whydidoit, and I'm the third-grader. Bottom line, I'm not playing a tough guy approach. I was merely trying to say in the first comment I made that whether you fit in with the military lifestyle or not, you are an important asset. You signed up, great, it didn't work for you, so be it. Do your time and do it well because whether you think you're important or not, to someone you are. Do the honorable thing and serve proudly. I respect your opinion but I am sick and tired of the liberal media always putting sob stories like yours to the forefront of the daily paper. How many times do you hear about the Soldiers re-enlisting knowing fullwell what the Army is like for them? I'm tired of people giving the military a bad rap. I'll tell you what, whether you valued your service or not, there are a lot of people who respect that, including me. The part I have no respect and tolerance for is the few that feel like everything is against them so they're going to tell the world how much their life sucks and blame the military for it.
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With his hands full implementing the recovery plan (it isn't easy spending all that money wisely) and dealing with global flashpoints, Obama will probably delay introducing his big new energy and health plans until summer at the earliest. Some deadlines loom. The successor to the Kyoto summit on climate change takes place in December in Copenhagen. The United States will be embarrassed to attend that conference without a cap-and-trade system or other major carbon tax as part of a comprehensive energy policy. Health-care reform, now mostly the province of Tom Daschle, Ted Kennedy, Max Baucus and Ron Wyden, may be closer than the skeptics think. For all the obstacles, opposition is splintered.
Even the most auspicious debut won't remain unsullied. In 1933 Congress rejected Roosevelt's first bill regulating Wall Street. The new president slashed veterans' benefits 50 percent, and the publicity was so bad that he had to rescind many of the cuts. His threat to veto any bill containing bank-deposit insurance proved empty. But Roosevelt nonetheless succeeded brilliantly in his first 100 days. He kept throwing ideas against the wall to see what stuck. He pushed his subordinates to deliver and stop making excuses. When all his aides said we cannot create a Civilian Conservation Corps, he said yes, we can.
The reason Barack Obama has good odds for a successful 2009 is that he understands that the most important words in FDR's first Inaugural Address were that the nation needed "action, and action now." And so we do again.
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