Fighting on My Behalf?

Barack Obama is in favor of gay marriage. This week. Who knows how his position may evolve once he’s cashed all those Hollywood and entertainment industry checks that are now pouring in due to our president’s adoption of a new wide stance. If all those in the gay, lesbian, blah, blah, blah society think they have this guy in their pocket, they’d better count their fingers before they think they’ve won this fight. Based upon what Barack Obama has so often done to those who are no longer useful to him, they may spend the next four years politically flattened out on the road to sexual liberation, covered with massive tire treads. The possibility exists of roadside IED’s.

But for now, Obama’s for gay marriage and based on details in his announcement, that includes our military. Now that, folks, should provide for some interesting situations in base housing. How do you suppose the sergeants major and master sergeants and sergeants first class are all going to respond when a couple of gay specialists throw a wine and cheese tasting pool party at their quarters right in the midst of enlisted housing, inviting all their civilian acquaintances from the local gay bars and bath houses? One who has served can only imagine the response, worse even for gay lieutenants in officers’ housing.
But for now, we must understand that Barack Obama is taking this courageous wide stance for all those gay people in the military who are out there fighting on his behalf. Three immediate questions come to mind: First, is it only the gay military folks who are fighting on his behalf? Second, if it’s all our troops fighting on his behalf, does that now mean they are no longer serving the nation at large? Has, under the imperious Obama administration, the United States military become some sort of Praetorian Guard, whose allegiances belong only to Dear Leader? The third and most important question is this: When you take away his teleprompter, just how big a fumbling fool is this demonstratively failed product of affirmative action?

Good grief, even the rawest buck sergeant knows that his troops are first loyal to themselves, meaning the immediate, cohesive unit, starting with their squad, moving up through platoon and company to a tenuous battalion loyalty; then to the mission, and as a distant last, to flag and country. In six years of active duty in the Army, most of one of those in ground combat, I never once heard a soldier express the belief that he was serving on behalf of John Kennedy or Lyndon Johnson, the presidents of the time. Not once. Had any trooper done so, he would have immediately become suspect by his entire chain of command. For this inept commander in chief to reference the troops as fighting on his behalf can only lead to one conclusion:

Obama’s been staring at his own image in the golf course pond for far too long and far too often.

Category: Barack Obama/Joe Biden