What Obama exemplified and McCain did not was leadership.

McCain trumped himself when he selected Palin and compounded that mistake with more like saying she knows more about energy than anyone in the country or that she has military experience by way of being governor/cic of state national guard, and on and on…

The fact that transition team selections are well regarded should ease anyones doubts and give them pause before they start the naysaying.

For the clueless, there’s a world wide economic crisis that will without a doubt lead to budget cuts across the board, including DoD. A springboard for many a retiring officer to join with or lobby for a contractor who will be more than happy to sell the taxpayer a goldplated shovel with which to dig latrines or a $64 fastener that Home Depot sells for $1.39.

And for the really clueless, look up BRAC and note it’s inception, who signed it into law and also try to understand why it became law.

If you don’t like what has transpired then do something about it besides crying and whining, you don’t want to do something smart and logical about it, then let those that do make that attempt. either way quit your pissing and moaning, as you can see it’s not accomplishing anything. For those of you that want to sue the entire Democratic Party, here’s a reminder, you also swore to uphold the Constitution and obey all orders of your Superiors, I definately don’t recall you getting to chose which superior whose orders you get to obey.

You all sound like a bunch of children, you didn’t get your way so you are going to pack up and go home. Then go home, get out of my military, the military certainly doesn’t need you crying whiners in it to defend this country.

“Well, it took 4 years of Jimmy Carter to get Ronald Regan in office. We’ll see what happens with a do nothing Congress after 4 years.”

And it took about six month of Bush to screw it up. Whatever happens over the next four years will be better that the last eight. The Repubs do what they do best, mess up the whole world, luckily the American people saw through the veil of darkness before it was too late.

I retired from the Army after 20 plus years and I remember soldiers as being smart and having the ability to analyze situtions, not just follow orders. If what I have read here is representative of how our current day military members use thier brains, we are really in deep Kim Chi!

Lastly, Obama is the new President. We should support him. Nothing wrong with being critical, but leave race, gender, and all other insignificant crap out of the equation. Our government will work, but we as citizens have a role to play. Let’s stop whining and support our leadership!!

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No, he didn’t. He wrote a letter in 1969 to his draft board trying to get a deferment. Not exactly admirable, but given that he joined George “I made West Texas safe from the Vietcong” Bush and Dick “I’m too busy having children to be drafted” Cheney, it was a non-partisan non-admirableness.

Also make them do an economic impact on what would happen if they cut the military budget. They will have to determine how many people in the defense industry from manufactures to suppliers and the local city, county and states they are in will be affected by their cuts. Also how much revenue in the form of Federal Income Tax and Social Security taxes will be lost and what state income taxes would be lost and how much the Federal and States government will have to pay out in unemployment benefits.

I think they will be surprised at the figures

And tens of thousands more enlisted men & women supporting the new President.

Thank God for all you posting here who aren’t whineing, cursing or bad-mouthing the new President, and Congress. You’re the true Professionals! Stand tall!

No wonder my cousins are retiring from the Air Force. God help us all.

That is your RIGHT to VOTE. The reason why there is a curtian that covers a ballot box is so that You can vote in private. This is still the one Right not taken. Don’t give up this private right to become public, otherwise that right will also be taken away.
That voices made here, need to be directed to your congressional constituant. The lobbist do it, so should we!!!

http://www.congress.org/congressorg/directory/congdir.tt

http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm

(ref the book of Revelations-KJV).

As much as I disagree with your disgusting and disturbing diatribe… I went through 2 wars, and spent 31 years risking my life defending your right to your “opinion” and your freedom to express it… as did many other honorable Americans. (Thanks…)

Incidently, I also achieved 3 degrees (BS & 2 Masters) while in service to OUR country! So, in answer to your question: Yes

Regardless whether we like or agree with the outcome of the election, the will of the people have spoken. Politically, this is perhaps one of the worse times in history to accept the role of President and depending on how well Obama does in the first two years of office will determine whether he has a chance at getting reelected.

Economic forecast are already projecting that the next six to seven years will be one of the worse economically since the stock market crash prior to the Great Depression. There are many factors that are contributing to the current decline of the economy. Some are because of Bush and the outlays to support the war. However, Obama will not end the war or America’s presence in Iraq after he’s in office.

Some of the problems are because of the democratically controlled Congress who intentionally allowed certain things to happen to ensure the Democrats would gain control.

Some of the problems are caused by the American public who overextended and then defaulted on their mortgages, credit cards, auto loans, etc…

Other forecasts that are currently floating around are a devaluation of the dollar, double-digit unemployment, inflation, and interest rates.

Also, there is talk of the draft being brought back because of a sharp decline in the military manpower levels that will occur due to the deep cuts in the military budget to help reverse the current economic situation.

We are on the edge and there is plenty of reasons why we are currently in this economic crisis and I do believe Obama will make every attempt to change the economic situation.

However, I also believe he will not get the help or support he needs from Congress, the military, or the American people and America will decline even further than we are now.

Finally, the sky is falling, the end is near, and we’re all going to die.

As far as those who have made comments about the intellect of the US service members, I am appalled. Especially when those posting the comments cannot spell, or puncuate properly. I served, and serve with some of the most intelligent people in the United States. Reservists who are CEO’s of hospitals, lawyers, and even politicians; many are policemen, firefighters and the majority college students. The officer corp requires college degrees and the US Army will not promote beyond a certain point without proper education. One of the reasons many young people join the military that are not educated is because the military offers educational incentives and they desire to get ahead in life. The military is about learning and growing and becoming the man or woman that you have the potential to become. There are exceptions to everything, but as a business man I would hire military long before someone that finished top in their class and had no experience in life. I’ve watched boys and girls become men and women in a short time. What the new CIC will do, who really knows. As an Army NCO with a Bachelors degree in Business, I know what I will do. I will continue to march, salute when I have to, and if my country tells me my time is up and they cannot pay me anymore; I have other options that I will take advantage of.

As a closing note, I did not vote for Obama, don’t care for his politcal stand on health care and the military. Before someone throws out that I don’t like him because he’s black; I will go a step farther and tell you that I would have gladly voted Condi for President, and Colin Powell for her Vice.

For all the volunteers that have fought for this country, you are our Hero’s! And Hero’s don’t cry!

We FIGHT!!! If you can’t beat the system, join it.

And one way to join it is to force the system to go back to the DRAFT! This would definately wake up all those civilians with grand ideas about the military.

Do I agree with the draft? Absolutley NOT! Our hands need not be tied in war, and we just need to get it done with.
America has the technology, equiptment and expertise to WIN. Our leaders need one week on the battle field (not in protective custody) with the troops to wake them up.
Draft all those 19–35 year olds. Draft those who are in the welfare lines. Draft those who are in the prisons as “BAIT” for the enemy. Draft those who ask for MUCH, and give back nothing!
We are not at War, or did I miss the Congressional Act that authorizes war?

“let see, senator Schmurn from NY on tv waived a paper saying Countrywide mortage/bank was going broke (not true), people made a run on the bank and withdrew billions. It then did fail thanks to schmurn. Barney Franks held hearings in 2004 and 2008 where Bush admin. told franks the mortage companies were in trouble. barney said there was no proof that freedie and fanny were in trouble and told people to keep investing in mortage companies. Guess what 4 months later they started to fail. Looking back you can see a pattern of how the mortage, insurance and banks were set up to fail by the democrates. This was done in order to show how bad bush was, so the people would vote for democrates.”

You seem to have firm knowledge of things, to bad the Repubs didn’t. It’s also to bad you didn’t inform them of the situation before hand, you might still have a few of those(I won’t call them names, it’s moot at this point) Senators still in office, if what you say is true of course. Everyboby know what happened, trying to spin it or blame it on somebody else won’t work.

Back to the subject. This is just the “transition team” not the actual DoD team. They are the ones who will make sure the out going administration don’t try and pull a fast one, before they leave office, even though it seems they are trying to screw things up worse than they already have.

Oh, and here’s a reminder, since you volunteered to join whatever military branch you are currently in, perhaps you should review your contract again, you will notice that you basically signed over your rights to the military and you pledged to obey your superiors. I don’t recall the contract giving you the rights of a democracy in deciding what you will or will not do.

So in short, while you are out where ever you are stationed or deployed to, just remember, you can gripe, bitch, or even moan about the President-elect, it’s still not going to change the fact the he will be taking office. So get over it, what is done is done, now give him a chance just like so many others have given you a chance to prove yourselves.

QM1(SS)