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Current Events => General Discussion => Topic started by: thelaughingman on June 24, 2011, 12:51:57 AM
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The right-wing websites are all over this. The left-wing ones? Not so much.
http://floppingaces.net/2011/06/23/quote-of-the-day-10/
But that’s not the sad quote of the day (Well….at least up until today, it wasn’t).
This is:
“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.â€
-Remarks of the President to Soldiers of the 10th Mountain Division in Fort Drum, New York
BlackFive points out that there is just one terrible problem with this: Staff Sgt. Sal Giunta is in fact the first living recipient of the Medal of Honor since Vietnam.
And Sgt. First Class Jared Monti? He received his…..posthumously.
Dipshit. And sure, Sarah Palin is called an "idiot" (and worse) for getting an obscure piece of 200-year-old American history right, but Obumbler gets a free pass when he gets something he himself did recently embarrassingly, offensively, and 100% dead wrong.
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It's late, but I suspect even in the morning I will have nothing to say about this except :censored: and :bird:Obumbler.
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I can only imagine the feelings of our troops in the field today in the midst of being used as pawns by Soetoro.
Announcing with great fanfare his planned troop draw downs as he ignores his generals and awkwardly tries posing as the man in charge, the great victor with all the answers. The hero commander.
What a complete asshat.
After all we have invested in Afghanistan. After all we have gained and built there. After all the American blood sacrificed there. He ignores our best and brightest, our Generals and Admirals -the real heroes- who caution that much is left to do before we may assess the job as done, this asshat throws all of that under the bus and broadcasts to the enemy that we are leaving.
I saw some of that speech on the news this afternoon but as usual I didn't pay much attention as it was Barry talking and I quite frankly can't stomach his voice or the sight of his face. I did however notice the faces of the soldiers behind him and I commented to the wife, "look at all these troops behind him. No one is smiling. These folks likely just spent 15 hours on a jet and want to see their families but no, they have to wait for this clown to show up and be used as the backdrop for a canned campaign speech".
Getting facts like that wrong is inexcusable but hey, it's all about YOU ain't it, Barry?