Swiftboating SEALs

| May 8, 2012

A few of you sent me the video last week from Veterans For A Strong America, but Blackfive beat us to getting it up, so I didn’t bother since most of you go over there, anyway. But apparently the video has had it’s desired effect. The Obama Administration is backing away from taking credit for the bin Laden raid. First here’s the video, in case you forgot;

I watched the Leftists blow up over the video, first at Mother Jones with that pretend veteran, Adam Weinstein who wrote “Meet the Astroturfer Planning to Swift Boat Obama“. Weinstein also has changed his profile picture over there to show him in his dixie cup, so we all know he’s a veteran, because you can’t tell by the way he throws veterans under the bus;

It’s impossible to know how many of America’s 22 million veterans are actually represented by VFSA’s political activities. “We don’t pretend to speak for all veterans,” Arends says. There is no doubt that Arends, a decorated Iraq War vet and longtime Army Reserve and National Guard member, cares deeply about his comrades in arms. But there’s little evidence that VFSA is more than a dark-money group with connections to the Republican Party, the tea party group Americans for Prosperity, and Islamophobic activists.

Yeah, when I asked him why he wasn’t concerned about the “dark money” at IAVA and VoteVets, Weinstein started calling me names, so I guess that’s not as important as Obama opponents.

Think Progress also calls the video “Swiftboating”; What Everyone Should Know About The Secretive Group Trying To Swift Boat Barack Obama, but of course, you can’t “swiftboat” someone who has no military service, can you?

Think Progress’ huge revelation is that Joel Arends was also a member of that subversive “dark money” organization “Vets For Freedom”…GASP!!! Um, TSO is one of the founders of VFF – does he look rich from all of that dark money?

Yeah, “Swiftboating” as used against the Kerry campaign, means outing a lying little prick about their military service, and it brings out some strong feelings on both sides…mostly because Americans believed veterans who spoke out against Kerry, and the Left is sorely afraid that it will happen again, so ABC is reporting, in a link sent to us by Tman, that the Obama Administration is toning down the smack they were talking last week;

A backlash against President Obama’s politicization of the killing of Osama bin Laden may be having an effect on how the president and his campaign advisers refer to the accomplishment.

Namely – the president taking first-person credit last week has turned into expressions of collective achievement this week.

“Our greatest enemy brought to justice by our greatest heroes,” says the narrator in a new Obama campaign TV ad released today.

The president’s top campaign adviser, David Axelrod , used similar language on a conference call with reporters: “We’re proud of our service people and all they’ve accomplished.”

Yeah, too late, gumball.

Category: 2012 election, Barack Obama/Joe Biden

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rb325th

I was proud to have played a small role in the SBVFT efforts during that election… There was nothing sinister about that group unless your name was John F’ing “I wish my last name was Kennedy” Kerry, but hey let me show you my 3 purple Nurples…
The ad put out by this new group is dead on!! It was truthful, did not distort or twist anything Obama said in the past or either said himself or allowed to be said recently about Bin Ladens killing.
The loony left will cry over everything and anything, it is all about being the victim. They crave it, they want to be seen as the bullied little kid having their lunch money stolen.. Except it is not working so well for them anymore and they just do not see it.
A great number of Dems have spoke out against Obama spiking the football, and even other idiocy taking place (such as the Taliban release for peace effort..)
I hope and pray that this country pulls their collective heads out of their 4th points and votes out Obama. Not just Obama, but the political class itself has to be whittled away at in this country..

TSO

I know Joel really well, and he is a sharp cat.

OWB

Secretive? No secret about my disdain for the marxist in chief, or the reasons for that disdain.

Biggest case yet for stolen valor??

chode

Please someone tell me why that dirtbag kerry is still in any kind of elected office?

NHSparky

Chode–it’s Massachusetts. They kept sending a murdering drunk back to DC for 40 years after he killed a woman.

NHSparky

Oh, and Weinstein–square away your fucking cover, dipshit.

JP

Anything that gets some sand in the left’s vagina is a good thing.

Doc Bailey

Swiftboating… So in other words telling the truth about combat? I was in Iraq in 2004 so really I know dick about swiftboat folks but it seemed to me they were telling the truth

OWB

“Swiftboating” has come to mean telling the truth in the face of tremendous pressure to do otherwise. Rather explains why all vets who were not already libs are so annoying to left.

DaveO

John Effing Kerry, who wants everyone to know he served in Vietnam, shows how truly un-American the Stolen Valor Act is.

John Effing Kerry, who wants everyone to know he served in Vietnam, according the SBVFT ads greatly exaggerated his service in order to receive multiple PH and awards for valor.

Stolen Valor Act applies to all, or no one.

justplainjason

So what you are telling me is that Obama didn’t fast rope in and shoot bin laden in the face himself? Okay thats what I thought. I was making sure that I understood things factually from the get go. Where is insipid? I would like to hear his tales of how his great one got the guy in “two years”. See war heroes don’t walk out on their troops as soon as they get a chance, make sure they get put in for as many awards as they can, throw away their medals, and they wrap themselves in a flag as soon as it is good for them. In the case for Obama what he did was give an order when he got actionable intelegence. It was a risk and was he willing to take the heat if it was a failure…well I will leave it to knowledge of his character to judge. Him taking credit is low, hell I have a hard time taking credit for stuff I have done. I had a job and I did it, I guess that is the difference between a politician and a soldier/sailor/marine/airmen we have a job and we do it a politician sends someone else to do it and says “look what I did!” Eisenhower was man enough to give his men success for the invasion of D-day and take the blame for failure. Too bad Obama doen’t understand that. Now he has his minions trying to say ooooo we have a great leader because he was able to say, take out this dirtbag who has been hiding out in a mansion. Really honestly OBL wasn’t really more than a symbol at this point and him being dead was just a thing to make us smile a bit. He didn’t make a decision like Truman’s where millions of lives hung in the balance and he had possibly the most evil being to ever tread the earth watching. If Stalin hadn’t seen Hiroshima and Nagasiki go up what would the next ten or fifteen years been like? Would he have been happy… Read more »

ohio

OBAMA’S OWN WORDS ARE HIS WORST ENEMY:
2008: “Navy Seal Team 6 is Cheney’s private assassination team.”
2011: “I put together Seal Team 6 to take out Bin Laden.”
2008: “Bin Laden is innocent until proven guilty, and must be captured alive and given a fair trial.”
2011: “I authorized Seal Team 6 to kill Bin Laden.”
2008: “Guantanamo is entirely unnecessary, and the detainees should not be interrogated.”
2011: “Vital intelligence was obtained from Guantanamo detainees that led to our locating Bin Laden.”

H1

@12, That needs to get some visibility on the net.

CI

@12 – Thanks for posting the text of a bullshit chain e-mail.

Southern Class

Killing Osama is the single thing that the left has not attempted to blame on GWB; and he had a hell of a lot more to do with it than Obumbler.
And, #14 CI, where did you learn this? Snopes?

CI

@15 – If you think it’s true, source the statements. I’ll wait.

Just Plain Jason

CI lick my taint! I just wrote that this morning at the library while waiting for group. I am not just full of dick and fart jokes I do have an education, once in a while I am able to use it.

DaveO

This thread is a discussion about class. Obama’s pretty much New Money.

The SEAL need to get over Obama’s celebration of himself. They need to rise above and demonstrate the strength of character that kept them from ringing the bell.

Just Plain Jason

Sorry CI I thought you were referring to what I wrote. Ignore the offer to lick my taint.

CI

@DaveO – No worries! And there’s nothing wrong with dick and fart jokes.

Agree completely with your note on the SEAL’s letter. There’s more than enough to criticize Obama for without losing your bearing and engaging in the same vein of vacuous rhetoric that liberals do.

CI

Crap, now I just merged two peoples posts…..

The last paragraph was re: JPJ

CI

sigh…I need a drink…..belay my last and reverse the order.

Just Plain Jason

Got it understood.