Obama to visit Walter Reed Army Medical Center tomorrow(Obama delays Cap Hill pitch on health care)

AP ^ | Nov 6, 2009 | AP

[Bellflower]

As skinny as Obama is getting maybe he is going there as a cover for medical care for himself. It isn't normal to be losing weight like he has been and his excuse is that he has been working so hard and has skipped meals. I'm not buying it, especially the working so hard part.

[IoCaster]

Damn. The old "picture is worth a thousand words" is soooo applicable. I was in the service during the Carter years, but this is just...Ugh!

[Terry Mross]

It’s more important for him to find another fellow mussie to replace the one at Ft. Hood. How I despise this man. I trust absolutely nothing he says or does.

[Darkwolf377]

He’s just awful, so in over his head, like a kid who inherited his dad’s company and proceeds to run it into the ground while giggling at the expensive parties and golf club outings.

[ex_military_with_brain]

THE FACTS:

Obama’s mother married an Indonesian man when Obama was 6 years old and they moved together from Hawaii to Indonesia. From age 6 to 10, Obama lived in Indonesia with his mother and step-father, who—like most Indonesians—was Muslim. As Obama explains in his autobiography, Dreams of My Father (which was first published almost 10 years ago, far before he ran for the presidency):

At age 10, Obama moved back to Hawaii to live with his grandparents. So he spent a grand total of five years in Indonesia, only two of which he spent attending a Muslim school.

Moreover, at the time Obama lived in Indonesia, roughly 1967-1972, militant Islam was virtually unknown to that part of the world. The predominant form of Islam in Indonesia at the time—and still today—was a blend of Islamic and pre-existing animist beliefs and traditions.

Furthermore, while the term “Madrassah” is often used as shorthand for a specific type of radical Islamic school where new jihadists are indoctrinated, the term simply means “school” in Arabic (and, by extension, a number of other languages). There is no reason to think the school Obama attended was anything other than a typical Indonesian school.

So let’s recap the facts:

1) Obama was not “raised as a Muslim.” He was raised primary by his mother and grandparents, none of whom were Muslims. His step-father, whom he lived with for only five years, was a Muslim, but a very traditionally Indonesian one. Obama is a practicing Christian.

2) Obama did not attend a “radical Madrassah” during his time in Indonesia. During his five years there (from age 6 to 10), he split his time between a local Muslim school and a local Catholic school.

3) Obama has not concealed any of this information. To the contrary, it is all laid out in detail in his two autobiographical books.

Obama’s mother and step-father did not have much money. They couldn’t afford to send him to the expensive International schools in Jakarta, so instead they sent him to a local public school (the so-called “madrassah”) and a nearby Catholic school.

Mystery solved!

Here’s a better question: if you have absolutely no clue what you’re talking about and are unwilling to do even the most minimal research or thought, why should anyone care about what you have to say? You didn’t even know which ‘foreign country’ you were talking about.

[Right Wing Assault]

What obama would like to say:

“Oh, no! Do I HAVE TO go to that hospital and pretend I am concerned about those military people? I don’t want to be around them. They don’t like me. Can I at least do a shout-out to Oprah and Derek Jeter before I go in?”

[freema]

The POS went to Dover because he had to do something after his appearance at base in Jacksonville FL when he said “Corpsemen”.

He’s probably going to WRAMC to gather all the crappy evaluations on this jihadi.

This will be spun as a poor, poor soldier, [”One of our own..” is how I heard it this morning] who went over the edge from the stress of it all. No mention that this was jihad.

[freema]

Thought you might want to know.

[trooprally]

Thanks. What an AH of a Coward in Chief.

After yesterday in DC and short notice, not much we can do.

[trooprally]

Thanks. What an AH of a Coward in Chief.

After yesterday in DC and short notice, not much we can do.

[genetic homophobe]

Isam is Satan worship. Allah=Satan. Religion of death.

[PghBaldy]

http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2009/11/06/politics/politicalhotsheet/entry5549084.shtml

9:30AM: President Obama receives the Presidential Daily Briefing
11:00AM: President Obama signs the Worker, Homeownership, and Business Assistance Act of 2009
2:20PM: President Obama departs The White House

2:35PM: President Obama visits Walter Reed Army Medical Center

4:15PM: President Obama arrives at The White House
4:25PM: President Obama meets with Congressman-Elect Bill Owens of New York
5:10PM: President Obama meets with Secretary of State Clinton

[jch10]

I see nothing untrue in Pa River’s post.

Are you sure you are at the right site? You haven’t been here nearly long enough to call out a longtime Freeper.

[PghBaldy]

Another newbie... what an auspicious beginning!

[Wild Irish Rogue]

” Obama is a practicing Christian. “

Please provide evidence to support your hypothesis.

[freema]

I figured it was too short.

[BufordP]

Yep. There was a See-B-S news truck on the corner when we got there. The Bamster had already left. Seems the the various news organizations were at WR not only to cover Zero but were also trying to interview troops who may have had a personal relationship with the terrorist in our "ranks".