Passing along an email I just received from a close friend in the Marine Corps.  I am redacting out the officer's names to protect them from retaliation as they are not supposed to make political comments outside the service.  This is not one of those that circulates around the internet without any way of verification, but was sent to me personally. 

Take it for what it is worth.  If you are an Obama supporter, and believe as he does, then you should vote for him, but if you are a supporter of our military this is something you should keep in mind.

Marines:

The following was forwarded by my college roommate,                , an Army Artillery Officer RVN.  It's visual confirmation of what most of us sensed. Good to know we are not paranoid.  Bad for those of us who  believe in America first (1.5 million in uniform right now, their families, and 90 percent of the those who served in RVN-still not enough to cause "Sophisticated Europe-o-philes" to worry about losing our vote).

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From:
Date: Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 11:32 PM



    Subject: An Army Captain's view of Hussein Obama's Visit

    Subject: Obama's Visit

    


    Hello everyone,

    

    As you know I am not a very political person. I just wanted to pass along that Senator Obama came to Bagram Afghanistan for about an hour on his visit to 'The War Zone'. I wanted to share with you what happened. He got off the plane and got into a bullet proof vehicle, got to the area to meet with the Major General (2 Star) who is the commander here at Bagram. As the Soldiers where lined up to shake his hand he blew them off and didn't say a word as he went into the conference room to meet the General. As he finished, the vehicles took him to the ClamShell (pretty much a big top tent that military personnel can play basketball or work out in with weights) so he could take his publicity pictures playing basketball. He again shunned the opportunity to talk to Soldiers to thank them for their service. So really he was just here to make a showing for the American's back home that he is their candidate for President. I think that if you are going to make an effort to come all the way over here you would thank those that are providing the freedom that they are providing for you.

    

    I swear we got more thanks from the NBA Basketball Players or the Dallas Cowboy Cheerleaders than from one of the Senators, who wants to be the President of the United States. I just don't understand how anyone would want him to be our Commander-and-Chief. It was almost that he was scared to be around those that provide the freedom for him and our great country. If this is blunt and to the point I am sorry but I wanted you all to know what kind of caliber of person he really is. What you see in the news is all fake.

    

    In service,

    

   
    Battle Captain
    TF Wasatch
    American Soldier

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I'm not clear. Did he see the kids in the hospital or not?

Charlotte

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Charlotte wrote on Jul 27^th, 2008 at 6:20pm:


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Obama says the pentagon told him not to go, the pentagon says they only told him to not bring cameras.......No cameras, no Obama, its that simple!

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USA TODAY's Tom Vanden Brook reports that the Pentagon says it had made arrangements it thought would be appropriate:

Geoff Morrell, Pentagon press secretary, said the military had arranged for Obama to visit Landstuhl Army Regional Medical Center as a U.S. senator but not as a presidential candidate. That's because Pentagon policy prohibits campaigning at military sites. The ground rules should be familiar to Obama since they governed a recent visit he made to Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Morrell said.

The Pentagon arranged for Obama to visit Landstuhl and for his campaign staff and traveling press corps to be accommodated at a nearby airport, Morrell said.

"The Obama campaign was advised that Sen. Obama would be most welcome to visit Landstuhl or any other military hospital in his official capacity as a United States senator," Morrell said. "But his campaign staff would not be."

Have I had enough? I've had so much that I'm ready to turn the whole thing over to Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, and Hillary Clinton.

That oughta fix it.

vig, one could produce an equally long and reprehensible list of Democrats.  I think it is clear that the allure of power and privilege is too much for humans to resist for long, regardless of party affiliation.  It's time to clean house (and senate  LOL).  There are a lot of "Mr Smith's" out there who want to go to Washington.  I think it's time to get rid of the career politicians and vote in a new crop of people who will represent the people and not their own interests and ambitions.




...and then I woke up.  *sigh*

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Throw in an eternal Robert Byrd and you got yourself a deal.

Yeah baby, this in Obamas Ipod?  

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Paris Hilton is also HERE

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[quote author=65404141562F0 link=1217128296/0#19 date=1217554662]Oh man, this is way worse than I thought!





"I will SLOW our developement of future combat systems"

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What's wrong with that?
I have a friend in the National Guard. "Two weeks a year and one weekend a month" right?? She's been gone for three years.

Thanks for the Snopes link George.

No camera, NoBama.

I’m not sure he even exists. He’s a mythological creature that only appears when cameras are present.

Wise words Barbara