Narcissist in Chief Selfishly Shortens Soldiers' Holiday - Fort Bliss - Friday

Narcissist in Chief Selfishly Shortens Soldiers' Holiday - Fort Bliss
- Friday

Russ Vaughn
americanthinker.com

The Commander in Chief got a decidedly cool reception from the troops
on a whistle stop at Fort Bliss in El Paso Friday. While this
president already is not widely popular with our military, the
attitude demonstrated by the shanghaied soldiers in that cavernous
hangar was demonstrably cooler than at such past events. The
conservative media interpreted that indifferent reception to
dissatisfaction with Obama's politics and his repeated failures as
CinC, but the event is far more consequential as yet another example
of how little the Obama Administration understands the military it
commands.

I'm an old non-com who, as a bachelor lived in the barracks, and as
such I'm well aware of the excitement that permeates any military
barracks in the days leading up to a four-day, holiday weekend like
Labor Day. Virtually every soldier has made big plans to escape his
military existence for four precious days and spend that time with
family or friends. Many will have to use the first and fourth days for
travel to and from distant destinations, which means only two, crucial
days of holiday pleasure for them, sandwiched between two less
pleasant days of travel, especially if they must fly commercially.
Take away just one of those days and many of those soldiers' plans
will either have to be scrapped entirely or the time at home or
whatever destination, be reduced to a single day. Plans made long in
advance have to be rescheduled, a sometimes quite difficult task when
it regards holiday weekend travel: flight changes may be impossible
and hotels are booked solid; neither may allow changes in reservations
without severe financial penalties.

So, some hotshot in the Obama campaign, feeling badly stung by the
sparse turnouts for the president's visits to other locales, gets a
bright idea of how to produce a really big crowd for a photo op: "Hey,
let's schedule one for some military facility where the commander can
be ordered to produce a big audience in a sufficiently impressive
backdrop." It was probably some over-eager, politically correct flack
in the Pentagon who suggested the massive hangar at the Fort Bliss
airfield, but you can bet it was some clueless member of the campaign
with no military experience who picked the incredibly dumb date.

And as with so many other aspects of the disastrous Obama campaign,
their scheme to produce a huge crowd ended up giving them another
embarrassing black eye. They got their huge crowd all right but it was
a silent, sullen crowd that was oozing hostility to the oblivious
politician who had ruined their holiday weekend at worst and, at the
least, had taken away one-fourth of their free time for his own
selfish political gain. That from Democrats, who, knowing that the
military is primarily politically conservative, are the first to
demand political neutrality from those in uniform.

The resentment created by this incident isn't limited to just those
troops ordered to be in that hangar; it is shared by their far-flung
friends and family members who won't forget such a narcissistic,
selfish, political imposition on their own holiday plans. Nor will it
go unnoticed by other members of the military, their families, and the
millions of veterans in this country who realize what an arrogant,
selfish insult this was. Whoever it was on the campaign staff who
scheduled that particular date for a military campaign stop might as
well have said, "Here, Mr. President, take this pistol and aim
carefully for your middle toe...."


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