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Chuck Todd: White House Expected ‘Euphoria’ Over Bergdahl’s Release
The Washington Free Beacon ^ | June 3, 2014 | Staff

Posted on 06/03/2014 2:19:48 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

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Todd: White House was 'caught off guard'

MSNBC’S Chuck Todd observed Tuesday that the White House was “caught off guard” by the disastrous public roll out of their prisoner exchange for Army Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl.

Todd and Andrea Mitchell agreed that the White House had likely thought there would be “some euphoria around this, the only POW that was remaining in Afghanistan, that there would be a rally around the flag. That didn’t happen.”

“They were expecting criticisms of Gitmo, criticisms of the detainees that were chosen,” Todd said. “They did not expect this criticism of the attempt to go get Bergdahl in the way that it was done.”

Todd noted the White House’s change of tone over the last several days, using as an example a Pentagon spokesperson who defended Bergdahl’s rescue in the New York Times today by citing the Navy’s policy of rescuing sailors who go overboard, regardless of whether they fell out of the ship or jumped themselves. “That wasn’t necessarily what they were saying on Sunday.”


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Government; Politics/Elections
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Another sign that Mr. Obama and his coterie of friends and advisors have little or no understanding of America outside the faculty lounge, government agency or union hall.
1 posted on 06/03/2014 2:19:48 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Because they’re so “in touch”.


2 posted on 06/03/2014 2:22:42 PM PDT by Attention Surplus Disorder (At no time was the Obama administration aware of what the Obama administration was doing)
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I don’t know what to think- I just assumed they didn’t care if there was outrage. Are they so tone-deaf that they thought it a good idea to have the Taliban-sympathizing father, with beard, spouting praise of allah, next to the President? Are they that stupid they thought that would look normal?


3 posted on 06/03/2014 2:23:01 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: 2ndDivisionVet

In the bubble your world view does not matter, their problem is they sometimes have to operate in the real world.


4 posted on 06/03/2014 2:23:05 PM PDT by phormer phrog phlyer
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To: Attention Surplus Disorder

should have left his stupid ass there


5 posted on 06/03/2014 2:23:22 PM PDT by waterhill (I Shall Remain, in spite of __________.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

don’t worry,Chuck, we’ll be ecstatic when obama releases the blind sheik.
for sure that’s coming, maybe on his last day in office, but at some point


6 posted on 06/03/2014 2:23:37 PM PDT by dontreadthis
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
This is what your brain looks like on drugs...


7 posted on 06/03/2014 2:23:38 PM PDT by Buffalo Bob
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Its tough to think outside the bubble.


8 posted on 06/03/2014 2:24:46 PM PDT by PGR88
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Another notch for failure added the Obama legacy.
9 posted on 06/03/2014 2:25:04 PM PDT by A CA Guy ( God Bless America, God Bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
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White House Expected ‘Euphoria’ Over Bergdahl’s Release

What would you expect from the Choom Gang?

10 posted on 06/03/2014 2:25:49 PM PDT by Colonel_Flagg ("Compromise" means you've already decided you lost.)
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To: dontreadthis

Reading the Facebook page and links to it is enlightening. People are enraged.


11 posted on 06/03/2014 2:26:06 PM PDT by combat_boots (The Lion of Judah cometh. Hallelujah. Gloria Patri, Filio et Spiritui Sancto!)
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What a pathetic bucket of crap we have in the White House.

Oh and the media (like Chuck you Todd) who stand around as willing enablers and cheerleaders.


12 posted on 06/03/2014 2:26:17 PM PDT by The South Texan (The Drive By Media is America's worst enemy and American people don't know it.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Weird Beard and Fonda Taliban get to meet with the pres and the parents of those killed looking for the traitor/deserter get photocopied “thanks” letters from the pres.

How nice.


13 posted on 06/03/2014 2:27:06 PM PDT by TurboZamboni (Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.-JFK)
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To: Buffalo Bob
This is what your brain looks like on Govt approved drugs.

Now buy them or the drug nazi death squads will kick in your door!

14 posted on 06/03/2014 2:28:04 PM PDT by rawcatslyentist (Jeremiah 50:32 "The arrogant one will stumble and fall ; / ?)
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I see him pardoning EVERY black person in prison, jail, parole or probation on his last day. He has that power and I’m only half joking.


15 posted on 06/03/2014 2:28:23 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (I will raise $2Million USD for Cruz and/or Palin's next run, what will you do?)
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He did not expect Euphoria! !

He doesn’t care what the country thinks. he is there to destroy America. Of all the soldiers and marines that are being held somewhere, he selects this rat bastard because he is a deserter, collaborators and hates America. His father is the same ilk. These are the people that Obama loves.


16 posted on 06/03/2014 2:28:25 PM PDT by dirtymac (Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country)
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The ONLY way I’d be euphoric is if they’d swapped Hussein 0bama for him.


17 posted on 06/03/2014 2:28:27 PM PDT by The Sons of Liberty ("Our brethren are already in the field! Why stand we here idle?" - Patrick Henry, 1775)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

obama’s not one of us and he’ll never understand what makes real Americans tick. He’ll never get it.


18 posted on 06/03/2014 2:28:57 PM PDT by pgkdan (ISLAM IS THE RELIGION OF THE ANTICHRIST!)
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The administration knew he had walked away two years ago.
What kind of welcome is reserved for a deserter ?


19 posted on 06/03/2014 2:29:32 PM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks (Rip it out by the roots.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

A real American would have rather died in captivity then let 5 murdering barbaric terrorists go free. They have over a thousand deaths on their hands. And they are probably conspiring to kill more as we sit here right now.


20 posted on 06/03/2014 2:29:56 PM PDT by justa-hairyape (The user name is sarcastic. Although at times it may not appear that way.)
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