Or was it a “Fact Finding Tour?” My money, or that of his adoring minions?

Nothing says “I DON’T SUPPORT THIS WAR OR THE TROOPS WHO FIGHT IT” like a speech or two and this behavior: If it ain’t a photo op, it ain’t a stop! (said in your best Johnny Cochran voice)

We have gone beyond arrogance. I’m not sure what word is out there in that uncharted, but being explored by B_hO these days. There are bits and pieces of this man’s journey to Afghanistan and Iraq and it’s not pretty. First off, what even semi-intelligent person would think anyone might gain credible “foreign affairs/policy/relations” experience by landing in a country and going wheels up in about 24 hours. Part of that time will be taken up with working out at the gym, to boot (maybe he’s seaching for the best work out places around the world?).

What’s going on? He’s getting the right “backdrops” for an entire series of campaign photos. It seems he doesn’t talk with our troops. He talks to them, but…in front of the cameras. You can bet his times spent (however short, the pictures do not tell that story) with world leaders and Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen and Marines was sufficient to get the weel composed pictures. In the “key”, at the DFAC, in front of statues.

In one major arena, that of the attributes for a Commander-in-Chief: He ain’t got even a little bit of them. One day, he may have to open his mouth and say “YES, WE CAN!” to attack someone, or at least defend ourselves, and it will be those men and women who he has walked by, declined to visit who will go forth to possible death as a result of that utterance. Not that they will perform with any less professionalism, as we are seeing daily now, despite the Dems best efforts, but it sure won’t get him other than merely polite handshakes when he comes around (supposing he ever would manage to show his face before such warriors).
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Update (7/25/08): Whoa! Here’s what a serviceman in Afghanistan had to say…and..it ain’t pretty being the “presumtive C-in-C” from his personal experience. I’m sure more first person stories, in a similar vein, will be rolling out in the next few days, too.
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Back to the current events subjects:

Toss onto the heap, him standinig up and telling beer drinking Germans how wrong America has been. That’s sure to bolster the World’s opinion of us alright, along with inspiring others to follow him. Honestly, when I have had leaders who were down on the organization, it was a challenge to get throught the work days. Not at all when I had someone who said “we can do it!”. Oh…and did I mention Michelle Obama does talks the US down here in the US? No? I don’t have to, you are thinking. What a team.

Maybe, I’m being cynical, or, at best rivalling Nostradamus in at least this prediction, but he just might be maneuvring for a big book deal, to raise money for the re-assualt in 2012, because, after all, Clinton, Gore, Carter and Kerry all seem to make money hiking “off shore” and bad mouthing us to anyone who will fill their pockets with cash…

The MSM and the libs can make all the fun they want of a President who will sit, behind closed doors with families of the dead, but they just don’t understand the respect this shows those who are left behind, or the ones who have lost baisc life functions, so others may make jackasses of themselves. There many non-photo op meeting President Bush had, because to have it recorded was not respectful, but the meetings were necessary to thank those who gave their relatives in return for the freedom or many others. President Bush will go down in history as a man who did what leaders do: The Right Thing, despite those who demand adherence to the “popular” opinion.

Look beyond the audience not visitied in this situation. Understand all things to B_hO are to be for the political “impact,” not an ounce of comapssion can be squandered away by missing the opportunity to stick in your thumb and pull out a plum while the digital cameras are recording. You who will be thrown under the ever spinning (analogy intended) wheels of the Obama-Rama Bus going round and round, for his political gain had better have your wills filled out and your insurance paid up. Your time is gonna come…and you don’t even have to be lying in a hospital with wounds from combat to be cast adrift.

In the meantime, to keep this from being such a dark discussion, check out The Gospel of Obama for a chuckle.

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