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Audacity of Truth
Spinsational:
"We were so busy just getting stuff done and dealing with the immediate crises that were in front of us that I think we lost some of that sense of speaking directly to the American people about what their core values are and why we have to make sure those institutions are matching up with those values."
-Obama, explaining recent Democrat losses, 1/20/10
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Why has Obama only talked General McChrystal once in 70 days?
The military general credited for capturing Saddam Hussein and killing the leader of al-Qaeda in Iraq says he has only spoken to President Obama once since taking command of Afghanistan.
“I’ve talked to the president, since I’ve been here, once on a VTC [video teleconferece],” General Stanley McChrystal told CBS reporter David Martin in a television interview that aired Sunday.
“You’ve talked to him once in 70 days?” Mr. Martin followed up.
“That is correct,” the general replied.
This revelation comes amid the explosive publication of an classified report written by the general that said the war in Afghanistan “will likely result in failure” of more troops are not added next year. Yet, the debate over health care reform continues to dominate Washington’s political discussions.
While Obama dithers, Afghanistan continues to deteriorate.
Michelle Malkin hits the nail on the head:
Obama is for “engagement” and “dialogue” with everyone else in the world except his own military commanders.
So much for candidate Obama’s pledge last year to make Afghanistan – what he has called then and now the “central front,” the “war of necessity” (an indirect slap at the war in Iraq) – his top priority in terms of renewing the focus and giving the commanders in the field the resources they need to turn things around there. But then again, none of us are actually surprised, are we?
Jules Crittenden has a link round-up of reax on Obama’s handling of the Obama situation, and himself calls Obama “Obamlet“:
*To troop up or not to troop up: that is the question. Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, or to take arms against a sea of troubles, and by opposing end them?*
Excuse me, just flipping through some Shakespeare and mulling the news, or lack of it, this morning. The ongoing to be or not to be a wartime president that is now the news.
Obama looks more and more like Obamlet every day. What makes this unlike a stage drama and more like a courtroom one, though, is that playwrights usually don’t leave the stage empty this long, with the audience sitting around like lawyers waiting for a verdict. Are we supposed to be encouraged or discouraged by the Obama admin’s footdragging on a decision? Some commentary on that below.
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Frightening …
Gereral McChrystal also said we should not be looking at calendars but our watches. Time is of essence and we have soldiers dying to protect our liberties. Obama is most likely going to Denmark this week to talk about the olympics. He need to come up with a plan a troop plan to support the Afganistan war? It is not on his priorities. When is the last time he has praised our military and our country as be exceptional? Haven’t heard much at all over the last 8-mionths.
Well, with all the news conferences, speeches, and other worship sessions he has to go to, Dear Leader just hasn’t had time! And BTW, you’re racist for bringing this up! Just because a black man doesn’t jump at the chance to meet a white man you criticize him you racist bastages!
God Bless our brave troops. Give our Commander in Chief a break. There is only so much time to dedicate to support of our military. One must consider the real priorities – Selling healthcare on the “friendly networks”, ducking the critics, olympics etc..Getting down to business in Afghanistan might not play so well with the far left – so lets put it on the back burner and ensure some deniability for Barry.
And Severian, we might add all those important appointments of the czars that were supposed to give him an edge at figuring out all that trivial stuff that he just doesn’t have time to deal with….well, are we going to have a military czar soon who will keep him in the know????
The bottom line – getting the socialist agenda through takes priority over our nation’s security or the safety of our troops!
Isn’t there a chain of command in the military? How often has ANY president talked to the generals on the ground? Aren’t there at least 2 people in the chain between Obama and McChrystal?
What Obama talk to the military,Ha! He’s too busy running around in Air Force One using it like some black Chicago pimp uses his elongated black car with the fur-lined seats to pimp whitey on the conner. Just like that black pimp Obama doesn’t work–heck he never has. He’s left the business of governing to his many Czars while he and Michelle fly around on the tax-payers dime.
Obviously, the olympics are more important than our troops in Afghanistan.
Dave…”Isn’t there a chain of command in the military? How often has ANY president talked to the generals on the ground? Aren’t there at least 2 people in the chain between Obama and McChrystal?”
Chain of command does not prohibit a leader from *talking* to lower-level people. There are chains of command in businesss, too, and most successful executives (actually, probably *all* successful executives) frequently find it important to talk with people other than their direct reports.
I have to disagree with Malkin.
With Putin, Chavez, Castro, Ahmadinejad, Kim Jong-Il, and every other America-hating dictator in the known universe, yes.
If you’re a racist Marixst truther, there might even be a czarship for you.
And don’t dare get caught between Duh-1 and a TV camera. You’ll get trampled as he rushes to preen, “engage” and “dialogue” with the MSM types. (But not Fox).
But he wouldn’t give Gordon Brown the time of day at the UN. The Poles and Czechs are learning about life under the bus. Israeli confidence in the US is down to single digits in some polls. And he’s certainly not interested in engaging with the 56% of Americans who don’t buy his health care snake oil.
So, the correct statement would be:
Talk with the general? My gosh, man, don’t you realize how much time it takes to prep for the school talks? And to make all those campaign speeches about ObamaCare, and how carefully he has to word the phrase, “You lie!”? And how important it is to send Chicago into a pit of debt from which they’ll never recover? Or how important it is to fly around in his very own pimpmoplane and ’splain to ussens how we gotta stop usin’ oil?
Man, I’m surprised he had time for the one talk, let alone any more. After all, it’s just Afghanistan, and American soldiers, so what’s the big deal?