Behind the pictures

Rurik emailed me this link from Blackfive who posts a letter from a captain in Afghanistan. Here’s an excerpt;

As the Soldiers where lined up to shake his hand, he blew them off and didn’t say a word as he went into the conference room to meet the General. As he finished, the vehicles took him to the ClamShell (pretty much a big top tent that military personnel can play basketball or work out in with weights) so he could take his publicity pictures playing basketball. He again shunned the opportunity to talk to Soldiers to thank them for their service.

Obama is uncomfortable around the troops because he knows that, as a bloc, he doesn’t have their vote. He won’t waste his time trying to earn their voteso Obama will focus his energies where he has a better chance – among the independents in the US, the folks he’s playing to in the media. So screw the troops – they’re just props for his campaign’s backdrop.

Obama is mainly still playing to his anti-war base and that base has been busy bashing the troops. Pat Dollard documented a spitting incident here and here for posterity. The military is undermining their efforts to defeat Republicans by actually winning the war instead of sacrificing themselves for the Democrat cause.

Yeah, I throw IVAW into that mix. Look at the piece TSO did this morning from Sleeping Gas Montalvan. Mantalvan finally decided that his “testimony” at Winter Soldier wasn’t at all damning, so now he’s changed it and tried to spice it up for media consumption and it still falls apart under a cursory examination.

So things are going to get worse for the troops before it gets better. Either way the election goes, they’ll end up with the shitty end of the stick.

Category: Barack Obama/Joe Biden, Politics, Support the troops