Obama to troops: stop bugging me

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After the talk, out of earshot from the soldiers and diplomats, he starts to complain. He starts to act very un-Obamalike, according to a U.S. embassy official who helped organize the trip in Baghdad.

He’s asked to go out to take a few more pictures with soldiers and embassy staffers. He’s asked to sign copies of his book. “He didn’t want to take pictures with any more soldiers; he was complaining about it,” a State Department official tells me. “Look, I was excited to meet him. I wanted to like him. Let’s just say the scales fell from my eyes after I did. These are people over here who’ve been fighting the war, or working every day for the war effort, and he didn’t want to take fucking pictures with them?”

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When John Kerry was in Iraq, soldiers from his state were sent an email and highly encouraged to meet SEN Kerry. Remember the photo of Kerry eating alone in the dining facility? When President Bush and Bill O’Riley were in Iraq, soldiers made special effort to meet with them.

Anyone who has read the White House Insider reports and the Wall Street Insider reports done by http://theulstermanreport.com/ has long ago known that Obama has a false front.
He turns it on when he knows the cameras will be seeing him and turns it off just as fast.
Didn’t Obama say to some soldiers that they made a nice prop for his photo for his campaign ads?
It was not that long ago.
Here’s a 9-10-2011 quote from a Wall Street insider who met with Obama at a business roundtable earlier, during the 2009-2010 recession:

Ulsterman: Can you tell me about the meeting? What you saw regarding President Obama?

Wall Street (pause) Yes…that I can do. No specifics as to location, time, or who was there. A very general summary. I am willing to do that.

Ulsterman: That is fine – just concentrate on President Obama. What you saw of him.

Wall Street: And Jarrett – Valerie Jarrett was there too.

Ulsterman: Yes – tell us about it. What you saw. The impression it made on those who were there.

Wall Street:

The president arrived just a bit late. He looked good. Fit. The man is in great shape. Lots of smiles. Handshakes. A charming gentleman. Excellent eye contact. He worked the room amazingly well. The president came off just as he should – like the President of the United States. Impressive.

So after the handshakes, the small talk, the photo taking, everyone sits back down to begin the actual discussion. I won’t say what the discussion was on, who said what – just going to keep this about the president and Valerie Jarrett. How that meeting turned…odd. It became very-very odd. And I know quite a few people walked out of that place feeling the exact same way.

Ulsterman: Good – explain what was odd. What happened?

Wall Street: Others spoke – spoke to the president. That was the format. After the initial formal introductions. They spoke, and he listened. At least he appeared to listen. For awhile.
Ulsterman: Awhile?

Wall Street: Yes – awhile. There came a time when he seemed to lose focus. You could see…it appeared the energy just left him. Like he wasn’t the same person who had walked into the room just 30 or 40 minutes earlier. He…President Obama, he just seemed to shrink up into the chair. And he started to look down at his watch. Repeatedly. Eyes were starting to glance back and forth at each other – people communicating to one another what everyone was noticing – how the president, mentally, seemed to have “left the building”. Well, now it was the president’s turn to speak. To give some of his own input and reaction to what others had been saying. He didn’t stand up. He didn’t even straighten up in his seat. President Obama just turned to his left and said, “Valerie?”

Ulsterman: Valerie? That’s it? That’s all he said?

Wall Street: At that time – yes. He turned to Valerie Jarrett, and then Ms. Jarrett proceeded to explain the president’s positions. But the president was sitting right there. It was surreal. She would qualify everything with, “What the president believes is”, or “what the president hopes to accomplish is” – and that went on for a good 10 minutes. The president didn’t say a word – it was all…everything was said by Valerie Jarrett.

Ulsterman: And how did the meeting end?

Wall Street: That was very interesting. When it was clear the meeting was concluded, the president came back to life. It was like somebody plugged him back in. I am not…there is no exaggeration in what I’m telling you here. Possibly just the opposite. All at once he looked tall and strong, working the room again, smiling, clapping backs, and then he was gone. The word – I used it already, but the word I keep coming back to is surreal. The president was two entirely different people in the span of an hour. One was the President of the United States and the other was…the other was just an empty shell.

Read more: http://newsflavor.com/politics/us-politics/wall-street-insider-the-complete-interview/#ixzz1jMnSu0g6

Another bullshit story to keep the pea brained ones angry at something.

@liberalmann:
I notice White House Press Secretary Jay Carney agrees with you.
“Anonymous, unnamed, single sources saying something ridiculous like that, I wouldn’t put too much credibility in there is nothing [Obama] would rather do than spend time with the men and women in the military.”

Carney chooses – like you – to ignore the Wall Street Insider’s comments which seem to dovetail very well with the same type of sentiment.

The incidents in question are not just hearsay, they are out of context hearsay. Maybe it was exactly as implied. Maybe the President in Baghdad had drunk a lot of coffee and just wanted to go and take a pee and a dump in the Presidential can.

The guy has dozens of meetings every day. On each one, others are doing a job interview on him. Over the course of several years he’ll have lots of moments when he’s not engaged, because he’s worrying about a decision he’s got to make or about something he regrets not doing for his kids or about a hemorrhoid. And, whenever these moments happen, there will be someone on site to make note of it and remember it forever.

– Larry Weisenthal/Huntington Beach CA

How would you react if you had to mingle with those you considered your enemy?

@openid.aol.com/runnswim: I knew we could count on you Larry to find some excuse for Obama. The bottom line here is that he is not supposed to be an ordinary person. As a leader, he has an image to maintain for those he leads. In this case, he sends these military people into situations where they can lose their lives. He owes them more than any other person. When I lead soldiers in war, I had the same situation. As a leader, I needed to meet the needs of my soldiers and to show them the respect they deserved. I owed that to them because they risked their lives to keep me alive.

Hi Randy. In a 432 page book, that one single brief episode, which wasn’t even witnessed by the author, is the most salacious anti-Obama gossip that Buzz could find to write about. It’s the sort of thing that couldn’t be published by a reputable news organization, because it wasn’t independently sourced. And, as I suggested, there are lots of perfectly understandable explanations for something like that happening.

After 3 years in office, nothing at all has emerged about Obama as a human person which casts him into any sort of a bad light, in the eyes of anyone other than a committed anti-Obama nitpicker.

Stuff like this is all you got?

You should stick with the policy criticisms. Those are worthy of consideration, discussion, and debate.

This is just a one off piece of gossip. You want to make it into Obama disrespecting troops under his command. In the absence of corroborative evidence or a documented behavior pattern, I think that you are being unfair.

– Larry W/HB

@openid.aol.com/runnswim: You only get one chance to make a first impression. He had his chance with these soldiers and blew it. Their first impression has been related to others in that command and in others. It matters not how many times he did this. One was too many if he wanted to maintain an image they would respect.