Intelligent Americans will never sup****t Barak Hussein Mohammad Allah Oh
Akbar Obama because all Americans fear Muslim sounding names and are
scared
of Niggers.
"All Niggers Are Leftists Who Think Alike & Act Alike - All Niggers Are
The
Same, Don't Trust What Niggers Say"
Now that Senator Barak Hussein Mohammad Allah Oh Akbar Obama has become
the
Democrats' nominee for President of the United States, to the cheers of
the
media at home and abroad, he has written a letter to the Secretary of
Defense, in a tone as if he is already President, addressing one of his
subordinates.
The letter ends: "I look forward to your swift response."
With wars going on in both Iraq and Afghanistan, a Secretary of
Defense might have some other things to look after, before making a
"swift response" to a political candidate.
Because of the widely publicized statistic that suicide rates among
American troops have gone up, Senator Obama says he wants the
Secretary of Defense to tell him, swiftly:
"What changes will you make to provide our soldiers in theater with
real access to mental health care?"
"What training has the Pentagon provided our medical professionals in
theater to recognize who might be at risk of committing suicide?"
"What assistance are you providing families here at home to recognize
the risk factors for suicide, so that they may help our service
members get the assistance they need?"
"What programs has the Pentagon implemented to help reduce the stigma
attached to mental health concerns so that service members are more
likely to seek appropriate care?"
All this sounds very plausible, as so many other things that Senator
Obama says sound plausible. But, like so many of those other things,
it will not stand up under scrutiny.
What has been widely publicized in the media is that suicides among
American troops have gone up. What has not been widely publicized is
that this higher suicide rate is still not as high as the suicide rate
among demographically comparable civilians.
No one needs to be reminded that suicide is a serious matter, whether
among soldiers or civilians. But the media have managed to create the
impression that it is military service overseas which is the cause of
suicides among American troops, when civilians of the same ages and
other demographic characteristics are committing suicide at an even
higher rate at home.
Moreover, this is not the first time that military service overseas
has been ****trayed in the media as the cause of problems that are
worse in the civilian population at home.
The New York Times led the way in making homicides committed by
returning military veterans a front page story, blaming this on
"combat trauma and the stress of deployment." Yet the New York Post
showed that the homicide rate among returning veterans is a fraction
of the homicide rate among demographically comparable civilians.
In other words, if military veterans are not completely immune to the
problems found among civilians at home, then the veterans' problems
are to be blamed on military service-- at least by the mainstream
media.
Does Senator Obama know how the rate of suicides or homicides among
military veterans compares to the rate of suicides or homicides among
their civilian counterparts? Do the facts matter to him, as compared
to an op****tunity to score political points?
Perhaps even more im****tant, do the media even care whether Senator
Obama knows what he is talking about? Or is the symbolism of "the
first black President" paramount, even if that means a President with
cocky ignorance at a time of national danger?
The media have been crucial to Barack Obama's whole candidacy. His
only achievements of national significance in his entire career have
been media achievements and rhetorical achievements.
Perhaps his greatest achievement has been running as a candidate with
an image wholly incompatible with what he has actually been doing for
decades. This man who is now supposedly going to "unite" us has for
years worked hand in glove, and contributed both his own money and the
taxpayers' money, to people who have sought to divide us in the most
crude demagogic ways.
With all his expressed concern about the war in Iraq, he has not set
foot in Iraq for more than two years-- including the very years when
progress has been made against the terrorists there.
You don't need to know the facts when you have cocky ignorance and the
media behind you.
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