The Colbert Report: U.S. Army Chain of Command
By Heather Wednesday Dec 02, 2009 8:30am
From The Colbert Report:
By sending 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan, President Obama must be unfamiliar with the chain of command.
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Andrea Mitchell Asks If President Obama Is Acting More Like Hamlet Than the Commander in Chief
By Heather Wednesday Nov 25, 2009 7:00amYou can view this video right here by getting the latest version of Flash Player!
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After playing part of old "Five Deferments" Dick Cheney's radio interview with right wing radio host Scott Hennen, Andrea Mitchall asks if President Obama is "acting more like Hamlet than the Commander in Chief". This from the supposed "liberal" network, MSNBC.
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McCain Fails McCain's Commander-in-Chief Test
By Jon Perr Monday Jul 28, 2008 5:30pm
Over the past few days, John McCain has launched an all-out war against Barack Obama's fitness to be commander-in-chief. In Denver on Friday, McCain claimed that in supporting the January 2007 surge in Iraq, he passed "a real-time test for a future commander-in-chief" his Democratic rival supposedly failed. That same day, McCain insisted to CNN's Wolf Blitzer, "I know how to win wars." And on ABC This Week on Sunday, McCain ridiculed over and over Barack Obama's "total lack of understanding" of the realities - and stakes - in Iraq.
As McCain put it in his address to the American GI Forum Friday, Barack Obama failed the John McCain commander-in-chief test:
"Senator Obama and I also faced a decision, which amounted to a real-time test for a future commander-in-chief. America passed that test. I believe my judgment passed that test. And I believe Senator Obama's failed."
Sadly, when it comes to the war in Iraq, it is the Arizona Republican who failed his own commander-in-chief exam. At almost every turn in the run-up to the invasion and the ensuing American occupation, McCain's judgment was almost always wrong, often disastrously so. From his predictions of a short war, claims U.S. troops would be greeted as liberators and that the U.S. would find weapons of mass destruction to his announcements of mission accomplished, his ongoing confusion over friend and foe in Iraq and so much more, John McCain the would-be wartime president gets failing marks.
That F grade is not, as McCain insists, a "job for the historians." As his past statements show, American voters can reach that conclusion right now.
