Sunday, August 29, 2010
This is just a quick link to follow -- an "aside." These are links to interesting things that, for one reason or another, I didn't place into a full posting. Click the link to visit the full article. Go to the blog index for a regular listing of posts.
He Really Doesn't Want to Be Commander In Chief - 'It is not that we didn't know this before, but reading the New York Times - surely designed to be as favorable toward Obama as the reporter could possibly manage -- one is left slack-jawed. Obama doesn't like being commander in chief, isn't good at it, and has relied one tutor, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, who is leaving next year. The report should be read in full...'
He is the Community Organizer in Chief. Redistributing Wealth is what Obama is interested in.
BHO may not have been the first recent president to not make his appearance at Arlington National Cemetery on Memorial Day, but people resented it with this guy. People get it that he doesn't like being Commander in Chief, that he doesn't understand the military or the people who serve. The feeling is mutuial; they don't identify with him. He's not "one of us. It's palpable.
Here's an email message by a retired officer is a powerful expression of that sentiment. It's been circulating all summer and has been posted posted on a whole bunch of web sites, including here, where it's paired with a picture captioned "Obama covers his nuts while every one salutes the flag!" (Maybe he's watching out for Jesse. Jesse picked up on it early, but he's not alone in thinking that Dear Leader is talking down them.) This landed in Nappy's Inbox yesterday.