An example of why Allen West would make a great POTUS (8/20/14)

[Mojo2]

An example of why Allen West would make a great POTUS (8/20/14)

An excerpt from Chapter 2 of "Guardian of the Republic," by Allen B. West

I’d gone to college thinking I wanted to be an engineer. I spent a year and a half in that major,
and Statics and Dynamics just about did me in. I loved math, but I wasn’t an abstract thinker. So
I switched my major to political science. My grades were restored and I was reinstated into the
ROTC program. During the summer of 1982, I found myself flying off to Fort Lewis,

Washington, for summer Advanced Camp, a boot camp for ROTC students seeking to earn a
commission.

Advanced Camp was long at seven weeks, and back in the day it was tough. The nights in the
Pacific Northwest were damn cold, especially for this southern boy. It was always wet, and I had
never seen mosquitoes that bad! I ended up getting quite sick and was coughing up blood at one
point, but I was not about to quit or be recycled. This was it. I had completed all of my ROTC
requirements. All I had to do was complete Advanced Camp and I would be Second Lieutenant
Allen B. West.

Well, I finished, and on graduation day I was ecstatic. I’d met friends who would be my
colleagues for years to come. I flew from Fort Lewis back to Atlanta, and there was my dad
waiting with this huge smile on his face. He looked at me and how skinny I was and said, “They
kicked your butt, didn’t they, boy?”

I was always going to be his boy. Years earlier he’d gone to the airport to collect his boy who’d
run away; now he was picking up soon-to-be “2LT” West. The entire family traveled to
Knoxville for the big day.

It was July 31, 1982, and my parents and brothers watched me take the
oath—the third member of our family to do so—giving my pledge to “support and defend the
Constitution of the United States against all enemies foreign and domestic, and bear true faith
and allegiance to the same.”

What a day. What a special honor. I was on top of the world.

I returned to Atlanta and worked at Sears while awaiting my order to active duty. Then the orders
arrived, and I was instructed to report to Fort Sill, Oklahoma, for Field Artillery Officer Basic
Course, class 2-84. Before I departed, my dad sat me on the front steps and gave me the lecture I
surely needed.

These were the words that stuck in my mind:

“You are a brand-new, fresh second lieutenant. You don’t know nothing and need to come to that realization. You need to find your platoon sergeant and listen to him. Make sure you allow him to teach you. He will respect you because of the rank, but he needs to respect you as a man and leader. Never forget that if you take care of your soldiers, your men, they will take care of you and hold you in high esteem and respect. Screw your men over, and they will screw you over. A good leader is first a good follower. Listen and lead, but most of all, take care of your men.”​

Those parting words would guide me some twenty-two years later to make a spontaneous
decision on the battlefield in Iraq, one that would have an indelible impact on my life.

Obama: Muslims have built the very fabric of our nation. Such as? - Allen B. West - AllenBWest.com

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[LoneLaugher]

Yes! I wonder if he'll run? Gee whiz! I sure hope so!

p.s. I hope I am not pissing you off. You scare me!

 

[Luddly Neddite]

He's not qualified to be much of anything except the crazy, not quite but almost out of control nutter that he is. BUT, he thinks he's qualified to make policy. Scary thought, I know. I mean, how many people can he punch out?

And its true that certain RWs will vote for anything with an R after their name cuz that's what they've been told to do.

None of that matters though, because the GOP would never allow a little tin soldier/martinet to be elected because the most important "qualification" for the party is that he be malleable and controllable.

Alan West can't even control his own actions so the GOP would never allow him to be elected.

And, we can all count our blessings for that.

 

[Vigilante]

He's not qualified to be much of anything except the crazy, not quite but almost out of control nutter that he is. BUT, he thinks he's qualified to make policy. Scary thought, I know. I mean, how many people can he punch out?

And its true that certain RWs will vote for anything with an R after their name cuz that's what they've been told to do.

None of that matters though, because the GOP would never allow a little tin soldier/martinet to be elected because the most important "qualification" for the party is that he be malleable and controllable.

Alan West can't even control his own actions so the GOP would never allow him to be elected.

And, we can all count our blessings for that.

Racist and demented ****! You have an incompetent asswipe now as POTUS that you love, you socialist bastard, yet another black man with RIGHT ideas is NOT QUALIFIED....

 

[BreezeWood]

... but I wasn’t an abstract thinker.

to bad that made him become a wingnut.

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[Statistikhengst]