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Obama Gives Himself a Shout Out While Addressing Troops: ‘We’ve Got Me In the House’

You know that old bait-and-switch technique your older sibling pulled on you when you were a kid? The one where he asked you a bunch of questions that evoked a “yes” response, and then slyly sneaked in a question that should exhibit a “no” but you’re so used to answering “yes” that you accidentally mix it up. That’s kind of what Barack Obama did yesterday — to our troops.

While addressing soldiers at Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan, the president started giving shout outs to different military units “in the house,” each time eliciting cheers from the crowd. But after calling out a couple of those names, he quickly turned to evoking his own: “And we’ve got me in the house.”

They cheered.

The Washington Free Beacon captured the moment:

Comments (192)

  • sawbuck
    Posted on May 2, 2012 at 9:21am

    Captive audiences in the past…Have clapped / cheered for the cameras.
    Does anyone want a bet the Only weapons in that auditorium ..
    Are the one the Secret Service have.

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    • biohazard23
      Posted on May 2, 2012 at 9:38am

      In N Korea, they even have them cry on command for Dear Leader lest they go to the work camps.

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    • MONICNE
      Posted on May 2, 2012 at 9:49am

      “I applaud him being in Afghanistan. I think it’s important for the troops to see the President. And certainly after all these years of fighting where the troops have done such heroic work and did such an outstanding job, I think it’s important for the president to be there and signing the agreement with President Karzai.”

      TEA

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    • drbage
      Posted on May 2, 2012 at 10:01am

      There is a new edition of Webster‘s out that has Obummer’s picture beside it for narcissism. His arrogance knows no equal except for that of Moochelle.

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    • imsteph
      Posted on May 2, 2012 at 10:11am

      this dog and pony show that our commander in chief continues to perpetuate is nauseating.

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    • starman70
      Posted on May 2, 2012 at 10:15am

      THE ULTIMATE EPITOME OF ARROGANCE!!! “We’ve got ME in the house”. Please excuse me for a moment while I hurl!!!!!

      This Elitest, Socialist, Islamist, Anti-American, Anti-Constitutionalist wants us to believe that we should all bow down to HIM just because “We have ME in the house”? I bet 80% of the captive audience would have gotten up and walked out if they weren’t afraid of the military punishment they would have received. Everybody in that captive audience KNOWS that Obama wants to SPAY AND NUTER the military of the USA and make our elite armed services more like those of the world’s banana republics.

      To all who proudly serve AMERICA, in every branch of the military, if you are going to be away for the Nov. 20th election, don’t forget to get your absentee ballots and vote to end this nutralization of our military might.
      To the rest of us, retired military or just plain ordinary citizens, we know what is happening. We see the degradation of our country and we WILL halt the decline, by BALLOT not bullets.

      Even those on welfare or any form of public assistance, if Obama is allowed to continue to bankrupt America, when the money runs out for food stamps, rent subsidies, Medicaid, Medicare and child care, YOU the welfare receiptients will go hungry. THINK ABOUT IT!!! YOU WILL SUFFER THE MOST!!!

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    • turkey13
      Posted on May 2, 2012 at 10:24am

      “Those in power need checks and restraints lest they come to identify the common good for their own tastes and desires, and their continuation in office as essential to the preservation of the nation.” – Justice William O. Douglas

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    • AvengerK
      Posted on May 2, 2012 at 10:33am

      MONACNE/SLEAZY HIPPO (and any other screenname of your yours I’ve not mentioned)…spare us your platitudes. You have a penchant for dripping your treacly platitudes over anything that you believe will ingratiate you to a reader or obfuscate for you. As a leftist you have an innate contempt for the U.S. military. You were the same leftist dolt who was applauding Obama when he said all the troops in Afghanistan are doing is “airraiding villages and killing civilians”. You don’t fool anyone you lefty cur.
      So you applaud his transparent campaign ploy MONACNE? He could have given the same speech from the Oval office..only..he wouldn’t have the props there. I‘m surprised Barry didn’t hand out lab coats this time.

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    • AvengerK
      Posted on May 2, 2012 at 10:36am

      Acknowledging your platitudes and duplicity MONACNE/SLEAZY HIPPO….why don’t you show some courage of your own and tell me why you need so many screennanmes for yourself on these boards? Is it some tricky little strategy your keepers at Media Matters said would be effective? If that’s so then you failed them when you forgot who you were posting as and used your “TEA” tagline for one of your other persona’s posts. Come on MOREACNE/SLEAZY HIPPO….why all the screennames champ?

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    • AvengerK
      Posted on May 2, 2012 at 10:39am

      MOREACNE/SLEAZY HIPPO..what agreement did Barry sign with Karzai? All it said was they would agree to talk further. Wow…Barry’s presence certainly was the much needed breakthrough huh? Much like everything with Barry…all show, no substance.

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    • rangerp
      Posted on May 2, 2012 at 11:21am

      Never in my 25 years of military service, I have never seen a commander in chief act this way.

      I do not understand the left wing media who bows down to his “gutsy move” in getting OBL. What gutsy act did Obama make? The team of CIA and Spec Ops that hunted him were put in place long before Obama showed up. It was this team that ran him out of Afghanistan, and put him on the run. It was this team that finally pin pointed him, and it took a whole lot of begging, pleading, and arm bending to just get Obama to allow them to do the raid.

      How lond did it take law enforcement at every level to capture Eric Rudolph? Rudolph was hiding inside the US. He did not have millions and the middle east to help him out. It took our boys a while to get him, but it was CIA and SPeck ops that did it, not Obama.

      I never heard the left wing media praise Bush when Sadam Hussein was captured. They did not praise the firts Bush when Noriaga was nabbed.

      Tell me this. What would have happend during the Bush years, if spec ops would have nabbed a bad guy, shot him with no chance of capture, even if he surrendered. Take him out on a boat, tie a rock to him, and sink him. Do you think the left wing media would have made a hero of Bush?
      The media is such a joke any more.

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    • turkey13
      Posted on May 2, 2012 at 11:53am

      Obama knows that it won’t make any difference if he ticks them off! I read somewhere that servicemen won’t be able to vote if they are not at home. It costs to much money to expedite their votes, and it holds up the voteing talley while someone has to get to their voteing districts and usually wont change the outcome unless it’s a super close race.

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    • IronSights
      Posted on May 2, 2012 at 11:55am

      “And we’ve got me in the house.” Thought I smelled something.

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    • Baddoggy
      Posted on May 2, 2012 at 12:06pm

      Were the troops unarmed when he said that? Just asking….

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    • VRW Conspirator
      Posted on May 2, 2012 at 1:25pm

      @Monicne

      You have read the Constitution right…the President can sign all the crap he wants with any foreign leader, even a drug dealing tribal gangster…but it has ZERO weight. The Congress has the power to ratify any agreement with a foreign nation.
      Any agreement with another nation is technically a “treaty” agreement. The President can request them and even negotiate them, but the Senate must ratify them. So basically the only thing that Obama did was “sneak” away, even though most media outlets were reported him in Afghanistan but the WH was denying it, for a photo op with Karazai and self promotion for his election (illegal by campaign rules -mixing government business with campaign business) to the troops (which aren’t going to vote for him anyway.)
      This was just another campaign stop and speech for the President to a manufactured crowd.

      The most corrupt administration in history and most detrimental to the Constitution and the United States, even more than Carter ( whom by the way said he would have no problem if Romney won, so even Carter knows Obama is pathetic as a President).

      God save the Republic!

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    • poorrichard09
      Posted on May 2, 2012 at 1:46pm

      All hail the conquering hero! NOT!

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    • JRook
      Posted on May 2, 2012 at 1:50pm

      Ah so the implication is that the military cannot think for themselves and no member of the military would cheer for the President. Such fiction should be offered to FOX News as it clearly fits their editorial standards.

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    • MONICNE
      Posted on May 2, 2012 at 2:43pm

      Oh boy! Did I ever pull a *****!

      I forgot to mention that that paragraph I posted this morning (in Quotation marks), was a direct quote from Representative Bud McKeon (R-CA) who is the Chairman of the House Armed Services Committee. I apologize if anyone thought those were my words, darn. My bad.

      Oh, and Captain Rangerp, thanks again for your service. we don’t say that to you enough, Sir.

      TEA

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    • Upaces
      Posted on May 2, 2012 at 2:43pm

      This is a MUCH Better Video:
      Two President Meet OUR Military:

      Two Presidents — Bush and Obama with the Military

      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIHz5tevLAw

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    • sawbuck
      Posted on May 2, 2012 at 2:50pm

      Jrook
      The ones that fall for his BULL… are a tad slow.. they haven’t been around long enough to know better…That’s why the MILITARY RECRUITS THEM AT A YOUNG AGE….TO MOLD THEM THE WAY THEY WANT THEM…
      Some military men and woman don’t get their independent brain until their around thirty after life has thrown them a few curve balls…and if they don’t get their head on straight by then..
      Well…Most of them become LIBERALS.

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    • MAMMY_NUNN
      Posted on May 2, 2012 at 3:15pm

      I bet all were mandated to attend and endure the punishment.

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    • MCDAVE
      Posted on May 2, 2012 at 6:50pm

      Ron Reagen had trouble starting a speech because the cheers just would not stop..Americans loved and respected him…..Obama has to trick people for applause…pathetic …….. vote the communist out in November.

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    • AvengerK
      Posted on May 2, 2012 at 7:25pm

      MONACNE…apparently you expect conservatives to invest the same groupthink you lefties do and agree with everything a republican says? Happy to disappoint you champ. Apparently the fact that politicians will offer platitudes like the one you offered in deference to decorum is beyond you sweetie?

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    • AvengerK
      Posted on May 2, 2012 at 7:29pm

      Oh and MONACNE..I pointed out earlier on this thread that you have a sickening trait of pouring treacly platitudes at any given time to ingratiate yourself or to obfuscate..this time RANGERP was the target of your duplicity. Thank you for proving me right..again. You really can’t help yourself can you champ?

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    • rangerp
      Posted on May 2, 2012 at 10:23pm

      MONICNE

      You just demoted me by a whole lot. been a long time since I was a captain.

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    • BelievinginAmerica
      Posted on May 3, 2012 at 1:07am

      I beat your right!

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  • AJAYW
    Posted on May 2, 2012 at 9:21am

    What a coward – in and out of the country under the cover of darkness

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    • dealer@678
      Posted on May 2, 2012 at 10:02am

      That same thought crossed my mind

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    • Vickie Dhaene
      Posted on May 2, 2012 at 11:03am

      Like a cockroach they come out in the dark.
      This man should be declared pathologically INSANE.

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    • AmericanStrega
      Posted on May 2, 2012 at 12:00pm

      Actually, I was thinking Obama was out of country just in case the May Day riots got too out of hand so he wouldn’t get his hands dirty.

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  • SpaceCoyote
    Posted on May 2, 2012 at 9:21am

    He is comparing the CIC as a unit of the military !?!? The nerve of this guy to compare himself to the members of the military. He has no shame!!!

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  • zoro51
    Posted on May 2, 2012 at 9:20am

    arrogant NON caring SOCIALIST weak leader MUSLUM LOVING MONEY GIVING evita obama TAX N SPEECH END HIS MADNESS n RAPE OF AMERICA IMPEACH THE BARSTRED

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  • Thevoice
    Posted on May 2, 2012 at 9:19am

    Boy if Obama didn’t plan this trip just in time to get out of the way of his OWS commie encampment dwellers mental holiday. That’s ok Barry boy. They are all waiting for you when you get back. I could just imagine that meeting…Barry you have to distance your self May 1 ..Don’t be around ..Go do something with the military that looks patriotic. `Mark my words between now and November his little commies he thought he could control are going to turn on him and inflict serious problems for the closet commie Obama. Really I can’t understand why the Ows idiots waste time marching in small groups. Why don’t they storm the Capital and White house. Hell Obama is in charge they can take up their grievances of not getting enough free government stuff directly with him…

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  • Dde13
    Posted on May 2, 2012 at 9:18am

    The man needs a reality check in November….bye bye obummer…..

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  • Listen_then_think
    Posted on May 2, 2012 at 9:18am

    This “guy” is such a total loser! He must have been beaten up repeatedly as a child. I would not have boo’ed if in the military, I would NOT have cheered though. Crickets would have been a better response. Oblamer does not deserve respect from the troops, he has done nothing so far to get it.

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    • starman70
      Posted on May 2, 2012 at 10:42am

      This is the most arrogant man alive.

      Have you ever watched him speak? He looks to the left and up, then looks to the right and up. The impression he gives is, LOOK AT MY IMMACULATE PROFILE AND WORSHIP ME!!! He displays the most egotistical attitude that this country has ever seen in its presidency or any other office as a matter of fact. He gives the inpression that when he speaks, we should not only listen to his words and take them as gospel but we should all kneel and worship him.

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  • Stoic one
    Posted on May 2, 2012 at 9:16am

    And no doubt that moment will appear in his campaign ads later this year.

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  • cemerius
    Posted on May 2, 2012 at 9:14am

    My greatest joy is to see him and Michelle my belle packing their mini van with luggage!!! This man gives “doggy bag” new meaning!!!

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    • Pium Vir
      Posted on May 2, 2012 at 9:54am

      Remember when the Clintons left and there were all the rumors that they trashed the place and stole all kinds of things? Can you imagine what this wretched excuse for a “family” will do?

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    • Pium Vir
      Posted on May 2, 2012 at 10:00am

      2nd try: Remeber when the Clintons left and there were all the rumors about them trashing the White House and stealing things? Imagine when this wretched excuse for a “family” is told to leave…

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    • cemerius
      Posted on May 2, 2012 at 5:08pm

      Yeah they took ALL of the W’s from the keyboard! I think it will be the Secret Service and a crowbar to remove him from the seat in the Oval Office!

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    • MCDAVE
      Posted on May 2, 2012 at 6:57pm

      @CEMERIUS he does not spend any time in the oval office…White house insider sources say he spends most of his time watching sports on big screen TV….

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  • Louise Massa
    Posted on May 2, 2012 at 9:12am

    The Military can‘t criticize their Commander in Chief so he was certain he wouldn’t get what he deserved a boooooooooooooooo! Sorry but I just don’t see the man doing anything other than for political purposes. It’s all about “Him” politically motivated and for his best interest and not for the best interest of the country. I see this trip at this time and on the occasion of the 1 yr anniversary of the death of bin Laden part of his political campaign. He is the quintessential politician he’ll do and say what ever it takes to stay in power. And if he is re-elected there will be “NOTHING” stopping him, “bye, bye, Miss American pie….”

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  • Tri-ox
    Posted on May 2, 2012 at 9:12am

    The enemy has spoken.

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  • Gonzo
    Posted on May 2, 2012 at 9:09am

    He’s a tool. The troops should cheer the POTUS though, no matter who it is. The office deserves the respect…not the man.

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    • Fubared
      Posted on May 2, 2012 at 9:24am

      Exactly. Not something the left would teach or project, but right on again Gonzo.

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    • FED-UP-AND-READY-TO-TAKE-ACTION
      Posted on May 2, 2012 at 9:43am

      I too agree the office demands the respect but the holder deserves none. Tough spot for our troopers to be in. There have been great men to hold the office, there have been lesser men to hold the office but the fact that we have the “office” dictates we all respect the “office”.

      How could any honest God fearing man/American look himself in the mirror with the knowledge of what he really is. I have a son in the ARMY. I asked him how he could join knowing who the commander in chief was, his answer is he is there to serve his county and fellow soldiers. He may be man than me……………..

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    • Gonzo
      Posted on May 2, 2012 at 9:56am

      You should be very proud of him Fed Up. Tell him there are a lot of us praying for he and his fellow servicemen.

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    • Baja
      Posted on May 2, 2012 at 10:32am

      He doesn’t rate tool. He’s a tool box.

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    • Dismayed Veteran
      Posted on May 2, 2012 at 11:03am

      @ Fed

      Be proud of your son. I am of mine. You and your spouse raised a good man.

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    • FED-UP-AND-READY-TO-TAKE-ACTION
      Posted on May 2, 2012 at 12:35pm

      Dismayed,

      Thanks, yes we are very proud of our son. He has always wanted to serve his country. One of the things he said that really showed me his true nature was when he was deciding what he wanted to sign up for (scored high so lots options) he said after thinking for several days. Dad while I know I may have to take a life I would rather try to save a life that take a life so I will chose “combat medic”. I can say I was very honored to have him say something like that. He has many friends in service. He lost a very close friend in the Marines who was KIA in Oct. I say that to say there are still lots of young men and women who even with the current state of things still wanting to serve their country.

      As for me as a father I just wish we had someone in office who I knew was a man of honor and truth so “God forbid” something ever happened to my son at least he was serving an upstanding leader.

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    • nmgene
      Posted on May 2, 2012 at 3:55pm

      you do not get respect for the office you hold. you get respect for proper actions not lies and deceit!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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  • TruthisHealthy
    Posted on May 2, 2012 at 9:06am

    Barry is an arrogant treasonous ANTI-AMERICAN military hating fraud! Period. He commands no respect!

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    • rangerp
      Posted on May 2, 2012 at 9:17am

      in 25 years of military service, I have never seen a commander in chief act this way.

      I do not understand the left wing media who bows down to his “gutsy move” in getting OBL. What gutsy act did Obama make? The team of CIA and Spec Ops that hunted him were put in place long before Obama showed up. It was this team that ran him out of Afghanistan, and put him on the run. It was this team that finally pin pointed him, and it took a whole lot of begging, pleading, and arm bending to just get Obama to allow them to do the raid.

      How lond did it take law enforcement at every level to capture Eric Rudolph? Rudolph was hiding inside the US. He did not have millions and the middle east to help him out. It took our boys a while to get him, but it was CIA and SPeck ops that did it, not Obama.

      I never heard the left wing media praise Bush when Sadam Hussein was captured. They did not praise the firtst Bush when Noriaga was nabbed.

      The media is such a joke any more.

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    • closetotheedge
      Posted on May 2, 2012 at 9:22am

      Another empty order,made with another minion, while we slept.Oba buying time for his Muslum Bros slapping more $ on the fire. See him for who he really is…..???? Well??

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  • hillbillyinny
    Posted on May 2, 2012 at 9:06am

    This guy is the crasist, most self-centered person I’ve ever seen–except maybe other socicalist and communist leaders!!!

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  • SquidVetOhio
    Posted on May 2, 2012 at 9:04am

    Not for long homey.

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  • thibx
    Posted on May 2, 2012 at 9:02am

    unbelieveable who gives a crap about him. they should have booded. i can’t stand this man. he must have some mental problems.

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    • VinnieSquawker
      Posted on May 2, 2012 at 10:26am

      He does. It’s called Narcissism. Very embarrassing, but only if you have the brains to realize how silly it makes one look. Obviously, the kid does not have that problem…

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  • RightUnite
    Posted on May 2, 2012 at 9:01am

    Nice… Now I have to get another keyboard…. I really need to learn not to drink coffee at the computer when reading anything related to Obama….

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  • RedDirtTexas
    Posted on May 2, 2012 at 9:01am

    What a cheap trick to get a cheer! Sounded like the troops hesitated and then gave a little half-hearted obligatory cheer. Sort of like calling your boss “sir” even though you‘re doing all the work and he can’t even carry your tool bag!

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  • tweetybird
    Posted on May 2, 2012 at 9:01am

    President Obama is a complete disgrace.

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  • nocalifornia
    Posted on May 2, 2012 at 9:00am

    To bad they take their weapons away when this Jack Wagon or anyone else from his administration comes to visit. Just saying if there was some sort of Taliban attack this jerk would be screwed.

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    • RLTW
      Posted on May 2, 2012 at 9:29am

      Correct, BO and Billy always take weapons away. In one case in the 90’s the SS had a unit remove all the bolts and zip tied the flash suppressers for a pass and review.
      BO and Mooch have been working hard attempting to manipulate the military, I’ve seen what can only be called BHO shrines at many Post/Base exchanges, I find it sick.

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    • whatthecrazy
      Posted on May 2, 2012 at 10:02am

      Thats because our muslim countrysitter and his admin. are thugs and must know that Good Americans can see that this admin. is evil,we civilians live with that threat of being harmed every day.

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  • biohazard23
    Posted on May 2, 2012 at 8:59am

    Pathetic. Completely shameless and pathetic. Guess Barry didn’t get enough attention as a kid, not even from a dog.

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    • Marci
      Posted on May 2, 2012 at 9:09am

      Narcissist to the core.

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    • Carol1955
      Posted on May 2, 2012 at 11:03am

      What dog would have trusted him????

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    • old blacksmith
      Posted on May 2, 2012 at 4:32pm

      and his dog’s name is Bo…….
      like B. O. like Barak Obama
      who in hell would name their dog after themselves?
      think it through, barry. “junior” the dog would have got you the same thing.
      but your initials? you are such a smack.

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  • Captain Crunch
    Posted on May 2, 2012 at 8:59am

    I hope he stays there.

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  • EqualJustice
    Posted on May 2, 2012 at 8:56am

    HAHAHA Fear of being BOOOOOOOOed again?

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  • Teabunny
    Posted on May 2, 2012 at 8:55am

    unrelated update…Ows must be taking to the skies! can ANYONE remember a nato summit…CAUSING A NO FLY ZONE???
    http://www.aopa.org/advocacy/articles/2012/120430tfr-to-shut-down-chicago-airspace-for-nato-summit.html

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    • Teabunny
      Posted on May 2, 2012 at 9:07am

      ya know. turkey is with russia and iran in defending assad…meanwhile USa wants Nato to do no fly zone in Syria (even though the only thing flying are missles, not bombers) just like Lybia. they fear regime change agenda…as in lybia …here is where it gets freaky…Israel is actually for assad…because they don’t want MB to rule. yet turkey threatens nato summit over israel…hmmm

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    • cemerius
      Posted on May 2, 2012 at 9:58am

      careful teabunny..that train of thinking will make “blood shoot from your eyes”!! lol

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    • Fulgora
      Posted on May 3, 2012 at 1:09am

      Teabunny, it’s true that Israel does not want to share yet another border with the Muslim Brotherhood (like the border with newly-radical-Islamist Egypt)–which is what will take over Syria if/when the Assad regime is brought down. But–that doesn‘t mean that Israel is ’for’ Assad, either (or his puppetmasters in Iran, or their genocidal thugs Hezbollah). Fact is, there ARE no good guys in the fighting in Syria. There may be victims and oppressors at this moment–but these roles will certainly reverse if today‘s ’victims‘ become tomorrow’s winners.

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  • Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
    Posted on May 2, 2012 at 8:50am

    “Weve got ME in the HOUSE.” Obama said.

    One more proof of his naricssistic madness; impeach him now as he is unfit mentally for holding of the office. God help us if he gets another term.

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