Posted on 05/17/2013 9:52:42 AM PDT by Steelfish
'It made him look like a butler': Retired general blasts President Obama for ordering U.S. Marine to break military rules by holding an umbrella The President unwittingly forced two U.S Marines to break protocol and regulations as he ordered them to use umbrellas Former United States Air Force Lieutenant Thomas McInerney criticized the President for making the officers look like butlers
By DAVID MARTOSKO, JAMES NYE and DANIEL BATES 16 May 2013
President Obama humiliated the marine who he asked to hold his umbrella by making him look like a butler, a respected military general claimed today. Thomas McInerney, a former United States Air Force Lieutenant General, said that the President showed a lack of respect by making the soldier shelter him from a shower. He also said that the President has plenty of aides so did not understand why one of them could not have held the umbrella.
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> I am no longer a conspiracy theorist. Im a conspiracy factualist
Good one. You just made a great new slogan if that’s yours...lol
I made it up just now.
“Puleeze! He’s just a Corpse member.”
Corporal was holding back ... I noticed that he did still have target acquisition, doesn’t Obama have a new Medal for that “Amazing Restraint” or some such thing
TT
Don’t like these either.
You alright with the Marine being called a soldier(sic) or do you give that gaffe a pass?
Nope - I would not insult a Marine that way.
:)
0 is not fit to be on the same ground with that Marine. Even though the Marine was holding the umbrella, 0 clearly looked like the inferior one.
Bump! ;-)
I finally realized the picture this reminded me of.
ah come on, “the One” can’t be expected to do three things at one time. (1) read teleprompter, (2) open mouth, (3) hold own umbrella. that would be expecting too much. ;)
It's Barry Poppins!
And what function do these warriors fill at the White House?
It's good for him it wasn't a Gaddafi "golf umbrella"....
That young corporal there has accomplished more good in his brief life than Barry Benghazi 0zer0 ever will.
Everything the witless does is done "unwittingly".
He belongs in a Witless Protection Program facility...but those were shut down by the courts decades ago.
I believe he knew exactly what he was doing. He had some very unappetizing photos taken of him a day or two earlier drenched by a rain shower. He wouldn’t allow that to happen again and by having the Marines hold the umbrellas he was advertising who is in charge.....him. Total narcissist.
It’s my understanding that it is acceptable for a Marine to hold an umbrella for a woman; so what’s the problem?
PI or SD? Whichever, go to his Graduation Day without fail
Heres my son's:
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