Posted on 06/06/2014 7:12:24 AM PDT by Hotlanta Mike
Late in the afternoon of Saturday, May 31, Barack Obama strode confidently to a lectern in the White House Rose Garden flanked by the parents of Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl, a soldier who had gone missing from his platoon in the mountains of Afghanistan in June 2009.
“This morning I called Bob and Jani Bergdahl and told them that after nearly five years in captivity, their son, Bowe, is coming home,” Obama said.
The president thanked service members who “recovered Sergeant Bergdahl and brought him safely out of harm’s way.” Obama also expressed gratitude to the diplomats who had handled the case, and he reported that his administration had “worked for several years to achieve this goal.” The president confirmed news reports from earlier in the day that Bergdahl had been freed as part of a prisoner exchange with the Afghan Taliban—a deal that was brokered by the government of Qatar. “As part of this effort, the United States government is transferring five detainees from the prison in Guantánamo Bay to Qatar,” he announced.
The Bergdahls were understandably emotional about the news and in brief statements thanked their friends and their government for supporting them through the long ordeal.
It was, for Obama, a fleeting moment of triumph. For more than a year, the president had been buffeted by events that he could not—or would not—control. The disastrous debut of Obamacare, the continuing fallout from the Benghazi attacks, the consequences of intelligence disclosures by Edward Snowden, the unfolding human tragedy in Syria, the Russian power play in Ukraine, the scandal that has engulfed the Veterans Administration—in one crisis after another, the man who once boldly declared his intent to be a transformative president had shown himself to be a reactive one.
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The MSM is today busy showing images of Obama genuflecting to the survivors of D-Day.
Yeah, those soldiers threw away the bag he had when first contacted and then frisked his ass again before he boarded the helicopter. That fact speaks VOLUMES about what he really is.
Apparently unknown to Obama (or perhaps known) was that he was not in “harm’s way” at all. He got along well with his “captors”, converted to Islam, and reportedly was even allowed to possess a gun.
Which side's participants? Did he find some 90+ year old Nazi machine gunners still alive?
What a damning statement.
He can only focus on an issue for 5 mintutes. Anything that requires some thought as to the 2nd and 3rd order effects is beneath/beyond him.
Susan Rice .... on the Sunday talk shows ... lying about a video ... AGAIN.. She is the equivalent of a jihadi suicide bomber, going out and blowing herself up (politically), but the difference is she survived the first explosion and gets to outright lie AGAIN. What has she been promised for totally destroying her credibility and character (along with the administration who sent her out there) ... 72 male virgins on an estate in Hawaii and a couple of million bucks? [/heavy sarc]
Rice said we do not leave our men and women behind. What was Benghazi then??
He knows he is in trouble....he must have used the word “God” a half dozen times in the few seconds I could stomach watching the news clip this moring
Rice said we do not leave our men and women behind. What was Benghazi then??
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The stench of the hypocrisy (Obama said the same thing) is sickening and overwhelming. Mark Steyn summed it up pretty well: “Chris Stevens was one of them, a Team Obama loyalist. But they abandoned him and dishonored him in death because the President’s political needs outweighed his life. The heartlessness of all these caring, compassionate Democrats would impress Putin - if it was ever applied to America’s enemies.”
From article: The Cavalry That Never Came
http://www.steynonline.com/6325/the-cavalry-that-never-came
His excellency cites history to support the exchange of prisoners. I wonder if he ever heard of Rudolf Hess whom was held by the Brits for the war before turning him over to the War Tribunal? I guess they did not see the rationale to trade Hess for say a few pilots held captive.
And we still don’t know where the little islamist was or what he was doing while our people were being murdered in Benghazi.
Not one anchor at FNC has pointed out that this Regime left men to die in Benghazi and then puff themselves up and proclaim “we don’t leave our men and women behind.” Someone needs to shout this from the rooftops.
I wonder if his father came up with the plan: “ Bowe, here’s how you might get some of our Taliban friends freed from Guantanamo”
It only took him three words to say “I”.
"When top Obama administration national security officials briefed senators on June 4, they expressed frustration with the public debate around Bergdahl’s departure, telling lawmakers that his fellow soldiers were more nuanced in their initial interviews than in their recent comments."What a packet of sly, devilish misdirection.
"Nuanced" in this case obviously means "naïve," because in their initial interview, his "fellow soldiers" were still giving him the benefit of the doubt, not having yet personally experienced the full evidence of his treachery.
As they would. Read the rest of the article to learn the details.
Let's see which senators trot out this "more nuanced in their initial interviews" line of clap-trap. Whoever does is in league with the worst of the worst of this disastrous administration, which would do each of us to death if it possibly could find the means.
““Unless the goal is to increase the combat power of the enemy, they should have remained under U.S. government control,” says one former intelligence official who worked on Guantánamo issues. “Those five in particular should have remained at Guantánamo at least until the last U.S. military person [in Afghanistan] has been withdrawn.”
Logic
Obama came out holding Mrs. Bergdahl around her waist very close to him, just like 50 Cent holds his women’s. Then Mr. Bergdahl spoke in Arabic to his son and the world...Obama smiled? Then the story telling lies began and continue to this moment...Obama desperately searching for a lie to stick and be swallowed, hook line and sinker by all?
Truth and Obama’s honor are always the casualties of anything the Won does.
He can focus long enough to get elected president. Twice
He’s not THAT much of a puppet
I refuse to call him incompetent
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