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To: barryobi
I had Huckabee on in the background and all of sudden there is Marine Cpl. Dakota Meyer talking about not deserving the Medal of Honor and obama praising him during the ceremony for not leaving fellow Americans behind and him talking about why he disobeyed orders not to go in because, even though you always follow your orders, your loyalty to fellow Marines is a greater duty and you NEVER leave anyone behind, alive or dead.

It was powerful. My reaction listening to first obama praising him for it, but then his talking about what he did and why, man, I got such a lump in my throat and almost teared up.

I guess such a swing from anger to admiration and respect for his sheer courage and heroics to do the right thing no matter what to save all those people and leave no one behind shook me up, the difference/contrast between them, their integrity and who gives and who takes the orders...it was too much.

The truth must come out and the Pentagon owes it to its own and to us to do what they can to make it happen.

The principles involved are the essence of what we are and what is at stake.

15 posted on 11/10/2012 6:32:56 PM PST by GBA (Here in the Matrix, life is but a dream.)
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To: GBA
Well; he made me 'lose it'; and for same reasons you mention.

Painful to watch first; because, in truth; Obama is not fit to tie even a boot of those who serve in our Armed Services; and so; Obama's reading/accounting of Marine Cpl. Dakota's heroics; could not help but sound 'rote' and empty; as there is simply no way; for Obama to 'emote simpatico' with a courageous Patriot.

We know; and Obama reminds us; often; that he cannot have ever known an American patriotism; or entertained a genuinely, altruistic thought; much less, even 'mused' an appreciation for our Military. And so he is left to 'wing it'/fake it; as he does with every aspect of his life.

Obama's 'fraud' is inescapable. Though; one does have to 'look'; to see. . .

104 posted on 11/11/2012 6:20:22 PM PST by cricket (The Middle Class: Thanks to Obama; those who have not yet been 'buried'; are now; shovel ready..)
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To: GBA
Well; he made me 'lose it'; and for same reasons you mention.

Painful to watch first; because, in truth; Obama is not fit to tie, even a boot, of those who serve in our Armed Services; and so; Obama's reading/accounting of Marine Cpl. Dakota's heroics; could not help but sound 'rote' and empty; as there is simply no way; for Obama to 'emote simpatico' with a courageous Patriot.

We know; and Obama reminds us; often; that he cannot have ever known an American patriotism; or entertained a genuinely, altruistic thought; much less, even 'mused' an appreciation for our Military. And so he is left to 'wing it'/fake it; as he does with every aspect of his inauthentic life.

Obama's 'fraud' is inescapable. Though; one does have to 'look'; to see. . .

105 posted on 11/11/2012 6:23:30 PM PST by cricket (The Middle Class: Thanks to Obama; those who have not yet been 'buried'; are now; shovel ready..)
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