Painful Juxtaposition

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Reported in other threads the story of the lunatic doctor who is refusing to accept a legal military order because documentary cameras were not stationed in Honolulu to capture the President's birth on film was read his military rights by the military's only active duty of Military of Honor recepient:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/36478557/ns/us_news-military/

WASHINGTON - The Army may be forced to court-martial a lieutenant colonel who refused to deploy to Afghanistan because he considers orders from President Barack Obama to be illegal, military officials told NBC News on Tuesday.

Army doctor Lt. Col. Terry Lakin believes Obama does not meet the constitutional requirements to be president and commander-in-chief because Lakin believes the president was not born in the United States. A video with statements from Lakin on the subject was released by the right-wing American Patriot Foundation.

Lakin refused to report to Fort Campbell, Ky., for deployment to Afghanistan, but instead went to the Pentagon. There on Monday he was confronted by his brigade commander, Col. Gordon Roberts, and informed he could face court martial, and his Pentagon building pass and government laptop computer were seized.

Roberts is the commander of the medical brigade out of Walter Reed. He is the only active-duty Medal of Honor winner in the military. He received the honor for action in Vietnam.

According to Lakin, he was read the military equivalent of his Miranda rights. No charges have been filed, but military officials believe they could include "missing a movement" or failure to report for duty, and "conduct unbecoming an officer."

This constant clash of honorable intelligent public servant versus dishonorable idiotic numskull on the other creates a daily experience of PJC: Painful Juxtaposition Condition. Even the casual observer has to notice what is becoming an embarassing juxtaposition of two sides of the public debate.



What is so beguiling about the Tea Party nut jobs and the increasing implosion of the Republican Party is that they have become so shameless that they no longer are embarassed by these kinds of juxtapositions.

Here are some other juxtapositions that should cause embarassment but do not:


In the history of the US there has been only one time where a President of one party has served for 8 years and then was followed by a President of another party who served for 8 years. This allows for the only time two parties effect on the deficit can be shown in juxtaposition following two 8 year periods:



Then there is this comparison of leaders on the left and the right (all taken from Wikipedia):

President Obama

Following high school, Obama moved to Los Angeles in 1979 to attend Occidental College.<24> After two years he transferred in 1981 to Columbia University in New York City, where he majored in political science with a specialization in international relations<25> and graduated with a B.A. in 1983.

In late 1988, Obama entered Harvard Law School. He was selected as an editor of the Harvard Law Review at the end of his first year,<35> and president of the journal in his second year.<36> During his summers, he returned to Chicago, where he worked as a summer associate at the law firms of Sidley Austin in 1989 and Hopkins & Sutter in 1990.<37> After graduating with a Juris Doctor (J.D.) magna cum laude<38> from Harvard in 1991, he returned to Chicago.

In 1991, Obama accepted a two-year position as Visiting Law and Government Fellow at the University of Chicago Law School to work on his first book.<40> He then served as a professor at the University of Chicago Law School for twelve years; as a Lecturer from 1992 to 1996, and as a Senior Lecturer from 1996 to 2004 teaching constitutional law.<41>

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Rush Limbaugh

Limbaugh began his career in radio as a teenager in 1967 in his hometown of Cape Girardeau, using the name Rusty Sharpe.<1><3> He graduated from Cape Central High School, in 1969. Because of his parents' desire to see him attend college, he enrolled in Southeast Missouri State University but left the school after two semesters and one summer. According to his mother, "he flunked everything", and "he just didn't seem interested in anything except radio."<1><4>

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Paul Krugman

Paul Krugman earned his B.A. in economics from Yale University in 1974 and his Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1977. While at MIT he was part of a small group of MIT students sent to work for the Central Bank of Portugal for three months in summer 1976, in the chaotic aftermath of the Carnation Revolution.<21> From 1982 to 1983, he spent a year working at the Reagan White House as a staff member of the Council of Economic Advisers. He taught at Yale University, MIT, UC Berkeley, the London School of Economics, and Stanford University before joining Princeton University in 2000 as professor of economics and international affairs. He is also currently a centenary professor at the London School of Economics, and a member of the Group of Thirty international economic body, as well as the Council on Foreign Relations. He has been a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research since 1979.<22>

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Sean Hannity

Sean Hannity attended Sacred Heart Seminary in Hempstead, New York during his middle school years and St. Pius X Preparatory Seminary high school in Uniondale, New York.<4> Hannity dropped out of New York University and Adelphi University to pursue his broadcasting career.<5>

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Hillary Rodham Clinton

Rodham then entered Yale Law School, where she served on the editorial board of the Yale Review of Law and Social Action.<33> During her second year, she worked at the Yale Child Study Center,<34> learning about new research on early childhood brain development and working as a research assistant on the seminal work, Beyond the Best Interests of the Child (1973).<35><36> She also took on cases of child abuse at Yale-New Haven Hospital<35> and volunteered at New Haven Legal Services to provide free legal advice for the poor.<34> In the summer of 1970, she was awarded a grant to work at Marian Wright Edelman's Washington Research Project, where she was assigned to Senator Walter Mondale's Subcommittee on Migratory Labor. There she researched migrant workers' problems in housing, sanitation, health and education.<37> Edelman later became a significant mentor.<38> She was recruited by political advisor Anne Wexler to work on the 1970 campaign of Connecticut U.S. Senate candidate Joseph Duffey, with Rodham later crediting Wexler with providing her first job in politics.<39>

In the late spring of 1971, she began dating Bill Clinton, also a law student at Yale. That summer, she interned at the Oakland, California, law firm of Treuhaft, Walker and Burnstein.<40> The firm was well-known for its support of constitutional rights, civil liberties, and radical causes (two of its four partners were current or former Communist Party members);<40> Rodham worked on child custody and other cases. Clinton canceled his original summer plans, in order to live with her in California;<41> the couple continued living together in New Haven when they returned to law school.<42> The following summer, Rodham and Clinton campaigned in Texas for unsuccessful 1972 Democratic presidential candidate George McGovern.<43> She received a Juris Doctor degree from Yale in 1973,<[br />

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Glenn Beck graduated from Sehome High School.

I know its an endless list, an almost daily occurence.

[DCKit]

1. Jebus, there's an ARMY of unreccers out tonight.

Guess that means there's some truthniness on the DU.

[grantcart]

Well some do it out of habit, lol.

[vaberella]

2. There's a lot of Repub trolls here. I rec'd. n/t