Another Photo-Op: Obama Will Deliver Afghanistan Address at West Point
Posted by Jim Hoft on Wednesday, November 25, 2009, 12:09 PM
Another photo op for President Dither.
After dithering and waffling on Afghanistan for months to the point that even our American allies are lashing out at his inaction, President Obama will deliver his address on Afghanistan at West Point.
FOX News reported:
Fox White House Correspondent Mike Emanuel reports the following breaking news from the White House:
* President will address the nation Tuesday at 8pm from West Point US Military Academy, where he will announce his decision on US troop levels in Afghanistan
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No Man commented:
More appropriate he deliver the long overdue wafflefest in the Naval court where they will persecute three American heroes for giving a terrorist murderer and mutilater a fat lip.
His heart will be in Mecca with Granma.
Dell commented:
What’s even more significant….and certainly more news worthy….is the fact that the UN will dig down deep and send five thousand troops to Afghanistan, in support of the American effort. Just imagine, five thousand troops from the rest of the free world!!
If I had the power, I’d kick that worthless organization out of New York City so fast it would make your head spin. We would be resigned from that George Soros controlled corruptogang before nightfall.
As for the president and West Point? No matter how hard he tries, this president is going to fair no better than Bill Clinton, when it comes to relations with the military. Hated is too strong a word…..but strongly disliked might be too weak.
Chisum commented:
“I Have Seen The Enemy And I’m Thinking About It”
http://www.julescrittenden.com/2009/11/25/i-have-seen-the-enemy-and-im-thinking-about-it/#comment-81778
Neo commented:
I wonder if Obama will kiss us .. before he has sex with us.
UncleZeb commented:
Does he know no shame?
TheScribbler commented:
You would think that after 11 months the guy would get one thing right, just one. But Oh No, not Barack Obama. Everything is a photo op, it’s all about making himself ‘look good’, it’s all about making history. It’s going to be really historic being the first black one term President!
IOpian commented:
I never knew simply making a decision is such a momentous occasion for him. Guess he’ll manage to slip in a shot or two at Bush and try to convince us there actually is an exit strategy short of victory.
Problem with such high visibility stagecraft is if things don’t go as planned he will validate that he is a narcissistic idiot.
Smoke, mirrors and props.
jbw commented:
Remember when bush gave a speech and if anyone was in a uniform within 20 miles, we were told he was politicizing the military.
crosspatch commented:
A speech at West Point? Unprecedented!
redc1c4 commented:
Ear Leader is going one of the few places on earth where he won’t be jeered off stage by the audience….
not that they won’t want to, just that they won’t do it.
what a scumbag.
chris commented:
“Another photo op for President Dither.”
I seem to remember George W Bush disembarking from something, wearing a flight suit, and giving a speech on the deck of an aircraft carrier. Yep, photo ops are only bad when its a Dem.
olds-mo-william commented:
Did he bring along Spielberg as director?
wanumba commented:
Making my plug for Afghanistan … a short essay on Afghanistan’s location, connections, significance …
http://sonoranalliance.com/2009/11/24/why-afghanistan-is-important/
Gary Gross commented:
It’s ironic that the man who hasn’t committed to winning will deliver his speech from the halls of an institution that’s committed to winning at all costs.
Jamest155 commented:
obama is gonna look so out of place at West Point.
Anon commented:
West Point´s motto reads:
“Duty, Honor, Country.”
Mr. Barack Hussein Obama is:
Anti-duty, dishonest, and anti-American.
Impeach Obama!!!
Jamest155 commented:
Will obamas people install styrafoam greek columns behind the teleprompter.
fallingfast commented:
Everyone of those cadets should stand up and turn their backs on him.
oh and Chris….at least some of President Bush’s family has actually served in our military and were born in the United States, unlike the current Marxist Muslim pretending to be president as he goes around the world on our dime for all of his “special” photo ops. Try not to be such a Libtard……
harry flashman commented:
Just before Obama speaks, the Commander of the Corps of Cadets should issue an “About Face!” command to the Corps.
The Long Grey Line turning their backs on the faux C-in-C that has turned his backs on all our troops in harms way.
But they won’t because, they DO honor their motto.
Gini commented:
chris
November 25th, 2009 | 3:55 pm | #11
“Another photo op for President Dither.”
I seem to remember George W Bush disembarking from something, wearing a flight suit, and giving a speech on the deck of an aircraft carrier. Yep, photo ops are only bad when its a Dem.
chris ~
When did BHO serve any time in the US military? All BHO does is photo ops, he has not accomplished one positive thing for America.
Realise he is your Troll Chief, but please go play with your dollies somewhere else. You are boring.
harry flashman commented:
Chris – The perfect indictment of the empty suit called “Barack Hussein Obama” (by a Lebanese American) -
“He brings disaster upon his nation who never sows a seed, or lays a brick, or weaves a garment, but makes politics his occupation.”
Kahil Gibran
Has the guy ever worked a day in his life?
Has he ever collected a check from anyone but the US Taxpayer or taxpayer funded ACORN?
Has he ever some much as ran a f***ing lemonade stand in his entire worthless, dope smoking, coddled life?
stacy commented:
Great post Harry Flashman!
chris commented:
“Has the guy ever worked a day in his life?”
Yes, he taught constitutional law at Harvard. Just like you I’m sure.
“Has he ever collected a check from anyone but the US Taxpayer or taxpayer funded ACORN?”
Yes, see above.
“Has he ever some much as ran a f***ing lemonade stand in his entire worthless, dope smoking, coddled life?”
Hard to argue he was coddled, as he grew up in a broken household.
codekeyguy commented:
Chris,
For a “teacher”(?) of constitutional law, he sure doesn’t know much about the constitution. How about “innocent till proven guilty”? He DID say that at the trial they will be found guilty and executed. Try ‘em and hang ‘em, that;s constitutional. And he expounded (not taught, you need knowledge for that) at Chicago, not Haaarvaaard.
harry flashman commented:
How could he possibly “teach” what he neither recognizes nor comprehends?
“The Constitution is a charter of negative liberties. Says what states can’t do to you. Says what the federal government can’t do to you, but it doesn’t say what the federal government or the state government must do on your behalf.” Barack Obama,2001.
The only Constitutional responsibilities the Federal Govt. has is to protect its citizens from force or fraud.
“The government was set to protect man from criminals – and the Constitution was written to protect man from the government.”
Ayn Rand
Not coddled? Punahou School in the seething ghetto of Honolulu, five blocks from his granparents house. Occidental College in the gang infested LA burb of Eagle Rock. Then, on to Columbia, the University that produced Lou Gehrig – a very long time ago. Then gets into “Hahvad” Law School.
All, ostensibly, by “scholarships” which must now be the PC doublespeak for “Affirmitive Action”
But, the citizens over whom he presides don’t know how he really got through school becuase we haven’t been allowed access to the constitutional law teachers records at any level. More of that absolute “transparency” that he and his thugocracy are known for.
Definetly the story of a hard done upon, po’ mulritracial kid fighting his way up through the white overclass oppression by guile and charm, fang and claw.
Yeah, Chris – CODDLED, every single paid-for-by-somebody-else step of the way.
bg commented:
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chris @ 5:57 pm #23
gee whiz, all that & a bag of chips and they can’t even find
ONE single piece of paper with his name on it, go figure..
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Chisum commented:
The brain trust, chris the foreign troll, strikes again!
chris
November 25th, 2009 | 5:57 pm | #23 edit
“Has the guy ever worked a day in his life?”
Yes, he taught constitutional law at Harvard. Just like you I’m sure.
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Try again, troll. Let us know when you get tired of being wrong.
Sweet: Obama did NOT “hold the title” of a University of Chicago law school professor.
http://blogs.suntimes.com/sweet/2008/03/sweet_obama_did_hold_the_title.html
Chris Vehr commented:
He’s a product of affirmative action.
As a result, we are all the waste that comes out the other end.
squeaky commented:
from bg’s link – certainly takes the bloom off the rose.
“He was promoted to Senior Lecturer in 1996 and his teaching load eventually increased to three courses a year, less than the load of a professor…”
Chisum commented:
Btw, chris. You need to take something for that raging case of BDS you suffer from.
harry flashman commented:
Squeaky – “…less than the load of a professor…”
But, what a “load” he was and is, nonetheless.
lol – that was a cheapy but it felt good. ~:)
bg commented:
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chris @ 3:55 pm #11
aah, good ole chris with the same rhetorical lie, uh, line..
Bush makes historic speech aboard warship
[Admiral Kelly, Captain Card, officers and sailors of the USS Abraham Lincoln, my fellow Americans, major combat operations in Iraq have ended. In the battle of Iraq, the United States and our allies have prevailed.]
ipso facto:
the USS Abraham Lincoln mission “was accomplished”.. Saddam & his Regime had been demolished..
[We have difficult work to do in Iraq. We're bringing order to parts of that country that remain dangerous. We're pursuing and finding leaders of the old regime who will be held to account for their crimes.
[..]
The transition from dictatorship to democracy will take time, but it is worth every effort. Our coalition will stay until our work is done and then we will leave and we will leave behind a free Iraq. ]
the “mission accomplished” sign was meant for the ship & crew (they were on their way home), not “the war in Iraq”, but regardless.. Bush did not say “the war is over”.. he simply stated the “mission was accomplished”, and to that i say, there is no denying it was..
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codekeyguy commented:
Harry Flashman,
I’ PROUD, PROUD of your “cheapy”!!!!!
Solaratov commented:
Gary Gross
November 25th, 2009 | 4:08 pm | #14
It’s ironic that the man who hasn’t committed to winning will deliver his speech from the halls of an institution that’s committed to winning at all costs.
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While that may have been true at one time, today’s USMA is more commited to churning out and nurturing the “purfumed princes” of tomorrow.
Perhaps a change in national leadership will lead to a change in the military (away from diversity at all costs), which will lead to a change in the way we train leaders. One can but hope.
squeaky commented:
bg
November 25th, 2009 | 6:58 pm | #33
i remember the point at the time was the lincoln had been underway for an extended period of time.
“The banner signified the successful completion of the ship’s deployment,” Cmdr. Chun continued noting that the Abraham Lincoln was deployed 290 days, longer than any other nuclear-powered aircraft carrier in history.
bg commented:
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chris @ 5:57 pm #23
pardon the source/s..
[1. You don’t actually learn the law in law school, at least not at a school like Chicago. Law school is for training you to think through arguments like a lawyer would, and to give you a lay of the land in various fundamental legal areas. Put another way: after spending two quarters studying Contracts with Richard Epstein, I had no idea how to actually draft a contract.
[..]
Spring quarter of my second year, I took Voting Rights and Election Law as a seminar with Professor Obama. Now, let’s be clear: in a school with a lot of Somebodies – Richard Posner, Frank Easterbrook, Cass Sunstein and David Currie – he was a relative nobody, and even compared with other younger faculty, it was Larry Lessig and Elena Kagan who had more of the hype. But Obama was teaching a course in a subject I wanted to study – at a point when I realized that law school was too short to be spent in classes that felt obligatory – and that made it an easy decision.]
guess one could call that an inside poop scoop, but non the less quite revealing, not to mention his students didn’t know he wasn’t a professor.. but then again, he’s presumably the president of the US, so what do i know..
truth sarc on/
too bad he didn’t teach at Harvard Medical School vs Chi-U.. oh wait.. silly me, he really wasn’t a “professor” & he didn’t actually teach “constitutional law” now did he, duh!!
/truth sarc off
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No Man commented:
Quick story about Army that chris and B. Hussien will never “get.”
A while back Army was in a football game against ND. At the end of the game Army scored a TD. If the cadets kicked the extra point, they would have had a tie against a national college football power.
The coach went for the two-point conversion which failed losing the game. The coach when asked (by an idiot like chris or obama) said, we’re here to teach these men to WIN.
Tom Osborn did the same in a big bowl game. Same motivation.
Effing Obama and all liberal scumbags should be shunned.
bg commented:
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chris 5:57 pm #23
re: [Yes, he taught constitutional law at Harvard.]
uh, yeah, right, okay, um, how you feelin’ chis??
one can lead chris to knowledge,
but one cannot make chris think..
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Rhoda R commented:
There is no requirement on those cadets to applaud.
bg commented:
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speaking of Iraq..
ht Hameed via ITM..
translation (via Google language tool):
Musawi disclose the rainbow of the existence of evidence proving the involvement of the former regime with terrorists, bin Laden and Zawahiri
the MSM won’t report this, uh, uh, no no no..
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bg commented:
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squeaky @ 7:07 pm #36
oh yeah, but the “spinners” somehow overlooked that strategic point.. just like they happened to miss all the points GWB made for going to war in Iraq other than the WMD that was the UN’s doing in the first place.. gah!!
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Andreas K. commented:
Dell, it’s 5,000 UN troops. Guys in white trucks with blue helmets and “please shoot me” and “please take me as hostage” signs.
As for Obama… he didn’t say which Tuesday, did he?
Texas Pete commented:
As a West Point grad, I’m slightly appalled that Zero is using my Alma Mater as a photo-op for his latest Spotlight Ranger address to the nation.
But on the humorous side, it’s telling that our Naif-in-Chief thinks that addressing 4000 newby future LTs on the topic of war makes more sense than, say, making his announcement at the Army War College in front of battle-hardened veteran leaders.
Hmmm. Maybe that’s the point.
I wonder if Bammy’s going to make sure the cadets get free beer and a rock concert before he speaks.