“Previously scheduled”? I thought they had to pull Obama off the golf course to bring him to the meeting?
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The date was September 11.
President Obama, lover of all things military, had spent the morning at the Pentagon for a remembrance ceremony, and the afternoon at Walter Reed actually meeting wounded military members and their families.
His teeth must have been on edge all day as he had to pretend that he enjoyed these events.
I don’t even have to imagine how much he hated hearing about an attack on one of his favored ‘outposts.’ Not because of the assault on Americans, but because he had had it with all things military.
He put his fingers in his ears after the 5pm meeting and ran away. - “to prepare for his cross-country fundraising trip on AF1 the next day.”
He probably told Panetta and the general to do whatever they wanted and not to disturb him.