Daily Kos: Obama To Disband the Marine Corps

[Botany]

<On a flight home I sat in between two individuals, a Marine and boxing promoter. The boxing guy was an older gentleman, and told interesting stories, such as meeting Don King. Both men were very pleasant and that helped make time pass on the flight. We were all combat veterans and all Southerners, so we had a lot in common. Then the discussion, inevitably, turned to politics.

The older guy turned to the Marine and said "You know Obama is getting rid of the Marine Corps, right?"

The Marine was puzzled. He hadn't heard this news. Neither had I. "Yeah, Eric Holder just had a meeting with the Joint Chiefs. Obama is going to disband them by Executive Order."

Hooooo boy. We are going to do this now, are we? Putting aside for the moment why the head of the DOJ would be involved with restructuring a military department in the DoD, I said: "I don't think any president can just disband a branch of service. Also, this would be pretty big news. Don't you think it would be all over the news instead of a message board?" I assumed it was a message board because I follow GOP conspiracy theories on rightwing sites, and never heard of this one. Even the Marine, who was no Obama fan, agreed this sounded very stupid and we moved on to other topics.>

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/01/01/1355083/-Obama-To-Disband-the-Marine-Corps?detail=email

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I wouldn't doubt the truth of this story because in 2012 after the election I was told by a nice seemingly
smart person that now that Obama had won re-election that he would be bringing in Hamas fighters into
America with the help of the UN so he could take over America.

BTW Did you know that President Obama is going to take the sprinkles away from donuts and cookies?

[DetlefK]

1. Obama added a signing statement that gives him permission to give everyone a wedgie.

[Neon Gods]

2. NEVER underestimate the stupid

Right before the 2012 elections I was getting gas at a small gas station in rural Virginia. Gas prices had been steadily rising at the time and the guy next to me said, "You know Obama's raising the gas prices don't you? To get elected." I wanted to say that's the stupidest thing I've ever heard but found I was speechless.

On the other hand, one must admit that one of the most underreported news stories of the past decade is the ability of Fox News to perform millions of non-invasive lobotomies, remotely! It's been pretty amazing.

[enough]

3. The morning after Obama was elected for his first term, I was at the pharmacy

picking up a prescription for my mother. A group of elderly customers were in an honest panic and rage that morning because one of them had just come in with the news that "He's going to take away our Medicare." Nothing could convince them otherwise.

[Botany]

4. You do know that President Obama was going to ban sport fishing?

http://www.nytimes.com/gwire/2010/03/11/11greenwire-obama-admin-jumps-to-squelch-rumors-of-us-fish-65275.html

[FSogol]

5. Ted Cruz has been pushing the idea that Obama and the UN were going to ban golf.

Of course, Obama then became an avid player, probably just to piss Cruz off.

[Adrahil]

6. He was going to take away guns too. Funny, I have more now than in 2007! n/t