Posted on 01/08/2012 8:46:19 AM PST by Hoodat
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. Only 10 military service members get personal Christmas Day phone calls from President Barack Obama. Last month, Coast Guard Petty Officer Golda Payne learned she would be one of them.
Payne, a 25-year-old Tampa native stationed in Kuwait, couldn't wait. She researched the Obama family. She planned to keep things "light," maybe ask about the family dog and tell him about her bulldog puppy. She gave an interview to the Coast Guard newspaper.
But Christmas came, and Obama never called. Two days later, Payne said her officers told her this was why: The White House had run a criminal background check on her, saw a 2006 drunken driving conviction and didn't want to risk negative publicity.
Payne said she was hurt and disappointed. The drunken driving arrest is her only criminal charge, according to state records, and was a turning point that led her to join the military.
"The Coast Guard has been hands down the best thing that has ever happened to me," Payne said in an email. "It provided me structure and discipline when I needed it most." . . .
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The crack-smokin’ resident wouldn’t call the service member because she had a previous DUI? That’s rich! He’s a complete scumbag.
Well, there's something positive about DUI after all.
Better go out and buy stock in liquor companies before word of this spreads.
That was my thought, too.
There’s a silver lining in every cloud....
And they lacked the intelligence to turn this into a potential opportunity against Drunk Driving by giving voice and publicity to a person who turned her life around after a conviction.
1. Run background check.
2. Inform winners.
I’ll drink to that! Who wants a call from a lying, foreign, SOB who thinks he is a dictator and is a minion of the devil? On the other hand, it would give her the opportunity to tell Hussein to go to hell and hang up on his sorry ass.
The young lady's education continues....
I'm with you - we ocassionally hear that booze has some benefits and lo and behold we get a prime example.
Yet he has no problem rubbing elbows with terrorists and playing repeated rounds of golf with his prostitute-soliciting pal Robert Titcomb.
Oh, it must be because she got caught. Obama did a little blow back in the day, but never faced charges. Far as we know.
That turd Obama. Just proved that his Christmas calls are nothing but a political stunt. Besides, it’d be like a call from Stalin. If you said anything even slightly unpleasant to him,,,, you would immediately face criminal charges under the UCMJ, and the officers would have their careers ruined.
I don’t think she is going to vote for him now.
Too bad others can’t have the same epiphany concerning this manchild.
I thought the same thing too. How high and mighty he is. The other thing- WHY did they do the background check AFTER they announced/notified the names? Seems backward to me. Are there any non-incompetent people in the Administration?
I bet Ulysses Grant would have called.
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