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Time's Joe Klein: Obama Has Better Relationship With Military Than Bush Did (Ultra-barf alert)
NewsBusters ^ | May 29, 2011 | Noel Sheppard

Posted on 05/30/2011 1:41:52 PM PDT by NWFLConservative

Time magazine's Joe Klein this weekend claimed President Obama has a better relationship with the military than George W. Bush did when he was Commander-in-Chief.

Such hypocritically was said on "The Chris Matthews Show" just moments before Klein noted that the military were "very much opposed" to attacking Libya (video follows with partial transcript and commentary):

JOE KLEIN, TIME MAGAZINE: The other thing is there’s still tension between [President Obama] and Petraeus about what exactly, how exactly to close out Afghanistan. I'd say the relationship is pretty good, very, better than it was with Bush because the military hated the fact that he wasn't really doing the job in Iraq.

Got that? The military’s relationship is better with Obama because they supposedly hated that Bush wasn’t really doing the job in Iraq.

However, watch what happened when Matthews brought up Libya:

CHRIS MATTHEWS, HOST: What’s the reaction of the military in these campaigns?

ELISABETH BUMILLER, NEW YORK TIMES: The military was not behind the Libya campaign.

KLEIN: Very much opposed to it.

BUMILLER: Yeah, Gates was opposed to it. They went in kicking and screaming. Did what they had to do.

MATTHEWS: That was a Hillary push, right?

BUMILLER: Well, they, Hillary and a few others. They did what they had to do in the first few days, which was take out the air defenses, and then they said, “Okay, NATO’s problem now. We have two wars going on. We don’t need a third.”

So, in Klein's sycophantic Obama-loving view, the military have a better relationship with the current president than the former one despite them being "very much opposed" to him getting them involved in a third war.

That's liberal logic for you.


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This Klein jackass needs to be institutionalized and kept doped up on thorazine, he's utterly delusional. W had a lot of faults, to be sure, but a genuine love and dedication to those of us in uniform was never amongst them. We loved us and we loved him back. Obama, on the other hand is reviled by the military. He hates us and we hate him back.

Who went by and saw soldiers wounded at FT Hood? W. Who never went to see them? That would be the zero. Who told the American people not to rush to judgment that it was a muslim attack on the soldiers at FT Hood? That would be the zero.

1 posted on 05/30/2011 1:41:55 PM PDT by NWFLConservative
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To: NWFLConservative

These people are insane.


2 posted on 05/30/2011 1:43:17 PM PDT by Parley Baer
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To: NWFLConservative

How would Joe Klein know anything about what soldiers think?


3 posted on 05/30/2011 1:43:24 PM PDT by Argus
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To: NWFLConservative

So the media is blaming Hillary for Libya...


4 posted on 05/30/2011 1:44:06 PM PDT by LibFreeOrDie (Obama promised a gold mine, but will give us the shaft.)
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To: NWFLConservative

And how many time has the Obamination ever gone to the airport to welcome our troops home before running off to play golf?


5 posted on 05/30/2011 1:44:20 PM PDT by SkyDancer (It's not the police that protect our rights, it's our military)
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To: NWFLConservative

Surprised he could talk at all with those exotic oysters in his mouth.


6 posted on 05/30/2011 1:45:25 PM PDT by 668 - Neighbor of the Beast (Please sir...permission to protest?)
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Sorry Joe.
That dog don't hunt.
7 posted on 05/30/2011 1:46:25 PM PDT by DeaconRed (Everything I need to know in life, I learned in Kindergarten. . . .)
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To: Parley Baer
Klein has been drinking the bong water again.
8 posted on 05/30/2011 1:48:07 PM PDT by JPG (Bibi 1, O'Hamas 0.)
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To: NWFLConservative

What I would like to say about Klein/Time. Suffice to say they collectively do not deserve the “Time” of day.


9 posted on 05/30/2011 1:48:09 PM PDT by PapaNew
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No, they are worse then insane!!! They see what is coming, they refuse to believe it. They live in a bubble in delusion over Obama. The rants, raves, comments, lies about “our” folks just ain’t gonna work. Joe Klein, sad to say is one of the worst nutcases rumbling around the false fog of Obama. What a dummy!!! Joe, my boy, POTUS Obama is going down. He is toast, as in toast!!!


10 posted on 05/30/2011 1:50:45 PM PDT by JLAGRAYFOX
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And how many times has he ever gotten rousing cheers and standing ovations by our soldiers every time he talked to us? Not the zero, that’s for sure. I wouldn’t urinate on that scumbag if he were ON FIRE.


11 posted on 05/30/2011 1:54:12 PM PDT by NWFLConservative (Game On.......Fight Like a Girl!!...............Saracuda in 2012)
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Klein is a serial RAT liar. His last TIME column was a total bash of Israel.


12 posted on 05/30/2011 1:55:26 PM PDT by ozzymandus
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It looks like ol' Joe had to eat his hat on that epically stupid statement
13 posted on 05/30/2011 1:57:22 PM PDT by NWFLConservative (Game On.......Fight Like a Girl!!...............Saracuda in 2012)
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To: All; NWFLConservative; Parley Baer; Argus; LibFreeOrDie; SkyDancer; 668 - Neighbor of the Beast; ...

Gallup: Vets and active-duty military rate Obama lower than civilians
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2727232/posts


14 posted on 05/30/2011 2:00:16 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (How do you starve an Obama supporter? Hide his food stamps under his work boots.)
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Klein is a jackass. Our military's reaction to Obama:

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Versus a true Commander in Chief:

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15 posted on 05/30/2011 2:04:32 PM PDT by Cobra64 (Common sense isn't common anymore.)
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recent polls suggest this is not true, that Obama gets less support in the armed forces than the general public


16 posted on 05/30/2011 2:05:40 PM PDT by GeronL (The Right to Life came before the Right to Happiness)
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The Wee Wee has a great relationship with the military because he is
widely respected as a military genius and leader of the highest caliber

17 posted on 05/30/2011 2:08:06 PM PDT by Zakeet (The difference between the Wee Wee and a battery ... the battery has a positive side)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Good response. Better than mine. I wanted to say something I shouldn’t say.


18 posted on 05/30/2011 2:10:50 PM PDT by PapaNew
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I would give this story a 360 degree head spinning Linda Blair green projectile vomit type alert.


19 posted on 05/30/2011 2:17:48 PM PDT by The Antiyuppie ("When small men cast long shadows, then it is very late in the day.")
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To: Cobra64

Awesome rebuttal to this nonsense. Thank-you.


20 posted on 05/30/2011 2:52:01 PM PDT by cbvanb
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