Posted on 06/01/2014 2:43:36 PM PDT by Libloather
Giving Bergdahl Sergeant's stripes was a slap in the face to all proud NCOs -- of all branches, past and present. More proof that this has never been a war to TPTB...just an exercise in PR and PC.
Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!
Or maybe he just knew even Goebbels couldn't spin his way out of this crock of shi'ite lie.
Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!
Carney is the only Press Secretary for with the Clintons or Obama that even the slightest shred of conscience, which was a huge liability for him.
It’s amazing that he lasted as long as he did.
I’m surprised Obama did not kick in the Blind Sheik as a bonus
I’m going with your second theory. He had to get out of Dodge to save his dodgy career.
Obama is a disgusting piece of crap, nothing he says surprises me anymore
How about the treatment of the VA. I think it’s complete horse$%^& given that plenty of them are stuck with serious guilt and depression whilst a man who betrays the military, putting numerous people in harms way gets a desired genital mutilation and steroid procedure, and another gets exchanged despite his sympathy for the Taliban. Washington would have executed a person in his army who leaked information. He also wouldn’t have allowed someone captured by the enemy directly back into combat. Our president and his phony military leaders don’t seem to know %^&& about the horrors of real fighting. What’s said is when people like the fictional ex-Iraqi named Sayid from lost know better than real-life military leaders, that’s a problem.
Why would Bergdahl’s release be important news? The press has barely noticed him before this.
Obama is running circles around congress and the idiots can’t or WON’T keep up. This is a disgrace. We have got to have the dumbest spineless congress ever seated. And what’s worse, we will vote in more of the same. After this election nothing from there on will matter with the full invasion taking place on our southern border as we sit.
1. He successfully changes the conversation and diverts attention of the people (even if temporarily) from VA-Obamacare-IRS-Benghazi-EPA and weak economy to an easily spinnable feel-good story of "saving private/Sgt Bergdahl" and reuniting him with his long-suffering family, who also get their 15 minutes of fame spouting the usual left-wing anti-war/anti-military pablum.
2. He gives the media a break in their, by necessity, gloomy narrative of Obama's and Democrats' current "misfortunes" and allows them an opportunity to change focus and bash "heartless" Republican politicians and "critics" of Obama's brilliant foreign policy "successes" of ending the "longest American wars," setting up another "emotional" micro-isssue going into 2014 elections — some people won't go beyond the media headlines and happy TV news broadcasts of "reunion" and "no men left behind" spin.
3. He gets to use this "feel-good exchange" to remove most dangerous Taliban / al-Qaeda personnel from Gitmo, thereby setting in motion the completion of his long-standing promise and the goal of potential closing of Gitmo — now that few if any "serious" terrorists are out and thereby reducing Gitmo's "usefulness" for detention of those who can be "safely relocated" to mainland for "civilian court" trials.
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