In the greater scheme of things this does not bode well for Obama, not at all. In the back of all Americans minds we wonder why did this happen? Why would a high ranking general do such a thing? I think there is something going on here that isn't obvious but will become clearer over time. Clearly many people in the military don't respect Obama. Clearly Obama treats our enemies better than he treats our nations allies. Maybe Obama looks at our nations friends as his enemies and our nations enemy as his friends. Just look at Israel.
You won't get any argument from me that Obama doesn't know how to run a military. In the great scheme of things he will definitely get political backlash from this, but hasn't ever man who ever took the office and made any kind of political decision.
It's true it might have been better for his image to forgive the General, but that would set a dangerous precedent. And frankly I am more concerned with a breakdown in military discipline than I am with a single man's reputation.
Clearly Obama sees his opposition, like Conservatives, as his TRUE enemy, yet in this case Obama isn't nice to them. Obama uses derogatory terms like Tea Bagger to describe people in a movement that apposes his policies. It's personal to him, where is with the Tea Party it's about policy and keeping our country safe & free. We all know what Tea Bagging means, now, although most of us did not know until Obama started regularly using that nasty term to describe people that oppose his policies and ideological views. In the end, a good general is replaced by another good general and life goes on.
But that is a right that he has as a civilian. Soldiers do not have this same right... or at least it is severely limited.
But for Obama more doubts than ever exist about his maturity and qualifications to be president. More people are disrespecting Obama these days and it has became glaringly evident that not only is Obama inept but the people surrounding him are inept as well. So there are two schools of thought, 1. keep the general in place and move on or 2. replace the general. My view is most people think Obama let the general go because he had to in order to maintain the civilian control of the military and hs authority over them. I think he let the general go because he is thin-skinned and needs to look like a tough guy that kicks ass. This situation was a losing proposition altogether for Obama, anyway you slice it. And his poll numbers reflect that.
Again, no arguments here.
I hope this general comes forward and becomes a candidate in 2012 and runs against Obama. I hope this is the bigger picture here that we aren't seeing now. Jimmy Carter celebrates Obama because he knows that Obama makes him look good. Bad for the nation but good for Jimmy.
If so he wouldn't get my vote. His actions were just as petty and foolish. If he shows such a blatant disregard for military protocol, then can we trust him with the laws of the land?
Don't ever forget that the one and only reason Obama was elected POTUS boils down to he looks black and talks white.
I think this is a little oversimplified, but I think that the people who are saying that race had no bearing on the election are wrong for the same reason. Race definitely played a role. How many people were quoted as saying they would vote for Obama on the sole basis that he was black? I remember hearing at least 20 different people saying that on local news channels.
But to assume that the man did not have other traits that the Democrats were looking for would be just as wrong.
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