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?”
via buzzfeed
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:
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.