Posted on 08/30/2010 12:58:28 PM PDT by mojito
It is not that we didnt 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 doesnt like being commander in chief, isnt 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. Obamas relationship with the military was troubled and that he doesnt have a handle on it."
(Excerpt) Read more at commentarymagazine.com ...
Of the Muhajadeen.
The Poster boy for Reperations !
Barry and Shelly sure like the perks of the office, and I don’t mean the coffee.
DC
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.
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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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.
'King' is what Obama wants; and who knows. . .given what he has done to our Constitution in just a few months.
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.
Not surprising for a guy who can't even get an umbrella through a doorway without help. Stan Laurel could do better.
The muslim-in-chief needs to take up a hobby like surfboarding or training sharks.
“Now hell 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?
Well, I don't want him to be CIC either, so he can step down any time.
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.
Didn’t some of the Hollywood illuminati (such as Woody Allen) say pretty much the same thing?
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.!
"A year and a half into his presidency, Mr. Obama appears to be a reluctant warrior."
Well, in two-plus years, he’ll get his wish.
” He didnt 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 .
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