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PM Why Team Obama Was Blindsided by the Bergdahl Backlash
NRO ^ | 3 June 2014 | Ralph Peters

Posted on 06/04/2014 5:15:28 AM PDT by Rummyfan

Congratulations, Mr. President! And identical congrats to your sorcerer’s apprentice, National Security Adviser Susan Rice. By trying to sell him as an American hero, you’ve turned a deserter already despised by soldiers in the know into quite possibly the most-hated individual soldier in the history of our military.

I have never witnessed such outrage from our troops.

Exhibit A: Ms. Rice. In one of the most tone-deaf statements in White House history (we’re making a lot of history here), the national-security advisor, on a Sunday talk show, described Bergdahl as having served “with honor and distinction.” Those serving in uniform and those of us who served previously were already stirred up, but that jaw-dropper drove us into jihad mode.

But pity Ms. Rice. Like the president she serves, she’s a victim of her class. Nobody in the inner circle of Team Obama has served in uniform. It shows. That bit about serving with “honor and distinction” is the sort of perfunctory catch-phrase politicians briefly don as electoral armor. (“At this point in your speech, ma’am, devote one sentence to how much you honor the troops.”)

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To: Rummyfan

either way, it’s deflected the attention away from name dropping our top spy in Kabul, another impeachable offense


21 posted on 06/04/2014 5:32:25 AM PDT by sten (fighting tyranny never goes out of style)
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To: Viennacon

One traitorous birddog for a group of highly trained Jihadi killers, set free by either a traitorous president or invader. (We may not know which but we know it is one of those choices.)

B. Hussein doesn’t care. He knows that the pussy congress will keep jumping from scandal to scandal and never ever decide which one to pick in order to apprehend and prosecute him for his high crimes and misdemeanors.

Congress is like a bunch of emotion filled juveniles, never serious about real law.

Lord, help us!


22 posted on 06/04/2014 5:32:50 AM PDT by Repent and Believe (Promote good. Tolerate the harmless. Let evil be crushed.)
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To: Rummyfan

Susan Rice seems to have taken Carney’s place as chief supporting public statement liar in that admin.

She has no shame. I guess she was rewarded for it in her view.


23 posted on 06/04/2014 5:33:12 AM PDT by sickoflibs (Obama : 'The debate is over. The time for talk is over. I won. ')
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To: Rummyfan

Obama blind sided? So, he didn’t know about the prisoner- traitor swap until he heard it on the news....


24 posted on 06/04/2014 5:33:31 AM PDT by TADSLOS (The Event Horizon has come and gone. Buckle up and hang on.)
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To: Rummyfan
Susan Rice of Sunday talk Benghazi video fame---in her latest blithering statement as (you should excuse the expression) "the national-security advisor," puppeted the official Obama line that Bowe Bergdahl served “with honor and distinction.”

Rice's "see-how-easy-I-lie-smile" gave it away.

The Susan Rice Video Room is on the lower level (cackle).

25 posted on 06/04/2014 5:33:35 AM PDT by Liz
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To: Slambat
No pity for Mrs. Rice, her and the O’tard know exactly

Let me sell you a clue here. Look up irony and sarcasm. This piece is a slam dunk in exposing the feckless rulers that have plagued this nation since 2009.

26 posted on 06/04/2014 5:34:03 AM 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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To: EQAndyBuzz

“We use words like honor, code, loyalty. We use then as the backbone of a life trying to defend something. You use them as a punchline. “

Name that movie!


27 posted on 06/04/2014 5:34:18 AM PDT by glorgau
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To: MrB

I believe you saw the father, as the deserter is still in the hospital in Germany.


28 posted on 06/04/2014 5:35:51 AM PDT by Safetgiver ( Islam makes barbarism look genteel.)
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To: cld51860

This one?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dOQe6HxW0b0

He was a little ticked.


29 posted on 06/04/2014 5:35:55 AM PDT by Slambat
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To: glorgau

A Few Good Men


30 posted on 06/04/2014 5:36:37 AM PDT by Night Hides Not (For every Ted Cruz we send to DC, I can endure 2-3 "unviable" candidates that beat incumbents.)
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To: cld51860

I love the part where Kelly said “that was quite an indictment”. He continued on like he was not even warmed up yet. I think Col Peters is not an Obama fan, I somehow get that impression!


31 posted on 06/04/2014 5:36:49 AM PDT by Mouton (The insurrection laws perpetuate what we have for a government now.)
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To: EQAndyBuzz

Kerry is still one behind Bobby Garwood.


32 posted on 06/04/2014 5:36:49 AM PDT by Safetgiver ( Islam makes barbarism look genteel.)
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To: Sacajaweau

Dempsey is now pouring cold water on that. Seems as though everyone in DC outside the WH grounds is running for cover, even the idiots like McCaskill who were there on the Sunday talkies praising what has now become a huge debacle.

Then we learn last night that it was 8, not six who were directly killed while out looking for him and the the worst of all, the 8 who were killed in Kamdesh that produced two CMH honorees because they couldn’t get air cover was because their air cover was on a mission trying to rescue that POS!

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3163372/posts

It will be real interesting to see the news unfold today once this new revelation is becoming known. Besides that, I am amazed just how many people I talk to have no idea what is going on at all. Several have no idea that a trade was made at all and even more think it is not a done deal yet. Thanks a pantload MSM!


33 posted on 06/04/2014 5:37:53 AM PDT by mazda77
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To: MrB
There should be no doubt about Barky’s sympathies...
34 posted on 06/04/2014 5:39:39 AM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks (Rip it out by the roots.)
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To: MrB

That was Pops Bergdahl at the White Hut with Zero.


36 posted on 06/04/2014 5:41:52 AM PDT by bjorn14 (Woe to those who call good evil and evil good. Isaiah 5:20)
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To: glorgau

““We use words like honor, code, loyalty. We use then as the backbone of a life trying to defend something. You use them as a punchline. “”

Sounds like something Jack Nicholson would say.


37 posted on 06/04/2014 5:42:01 AM PDT by EQAndyBuzz ("Heck of a reset there, Hillary")
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To: Rummyfan

Man. That is the best piece I have read in a while.


38 posted on 06/04/2014 5:42:52 AM PDT by envisio (Its on like Donkey Kong!)
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To: Rummyfan
The only worse sin is to side actively with the enemy...

Which is exactly what John 'I served in Vietnam' Kerry did.

39 posted on 06/04/2014 5:44:17 AM PDT by immadashell (The inmates are running the asylum.)
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To: C210N
I can’t help but be suspicious that this is being choreographed. I don’t know the motive exactly.

As others have mentioned before, he wants to piss citizens off so much until they've reached the tipping point and revolt. Then "BLAMO!" Martial Law is imposed. He's continuing to swat at the beehive.
40 posted on 06/04/2014 5:45:26 AM PDT by Old Yeller (Anything is possible, if you don't know what you're talking about.)
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