RAIN: "HOLD MY UMBRELLA" BENGHAZI: "STAND DOWN"

Move America Forward ^ | Thursday, May 16, 2013 5:49 PM | Staff

[Syncro]

 
President Barack Obama is having the worst week ever. On top of three erupting scandals, the IRS targeting conservative groups, AP wiretapping, and Benghazi whistle blowers, he stepped into another. He was pictured at a rainy press conference with the Prime Minister of Turkey.

We don't think Marines should be holding umbrellas in the rain.

#semperdry

Two U.S. Marines were forced to hold an umbrella over the heads of state after the White House requested it, to keep Obama dry while he talked with the press. Never mind the staffers who are supposed to assume this role, Obama wanted another good photo op and ordered the Marines to hold the umbrellas.

Marines are taught in basic training to NEVER carry umbrellas when in their Dress Blue Uniforms. Twitter and Facebook are blowing up with people mocking Obama for yet another bumbling failure of leadership.

The scene would be comical if not for the very serious subtext: Why are the Marines good enough to hold an umbrella to keep Obama's head dry, but not good enough to respond to an ongoing terrorist attack in Benghazi where the lives of our diplomats are at stake?

When Special Forces teams in Tripoli wanted to come to the rescue of Ambassador Chris Stephens and others, they were told "stand down," but when it starts raining at the White House, Obama says "hold my umbrella."

[liberalh8ter]

I guarantee there's a lot of things going on our founders never envisioned. A lot of Americans don't appreciate or deserve what the founders gave them.

[cradle of freedom]

You know, it is a funny coincidence that I just saw a scene like this in a movie that I was watching yesterday. I think the name of the movie was the Juror, it starred Demi Moore and Alex Baldwin. Baldwin was involved with organized crime. In one scene the organized crime don came out of his car on a rainy day and his toady walked along side of him carrying an umbrella over his head. LOL Only royalty and organized crime dons get this kind of treatment.

What’s next—a marine following Michelle everywhere, carrying her pocketbook or shopping bags?

[Pilsner]

P.J. O'Rourke once wrote about a trip to the almost bare rock called Iwo Jima. There was a group Marines there at the same time, sleeping in tents in the triple digit heat, and hiking up volcanic Mt. Suribachi before dawn so they could watch the sun rise from its summit. A Marine representative explained that the trip to Iwo Jima was a reward for outstanding young Marines

P.J. wondered, if getting sent to live in a tent on a tropical rock, in the summer, and spending the night climbing a mountain composed of sharp and abrasive volcanic stones, in the dark, in stifling heat, and 100% humidity, was a reward for outstanding service, just what the Marine Corps did to junior enlisted men it was not pleased with...