{"id":6698,"date":"2009-01-02T13:40:21","date_gmt":"2009-01-02T18:40:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=6698"},"modified":"2009-01-02T13:42:16","modified_gmt":"2009-01-02T18:42:16","slug":"obama-and-the-troops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=6698","title":{"rendered":"Obama and the troops"},"content":{"rendered":"

Drudge<\/a> ran a lead article from the Military Times<\/a>‘ Brendon McGarry that warns the “O” that the troops are little bit concerned about him. Some of the comments are just “one-man’s opinion” type-stuff. You have to read down to see how the troops really feel about their new commander;<\/p>\n

When asked who has their best interests at heart \u2014 Obama or President George W. Bush \u2014 a higher percentage of respondents picked Bush, though Bush has lost ground over time. About half of the respondents said Bush has their best interests at heart this year, the same percentage as last year but a decline from 69 percent in 2004.<\/p>\n

Nearly one-third of respondents \u2014 including eight out of 10 black service members \u2014 said they are optimistic about their incoming boss.<\/p>\n

Even some service members who voted against Obama \u2014 only 1 in 4 supported him over Sen. John McCain in a pre-election survey of Military Times subscribers \u2014now express goodwill toward him as their new commander in chief.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I guess many of them consider his “air raiding civilians” comment and his failure to actually meet troops until it became politically expedient pretty much electioneering. The troops have always welcomed their new commander, until they have a reason to think otherwise of him.Clinton blew his goodwill between telling the military to jump on the gay grenade for him and not supporting the troops tactically engaged in Mogadishu in his first year. Jimmy Carter blew his the day after his inauguration when he gave amnesty to the pussies in Canada.<\/p>\n

I wonder how long Obama can go without pissing off the troops.<\/p>\n

In related news, the Associated Press<\/a> announces that Obama is having a C-in-C military only ball at the National Building Museum for the troops. Rurik sent me the link with this comment;<\/p>\n

I’m sure that Powell, Shinseki, McPeake and Clarke will be there. And probably Mr. Bipartisan McCain.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I wrote back that if there’s an open bar, it might be worthwhile to attend. But then I had second thoughts – Shinseki, McPeak and Clarke will keep all of the bartenders busy making their Shirley Temples and Virgin Marys.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Drudge ran a lead article from the Military Times‘ Brendon McGarry that warns the “O” that … Obama and the troops<\/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":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6698","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=6698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6698\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}