Tough day for President O.

Headlines out this afternoon: Chamber of Commerce slams Obama's oil release; Joint Chiefs chairman calls Obama plan risky. You know the old saying, "Sometime you eat the bears and sometime the bears eat you." It's going to be a rough road to November, 2012, for sure. Links: http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Chamber-of-Commerce-slams-cnnm-131070236.html;_ylt=Ap301qVcQyPYTWSyjcaQXIS7YWsA;_ylu=X3oDMTE1NXNndTBtBHBvcwM0BHNlYwN0b3BTdG9yaWVzBHNsawNjaGFtYmVyb2Zjb20-?x=0&sec=topStories&pos=1&asset=&ccode= http://beta.news.yahoo.com/joint-chiefs-chairman-calls-obama-plan-risky-142239966.html

Quote of the day--on our interminable war(s)

"The LA Times offers an eye-opening example of just how far our mission in Afghanistan has "creeped," describing the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff telling an Afghan leader that the goals of the upcoming surge in Kandahar include "providing jobs." Is that really why we are still fighting a war there nine years later, spending American blood and treasure? The Bush-era rationale for these overseas misadventures was always: We'll fight 'em over there, so we don't have to fight 'em over here. Today, it seems, we're fighting to create jobs for 'em over there, while we don't have enough jobs for our people over here. At a time when so many hardworking middle class families are reeling from the economic crisis that seems like the most perverted of priorities."

--Ariana Huffington
The Huffington Post

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