Posted on 06/23/2009 4:27:32 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
What Obama didn't mention By: Mike Allen June 23, 2009 06:04 PM EST
A couple of surprising words were missing from President Barack Obama’s 55-minute news conference on Wednesday: “Iraq” — and “Afghanistan.”
Also MIA: “Korea,” “Pakistan,” “soldiers,” “surge” and “war” — as well as the Army, Navy, Air Force and Marines.
The omissions were partly a result of the short attention span of the press, which did not ask about those topics after the president did not mention them in his opening statement.
But the silence on those subjects also provides a striking illustration of one of the singular differences between Obama and his predecessor.
Whereas President George W. Bush invoked his status as wartime commander in chief so often that it seemed like a crutch, Obama has much more of a domestic focus, and resists rhetorical calls to arms like “war on terror.”
It’s the Mars and Venus of the 43rd and 44th presidencies.
(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...
Words he did mention: I, me, uh...
Words he was thinking - “larry sinclair, yum”
So men are from Mars, and ..........Obama is from Uranus?
~~PING!
Our brave troops hand over the control of major Baghdad cities to the Iraqis in ONE WEEK! Think he could’ve congratulated and honored our troops for their brilliant and courageous accomplishments ... even if he didn’t agree with the policy ? Just for the good of the morale of his troops as CIC ? Shameful.
Did he use the “D” word? (democracy)
There will be war on Obama's watch - real war. He is so inept and cowardly he won't know what to do.
He will run to the United Nations, but that won't do any good. If one of our enemies attacks us, expect the rest to pile on at the same time. They have already felt him out - and they know he not a real leader of men.
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