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President Obama's Joke Calling Troops 'Santa in Fatigues' Silences Audience
Breitbart ^ | 12/15/14 | Breitbart TV

Posted on 12/15/2014 2:58:19 PM PST by Nachum

Monday, at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst in New Jersey, during an address to the troops, President Obama made a joke that they are like "'Santa in Fatigues," which was received with complete silence, prompting the president to nervously name-drop the military aircraft C-130 to evoke a response.

President Obama said, "We are free and safe and secure over here because you are willing to serve over there," adding "You never stop serving, you never stop giving, you guys are like Santa in fatigues. Although I bet one of those C-130's is a little more efficient then Santa's sleigh."

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KEYWORDS: joke; military; obama; obamajoke; santainfatigues
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To: LeoWindhorse

Kids in gradescool show more repect and honor to the troops then he ever has!


61 posted on 12/15/2014 4:27:57 PM PST by caww
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To: caww

President Bush speaks at West Point

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0TgLYLuDjlY

remember this ? Gosh how I miss his rapport with out troops .
He sincerely and genuinely loves them . I have heard first hand .

For all is faults , he was a great Commander and Chief , and they knew it .


62 posted on 12/15/2014 4:31:46 PM PST by LeoWindhorse
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To: LeoWindhorse

Oh Bushes interaction with the troops always comes to mind when I see how dreadfully Bo has failed supporting them....he cannot impress our troops at all...there’s nothing there to do so with.


63 posted on 12/15/2014 4:49:02 PM PST by caww
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To: Nachum

He’s a total ass.


64 posted on 12/15/2014 4:51:35 PM PST by onyx (Please Support Free Republic - Donate Monthly! If you want on Sarah Palin's Ping List, Let Me know!)
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To: Nachum

response after watching the video


what a freakin ass

forget the ‘joke’ that fell flat. everything else he was saying made our servicemen seem like chumps.


65 posted on 12/15/2014 5:04:40 PM PST by sten (fighting tyranny never goes out of style)
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To: bubbacluck

keep in mind, he demands all military personnel be disarmed when he visits a base.

but he didn’t when he visited china recently.

makes you wonder which he trusts more


66 posted on 12/15/2014 5:05:58 PM PST by sten (fighting tyranny never goes out of style)
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To: fuzzthatwuz
Obama does not have a clue as to how he is being viewed by the majority.

This is a key feature of this guy. In his own mind he is the "gifted" speaker of the 2008 charade. In the reality of 2014 he is the brother-in-law no one invited to the party but who showed anyway.

67 posted on 12/15/2014 5:07:12 PM PST by hinckley buzzard
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To: LeoWindhorse
For contrast:

"There are many honors that come with the Presidency but NONE higher than serving as Commander In Chief of the Greatest Armed Forces in the World."

Pres. George W. Bush ... at West Point

and here again


68 posted on 12/15/2014 5:09:36 PM PST by caww
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To: sten
everything else he was saying made our servicemen seem like chumps.

Which to him... they are.

69 posted on 12/15/2014 5:09:50 PM PST by Nachum (Obamacare: It's. The. Flaw.)
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To: Nachum

“we get to go to soccer games, to the mall, and be with our families because you didn’t. err...”

just once, i’d like to see the base commander call about face and have them all turn their backs to 0failure.


70 posted on 12/15/2014 5:20:13 PM PST by sten (fighting tyranny never goes out of style)
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To: Ezekiel

Indonesian title of the Audacity of Hope:

“Jihad, from Jakarta to the White House”


71 posted on 12/15/2014 5:24:02 PM PST by combat_boots (The Lion of Judah cometh. Hallelujah. Gloria Patri, Filio et Spiritui Sancto!)
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To: caww
He didn't need to "call it" personally, although I am sure he had input. This was a camera moment for him. I don't know how he get away with declaring and "end" to the conflicts in the Middle East when we have over 10,000 troops in Afghanistan and thousands throughout the Middle East, but that is consequence of a prostitute press corps.

His minions ordered a photo event to make him look good, use the military as cynical props, and people snap to. All for his image. His belief that he is a god.

He gutted the military. Thousands of loyal uniformed military and highly trained civilians have left, because of the abuse. He has slashed their pay, and given it to the lazy, the violent, and the entitled.

He doesn't care. Of course he knows he is disliked among the military. He has decimated the Dept of Defense, and given the money to Green Energy, Cronies, Unions, and the rest of this:

Universal Program for Subsidized Phones for Low Income (ObamaPhones), EBT Food Stamps, Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, Section 8 Housing, Unemployment, TANF Welfare, Energy Assistance, EITC, Foster Care Title IV, Old Age Assistance, AFDC, General Assistance Cash, Assets for Independence, General Assistance to Native Americans, SCHiP State Supplemental Health Insurance Program, Consolidated Health Centers, Consolidated Community Health, Maternal and Child Health Assistance Fund, Healthy Start, School Lunch, Job Assistance, Job Training, Minority Job Assistance, Job Relocation, Woman Infants and Children's Program, Nutrition for the Elderly, Summer Program, Summer Jobs Program, Minority Summer Jobs, Hispanic Jobs Program, African-American Jobs Program, Commodity Supplemental Food Program, Special Milk Program, Needy Families, Farmer's Market Nutrition Program, Public Housing, Low Income Energy Assistance, Migrant Education, Title One Grants to Local Education Authorities, Education for Homeless Children and Youth, Even Start, Job Corps, Social Security Disability, Social Security for Refugees, Social Security for Humanitarian Cases, Social Security for Asylum, Health Marriage and Responsible Fatherhood Grants, TANF Child Care, Empowerment Zones for Minority Communities, Urban Development Action Grants, and Family Planning (abortion).

He has screwed over the military with paltry pay raises, and in the latest budget, their housing and medical care is cut, while BILLIONS go to Illegal Invaders.

72 posted on 12/15/2014 5:28:06 PM PST by SkyPilot ("I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." John 14:6)
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To: caww

should make an album for them, for moto.


73 posted on 12/15/2014 5:30:30 PM PST by huldah1776
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To: Nachum

Vacuum in a suit....


74 posted on 12/15/2014 5:32:42 PM PST by Intolerant in NJ
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To: huldah1776

Probabaly as he may be the last like him we’ll ever see again at the rate things are going...:(


75 posted on 12/15/2014 5:33:08 PM PST by caww
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To: SkyPilot

76 posted on 12/15/2014 5:38:41 PM PST by caww
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To: SkyPilot

Wow! Look at the expressions on the faces of those military people who are being forced to listened to Obamugabe.


77 posted on 12/15/2014 5:41:43 PM PST by Bigg Red (Congress, do your duty and repo his pen and his phone.)
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To: Nachum

Oooh he’s so funny! Oho, I can’t stand it, my sides are splitting!!

loser.


78 posted on 12/15/2014 5:49:13 PM PST by Shimmer1 (Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil. Thomas Mann)
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To: Nachum

Obama has never even wished to serve in the US military. The troops know Obama to be a coward and a fake.

This is not Obama’s last bit of idiocy with the US military. Soon he will be disposing of them as his personal cannon fodder.


79 posted on 12/15/2014 6:09:18 PM PST by Candor7 (Obama fascism article:(http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html))
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To: Nachum
"'Santa in Fatigues,"

And the exact reason why ya don't want your kiddies being part of the new world order foreign aid cannon fodder.

80 posted on 12/15/2014 7:07:27 PM PST by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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