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Obama to troops: You deserve better than dysfunctional Congress
yahoo.com ^ | September 30, 2013 | Olivier Knox

Posted on 09/30/2013 9:33:15 PM PDT by Tailgunner Joe

With America in the grips of its first government shutdown in 17 years, President Barack Obama promised U.S. troops and Defense Department staff early Tuesday that he will fight for them and declared that they "deserve better than the dysfunction we're seeing in Congress."

“Unfortunately, Congress has not fulfilled its responsibility,” Obama said in a video message broadcast on Armed Forces Television. “It has failed to pass a budget and, as a result, much of our government must now shut down until Congress funds it again.”

Obama recorded the address late Monday but was broadcast after the midnight deadline to avert a shutdown. He did not directly blame House Republicans, whose insistence on rolling back his signature health care law as the price for funding the government slammed into Senate Democrats push for a “clean” spending measure.

“Those of you in uniform will remain on your normal duty status. The threats to our national security have not changed, and we need you to be ready for any contingency,” the president said. “If you’re serving in harm’s way, we’re going to make sure you have what you need to succeed in your missions.”

The president noted that he had signed legislation to make sure that troops get paid in the event of a shutdown – but that Defense Department civilians face “more uncertainty, including possible furloughs.”

“You and your families deserve better than the dysfunction we’re seeing in Congress,” he said.

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To: Tailgunner Joe

I wonder if ambassadors deserve a president that doesn’t give a sh*t if they live or die.


21 posted on 09/30/2013 9:44:57 PM PDT by JohnBrowdie (http://forum.stink-eye.net)
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To: clintonh8r

Is there some way to just shut down the White House?


22 posted on 09/30/2013 9:45:01 PM PDT by John Valentine (Deep in the Heart of Texas)
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To: Tailgunner Joe

If the government shuts down, can we make certain that Air Force One is grounded until further notice?


23 posted on 09/30/2013 9:46:22 PM PDT by John Valentine (Deep in the Heart of Texas)
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To: Tailgunner Joe

Stevens, Smith, Doherty, and Woods deserved better in Benghazi, didn’t they? Where the hell were you, Mr. Commander in Chief?


24 posted on 09/30/2013 9:47:10 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: JohnBrowdie

I heard a radio report that a Helicopter crashed carrying 5 US troops whose deployment had been extended due to Obama’s “don’t cross that red line” Syrian crisis. Don’t know further details.


25 posted on 09/30/2013 9:47:34 PM PDT by luvbach1 (We are finished.)
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To: rurgan; Tailgunner Joe; Impy; BillyBoy; fieldmarshaldj
RE :”yes but the mainstream media will blame Republicans”

You mean for the shutdown?

I keep reading that in comments here over and over.
Sometimes entire posts.

Is that bad?

26 posted on 09/30/2013 9:48:36 PM PDT by sickoflibs (To GOP : Any path to US Citizenship IS putting them ahead in line. Stop lying about your position)
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To: Jet Jaguar; NorwegianViking; ExTexasRedhead; HollyB; FromLori; EricTheRed_VocalMinority; ...

The comic insult president...

The list, Ping

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27 posted on 09/30/2013 9:49:21 PM PDT by Nachum (I am Breitbartacus!)
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To: Tailgunner Joe

No, what the troops deserve is a Commander-in-Chief that leads instead of ceding power to a Russian despot.

It’s sad when Vladimir Putin has more clout than the POTUS.


28 posted on 09/30/2013 9:49:44 PM PDT by NYRepublican72
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To: AmericanInTokyo

Yep.


29 posted on 09/30/2013 9:49:57 PM PDT by Jet Jaguar
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To: Tailgunner Joe

I’ll tell you what they deserve. They deserve better than to have an islamic sympathetic man in the oval office.


30 posted on 09/30/2013 9:50:26 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (This post coming to you today from behind the Camelskin Curtain. Not the Iron or Bamboo Curtain...)
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To: Tailgunner Joe

31 posted on 09/30/2013 9:53:39 PM PDT by RightGeek (FUBO and the donkey you rode in on)
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To: sickoflibs
It's not bad to us .

but the media has the low info voter thinking that the Republicans shut down government cause (the media says) Republicans want seniors to starve and seniors and everyone to not get healthcare, and that they don't care about the military and are leaving the country unprotected.

I know that is all lies but that is what the media is brainwashing Americans with.

I'm glad the government is shut down. none of government is needed except for the military and border control and that is it , get rid of the IRS, EPA, FEC, FCC, gov schools, NASA( the global warming hoax pushers) etc.

32 posted on 09/30/2013 9:54:41 PM PDT by rurgan (give laws an expiration date:so the congress has to review every 4 years to see if needed)
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To: Tailgunner Joe

It is kind of funny all of the hysteria from the Democrats. What are they afraid of, if I am reading them right?


33 posted on 09/30/2013 10:01:08 PM PDT by PghBaldy (12/14 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15 - 1030am - Obama's advance team scouts photo-op locations.)
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To: rurgan

Are you saying you want the government shutdown but you dont like the MSM blaming GOP for the shutdown?
That you care what a ‘low information voters’ thinks (from watching the MSM) or you don’t care?

I only ask because you seemed to be upset posting that they will blame GOP.


34 posted on 09/30/2013 10:02:39 PM PDT by sickoflibs (To GOP : Any path to US Citizenship IS putting them ahead in line. Stop lying about your position)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

All that because Congress never vetted him or held his feet to the fire about his origins.

He is lucky that there is no equivalent to general Pinochet among the US military.


35 posted on 09/30/2013 10:02:44 PM PDT by 353FMG ( I don't say whether I am serious or sarcastic -- I respect FReepers too much.)
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To: Tailgunner Joe

Troops deserve better than a “rainbow”/unicorn leadership structure.


36 posted on 09/30/2013 10:02:45 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: sickoflibs

the media will try to use the shut down to demonize Republicans . it’s about the election of 2014 .the media is trying to help democrats win the House too.

almost all the mainstream media are democrats and they contribute $ to the democrat party


37 posted on 09/30/2013 10:05:23 PM PDT by rurgan (give laws an expiration date:so the congress has to review every 4 years to see if needed)
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To: Tailgunner Joe

They deserve more than a dysfunctional narcissist president.


38 posted on 09/30/2013 10:06:48 PM PDT by Farnsworth ("The people have always some champion whom they set over them and nurse into greatness...This and no)
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To: Tailgunner Joe

I will NOT accept a shutdown inconvenience until I get the sequester horror I was promised.


39 posted on 09/30/2013 10:06:48 PM PDT by tsowellfan
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To: Tailgunner Joe

Are there enough homos there yet to give him that edge?


40 posted on 09/30/2013 10:09:17 PM PDT by onedoug
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