Obama Said There Would Be Change
by Big Dog on Jan 22, 2009 at 05:20 Political
The sainted one promised us there would be change. He did not lie about that. He has changed his mind on a number of issues. When he was looking for votes he was in favor of domestic drilling for oil. Now that might come to a screeching halt. Word is that the White House [read Obama] might order a halt to drilling plans put in place by George Bush before he left office. Of course, those of us who can think for ourselves knew that was likely when Obama was “in favor” of drilling.
No, the change that happened last night reversed 56 years of tradition. For the last 14 inaugurations, spanning 56 years and starting with Dwight Eisenhower, the new president has attended the Medal of Honor Ball. The Ball is sponsored by the American Legion and honors recipients of the nation’s highest military decoration.
Barack Obama did not attend that Ball. He was too busy attending 10 other balls thrown in his honor.
I remember during the campaign he said that he would have to earn the trust of the men and women in the armed forces.
This is definitely not the way to do it.
But what should we expect? The day belonged to Obama, The One, The Messiah. He was not about to be overshadowed by people who have accomplished more than he ever will. He was not about to be in a room with people who demonstrated bravery that he could never muster.
It is a shame too because he is now the Commander in Chief. Of course, if he ever had any leadership experience he would have recognized the importance of this event and his appearance at it.
For those of you sitting on the fence about joining or staying in, this is the character of the man who now leads you.
Sources:
Gateway Pundit
This ain’t Hell
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This is disgusting IMHO. He has time to flit around to all these historic moment balls but cannot make time to make the one that should matter most? The one with men and women who have fought for this country? Unreal.
I am further disgusted by his first actions in office. Closing Gitmo, funding for abortions abroad (aren’t we broke???). He’s more concerned with the rights of terrorists than the citizens who put him in office. Please, please tell me I heard these things wrong.
Maybe Obama would’ve gone if he’d been told a camera crew was going to be there.
Sheesh, I can see Obama supporters making excuses for this slap in the face, while at the same time harassing Bush if he pulled this crap.
With so many ‘balls’ planned I don’t know if the one to which you speak is the same as was reported days ago that Obama was said to be planning to attend.
That of course has no bearing on his failure as usual to pay no genuine respect to members of the armed forces. But then if one reviews his past statements on military matters and his campaign far left fringe antiwar stance it should be no surprise. Yet another unfortunate oversight by those who have succ**bed to Obamania.
Schatzee,
Here is part of an article–Where Murtha wants to take the detainees from Guantanamo to his district to house.
For his part, Murtha was encouraged by Obama’s proposal.
“I have said for two years that we should close down Guantanamo. Close it down. It’s a sore in the United States’ moral standards. What they have done there has hurt us,” he said.
I heard Obama was too busy spitting on veterans and burning American flags to attend that particular ball. Or maybe he was at the Commander-In-Chief ball, one of those “10 other balls thrown in his honor.” Obama had the guts to disgrace the troops with this commentary:
How dare Obama talk that way about the troops…
Are you guys for real? Just discovered your site via NY Times-go figure. Would you all please get out of your pajamas and look out the window. There are real people out there of limited intelligence (you think who will decimate your measley thoughts, until you listen to Rush at noontime).
Obama is not saint, merely president. Elections have consequences, little boys.
Richard, I cannot imagine how you found my site through the NYT. Care to provide a link?
Adam, let me explain this to you. The Commander in Chief’s ball honors the Commander in Chief. Obama went to a ball that honored HIM. The military was there for him and the ball was not there to honor the military members. Of course he said nice things about the military. Only a moron would do differently and Obama is a lot of things but moron is not one.
The Medal of Honor Ball honors the military members that have received the medal. It does not honor the president as the CINC Ball does. He did not go to one honoring the MOH winners but went to one honoring himself.
It is a disgrace to ignore 56 years of history like that.
The point of the article was that he ignored the members of the military, not that he talked badly about them. He ignored them to go to a ball in his honor, just as I said.
Look at you lie to try and prop up your delusion about liberals hating the troops.
The Commander in Chief’s ball was created to honor the troops and was continued for a 2nd time by Obama. I know this, you know this, everybody here knows this. Stop with the lies.
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2009:
Actions speak so much louder than words. In this case, it’s screaming if you ask me.
Hey, each day will hold new surprises with Obama for his supporters, but not for those who already had figured him out. I can’t wait until his supporters start hurling their disproval at him. It shouldn’t take long.
I stand corrected on the CINC Ball. I must have been thinking of something else. You see, when you make a mistake you admit it. A lie is a deliberate attempt to deceive. Can you show that was the case? And absolutes are a logical fallacy. Everyone does not know it so if any part of your premise is false your whole statement is false.
However, liberals still hate the military. And tell me, how can Obama honor those in Iraq when he never supported them? He still fails to admit the surge worked.
He is a sham when it comes to the military because he is a Socialist who follows Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals.
But the fact remains, as was made clear by the post, he did not go to the MOH which was a 56 year tradition. He had time to go to 10 other balls only one of which was a military ball. That means 90% of what he attended was not. He could have skipped one of the others and gone to the MOH.
It is very simple to understand. He broke a tradition that he should not have.
Yes, by and large liberals hate the military and they like to decrease its spending and increase welfare. You are one of them.
So, once again, I stand corrected for my mistake. Lesson to everyone, liberals call a conservative’s mistake a lie and a liberals lies mistakes. Like when you lie about not paying taxes….
No, not paying your taxes until you get a heads up for nomination is a HICCUP.
I retract my claim of your lie. I just assumed that since all of us were posting on the Internet we could just as soon look up the short history of the CINB before we act like Obama spent all night honoring himself and just totally blew off the troops because he hates them.
Don’t kid yourself. This post is not about tradition, or MOH recipients. It’s too late to back up and claim that. This post is about you once again claiming liberals hate the troops and once again citing faulty evidence to prop up that theory.
Your simplistic, faulty frames about the military don’t fly with me.
I believe in an limited, intelligent use of military force and I’ve never believed the Iraq war would garner enough positive output to outweigh the negative.
I believe keeping the moral high ground on the issue of waging war and how we house and treat detainees is more important than feeling safer because we have more interrogation techniques available to us.
I believe wounded veterans should not have to come home and share hospital rooms with rats and roaches.
I believe veterans of wars should never be homeless and die in the streets because they can’t function in our society without adequate psychiatric care.
I believe the Pentagon should treat PTSD more like a serious war injury and not just a “secondary effect”.
I believe in protest but that radical asshole splinter group Christians celebrating the death of soldiers while their families bury their dead is one of the most despicable and cowardly forms of protest in existence.
I’m sure you’ll agree with me on some of these, others not so much. I understand your love and support of the military after a long career of service, but don’t dare continue to suggest I hate the military just because I haven’t served and I don’t support your jingoism.
Adam, I have never suggested, as best I can remember (lest I be called a liar), that I ever accused you of such.
I agree with some things though I also believe the focus on them is overblown. The incidence of veteran’s being treated poorly is small though any is too much. The government put Walter Reed on the BRAC list and said they could not spend money to repair it. The building they were in was not owned by the Army and while it was in disrepair, it was not as bad as it was made out to be. Once the issue was brought to light the government sure freed up resources for a BRAC building.
Believe me when I tell you that no one prays for peace more than the members of the military because it is they who bear the burden of the alternative.
However, dismantling the military like Carter did or using it as a police force like Clinton did inspires people to attack us because they think we are weak. Force should be met with force, not police officers.
As for Gitmo, these people have been treated rather good and are in the best health they have ever been in. Bush wanted to release a bunch of them but no one will take them and we can’t release them to people who will mistreat them. Make no mistake, they are not good people but rather those who we could find no reason to keep.
I think the biggest mistake we made in that regard is not declaring them prisoners of war. Then we could hold them until the war ended and not have to worry about trials and all that crap.
I am worried that the government will release them in our country. How will it make you feel if some of them end up in your neighborhood and do something horrible to you or your wife? If they are released here Obama should have to keep them in the White House near his daughters. I bet if that is the stipulation they will stay at Gitmo until they die.
I was thinking of something else with regard to the CINC Ball and got my wires crossed. If I did not think I knew I would have looked it up. I was mistaken with regard to other things.
I believe Obama has little regard for the military. He is a Socialist and he would rather spend money on unconstitutional welfare programs and bailouts (not that all parties are not guilty of that). Yes, he said nice things but what president would do otherwise.
We will see how it plays out but in general, the lefties I have seen get worked up are vile to the troops.
And the post was about blowing off tradition though the hyperbole may have led it in another direction.
Once again, 10 balls…
Obama did not spend all night honoring himself, just 90% of it.
As for the VA health care system. It is run by the same government bureaucracy you want to run socialized health care. It will be no different.
I heard that those on MSNBC thought he did a great job at juggling his balls, and could only hope that they could do half as good a job if they were to ever have balls of their own.
Still find it disgusting that he missed what I consider to be one of the most important of all.
http://isaacs.newsvine.com/_news/2009/01/23/2345799-obama-blows-off-medal-of-honor-recipients-not-exactly
I wrote a story, complete with an official statement from the American Legion’s media relations officer, that straightened out inconsistencies in the original story (which started in the conservative blogosphere) and then to secondly answer the question of why Vice President Biden went instead of President Obama. So, if you want the reality of the situation along with the most likely reason why Obama did not attend which was given to me by a source which asks to remain anonymous (and I’m honoring that request because it has to do with how the Secret Service assesses venues) then read the article I wrote.