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The Bergdahl swap: a full-blown Obama scandal in less than 48 hours
Human Events ^ | June 3, 2014 | John Hayward

Posted on 06/03/2014 7:45:04 AM PDT by don-o

As one of the characters in “Anchorman” observed of its bloody brawl between news teams: Boy, that escalated quickly. I mean, that really got out of hand fast.

Two days after President Obama broke the law to arrange an insanely reckless swap of five incredibly dangerous Taliban terrorists for captive American Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, virtually every aspect of the deal has blown up in Obama’s face, and the whole thing has soured into another five-star scandal for an Administration riddled with them. Maybe it’s the accumulated weight of Obama fatigue, or the sheer stupidity and arrogance the President displayed in this particular abuse of power, but even people who stood by him through Fast and Furious, Benghazi, and the IRS scandal are asking: What the hell was he thinking? What did the White House think was going to happen here?

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To: don-o

Now we’ll waste several more million on this scum, when one drone could have taken him and his Taliban buddies out. A shame.


41 posted on 06/03/2014 8:03:23 AM PDT by txrefugee
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To: 353FMG
It’s all part of our national intent of committing suicide ...

Not true. What has happened to us is a deliberate attack on the United States of American by enemies within -- wickedness in high places.
42 posted on 06/03/2014 8:03:28 AM PDT by Resettozero
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To: don-o

My guess that the Regime did it on the weekend; did not give a heads up and prep Obama’s ABCBSNBCNN/ print press..... and so the alternate had a field day. The Professional & Dedicated repeaters performing Obama Orifice and Outlet functions were away for the weekend and the Internet exploded with the history of the Bergdahl disaster and of Obama’s miscalculation and arrogance.
Obama’s ABCBSNBCNN&print press really working today to staunch the flow to a trickle.


43 posted on 06/03/2014 8:05:22 AM PDT by BilLies (sharyl attkisson is alive and well HOORAY!!!!!)
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To: Excellence
I think this actually feeds into the VA scandle and even Bengazi.

Consider this a formal invitation to elaborate on FR.
44 posted on 06/03/2014 8:06:02 AM PDT by Resettozero
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To: Lee'sGhost

‘Obama wanted to knock his VA disaster off the front page and it worked. Dumbass didn’t understand he was accomplishing the feat by creating yet another scandal.’

You said that so well. Thank you for summing it up so succinctly. Obama certainly wanted to change the subject from his disastrous VA scandal. He’s just not bright enough to realize he was swapping the wind for a whirlwind.


45 posted on 06/03/2014 8:08:39 AM PDT by Fantasywriter (Any attempt to do forensic work using Internet artifacts is fraught with pitfalls. JoeProbono)
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To: BilLies
Obama’s ABCBSNBCNN & print press really working today to staunch the flow to a trickle.

Actually, it isn't his. It's on loan to O from the Clintons.
46 posted on 06/03/2014 8:09:02 AM PDT by Resettozero
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To: Graewoulf

With all due respect, we the people have over 300,000,000 firearms. 0bama’s malfeasance will be mitigated soon enough politically. He cannot become a dictator past 2016.


47 posted on 06/03/2014 8:09:10 AM PDT by Uncle Miltie (Mohammed was a Child Rapist and Islam is a Totalitarian Death Cult.)
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To: don-o
very good summation on where this thing is.

"But what difference could it possibly make?" We have an American hating Muslim obsessed pResident surrounded by liberal faculty members and outright Marxist/Socialist/Muslim sympathizers. He has brought the weak spine congress to its knees and corralled the press into defending his every act, no matter how outrageous. Don't kid yourself, the attempt to succeed himself is being fully considered . All that is needed is an excuse for a "Reichstag" fire of some sort. Sieg Heil!!!

48 posted on 06/03/2014 8:09:30 AM PDT by Don Corleone ("Oil the gun..eat the cannoli. Take it to the Mattress.")
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To: cripplecreek

You got that right. This kid is another Jihad Johnny. Him and his father are like Deja Vu all over again.


49 posted on 06/03/2014 8:11:13 AM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose o f a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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To: don-o
Arrest.

Charge.

Try.

Convict.

Sentence.

Imprison or Execute.

50 posted on 06/03/2014 8:12:51 AM PDT by kinsman redeemer (The real enemy seeks to devour what is good.)
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To: don-o

I tuned in NPR news this morning for the first time in a couple of months to get their take on this story.

In their world, this story simply does not exist.


51 posted on 06/03/2014 8:12:58 AM PDT by cuban leaf
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To: don-o
‘We don’t even care when we hear each other talk about running their children down in the dirt streets with our armoured trucks,’ he complained in a final email sent three days before he disappeared. ‘I am sorry for everything. The horror that is America is disgusting.’

John Kerry, is that you? Forgot the Genghis Khan reference, though.

52 posted on 06/03/2014 8:13:02 AM PDT by Madame Dufarge
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To: Red Badger

My fear is that when they debrief this guy and his status as a deserter is confirmed, all of it will be buried by the administration and the traitors I the media,as it will embarrass their king. Another case where we may ever know the real truth.


53 posted on 06/03/2014 8:19:19 AM PDT by cld51860 (Oderint dum metuant)
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To: Georgia Girl 2

This one is even worse than Jihad Johnny. Lindh at least had the plausible deniability of saying that he didn’t intend to fight against America since he was already there when we got there. Bergdahl went in with American troops and switched sides in the middle of the fight. Its outright treason as surely as if he had opened fire on his fellow troops at the FOB.


54 posted on 06/03/2014 8:21:23 AM PDT by cripplecreek (Remember the River Raisin.)
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To: don-o

Once again, Human Events says it like it is.


55 posted on 06/03/2014 8:22:51 AM PDT by Ebenezer (Strength and Honor!)
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To: cripplecreek; All

What’s the penalty for desertion in time of war?


56 posted on 06/03/2014 8:22:51 AM PDT by Jane Long ("And when thou saidst, Seek ye my face; my heart said unto thee, Thy face, LORD, will I seek")
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To: don-o

Now he needs yet *another* scandal to take our minds off *this* scandal!
I’m thinking he’ll have pooch `BO’ butchered and BBQ’d in the Rose Garden.
(And then blame an underling close to retirement.)


57 posted on 06/03/2014 8:25:19 AM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives)
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To: tumblindice
Now he needs yet *another* scandal to take our minds off *this* scandal!

That works on you?

58 posted on 06/03/2014 8:26:52 AM PDT by don-o (He will not share His glory and He will NOT be mocked! Blessed be the name of the Lord forever!)
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To: don-o

Sen Cruz stated that we could’ve used military force to capture this guy.

Instead, 0 *negotiated* with terrorists.


59 posted on 06/03/2014 8:27:56 AM PDT by Jane Long ("And when thou saidst, Seek ye my face; my heart said unto thee, Thy face, LORD, will I seek")
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To: don-o
Obama's big miscalculation was assuming the military community would shut up and let him write the Bergdahl story

Exactly right. Next up for to spend more time with family..... Chuck Hagel.

60 posted on 06/03/2014 8:28:39 AM PDT by jersey117 (greta)
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