I love Michelle and the goils, and of course the First Dog BObama. What a gorgeous family the president has.
(CNN)– This year, military families will be the first to see the 2012 holiday decorations. The official tree in the Blue Room will pay tribute to those serving in the military and will feature decorations by children living on U.S. Military bases around the world, according to information released by the White House.
There are no words anymore, she’s just da bomb.
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My longtime buddy Andy Marquis has a post he’d like to share. He has covered auto racing for five years, including: IZOD IndyCar Series, NASCAR Whelen All American Series late model racing, dirt late model racing, USAR Pro Cup Series, ARCA Racing Series, and IHRA Drag Racing.
Here’s his rant, a response to the commentary about the boos Michelle Obama received at NASCAR:
Now, let me tell the world how I really feel
I’ve got issues. Now, I don’t always speak for all of the NASCAR world and very rarely speak for most of NASCAR nation, but I think I do speak for most of NASCAR nation when I say we’re sick and tired of being stereotyped by the left and by the media as a bunch of drunken rednecks. Oh, don’t forget “racist”, they’re throwing that one in there now.
First of all, I do not condone NASCAR fans booing First Lady Michelle Obama or Dr. Jill Biden. That’s not cool. But to paint the entire motorsports community with one broad brush… as is said so well every Monday night, “C’mon man!”
Did the media forget about NASCAR fans booing Todd Palin at a NASCAR race, or throwing a proverbial temper tantrum when former Governor Sarah Palin (R: Alaska) showed up to the Daytona 500? Did they forget about fans booing President Barack Obama at a Washington Nationals game? Of course they didn’t, they just want to take NASCAR’s shining moment and ruin it.
See, Sunday played host to the greatest championship battle the sport has ever seen and will never see again. Tony Stewart came from behind, in the race and the points, and won the championship on a literal tie. That’s right, Tony Stewart and Carl Edward were tied at the end of the season, with Stewart getting the big prize by virtue of clinching his fifth win in the last ten races and fifth win on the year. But, the media doesn’t want to let NASCAR have its moment for once (because the NFL gets its moment every other day). Instead, they’ve got to target NASCAR fans.
How about football? Did the media forget about students at Penn State rioting, throwing rocks in to cars and setting fires, because their head coach Joe Paterno (Jo-Pa) was fired for protecting a child molester? Yeah, we’re the drunken rednecks. Or we could go in to the very long list of Philadelphia sports fans acting like jackasses or the riots that take place anytime a Montreal team loses anything.
Don’t get me wrong, it’s never cool to boo at the President of the United States, or the first lady. That office demands respect, and Michelle Obama should’ve been treated with more respect than that. But let’s be honest, it’s not the first time sports fans have acted like idiots nor will it be the last. But it will be ignored any other time and NASCAR fans will always be made out to be a bunch of balding, pot-bellied, beer drinking, redneck Klansmen. And I, someone who’s as much a conservative Republican as Keith Olbermann and Rachel Maddow, am sick of it.
Andy Marquis: @AMARQUIS32
Contributor, www.race22.com
Reporter, TheBayNet.com
Pertinent part is at 1:35. My folks lived in Homestead for many years, it can be a very redneck area. But there still is no excuse. Via the always on top of it Mediaite.
I’m not normally a sentimental person, but crap like this gets to me.
Fast food may lead to varying kinds of surprises for diners but for one military wife, it was in fact the exceptional service.
After a Florida woman’s husband made his third-deployment to Afghanistan, wife Amy Reed, 24, made Tuesday nights Chick-fil-A night for her young family, as a way of coping with his absence.
But the tradition also became into an opportunity for the husband to surprise her with his unexpected return home this month, as a one-time Chick-fil-A server, caught on tape.
You know, I’m normally not that harsh on the Teabaggers. Yeah, they’re ignorant and mean spirited, but also terribly amusing. But this crap has my blood boiling. Not only are this country’s seniors losing sleep over the Teabaggers mental incapacity in understanding the stakes, now the troops are worried. Asshats.
CAMP LEATHERNECK, Afghanistan —A half a world away from the Capitol Hill deadlock, the economy and debt crisis are weighing heavily on U.S. troops in Afghanistan.
And the top question on their minds Saturday even as bombings rocked the city around them, was one the top U.S. military officer couldn’t answer.
Will we get paid?
“I actually don’t know the answer to that question,” Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told a group of troops, while at the same time telling them they will continue to go to work each day.
But he offered a bit more optimism than defense officials have acknowledged when those questions have come up in recent weeks.
“I have confidence that at some point in time, whatever compensation you are owed, you will be given,” said Mullen, who is making his 15th trip to Afghanistan, just two months before he retires. But, he noted, “There are plenty of you living paycheck to paycheck so if paychecks were stopped it would have a devastating impact very quickly.”
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