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He Really Doesn’t Want to Be Commander In Chief (Guess Who!?)
Commentary ^ | 8/30/2010 | Jennifer Rubin

Posted on 08/30/2010 12:58:28 PM PDT by mojito

It is not that we didn’t know this before, but reading the New York Times – surely designed to be as favorable toward Obama as the reporter could possibly manage — one is left slack-jawed. Obama doesn’t like being commander in chief, isn’t good at it, and has relied on one tutor, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, who is leaving next year. The report should be read in full. But a few low-lights:

"A year and a half into his presidency, Mr. Obama appears to be a reluctant warrior. Even as he draws down troops in Iraq, he has been abundantly willing to use force to advance national interests, tripling forces in Afghanistan, authorizing secret operations in Yemen and Somalia, and escalating drone strikes in Pakistan. But advisers said he did not see himself as a war president in the way his predecessor did. His speech on Tuesday is notable because he talks in public about the wars only sporadically, determined not to let them define his presidency."

"A former adviser to the president, who like others insisted on anonymity in order to discuss the situation candidly, said that Mr. Obama’s relationship with the military was ‘troubled’ and that he ‘doesn’t have a handle on it.’"

(Excerpt) Read more at commentarymagazine.com ...


TOPICS: Extended News; Government; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: commanderinchief; illegal; ineligible; notcommanderinchief; notcompetent; notpresident; obama; postamericanpotus; prezflustercluck; removehim; shouldstepdown; usurper
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To: mojito
Boy President would love to be CiC.

Of the Muhajadeen.


Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.

21 posted on 08/30/2010 1:26:46 PM PDT by The Comedian (Evil can only succeed if good men don't point at it and laugh.)
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To: mojito

The Poster boy for Reperations !


22 posted on 08/30/2010 1:28:20 PM PDT by ATOMIC_PUNK (Any man may make a mistake ; none but a fool will persist in it . { Latin proverb })
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To: mojito

Barry and Shelly sure like the perks of the office, and I don’t mean the coffee.


23 posted on 08/30/2010 1:28:30 PM PDT by crosshairs (If I agreed with a liberal, then we would BOTH be wrong.)
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To: null and void

24 posted on 08/30/2010 1:31:20 PM PDT by RetroSexual
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To: mojito
I asked my 'consigliare' to step down because he wasn't a good 'war consigliare'.

DC

25 posted on 08/30/2010 1:32:01 PM PDT by Don Corleone ("Oil the gun..eat the cannolis. Take it to the Mattress.")
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To: Responsibility2nd

He is a typical nacissistic community organizer. That is how he approaches the Ptesidency. He just comes up with ideas. He is NOT the actual dicision maker. Probably by his Council of Tsars.

He seems to be getting frustrated that he can’t play demigod dictator living the life of the rich and famous.
The demands of the USPresidency is absolutely foreign to him and therefore he is resisting. Very evident. The econ is on a straight line down and he refuses to even consider that HIS iseas might be WRONG. We need a Congress of adults to run this country. Time to end the frat party.


26 posted on 08/30/2010 1:37:05 PM PDT by Marty62 (marty60)
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To: mojito
“He didn’t understand or grasp the military culture,” ...

I sincerely doubt that our (alleged) CIC could describe the difference between a Marine and a Navy Lieutenant, between a Major and a Sergeant Major, or a Warrant Officer and a Non-commissioned Officer.

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27 posted on 08/30/2010 1:39:16 PM PDT by Seaplaner (Never give in. Never give in. Never...except to convictions of honour and good sense. W. Churchill)
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To: mojito
escalating drone strikes in Pakistan.

Clinton loved robot cruise missile attacks because they don't come with the same high political cost as putting soldiers on the ground. He ordered a billion dollars worth of cruise missiles launched at Osama bin Laden's training camp at the exact same time Lewinsky was scheduled to spill the beans at her second appearance before a grand jury, the morning of August 20, 1998. Look it up in the newspaper archives. 9/11 was really a counter attack to Clinton stirring up a hornets nest without killing the hornets. When cornered Obama likewise will use a robot attack for political purposes, which will fail militarily.

28 posted on 08/30/2010 1:40:36 PM PDT by Reeses
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To: mojito
We have always known; that 'Commander-in-Chief' was not what Obama wanted.

'King' is what Obama wants; and who knows. . .given what he has done to our Constitution in just a few months.

29 posted on 08/30/2010 1:50:49 PM PDT by cricket (Osama - NOT made in the USA. . .and Obama, not made in the USA either. . .)
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To: TigerClaws

Dont’ forget his reserved spot in Mt Weather if his residency finally culminates in it’s worst case/inevitable conclusion.

Nowhere to vacation inside there but fine dining and other amusements will have to suffice.


30 posted on 08/30/2010 1:58:41 PM PDT by Salamander (And I think I need some rest but sleeping don't come very easy in a straight white vest.)
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To: mojito
Obama’s relationship with the military was ‘troubled’ and that he ‘doesn’t have a handle on it.’"

Not surprising for a guy who can't even get an umbrella through a doorway without help. Stan Laurel could do better.

31 posted on 08/30/2010 2:05:39 PM PDT by Paine in the Neck (Napolean fries the idea powder.)
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To: mojito

The muslim-in-chief needs to take up a hobby like surfboarding or training sharks.


32 posted on 08/30/2010 2:06:44 PM PDT by IbJensen ((Ps 109.8): "Let his days be few; and let another take his position.")
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To: TigerClaws

“Now he’ll blame Republicans for the next two years after Republicans take over Congress.”

Does anyone remember Bush doing that after the Dems took over in ‘06? Has he done that to this day?


33 posted on 08/30/2010 2:10:49 PM PDT by EDINVA
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To: mojito
He Really Doesn’t Want to Be Commander In Chief

Well, I don't want him to be CIC either, so he can step down any time.

34 posted on 08/30/2010 2:13:18 PM PDT by MEGoody (Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.)
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To: mojito

The cretin does not want responsibility for anything. All he want is to come up with ideas, have somebody else act on them and play. If he can’t get it by bullying and entitlement he doesn’t know what to do.

Whatever goes wrong is because of somebody else and whatever may go right is all because of him... he thinks.

Th creep is very very badly out of balance.


35 posted on 08/30/2010 2:18:11 PM PDT by Sequoyah101 (Half of the population is below average)
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To: aeonspromise

Didn’t some of the Hollywood illuminati (such as Woody Allen) say pretty much the same thing?


36 posted on 08/30/2010 2:44:32 PM PDT by Sigurdrifta
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To: TigerClaws; mojito

Obama authorized $23Million be sent to Kenya so they could rewrite the Constitution of Kenya. Now, thanks to that, he is eligible to become President of Kenya!

The amendment making abortion legal for the first time in Kenya received all the attention. But what did not garner much notice was more important.

The National Constitution of Kenya now makes Barak Hussein Obama II eligible to run for, and be elected, to Kenya’s Presidency. The old Constitution required that a candidate be born inside Kenya, and now that is no longer the case.

The people seem to admire him there, some even going so far as to compare him to Jesus Christ.

I can see it now — able to openly live as a Muslim, act out as a dictator, and live off of all that stimulus and TARP stolen money he squirreled away in foreign numbered bank accounts while wrecking the U.S.A.!


37 posted on 08/30/2010 2:58:41 PM PDT by SatinDoll (No Foreign Nationals as our President!)
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To: mojito
Thanks for posting this mojito...this article says volumes about this turd boy president. I don't think I have read anything as damning as this. I fear for our great nation that an incompetent jerk like this could be elected president.

"A year and a half into his presidency, Mr. Obama appears to be a reluctant warrior."

38 posted on 08/30/2010 3:03:41 PM PDT by Cuttnhorse ("It is terrible to contemplete how few politicians are hanged." - G.K. Chesterton, 1921)
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To: mojito

Well, in two-plus years, he’ll get his wish.


39 posted on 08/30/2010 4:15:55 PM PDT by Jack Hammer
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To: mojito

” “He didn’t understand or grasp the military culture,” said Lawrence J. Korb,..”

Korb went to the dark side during the last few years of the Bush administration and could usually be found on MSNBC trashing everything President Bush
did regarding Iraq and Afghanistan.
I would make book that he voted for Barry.
Now, a little too late ....he finally figures out that Barry doesn’t have a clue .


40 posted on 08/30/2010 5:34:47 PM PDT by Wild Irish Rogue
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