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Obama's "Bay of Pigs" Event

May 6, 2015 6:27AM PDT

Remember "Bay of Pigs" in Cuba during Kennedy years?

Sure enough, Obama had to do the same. Obama's "Bay of Pigs" in Baltimore.


"The FBI acknowledged on Wednesday that it used aircraft to watch over Baltimore last week in the wake of rioting.Amy Thoreson, an FBI spokeswoman, said the aircraft were provided to help the Baltimore Police department keep an eye out for criminal activity across the city and their use was approved at a "high level." "The aircraft were specifically used to assist in providing high-altitude observation of potential criminal activity to enable rapid response by police officers on the ground," Thoreson said. "The FBI aircraft were not there to monitor lawfully protected first amendment activity."Thoreson would not say what kind of aircraft were used or give any more information about the flights,....

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When something starts
May 6, 2015 6:41AM PDT

they don't do enough quickly enough (for you)....when things calm down...they did too much.

you're upset that THEY are watching THE PERPS?

I didn't think they could watch them enough for you.

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Comparing Obama to Kennedy?
May 6, 2015 6:43AM PDT

Is that an "atta' boy"?

I've always thought Kennedy was one of the great ones.

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I'm not a Democrat
May 6, 2015 9:13AM PDT

I don't give "atta boys" for failures. I'll give him one for the space program.

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You're more generous than I am
May 6, 2015 7:40PM PDT

One of the first things he did was eliminate the space program as we know it and reassign astronauts to be 'ambassadors' instead.

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(NT) Kennedy?
May 9, 2015 3:28AM PDT
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(NT) What? I was talking about BO, as you well know
May 9, 2015 5:08AM PDT
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I don't remember him eliminating the space program
May 9, 2015 8:19AM PDT

I do know that the House keeps trying to defund it, especially the part where they watch the earth.

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It amounts to the same thing
May 9, 2015 8:03PM PDT
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/obama-budget-nasa-moon-program-canceled-private-companies/story?id=9718472&singlePage=true

While he waits for those 'private' companies (there will be winners and losers), we have to depend on Russia and China, not such a good idea now that we see where that's getting us......And he turned our astronauts into 'goodwill ambassadors while thousands of people lost their jobs....not just in the NASA program but suppliers, etc.

http://www.space.com/8221-obama-space-plan-devastating-neil-armstrong-moon-visitors.html