Best alternate headline comes from Andy at AOSHQ: All you people look alike to me …
President Obama visited the 10th Mountain Division today at Fort Drum, NY. During a speech celebrating their service in both Iraq and Afghanistan, he recounted, in his characteristic cool demeanor, how he had personally awarded one of their number the first Congressional Medal of Honor given to a living recipient since the Vietnam war:
First time I saw 10th Mountain Division, you guys were in southern Iraq. When I went back to visit Afghanistan, you guys were the first ones there. I had the great honor of seeing some of you because a comrade of yours, Jared Monti, was the first person who I was able to award the Medal of Honor to who actually came back and wasn’t receiving it posthumously.
Nice one, eh? Smoother than Billy D. Williams. Showing the troops how much he cares; how he keeps on top of all that soldiering stuff. Real. Authentic …
Only one problem though: Jared Monti was killed in Iraq, the year Mr. Obama was elected to the Senate…
Now, surely he meant Salvatore Giunta; you know, the man whose neck he personally hung the Medal of Honor around earlier this year! But, you know, keeping all of those details about the little people is, well, hard. That would actually require him to give a tinker’s damn about something besides himself or his next tee time.
Jim Hoft has the video of the performance. But Uncle Jimbo at Blackfive has what is possibly the piece de resistance of the entire episode:
The ironic part of the speech, and this comes after the announcement of the politically pressured drawdown of troops in Afghanistan, was Obama’s closing remark, “Know that your Commander-in-Chief has your back.”
Right. He “has their backs”. Whatevz…
Even the MBM knows how bad this “gaffe” looks for Obama, coming on the heels of his “Mission Accomplished in Afghanistan” speech. Check out this headline, where the media hacks are spinning for the President faster than the double-deuce rims on a low-low; Obama visit to Fort Drum stirs range of emotions.
Indeed, it’s just too bad that surprise, disgust, and apathy were included among them.
I hate to beat dead horses and all, but I can’t help but ask my favorite rhetorical question; What if President Bush had done something like this? Imagine for a moment the rending of garments and gnashing of teeth; the talk of how this not only confirmed the kill-crazy-cowboy Chimperor McBusHitler’s stupidity, but also his blatant and utter disregard for the lives of the men he sentenced to certain death in faraway places to simply stroke his ego, satiate his fascistic neo-con fantasies, and, of course, line eeeeeevolll Darth Cheney McHalliburton’s pockets.
But Obama? Well, he’s just stirring a range of emotions, and keepin’ it real…
- Excited
- Angry
- Not as Angry
- Bored
- Indifferent
- Sad
he is, alas, a total disgrace. rookie, rookie, rookie… hey look over there!
I’ll bet this was a purposeful slight, for to excite his base. Who mostly loathe the military.
My friend Buck, at Exile in Portales had this up the other day. It originated at BLACKFIVE, one of the very best milblogs on the planet. Buck was runner up in the vet category in this year’s milbloggies!
As for the cinc, the last sentence in the post at Buck’s place is quite good.
Link to the post is here: http://exileinportales.blogspot.com/2011/06/file-this-under-miss-me-yet.html
Nice post by your pal Buck. I thought I delivered some class A snark here as well; it was the only way I could deal with my disgust…
Along that line of thought, this was my favorite part:
Obama’s closing remark, “Know that your Commander-in-Chief has your back.”
Like the time he kneecapped Dick Durbin for comparing us to the Khmer rouge, or the time he admonished Harry Reid for saying the “the war is lost” or the time he backhanded John Kerry for saying U.S. troops in Iraq were terrorizing women and children…..
WHAT? None of that happened.
Well he did make me look good irt my stragic oil reserve release prediction. However, I’d prefer to be wrong if it meant that he had made the right decision.
Next up, releasing post mortem pics of Osama.
Good prediction on the SPRo, by the way. I sure wish there had been an in-trade betting option I could have gotten on
Let’s give the President the benefit of the doubt here–
maybe he sees dead people.
He previously said on Memorial Day that he sees some of the people we honor on that day in the audience. Was Jared Monti at his MOH ceremony? I’ll take Obama’s word on it.
Maybe M.Night Shyamalan has another twist in store for us in the Obama saga.
You may be onto something here Darrell.
You may be onto something here Darrell.
Well he did say “corpseman” afterall. Why do we assume it was a mistake?
Let’s give the President the benefit of the doubt here–
maybe he sees dead people.
He previously said on Memorial Day that he sees some of the people we honor on that day in the audience. Was Jared Monti at his MOH ceremony? I’ll take Obama’s word on it.
Maybe M.Night Shyamalan has another twist in store for us in the Obama saga.
All that our military is to Obama is “a pretty good photo op”.