Posted on 08/10/2011 8:10:07 AM PDT by COUNTrecount
This is not something I wanted to be cynical about, though I was a little. And now I am a lot.
Some of you may know that Michelle Obama, along with Second Lady Jill Biden, runs something out of the White House called Joining Forces, which is billed as a national initiative that mobilizes all sectors of society to give our service members and their families the opportunities and support they have earned.
Im not sure how much good it actually does, though its certainly a worthy cause and probably doesnt hurt anyone. It seems to require that Mrs. Obama appear once or twice a month at some feel good event to highlight military families needs.
Id like to think Mrs. Obama is sincere in her commitment to the kin of those who serve, and Im sure at some level she is.
But there is no way to reconcile a sincere devotion to helping military families with her decision to travel to Oregon with her mother to visit her brother this week instead of being by President Obamas side yesterday as he comforted the 30 grieving families of those who lost their sons, brothers, and fathers in Afghanistan Saturday.
Not just any son, brother or father. The best kind you could ever have.
This is simply just not acceptable. Its an ignorance of her duty as first lady even if she were not one supposedly dedicated to military families. It even suggests a general lack of compassion.
Nobody inflicted these roles on her. She chose to be first lady, seems to be enjoying the perks, and is already campaigning and raising heaps of money so that she can stay there.
What first gave me pause when she launched the Joining Forces thing was that someone who suggested quite clearly because it was an accident that she had never really been proud of her country was of all things suddenly dedicated to helping the military.
It sounded like image makeover, both for her and a husband who had never served and who is not held in particularly high esteem by our armed forces.
It sounded like something born more out of political calculation more than anything else.
Turns out, it was.
Maybe she is visiting her brother now before he gets fired after this next season. He’s not doing well.
this is astounding but not surprising
“Friends of ours who have an organized troop-support activity went to DC to be interviewed by Mrs. Obamas Joining Forces people. One of the first things they were asked was, Are you a member of the Tea Party?
I wish they had made that public.
The look on Barry’s face (in video I’ve seen) suggests #1 he knows that as Pretender to the Office CINC he will be held accountable-as well he should be for their deaths. #2 I suspect the Dover trip was all coverup— Plausible deniability— scheduled by some manager of the Communist washing machine/sixties Revolutionary ( white on the outside but with a black agitator inside) Did he—or one of his Muslim staff leak to the Taliban?and is Muslim Brotherhood now spelled Barak Hussein Obama II?
The press aids and abets these people.
Be wary. This has the potential for much harm. The purpose is to ingratiate these anti-Americans with the military.
... and, in doing so, give aid and comfort to the enemy.
what is upsetting is it took 11 SUV’s to escort her from air port to her brothers neighborhood!! I wonder if his house can accommodate all she took with her???
If that is his entire schedule, I’m working too much for too little, or he’s working too little for too much.
I was up at 5 AM, and had all email correspondence from overnight by 8 AM.
And, giving Sec. of States 25 minutes? Wow. The small talk (the ME-ME-ME talk from both of them) probably takes 20 of that. And not meeting with the Sec. of Treasury until 4 PM, when the markets are all done diving for the day? Sure, that makes sense.
But, at least he’s got plenty of time to primp for the muslim dinner tonight!
I expect nothing of value from this knuckle dragging -monster butted-country hating-racist-people eating creature from the black lagoon.
3:35 pm ? !!!
Did he expect to still be recovering from the 10AM briefing to at least pencil her in for 3:30?
ML/NJ
Great editing...I might not have cancelled my subscription if this had been the real thing...what a sorry explantation they gave for this travesty!
He needed the extra five minutes to roll up his prayer rug.
I don’t care about the FLOTUS - I want to know where is BO!!
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