02/08/2010 08:03:03 PM EST

John Murtha is dead at 77...

posted by bobo1

I was surprised no one here commented on this yet.

http://www.breitbart.com/ar ticle.php?id=D9DO6O4G0& show_article=1

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My condolences to his family and loved ones...

Any thoughts?

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What are your thought? (none / 0)


The world is a strange place, but that makes it really fun to watch. -- bfaul

by EveningStarNM on 02/08/2010 08:16:45 PM EST

...thoughts. (none / 0)
Damned "s" key is sticking, but I'm too lazy to switch out my keyboard for one of the half-dozen others I've got laying around.


The world is a strange place, but that makes it really fun to watch. -- bfaul

by EveningStarNM on 02/08/2010 08:17:39 PM EST

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Everybody dies... (none / 0)
...I'm interested in hearing more about the doctors "accidently hitting his intestines." Could get interesting.

by MedfordTim on 02/08/2010 09:42:02 PM EST

That's a shame (none / 0)
But not unexpected. "In 1974 Murtha, then an officer in the Marine Reserves, became the first Vietnam War combat veteran elected to Congress." I did not know that.

"People who boast of ancestry often have little else to sustain them." LL

by Robrob on 02/08/2010 11:31:07 PM EST

Items to include in Jack Murtha's obituary. (none / 0)
Here is how Jack Murtha did himself proud during the Abscam surveillance.

Murtha said the Surge would fail before he said the Surge would work.

Here is how Jack Murtha explained his statements on Haditha.

Here is how the courts settled the Haditha case.

by KenTX on 02/08/2010 11:52:47 PM EST

glass cockiness (none / 0)
and what will your obit say?
"TYT troll"

Though Murtha was discharged from active duty in the Marines in 1955, he volunteered to serve in Vietnam in 1966. He received:
The Bronze Star w/Valor
The Purple Heart twice
The Vietnamese Cross of Gallantry
and later The Navy Distinguished Service Medal

also he never accepted the (fake) bribe like your duke cunningscam did more recently. he said that he was "not interested..." Besides, isn't real arab money the basis of most of the bush family fortunes?? I wonder if you will be bitching over their dead bodies too one day.

Even if you knew what one was, you could not carry Jack Murtha's jockstrap.

by mauirising on 02/09/2010 03:26:51 PM EST

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I don't know who you are, (none / 0)
but I’m officially nominating your post as the most hypocritical in the history of the Young Turks forum, and buddy, that takes some real effort.

You defend John Murtha on the basis of his military record, and then you gratuitously slam Duke Cunningham (out of nowhere, for no reason), who was an indisputable war hero, and who the movie Top Gun was written around.

I don’t understand your line of “logic”. Would you like to try to explain it?

Maybe you didn’t know about Duke Cunningham’s military record? Maybe his military record isn’t important since he was a Republican? Maybe everything is fair game as long as Democrats are defended and Republicans are slammed?

You probably don’t care about Duke Cunningham’s war record, and that’s fine with me, because I don’t really care about Murtha’s war record.

Murtha was a loathsome bastard who died prior to conviction, and I’m glad he’s dead.

by KenTX on 02/09/2010 11:53:56 PM EST

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I can see into the future. (none / 0)
What is about to transpire is the reason that we're boycotting Ken.


The world is a strange place, but that makes it really fun to watch. -- bfaul

by EveningStarNM on 02/10/2010 02:50:21 AM EST

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This is yet another of Bob's noncommital articles. (none / 1)
Bob is an interesting specimen.  He will often post articles like these, demonstrating no real point of view or judgement, and then ask for other people's thoughts as if he has none of his own.

That may actually be true, or he might be waiting to see which way the wind blows before he starts trying to spit in it, or he might have an idea of what most other people think, and he's setting them up to criticize them in some way.

However, despite the utterly non-committal nature of his article, he actually has the same purpose as he does with other articles in which he is quite committal.  In those articles, he always condemns some individual or group in the harshest, most vile way imaginable.  He is never complimentary, and his criticisms can never be considered to be constructive in any way because they are pure insults.

However, mo matter what his strategy may be, it's a sure bet that he's trying to find some way to feel superior to others.  It's a wonder, however, that he hasn't revisited this article since he posted it.


The world is a strange place, but that makes it really fun to watch. -- bfaul

by EveningStarNM on 02/09/2010 04:27:29 AM EST

Considering that... (none / 0)
One of my kids was in the ER all night, you Star were just not the first person on my mind. I'm sorry if you have felt left out.

Murtha to me has always been an interesting character in the House. A Red Democrat from a 50/50 district devastated by economic hardship and union treachery, Murtha has shifted in the wind many times during his lengthy political career. He is the ultimate flip-flopper simply due to the conditions and make up of his district.

He found power and spending projects he couldn't resist and literally changed from a once proud soldier to a pork spending slob. He was for the war before he was against it, he was for welform reorm before he went against it etc.

If this Democrat die off continues, its gonna be a Hell of a lot easier to take back Congress than even Obama is making it.

My condolences to Murtha's family, and my congratulations to the Republican who will assume his seat in Congress...

by bobo1 on 02/09/2010 01:10:33 PM EST

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I'm sorry to hear about your kid. (none / 0)
...and I hope that he or she is recovering well.  I merely noted that it was unusual that you hadn't revisited your article since you posted it.  But I'm sure that you merely overlooked that fact.

It's also interesting that you view death as being helpful.

Sometimes I do, too.

As to your evaluation of Murtha, thanks for finally expressing your opinion.  But why didn't you say that when you opened this topic?  It is, after all, your article.


The world is a strange place, but that makes it really fun to watch. -- bfaul

by EveningStarNM on 02/09/2010 02:47:44 PM EST

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typical (none / 0)
how palinesque of you to hide behind your sick child.
shame on you.

by mauirising on 02/09/2010 03:31:06 PM EST

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