The stuff of Obama nightmares.
Posted on 06/11/2009 4:54:11 PM PDT by blueyon
From today's you couldn't make it up if you tried file.......Obama's protectors have ordered graduating Midshipmen....and I suppose Commissioned Officers through Flag rank...to leave their swords at home. Full Dress White includes "wear sword". More to the point...those badges of office have been earned in a manner Obongo and his minions just wouldn't begin to understand. Important traditions that inspire are kind of lost on the red banner crowd, apparently.
Further, ceremonial swords never seemed to bother the Secret Service for any previous President. And before World War II, the swords were not particularly "ceremonial", I've seen some of those blades, boarding actions did occur on the China Station pre-war against river pirates, warlords, etc. Those swords were worn not just to graduation, but to Inaugurations, in the receiving line at the White House afterward, to the Inaugural Ball. Somehow nobody gave it a second thought. Somehow even Presidents in the past didn't presume to specify items of uniform.
But of course, what worked for Harry Truman, Ronald Reagan, F.D.R., the Bushes, T.R., any other rational non-cult leader.....doesn't work for this former state senator anointed by the Chicago machine.
(Excerpt) Read more at gatheringofeagles.org ...
Give me a break. If he’s worried let him use his teleprompter from that car he sitting his fanny in.
The news about the food tasters reminds me of Ferdinand Marcos.
Ping
But then, I digress....
I read the article...it made me physically ill! When I was in boot camp, it was a proud moment when I was entrusted with the Cutlass as RCPO of my company. I was enlisted all the way, 30 years, and never once did I consider ANY action against my Commander-in Chief. I am heart-sick that this action has been taken against Officers I could have served under. Obama has not gained my trust as POTUS and never will. 2012m can’t come soon enough for me and mine.
Swords are not worn at USNA graduations - either by the graduates being commissioned in the Navy (who are not required to buy swords) or by those commissioned as Marines (who are required to purchase swords).
This story is much ado about nothing.
(father of a USNA ‘07 graduate, now a 1st Lt of Marines)
Agreed.
Disgusting anti-American coward.
“I read the article...it made me physically ill! When I was in boot camp, it was a proud moment when I was entrusted with the Cutlass as RCPO of my company. I was enlisted all the way, 30 years, and never once did I consider ANY action against my Commander-in Chief. I am heart-sick that this action has been taken against Officers I could have served under. Obama has not gained my trust as POTUS and never will. 2012m can’t come soon enough for me and mine.”
THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE TO OUR COUNTRY!!!!!
If you follow the comments to Soldier of Fortune they talked to the Naval Academy and cleared this all up. The story is not true.
NO, no Caesar, fits his character to a T.
The original article said that umbrellas were banned too. Wonder if senators are allowed umbrellas in his presence?
He’s not paranoid. He’s just throwing his power around.
On the other paw, Mutt-chelle's "Public Allies" gang + ACORN + tens of thousands of imported MidEastern Mohammedans + the New Black P*ssies = his very own Ordnungspolizei, a.k.a. the infamous "well-armed civilian national security force."
Congratulations. Husband is Class of ‘73 and took his commission in the Corps too.
But then those are his close buddies, nothing to fear from them.
President "Cowboy" Bush had no problem with swords, he just took them from the muslims and laughed at them!
Now this guy, "Present" Obama, has his own version of a sword... and he rides it!
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