Prisoner swap blows up on WH

Prisoner swap blows up on WH. We’ll be lucky if that’s the only thing that blows up. “Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton provided Obama with some political cover on Tuesday, saying she doesn’t believe in ‘second-guessing’ the president.” There’s more bullsh*t in that one sentence than all the pastures in Texas.

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  • Why Team Obama Was Blindsided by the Bergdahl Backlash: The president and Ms. Rice seem to think that the crime of desertion in wartime is kind of like skipping class. By Ralph Peters
    http://www.nationalreview.com/article/379481/why-team-obama-was-blindsided-bergdahl-backlash-ralph-peters
    Excerpt: Congratulations, Mr. President! And identical congrats to your sorcerer’s apprentice, National Security Adviser Susan Rice. By trying to sell him as an American hero, you’ve turned a deserter already despised by soldiers in the know into quite possibly the most-hated individual soldier in the history of our military. I have never witnessed such outrage from our troops. Exhibit A: Ms. Rice. In one of the most tone-deaf statements in White House history (we’re making a lot of history here), the national-security adviser, on a Sunday talk show, described Bergdahl as having served “with honor and distinction.” (Col Peters does a very nice job on this. --Del. I dunno--I hate Bradley/Chelsea Manning a lot too. ~Bob)

    • They were blindsided because they have no concept of loyalty and brotherhood, they only understand coercion and threats.
      They have made this guy more hated than Lt Calley.

  • "Okay - I want Darth Vader, Darth Maul, Count Dooku, the Emperor, and the Death Star. You get Jar-Jar Binks. Good deal, right?"

    • You know, Bergdahl's mom is pretty hot.............. I would like to try to convert her back to a Christian.

  • On a slightly different tangent, Brandon Webb stated on the Wilkow Majority today that the reason Bergdahl is beardless is most likely due to the fact that men without beards in that culture are sex toys for Taliban fighters. I almost drove off the road when I heard that.

  • In case any of you are wondering this is what is known as SMART Power!!!111!!!elebinty. I for one would like some of that old dumb power back.

  • I really believe that this arrogant asshole really doesn't have a clue of the role of the President of the United States. He thinks he is some banana republic dictator that can do whatever he wants no matter who it harms and no matter the stupidity. "I am the King". Anyone who disagrees or even grumbles is labeled a traitor, terrorist, homophobic, racist, greedy, anti-American, etc, and sics his Gestapo (the IRS) on them and/or has his suckholes in the media and Congress viciously attack them.
    This is all quite aggravating but even more aggravating is the in-comprehensively stupid buffoons in the general public still support him because they are sucked in by the media. Anyone so stupid as to have not figured out the fucking media by this time is beyond help.

  • Breaking new, quagmire has just found out Qatar has given the 5 newly released terrorist walking around money. Right along with a passport and visa for each. Boy is he pissed, he will be getting to the bottom of this and holding those responsible for it accountable. Guess he better look in the mirror.

    • Hey Ms. M, did you know the dude tried to join the French Foreign Legion when he was 20, and the French said,"pas du tout"? He joined the Army at 22 on a lark.

      And he told a friend in the unit while still stateside in Jan. of '09,"If this deployment is lame," Bowe said, "I'm just going to walk off into the mountains of Pakistan." They deployed in March.

    • I can't believe that you can't believe this. He fully expects everyone to bow to his superior intellect.

    • No one in DC has seriously called them on their crimes in the five plus years Obama has been in office and the MSM has refused to do its job of actually reporting news or vetting the Chief Executive Criminal so it's perfectly logical that they are unprepared for the well deserved blow back with this swap- and the FACT that it happened to be a treasonous turncoat they selected to intervene for. The brazen nature of what this administration does reflects a sense of being above the law and the lack of other branches applying checks and balances has done nothing to dispel that.