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Me#1You#10
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 Posted: Fri Oct 30, 2009 3:28 pm Post subject: Pete Hegseth: "President's Visit to Dover" |
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It's important, I think, to acknowledge an action in the finest tradition of "The Presidency". I was moved by this...and good on President Obama for it (and his pretty darn good "hand salute")...
| Quote: | President's Visit to Dover
Pete Hegseth
The Corner
October 29, 2009
I appreciate Kathryn's post on President Obama's visit to Dover Air Force Base to "[meet] with family members and [pay] his respects as the bodies of 18 Americans killed this week in Afghanistan were returned to the United States." It was a classy move that I believe underscores the serious nature with which President Obama is approaching his forthcoming Afghanistan decision.
As much as anyone else, I want the president to make his decision as soon as possible — American lives, and commitment, hang in the balance. But if he has to take a few extra days to get it right — and become convinced of the rightness of General McChrystal's approach — then the extra time is worth it.
Many more flag-draped coffins will be returning home to Dover in the coming months and years. I just hope the president's visit to the tarmac underscores, for him, that if we are going to pay such a heavy price in America's best and bravest, we must only do so in pursuit of battlefield success — with a decisive mission and the necessary manpower.
Anything less would be morally indefensible, both to the souls he saluted in the darkness and the families he consoled in their grief.
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JN173
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| Posted: Fri Oct 30, 2009 4:43 pm Post subject: Re: Pete Hegseth: "President's Visit to Dover" |
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You're right #1 that was a very pleasant suprise to see. Especially as you noted: | Me#1You#10 wrote: | ......(and his pretty darn good "hand salute")...
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The man obviously made more of an effort to learn how to execute the salute than I would have previously expected.
The individual with the broken wrist on the President's left should be very 
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TEWSPilot
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| Posted: Fri Oct 30, 2009 9:28 pm Post subject: |
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| The biggest criticism I am hearing is that he should not have brought along the press corps for a photo op, but everything he does is a photo op, so when he does something right, even that becomes just another photo op. Is he EVER going to stop campaigning and start doing his actual JOB? |
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Navy_Navy_Navy
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| Posted: Fri Oct 30, 2009 10:40 pm Post subject: |
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President Bush met a lot of planes at Dover, but he usually did it very quietly - no press even in attendance, much less asking the families if he could have the event photographed.
There were a few times that it was reported and if you remember, he was accused of "grandstanding."
This is just one very infuriating thing about liberals - when a conservative does anything, it's automatically condemned, but when a liberal does the same damn thing, it's acceptable and even laudable.
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