Posted on 03/16/2009 8:38:48 PM PDT by Steelfish
MARCH 17, 2009
The Dissing of Laura Bush
By WILLIAM MCGURN
By choosing Fort Bragg for her first official trip outside the capital last Thursday, Michelle Obama signaled that she will use her position as First Lady to promote one of America's most deserving causes: our military families.
Plainly the families loved it. Just look at the smiles on those children as she read them "The Cat in the Hat."
So it was just a little disconcerting the next morning to hear the First Lady explain how she came to this issue during last year's campaign.
"I think I was like most Americans," she told ABC News. "Pretty oblivious to the life of military families. Sort of taking it for granted."
Perhaps Mrs. Obama did take these families for granted. Surely, however, it's extraordinary to suggest that "most Americans" did the same.
Certainly not the McCains, the Bidens and the Palins, each of whom had at least one son in uniform. More to the point, the presidential campaign in which she says the issue started "taking shape" for her came nearly seven years into a war that has inspired millions across America to step forward to help our troops.
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Bah .. ick ... ;) Someone like you can get those stories down for truth and posterity.
First Lady Laura Bush visits servicemembers at Bagram Air Base, Afghanistan, to thank them for their efforts, June 8, 2008. U.S. Army photo by Pfc. Christina Sinders
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Thank you, goldie .. ;)
Operational planning and coordination... responsibility of and controlled by jimah and General Staff
Something like this could come up with these crooks in power now. Maybe worse with the HNIC pissin on the Mil much more than even jimah or slick.
They used the wrong helicopter pilots.
OK? Who were the “right” helo pilots?
There does seem to be something “special” about dim presidents! JFK, LBJ, jimah, slick and now HNIC - Savage is right, liberalism is a mental disease.
You didn’t agree with either Army commander Beckwith or Air Force component and Desert I landing strip commander Kyle?
” Savage is right, liberalism is a mental disease.”
And a religion also.
If I posted the things that I want to post about the current residents of OUR White House I’d be banned for eternity on FR. I absolutely detest these people and the hate that they spew....they are of Satan.
Me too - these people are so low.
“If I posted the things that I want to post about the current residents of OUR White House Id be banned for eternity on FR. I absolutely detest these people and the hate that they spew....they are of Satan.”
I’m right there with you!!
Ooh, that’s gotta hurt...
Ooh, that’s gotta hurt...
It feels more like three centuries, not three months since these folks inhabited the White House (or do we call it the Black House now?).
I don't think it's extraordinary at all. Most Americans don't serve, don't have a family member who serves, and don't give more than lip service to those who do. Suggesting that people do more to show their appreciation to the families that do is one of the few things Mrs. Obama has said that I can agree with.
Every insurance policy form for reimbursement that I ever saw asked if the injury or illness being treated was work related.
Private insurance will not pay for the treatment of work related injuries or illnesses. They expect workman's compensation or the VA to pick up those bills and their rates to their clientel are based on that.
If a doctor or patient fails to disclose that an injury is work related they are committing fraud which invalidates the whole policy, and gets the doctor into a great deal of hot water.
President Obama sounds incredibly stupid and naive to me when he blithely assumes he can rack in over 500 million dollars from private insurance companies picking up his tab for treating our vets with dignity.
I have heard that what happened in the desert on the aborted rescue attempt of our hostages in Iran was not an accident but that the Russians had been tipped off and came out and blew up some of our helicopters.
Jimmah covered it up and lied about what happened because he didn’t want
1. to go to war with Russia
2. to admit that his administration was riddled with commie leakers.
The account I read written by a Delta Force member was that the Navy insisted on having its own mechanics tend to the Delta Force helicopters while they were on ship en route, and that Delta Force learned a hard lesson that only their own mechanics should tend to their equipment.
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