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Obama is still an enigma to almost everyone. Sometime in the distant future, after the Liberal Democratic historians have finished canonizing him some historian will produce the definitive biography. Like Kennedy, it will be met with skepticism and denial by an overly sympathetic press corps, until enough time has passed for him to be accorded accurate historical review. Until then, we will have to be satisfied with "first to be" that has been bestowed on his legacy.
My most recent project has been reading recent biographies of the founders of this country. Even now 240 years is not enough to bring them safely into the realm of human foibles that defined all mankind.
Commented: Tuesday, October 24th, 2017 @ 2:28 pm
By: Bobby Tony
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Ditto on Bowe Bergdahl ... and why did Obama try so hard to make him out to be a hero. I believe on a very apparent level Obama identified with his drive to just give up ... no matter the costs.
Commented: Tuesday, October 24th, 2017 @ 2:16 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Separating the talent from the person is a difficult dilemma. I have very few if any entertainers that I refuse to watch because I have a pretty good filter between entertain and credibility. Hell, I even forgave Jane Fonda (A classic Useful Idiot) for her youthful excess when I realized that I may have taken myself a bit too seriously when I was young.
Now Bowe Burgdahl is an entirely different matter. May he not rest in peace when the time comes.
Commented: Tuesday, October 24th, 2017 @ 9:47 am
By: Bobby Tony
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Me too. I can't imagine how difficult it would be if I was rich and famous.
I did like the film Platoon, and JFK had its points, but sometimes Oliver Stone seems bit lost. I'll check out the variety post. I just checked out the post. I sure hope the former Playmate will emotionally recover from the boob beep-beep. It had to be so humiliating to be so objectified. Let me tell you who has some real problems - Bill O'Reilly.
Commented: Tuesday, October 24th, 2017 @ 9:39 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Just for the record, Olive Stone has his own problem now.
variety.com I sure am glad I am not a famous celebrity living in Hollywood. Bobby Tony would never do such a thing but I am not sure about that other fella who lives with him.
Commented: Tuesday, October 24th, 2017 @ 8:19 am
By: Bobby Tony
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You are correct Stan, Oliver's movie JFK (1991) was the impetus for the passage of legislation that paved the way for this release.
That is our very own Oliver Stone who served in my sister unit 3rd Battalion, 25th Infantry Regiment in 1967 long before I got there. Ever the Master Story teller who never let the facts get in the way of a good story. I have always cut him some slack because of his service as a combat soldier, Bronze star for Valor and Purple Heart with one Oak Leaf cluster. He made a career out of asking the age old grunt question and coming up with a convoluted answer like any good GI rumor mill would do. How in the hell did that Happen? www.military.com
Commented: Tuesday, October 24th, 2017 @ 5:43 am
By: Bobby Tony
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Don't you think that Oliver Stone had a hand in this?
Commented: Monday, October 23rd, 2017 @ 9:38 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Castro, Mafia, J.Edgar, Southerners...Husbands were the least of his problems.
Commented: Monday, October 23rd, 2017 @ 8:19 pm
By: Ted McDonald
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Mostly angry husbands, I suppose.
Commented: Monday, October 23rd, 2017 @ 6:34 pm
By: Bobby Tony
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Off Track with VN. JFK and Robert had lots of enemies.
Commented: Monday, October 23rd, 2017 @ 6:32 pm
By: Ted McDonald
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Commented: Monday, October 23rd, 2017 @ 5:37 pm
By: Bobby Tony
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There are various timelines on that issue. We had been in Vietnam since 1955 and by 1962, the U.S. military presence in South Vietnam had reached some 9,000 troops, compared with fewer than 800 during the 1950s. No doubt Johnson escalated the commitment.
Vietnam is one of the few subjects where I try to refrain from debate about motives because I am not able to separate fact from fiction or bias in my own mind do to emotional involvement. www.history.com
Commented: Monday, October 23rd, 2017 @ 5:35 pm
By: Bobby Tony
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www.usatoday.com Six conspiracy Theories about JFK.
Commented: Monday, October 23rd, 2017 @ 5:34 pm
By: Ted McDonald
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Start. Johnson started the war when he replaced JFK.
Commented: Monday, October 23rd, 2017 @ 5:12 pm
By: Ted McDonald
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Start or stop?
Commented: Monday, October 23rd, 2017 @ 4:53 pm
By: Bobby Tony
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Refusing to start the VN war was his big military-industrial mistake.
Commented: Monday, October 23rd, 2017 @ 4:49 pm
By: Ted McDonald
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