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2009-10-02 Home Front: WoT
Obama, McChrystal meet on Air Force One
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Posted by ryuge 2009-10-02 10:12|| || Front Page|| [11133 views ]  Top

#1 It's about time. Musta heard that some folks thought it suggested he didn't really care what McChrystal thought.
Posted by gorb 2009-10-02 10:28||   2009-10-02 10:28|| Front Page Top

#2 Wow! A whole 25 minutes! I'm suprised Obama took the time from his self-adoration to talk about the men who are making the supreme sacrifice.

Isn't it true that Bush tried to meet with the families of those who died in the war.... Yet Zero can only squeeze in 25 minutes in what - 3 months?
Posted by CrazyFool 2009-10-02 10:47||   2009-10-02 10:47|| Front Page Top

#3 It's okay, 25 minutes is plenty of time for the good general to make clear to Bambi what needs to be done.
Posted by Steve White 2009-10-02 11:00||   2009-10-02 11:00|| Front Page Top

#4 #1 It's about time. Musta heard that some folks thought it suggested he didn't really care what McChrystal thought.
Posted by: gorb 2009-10-02 10:28

gorb; this is simply The One trying to (re)cover his tracks. The longer this farce of a presidency goes on, the more the world realizes what we allowed to occupy the Whit House.
Posted by WolfDog 2009-10-02 12:03||   2009-10-02 12:03|| Front Page Top

#5 Interesting name: kinda like if McDonalds sold legalized meth...
Posted by borgboy 2009-10-02 12:16||   2009-10-02 12:16|| Front Page Top

#6 Clearly, the public awareness of his lack of attention to the War in Afghanistan lead to an immediate call for the Theater Commander to drop what he was doing and meet in Copenhagen for a whopping 25 minutes. Now look, I have in my career done senior level policy decision briefings for senior Generals and political figures. If it is really the most important decision you have to make, do you really give GEN McCrystal 25 f**king minutes of your time on the plane in Copenhagen while you lobby for Chicago for the Olympics?
What a pathetic, clueless embarrassment we have for President. God help us!
Posted by NoMoreBS 2009-10-02 12:53||   2009-10-02 12:53|| Front Page Top

#7 No doubt the general dropped off study materials before he left. President Obama is brilliant -- after all, he was editor of the Harvard Law Review, and he a poor African-American from a broken home -- so he should have no trouble extracting the essential information on the flight back home, now he doesn't have to plan an olympics.

/or at least he'll leaf through the binder, prepare a some "insightful" questions and, hoping against hope that the substance of the general's recommendations do not leak out, make the most face-saving decision he can figure out on the spur of the moment.
Posted by trailing wife  2009-10-02 13:38||   2009-10-02 13:38|| Front Page Top

#8 By hanging out with McChrystal on Air Force One President Barry can now say that Copenhagen was mere pretext to his vital dialogue with his commander.

We are led by a narcissist.
Posted by Bertie Cromomp7039 2009-10-02 14:25||   2009-10-02 14:25|| Front Page Top

#9 We are led by a narcissist.

We are led by a rookie narcissist that has no idea how the world works and how diplomacy is done.
Posted by DarthVader 2009-10-02 14:32||   2009-10-02 14:32|| Front Page Top

#10 A stop at Landstuhl really wouldn't have cost much
Posted by European Conservative 2009-10-02 15:08||   2009-10-02 15:08|| Front Page Top

#11 Visit Landstuhl and acknowlege the contribution of wounded warriors? Nothing in that for Barry or his celeb strap-hangers.
Posted by Besoeker in Duitsland 2009-10-02 15:14||   2009-10-02 15:14|| Front Page Top

#12 Landstuhl? Really EC? He was on a thumb-sucking ride home after getting his ass handed to him. His last thought was wounded warriors. Don't you know the sacrifices he, M'chelle, and Orpah! made for Teh Peepuls? And this is how he's treated?

I'm glad our warriors didn't have to deal with him
Posted by Frank G">Frank G  2009-10-02 16:16||   2009-10-02 16:16|| Front Page Top

#13 Paul Mirengoff at Powerline reports on the rumor that Gates will resign within a couple of months and Obama will nominate Chuck Hagel to replace him. Paul essentially believes Gates resigning is probably true, but skeptical about him being replaced by Hagel.

I doubt any of that came up at the meeting, though.
Posted by Woozle Uneter9007 2009-10-02 16:35||   2009-10-02 16:35|| Front Page Top

#14 Plenty of time for the General. Last time I tought someone how to play Risk it took over an hour just to get the board set up.
Posted by swksvolFF 2009-10-02 17:16||   2009-10-02 17:16|| Front Page Top

#15 "Hagel is a bagel" was the mantra to remember who NOT to vote for in NE. But I guess considering who on the left to choose from, he would be one of the better choices.
Posted by Lumpy Elmoluck5091 2009-10-02 18:08||   2009-10-02 18:08|| Front Page Top

#16 Obama will nominate Chuck Hagel to replace him

What, Kucinich (D-Mars) already declined?
Posted by SteveS 2009-10-02 20:10||   2009-10-02 20:10|| Front Page Top

#17 Yes, but the weasels' plan will only work if there's an (R) behind the name.
Posted by Woozle Uneter9007 2009-10-02 22:32||   2009-10-02 22:32|| Front Page Top

#18 #11: Visit Landstuhl and acknowlege the contribution of wounded warriors? Nothing in that for Barry or his celeb strap-hangers.

That's one of many hundreds of reasons I detest this pretense of a "President". Give me a couple of months and I'll generate a complete list.
Posted by Old Patriot">Old Patriot  2009-10-02 23:32|| http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/]">[http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/]  2009-10-02 23:32|| Front Page Top

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