You’re not wrong. You’re spot on. And those troops who were there were, as usual, told to sit down or stand up and say nothing. Just applaud occassionally to make the DIC look good for his daily requirement of media coverage.
I loved the guy in the leather flight jacket that kept pulling his blackberry out of his jacket to answer the calls or messages. It really looked like he was into the speech! HA Many others on the stage really didn’t look like they wanted to be there.
If it weren’t for watching Beck, I wouldn’t have seen it.
Interesting that, with the exception of the overly excited Master Sergeant behind his right shoulder who clapped at every word, the lest of the troops behind Obama sat on their hands.