Posted on 06/24/2010 5:56:03 AM PDT by floor sweeper
"Even more about McChrystal: now it can be told. The story about him voting for Obama is not contrived. He is a political liberal. He is a social liberal. He banned Fox News from the television sets in his headquarters. Yes, really. This puts to rest another false rumor: that McChrystal deliberately precipitated his firing because he wants to run for President."
(Excerpt) Read more at theatlantic.com ...
Could this be our military-uniform clad tyrant rising to power ?
Hmm... interesting thought. Can it get worse than Obama ? Obama and crew have only stated their hatred for Fox and the Right. They attempted to shun them in the white house, and actually shunned them on the campaign trail. If McChrystal out-and-out attempts to run on the “I’m not quite Obama” ticket - Will he win, even against the ultra right ?
Obama is a thin-skinned narcissistic pussy.
We were looking at the good generals medals shown on his uniform. Interesting.
Let’s stop lionizing mcchrystal now! He voted for obama, a harvard sissy not a fellow military man McCain.
Robert Gates niminated McChrystal for the Afghanistan post. If that doesn’t say anything about McChyrstal’s politics, NOTHING will.
Just another leftist undone by his own hubris.
The problem zero, et al, now have on their hands is the morale of the soldiers currently in, heading to, or possibly being sent to Afghanistan. All they see is chaos at the top and chaos at the top gets them killed.
I don’t see this having a good outcome.
McChrystal is a liberal and banned fox news?
Well, now I don’t feel so bad for him.
He wrote the roe,believes each dead civilian makes 10 terrorists and won’t touch enhanced interrogation with a ten foot pole.
More on this. BTW it is FR posted.
http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/id.6548/pub_detail.asp
That raises another question: Did his aides sabotage him deliberately?
I got “niminated” once while playing football. I was gimpy for a week.
One can be a liberal and still not be OK with the US going communist.
In the course of this article, the writer says “Obama had no choice” (in firing McCrystal). Sure he did, he could have realized he was an incompetent boob and resigned rather than McChrystal.
Yes, I have wondered that also, and where do you draw the line? What about all those neighbors on my street who had obama signs? How can they justify voting a dictator wannabe?
Yes, I have wondered that also, and where do you draw the line? What about all those neighbors on my street who had obama signs? How can they justify voting a dictator wannabe?
Gail - excellent link - confirmed all I suspected...
no sympathy for McCrys, for Petraeus, for Mullen...
not for anyone who puts politics before the safety of the troops and victory...
“Robert Gates niminated McChrystal for the Afghanistan post. If that doesn’t say anything about McChyrstal’s politics, NOTHING will.”
FWIW, Gates was one of McChrystal’s strongest defenders during the very brief debate in the WH about whether he should stay or should go. Gates argued that sacking him would be really bad for military morale and the war effort in Afghanistan. In contrast, the political types in the WH were arguing he “had” to go (i.e., Obama’s letting him stay would make the CinC look bad/weak). Guess whose advise Obama followed!
"...Generals Petraeus and McChrystal are not evil men. They have chosen defense of our nation as their career, but they have a misplaced definition of mercy….. which the Sages referred to as “The Mercy of Fools” and the wise Rabbi Moshe Ben Nachman (12th Century Rambam) added. 'Through the mercy of fools all justice is lost.'"
Fools lack wisdom. ("Wisdom is too high for a fool" ~Proverbs 24:7)
"If you are kind to the cruel, you will be cruel to the kind." ~ Dennis Prager
Obama and the Hope-a-Dope Strategy "...adolescents are more than a little hopeless before they gain real wisdom, and especially hopeless, or pathetic, if the condition persists well into adulthood..." ~ Gagdad Bob
Marc Ambinder is the politics editor for The Atlantic, where he curates the influential Politics channel on TheAtlantic.com and contributes to the magazine. He is also a contributing editor to National Journal and chief political consultant to CBS News.
At the Hotline, Ambinder was the founding editor of “Hotline On Call,” a pathbreaking political news blog. He also worked as a producer and reporter for the ABC News Political Unit and was one of the founders of ABC’s “The Note,”
In 2009, he was part of the team was awarded the Columbia University School of Journalism’s Dupont Silver Baton for Katie Couric’s interview with Sarah Palin. Marc Ambinder is the politics editor for The Atlantic, where he curates the influential Politics channel on TheAtlantic.com and contributes to the magazine. He is also a contributing editor to National Journal and chief political consultant to CBS News.
At the Hotline, Ambinder was the founding editor of “Hotline On Call,” a pathbreaking political news blog. He also worked as a producer and reporter for the ABC News Political Unit and was one of the founders of ABC’s “The Note,”
In 2009, he was part of the team was awarded the Columbia University School of Journalism’s Dupont Silver Baton for Katie Couric’s interview with Sarah Palin. Are You Sexy Enough For Marc Ambinder’s Obama Club?
http://wonkette.com/404286/are-you-sexy-enough-for-marc-ambinders-obama-club/
LOL!!! My keyboard should have known that I meant to type "nominated".
Hope yer old football injury is better now . . . .
:-)
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