A Message from the President

I received this email yesterday (Sunday):

Buck —

Early this morning, the last of our troops left Iraq.

As we honor and reflect on the sacrifices that millions of men and women made for this war, I wanted to make sure you heard the news.

Bringing this war to a responsible end was a cause that sparked many Americans to get involved in the political process for the first time. Today’s outcome is a reminder that we all have a stake in our country’s future, and a say in the direction we choose.

Thank you.

Barack

I’ve gotten used to the idea of being older than the American president, but I’m still working on being on a first-name basis with the man. I have to agree with whoever wrote this piece of weirdness about all of us having a stake in the future, but I can’t quite buy in to the “say” part. That would be easier if Obama had closed Guantanamo, hadn’t renewed the Patriot Act and stopped caving to the Republicans.

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I agree.

The spin on his message to you and the American people is fraudulent. The Obama administration was negotiating a continuance of Bush’s war crimes beyond Bush’s withdrawal date, but the Iraqi’s had a “say” in how our troops would be conducting themselves after 1.1.2012. That is the real reason why Barack has brought the boys back home.

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-18563_162-20124021/immunity-for-troops-was-iraq-deal-breaker/

A Message from the President

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Poetic Justice

Verbatim

“One woman at a rally in New Jersey told me last week that she was ‘nauseously optimistic.’ That may capture a lot of people’s last-minute jitters.”

— Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD), quoted by Axios, on what Democrats feel ahead of the midterm elections.

“I think Congress made a mistake not protesting turning the Rose Garden into what looks like the entrance to Liberace’s bathroom.”

— Former President Bill Clinton, quoted by The Wrap.

“Boy, they are scraping the bottom of the barrel. It feels like a real desperation play to me, because it has got zero basis in the law.”

— Republican election law expert Ben Ginsberg, quoted by Politico, on the Trump administration’s effort to invalidate Alaska’s election results.

Numerati

3,824

$1.4 billion

-35 points

31%

63% to 38%

KFF Poll: “With the 2026 midterm campaigns in full swing and early voting about to begin, there is a wide enthusiasm gap between partisan voters, with Democratic voters 25 percentage points more likely than Republican voters to say they are ‘more motivated’ than usual to vote (63% vs. 38%).”