No one in Obama’s Inner Circle has ever served in the military or understands military culture.
In one of the most tone-deaf statements in White House history (we’re making a lot of history here), the national-security advisor, on a Sunday talk show, described Bergdahl as having served “with honor and distinction.” Those serving in uniform and those of us who served previously were already stirred up, but that jaw-dropper drove us into jihad mode.
But pity Ms. Rice. Like the president she serves, she’s a victim of her class. Nobody in the inner circle of Team Obama has served in uniform. It shows.
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The president, too, appears stunned. He has so little understanding of (or interest in) the values and traditions of our troops that he and his advisers really believed that those in uniform would erupt into public joy at the news of Bergdahl’s release — as D.C. frat kids did when Osama bin Laden’s death was trumpeted.Both President Obama and Ms. Rice seem to think that the crime of desertion in wartime is kind of like skipping class. They have no idea of how great a sin desertion in the face of the enemy is to those in our military. The only worse sin is to side actively with the enemy and kill your brothers in arms. This is not sleeping in on Monday morning and ducking Gender Studies 101.
To Team Obama, Bergdahl and the rest of those soldiers were just kids who didn’t study hard enough and got stuck in Afghanistan.
Team Obama’s latest gambit — accusing Bergdahl’s fellow soldiers of “swiftboating” him — probably won’t play very well either.
UPDATE (from Jeff): It also doesn’t help that, by his own admission, Obama broke the law in making the Bergdahl swap.
A top aide to President Obama is now apologizing to Congress for not informing lawmakers, as required by law, that the White House was planning to trade…
(Democratic Senator Dianne) Feinstein said that it was “very disappointing” that President Obama decided not to alert Congress about the deal…Feinstein said that in previous conversations with Senators about the trade, “there were very strong views and they were virtually unanimous against trade.” “The White House is pretty unilateral about what they want to do when they want to do it,” she added…
Unilateral? Whoa, did someone say the President was being “unilateral”?!
Obama the clueless.
Anyone with half a brain could have seen this coming.
His Obamabots defend him by going after the guys confident desert.
This entire administration is full of community organizers and politicians.
The State Department gave Queen Elizabeth an iPod complete with The One’s speeches on it, gave the Prime Minister of England a basket of DVDs that won’t play on European players, tells him to bow to foreign heads of state including the Emperor of Japan and the Sultan of Saudi Arabia, and gives the Dali Lama, a man who never wears long sleeve shirts, cuff links.
To them, if a soldier has not been Dishonorably Discharged, then he served, and the phrase “with honor and distinction” is meaningless, but put on there to make these murderous thugs sound good.
None of them served in the military, because to them, the military is what is wrong with America and needs to be dismantled.
Geez, go over to HotAir and look at the posts on this issue. It is unbelievable.
The military already had a piss-poor opinion of him. What’s next? Military coup?
Typical Obama, make a hero out of the guy who joined the jihadists, make villains of the guys who fought them.
“No worse ally, no better enemy.”
Maybe the Left felt that they had to retrieve Bergdahl so they could make him a hero, do their next round of anti-America propaganda with him, etc.
…but but, he is in favour of ghey marriage, that’s all that matters to people voting democrat. They are simpletons made that way with no way to recover.
Do the Obama advisors set politics aside when they address military and national security issues?
If so, the Obama administration should have no problem explaining with clarity why this event took place and the reason for the urgency.
Since I am still baffled by why Qadaffi had to be overthrown and what the whole Arab Spring thing in Egypt was aimed at achieving, it is probably necessary for Obama to speak slowly and bring pictures in order for me to get a grasp.
To Team Obama, Bergdahl and the rest of those soldiers were just kids who didn’t study hard enough and got stuck in Afghanistan.
Didn’t John F-ing Kerry say the same thing a few years back?
You have correctly identified the problem, just me. Obama doesn’t have ANYWHERE NEAR half a brain.
charles @3: Thanks for the tip, but I REFUSE to go to Hot Air, and removed them from my daily “must read” a few weeks ago. For a site that was the brainchild of Michelle Malkin, they’ve become a disgrace.
But that’s just me. No offense intended, kind sir.
I am having a mind blank on the name at the moment… but here is a memory jogger…..
….. there was a soldier who deserted his post during the American War for Independence. You should all know his name and his “reward” for what he had done….
Sorry about the mind blank…..
Ok I just remembered the name… It was Benedict Arnold.
Bergdahl is worse than Benedict Arnold because he collaborated with the enemy. He should get the Benedict Arnold treatment because he is a traitor to the USA.
@ Straight Aussie: Arnold did not simply desert his post. He also attempted to help the British take West Point. From the rumors, Bergdahl also turned over secrets to the Taliban. That would be the textbook definition of treason, and we all know what the punishment would be.
@SeanL… yes I went and did a Google search after I had left the comment 🙂
There are a lot of similarities. I thought that Benedict Armold had been punished but in that I was wrong (long time since I studied American history). The similarities are enough to make anyone feel sick to the stomach.