Today's Republicans have the class of a gnat or less. The crickets on the Republican side when remarks are made like Rumsfeld's paint a terrible picture of the lack of integrity in the Republican Party even today when we honor the men who gave their lives to defend the Belgian people. Shame on the so-called leaders of the Republican Party to allow these crass comments to go unchallenged. No wonder the Republican Party is beginning to show signs of disinergration with their lack of empathy and white males only matter mentality where they feel free to say anything they want no matter who gets harmed in the process. There are no repercussions for bad manners/lies in the GOP today -- everything is fair game.Former Bush Sec. of Defense Donald Rumsfeld wasn’t content with disagreeing with President Obama’s foreign policy. He felt the need to compare the first African American president to an ape.
Our family proudly stands with President Obama and his stance that you only send in your men and women to fight when you are left with no other option. Applaud the leaders of the G-7 who chose to not meet in Sochi, Russia, but meet in Brussels, Belgium, making it a G-7 not a G-8 meeting after Putin moved Russian troops into part of Ukraine. G-7 leaders standing together give me hope for the future they will put diplomacy over rush to war and use sanctions not weapons.
As our dead and wounded from WWI are honored today, we need to remember in war more then just the solder feels the pain as it extends to families and friends. My Dad grew up without a Father because of war. This Nation has paid a terrible price over the years when it has rushed into war and escalated when there was no need. We have to elect leaders like President Obama who will not be goaded into going into a war that could be catastrophic no matter how many names the Republicans choose to call him. President Obama is the adult in the group not the name callers!
President Obama invoked Canadian poem "In Flanders Fields" as a call for a recommitment to peace in Europe.
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