Posted on 06/05/2014 9:45:50 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
There’s something very odd going on these days at the White House.
How else to explain the Bowe Bergdahl debacle? Team Obama, which games every move it makes to gauge the political leverage gained or lost, must have known the true story about the Army sergeant who his former comrades say was disgruntled with the war and simply walked away.
If the charge of desertion is true, why trade five top-level Taliban terrorists for him? Why would the White House expose itself to such easy criticism? Why would President Obama so clearly violate the law that requires him to notify Congress 30 days before any release of prisoners from Guantanamo Bay?
And why on earth would the president send National Security Adviser Susan Rice, she of the multiple lies on the Benghazi attack that left four Americans dead, to the Sunday talk shows to proclaim that Sgt. Bergdahl had “served the United States with honor and distinction”?
There can be only one answer: Mr. Obama saw more upside than down with the hostage-for-terrorists trade. Aside from changing the subject from the president’s latest scandal — the horrendous treatment of veterans at the nation’s VA hospitals — Mr. Obama must have concluded that the controversial move would, in the end, deliver him political leverage against Republicans, which he sorely needs going into what is expected to be a bloodbath for Democrats on Election Day 2014.
Of course, part of the calculation was that the U.S. media would once again defend Mr. Obama. And while some news outlets have run stories about the puzzling details behind Sgt. Bergdahl’s “capture,” others are adhering to the White House talking points....
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And many conservatives still dismiss the power of intellectuals.
Marx even from his grave is destroying the USA.
Probably right, but in the back of my mind is the *small, very small* thought that they may be all blithering, coked-up idiots at this stage of the game.
He’s from a different culture. He doesn’t understand how Americans think. For him, this was a good trade. It never occurred to him that anyone might see it any other way.
Like many on the left, Obama lives on a different planet. In Obama's world, American military deserters are the good guys. Those who serve with honor are the bad guys, the Genghis Khans. This is insane, but it is not necessarily a sign of stupidity. There are many high functioning leftists.
Don’t forget that he does not like America. He wants to get even and was reacting in covert anger after the VA revelations.
Obama knew it was a bad deal because Congressional Intelligence Committees told him it was. He ignored them. It was like trading Murderer’s Row for an iffy Single A prospect. Thanks Obama for putting a bigger targets on our backs. These 5 guys probably hate America even more now after spending umpteen years at Gitmo being tortured.
I’m glad to see someone else thinks like I do.
I happen to agree with you.
Obama is a drug-addled madman, just like Hitler. When are the democrats going to rein him in?
None of that matters to him. For him, it was a good deal. If you think he puts your wants and needs ahead of his own, you’re sadly mistaken. He doesn’t know what you think, and he doesn’t want to know.
This has Valerie Jarrets claw marks all over it.
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