Did White House pressure NYT into changing Dover story?

Photographers follow the President everywhere he goes. Permission to be photographed was granted by the soldier’s family. He has been meeting privately with families, without press, throughout his presidency. It was utterly appropriate for him to go to Dover and it underscores the shallow cavil’s launched by his opponents. He has to make a decision that may result in many more somber flights to Dover, and is right to take his time makeing it. His critics don’t, rendering their criticism cheap and easy. Using the lives of brave soldiers as props for your own personal attacks is shameful.

Bleeds Blue on October 30, 2009 at 10:51 AM

Then the next time I hear Bush Lied, Soldiers Died, I’m gonna find your dumb ass and knock your stupid head down your windpipe. Name or point to a single soldier’s family who has reported that Obambi met with them in private. There are scores of reports of Bush doing this. Not one report of Obama doing so.

The First Amendment protects you from the government, not from me. You can spout whatever silly ass propaganda you want out there. But it gives me and every other former serviceman the right to kick your ass if you ever come within my reach.

Maybe you better think before you lie again, boy.

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Subsunk on October 30, 2009 at 11:24 AM

So yes, of course it was a symbolic trip to Dover, but it was an important symbol and if you weren’t overcome by derangement you’d support the president telling our troops that yes he is viscerally aware of the sacrifices they make and takes the decisions he makes that touch their lives very seriously.

Bleeds Blue on October 30, 2009 at 11:11 AM

We can tell just how seriously he takes our request for reinforcements by the time he has taken to approve the request, and by the excuses he has made for why he shouldn’t send them. Citing Joe Bidne, Rahm Emmanuel, Tom Friedman, or anyone EXCEPT a General or former General with counterinsurgency experience on this just means he disregards the opinions and judgment of professionals in favor of politicians.

And soldiers, active and former, to a Man, despise a leader who refuses to listen to his subordinates. I have served with dozens of Commanding Officers who had only one way, their way. Their troops lived in constant fear of the Captain. And as soon as he was wrong, his command failed. The US military is a team. When one man doesn’t have the answer, others do. However, no one on his nibs team is a team player. He routinely disregards military advice from his subordinates.
That makes his policies the biggest failures in military history, unless he is 100% correct in every choice. And so far, he’s been wrong on every military decision he’s never made.

You disgust me.

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Subsunk on October 30, 2009 at 11:33 AM

Lisa Xiarhos also had a message for President Barack Obama: “Be strong and get the job done,” she recalls telling him. “Don’t back down. Send more troops. Support the ones that are there and do whatever you can.”
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None of the encounters has turned confrontational, aides say, and no relatives have asked the president to end the war in Afghanistan.

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Former President George W. Bush met with “hundreds of families and hundreds of the wounded,” from Iraq and Afghanistan, said Scott McClellan, Bush’s former press secretary.
‘Emotionally Drained’
Some relatives urged him to stop the Iraq war. Some “looked the president in the eye and said, ‘You make sure you finish the job,’” McClellan said. The meetings left Bush “emotionally drained” and “certainly had some effect” on his decisions, McClellan said

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Medal of Honor
Before the ceremony, Paul Monti told the president in the Oval Office that troops on the ground needed more air support, relaying his son’s conviction that Afghanistan is a war that needs to be won.
“If the troops are trained properly and they are given the proper equipment, I personally believe this a battle we need to fight,” he said.
Monti was also impressed that the president was “well versed in my son’s actions.”
“It was very emotional,” said Monti, a retired school teacher. The Obamas “put all of us at ease.”
Questions about how to prosecute the war don’t always arise in Obama’s interactions with families or wounded veterans.
In the half-hour Obama spent on the basketball court with the Marines in wheelchairs, they didn’t discuss political questions about Iraq or Afghanistan, said Gunnery Sergeant Marcus Wilson, whose left leg was amputated above his knee.
The veterans were more impressed with Obama’s game. “He’ll take the first shot and he’ll miss it, which is something I think he does intentionally,” Wilson said. “And the second shot is nothing but net.”

—-Bloomberg

Your link, BlueBreeder. Even Bloomberg’s article can’t bring itself to say that he supports his generals or the troops in prosecuting this war. He has sympathy for the wounded, sure. I’ve never been one to complain that this was a photo op for his own purposes and not respectful of the troops who died. But I’m damn tired of it being used by the media and Dhimmicrats to justify his lack of urgency in approving reinforcements. Good Men are dying and he refuses the reinforcements which are clearly available and recommended by the professionals.

Your own link shows that Bush, and other Presidents did at least as much for wounded soldiers as Obama. That these meetings have not spurred him to follow the advice of his own military Generals is what kills us, literally.

Pucker up, pissant. I’ll kiss you where it hurts. In your conscience, if you had one.

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Subsunk on October 30, 2009 at 11:45 AM