Saturday, May 7, 2011

I Have Directed Somebody Else to Order Everybody Else to Roll Except Me .......


At first, I thought it was me. I have never made any secret of the fact that I detest Obama both for his beliefs as a socialist as well as my visceral disgust of his personality and character or rather the lack thereof. But then it seems that other people noticed it too.

During Obama’s announcement last Sunday evening he used the words “I”, “My” and “Mine” more than a dozen times.

Surely this was the time, if you have to do it all, to honor the unsung heroes of the intelligence community who planned it and the military personnel who pulled it off.

Surely, it would have sent a stronger message to everyone including Al Qaeda and wannabes if bin Laden was just dead. Yes, of course, there would have been loads of clues, which even our enemy would have figured out. A bombed-out helicopter is hard to ignore even in a questionable neighborhood in Pakistan.

Then, also, it would not have been necessary to protect the identity of the Seals if the White House just declared, “No comment,” when questioned.

Now while I have zero clout, some people do. One such is Todd Beamer, and even perhaps from his son’s grave, his father’s words have some import.

For those readers who don’t know, David Beamer is the father of United 93 passenger and 9/11 victim and hero Todd Beamer, the author of “Let’s Roll.”

Clearly Todd cannot speak for himself but David found the time to do so for both of them when he had some harsh words for Obama this week.

David Beamer feels Obama has inappropriate aggrandized his own role in the death of Osama, politicizing the moment for his own gain.
Beamer said he welcomed news of Osama’s killing, but that he feels “some chagrin” at the way Obama has handled the aftermath, claiming that the President put too much emphasis on himself while announcing the operation that took out Osama,.

“And frankly it started May Day 2011 when the president announced what had happened. The excessive use of the personal pronoun that he used in his remarks, I really felt that was the beginning of the Commander-in-Chief putting too much spotlight on himself, taking too much credit for what the remarkable Americans had done.”

Beamer also took aim at the mainstream media excessive praise of Obama’s decision to issue to go-ahead for the operation, describing the directive as a no-brainer that any commander-in-chief would have issue:
“It’s been hailed as one of the greatest wartime decisions, bold, gutsy, but quite frankly under the facts and circumstances I think it was anything but that.”

Beamer went on to say that once the CIA pieced together the intelligence about Osama's whereabouts -- intelligence gathered during the Bush administration -- Obama had no choice but to allow the military to enter the Osama compound to kill or capture the terrorist mastermind.

No, it’s not just me, the guy is a political hack.

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