I wonder how many of Obama's rich oil buddies are out joyriding in our nuclear submarines about now?

[Toots]

Anyone else wonder about that? :shrug: Maybe they could even be lucky enough to kill themselves some Japanese students. There is no penalty for such things you know..

[vadawg]

1. WTF am i the only person missing this one

[Obamanaut]

Not a clue here. nt

[peace frog]

2. Nope

Say what???

[havocmom]

3. LOL Good point. Forgot about that one

[Raven]

4. Way over my head...

[Cirque du So-What]

5. I remember when that happened

True, nothing remotely equivalent to this has happened in Barack Obama's WH.

[havocmom]

6. To all you puzzled responders:

:donut: & http://www.historycommons.org/context.jsp?item=us_military_tmln_126

[MH1]

16. thanks for that. worth revisiting.

[Captain Hilts]

7. The USN has always taken families, community leaders and biz folks on sub rides. Nothing new.

[havocmom]

8. But is it common practice to let them have the controls and sink stuff?

[ThomWV]

10. What an incredibly stupid question

[Captain Hilts]

11. Yes, stupid. Thank you.

The skipper was hot dogging and the trawler was completely silent.

It's unfortunate as the skipper was known for being really good to his sailors.

[havocmom]

14. Not so much. There is a BIG difference between taking civilians out in a sub

and letting a civilian crony have control and end up sinking a Japanese fishing boat, as happened in the bush/cheney years.

http://www.historycommons.org/context.jsp?item=us_military_tmln_126

It is incredibly stupid not to note the difference, don't you think?

[Captain Hilts]

17. No, civilians did not have control. The crew was hot-dogging and the passive sonar

did not "hear" the trawler that had its engines off.

This is NOT something you can paste the Bush Admin with.

[ThomWV]

9. What is your point?

[shadowknows69]

13. It's another "Obama is amazing" because he's not Bush thread.

By that criteria I figure we're all pretty amazing.

[MH1]

15. well not all of us. But what's really amazing?

is that a country that could elect a worthless pos like Bush, also elected a reasonable human being like Obama.

Of course neither "election" of Bush was exactly on the up-and-up so maybe it's not so amazing, just lucky that Obama was able to beat the fraud.

[Autumn]

12. I'm betting on

ZERO. Good lord I had forgot about that one. Too many outrageous things went on for the last eight years.