{"id":29860,"date":"2012-05-08T07:27:50","date_gmt":"2012-05-08T11:27:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=29860"},"modified":"2012-05-08T07:30:39","modified_gmt":"2012-05-08T11:30:39","slug":"swiftboating-seals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=29860","title":{"rendered":"Swiftboating SEALs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8217;t bother since most of you go over there, anyway. But apparently the video has had it&#8217;s desired effect. The Obama Administration is backing away from taking credit for the bin Laden raid. First here&#8217;s the video, in case you forgot;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"300\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/JsrSAqRrCc0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I watched the Leftists blow up over the video, first at Mother Jones with that pretend veteran, Adam Weinstein who wrote &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.motherjones.com\/authors\/adam-weinstein\">Meet the Astroturfer Planning to Swift Boat Obama<\/a>&#8220;. Weinstein also has changed his profile picture over there to show him in his dixie cup, so we all know he&#8217;s a veteran, because you can&#8217;t tell by the way he throws veterans under the bus;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It&#8217;s impossible to know how many of America&#8217;s 22 million veterans are actually represented by VFSA&#8217;s political activities. &#8220;We don&#8217;t pretend to speak for all veterans,&#8221; 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&#8217;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.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yeah, when I asked him why he wasn&#8217;t concerned about the &#8220;dark money&#8221; at IAVA and VoteVets, Weinstein started calling me names, so I guess that&#8217;s not as important as Obama opponents.<\/p>\n<p>Think Progress also calls the video &#8220;Swiftboating&#8221;; <a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/security\/2012\/05\/06\/478820\/obama-swift-boat-veterans-for-a-strong-america\/?mobile=nc\">What Everyone Should Know About The Secretive Group Trying To Swift Boat Barack Obama<\/a>, but of course, you can&#8217;t &#8220;swiftboat&#8221; someone who has no military service, can you?<\/p>\n<p>Think Progress&#8217; huge revelation is that Joel Arends was also a member of that subversive &#8220;dark money&#8221; organization &#8220;Vets For Freedom&#8221;&#8230;GASP!!! Um, TSO is one of the founders of VFF &#8211; does he look rich from all of that dark money?<\/p>\n<p>Yeah, &#8220;Swiftboating&#8221; 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&#8230;mostly because Americans believed veterans who spoke out against Kerry, and the Left is sorely afraid that it will happen again, <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/obama-campaign-tweaks-bin-laden-argument-less-more-203350747--abc-news-politics.html\">so ABC is reporting<\/a>, in a link sent to us by Tman, that the Obama Administration is toning down the smack they were talking last week;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A backlash against President Obama&#8217;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.<\/p>\n<p>Namely &#8211; the president taking first-person credit last week has turned into expressions of collective achievement this week.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our greatest enemy brought to justice by our greatest heroes,&#8221; says the narrator in a new Obama campaign TV ad released today.<\/p>\n<p>The president&#8217;s top campaign adviser, David Axelrod , used similar language on a conference call with reporters: &#8220;We&#8217;re proud of our service people and all they&#8217;ve accomplished.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yeah, too late, gumball.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few of you sent me the video last week from Veterans For A Strong America, &hellip; <a title=\"Swiftboating SEALs\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=29860\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Swiftboating SEALs<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[186,46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2012-election","category-barack-obama"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29860"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29860\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}