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By: The Strata-Sphere » Another Break Through For Adult Stem Cells

The Strata-Sphere » Another Break Through For Adult Stem Cells — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 03:43:02 +0000

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By: bill

bill — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 02:48:11 +0000

This is satire, right?

By: Terrye

Terrye — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 23:09:34 +0000

It seems that the Military has rebuked Obama on halting the Gitmo trials. They might rebuke him on more than that. I think it would hurt Obama politically to go from promising to hunt down Osama to making deals with these guys. But who knows what this guy will do?

By: Frogg

Frogg — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 22:21:09 +0000

I thought Obama was leaning towards sending more troops to Afghanistan and in obtaining more NATO support–not negotiating an American surrender? Which is it?

By: Frogg

Frogg — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 21:24:39 +0000

Military Judge Denies Obama Request to Suspend Hearings at Guantanamo
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/01/29/AR2009012902021.html?wprss=rss_nation

By: kathie

kathie — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 20:32:35 +0000

My hope is that Gates and Patreaus would resign before giving away Iraq or doing anything unconstitutional. Their resignation would get every ones attention very fast.

By: Aitch748

Aitch748 — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 18:27:17 +0000

I’m just a layman civilian, but somehow it sounds to me as if someone did float the “swear fealty to the President and not the Constitution” idea as a trial balloon somewhere. It’s good to hear that this won’t happen, but it does add to the long list of little things about the Obama “cult of personality” that should make any thinking person uneasy.

By: Cobalt Shiva

Cobalt Shiva — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 18:25:07 +0000

A spokesman for General James Cartwright, the Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, states that the Obama Administration wants to have soldiers and officers pledge a loyalty oath directly to the office of the President, and no longer to the Constitution.

Who is this person of spoke?

Also, changing the oath would require Congress to rewrite the governing statute.

By: AJStrata

AJStrata — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 17:56:49 +0000

Frogg,

I actually do not have any real connections (just experience). I seriously doubt that would happen – it is illegal.

By: CatoRenasci

CatoRenasci — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 17:47:46 +0000

Frogg – I suspect the rumor is just that – a rumor. The swearing of an oath to the president is essentially what the National Socialists did in Germany. This personal oath caused a number of (perhaps excessively) scrupulous German aristocratic officers to refrain from taking action against Hitler in the late 1930s when it was under fairly serious consideration, and again in 1944.

By: Frogg

Frogg — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 17:24:44 +0000

AJ, you seem to be well connected with military sources. Can you check out this internet rumor:
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Secretary of Defense Robert Gates is extremely frustrated with orders that the White House is contemplating. According to sources at the Pentagon, including all branches of the armed forces, the Obama Administration may break with a centuries-old tradition.

http://jumpinginpools.blogspot.com/2009/01/military-to-pledge-oath-to-obama-not.html

By: KauaiBoy

KauaiBoy — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 16:47:19 +0000

From your lips to God’s ears AJ—the real God that is.

Again I feel safe in the hands of our military leaders and believe they will do the right things in the end to preserve our constitution and way of life.

By: CatoRenasci

CatoRenasci — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 16:35:10 +0000

So much for Obama the centrist.

Obama is not as bad as we on the right argued he would be, he is at least an order of magnitude worse.

He could actually cause us to lose a war we’ve won and destroy American power within the next four years. Astonishing. People say he and the Democrats won’t tolerate losing a war on their watch…. nonsense, just hang on for the wild ride!

Now, I think the American people will – once it dawns on them – react the same way they did to the loss in Vietnam caused by Congress: not to trust the Democrats on national security for a generation. Or, perhaps, Phil Gramm’s famous prediciton that within a decade people will be hunting Democrats with dogs will be born out an administration later.

“Who lost China?” will pale as a question when the Democrats are held to account for this….