BR/>FORT HOOD, Texas (CNN) -- President Bush said Sunday that an intelligence memo he read shortly before September 11, 2001, contained no "actionable intelligence" that would have helped him to try to prevent the 9/11 attacks.<BR/><BR/>"The (August 6, 2001, memo) was no indication of a terrorist threat," Bush said during an Easter Sunday visit to Fort Hood to decorate wounded soldiers.<BR/><BR/>"There was not a time and place of an attack. It said Osama bin Laden had designs on America. Well, I knew that. What I wanted to know was, is there anything specifically going to take place in America that we needed to react to."<BR/><BR/>But a member of the independent commission investigating the September 11 attacks said Sunday the memo -- the president's daily briefing, or PDB -- should have alerted Bush to the strong possibility of such an attack.<BR/><BR/>Richard Ben-Veniste the memo and other reports and incidents made up a "substantial body of information" about Osama bin Laden's possible plans.<BR/><BR/>The briefing was headlined, "Bin Laden Determined To Strike in US."Sevenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02922865425899526282noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4567168789336947243.post-69797445627288707922007-11-10T10:58:00.000-05:002007-11-10T10:58:00.000-05:00Yea Mukasy! Yea water boarding with Presidential o...Yea Mukasy! Yea water boarding with Presidential oversight. It did not take long for that creep Kalid Sheik Mohamud, who planned 9/11 to break. Who would have predicted on 9/12/2001 that we would not have had a major attack from Islamofascists in the good old US Of A. I hope our presidents will continue to have this option to use on enemy combatants and homicide bombers who relish the thought of killing American women, children and seasoned men like myself. <BR/><BR/><BR/>In 1864 Mr. Lincoln was in serious electorial trouble. The Irish had had draft riots in NYC. Union troops fired on them. Grant was leading troops to slaughter. Lincoln had to arrest and hold without trial American citizens , including congressmen. In short, his popularity was in the crapper. Sherman's taking of Atlanta that summer gave the union cause hope and saved Mr. Lincoln's presidency and the union itself. <BR/><BR/>Harry Truman was about the most unpopular man in American in 1953. America was holding him responsible for what many thought was an unnecessary war in Korea. He also dropped the bomb that killed hundreds of thousands thus avoiding an invasion, saving millions of Japanese and Americas. <BR/><BR/>Today, we have an unpopular president who is leading a war in the middle east against people who ultimately want to establish shariah law throughout the world. Wouldn't it just piss you off, if history treated George Bush , the bumbling idiot, who can not string proper sentences together, but who won three elections in a row against the best the Democrats had to offer, as a great president. <BR/>(note; pls check above sentence for syntax)Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08914280712531959761noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4567168789336947243.post-5902796796056504312007-11-10T10:20:00.000-05:002007-11-10T10:20:00.000-05:00Lally"I guess if you're not screwing "America" whi...Lally<BR/>"I guess if you're not screwing "America" while stealing her blind, you must hate her. Is that your reasoning there old buddy?"<BR/>----------------------------------- <BR/>Is that it Mike? You obviously are not attempting to overwhelm me with logic. I think Sr. Jema would object to your wording. A conservative can only hope that the Democrat nominee will use your thinking in the campaign.<BR/><BR/>By the way, judging from your picture, you are not looking any younger. Unfortuanately, neither am I.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08914280712531959761noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4567168789336947243.post-78028245692918292012007-11-10T00:53:00.000-05:002007-11-10T00:53:00.000-05:00Lal... Very cogent post. It made me remember som...Lal... Very cogent post. <BR/><BR/>It made me remember something you and others may have forgotten. Stevenson was U.N. Ambassador during the Cuban Missile crisis, as wonderfully portrayed by Ralph Bellamy in THE MISSILES OF OCTOBER (1974). Even though Missiles was made for TV, it ranks far above the 2000 effort, THIRTEEN DAYS with Bruce Greenwood as JFK, Costner as Kenny O'Donnell, and Michael Fairman as Stevenson.<BR/><BR/>Talk about having the right guy in the right place at the right time, Stevenson was it. That, as opposed to all the hacks Bush appoints who have no aptitude, let alone any gravitas. "Yer doin' a heck-uva job Brownie!"<BR/><BR/>Sigh...<BR/><BR/>WillyAlamedaTomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01623796440779934437noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4567168789336947243.post-15777769202433126542007-11-09T17:43:00.000-05:002007-11-09T17:43:00.000-05:00I've been following Barak Obama since his elequent...I've been following Barak Obama since his elequent 2004 Democratic National Convention Keynote Address. His message of hope positioned him as a fresh, strong leader in the Democratic party, as well as a viable alternative to Hillary as an electable Presidential Democratic candidate.<BR/><BR/>It is for this very reason, that I've been following his voting record- and Hillary's voting record, very closly. In my book, actions speak louder than words.<BR/><BR/>Unfortunately, both Obama and Clinton DID NOT vote on PN 958: Michael B. Mukasey , of New York, to be Attorney General.<BR/><BR/>Too busy campaining, no doubt. <BR/><BR/>Mukasay won his appointment by a very slim margin. Now Mukasay, a man that cannot bring himself to answer a direct question regarding whether or not he views waterboarding as torture will be our new Attorney General. <BR/><BR/>What an improvement.<BR/><BR/>And what a disappointment. As a lifelong Democrat rapidly leaning towards being an Independent, I can say without reservation- IMHO, Stevenson, Clinton and Obama are not in the same league.Sevenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02922865425899526282noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4567168789336947243.post-5322664373615832642007-11-09T15:55:00.000-05:002007-11-09T15:55:00.000-05:00I guess if you're not screwing "America" while ste...I guess if you're not screwing "America" while stealing her blind, you must hate her. Is that your reasoning there old buddy?Lallyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05310472614196384595noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4567168789336947243.post-70075438305601888672007-11-09T14:57:00.000-05:002007-11-09T14:57:00.000-05:00Hi Mike,I thought I would check in one year after ...Hi Mike,<BR/>I thought I would check in one year after you celebrated the election of San Fran Nan as Speaker of the House. It is hard to believe that any politician could poll lower than Pres. Bush but she and Dingy Harry have succeeded. Luckily for the country that has been about their only success. It should be an interesting political year. The Democrat Party is renewing their bona fides of high taxation, socialzed medicine, weak national security. Hopefully the nominees will have meaningful debates like Sarkozy and the French socialist lady did. A series of debates with little interference from moderators should demonstrate the clear choices America has. If the Democrat party was still the party FDR, Give'm Hell Harry and JFK, we conservatives would not have a chance. However, since the Democrats draw their core strength from the "Hate American First Crowd" it could be a real fun political year. <BR/><BR/>I hope all is well with you.<BR/>Jim McKennaAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08914280712531959761noreply@blogger.com