Posted on 09/18/2014 12:47:27 PM PDT by lbryce
According to former U.S. Navy SEAL Carl Higbie, over 90 percent of troops disapprove of President Barack Obama. Higbie made the comments to “On The Record” host Greta Van Susteren Wednesday.
“Effective today, the president? A photo-op? or something in between?” Susteren asked.
“Photo-op. Complete photo-op. This indicative of a global failure of his foreign policy,” Higbie explained. “He has toted that he is behind the troops before and he stands in front of these guys, gets a photo-op, everything like that, while saying he’s going to send 3,000 guys to combat Ebola, but I’m not going to send any to combat an actual enemy that’s really threatening America.”
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Over 90% of American troops are patriotic? I don’t think that is breaking news.
About the only military officers who support Zero are a few top ones that think they may get a political appointment of some kind from him. A very few, IMHO...
Many a naval or military mutiny and even coup de etats have come without senior leaders backing them or even knowing they were coming.
Last year I saw a military convoy driving south on I-5 outside of Fort Lewis. One of the vehicles had a hand-written sign on the back that said “Buck Ofama”. It made my day to see that.
And, as I remember back in my days in the Army, blacks made up a larger percentage of the Army based on whites/blacks/Hispanics in the population. Like the US population of blacks was like (this is a wild guess by me) 20% of the population, but the percentage in the military was like 60%. So per average of the US population, blacks were far more in the military that whites. Obama got the massive majority of black votes. Back when Reagan ran, I know that he got like 85% of the vote as I remember someone saying. That may not be right, but that is what I recall someone saying on the news, that he blasted Carter because Carter cut our pay raises to 1% for all four years he was in office. Reagan immediately gave us like a 11% and 15% pay raises to catch the military back up with the outside pay.
So if the military is against Obama, the 32% that helped put his dirty butt in the military need to look in the mirror and see that they are guilty of putting him there.
Yes, Ohio lagged in sending out the ballots in 2008 - because we had a DEM governor and SOS. That was when Soros’s SOS plan was in effect.
And only a “whole lot” of SOCCOM, since those guys don’t generally hang out with regular forces. We couldn’t even get them to let us know when they were in our AO, and they would never socialize outside their own circle.
I take comfort that the vast majority of our military would likely mutiny rather than follow a presidential order to shoot US citizens. However, Obama is heavily arming executive agencies which could be seen as more loyal to the president. Remember the stand off in Nevada with Cliven Bundy where a heavily armed conglomeration of federal executive personnel including snipers where ready to shoot to kill?
Interesting, but the kool-aid drinkers can often make trouble bigger than their numbers might indicate, especially if 90% are not speaking up about following illegal orders, etc. and just going along to get along, maybe with an occasional grumble.
We haven’t seen rebellion like we did against Clinton.
In Haiti, some Green Berets were not following the administration’s orders.
Without reading the article, I can guess that nearly any military person who is not in the military as a jobs program (that is, they are serving because they believe that military service is honorable and patriotic) is not going to support Obama or nearly any modern liberal.
The simple fact is that liberals pay lip service to military veterans and service, but they believe in their hearts that it is wasted money that would be better spent combating poverty, ignorance and disease. They resent that we have to buy planes, build ships and pay military personnel both active and retired.
And any military person who has a brain, or a smidgen of awareness knows this is the simple truth.
This does disregard those liberals who joined the military because they think its job is to provide aid to disaster victims, or liberals who want to destroy the military from within, military personnel who may have a common skin pigmentation with Obama that drives all their judgement and values, and others who support Obama because they are dopes who believe his BS.
It is a simple fact that even though GWB SENT many military people into situations where they might lose their lives, often under circumstances that were not well thought out or planned, they still largely supported Bush, because his respect, admiration, and support of the military was not contrived.
The honest truth cannot be contrived, and many people serving can pick that up right away. Just my opinion from my childhood as a military dependent, my own service years ago and interactions with military personnel both active duty and retired since then.
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