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“See, what you all need to know about the President you helped to elect is that when it comes to the people he meets, Barack has a memory like a steel trap. He has a gift in that way, able to retain information, know more than those who are briefing him, asking critical questions, because all of those wins and losses are not wins and losses for him [but] they are wins and losses for the folks whose stories he carries with him, the folks that he worries about and prays about before he goes to bed at night”
-First Lady, Michelle Obama at a sold-out breakfast fund-raiser at the Claremont Hotel in Berkeley, Calif., on June 14

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.”
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.

Rhyan C. Garey, 5 years old, holds a sign during prayer while waiting to greet his dad, Richard R. Garey, who returned after a year in Afghanistan March 9, 2011 at the 10th Mountain Division 1st Brigade Combat Team Homecoming Ceremony at Fort Drum, N.Y. President Obama plans to visit Fort Drum on Thursday. (AP Photo/The Watertown Daily Times, Justin Sorensen)

AP:

Following his brief remarks, Obama stopped to talk one-on-one with the soldiers. He told them to be “at ease” while he took his time working the room, but those orders from the commander in chief did little to spark any chatter among the troops.

As BlackFive comments:

The ironic part of the speech, and this comes after the announcement of the politically pressured drawdown of troops in Afghanistan, was Obama’s closing remark, “Know that your Commander-in-Chief has your back.”

It shouldn’t take a teleprompter for the C-in-C to get it right.

[sheen]“Winning!”-President Obama [/sheen]

U.S. President Barack Obama salutes with three U.S. Army soldiers at Dover Air Force Base, Delaware, Oct. 29, 2009. (Jim Young/Reuters)
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Obama is permanently out to lunch.
He just reads the stuff on the teleprompter and hasn’t thought about any of it beforehand.
He handed the medal to Sgt. First Class Jared Monti’s parents in a televised ceremony.
It was memorable to me but, apparently not to him.
But, if Obama fired his speechwriters simply for making him look stupid all the time, he wouldn’t have enough guys to play basketball with him.

Oh Lord what are we going to do for comic relief after the Clown in Chief and his trusty side kick, Babbling Biden are gone? The Lefty Loons keep saying that Sarah Palin is stupid? She’s got more smarts in her little pinkie than Barry does in his entire body.

@Nan G: Sadly, Barry doesn’t give a ratsazz about our troops, only about his skinny butt and making sure that Moochelle can go shopping all over the world.

Barack has the mind of a steel trap. Rusted shut.

Stupid does as stupid is!

It makes me ill to my stomach that this man is using the military, the men and women of the Army for political purposes. There are over 100K troops and he wants to pull just 10K and at the worst time no yet. The other political play was the release of emergency oil. all because his numbers are low – and those who are ignorant, unintelligent, stupid, believe he is qualified based on his color alone, and those who believe he is qualified because they feel badly that over a hundred years ago black people were held as slaves which BTW were sold to white people by BLACK people in Africa will believe all of it.

This was on Weasel Zipper’s last week…..

Michelle Obama: “Barack Has A Memory Like A Steel Trap”…

http://weaselzippers.us/2011/06/17/michelle-obama-barack-has-a-memory-like-a-steel-trap/

—>This Illegal Resident in the White House is a total disgrace to America!!

There is not enough affirmative action, MSM hosannas, and informed teleprompters to fix simple and stupid!

I was going to give the pres a little bit of leeway thinking this was TOTUS’ fault, but then I hear this morning that Robert Gibbs’ excuse was that the president spoke off the cuff and made a mistake.

This is just one more sad entry in the “Can you imagine how the press would react if Bush did this?” category.

Two comments:
1. RE the last photo, at least someone taught the CIC how to salute. It is light-years better than the hand flop “Halp Us Jon Kary” produced at the DNC convention in 2004. This may be the only thing I approve of during President Obama’s single term as President.

2. The position “At Ease” necessitates no talking. The informal command “be at ease” allows for talking, but what soldier in their right mind will mindlessly chatter with the President, assorted flag rank officers and command sergeants major in the room? That’s just asking for a smack down from your team/squad/section leader afterwards. It seems the AP reporter needs to look up the word “discipline”.

Where is OT2. We need his comment here!

Obama is to military protocol as Biden is to intelligent conversation…

Doing some catch up and I thought you would all find the following links very interesting:

Well now, speaking about “All you need to know about Obama”, here is a very interesting report by Accuracy In Media: http://www.aim.org/aim-column/is-the-fbi-investigating-obama/

And another on Leon Panetta: http://www.aim.org/aim-column/panetta’s-war-on-reagan’s-defense-policies/

Video interview about the new book “Gangster Government”: http://www.aim.org/video/freddoso-obamas-gangster-media-blacklist-aka-foxnews/

@Ditto: Very interesting, Ditto. Thanks for posting!

Randy, I think, they found a way to silence him,
they surely denied his many demands for retiring, as he mentionned on his last post to be home by MAY END,
and the LYBIA WAR was suppose to be only days,
he must be realy pissed of, now, and we are pissed of also here
remember how happy he was to anticipate his life after

The anonymous White house insider has a bit more about how and why Obama finally apologized to the family of SFC Monti.
Apparently Obama had no intention of apologizing until White House Chief of Staff Bill Daley forced a private meeting with Obama and made him do so.
Here’s a link.

Containment and dithering were Obama’s original plan.
As usual.

Nan G , that is very interesting, to learn from up close
I had read some other and find it very credible and disturbing,

“First time I saw 10th Mountain Division, you guys were in southern Iraq.

The 10th Mountain Division was NEVER in southern Iraq!
They were 460 miles NORTH of southern Iraq!
Kirkuk is 150 miles North East of Baghdad!

DSchoen, wow, he will have to appologyse another time,
bye

@DSchoen:
Actually…..

The 10th Mountain Division has been given control of Southern Iraq. British forces transferred power to Fort Drum commander Major General Michael Oates during a responsibility ceremony Tuesday in the City of Basra.

The goals of the 10th Mountain Division is to help with economic development and governance and increase security for the Iraqi people.

March 31, 2009.
http://centralny.ynn.com/content/all_news/watertownnorth_country/136625/10th-mountain-division-in-southern-iraq/

@Nan G

Very interesting! Thanks Nan, Been reading the other links.

Ditto, your links are very scary to even try to figure the implication of choosing PANETTA AS IN THAT HIGH LEVEL POSITION, AS OPPOSE TO ARREST HIM INSTEAD AND CHARGE HIM WITH TREASON. ARE THE WHOLE GOVERNMENT BEING TAKEN HOSTAGE BY THE TOP FEWS WITH POWER?
THEY LOOK SCARE THEY ARE ACTING SCARE TO ALLOW SO MUCH TO SAVE THEIR DEMOCRAT PARTY.
as time goes more and more are coming out and it’s ugly,
and even more when the SENAT ARE FAILING TO CHECK ON THE PERSON WHO WILL HAVE A JOB TO EVEN CHALLENGE THE LAWS OF AMERICA AND PUBLICLY SAY IT TO COVER OBAMA,
THE FBI, WILL GET TO IT AND SHOULD NOT BE STOP BY THE MENACING LOW PUNCH COMING FROM THE ADMINISTRATION.
IT WAS MENTIONNED THAT THE CODE PINK ARE IN THE SAME FRIENDLY GROUP,
SUPPORTING TERRORIST ORGANISATION,
GOVERNER PERRY MADE AN INSISTENT DEMAND TO STOP CODEPINK FROM GOING TO HELP THE MANY FLOTTILLIAS ORGANISE BY ALQUADA FRO GREECE PROVIDING MANY BOAT TO PASS BY ISRAEL CARRYING MANY ITEMS , THAT RAISE SUSPICIOUS CONCERN IN ISRAEL NOW,
THEY WILL BE MANY OF THEM TO BE CHECK BY ISRAEL SECURITY AND IT SEEMS THEY REFUSE TO STOP AT THE CHECK POINT, GOOD THAT GONVERNER PERRY LEARNED OF IT AND STRONGLY GAVE HIS DEMANDS FOR NOT LETTING CODEPINK JOIN THE TERRORIST ORGANISATION IN
THEIR QUEST TO HURT ISRAEL.
BYE