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Posted By Vicki McClure Davidson on December 4, 2009

What in the world goes through this Oval Office clown’s head? Is it even possible for anyone to escape Barack Obama’s gaffes, guffaws, goofs, lies, fabrications, and ego-centric mandates for just ONE day? Someone, please, drag out VP Joe Biden and shove him in front of a mic… at least Crazy Joe’s missteps are funny.

This is not funny.

This is the latest addition to the growing list of ridiculous, disrespectful demands or comments about our military from our overexposed Mr. Media Hound, POTUS Pantywaist. Now he’s got to have just the right background for his photo-ops with our military. Makes me think of the aging Gloria Swanson at the end of Sunset Boulevard…. “All right, Mr. DeMille, I’m ready for my close-up.” Creepy, vain, and dictatorial. And insulting.

Kudos to Foreign Policy/The Cable for reporting this…

From Foreign Policy, The Cable: Exclusive: White House aides insisted F-22 be removed from Obama speech venue:

When President Obama spoke to troops at Alaska’s Elmendorf Air Force Base last month, the unit there parked a shiny new F-22 fighter plane in the hangar. But according to multiple sources, White House aides demanded the plane be changed to an older F-15 fighter because they didn’t want Obama speaking in front of the F-22, a controversial program he fought hard to end.

“White House aides actually made them remove the F-22-said they would not allow POTUS to be pictured with the F-22 in any way, shape, or form,” one source close to the unit relayed.

Stephen Lee, a public affairs officer at Elmendorf, confirmed to The Cable that the F-22 was parked in the hangar and then was replaced by an F-15 at the White House’s behest.

The airmen there took offense to the Obama aides’ demand, sources told The Cable, seeing it as a slight to the folks who are operating the F-22 proudly every day. They also expressed bewilderment that the White House staff would even care so much as to make an issue out of the fact that the F-22 was placed in the hangar with the president.

From All American Blogger: Obama Honors F-22 Pilots By Asking F-22 Be Removed From His Presence:

It wasn’t too long ago President Obama told the troops in South Korea they made a “pretty good photo op.”

In Alaska, he told them a different story. While he was there to honor the airmen of “the 90th Fighter Squadron, known as the “Dicemen,” and the 525th Fighter Squadron, the “Bulldogs,” he didn’t want to be seen with the equipment they operate.

They fly the F-22…

One thing this President has yet to learn, and I have serious doubts he ever will, is that it isn’t always about him.

Obama offended to have F-22 in his photo-op with F-22 airmen, so F-15 had to replace it at Elmendorf Air Force Base | Photo credit: All American Blogger

Additional reading:
Gateway Pundit: Krauthammer and Hayes Slam Obama’s Weak Afghan Surge Speech (Video)
The Powers That Be: Obama’s West Point Speech: Wrong Message in the Right Venue
Sister Toldjah: Krauthammer and Hayes on Obama’s Afghanistan speech
On My Watch – The Writings of SamHenry: Iraq: US Ditches Equipment It Could Use in Afghanistan
Palin Twibe: Sarah Palin: Worthy American Heroes – Reminding Us What Really Matters
Frugal Café Blog Zone: Obama’s Weak Speech: Too Much Hedging, Too Little Leadership in Afghanistan Surge, MSNBC’s Matthews Calls West Point “Enemy Camp” (video) and I’d Trust Dick Cheney with My Life… Once Again, Cheney Blasts Obama Again for His Weakness on Afghanistan and Obama’s Golf-Course Dithering and Hollywood Party Delay Action, So Marines in Afghanistan Not Waiting for POTUS… Also, Taliban Terrorists Want Obama to Cut Them a Deal and Obama & Cheney Duke It Out on National Security — Majority of Americans Support Cheney More per Informal MSNBC Poll and and Dick Cheney: Our Men and Women in the Military Are the True Keepers of the Flame (video & transcript) and Afghanistan Worsens: White House Painting Murderous Taliban as Possible Allies, Soldiers’ Morale Down
Hot Air: Matthews on West Point: Obama went to the “enemy camp” tonight, didn’t he?
Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion: Small Man On A Big Stage
Diary of a Mad Conservative: Matthews calls West Point the enemy camp
Howard Portnoy, Hot Air Green Room: OK, Here’s the Plan: There Isn’t One
GayPatriot: Obama’s Worst Speech Ever?
Greg Gutfeld, Big Hollywood: Daily Gut: Obama’s Wartime Egg Timer
Kauffman’s Commentary: Analysis of President Obama’s Afghanistan defeatist speech
Facebook, Sarah Palin: Finally, A Decision for Afghanistan: We’re In It to Win It

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