Posted on 06/03/2014 2:19:48 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
(VIDEO-AT-LINK)
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.”
Because they’re so “in touch”.
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?
In the bubble your world view does not matter, their problem is they sometimes have to operate in the real world.
should have left his stupid ass there
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
Its tough to think outside the bubble.
What would you expect from the Choom Gang?
Reading the Facebook page and links to it is enlightening. People are enraged.
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.
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.
Now buy them or the drug nazi death squads will kick in your door!
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.
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.
The ONLY way I’d be euphoric is if they’d swapped Hussein 0bama for him.
obama’s not one of us and he’ll never understand what makes real Americans tick. He’ll never get it.
The administration knew he had walked away two years ago.
What kind of welcome is reserved for a deserter ?
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.
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