Obama speech to soldiers met with silence

[OldRegular]

Obama, a hero only in his own mind!

President Barack Obama was greeted with fleeting applause and extended periods of silence as he offered profuse praise to soldiers and their families during an Aug. 31 speech in Fort Bliss, Texas.

His praise for the soldiers — and for his own national-security policies — won cheers from only a small proportion of the soldiers and families in the cavernous aircraft-hangar.

The audience remains quiet even when the commander-in-chief thanked the soldiers’ families, and cited the 198 deaths of their comrades in Iraq and Afghanistan.

The audience’s reaction was so flat that the president tried twice to elicit a reaction from the crowd.

“Hey, I hear you,” he said amid silence.

The selected soldiers who were arrayed behind the president sat quietly throughout the speech.

CNN and MSNBC ended their coverage of the speech before it was half-over.

Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2012/08/31/obama-speech-to-soldiers-met-with-silence

 

[LadyEagle]

They probably wanted to puke.

 

[mont974x4]

When Clinton sent Gore to Ft Bragg after we had our mission into Haiti scrubbed in what we affectionately call "operation just kidding" in 1994 to give us the ol' "good job" speech we all knew he was just blowing smoke. Clinton made some decisions that most of us were pretty mad about. That said, Obama has done little more than insult our service, our families, and our history every chance he's had. Those troops were professional enough to suffer in silence.

 

[SolaSaint]

How will the media spin it? I can hear Andrea Mitchell now...the soldiers were told to remain silent to show respect to Obama?