From the son of a friend today,
Hello everyone,
As you know I am not a very political person. I just wanted to pass along that Senator Obama came to Bagram, Afghanistan for about an hour on his visit to “The War Zone.” I wanted to share with you what happened. He got off the plane and got into a bullet proof vehicle, got to the area to meet with the Major General (2 Star) who is the commander here at Bagram,
As the Soldiers were lined up to shake his hand he blew them off and didn’t say a word as he went into the conference room to meet the General. As he finished, the vehicles took him to the Clam Shell (pretty much a big top tent that military personnel can play basketball or work out in with
weights) so he could take his publicity pictures playing basketball. He again shunned the opportunity to talk to Soldiers to thank them for their service.
So really he was just here to make a showing for the American’s back homethat he is their candidate for President. I think that if you are going to make an effort to come all the way over here you would thank those that are providing the freedom that they are providing for you.
I swear we got more thanks from the NBA Basketball Players or the Dallas Cowboy Cheerleaders than from one of the Senators, who wants to be the President of the United States. I just don’t understand how anyone would want him to be our Commander-and-Chief. It was almost that he was scared to be around those that provide the freedom for him and our great country.
If this is blunt and to the point I am sorry but I wanted you all to know what kind of caliber of person he really is. What you see in the news is all fake.
In service,
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TF Wasatch
American Soldier
Thanks for posting. Thought you be interested ping!
Thank you for sharing that account. I hope more soldiers come forward with these observations. It seems the first thing on Obama’s mind is his career, with country and soldiers further down the list.
Of course, today he had that all important 35 min. speech to give. He mentioned a few big topics with no specifics and barely more depth than a Miss America contestant. (”We have to come together for World Peace”. etc.)
I believe most of us here at FR know this already; but, it is unfortunate that so many of our fellow Americans can be so easily scammed by this guy.
I have to say,though, that I did see some video of BO getting something to eat with our soldiers. He was sitting at a table with them, I'm not sure if this was Iraq or Afghanistan. My first reaction was to wonder if there were no "white" soldiers who wanted to sit at the table with him because everyone there seemed to be "black". (sorry if my political IN-correctness bothers anyone)