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| Did the Media Care When Obama Fired General Mattis? |
| 2018-12-24 |
| [American Thinker] Defense secretaries come and go. President Obama had four of them in eight years, who had some unkind things to say about his leadership or lack of it. There was no talk of chaos or of the only adult in the room leaving. Suddenly, the media are in a meltdown after "Mad Dog" Mattis announced his departure from the Cabinet after President Trump announced our departure from Syria: Foreign Policy Pentagon reporter Lara Seligman wrote the press corp [sic] is contemplating suicide over Mattis' resignation, "I think I speak for all national security reporters tonight when I say I'm about ready to jump off a cliff. But at least I already wrote the "who will replace Mattis" story two months (only two months?????) ago[."]Democrats who won't defend our southern border and who slept as Obama drew red lines with vanishing ink worry about an ISIS Obama created by a precipitous withdrawal from Iraq regaining strength and reforming in Syria and Iraq. The general Obama fired is suddenly a man of principle whose leadership was indispensable: |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #2 Did the Media Care When Obama Fired General Mattis? In a word "No" except for now. They so dislike Trump (except for when he was a Dem) and so unhinged about HRC losing that anything he does becomes a target. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2018-12-24 12:00 |
| #1 ...Keep this in mind too - 151 Democrats in the House voted against the waiver required to make Mattis SECDEF. And now they're hollering about how the military can't run without him... Mike |
| Posted by: Mike Kozlowski 2018-12-24 04:16 |