Posted on 11/11/2009 9:29:15 AM PST by kristinn
Edited on 11/11/2009 1:04:56 PM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]
Barack Obama's speech commemorating Veterans Day at Arlinton Cemetery this morning was received with stony silence by those in attendance.
What should have been applause lines for Obama about caring for our veterans drew no cheers, no clapping and no 'hooahs'.
There was no Prince-concert-squealing for Obama like there was yesterday at the Fort Hood memorial service. In fact there was no cheering at all for the commander-in-chief in a time of war. Just polite, subdued applause when Obama was introduced and when he conluded his speech.
In contrast, a randomly selected Veterans Day speech by President George W. Bush shows numerous interruptions for applause.
A transcript of Bush's 2004 speech includes notations of eight interruptions for applause before the final notation of applause at the conclusion of his speech.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PwCg3VQMdSE
Can this link be posted with this article? This shows the complete *lack* of response from the audience. I’ve never seen anything like it.
And like he did when he was in Baghdad earlier this year...
Well poo. I’ll have to come up with another name.
Thanks for ruining my day.
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Thanks for the post, Kristinn. And thanks to Marie and the Admin Mod for adding the Fox news video of Obama’s speech.
My take on it after watching most of the speech is that Obama did not show a SINGLE BIT of feeling. There was no real emotion in his voice. The speech writer wrote the usual stuff about solemn occasion, our heroic dead, and so forth, but Obama was TOTALLY WITHOUT FEELING while reading it.
And, as usual, his head swiveled from side to side as he switched from one teleprompter to the other.
We know, and the troops know, that he doesn’t give a damn about them. In fact, he hates what they are doing—fighting for America and for freedom against vicious enemies. Because Obama’s sympathies are with those enemies.
The troops and their officers were not there to hear or honor Obama. They were there to honor our dead, their comrades, who gave everything for our country and the ideals it represents. It would not have been appropriate for them to turn their backs or to demonstrate in any way on such an occasion. But I found it PAINFUL to listen to that robot Kenyan-Communist-Muslim blather on about things that clearly mean nothing to him. Nothing at all. He feels nothing as he speaks these empty words. He loves no one but himself.
When Obama did his photo-op at Ft. Dix the families of 17 of the 18 slain servicemen refused to allow him to take a photo with them or the remains of their loved one.
They knew he was there not out of concern but for publicity.
I imagine, after hearing about or seeing Obama’s overt slap in the face of our military the families of those killed at Ft. Hood refused to play his little game.
The man is a disgrace.
LOL!
No-I wasn’t saying someone beat you to it.
It does look exactly like the bondage belt pictured at the link though.
Somebody else here called it a radiator clamp or something.
One of these is not like the others...one of these doesn’t belong...
“Here’s a copy of a post by Marie over on the 2383602 thread. (Marie, hope you don’t mind my re-posting it here. The more people who know about this, the better.)”
Here is the link to Marie’s Post mentioned in Post #85:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2383602/posts?page=30#30
>Several civilians were there to hear Obama. And they weren’t there to pay their respects to our fallen.
Five women were wearing white t-shirts, with one letter on each shirt... O-B-A-M-A. Others were dressed in attire more fitting for a night club than a memorial service. Almost all were women. When Obama took the stage the “rock star” cheer went up from them.<
Evil.
Trash attracts trash. I don’t expect anything less out of Obama, his wife or his fans.
It's her way of showing support of the suicide bombers and the belts they wear.
Someone told her they make her ass look smaller. They lied........red
FReep the comments on the you tube video. The obots are there in full force trying to cover for him.
It was civilians. A group of black women. A small. but loud group of plants or idiots or both.
It was civilians. A group of black women. A small but loud group of plants or idiots or both.
I noticed that Obama used no hand gestures when he spoke, except when he took his left hand and touched his right ear when he spoke about Brigadere General Karl Horst. I found that odd that he used only one hand gesture and that it was at the mentioning of a name; also that it was quite awkward to cross his body with the other hand. It was almost like he was signaling something, or am I just imagining things? http://www.jfcom.mil/about/j3_horst.htm
Thank you for the post.
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