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primitives discuss salutegate
« on: September 23, 2014, 07:26:04 PM »
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CatWoman (69,479 posts)    Tue Sep 23, 2014, 07:18 PM

You guys ready for SALUTE GATE????

tempest over Obama's tea cup salute: Commander-in-chief sparks anger by saluting US Marines with drink in his hand
 
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2767220/AWKWARD-Obama-creates-tempest-saluting-US-Marines-styrofoam-tea-cup-hand.html#ixzz3EBSCQ3Ir

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President Obama Gesture to Marines Dubbed ‘Latte Salute’

Some are calling it the “latte salute.”

When President Obama stepped off Marine One at the Wall Street landing zone in New York City, en route the United Nations, he saluted two Marines at the bottom of the stairs as he held a coffee cup in the same hand.
 
The unusual gesture appeared in an Instagram video posted by the White House on social media. Obama is also wearing sunglasses as he arrived, with the first lady not far behind.
 
http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2014/09/president-obama-gesture-to-marines-dubbed-latte-salute/

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malaise (123,644 posts)  Tue Sep 23, 2014, 07:21 PM 

2. Maybe it will end that stupid [sic] Reagan

crap. No President before him saluted the troops.

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morningfog (9,009 posts)    Tue Sep 23, 2014, 07:22 PM

3. People care about this? He's the CiC, he can salute

or not salute how wet he wants. And he can attack any country he wants, too.

New thread; not many primitives have seen it yet.
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Re: primitives discuss salutegate
« Reply #1 on: September 23, 2014, 07:32:47 PM »
Huh???  Haven't heard or read a thing about this.

Sounds like DUmmies are inventing a new supposed right-wing scandal to further defend Obama.
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Re: primitives discuss salutegate
« Reply #2 on: September 23, 2014, 07:36:07 PM »
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Re: primitives discuss salutegate
« Reply #3 on: September 23, 2014, 07:45:22 PM »
It just shows how much Barry really doesn't give a ****.
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Re: primitives discuss salutegate
« Reply #4 on: September 23, 2014, 07:56:52 PM »
That is incredibly disrespectful,would be better to just nod or ignore them outright as he really would prefer.
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Re: primitives discuss salutegate
« Reply #5 on: September 23, 2014, 08:05:13 PM »
He's lucky the Marines didn't salute him the way he deserved. :bigbird:
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Re: primitives discuss salutegate
« Reply #6 on: September 23, 2014, 08:10:44 PM »
Of all the people I'd love to see spill a hot coffee on themselves.
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Re: primitives discuss salutegate
« Reply #7 on: September 23, 2014, 08:23:37 PM »
Last year he used Marines in dress blues to hold umbrellas for him and some muzzie.

Like Clinton and all current democrats he holds the military in contempt.

Sending them on a useless but deadly mission into the Ebola wards of Africa is an example.
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« Reply #8 on: September 23, 2014, 10:38:31 PM »
Reagan, Bush, and Bush knew how to show respect for the men and women who served them ... probably because they did respect them. And unlike WJC and BHO, Reagan, Bush, and Bush served.
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Re: primitives discuss salutegate
« Reply #9 on: September 23, 2014, 10:42:13 PM »
Quote from: SVPete on September 23, 2014, 10:38:31 PM
Reagan, Bush, and Bush knew how to show respect for the men and women who served them ... probably because they did respect them. And unlike WJC and BHO, Reagan, Bush, and Bush served.
The Clintons' behavior regarding the Secret Service is well known.  It's no surprise to see the Obamas' share those feelings.
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Re: primitives discuss salutegate
« Reply #10 on: September 23, 2014, 10:44:47 PM »
It could be ignorance or apathy.
Or both.
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Re: primitives discuss salutegate
« Reply #11 on: September 24, 2014, 04:12:30 AM »
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3. And he can attack any country he wants, too.

 Heh.........  :whatever:
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Re: primitives discuss salutegate
« Reply #12 on: September 24, 2014, 01:15:17 PM »
Just another example of the way PrezBO really feels about the military.    :banghead:
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Re: primitives discuss salutegate
« Reply #13 on: September 24, 2014, 01:38:21 PM »
Quote from: JakeStyle on September 23, 2014, 07:36:07 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g9RkyX44Zes
His failure to transfer the cup to his left hand prior to saluting the Marines shows one of 2 things about obama:

1. he has no respect for the Troops or
2. he is totally ignorant of Military Protocol. 

Either one is shameful behavior for the CINC.
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Re: primitives discuss salutegate
« Reply #14 on: September 24, 2014, 01:41:48 PM »
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morningfog (9,009 posts)    Tue Sep 23, 2014, 07:22 PM

3. People care about this? He's the CiC, he can salute

or not salute how wet he wants. And he can attack any country he wants, too.

This DUmmy shows the contempt he and his ilk have for the Military and how they feel that obama has limitless powers to act in any manner he wants to.
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Re: primitives discuss salutegate
« Reply #15 on: September 24, 2014, 03:50:50 PM »

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Re: primitives discuss salutegate
« Reply #16 on: September 24, 2014, 03:57:07 PM »
Quote from: DLR Pyro on September 24, 2014, 01:38:21 PM
His failure to transfer the cup to his left hand prior to saluting the Marines shows one of 2 things about obama:

1. he has no respect for the Troops or
2. he is totally ignorant of Military Protocol. 

Either one is shameful behavior for the CINC.

Watch his head,he is only interested in seeing how big or who is in the onlookers.
Both are correct but I lean more towards 1.
He considers them peons,never once does he look at them.
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« Reply #17 on: September 24, 2014, 05:50:27 PM »
I've never cared for this custom, even when President Reagan started it.

It looks awkward and improper for someone in civilian clothes, even the commander-in-chief, to salute a Marine in dress blues, and it's rarely a proper salute anyway.

It's even more out-of-place when contempt for the military is a core value of the modern democrat party.

The President can recognize his Marine detail without a half-assed civilian salute.

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« Reply #18 on: September 24, 2014, 05:56:09 PM »
Quote from: GOBUCKS on September 24, 2014, 05:50:27 PM
I've never cared for this custom, even when President Reagan started it.

It looks awkward and improper for someone in civilian clothes, even the commander-in-chief, to salute a Marine in dress blues, and it's rarely a proper salute anyway.

It's even more out-of-place when contempt for the military is a core value of the modern democrat party.

The President can recognize his Marine detail without a half-assed civilian salute.
I would disagree.  As boots, we all had to learn the proper way to salute and learn it fast. 

One of the jobs of being President is CINC.  Saluting his subordinates is one of the responsibilities that should go along with the job. 

The left keeps telling us how smart obama is.  For a man who is so smart, why can't learn a gesture that is so simple to learn?  He is so on about how we can't offend muslims by doing this or offend another class of people by doing that, yet he continually offends menbers of the Military by his apparent lack of respect for them or their traditions.
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« Reply #19 on: September 24, 2014, 06:20:16 PM »
It's an enlisted mans duty to salute an officer and it's the duty of that officer to return that salute.....Chesty Puller.
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Re: primitives discuss salutegate
« Reply #20 on: September 24, 2014, 06:28:55 PM »
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Re: primitives discuss salutegate
« Reply #22 on: September 24, 2014, 06:55:07 PM »
Quote from: GOBUCKS on September 24, 2014, 05:50:27 PM
I've never cared for this custom, even when President Reagan started it.

It looks awkward and improper for someone in civilian clothes, even the commander-in-chief, to salute a Marine in dress blues, and it's rarely a proper salute anyway.

It's even more out-of-place when contempt for the military is a core value of the modern democrat party.

The President can recognize his Marine detail without a half-assed civilian salute.

It isn't required for the President  to return the salute, but if they are going to do it, then they should do it properly. Reagan did it out of a genuine respect for the military as did both President Bush's.
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« Reply #23 on: September 24, 2014, 07:35:15 PM »
Quote from: DLR Pyro on September 24, 2014, 05:56:09 PM

One of the jobs of being President is CINC.  Saluting his subordinates is one of the responsibilities that should go along with the job.

It wasn't done for the first two hundred years of the republic, until President Reagan began doing it in 1981.

I think President Reagan did it out of respect, but also to emphasize that there was a very new and different sheriff in town

A salute by someone like Clinton or the jug-eared muslim, men who have no respect for the military, is so hypocritical it's sort of insulting.
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« Reply #24 on: September 24, 2014, 09:06:33 PM »
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    White House press secretary Josh Earnest is not sure if President Barack Obama is aware of the stir caused yesterday when he saluted Marines at the base of Marine One while concurrently holding his coffee cup.

    “I don’t know. I haven’t talked to him about it,” Earnest told MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell when asked if the president was aware of the controversy at hand.

http://dailycaller.com/2014/09/24/josh-earnest-i-dont-know-if-obama-is-aware-of-latte-salute-controversy-video/
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