tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6337568240689378702.post3892811619254786753..comments2023-11-17T02:23:26.098-06:00Comments on A Penigma - a mystery, under a pseudonym: Clowns to the Left of Me, Jokers to the Right - Obama and McChrystal, Sticks and Rolling Stones, Part IIPenigmahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05134413210507419937noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6337568240689378702.post-54133376342878796212010-07-16T19:29:57.133-05:002010-07-16T19:29:57.133-05:00Well McCrystal said in the Rolling Stone interview...Well McCrystal said in the Rolling Stone interview he voted for Obama, so he might be a moderate but I doubt he was a conservative. Both sides are making too much of this. McCrystal was frustrated with the politics of the war. That has happened to American generals since George Washington. We have a civilian at the top of the military and an elected Congress deciding how much equipment and men tottuckerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17952185527962074906noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6337568240689378702.post-30137066996913726692010-07-10T11:58:06.065-05:002010-07-10T11:58:06.065-05:00Popularity for generals is not static; it changes ...Popularity for generals is not static; it changes continually, fluctating up and down.<br /><br />Petraeus seemed, from his confirmation herings, to be quite well loved by all sides.<br /><br />I get tired of talking heads lik Limbaugh, and the sycophantic right-wing bloggers who emulate him, always assigning the most noble of motives and ethics spin of competence where the facts suggest dog gonehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00151618317070878675noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6337568240689378702.post-2826575662223140292010-07-10T11:29:38.389-05:002010-07-10T11:29:38.389-05:00Limbaugh vascilates between claiming that Obama is...Limbaugh vascilates between claiming that Obama is inept and claiming that he sacrificed his own political pawn (which McChrystal definetly was NOT) to put in power someone else's preferred General (namely Patreaus whom the left supposedly hates according to Limbaugh).<br /><br />IF Obama killed his own political operative (McChrystal) to put in place someone NOT politically popular in his Penigmahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05134413210507419937noreply@blogger.com