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President Obama to Visit Walter Reed Friday
ABC News ^ | 11/5/2009 | Jake Tapper

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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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: 0isunworthy; bho44; bhodod; cicobama; obama; visit; walterreed; wia; wounded
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To: Saije

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.


21 posted on 11/05/2009 8:41:20 PM PST by RicocheT
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To: BAW

It will live in Infamy
http://www.kxxv.com/Global/story.asp?S=11453293

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.


22 posted on 11/05/2009 8:41:44 PM PST by RummyChick
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To: RummyChick
soldiers are getting massacred..but let's have a photo op


Hey Joe Crow

23 posted on 11/05/2009 8:46:37 PM PST by RummyChick
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To: Dallas59

Will he be wearing his shroud along with his culture of hate?


24 posted on 11/05/2009 8:47:33 PM PST by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote; then find me a real conservative to vote for)
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To: RummyChick
this one takes the cake

25 posted on 11/05/2009 8:48:19 PM PST by RummyChick
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To: Saije
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.

The transfer may have been dignified, but there is nothing dignified about using caskets of military personnel for a photo op.

26 posted on 11/05/2009 8:52:27 PM PST by Eva (Obama bin Lyin)
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To: Saije

Well, how many times has he gone since becoming president?
I really would like that question answered if anyone knows.


27 posted on 11/05/2009 8:59:55 PM PST by IrishCatholic (No local Communist or Socialist Party Chapter? Join the Democrats, it's the same thing!)
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To: IrishCatholic

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.


28 posted on 11/05/2009 9:02:55 PM PST by PghBaldy (DC only had about 31,000 doses of vaccine, yet two relations of Obama got it!)
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To: Sarah Barracuda
Ironically, Chris Rock had far more class as a Commander in Chief in "Head of State"


29 posted on 11/05/2009 9:10:45 PM PST by beagleone
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To: Saije

“President Obama to Visit Walter Reed Friday”

I’ll alert the media. Oh wait, he already did.


30 posted on 11/05/2009 9:13:58 PM PST by Spok
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To: Saije

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.


31 posted on 11/05/2009 9:14:30 PM PST by petitfour (Are you a Dead Fish American?)
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To: Saije
Damned grandstander has absolutely NO shame.

He won't EVER come out of "campaign mode"!

32 posted on 11/05/2009 9:15:15 PM PST by FixitGuy (By their fruits shall ye know them!)
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To: beagleone

Too funny!


33 posted on 11/05/2009 9:17:30 PM PST by Irisshlass
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To: Saije

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.


34 posted on 11/05/2009 9:17:43 PM PST by truthandlife ("Some trust in chariots and some in horses, but we trust in the name of the LORD our God." (Ps 20:7))
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To: Spok

Alert Code Pink!


35 posted on 11/05/2009 9:18:38 PM PST by Irisshlass
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To: Saije
. 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.

Secret?!


36 posted on 11/05/2009 9:19:06 PM PST by Trailerpark Badass (Happiness is a choice!)
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To: truthandlife

I missed this...The Army spokesman was apologizing for Obama?


37 posted on 11/05/2009 9:19:54 PM PST by Irisshlass
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To: truthandlife

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.


38 posted on 11/05/2009 9:22:53 PM PST by uncitizen (I'm mad as hell and i'm not gonna take it anymore!!)
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To: Trailerpark Badass

We know that Bush went but he sure as heck didn’t invite the press corps. The “one” is totally wrapped up in himself.


39 posted on 11/05/2009 9:23:37 PM PST by eyedigress
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To: Saije
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

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.

40 posted on 11/05/2009 9:27:37 PM PST by kabar
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