9-2-08

On Friday I said that it appeared to this moron that the crotchety old fighter pilot had gotten inside Obama’s decision loop: McCain and the OODA Loop. The Father of the OODA Loop and one of the greatest American warriors you will never hear about is: “John Boyd – Pope John, The High Priest of the Fighter Mafia, the Mad Major, the Ghetto Colonel – Forty Second Boyd not only wrote the revolutionary tactics manuals that gave American pilots the keys to air-to-air victory… and with it the essential and undisputed control of the battlespace. Nor was his achievement limited to the design of the phenomenally successful F-15 and F-16 fighters. Nor was it merely the codifying of physics and thermodynamics to make a science out of an art form. That John Boyd saw all of these things for the first time would have made him a legend. But this was quite the lesser of his two great achievements. For Boyd not only saw how to perfect the sword. He saw too how to perfect the swordsman.”

John Lewis Gaddis: But I can say this on the basis of direct observation: President Bush is interested—as no other occupant of the White House has been for quite a long time—in how the past can provide guidance for the future.

Steve Diamond: Perhaps realizing that there is no hope on the Ayers issue, the Obama campaign began its strategic retreat today.

TigerHawk quotes Mike Huckabee: “(Sarah Palin) got more votes running for mayor of Wasilla, Alaska than Joe Biden got running for president.” Ouch!

TigerHawk: Sarah Palin in the British press

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