[raybbr]

I think he meant “my behalf” as in an American citizen. I mean, when I say that people died for my right to vote, I don’t mean that I personally hired them or they enlisted in WWII knowing that I personally would be born one day. There is enough to get Obama on without manufacturing a crisis every time the guy takes two steps.

Uh, okay. For a president to say this is arrogance. No president, unless he's full of himself, would say this.

Would Bush, Clinton, Bush II or even Carter have ever said this? How about FDR or Kennedy? Can you honestly say they would have said this or would have said, "Fighting on behalf of the U.S. Or... The American People." Really, after all this man has said and done you give him slack?

[matginzac]

Good post...
after it was aired tonight on Fox (Bret Baier’s show), Baier asked Krauthammer about it and ole Charles rose to the challenge...
he asked if Ike would’ve said the troops stormed Normandy on his behalf,,,really nailed it.

[agere_contra]

You’re right.

A President might say “fighting on OUR behalf” as a shortcut way of referring to the American people.

But he’s the CinC who orders the troops into war: he absolutely can’t say “fighting on MY behalf” without being revealed as the worst kind of tone-deaf malignant narcissist.