Posted on 11/05/2009 8:13:07 PM PST by Saije
White House officials tell ABC News that President Obama will visit with wounded soldiers tomorrow at Walter Reed Army Medical Center. The trip was scheduled before the incident today at Fort Hood, officials said. President Obama visited wounded troops at Walter Reed as president-elect in January and has visited wounded troops at Bethesda Naval Hospital as senator. Last week the president made a secret late-night journey to Dover Air Force Base to participate in the dignified transfer of troops and DEA agents killed in Afghanistan. He is in the midst of making up his mind about a new strategy in Afghanistan and Pakistan, which administration sources say will likely include sending more troops.
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Obmama’s visit with wounded soldiers tomorrow at Walter Reed Army Medical Center tells me he has made the decision to cut and run in both Iraq and Afghanistan. He’s making nice toward our soldiers as a shield to the criticism coming when his plan to do another bad end to a a war (like Vietnam) becomes public.
It will live in Infamy
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This bleeped bleepity bleep went to this conference already knowing what was going down at Fort Hood.
I cannot even put into words my disgust.
Will he be wearing his shroud along with his culture of hate?
The transfer may have been dignified, but there is nothing dignified about using caskets of military personnel for a photo op.
Well, how many times has he gone since becoming president?
I really would like that question answered if anyone knows.
The article/press release says: “President Obama visited wounded troops at Walter Reed as president-elect in January and has visited wounded troops at Bethesda Naval Hospital as senator. “
I imagine if he had gone as President, the WH would have said so.
“President Obama to Visit Walter Reed Friday”
I’ll alert the media. Oh wait, he already did.
Ah. No wonder they removed the Jihadist from Walter Reed and sent him to Ft Hood recently. They were afraid he might go postal when Bambi was visiting. Well, at least now the world knows the US military facilities are not loaded with folks carrying weapons. Only those with criminal intent carry weapons. And law enforcement, of course.
He won't EVER come out of "campaign mode"!
Too funny!
I am telling you. He and his staff knew he screwed up today having shout outs and talking about everything other than the soldiers that got killed. The Army spokesman tonight emphasized again how sorry the President was in his statement.
Our Commander in Chief is anything but that.
Alert Code Pink!
Secret?!
I missed this...The Army spokesman was apologizing for Obama?
The WH must’ve gotten a lot of complaints about how dispicible that press conference was or BO wouldn’t have someone apologize for him.
BO only apologizes for how bad his country is, not for how bad HE is. And even then, someone else has to do it for him after convincing him it’s absolutely necessary.
I’m certain that many, many Americans, both GOP and RAT were disgusted by that news conference.
We know that Bush went but he sure as heck didn’t invite the press corps. The “one” is totally wrapped up in himself.
The reality is that Obama has not visited the wounded as President in 9 months. I am sure that Bush did it more often. These visits to Dover and tomorrow to Walter Reed is setting us up for his decision on Afghanistan, which more than likely will be not to send any more troops or not as many as McCrystal wants out of [phony] concern for the welfare of the troops.
I can recall when Obama was in Europe this summer, he passed up a visit to the wounded. I guess Axelrod thinks Obama needs to get some PR and photo ops.
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