To the surprise of no one and the delight of the Taliban, a petulant and frowny-faced Barack Obama fired our top military commander in Afghanistan, General Stanley McChrystal, because the alleged president wasn't happy about remarks the General's staffers made about Washington while drinking with a reporter from Rolling Stone magazine.
The president insists that in a time of war, lack of respect can not and will not be tolerated - which is why he replaced McChrystal with Army General David Petraeus, who liberals in Washington respectfully called "General Betray-us" when he was leading war efforts in Iraq. And in fact, when Republicans offered up a resolution condemning the "General Betray-us" slur, both Barack Obama and Joe Biden refused to support it.
And so, in these strange days of Hope n' Change, we now have a wartime president whose thinking and strategy are coming out of the pages of Rolling Stone. Which no doubt offers a certain nostalgia to a president who admits that he spent the years when he could have served in the military "rolling stoned."
Funny how the liberals just don't understand how the internet works - until a day ago, MoveOn.org was still getting mileage out of the General Betray Us ad. Now that General Petraeus is in Obama's corner, they think they can cover their tracks by making removing it from their website. They don't understand that the internet has a deep memory - things don't disappear.
ReplyDeleteMoveOn Scrubs 'General Betray Us' Page From Website . . . Update: Flashback to 2007, Obama Skipped Senate Vote to Condemn MoveOn . . . Update 2: Rationale Page Also Flushed. . .
Obama is just making a public example of what happens when you disagree with him. He's trying to scare everyone else.
ReplyDeleteAnd I always wonder what goes on in those "private meetings"...what kinds of threats and bribes....
I will say the General was pretty clueless to talk to that particular magazine. Duh. Of all magazines to get in trouble over...
V.P.(bite me)Biden has been openly opposed to the anti-insurgency strategy. Why hasn't he been publicly rebuked by President (I won't tolerate division) Obama? More to the point, I was fascinated by how forceful he sounded yesterday after he fired a true war hero. I wish he'd direct that strength against the REAL enemy. Yesterday's words also reminded me of how eager Obama was to condemn a white cop before he had all the facts. What a manly man.
ReplyDeleteScumbagitude of the first magnitude.
ReplyDeleteThe second update in this post sums it up for me. Respect has to be mutual for it to work.
ReplyDeleteRed- Rush Limbaugh performed a great service today by playing the many, many soundbites showing that Barack Obama, Joe Biden, Hillary Clinton, Harry Reid, and Nancy Pelosi have held no respect whatsoever for Petraeus...until now, when they need him to pull their respective asses out of the fire.
ReplyDeleteDem asses in the fire? Talk about a pork roast...
ReplyDeleteInteresting how everything he does is so predictable, small-minded and self-serving. No leader he!
ReplyDeletePryourguy has summed up BHO very nicely with "predictable, small-minded, and self-serving." I cannot think of a time when those words do not apply. The weasel has never put anyone else, and certainly not the nation, ahead of himself. He is incredibly thin-skinned, and he explodes predictably, much like a school child who has been called a name by another child.
ReplyDeleteThe $64,000 question right now is, can the US survive two and a half more years of this malignant mental midget?