To anyone now or in the past having served in the Corps the following article is quite believable and worth a read. It is no secret that Barack Obama has no use for the military and is probably the worst Commander in Chief a title he is given but has no clue what the job entails. And before anyone starts bellowing he killed bin Laden, save it. He only acted as a political consideration forced on him by Panetta and his other inept flunkies.Seal Team Six killed the bastard not Obama….WM
Ambition is the last refuge of the failure….Oscar Wilde
The Daily Paul.com, April 16, 2012
We’ve had a couple of postings in the past few weeks on US Marine Sergeant Gary Stein. Stein is being less than honorably discharged from the US Marine Corp for his anti-Obama website, selling Nobama bumper stickers and posting on Facebook that he would not obey an unlawful order from President Obama.
It seems that Sgt Stein is not the only Marine who dislikes the supposed Commander-in-Chief. According to a WND report, the Marine Corp Times published the results of a Military Times survey that indicated that Obama only received a 25% approval rating amongst actively serving Marines and 44% said they disapproved of Obama’s performance as Commander-in-Chief.
Anti-Obama Marines was the title of an article from last month that spoke about Sgt Stein and his situation stating,
“Stein is not alone in his disdain for the president. Published in early March, the most recent Military Times survey of active-duty service members shows the lowest approval ratings for Obama’s job as commander in chief since he took office in 2009: 25 percent, down from 35 after Obama’s first year on the job. And rank-and-file Marines are hearing considerably more anti-Obama talk on the job than they noticed in the past.”
The way the Marines have been handling the Sgt Stein case is causing many active and retired Marines to question the motive behind their actions. After all, Stein’s enlistment ends this July and the Corps could have avoided all of the negative publicity by just refusing to allow him to re-enlist as he had planned to do. It would have made more sense and cost the Marines much less in negative publicity and a negative image.
Former Air Force JAG office, Lt Col John Eidsmoe, who currently works with the Foundation for Moral Law, commented on the handling of Stein’s case,
“I don’t think the Marine Corps has any intention of treating him fairly in any appeal. It’s my opinion, but I believe Obama sent orders down from above to get rid of this guy.”
I have to agree with Eidsmre’s assertion that the order to make an example of Sgt Stein came directly from Barack Obama’s own hand. He has to put the fear of punishment into all military personnel for speaking out against him. When Obama declares martial law, ends free elections and takes complete control of the government, he has to have the support of the military and if they don’t support him willingly, he has to force them to do so unwillingly.
I would not be surprised to see more members of the military receive punishment for speaking out against the president. If Obama can drive out many of the disgruntled service men and women and replace them with his liberal gay and Muslim buddies, he just may eventually have the support of the military, which he obviously doesn’t have at the moment.
Well, Bush took credit for the capture of Saddam. So Obama gets credit for bin-Laden.
If he get’s blame for problems then he’s got to get credit for the successes. It was on his DIRECT orders and under his direct supervision. He gave the go-ahead.
It’s a bit duplicitous to claim that Obama didn’t understand what it took to be CiC, but that he’s having that Stein guy prosecuted for something he clearly did wrong.
In fact, blaming others for Stein’s inability to accept personal responsibility seems more than disingenuous, and more strongly resembles an affront to the honor of the collective corps.
According to my DOD contacts bin Laden’s whereabouts had been known for some time – WH staffers were the ones who leaked OBs hesitency in launching the attack because he wanted to do it in the fall. Panetta to his credit set it up so that OB had to move on it. As for credit with either he or Bush I don’t really care. The event is over time to move on to the next drama….WM
As a former squid, I feel the following barb is well within my rights.
Out of all the branches, is it not the Marine Corps that requires the lowest ASVAB score of prospective enlistees? Perhaps the Marines are not the best experts on American government and politics.
=D
I and my son both scored very high on our Marine Corps ASVAPS, he 40 years after me – As to your question I think the Army would hold that distinction. But of course you might say that when I was in the Navy prior to the Marine Reserves, I was a Boatswain Mate and we know how stupid and uncivilized we were….lol
The BMs were not bright and were pretty barbaric, but they were fun as hell to hang out with.
A wild bunch, to be sure =)
I consider that a compliment….lol….WM