OT: US President (US Dom Players only)

[JimMorrison]

Originally Posted by Bwaha

Obama's comments about a national security force came during a speech in Colorado about building a new civil service corps. Among other things, he called for expanding the nation's foreign service and doubling the size of the Peace Corps "to renew our diplomacy."

"We cannot continue to rely only on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives that we've set," Obama said in July. "We've got to have a civilian national security force that's just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded."

I think this concept of "Civil Service", and the concept of "security" were being lumped together. That is to say that if we had better foreign relations, and a more contented citizenry, that we would safer (read: more secure) from terrorist attacks, whether domestic or foreign in origin.

Originally Posted by Bwaha

Broun said he also believes Obama likely will move to ban gun ownership if he does build a national police force.

Oh how we love biased conjecture. What else does Broun believe? He's a member of the Committee on Homeland Security - so maybe he is just protecting himself, while whipping up anti-liberal sentiment?

Originally Posted by Bwaha

"We can't be lulled into complacency," Broun said. "You have to remember that Adolf Hitler was elected in a democratic Germany. I'm not comparing him to Adolf Hitler. What I'm saying is there is the potential."

You see why there's such concern about where our country is going.

And so the threshold of Godwin's Law is breached.

No, I don't see why there is "such concern", not from this. I saw concern on a nearly daily basis, due to GW Bush's actions, inactions, and legislation. You let someone gut the 4th amendment, and then you run around screaming that someone else might infringe "a little" bit on another amendment, in your eyes?

All I see here is politically aimed propaganda and hysteria-mongering.

Let's all relive 2004 and run around chanting "9/11, terrorism, Bin Laden" for a few months, shall we? I'm sure that will be productive. Let's always measure people by what we can imagine to fear they are capable of, rather than what they are actually doing, or have done. We just got through 8 of the worst years of governance in this nation's history, and McCain looked to want to continue walking down that same path - at least give the alternative a chance to step into office and prove he can do even just a LITTLE BIT better than what we've been trained to accept.