My Grandpa would be so PROUD! Thank you!

Drew Nelms (1923-2011)

Larger than life, a man who lived his life the way he wanted with no excuses or apologies. A great man that shielded family and served his nation as a Marine Drill Sergeant. He now stands beside the throne of God, enveloped in love and the light of Heaven. Pain, fear, and worldly concerns are gone now, replaced with warmth, love and peace. A place fit for heroes and grandfathers – an inspiration to us all. Great Grandfather, Grandfather, uncle, husband, father and friend – a man who answered to many names.

He loved his wife, his family and his friends. He taught his Grandchildren the joy of fishing, and took us on motorhome adventures across the nation through countless summers. He loved his garden, and grew the most amazing vegetables that any homemade stew could ever ask for. When he spent time with his Great Grandson, the joy and pride shown in his eyes was priceless, revealing the softer side to a man of steel.

Gone but not forgotten. Nature abhors a vacuum but the space he occupied will be hard to fill. Our hearts are fuller for having known and loved him. We feel the pain and sadness of our recent loss. They say time heals such wounds, but I will take what Grandpa taught me about life and living, his strength, his inspiration and insight, and pass those bold qualities to his Great Grandson.

The loss will always be with me, I just pray I can make him proud once again by instilling the lessons and memories of a great man as his Great Grandson grows and becomes the man he is meant to be. A man’s man, a family man, a great man. A man to be remembered and to emulate. I love you Grandpa.

Congratulations to the U.S. Military and God bless you all!!

Congratulations President Obama.

President Obama has done something extremely effective, and when he does, this needs to be pointed out.

President Obama has continued the Bush policies of keeping a military presence in the Middle East. He did not scrub the mission to get Bin Laden.

The President may have came up with the technique in order to pull this off all by himself. The military wanted to go in there and bomb like they always do. They wanted to go in there and drop missiles and launch bombs, a number of totally destructive techniques. But President Obama, perhaps the only qualified member in the room to deal with this, insisted on the Special Forces… mmm…

No one else thought of that. According to the President and news reports, not a single intelligence adviser, not a single national security adviser, not a single military adviser came up with the idea of using the Special Forces… Really??

Actually, he kept the Bush policies alive keeping a military presence in the Middle East, allowing the military to finish the job that they started nearly ten years ago.

Obama deserves praise for continuing the Bush policies at Guantanamo Bay. Detainees who may have been waterboarded, and again we need to never forget that President Obama deserves our praise for continuing the policies established by George W. Bush which led to the acquisition of this intelligence that led us to the enlarged hut in Pakistan that led to the assassination of Bin Laden.

Even though Osama had long since stopped being a key commander, because he had no way to issue orders. He was a figurehead. He’d been taken out of the game because of the worldwide manhunt to find him.

This victory was brought about by the policies of the Bush and Cheney administration, policies that President Obama saw fit to continue to the end, keeping our troops in the Middle East, a heightened military presence, unafraid to use the Special Ops.

In 2008, Obama said:

“I’m not gonna make him a martyr. I would not kill him. I would capture him.”

These teams that Obama said he assembled, they fall under the command of the Joint Special Operations Command. They have been operating for almost 30 years. The Joint Special Operations Command is comprised of Delta, the 75th Ranger Regiment, the 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment.

Marine Force Reconnaissance, SEAL Team 6, 1st Special Operations Wing, the 24th Special Tactics Squadron and a few other support elements. The CIA is also heavily involved, especially those from the clandestine service.

That organization has been assembled and operating in Iraq and Afghanistan for almost ten years.

Obama did not assemble it.

It’s the CIA and the Joint Special Operations Command who deserve all the credit for this.

President Obama deserves credit for not disassembling them, because this has been the policy of this country for ten years.

Guantanamo Bay, interrogation, rendition, all of the things the Bush administration put into play to win the War on Terror, this regime kept in place. They might have said something else, they might have given their supporters a different impression by saying they’re gonna close Guantanamo Bay and they’re gonna end all this harsh interrogation technique stuff. But, in fact, they continued the policies.

May 2 from Al Jazeera:

“The US spy agency learned his name four years ago; two years later, it tracked the courier and his brother to a compound in Abbottabad in Pakistan.”

The CIA probably found him through the previously described techniques, tracking him for months with the help of some Delta guys on the ground. And the team that went in Sunday night. They are the ones who deserve all the credit for this, not a politician or a bureaucrat in DC, except to the extent that they didn’t shut it down.

It is a great day for America, but the guys who did the heavy lifting are the guys who wear the uniform.

The left,  the Democrat Party of this country, the liberals, owe us and the United States an apology. They owe us an apology for taking every opportunity to undermine our efforts to track down Bin Laden and other terrorists.

They owe us an apology for their speeches, for their protests, for their lawsuits, their overall campaign to deny our military and our intelligence services the tools and techniques needed to defeat the enemy.

They have sought to undermine the US military, not only in Iraq, but around the world. They have impugned our intelligence services — they have sought to undermine them for at least the last eight years — and among those who owe us this apology is Barack Obama.

Barack Obama campaigned against the very enhanced interrogations that have made him a hero.

One of the first things he did was to sign an executive order closing Guantanamo Bay. It was Barack Obama who wanted to parade Khalid Sheikh Mohammed to New York for a multiyear, multimillion-dollar trial . Barack Obama won the Democrat primary in big part due to his radical anti-war positions — positions that he shared with the most extreme elements in our society. Eric Holder,  owes this nation an apology for his efforts to criminalize this war.

Virtually every tool, every apparatus, every technique, every policy used to effect a successful mission to kill Osama Bin Laden was employed by this current administration and they campaigned on undermining, destroying and ending all of it — and now they claim credit for being gutsy and courageous?

Not a word about the supreme efforts of General Petraeus or the military. Nothing. The staff is still out there trying to frame this as a win for Obama — not the troops, not for intel, not for America, but a win for Obama.

Despite everything that’s been said by this president and this regime, even as they pat themselves on the back, they deserve congratulations.

This is something that Obama inherited from Bush. He inherited a rotten economy. He inherited horrible deficit. He inherited recession. Well, he inherited the policy that led to the killing of Osama Bin Laden.

AMEN!

This post has been expanded and continued as a permalink – See Page: OBAMA ACCOMPLISHMENTS: An ongoing Saga

I probably should have named this “My WTF list” but, being a family friendly site, I will just leave it as is.

Due to site technical issues, and missing the past month of events, I would like to extend the confusing and deteriorating accomplishments of the current administration.

Original Post: Feb. 13  Obama accomplishments shine… like a dim bulb.

In no particular order…

• The stimulus, slush fund has failed.
  How’s that “Hope and Change” working out for ya?
• Obamacare has been rejected by a large majority of Americans.
  The silent majority has spoken.
• Obama embarrassed himself twice in Copenhagen (Olympics and the Global Warming Hoax Conference ).
  Take a bow for those, Obama.
• The deficit and unemployment are destroying the Obama fiction, and the country’s identified Obama’s policies as the problem.
• Democrat candidates were humiliated in New Jersey, Virginia, and Massachusetts, and guess what? Patrick Kennedy has said he’s not running for reelection in Rhode Island. He’s got a 62% disapproval…
  Can’t wait till the 2010 elections.
• Generic polls favor Republicans by huge margins.
• Sarah Palin is getting write-ups now in the Mindless Media that Barack Obama would kill for. Joe Klein and David Broder, the same day, wrote 90% lauding favorable pieces of Sarah Palin.
  You go, girl!
• Of course, then there’s Robert Gibbs. We have to feel sorry for Obama because of Baghdad Bob Gibbs –“We’ve seen in survey after survey that Americans want to see Republicans and Democrats stand together on health care.”
  …stand together AGAINST health care.
• Guantanamo Bay is still open.
  God Bless the U.S. Military.
• Obama will not drop the idea of trying Khalid Sheikh Mohammed in New York City.
  I don’t think we’ve heard the end of this from the Big Apple.
• Michelle Obama has told the world that her daughters are fatties.
• ClimateGate, a total hoax, has been exposed. Record cold temperatures worldwide over the past year, mind-numbing blizzards and Algore nowhere to be found.
  If it doesn’t snow, it’s a sign of global warming… If it snows to much, it’s a sign of global warming… Am I missing something here? Really, that’s what it comes down to? What has happened to common since?
  Oh, right, we’re all just idiots…
• Obama embraces bank bonuses after trashing them for a year.
  Sounds a bits schizophrenic.
• Obama prematurely and awkwardly gives away the lie of not taxing the hell out of the middle class.
  Shocking, eh?
• Joe Biden has, in effect, said mission accomplished to Bush and Cheney for their brilliant policy in Iraq by claiming it’s one of the greatest achievements of the Obama administration.
  We’ve moved from schizophrenic to delusional.
• The tea parties are working.
  Thank God.
• There’s this story from The Politico: “Family Feud: Pelosi at Odds with Obama.”
  “House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s increasingly public disagreements with President Barack Obama are a reflection of something deeper: the seething resentment some Democrats feel over what they see as cavalier treatment from a wounded White House.”
  Modern day ‘three stooges’ — Obama, Pelosi and Reed.
• And then of course Dingy Harry has pulled the jobs bill. He’s reducing it from $85 billion to $15 billion.
  The only ‘jobs’ this administration understands – Union and Government Bureaucracy employment.
• The deadly shooting attack by Abdulhakim Mujahid Muhammad on a military recruiting center in Little Rock, Arkansas in May 2009 that killed a US soldier and injured another.
  Lets not assume he’s Muslim.  That would be acting “Stupidly“.  Terrorist 1, Obama 0.
• Obama takes three days to respond to the Christmas underwear Bomber… three days! If not for luck, the attack would have claimed the lives of at least 300 people, not to mention those who might have died on the ground.
  I do not believe our security should rely on luck… do you? Terrorist 2, Obama 0.
• Obama Refuses to Call Ft. Hood Massacre an Act of Terror.
  A shooting that killed 13 and wounded scores of others, preceded by a SHOUT OUT… Priorities, anyone? Terrorist 3, Obama 0. Feeling safe yet??

May 5, 2010 : Revised additions

• Pelosi: “But we have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it, away from the fog of the controversy.”
  This is how Liberals legislate. Be afraid… very afraid.
• Obamacare becomes law.
  Democrats ignore overwhelming public opposition to ObamaCare and pass it anyway, and Obama continues to ‘Sell’ his plan to no avail.
• Obama takes over ALL Student Loans, under the cover of Obamacare, hidden in 2400 pages of socialist transformation.
  Did you even know the name of the bill? Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010
• Obama snubbed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
  Not a problem meeting with Cuba or Iran, with friends like that, who needs allies?
• Obama refuses to call Massacre at Ft. Hood an Act of Terrorism. President hides behind irrational political correctness again.
  How can we fight terrorism, when the Commander in Chief won’t even acknowledge it.
• War on Terror renamed by Obama Administration.
  No such thing as ‘Islamist terrorism’ in ObamaWorld.  Man Made Disaster? Overseas Contigency Operation?
• Obama excludes private and Catholic school children from the Easter egg roll ticket giveaway.
  A Uniter, Not A Divider? Respect for religion? Really?
• Obama announces that he will approve oil and gas exploration.
  If you believe this one, I have some swampland in Florida to sell you.
• Obama and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev sign the latest Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START)
  Damn… I feel more secure already.  Love those Communist…Ya know they don’t lie.
• “NASA Administrator Charlie Bolden said Tuesday that President Barack Obama has asked him to ‘find ways to reach out to dominantly Muslim countries’ as the White House pushes the space agency to become a tool of international diplomacy.”
  Hu?? WTF… When did NASA become a Public Relations Department?
• Obama hasn’t held a formal press conference in almost a year.
  Where is the Media? Do dictators have to answer questions? Guess not.
• Obama administration continued ‘War’ on Tea Party Patriots. Racist, bigoted, violent, ignorant, hate-filled, intolerant…
  Why does the administration and it’s subordinates continue to defame the most patriotic, God-loving, law abiding, compassionate citizens I’ve ever met?
• Army Disinvites Franklin Graham from National Day of Prayer Event.
  Obama:”…we have a very large Christian population — we do not consider ourselves a Christian nation…”
  USA ranks #1 in National Christian Population.  225 Million / 85% of the Population. Maybe he wants to transform America to a Muslim Nation??
• Obama’s Katrina – Despite plan, not a single fire boom on hand on Gulf Coast at time of oil spill.
  A crisis is a terrible thing to waste, when you can blame it on BIG OIL.
• Governor Jan Brewer signed an immigration law that launched a national debate. Obama called the effort “misguided” and directed the Justice Department to monitor its implementation, warning that it could violate citizens’ civil rights.
  Obama and his regime govern against the will of the people. CBS Poll: 60 percent of Americans say Arizona’s tough new immigration law is “about right” or “doesn’t go far enough.” Are you listening, Washington?
• Times Square attempted car bombing, once again, lucky the bomb didn’t go off.  Obama spent about 50 seconds reassuring us that nothing had happened and nothing will happen, everything’s okay in New York, now back to the economy…
  Do I feel lucky? Well, do ya, punk? …  Terrorist 4, Obama 0.
  

May 13, 2010 : addition

• Holder said at a House Judiciary Committee hearing when asked had he read the state law cracking down on illegal immigrants. — Fox News: May 13, 2010
  Wondering if anyone in Washington actually reads anything…

Unfortunately I see no end to this post and the troubling issues it exposes.

Original Post: Feb. 13, 2010  Obama accomplishments shine…