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Servicewoman told DUI cost her a Christmas call from Obama
Tampa Bay Times (via Charlotte Observer) ^ | 8 Jan 2012 | Jodie Tillman

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." . . .

(Excerpt) Read more at charlotteobserver.com ...


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Once again, it's all about Obama and how it benefits him. It has nothing to do with making a small sacrifice for others. And that, boys and girls, is what Christmas is all about in the Obama House.
1 posted on 01/08/2012 8:46:27 AM PST by Hoodat
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To: Hoodat

The crack-smokin’ resident wouldn’t call the service member because she had a previous DUI? That’s rich! He’s a complete scumbag.


2 posted on 01/08/2012 8:48:47 AM PST by liberalh8ter (I don't like what the world has become....)
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Servicewoman told DUI cost her a Christmas call from Obama

Well, there's something positive about DUI after all.

3 posted on 01/08/2012 8:49:10 AM PST by humblegunner (The kinder, gentler version...)
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To: Hoodat
there's a reason to start drinking right here.

Better go out and buy stock in liquor companies before word of this spreads.

4 posted on 01/08/2012 8:51:21 AM PST by the invisib1e hand (Ignorance is no excuse.)
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To: humblegunner

That was my thought, too.

There’s a silver lining in every cloud....


5 posted on 01/08/2012 8:52:48 AM PST by 2111USMC (Not a hard man to track. Leaves dead men wherever he goes.)
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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.

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.

6 posted on 01/08/2012 8:55:36 AM PST by Michael.SF. (When you hear hooves, think horses, not zebras.)
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Still, how stupid is Obama?

1. Run background check.

2. Inform winners.

7 posted on 01/08/2012 8:57:06 AM PST by sportutegrl
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To: Hoodat

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.


8 posted on 01/08/2012 8:57:26 AM PST by The Sons of Liberty (Psalm 109:8 Let his days be few and let another take his office. - Mene, Mene, Tekel, Upharsin)
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And that, boys and girls, is what Christmas is all about in the Obama House.

The young lady's education continues....

9 posted on 01/08/2012 8:58:22 AM PST by poindexter
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To: the invisib1e hand
there's a reason to start drinking right here. Better go out and buy stock in liquor companies before word of this spreads.

I'm with you - we ocassionally hear that booze has some benefits and lo and behold we get a prime example.

10 posted on 01/08/2012 9:02:32 AM PST by trebb ("If a man will not work, he should not eat" From 2 Thes 3)
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To: sportutegrl
bingo... bass-ackwards like everything else the boy does
11 posted on 01/08/2012 9:15:23 AM PST by Chode (American Hedonist - *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
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They didn't want to risk negative publicity?!

Hypocrites!

12 posted on 01/08/2012 9:24:59 AM PST by Semper Mark (Pray. Vote. Buy ammo.)
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"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."

Yet he has no problem rubbing elbows with terrorists and playing repeated rounds of golf with his prostitute-soliciting pal Robert Titcomb.

13 posted on 01/08/2012 9:25:03 AM PST by mass55th (Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
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To: Hoodat

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.


14 posted on 01/08/2012 9:45:06 AM PST by Lady Lucky (It's an equine thing.)
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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.


15 posted on 01/08/2012 9:46:42 AM PST by DesertRhino (I was standing with a rifle, waiting for soviet paratroopers, but communists just ran for office)
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Well, there's something positive about DUI after all.

lol, exactly what I was going to say!
16 posted on 01/08/2012 9:48:54 AM PST by Brown Deer (Pray for 0bama. Psalm 109:8)
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To: poindexter

I don’t think she is going to vote for him now.

Too bad others can’t have the same epiphany concerning this manchild.


17 posted on 01/08/2012 9:53:14 AM PST by Pilgrim's Progress (http://www.baptistbiblebelievers.com/BYTOPICS/tabid/335/Default.aspx)
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To: liberalh8ter

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?


18 posted on 01/08/2012 10:06:18 AM PST by PghBaldy (War Powers Res: http://avalon.law.yale.edu/20th_century/warpower.asp)
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To: Hoodat
From August....

Obama's uncle arrested for DUI, administration blames Bush

19 posted on 01/08/2012 10:15:49 AM PST by mewzilla (Santelli 2012)
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To: Hoodat

I bet Ulysses Grant would have called.


20 posted on 01/08/2012 10:15:56 AM PST by Larry Lucido
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