As my friends who are in-country started to see this image, you can only imagine their reaction. Here is one comment that encapsulates them all;

“This is how he supports the troops? Saluting our honorable dead in the middle of the night instead of deciding on policy and giving our commanders the proper audience? What an absolute disgrace.”

To say “The trouble with Obama is” suggests there is just one thing wrong with him, and that would be a lie. In THIS particular case, his problem not only centers around his hatred for the nation and its military, that hatred being sourced from his upbringing and education, but it is also enhanced by his lack of exposure to what it means to be “military,” Duty, honor, sacrifice, love of country, love of family, respect- these are the traits either driven into a soldier or pull out from within him by the demands of the military.

You cannot serve or know people who have served and not walk away impressed and humbled. I’ll bet money the closest he got to a soldier was shouting obscenities distance. He doesn’t understand nor will he ever be able to understand the great privilege it is to wear the uniform of your nation with honor.

You see, he’s above all that. He’s evolved from the knuckle dragging he-man that defends what is his with violence to a more sophisticated wine sniffing, San Fran party going civilized man of intelligence. Of course, we are now seeing that image is only a thin veneer covering a petulant, vengeful, bullying Man-child who is beginning to get the fact the world just isn’t all that darned impressed with him.

You think it is bad now, wait until he crashes completely. Without the benefit of experiencing the growth and maturity the service gives, he’ll have no way of coping with the failure. He’ll figuratively, and it this case quite possibly literally, take his basketball home and pout.

He’ll sit in his room and plot revenge. Unfortunately for us, his room is the White House and he happens to be the most powerful man in it (outside Rohm and Soros and that goofy guy from SEIU).

The lesson of “elections have consequences” will not be lost on what remains of our nation in four years. Hopefully, it will be a long time before we do this again.

Say what you will about Bush, but he was a president who respected the military and cared about their families.

Obama… now that’s a man whose only concern for those who died while he dithered was to use them as yet another chance to get photos on the news.

I wonder what we can do to get this supreme narcisist to act…

The general idea is that you can search for soldiers looking for certain things or from certain bases and send stuff directly to them. It takes more of an investment of time to do this and as far as I know you can’t claim anything against taxes (unless you donate money to anysoldier.com itself), but it can perhaps give you a little more satisfaction that it was time and effort well-spent.

And if you’re shipping care packages to APO boxes, you ship a pretty good pile of stuff for $12 if you pick the APO flat-rate priority mail box.

Give ’till it feels good.

Josh actually liked some of the MREs.

Soldier’s Angels and Wounded Warriors are both FANTASTIC organizations worth of Christmas presents.

I am in.

Hmm. “Jimmy Carter” and “statesman.” I don’t think I’ve seen those words so close together before.

He would not were a flag pin, said we had 57 states. He has proven he has no love for this country. How dare he act as if he cares about our military, Shame on you Obama. You have proven by this stunt you are the lowest form of life.

Seeing that POS render a hand salute makes me want to vomit. A Salute is an exchange of greetings between warriors, a right GW Bush earned for the same reasons mbecker cites above.

I consider myself privileged every day that Retreat catches me driving back to the office from the daily update. Even though I’m a retiree, thanks to the VFW, American Legion and George W Bush, I am urged, as a veteran, to render a hand salute in any public situation that would require one were I still in uniform. I still enjoy stopping all the traffic behind me as I exit my vehicle and render honors to our Nation’s Flag and all that it represents. I can tell I’ll be holding back vomit for several weeks as that image of our president flashes through my mind. I’ll be damned if I’ll allow myself to be so ill-disciplined as to puke in the middle of Retreat. Once the music stops, stand back, all bets are off.