AFTER Bin Laden, Republicans UNDERMINE Obama As COMMANDER In CHIEF

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" After the terror attacks of 9/11, the nation rallied behind George W. Bush because Americans are aware that in a time of crisis it is important to support the commander-in-chief of our armed forces. The support and goodwill for Bush was in spite of his poor performance and the fact that the Supreme Court handed him the presidency. At the time our troops were being deployed to invade Iraq, some Americans questioned Bush’s motivation and they were ostracized, called traitors, and worse, accused of not supporting the troops. The Republican noise machine propagated the meme that questioning the president while our military was engaged in a war was tantamount to hating our soldiers.



Since Republicans are known for being rank hypocrites, it was not surprising that when President Obama took office, the criticism from the right was that he was soft on defense and ill-suited to lead the military. Republicans like John McCain, Lindsey Graham, and Dick Cheney assailed the president for being conciliatory with the enemy and not displaying the cowboy diplomacy associated with George W. Bush, but they were never called traitors and no-one accused them of not supporting the troops. Dick Cheney went so far as to say, “It is clear that President Obama is trying to pretend we are not at war. But we are at war and when President Obama pretends we aren’t, it makes us less safe.” So to use the Republican measure of what constitutes being a traitor and not supporting the troops, Dick Cheney plainly qualifies on both counts.



Sarah Palin, the self-professed greatest military mind in the history of the world :rofl: said of the President, “his fundamental approach to terrorism is fatally flawed.” Palin also said the president’s handling of the war on terror is “dangerous for our nation’s security,” and that he needs to “recognize that the real nature of the terrorist threat requires a commander-in-chief, not a constitutional law professor.” As it turns out, the real commander-in-chief, President Obama, does recognize the terrorist threat and used his law professor mind to carefully explore all options before ordering the military to covertly enter a sovereign nation and kill the most wanted terrorist in the world. For the myriad times Palin criticized the military’s commander-in-chief, it is obvious that she does not support the troops. It is also obvious that Palin’s criticism of the president while on foreign soil qualifies her as a traitor.



There is no lack of criticism for the president from Fox News, and like Republicans, have made it their stock and trade to characterize Obama as weak on defense for “reaching out to the Muslim world” and saying “that America is not at war with Islam.” Pundits on Fox have said that under the Obama Administration, “the federal government really doesn’t take terrorism very seriously.” In another Fox News program during a conversation regarding the president and the CIA, a conservative pundit claimed, “The real problem, is the morale is obviously bad but clearly, for the CIA now to be answering to a president, for the first time I think a sitting president who has given aid and comfort to the enemy, both psychologically and materially, it’s a very distressing thing because…the President obviously does not care.”:rofl:



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http://www.politicususa.com/en/obama-commander-in-chief



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Clinton had to put up with everything Obama has -- i.e., all the "traitor" nonsense -- PLUS endless inquiries into his finances, endless persecution of his friends and acquaintances (all of whom were offered deals if they would lie about him), endless harassment of his wife and limitless insults against his daughter and family, (rightwingers even picketed and booed Clinton at his mother's funeral!!!) PLUS the MSM digging up Paula Jones, Jennifer Flowers, Kathleen Willey, Monica, Tripp, Jerry Falwell (Clinton Chronicles,) not to mention at least four Congressional witch hunts whose only purpose was to embarrass him, and an on-g0ing publicly-funded lynch mob overseen by a relentless Torquemada named Starr who had 100 FBI agents, hundreds of millions of dollars, and many years to do nothing but find SOME thing to use to attack Clinton with, the national press being his willing lapdogs the whole time.

Yes, Obama has it bad -- just as Carter, Truman, FDR, and most Democratic presidents do. The right wing and the corporate media always tries to destroy Democrats, and Obama is no exception.

But NOBODY in history has been as investigated and as accused -- i.e., nobody has had it as bad -- as Bill Clinton did.

And nobody ever beat the bastards as bad, either!

a target of an assassin like Gabby Gifford. It could have been him, save for Secret Service.

Big ass elephant in the room. This has bothered me for a long time, even before getting Bin laden.

What they are doing would have been considered traitorous and anti-patriotic when Bush was in office. How many times did we have to here the term "anti-American?"

It's sickening.

They disgrace their entire political party with their actions. But once they have killed democracy, they will write the history anyway they want.