Caught this one earlier on the Daily Caller, didn’t want to post back to back posts from same source
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-hanger.
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.
Perhaps they’re a bit put out by Obama’s policies towards the military and that Obama keeps talking about himself, as well as giving himself pats on the back? Naa, they’re probably all just raaaaacists.
Similarly, his declaration that “around the world there’s a new attitude toward America, a new confidence in our leadership†yielded only silence, while his next sentence —“When people are asked ‘Which country do you admire most?’ one nation always comes out on top, the United States of America†—prompted relative enthusiasm.
So, the soldiers and their families weren’t particularly impressed with Obama’s “leadership”. Surprise! Unsurprisingly, several media outlets cut their coverage early, as did the White House feed. Nice Deb has a few thoughts, as well as video.
More: iy could be also that Obama did his standard “it’s not my fault/blamestorming” schtick.
