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“The good news is that we have a volunteer Army and that’s the way we’re going to keep it,” Romney told some 200 people gathered in an abbey near the Mississippi River that had been converted into a hotel. “My sons are all adults and they’ve made decisions about their careers and they’ve chosen not to serve in the military and active duty and I respect their decision in that regard.” He added: “One of the ways my sons are showing support for our nation is helping me get elected because they think I’d be a great president.”
President Obama’s proposal to create a Veterans Jobs Corps to stem high unemployment among recent military veterans was shelved Wednesday after Republicans in the Senate balked over the five-year $1-billion cost, giving both sides fresh ammunition for the November election.
I have to ask why any group of veterans would endorse a man who compared his sons working for his campaign with serving in the military.
I have to ask why any group of veterans would endorse a man who compared his sons working for his campaign with serving in the military.
Back during the 2008 campaign season, Mitt Romney has given what may be the dumbest answer ever by a presidential candidate.
Because that's pretty irrelevant to what this group is saying. They're upset about what they call the "Benghazi coverup."
Did that guy just say "Afraid to make the decision to take out Bin Laden?" What the hell, what does that even mean, given the fact that he did make the decision to take out Bin Laden and then dump his body into the ocean.
It is Miniter's account of the bin Laden operation that has garnered considerable media attention because of its sensational claims that:
- Top Obama aide Valerie Jarrett has a "Rasputin-like" hold over the president and persuaded him on three occasions in January, February and March 2011 not to launch the raid into Pakistan to take out bin Laden.
- It took the president almost two years of dithering to order the bin Laden operation, which was "reduced in scope, or otherwise delayed, often by the president himself."
- Obama "stunned his staff with a string of dangerous delays and paralyzing indecision that threatened the mission's timing and nearly compromised its success."
- As a result of these delays, Gen. David Petraeus, then-commanding general in Afghanistan, during 2011 "debated acting on his own and ordering an airstrike on the bin Laden stronghold" in Pakistan.
- Obama left "critical decisions" about the bin Laden raid to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton fearing "taking responsibility for a risky raid that might go tragically wrong." It was Clinton, in Miniter's account, who pushed Obama into making the decision to authorize the raid.
These charges come at the same time that a group of retired military and intelligence officers have released a 22-minute documentary "Dishonorable Disclosures" asserting that Obama has taken too much credit for the bin Laden operation. That documentary has already been viewed more than 3 million times on YouTube.
What I have heard in the most favorable light possible to Obama was that he debated for weeks whether to order an airstrike where they may lose any proof it was Bin Laden or put in SpecOps and risk losing some or having the mission go down. Felt more like a political calculation than a force-protection issue to me though.
seems legit
THIS!!!!
And you can see this mind-set in how he handled/is handling the Benghazi incident. Every calculation he makes is for POLITICAL advantage - not the national interest.
He would be completely comfortable with our national security taking a hit as long as it could not be associated with himself.
In the Bin Laden instance he already had a statement prepared to place the blame somewhere else.
Even CARTER was a better man than this.
The man is a P.O.S. regardless of what prism you use to inspect him.
What I have heard in the most favorable light possible to Obama was that he debated for weeks whether to order an airstrike where they may lose any proof it was Bin Laden or put in SpecOps and risk losing some or having the mission go down. Felt more like a political calculation than a force-protection issue to me though.