{"id":29840,"date":"2012-05-06T15:08:04","date_gmt":"2012-05-06T19:08:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=29840"},"modified":"2012-05-06T15:08:04","modified_gmt":"2012-05-06T19:08:04","slug":"david-maraniss-obamas-military-connection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=29840","title":{"rendered":"David Maraniss: Obama\u2019s military connection"},"content":{"rendered":"

Washington Post’s David Maraniss reaches out and gives the Obama campaign a happy ending today in what can only be considered a real piece of crap entitled “Obama\u2019s military connection<\/a>“. Maraniss tells us that Obama was born to be commander-in-chief of the military because he knew people who knew people who had been in the military. And because he “chaffed” against the anti-war generation of the sixties.<\/p>\n

The photo for the article is one of Obama having a conversation with General McCrystal, the man Obama was destined to fire when it was discovered publicly that McChrystal’s staff didn’t respect the president who wouldn’t grant the commander’s requests and recommendations for fighting the war in Afghanistan. So, yeah, Maraniss’ contention is falsified before you even begin reading.<\/p>\n

The article begins by recounting the day in 2002 when Obama first became the darling of the anti-Bush party when he spoke out about “the rush to war with Iraq” – the fact that the speech was given more than five months before the first combat soldiers entered Iraq makes one wonder why the “rush” took so long.<\/p>\n

But anyway, Maraniss tells us that Obama couldn’t relate to the creaky anti-war songs that were playing before his speech. Somehow, that’s proof that Obama has a connection to the military. But, that’s not all;<\/p>\n

The cultural geography of those formative years also shaped his perspective. Obama was in Honolulu then, surrounded by military installations. Hickam Air Force Base, Schofield Barracks, Fort Shafter, Pearl Harbor Naval Station and Hawaii Marine Corps Base were all part of his adolescent environment. He grew up comfortable with the military culture, not alienated from it. Some friends came from military families. One of his buddies dated an admiral\u2019s daughter, and they would borrow the old man\u2019s car to tool around the island.<\/p>\n

Which leads to the least-appreciated aspect of Obama\u2019s connection to the military \u2014 race. That buddy was known as a hapa, the Hawaiian term for someone of mixed heritage; like Obama, he had one black parent. Oahu was a diverse and colorful place, a mix of cultures and languages, but fewer than 1 percent of its residents were black, and almost all of those were connected to the military. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yeah, by knowing a guy who dated an admiral’s daughter and drove the admiral’s car, well, that’s more proof. And because he grew up around military bases and most of the black people in his neighborhood were in the military. That’s an indisputable connection to the military. It’s almost as if he’d been through basic training and served for years, isn’t it?<\/p>\n

And, oh, don’t forget that his grandfather had been in World War II – so some of his genetic material had been in World War II, as well. Maybe he deserves some WWII service medals.<\/p>\n

Look into the faces of the soldiers who greeted Obama in Afghanistan this month, black and Latino and white, and you can almost feel the visceral connection with a president who has a diverse background.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Certainly, just by looking like some of the soldiers makes you one of them. Yeah, those are the only points Maraniss made in the whole piece, if you don’t believe me, read it for yourself. I was at least hoping that Maraniss would reveal that Obama had taken some seminars in the relationship between War and Politics, or some other mental masturbation on that level, but Maraniss’ point couldn’t be that sharp – it’s always about race and shit that doesn’t matter.<\/p>\n

Maraniss is f’n idiot, and so is everyone at the Washington Post who thought it was a good idea to put that POS into the cached memory of the internet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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