I'll let him tell the tale.
Don't blog angry!" Well, again, I am ignoring my own advice. Here we go. I will want to reword this in an hour, but I won't. Want unfiltered Sal? Well, here you go.First off I know that Giffords is a crime victim.
What confidence I once had in the SECNAV gone, broken, unable to be supported. I was a fool to give him the benefit of the doubt. This is the last straw.
Small things do matter - as they often support much larger and critical things.
Ship names mean nothing anymore. The vacuousness, vapidity, and morally rudderless nature of our present leadership is out there clear as day for all to see. I don't even think they know it.
Naming a ship after that bucket of goo MURTHA was bad enough.
Rep. Giffords (D-AZ) was/is a fine public servant and her husband is a Navy astronaut. She was shot in the head by an insane person. None of the above rate having a Navy ship named after you. Announced on a Friday afternoon - I think even the Navy is ashamed of this classic case of immature pandering to the Overclass.
I know she served her country in her own way.
But this break from tradition is disgusting.
This is a terrible precedent. The Democrats are doing the same thing that all political parties do when they sense power slipping away. They over reach and start doing feel good things. You saw it in the run up to the election that brought Obama to power. The Republicans starting doing silly things. The Dems are doing it now.
November can't get here soon enough.
To think in a few decades we will have a CV named the USS Barack Obama.
ReplyDeleteNot every president gets a boat. But then again, "HE" did get UBL...
ReplyDeleteMan, you folks have issues. As a retired Naval Officer I have absolutely no problem with the Secretary of the Navy naming a ship after Gabrielle Giffords. I assume that you know that the SECNAV has the sole authority to name ships and he is a Political Appointee. I daresay that Gabby Giffords gave more to this country in those few seconds than the majority of us who served in the Navy for years.
ReplyDeleteOh yeah, before you throw more of your anti-Democrat, hate ultra-liberals crap my way, be advised that I am a conservative, former GHW Bush political appointee who has no love for the current administration and most things Democrat. I did not vote for them, I do not like what they are doing to this country, and that has absolutely nothing to do with my support for naming a ship the USS Gabrielle Giffords.
Old Aviator....you're just another belt way lizard. you think you're part of the in crowd so idiocy like this just makes you smile. what about the guys that got killed in Iraq and Afghanistan that aren't famous so people like you don't give a fuck about them and will never name a ship after those rightful heroes.
ReplyDeleteeven Gabby's husband is keeping a low profile and he's a former serviceman and current Astronaut.
you guys might want to remain silent on this one cowboy.