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05-01-2012 03:46 PM |
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SEALs slam Obama for using them as 'ammunition' in bid to take credit for bin Laden killing during election campaign | Mail Online
His lacky news buddy Brian Williams just happened to be there for an impromptu interview as shown on last nights NBC (Obama network).
This issue is a perfect example of Obama politicizing anything to be able to use the 'I' and 'me" words.
He had to do about as much decision making as it takes to light the annual Christmas Tree. Using the NBC approach we could hear about how Obama made the decision to have that tree planted and nurtured. And how he rescued the company that made the trucks that brought it to Washington. And they certainly would not leave out how many strings of lights he ordered to provide as many jobs as possible to string the tree. You know the old make a banquet out of a ham sandwich routine except be sure to include how he grew the wheat to make the bread and raised the pigs to provide the ham. And most assuredly the decision to be sure to call ti a banquet even though we all know it is a ham sandwich.
He is so full of himself he does not get it along with a major dose he doesn't really care.
Further demonstrating total lack of LEADERSHIP.
btk
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As you have done many times in the past, here again you claim the President has demonstrated a 'total lack of LEADERSHIP'. As in the past this post rings with a high emotional tone, suggesting you are upset and frustrated with the President's action or inaction.
This time I can't help but take the entirely opposite view.
First, your citing of the article 'SEALs Slam Obama' is a sensational headline on an article which a former SEAL commander, now a Republican legislator, (surprise), calls the bin Laden matter into question, but not for the leadership shown in making the final decision.
Second, your criticism of the media's spin on this matter is not the President's doing, yet you again characterize the media as simply existing to do the President's bidding.
Third, likening the decision to act and put troops in harms way to lighting the Christmas tree, is one of the most outrageous insults to those troops I've ever heard. Did you consider that before you wrote it?
Fourth, being totally objective, there must be recognition that the bin Laden affair was an exercise in real leadership. There were conflicting choices to be made. The President made them and announced from day one that they were his decisions. You would be right about his lack of leadership only if he had walked out of the situation room that night and announced he couldn't make those decisions. Most people support his decisions, but even if you totally disagree with them, that does not diminish the fact that he made them.
So if you are going to continue to focus on a 'total lack of leadership', I suggest you look at the specific acts and decisions the President has made, not the extraneous or after-the-fact irrelevant aspects.
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