With a green beret cocked to one side, a crisp, take-charge attitude and biting one-liners — “Don’t get stuck on stupid!” he snapped at reporters — he impressed politicians and ordinary folks alike. At news conferences, he ended sentences with the word “over,” as if transmitting over military radio.

New Orleans Mayor C. Ray Nagin, for one, famously called him a “John Wayne dude.”

Honore returned to Atlanta after the storm to focus on his main job as commander of the First Army, training National Guardsmen and reservists for duty in Iraq and Afghanistan.

The devastation in his home state — the stranded residents, destroyed neighborhoods and bloated corpses — “left a passion in me to be a champion of something,” he said.

h/t: Michelle Malkin

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Good News for Republicans. Members of the GOP are more mentally stable than the average Democrat or Independent (undecided liberal). This by the Democrats’ own admission in a recent Gallup Poll.

Republicans Report Much Better Mental Health Than Others

PRINCETON, NJ — Republicans are significantly more likely than Democrats or independents to rate their mental health as excellent, according to data from the last four November Gallup Health and Healthcare polls. Fifty-eight percent of Republicans report having excellent mental health, compared to 43% of independents and 38% of Democrats. This relationship between party identification and reports of excellent mental health persists even within categories of income, age, gender, church attendance, and education.

The basic data — based on an aggregated sample of more than 4,000 interviews conducted since 2004 — are straightforward.

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Further proof of this might be illustrated by the Clinton supporter that invaded her campaign’s satellite office in Rochester NH and held several volunteers hostage with highway flares strapped to his chest. Rumor has it that he was complaining about health care in the US specifically mental health care.

I think the margin of error might actually be less than ±2 Percentage Points.

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