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Title: Obama to the nation: Onward civilian soldiers
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URL Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/opini ... 12/01/27/gIQAcobPWQ_print.html
Published: Jan 30, 2012
Author: George Will
Post Date: 2012-01-30 08:31:30 by Ada
Keywords: None
Views: 107
Comments: 2

War, said James Madison, is “the true nurse of executive aggrandizement.” Randolph Bourne, the radical essayist killed by the influenza unleashed by World War I, warned, “War is the health of the state.” Hence Barack Obama’s State of the Union hymn: Onward civilian soldiers, marching as to war.

Obama, an unfettered executive wielding a swollen state, began and ended his address by celebrating the armed forces. They are not “consumed with personal ambition,” they “work together” and “focus on the mission at hand” and do not “obsess over their differences.” Americans should emulate troops “marching into battle,” who “rise or fall as one unit.”

Well. The armed services’ ethos, although noble, is not a template for civilian society, unless the aspiration is to extinguish politics. People marching in serried ranks, fused into a solid mass by the heat of martial ardor, proceeding in lock step, shoulder to shoulder, obedient to orders from a commanding officer — this is a recurring dream of progressives eager to dispense with tiresome persuasion and untidy dissension in a free, tumultuous society.

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#1. To: Ada (#0)

Obama, an unfettered executive wielding a swollen state, began and ended his address by celebrating the armed forces. They are not “consumed with personal ambition,” they “work together” and “focus on the mission at hand” and do not “obsess over their differences.”

obsess over differences?

How many times has Obama signed the "Education Day" Proclamation, a thinly veiled celebration of a Jewish war against Christians and everyone else? www.public-action.com/christmas.html

They are not “consumed with personal ambition,” they “work together” and “focus on the mission at hand”

like good little brain-washed robots.

"...as long as there..remain active enemies of the Christian church, we may hope to become Master of the World...the future Jewish King will never reign in the world before Christianity is overthrown - B'nai B'rith speech http://www.biblebelievers.org.au/luther.htm / http://bible.cc/psalms/83-4.htm

AllTheKings'HorsesWontDoIt  posted on  2012-01-30   8:45:17 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#2. To: Ada, *Obama Reality Check* (#0)

I see that Nigger Obama is still pimping-out Saul Alinsky's bullshit. Nobody gives a damn about Nigger Obama, nobody is going to rally on his behalf, especially after seeing his fugly wife's hypocritical lifestyle these last four years.

“With the exception of Whites, the rule among the peoples of the world, whether residing in their homelands or settled in Western democracies, is ethnocentrism and moral particularism: they stick together and good means what is good for their ethnic group."
-Alex Kurtagic

X-15  posted on  2012-01-30   12:54:06 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


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