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Here's What Happens When You Play Politics with the Bergdahl Swap
National Journal ^ | June 4, 2014 | Ron Fournier

Posted on 06/04/2014 5:30:30 PM PDT by nickcarraway

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1 posted on 06/04/2014 5:30:30 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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... and Obamabots only follow campaigners, not governing. They are even more stuck on stupid with Zero than they were with Clinton.


2 posted on 06/04/2014 5:32:38 PM PDT by lavaroise (A well regulated gun being necessary to the state, the rights of the militia shall not be infringed)
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Ronnie, still stuck on stupid.


3 posted on 06/04/2014 5:34:17 PM PDT by gov_bean_ counter (Romans 1:22 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools)
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To: nickcarraway

Anybody who thinks these five will not go back into combat must have had a lobotomy.


4 posted on 06/04/2014 5:34:32 PM PDT by clintonh8r (Soon, "the grateful dead" will be more than just the name of a crap band...)
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He’ll come out as gay and everything will be fine.
Target and General Mills will sponsor the cancelled hometown parade.
He’ll jump Ellen’s couch and be on Dancing with the Stars.

After that he’ll run for US Senator for Massachusetts and win after tossing his medals over the White House fence.

Keith Ellison will swear him in on a koran.


5 posted on 06/04/2014 5:35:11 PM PDT by TurboZamboni (Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.-JFK)
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I think ALL of the operations people witting to the impending swap were appalled, but it didn’t matter because the Obama political people were for it and THEY are the people who count.

The Kabul Chief of Station voiced strong objections and presented himself as a political obstacle.

The Obama political people therefore “made a little paperwork foul-up” and OUTED the guy, thereby comprimising him and perhaps ending his role there in Kabul.

Who really believes the swap and the outing so close together could really be a coincidental MISTAKE...?

You’d be retarded to believe that.

This sounds like the work of Nightstalker ValJar, again.


6 posted on 06/04/2014 5:40:03 PM PDT by gaijin
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To: TurboZamboni

We have a winner!


7 posted on 06/04/2014 5:41:16 PM PDT by golux
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At Bengazi why was Obama never in the Situation Room?

Because what always has his focus is the POLITICS of plans or situations —who will get credit or blame.

That’s why he was always upstairs with Vallerie Jarrett, even as our guys were dying.

We see that basic pattern here, too:

I think the political people in this swap had all the “juice” and the people in operations with experience were simply ignored.


8 posted on 06/04/2014 5:43:14 PM PDT by gaijin
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To: nickcarraway

“What difference, at this point, does it make?”.


9 posted on 06/04/2014 5:48:57 PM PDT by Karl Spooner
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Bttt.


10 posted on 06/04/2014 5:52:56 PM PDT by Inyo-Mono (NRA)
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The White House claims they did not negotiate with the Taliban...
11 posted on 06/04/2014 5:55:35 PM PDT by wtd
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Ron Fournier need to know something - Republicans did NOT release this guy... Obama did. And Obama did it without the consent or approval of Congress - which is required by law.


12 posted on 06/04/2014 6:01:36 PM PDT by GOPJ (ObamaCare - like buying a pig in a poke...)
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To: clintonh8r

Which brings Daniel Pearl to mind.


13 posted on 06/04/2014 6:05:06 PM PDT by billhilly (Its OK, the left hated Bush.)
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"He’ll come out as gay and everything will be fine. Target and General Mills will sponsor the cancelled hometown parade. He’ll jump Ellen’s couch and be on Dancing with the Stars."

Kind of like in "The King of Comedy," when failed comedian Ruppert Pupkin becomes a beloved national celebrity after kidnapping talk-show host Jerry Langford.
14 posted on 06/04/2014 6:05:06 PM PDT by Steve_Seattle
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To: nickcarraway

Fournier wants to have his cake and eat it, too.

He wants to condemn Obama for a dumbass move, but also condemn the Republicans who naturally complain about it.

Well, it’s worse. Obama violated the law. Period.

Congress, and that means the House because the Senate is lead by an Obama sycophant, Harry Reid, has an obligation, even a DUTY to challenge the law breaking of the administration on this. Just what are high crimes and misdemeanors, anyway?

Does any of this make sense to you, Ron Fournier? Does the law and the Constitution mean anything to you beyond politics?! Can you adjust your head to the fact that wrong-doing on the part of EVEN a democratic administration must be met by EVEN a Republican Congress????

Watergate comes to mind, but presidential misconduct is not confined to one party. If so, we’re finished. Period.


15 posted on 06/04/2014 6:05:39 PM PDT by Alas Babylon!
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My friend Yancy said:
Well this got debunked fast:

The person who actually helped coordinate getting these soldiers in front of cameras was Brad Chase, a communications strategist at Capitol Media, and definitely NOT a Republican. If you had bothered to to any.... oh I don’t know... reporting.. rather than rushing to cover the administration’s backside you might have discovered that. Mr. Chase’s Twitter profile can be found here:

https://twitter.com/MrBradChase


16 posted on 06/04/2014 6:05:41 PM PDT by griswold3 (I was born heI're in America. I will die here in a third world country. Obama succeeded.)
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To: nickcarraway

Politicizing. What that even mean?


17 posted on 06/04/2014 6:08:29 PM PDT by don-o (He will not share His glory and He will NOT be mocked! Blessed be the name of the Lord forever!)
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Here’s my deal. Give the Traitor back or we will hang one of your Buddies every day until Gitmo is emptied out.


18 posted on 06/04/2014 6:10:20 PM PDT by Kickass Conservative (If Cancer were Contagious, they would call it Liberalism...)
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To: TurboZamboni

Not bad - you have a future as a playwright or political consultant.


19 posted on 06/04/2014 6:21:15 PM PDT by aquila48
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To: nickcarraway

What if the White House had chosen a low-key announcement of the Bowe Bergdahl swap?

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Well, Ron, a low-key ceremony would not have allowed Obamugabe to send his surrender message to the mohammedans. With Bergdahl, his cracker Osama bin Ladin, chanting the mohammedan consecration of what was once the USA’s White House, Obamugabe sent out the ultimate eCard to his muslim masters to let them know that they and their satanic deity now own our sacred ground.


20 posted on 06/04/2014 6:44:38 PM PDT by Bigg Red (1 Pt 1: As he who called you is holy, be holy yourselves in every aspect of your conduct.)
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