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2014-06-09 Fifth Column

Why Team Obama Was Blindsided by the Bergdahl Backlash

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Posted by Uncle Phester 2014-06-09 00:00|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top

#1 Because Obean doesn't get it, and surrounds himself with fawning idiots?

Posted by gorb 2014-06-09 00:10|| 2014-06-09 00:10|| Front Page Top

#2 "...As for President Obama, how about just one word of thanks to the families of those fallen soldiers you sent out to find Bowe Bergdahl?"

because the Administration cannot bring itself to admit that soldiers were killed looking for Bergdahl

Posted by lord garth 2014-06-09 00:59|| 2014-06-09 00:59|| Front Page Top

#3 The left is constantly confusing one thing for another. Condescending snideness for real humor. The welfare state for authentic charity. The apparatus of state for authentic religion. Contempt for authentic Christianity as a shibboleth signifying intellectualism, instead of what it really signifies, which is vulgar bigotry.

Envy as a virtue instead of a vice. And ruthlessness as intelligence instead of what it really is - sociopathy.

When you are publicly funded and/or have hitched your bizarrely crafted philosophy on life to voting Dem no matter what, this is what ensues.

Obama's rise and presidency were supposed to be the shining example of the virtues and successes of affirmative action. Instead, he is an object lesson and a definitive example of its irredeemable failure. Those whose worldview is deeply invested in perceiving affirmative action as a positive will go through whatever contortions of logic and dishonesty they must to preserve the narrative. Mental laziness of the that type is rampant amongst our current education and information industries and is a hard thing to shake, apparently.

Such as these are easily blindsided.

Posted by no mo uro 2014-06-09 04:44|| 2014-06-09 04:44|| Front Page Top

#4 Envy as a virtue instead of a vice.

Krasnyi mech (The Red Sword), the newspaper of the Kyiv Cheka:
We reject the old systems of morality and "humanity" invented by the bourgeoisie to oppress the "lower classes." Our morality has no precedent, and our humanity is absolute because it rests on a new ideal. Our aim is to destroy all forms of oppression and violence. To us, everything is permitted, for we are the first to raise the sword not to oppress races and reduce them to slavery, but to liberate humanity from it's shackles.

Courtois, Werth, Panne, Paczkowski, Bartoski, and Amrgolin, The Black Book of Communism, p.102

Posted by Besoeker 2014-06-09 06:27|| 2014-06-09 06:27|| Front Page Top

#5 Well said nmu.

Posted by AlanC 2014-06-09 07:55|| 2014-06-09 07:55|| Front Page Top

#6 Obama and Team are not exactly imbued with American history and cultural values. Instead of being guided by these values, they are awkward and fumbling around these values.

Posted by JohnQC 2014-06-09 10:13|| 2014-06-09 10:13|| Front Page Top

#7 We reject the old systems of morality and "humanity" invented by the bourgeoisie to oppress the "lower classes." Our morality has no precedent, and our humanity is absolute because it rests on a new ideal. Our aim is our feet stamping on human faces, forever.~~to destroy all forms of oppression and violence.~~ To us, everything is permitted, for we will ~~are the first to raise the sword not to oppress races and~~ reduce them to slavery~~, but to liberate humanity from it's shackles~~.
FIFY.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2014-06-09 11:28|| 2014-06-09 11:28|| Front Page Top

#8 I wonder if Team Obama gives a rat's butt, or this is another example to them of how dumb the rest of the Country is? I suppose we'll know if Champ keeps trying to explain it to us morons.

Posted by Bobby 2014-06-09 12:43|| 2014-06-09 12:43|| Front Page Top

#9 I will continue to go back to a single important point. The Democrats NEVER vetted this guy AT ALL when he first started assembling his team to run for the Presidency.

If they had vetted him, they would have all run for cover and left him to swing in the breeze and fail OR worse yet, they (the Democratic ruling class) thought they could get this empty suit elected and then use him as a sock puppet for a variety of pet Democratic tax and spend programs. I believe that is why Joe Biden was put in as VP, to control the empty suit.

Unfortunately, their vetting of the empty suit did not include an MMPI or they would have found out he was an uncontrollable toxic narcissist with strong sociopathic tendencies.

Either way, I find it hard to believe that any yahoo with a slick staff and a good gift for gab and a boat load of campaign money can run for president no matter how ill-prepared and unsuited for the challenges they are.

Unbelievable, from the day he surfaced in the first primary, he was the Manchurian Candidate, a man with no birth certificate, no academic records, and no classmates at either Columbia or Harvard that could remember attending class with him, only a few pictures, and a couple of pretty books ghost written by a radical.

Posted by Bill Clinton 2014-06-09 14:14|| 2014-06-09 14:14|| Front Page Top

#10 Why were they blindsided?
Because they've got used to press conferences with a sea of bobble-heads, all nodding agreement with whatever ludicrous statement is made. In the outside world, BS isn't self-propelled, people go What?

Posted by ed in texas 2014-06-09 14:16|| 2014-06-09 14:16|| Front Page Top

#11 Unfortunately, their vetting of the empty suit did not include an MMPI or they would have found out he was an uncontrollable toxic narcissist with strong sociopathic tendencies.

Requiring an MMPI would have been seen as racist. Besides, we really should steer clear of his genetic endowments and thinly veiled predisposition to hatred and envy.

Posted by Besoeker 2014-06-09 14:21|| 2014-06-09 14:21|| Front Page Top

#12 "Because Obean doesn't get it, and surrounds himself with fawning idiots?"

I would have gone with "mewling idiots" but yes, exactly.

Posted by Iblis 2014-06-09 15:52|| 2014-06-09 15:52|| Front Page Top

#13 Bill Clinton, I'm afraid all of these issues you mention are features and not bugs. They wanted him. You think Harry Reid, Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi are unhappy with him? I don't.

Posted by Ebbang Uluque6305 2014-06-09 16:22|| 2014-06-09 16:22|| Front Page Top

#14 Why?

Because the concept of service, the concept of honor, the concept of sacrifice is entirely foreign to their way of thinking. That is why they have no problem with him deserting his unit during a time of war.

So he left his teammates in the lurch or even collaborated with the enemy once he found it wasn't what he expected. So what? That is what they (Obama and company) would have done in the same situation.

And if people died looking for him so what? They were only soldiers and most probably psychopaths - it's not like they were holding Obama's umbrella or something. And they probably would only vote R anyway

That is their way of thinking. Every word they say reflects that.

Posted by CrazyFool 2014-06-09 16:33|| 2014-06-09 16:33|| Front Page Top

#15 A friend observed how much Obama and Bergdahl were alike and that is why Bergdahl's behavior is acceptable.

Posted by JohnQC 2014-06-09 19:20|| 2014-06-09 19:20|| Front Page Top

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