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Posted on 01/03/2009 9:12:03 AM PST by RobinMasters
A recent Military Times survey of active-duty service members found 6 of 10 U.S. soldiers polled said they were "pessimistic" or "uncertain" about Barack Obama serving as commander in chief of America's armed forces.
In follow-up interviews reported by the Army Times newspaper, respondents cited Obama's inexperience in leading soldiers, his plans for accelerated removal of troops from Iraq and his pledge to overturn the military's "don't ask, don't tell" policy regarding homosexual service members as reasons for their cautious outlook.
"Being that the Marine Corps can be sent anywhere in the world with the snap of his fingers," said one lance corporal who asked not to be identified, "nobody has confidence in this guy as commander in chief."
"How are you going to safely pull combat troops out of Iraq?" asked Air Force 1st Lt. Rachel Kleinpeter, an intelligence officer with the 100th Operations Support Squadron. "And if you're pulling out combat troops, who are you leaving to help support what's left? What happens if Iraq falls back into chaos? Are we going to be there in five years doing the same thing over again?"
(Excerpt) Read more at wnd.com ...
Only six out of ten?
I wonder if it was wise for the article to fully identify Air Force 1st Lt. Rachel Kleinpeter?
I think they might just have tipped her in the poo with her new Commander-in-Cheat.
You can’t make this stuff up folks.
There is a reason they said 6 of 10. The percentage would be 69% if counted correctly.
“I think they might just have tipped her in the poo with her new Commander-in-Cheat.”
The sad thing is it would’nt surprise anyone at all that he’d go after her. Most or all of the people around him are angry and small enough to do exactly that.
It is obvious to 6 out of 10 servicemen that Obama, too, will be a puppet of Soros/DNC. Who would want to serve a Russian control freak or the self-aggrandising DNC “royalty”?
It is also obvious that 4 out of 10 servicemen are brainwashed or not the brightest bulbs in the pack.
The other four were too polite to answer.
God Bless America.
Isn’t the Army Times owned by Gannett? They want to harm her.
President Bush has not been afraid to do what has been right for this country and the world in general. He has the strength of his convictions...just like Reagan did. Obama will sweep things under the rug and leave a nightmare for the next president to handle.
Military members have plenty to be concerned about. They will willingly fight for a just cause, but not for photo-op leader. I am afraid the retention rate of our most promising military leaders will go down in the next few years.
Let’s see if they vote with their feet...
I'd give a little thought about that broad brush statement towards 40% of our troops.
For all you know the other 4 out of ten said they would resign.
Furthermore, there wasn't a poll taken. Just folks writing in. That's hardly scientific.
Personally, I think it's fewer than six out of ten.
yeah, sounds fishy to me.
And the other four will probably flunk their next urinalysis and be booted out the the service for use of illegal drugs.
Great post. I would resign my commission if this idiot BHO was my CIC. Only the suck ups and AA officers looking for stars and eagles wings will hang around.
But the other 4 / 10 elected him ;)
No those are the subscribers who failed to repair/ excuse me- reply.
I don't think 'wary' means what you think it means...
THAT, my FRiend, is precisely what I suspect that Marxist Obama and his BFF Ayers want to happen!
(So the truly American troops can be replaced by a malignant fifth column.)
We need to encourage our precious men and women in uniform to weather the storm.
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Until the nearest opportunity to get the hell out of a military commanded by a jackass who refuses to prove he's an American citizen for the $10 price of a copy of his long-form birth certificate.
And four out of ten lie to pollsters.
I wonder the definition of “servicemen”?
Oh just ignore Texas_Shutterbug. She adores Obama.
Correction: Soros is Jewish-Hungarian according to Wiki.
*shrug* somebody has too.
has TO.
*sigh*
I disagree.
This was not an accident. An ignorant majority put a communist in charge of the U.S. government.
Stupid is hard to cure. If you don't have to obey stupid, get the hell away from stupid.
Stupid gets you killed when you are in the military.
How long would you have career military people take orders from someone who hates America and mocks the U.S. Constitution and the founding principles of the United States of America?
How long would you have courageous military people serve an inexperienced incompetent who is on record as having publicly accused them of "air raiding villages and killing civilians?"
Glad you're not an officer. We serve the country, not the man. It makes no difference to my duty whether Obama or Clinton or McCain or Bush are president.
Any officer who would resign his commission because of partisan political affiliation is not worthy of that commission.
obama is well aware of this. One of the reasons he wanted his own military force.
Any one in the employ of the service branches of the US govt or National Guard, ATF, NSA, FBI, CIA, Secret Service, Park service rangers.. and on, and on?
I know some Navy people who despise the O. Ask them what they think about him, and that sailor’s language flows. We are going to need military people who won’t bend over for the O’s Communist takeover.
OTOH Lots of good officers followed Hitler, didn’t they?
At Nuremberg they blandly said that they were just following orders.
You might want to keep that phrase in mind.
Maybe it will work next time...
If and when Obama commands illegal orders, then we can talk about that. Up until that point, you are nothing more than a whining crybaby, irritated that you lost a democratically run election.
Sorry but the Army Times used to be more conservative, but lately, as with virtually all print media, it has tilted heavily to the left. If they rounded this survey properly, it would be reported as 7 of 10 which would be just about right. Between the libs (yes unfortunately there are liberals even in the military) and African-Americans practicing identity politics 3 in 10 supporters sounds about right.
My husband is in the military, serving in Iraq right now, and based on his 25 years in the military, I think your assessment is erroneous.
I thought you were referring to active-duty service members (that would be troops) as that is what the article was talking about.
That's who this is about, not the plethora of employees you cite.
They are making a leap when they declare the respondents to be "active-duty" service members. There is no evidence that the responding subscribers are in any way verified.
Fair enough.
It starts off with little things, all ‘for the good of the country.’
Well of course not.
None of these polls or surveys are accurate.
They are just tools.
You are correct.
As military men and women, they are ONLY to follow lawful orders. Just because the President or a commanding officer gives an order, does not mean it is lawful.
She could have commented anonymously but chose to give her identity; unless it’s a pseudonym.
Totally off topic response. Right out of school, I worked with a guy that had the last name Kleinpeter. One night at the station, one of the guys started giving him a hard time about his name. Said it meant “small dick”. I don’t know whether that is true or not, but that is what he said. I ran into the same guy 10 years later, and he had changed his last name to Klein. Said it was shorter for his kids to write :)
About the article. I heard some polls after the election that around 35% of active duty military ballots were for Obama. I couldn’t believe it at the time, but this poll seems to support that.
True, the days of Winfield Scott and Taylor are long past.
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I’m wary that he’s not a natural born American citizen.
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