NO MORE SOFTBALLS -- Just A Minute Radio for Monday, March 30th, 2009

            Hello again –

 

            It’s been a rough week weatherwise for a lot of folks. Some locally, some far away. I saw several big trees keeled over by the wind over the weekend. But the worst property damage I observed was a fence and even it didn’t look too badly damaged. I believe the Lord has been looking out for us.

 

            When it comes to the USA – we’re going to need some looking out after.  Which is a somewhat awkward way to put it I think. My thought is the evidence of America’s moral decay and the inevitable squaring up of those records is bound to come. A righteous God will not allow sin to go unpunished or unpaid for forever. Thankfully the Scripture says “His mercy endureth for ever… “ and it says that over and over. But one must take into account the whole counsel of God. And that includes forgiveness – but it also includes repentance – a recognition we’re sinners, on the wrong road and in need of reconciliation to God… and calling upon His grace.

 

            Good works won’t do it… Doing the best we can won’t do it… the only effective way to be rid of our sin is to call on the Lord Jesus Christ who loved us and gave Himself for us. I’ve heard it over and over… and in America you’ve heard it often too… even if you havn’t paid attention. It’s the most important matter you’ll ever attend to – the welfare of your immortal soul.

 

            Here in Greenville, springtime is Bible Conference time at BJU… My wife and I met at Bob Jones… and I asked her to marry me during the Bible conference of 1951… it was a long engagement… but we made it to May of 1953… and here we are almost 56 years, 5 children, 13 grandchildren, 5.3 great grandchildren – it’s a wonderful life so far. But I know I may be talking to someone whose path has not been easy – and who is experiencing right now problems and possibly pain.

 

            There is hope… there is help. I’ll be glad to help if I can and my e-mail address is right at the bottom of this e-blog. I just felt today – there’s possibly someone who needs a word of encouragement and understanding. There are folks out there who want to help. Just ask God to lead you to them.

 

            Well… that’s all for today. I’ll look for you on Wednesday.

 

            Cordially, IN HIM

 

            Jack

 

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NO MORE SOFTBALLS

JUST A MINUTE – George Will, token conservative at the Washington Post leans toward using 75cent words. He set out to make a case against EESA

E-E-S-A. You wouldn’t find two percent of passionate argumenters who could give the meaning of EESA. It’s the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 which Congress passed without reading.

          Will, says it erases the separation of powers between Congress and the Executive by letting lawmakers have a say in how the $787 billion is spent. Then he kicked the hornet’s nest at Town Hall Daily where his column is posted and got over 100 comments divided between those who say it’s too late to criticize Obama after you invited the President-Elect over to dine at your posh Georgetown digs – which ignited a mini-war between the elite press corps and the social climbers.

          A Tennessee correspondent called him hypocrite-in-chief: a Steward on the Titanic more concerned about a leaky faucet than the sinking ship. Others praised his Constitutional erudition. From all over the map they came – but one writer said rather than join the tea party he’s more inclined to join “the Charge of the Light Brigade.”  Only problem… they lost.

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ARE YOU _SURE_ YOU WANT TO DO THIS? - Just A Minute radio for 03-27-09

            Howdy, on a Friday…

 

            This is the week in which Spring bowed in and trampled all over March’s exit reputation… The folks in the Upper Central Plains States sure would not certify that March “went out like a lamb.” I saw some of the Weather Channel reporters leaning in to a 35 mph gale force wind blowing snow the other night… and the reporter said another forty inches was expected.

 

            That was certainly unwelcome news to the folks in Bismark, N.D. where the flood level of the Red River was forecast to get up to 43 feet… That’s about three or four feet higher than the Corps of Engineers had predicted – and of course discouraging to the National Guard… the firefighters and the college students who I’m sure would much rather have been on Spring Break than filling and piling sand bags higher and higher… Problem is when you need to add another three feet to a dike… it’s not a matter of just piling up more sandbags.. there’s a pyramid structure that has to be followed or the levee will break.  Very discouraging… those folks need prayer.  Falling snow is beautiful – mostly – but when you already have an ice filled river… and piled up sandbags… you don’t welcome the sight of more snow falling on top of all that.

 

            Anyway… for some sections of the middle of the country it has been a wild Winter, indeed.

 

            Our economic storm is not abating – at least in any appreciable manner. Even my wife – who does not normally respond to my ‘crisis’ stories on the news – cited by politicos – is getting angry at the antics of those who are supposedly experts in economic matters. Reluctantly we come to the conclusion we are being deliberately manipulated leftward. And I sense determination rising to do something about it. Problem is like Don Quixote and Sancho Pansa – we’re liable to mount our horse and “ride off in every direction.”

 

            We are in dire need of wisdom… and for those who believe the Bible – we really know where that abounds.

 

            God bless you this weekend – and please remember to pray for us and our Nation.

 

            Cordially, IN HIM

 

            Jack and Barbara Buttram

 

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ARE YOU SURE YOU WANT TO DO THIS?

JUST A MINUTE – Yesterday Secretary Geithner, proposed a vast expansion of governmental power. He made it abundantly clear to both Democrats and Republicans on the House Finance Committee he wants government to be able to step in to contracts and businesses and see that what happened to create this crisis doesn’t  happen again. And he says he doesn’t want Treasury to have that power.

          Just a minute, do we really want a guy who couldn’t fill out his own taxes (no matter how brilliant the President *thought* he was) --- Do we really want him recommending a policy that can totally wreck our system and slide us right into Socialism – do we really want him steering the ship?

          Frankly, I can’t think of a more diabolical plan to crash our country and wreck our economy. I’m not masquerading as a trained economist – but even I can recognize a guy planning to drive us off the economic cliff so his misguided leader can pick up the pieces. I’ve resisted ringing the fire bell – but I’m clanging it now.

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THE TIME HAS COME THE WALRUS SAID... -- Just A Minute Radio for Wed. 03-23-09

            Hello again… right in the week’s middle –

           

            Spring – the Almanac says, is fully here… The equinox came on the 20^th – I misread it earlier… And the folks out in Wyoming and Montana who got a really wicked blizzard earlier this week – forty inches plus in some places with over 35 mph. winds – know what a real blizzard looks like.

 

            We have some friends who were driving the Ice Road up in northern Saskatchewan Province – Lake Athabasca – where they have to bring in heavy construction equipment and supplies in the coldest part of their winter when the road people up there can certify the ice will be thick enough – something like 30 inches—to hold up a loaded 18 wheeler or two running in tandem. It’s not a job for the faint-hearted. But I think they must have made it back OK… because no news – which is good news. The bad news is there were some tragic plane crashes in Japan as well as up in that part of the globe that took a lot of lives. Tragic stuff.

 

            Anyway… I suppose you got another large dose of our President reading the teleprompter last evening. We were out at a meeting and so missed all that news as it happened. I hear there were reporters from major newspapers griping because of being skipped over. It seems the gloss has gone off the “magic touch” that enthralled what some are now calling the “lame stream” media. Well… first they threw McCain under the bus… now seem to be turning on Mr. Obama… But we’ll see.  

 

            I also picked up the news the curmudgeonly grouse – whose name I’ve forgotten on American Idol – didn’t have time to respond to a White House invitation to come visit with the President. Ah … how soon they forget. But this fellow can be overlooked because he’s not a citizen or voter in the first place… all that stands in the way of being nice is…well, courtesy… and we all know that went out of fashion a *long* time ago.

 

            So… onward toward the weekend is the office grouch’s cry. We’ll communicate again on Friday. (DV)

 

            Cordially, IN HIM

 

 

            Jack

 

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THE TIME HAS COME, THE WALRUS SAID…

Jack: JUST A MINUTE – Today the subject is speeches.

MizP: Peaches? Hit’s too early ---

BB:Oh turn up yer heain’ aid!.

Jack: Hold it – I need to talk with you about a young student in Nevada – trying to give her

Valedictory when the sound was cut off.

Homer: On purpose?

Jack: Right in the middle of saying how God loves us and gave His son for us when…

MizP: When they cut her mikerfone off?

Jack: Just like that – during the graduation ceremony Class of 2006

BB: Why?

Jack: The school people said it was against the law.

MizP: Hasn’t Nevaddy ever heered of the First Amendment in?

Jack: Apparently not… but  they’re aiming for the Supreme Court.  

Homer: Tha-ut souns awful.

Jack: And on top of that Notre Dame University President has invited President Obama to make a

          Commencement address.

Homer: But he voted for partial birth abortion in th’ Illinoise legislature…

MizP: Oh thas horrible… jist horrible.

BB: Ain’t Noter Dame a Catholic school? And ain’t they ‘gainst ‘bortion.?

Jack: That’s what the Catholic Bishops say, Billy-Bob.

BB: Then … how’s he gittin’ away with hit?

Homer: He’s a-doin’ hit jist like everthang else …  he says one thang then does th’ opposite…

          a-makin’ me awful angry…

BB: Ah don’t like hit neither.

Jack: If you don’t like it… what are you going to do about it?

MizP: We cud organize a tea party.

BB: Whut’s a tea party?

MizP: Hit stans fer Taxed Enuf Allready – Ah’m ready ta' sign up.

Homer: Me too, Miz Pearl.

BB: Where you gonna have this party?

MizP: Over to Hartwell Lake… We could go ta' th lake an …

BB: Hit-‘ud shore take a lotta tea bags. 

Jack: We’ll have to do that next week… time’s up today… I’m Jack Buttram.

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THE DEPTH OF DEBT -- Just A Minute radio for Monday 03-23-09

            Howdy for another week…

           

            We’re set to roll again for another round of JUST A MINUTE expose’s of what’s happening on the Treasury and White House door steps. I heard one commentator over the weekend say it was more than tragic – it’s incompetent for the Secretary of the Treasury to be unable to fill the ranks of his staff to get the job done that needs to be done.

 

            Well – I for one have wondered for a long time if we couldn’t do without quite the number of bureaucrats we seem to have… and like termites they swarm and multiply every year… unless they are exterminated… and it looks as if Senator Grassley from Iowa has collected quite a number of brickbats for suggesting there should be a number of suicides amongst those who were supposed to be watching the henhouse while the foxes stole the chickens.

 

            But – today’s program may throw a little more light on the subject. I dug the relevant statistics out of a report that originated in Red China… sorry … I know that’s not the politically correct name… but it looks nice on a yellow table cloth. Anyway… I think you’ll hear Mr. Wen speaking truth to power if you tune in or read today’s JUST A MINUTE.

 

            BTW – We’ve tried to establish a new discussion group on our sister blog – Just a Minute – on Facebook.  You certainly know the drill better than I… google JUST A MINUTE RADIO and you’ll certainly run across it… or try Jack Buttram… and eventually you can wend your way through that weed filled patch too.

 

            Anyway… I look forward to exchanging information and opinions with you from time to time as the opportunity arises. Now that Spring is here… perhaps this would take your mind off the economy.

 

            Cordially, IN HIM

 

            Jack

 

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THE DEPTH OF DEBT

JUST A MINUTE – No bureaucrat seems able to explain to simpletons like me, just how bad a financial fix we’re in. But here’s a, Mr. Wen, from the Red China government saying he’s a “little worried” about the quality of the United States debt.  Now maybe we’re getting a more accurate financial picture out of Beijing than Washington.

Mr. Wen, is really saying even the U.S. national balance sheet has its limits. The dollar is the world's reserve currency, so we have the rare privilege among nations of being able to borrow (and then repay our debts in our own currency) – and America, at the moment -- remains a major safe haven.  But he’s adding -- reserve currency status isn't just conferred -- and it can vanish quickly when nations are irresponsible.

Message emphasized when German Chancellor, Angela Merkel, and other Europeans flatly rejected Obama's call for imitating our spending actions.  

          So -- it appears we now get a clearer picture of our problems from the Chinese Communist government than we get out of the White House or the Treasury. –  Congress, of course, is hopeless.

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THE NEWEST 'TELTRONIC STAR' - Just A Minute Radio for Friday 03-20-09

            Howdy –

 

            If you tried to watch the markets this week it was like being caught in a Laundromat watching five washers go to it at once. And if you read some of the blogs and “letters” columns on the Internet… you could get real scared for the future not only of the economy but of the Nation.

 

            That’s why the safest thing to do is of a spiritual and eternal nature – not of a temporal or ‘just for today’ attitude. That attitude is a bucket full of holes.

 

            The options for future government actions that will actually work in the reasonably near term seem to actually move away rather than improve chances for recovery. That sounds awfully pessimistic – and I’m writing in the dead, vast and middle of the night (to borrow a Shakespearian phrase) which doesn’t recommend an improved outlook.

 

            But I do expect the sun to come up over the eastern horizon in the morning – and I know God is still on the throne of the Universe HE created. So I have every reason to be confident both for the short and the long run. That’s not going to be true for everyone. And those are the factors that are out of *our* control – but not God’s.

 

            Last evening I saw a representation of Moses…a one man dramatic production by a good friend, Doug Whitley – who makes a ministry of portraying Biblical characters. He does a good job of it – and it’s difficult. Just think of trying to cram a career that covered 120 years into about 40 minutes. You have to go from bull rushes to “almost” entering the Promised Land of Canaan after putting up with the grumbling and problems of three million people needing to pull up stakes and leave Egypt for a place of which they were not sure. It ain’t easy.

 

            But in God’s economy *nothing* is impossible. And it’s awfully hard for mortals to recognize that. One fundamental way to keep in tune with what’s really happening is continually to refresh your mind with a daily study of Scripture.

 

            OK… ‘nuff said for this day. Go look for the Sunrise!

 

            Cordially, IN HIM

 

            Jack Buttram   

 

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THE NEWEST ‘TELETRONIC STAR’

JACK: JUST A MINUTE – Everybody listen up -- Today we have a special guest.

TPR: You left out “star” – You promised me STAR billing.

JACK: Right… we’ll get to that…we’re not past the first 10 seconds yet.

TPR: OK…

JACK: For everyone to understand you… you have to go slowly and clearly.

TPR: Don’t tell me … I know what I’m doing.

JACK: But you have contributed to some BIG snafus.

TPR: With the Irish guy? That was a technician’s fault … not mine.

JACK: Shall I introduce you as Telli?

TPR: Telli-star… That would be nice.

JACK: TelStar’s already taken  -- we’d be sued.

TPR: OK, but don’t use up all the time

JACK: What’s it like to travel on Air Force One?

TPR: I expected to sit up with Gibbsey – Oh It was a bit embarrassing when the

          BIG GUY introduced himself this week.

JACK: Got a laugh...   

TPR: The Irish PM caught on right away. Sometimes the Boss is a little slow.

JACK: You shouldn’t say that.

TPR: What’s he gonna do – fire me?

JACK: You remember when Bush said --- “Great job Brownie…?”

TPR: After Katrina … that didn’t get a laugh. Just remember if he says

          “Geithner’s doing a great job…” that’s not supposed to get a laugh. 

JACK: OK… have you approached Senator Grassley?

TPR: -- The Suicide guy…?.

JACK: Or Senator Dodd... he could use you.

TPR: Look, none of those Congressional guys think they need any help!

JACK: OK Telli -- I’m sure we’ll be seeing your work… -- I’m Jack Buttram

 

 

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PLAYIN' GAMES WITH TAXES -- Just a Minute for Wednesday 03-18-09

            Howdy… Here we are in the middle of the week *again*… Ain’t progress wonderful!

 

            Problem is we’ve suddenly got so many problems and they are coming at us faster than a swarm of yellow jackets when you run over them twice with the lawn mower… They’ll come and getcha!  Several times!

 

            The White House is juggling a lot of problems of its own making plus others that have flown in over the transom without being forewarned. Who knew President Obama would have such trouble assembling a Treasury Department team afflicted by a seemingly endless stream of people who should know better, ignoring their taxes, on a scale that would have alarmed even the James Brothers at the crest of their train-robbing career.

 

            Next we find the Obama Administration having vowed to close Gitmo…without ever figuring out just *where* they could putk the hardened core of criminals they have sifted through. They’ve now got a graduate school of terrorists and nowhere to park them. In addition they’ve got a burgeoning nuclear weapons potential enemy in Iran – with messed-up political and diplomatic relations with Russia; our major ally Great Britain upset with the snubbing a careless WH did to Prime Minister Gordon Brown; a threatened trade war with second largest international customer, Mexico, not to mention the continuing immigrant problems both inside and outside the country; incipient inflation and deflation because of the tangled financial market mess; all this while cutting back on defense spending at the very time China, Korea, and who knows else may be beefing up their spying and international terrorist structures.

 

            Did we mention Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iran, Iraq, Gaza, Israel, Syria and we never even started on Africa or eastern Europe. On top of all that we launched a shuttle but barely moved the Space Station out of the way of traveling space junk and debris that threatens it as well as the Hubble telescope.

 

            Well… nobody ever said being President was a piece of cake – and on the other hand -- nobody held a gun to the head of any candidate and forced him/her to run for the office.

 

            Cordially, IN HIM

 

            Jack

 

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PLAYIN’ GAMES WITH TAXES

BB: Jist a Minit – Mr. Jack has everbody in Georgia an South Caroliner taken leave of the’re senses?

Jack: What makes you ask Billy-Bob?

BB: Well the Demicrat Committee in Columbia’s acuseing Republican Gov. Sanford of playin games with th’ stimlous money…

Jack: Yeah?

BB: An Republican Guvnor Perdue in Georgia is upset with a bill called JOBS ta' give tax credits fer employers hirin’ new workers…

Homer: That’n passed 164 ta' 4 – and another’n ‘liminate bizness inventory taxes with a referendum.

MizP: Where’s all this cornfusion a-comin’ frum?

Jack: It’s the Obama spending bill – Governor Mark Sanford says he doesn’t think you solve a problem created by too much debt – by adding a WHOLE  LOT more debt.

BB: I buy that.

Jack: He wants $700 million of the stimulus money used to pay down debt. But gets opposition from his own party – and the President says he won’t approve it.

Homer: Whut about Georgia?

Jack: Governor Sonny Perdue has also got opposition from Republican colleagues – and they’ve all been meeting with Arthur Laffler…

MizP: Ah ‘ve heered of him… he invented the laffin’ curve…

Jack: The Laffler curve Miss Pearl – President Reagan used it to bring down interest and tax rates … business prospered.

MizP: They’s tryin’ ta' do that in Georgia?

Jack: Right…

MizP: Ah don’t see why not.

Jack: Ok – But I agree with one of the Georgia legislators who said "For some reason people in Washington seem to think that only big government spending programs can get us out of economic recession."

MizP: Ah b’leve we oughtta be gittin oursevs out.

Jack: The best idea I think is for us to ask the Lord to help us weave our way through this problem and support the people of character and honesty.

MizP:  Ah’ll vote fer that-ut!

Jack: OK… Our time’s up -- be back next week. I’m Jack Buttram

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DO SAYING AND DOING MATCH? - Just a Minute for Monday 3-16-09

            Howdy –

 

            Washington’s permanent addiction seems to be to try and say one thing but when the light comes on or the heat gets hot – to try and do something different. Biggest example by far is the 787 Billion (with a “B”) spending bill that dumped more paper money on the market in one act than the USA spent in its entire history up to that time.

 

            If you don’t think that’s a BIG bill to pay off… your great grandchildren will!

 

            The permanent addiction of lawmakers, politicians and bureaucrats seems to be who can be most adept at saying one thing with fingers crossed behind the back – and doing something else entirely. The most recent example is being held up to the light by an unfortunate pastor who joined a religious advisory group organized under the GW Bush Administration – only to find assurances he was given that he would not be stepping on his moral or religious principles were trampled on within a few weeks.

 

            You’ll find brief details in today’s audio track and script (below) and also documented by Greenville News, AP and the New York Times – all with different slants. The main difficulty is laid out in George Orwell’s classic 1984 novel when the dominant governmental offices adopt a new language called “news-speak” – whereby “War” becomes “Peace” – and “Save” really means “Spend.”  Apparently we’re entering that “Twilight Zone” now.

 

            The only clarifying voice in all this cacophony is the calm voice coming from Scripture – to which we need each one to repair – daily.

 

            Cordially, IN HIM

 

            Jack Buttram.

 

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DO SAYING AND DOING MATCH?

Just A Minute – “Some were very against me being involved in this," said Taylor’s First Baptist Church Pastor, Frank Page, in a February 15^th Greenville News report. Page said he felt he could play an important role in the program started under the George W. Bush Administration – adding at that time that if he was not taken seriously or … (Quote) “if I feel at some point that I'm just a token conservative, … then I will resign, because I don't have time just to be a token voice.”(Unquote)

Now comes an Associated Press story on Saturday describing the popular local pastor objecting when the President last week removed ‘conscience protections’ for medical providers and says he disagrees with Obama’s pattern of removing any pro-life protection … (Quote) “I am deeply concerned … I have stated that concern and will continue to state it.” (Unquote)

I fear the Pastor is joining a rather large group experiencing Mr. Obama’s on-going propensity to say one thing, and do another.

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"FIND ME AN ISLAMOFACIST NEGOTIATOR! - Just A Minute Radio for Friday 03-13-09

            Hello again… IT’S FRIDAY!

 

            The audio track today starts with a question… ‘Would you ever think we’d negotiate with Gobbles or Goering – henchmen of Hitler -- at the end of WWII?  Out of the question! The terms of surrender were ‘unconditional’ – because of the way in which the peace treaty of WW I had been ignored and all of Europe suffered.  Historians split hairs to this day over the Yalta agreements etc. etc… but I’m reading a book in which a noted British General agrees with some well respected American historians that the initiation and progress of WWII made peace negotiations unthinkable.

 

            Yet here we are – after blood being spilt in Afghanistan – and Iraq; plus the increasing possibility of hot war hostilities if Iran will not lay by its nuclear weapons program – and President Obama, being in office only slightly more than 50 days… has proposed making nice with those who threaten so they’ll be nice to us. It’s a fool’s game.

 

            Reading the Reagan Diaries is very enlightening in this same regard. The Russian high command, essentially ignoring their ‘civilian’ leaders respected only strength and resolution – and when they saw a lack of either they exploited it. Reagan said of the four wars that had been fought in his lifetime – that none of them were ever started because our nation was “too strong.”  So… we are seeing our national wealth squandered by ‘experts’ who seem to have lost their way – and a new set of leaders who have not cared or studied history and seemingly have never learned that those who will not study and learn from it are bound to repeat it – we trot merrily on our way ignoring all the impending signs.

 

            I would be discouraged *except* for the many examples in history where God has intervened on the side of “His” people. And here I quote Abraham Lincoln who said it was not nearly so important to learn if God was on our side as it is to study and determine that we are on HIS side. With that, I’m in full agreement.

 

            Cordially, IN HIM

 

            Jack Buttram

 

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“FIND ME AN ISLAMOFASCIST NEGOTIATOR!”

Just A Minute – Can you imagine America negotiating with Hitler’s henchmen after WWII. It’s the current pattern of the President’s Middle East policy. Do you recall President Bush, after 9/11 saying before a joint session of Congress:

"Tonight the U.S. demands … the Taliban -- deliver … all leaders of Al-Qaida hiding in your land and immediately and permanently close every terrorist training camp in Afghanistan; … hand over every terrorist and their support structure to appropriate authorities. Give the United States full access … so we can make sure they are no longer operating." Adding … "the Taliban must act immediately [handing over] the terrorists or they will share in their fate."

Now a former adviser to the Mujahideen commander says, … "things are all going the Taliban's way. They are at the edge of Kabul" and have no incentive to switch sides.  – The Taliban spokesman reacted to President Obama's suggestion saying it is a sign Americans, after so many years fighting the Taliban in Afghanistan are now "tired and worried."

Another ‘achievement’ of the Obama Administration.

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