Obama’s nominee to be Secretary of the Army has not served in combat, has not even served in the military. He has little or no executive experience, but has been a lifelong bureaucratic hack and Democrat Party Apparatchik. His one and only qualification for the office would seem to be his sexual orientation.
The youthful-looking Secretary-designee, Acting Undersecretary Eric Fanning comes by his youthful looks honestly: he’s young (46) and callow, a career midrange bureaucrat without significant executive experience (.pdf), or private-sector experience, although he’s been parked in Democratic lobbying firms during Republican administrations. He has never served in the military and has never displayed much respect for those who do and have. They are there to serve him. He has never held a job in the productive economy.
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Why pick him, then? To Send A Message™, to count a valuable bean among people for whom the military exists to enable bean-counting. Fanning is fabulously gay, and his tasking is to increase the social engineering pressure on the Army to make it more friendly to GLBTQWERTY individuals, and more hostile to those who are not, whilst presiding over the readiness and end-strength declines he’s already been managing as Acting Undersecretary. He has said that his highest priorities are to forbid criticism of gay (etc) soldiers and to encourage transgender soldiers.
Can’t add anything to that brutal assessment, spot on, it is.
Protection of the United States is not a priority of the Obama Regime; appeasing domestic interest groups is. In addition to being led by an unqualified, incompetent party hack to make a political statement, the US Army has been gutted by the Obama Regime and is down to 450,000 troops. That is smaller than the Armies of Pakistan (550,000 troops), India (1,100,000 troops) Chinese People’s Liberation Army Ground Forces (1,600,000 troops), North Korea (950,000 troops). It is the same size as the Russian Army. Iran’s Army is not much smaller, 350,000 troops. ISIS, (whom Obama dismissed as “the JV Team” not so long ago) has 200,000 troops and continues to grow.
About that, we have now learned that the Army was ordered to cook the books to show that the regime’s scheme of limited attacks against ISIS were more successful than they actually were. None of the people who were Outraged(TM) that George W. Bush allegedly lied about national intelligence seem to be the least bit upset when Obama does it to make it seem like his failing policies are actually working.
When the main Chara teristic/qualification listed for an appointee is who they have sex with, it is a pretty good indication they are an affirmative action hire and not necessarily a qualification hire.
I’m not up on the qualifications of past secretaries so maybe lifetime political hack is all that is needed for the job but it’s going to be next to impossible to deny confirmation of the appointment without having the gay activists screaming homophobe.
The sad thing
“Obama’s nominee to be Secretary of the Army has not served in combat, has not even served in the military”
Sigh
Once again the right attacks Obama for things repub presidents have done and attacks Obama without any understanding
Repub presidents have had politicians, lawyers, corporate cronies and college professors as his Secretary of the Army and you did not complain instead you cheered.
Again the right is exposed as knee jerk haters that make you react with emotion instead of logic
And, of course, little letter mike shows up to defend Dear Leader with a lame tu quoque fallacy.
Fortunately, the SecArmy is definitely NOT in the chain of command; he’s a desk-jockey in-charge of the paper, the real estate and procurement, and the administration of Military Justice.
And maybe it’s better if a gay man is in-charge of the incipient housecleaning that’s about to break over the pending HUGE scandal about the senior brass covering-up — and defending — the Afghan boy-sex scandal. I’m hoping this stupidity originated on the State Department-side, and not from the Senior Brass. Otherwise there’s had better be a lot of sudden retirements of Colonels and Flag Officers. What were they thinking…??
” None of the people who were Outraged(TM) that George W. Bush allegedly lied about national intelligence seem to be the least bit upset when Obama does it to make it seem like his failing policies are actually working.”
You realize, of course, that that comment is RACIST!
THIS was one of the reasons I was against DADT. Heck, most of the people in my husband’s units already knew who was gay, and unless you made an issue about it-nothing happened to you. The military, especially when Dems run it have a history of quotas. And a lot of women and other minorities in the military get away with crap, because an accusation of sexual harassment, unfair treatment, or racism is a career ender. Gays were just going to be another minority group to add to the PC culture that is invasive to the military’s mission. Now, they are thinking about transgenders too. Ugh!
*sorry against the repeal of DADT
This reminds me of Gilbert & Sullivan’s light opera “HMS Pinafore”. If you are unfamiliar with it, look up the lyrics to “When I was a lad”
Funny that you mention that fallacy when you use the SAME FALLACY in your last sentence…ah irony…its delicious isn’t it?
Furthermore, my critique is not just “its ok because repubs did it too” my critique is that you have no understanding of what the position does, and the history behind the position yet you reflexively spew hatred toward Obama only because you let you let your emotions cloud your judgment and because you are an emotional you stamp your feet and cry despite the facts.
I like it when little letter people inadvertently tell us that Obama is a very poor copy of Mr. Bush. — more spying, more appointments of unqualified people, more minority unemployment, more wealth concentrated at the top, more assassinations by drones, more racial animosity, more stalling on FOIA requests …. All the things the left complained about regarding Mr. Bush are now supersized by Obama.
Thank you mike for pointing out (again) just how bad Obama is when compared to Mr. Bush. At least Carter will go to his grave knowing that he isn’t considered the worst POS in modern history anymore.
I’m not defending Bush. And if littlebrain mike weren’t the most intellectually dishonest hack partisan to ever show up in these comments, he would be able to tell the difference.
The thing mike seems incapable of understanding is that a criticism of Obama, and those who support him, is in no way a defense of Bush.
Cthulu, that’s because he’s a partisan shill with a limited, binary intellect (Democrats good, Republicans bad) and he assumes everyone else is the same way. The ability to comprehend arguments outside his extremely limited intellectual scope simply does not exist.
“The thing mike seems incapable of understanding is that a criticism of Obama, and those who support him, is in no way a defense of Bush.”
The thing the nighties are missing is I am not defending Obama, but instead I am pointing out how emotionally vested the Right is in hating him. Your arguments are so flawed and seem to be based on an emotional reaction to what he does.
In this case that emotional reaction has resulted in a very poor critique of Obama over something that is commonly done.
This posts outrage over the secretary of the Army selection is analogous to being mad at Obama for eating with a fork!
*yawn* False equivalence boy is back?
Lets see we have a highly decorated SF operator facing getting kicked out of the military for beating up a child rapist and a Sec of the Army that would empathize with the pedo more than the rough man.
Basic rules of Social Justice Warriors like mike:
Rule One: SJWs Always Lie.
Rule Two: SJWs Always Double Down.
Rule Three: SJWs Always Project.
And we see all three here.
First mike lies about “what Republicans do”.
Then mike doubles down when confronted with his initial lies.
Finally mike projects his own irrational hero worship and Palace Guard mentality about Obama onto others.
The main problem is self-loathing. mike knows he is worthless and is fully indoctrinated with leftist views that declare anyone who is white or male or disagrees with Obama to be subhuman, so he shamelessly toadies and tries to curry favor so he’s not seen as one of THOSE people.
When the question of repealing DADT came up, I decided, “Well, let’s give this a try… Maybe it’ll work out…” Now I see I was wrong.
Always remember… if the Left starts championing a cause first, it’s poison. If the Left starts championing something after the Right does, it’s also poison.
Another incompetent to mindlessly do Obama’s bidding to destroy the might of this country.