tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32512109.post8630463432032335609..comments2024-03-27T11:10:52.382-07:00Comments on On My Mind: Embarrassment at the UNJayhawkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00756807802218022043noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32512109.post-13063407524015027642012-09-27T03:44:56.809-07:002012-09-27T03:44:56.809-07:00You could be one of a pitifully small number of pe...You could be one of a pitifully small number of people who even know Obama made a speech. Some of them hate him, some like him and my sense is that most are pretty indifferent. I work at a regional jail so I interact with a lot of people every day. I wouldn't dare ask anyone there, but my sense is that I'd be lucky to find one out of the couple hundred people I encounter daily who know Obama gave a speech at the UN, let alone what he said or why it matters. Nobody seems to much care. Maybe the difference between they and I has something to do with my three years in the Marine Corps from '68 to '71 and the 13 months in Vietnam, I'm not sure. Having the perspective from Johnson through Obama sometimes feels like knowing a deep, dark secret that I can't tell anyone due to a magic spell. Plato's cave, I guess. Larryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17406023953762541966noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32512109.post-42102922335532350522012-09-26T20:33:01.765-07:002012-09-26T20:33:01.765-07:00Ouch.... on both counts. Well, it's pretty muc...Ouch.... on both counts. Well, it's pretty much true.<br /><br />BTW, I'm pretty sure GWB said Iraq had "weapons of mass destruction" not nukes specifically. That doesn't preclude nukes, of course, but Colin Powell was famously pictured waving a tube of some nefarious substance purported to be sample of a chemical WMD.<br /><br />And not sure Israel has "several hundred" nukes, estimates run from 75-200 (likely) to 400 (tops, less likely). Does that mean 'several hundred'? I suppose. Just a quibble.<br />brucenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32512109.post-29296553216567589042012-09-26T13:11:41.598-07:002012-09-26T13:11:41.598-07:00I'm embarrassed by the fear mongering and deta...I'm embarrassed by the fear mongering and detachment from reality of our leaders, and the ignorance and apathy of the people who vote for them.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com