Posted on 09/18/2015 12:39:28 PM PDT by illiac
President Obama, in a historic first for the Pentagon, has chosen to nominate Eric Fanning to lead the Army, a move that would make him the first openly gay civilian secretary of one of the military services.
Fanning’s nomination is the latest in a series of actions taken by the administration to advance the rights of gays and lesbians throughout the federal government. The Obama administration has overhauled internal policies to provide benefits to same-sex partners, appointed gay men and lesbians to the executive branch and the federal bench and ended the 18-year ban on gays serving openly in the military.
Fanning, who must still be confirmed by the Senate, has been a specialist on defense and national security issues for more than 25 years in Congress and the Pentagon. As Army secretary, he would be partnered with Gen. Mark Milley, who took over as the Army’s top general in August. Together the two men would assume responsibility for the Pentagon’s largest and most troubled service.
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Some fine military marching.
I was talking to my wife about this, viz. that piece of human garbage is going to give America the finger in his last months in office by doing the most unpresidential, abominable things he can think of doing.
Hey, you phony black Christians who campaigned for this garbage, how do you feel now?? Idiots.
A Monkey wrench tossed into the gears doesn't have to know anything to wreck the machinery.
Sorry but he’s dedicated and competent and never lets up.
Obama is far from Lazy and Ignorant.
No, he's lazy, and an idiot too. I address this question all the time. Some people out there want to believe his some diabolical super genius who plays three dimensional chess and is five steps ahead of the rest of us, but the reality is he's an incompetent boob who is wrecking everything he touches because he so stupid he doesn't know how to do anything right.
Do you think he really intended to get Yemenis invading Saudi Arabia? Or letting Saudi Arabia face Iranian belligerence and Nukes?
Do you think any part of the utter collapse of sanity in the middle east is because he's so smart that he planned it that way?
No. He's f***ing idiot that couldn't even get through school without affirmative action. He couldn't even write his own book. He Admitted that he was a terrible student and liked to spend his time doped up in "total immersion" in pot smoke. He got to where he is in the same manner he won the "Nobel Prize". Because stupid white guilt liberals fall all over themselves in hopes of atonement from supporting their new chocolate messiah. It's really that simple.
As a man, Obama is just one great big pile of FAIL, and it is because he is a stupid, ignorant, lazy but very uppity piece of work.
CIC is seriously into homes.
Time for nully’s axiom.
He looks like Ben Affleck.
Now that you mention Ceaucescu, I am waiting for revisionist historians to claim that the Genius of the Carpathians was savagely persecuted and murdered by reactionary counter revolutionary elements under the command of evil corporate interests opposed to perfect socialism.
I make a good chameleon. It’s from going deep cover into DUmmieland.
How can that man get any sleep at night?
He HAS to be laughing himself silly watching the implosion of America.
It’s staggering.
Fanning the Flamer?
“He sucks at his job”
Literally.
BINGO!
I still don't think he's going anywhere in 2017, not sure how yet but my gut tells me he's staying...
You make some points that have merit. But he wants things to go bad and simply doesn’t interfere when they are on that course.
[and U.S. Army Lt. Col. Terry Lakin is a hero in every sense of the word.]
Don’t tell that to the small group here (some MIA pretty much after 2012) that were all excited to see Lakin incarcerated.
I want to Mega Hurl!
The Friday afternoon news dump is beginning to have a “fabulous” aspect to it.
Doesn’t mean that Barry himself is a sockcucker.
I still don’t think he’s going anywhere in 2017, not sure how yet but my gut tells me he’s staying...
At one time I dismissed that thought but now I think it is more probable than possible.
What’s to stop him if he wants to stay? Nothing at all.
And who knows how bad the situation will be this time next year.
hee hee. I wondered if someone would see what I did there.
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