Robert Gates' book lays bare Obama's incompetence

[The Nature Boy 4,224]

http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2014/01/13/former-defense-secretary-gates-book-lays-bare-obama-incompetence/

With media attention focused on Chris Christie and Bridgegate, it was easy to miss a more important Washington story last week. The other shoe dropped on the Obama presidency.

Still battered at home by the ObamaCare debacle and the permanently sluggish economy, the last thing the White House wanted was bad news on foreign policy. But that’s exactly what it got, and then some, thanks to the shockingly scathing book by Robert Gates.

The former defense secretary offers the most devastating critique to come from an Obama insider. He paints the president as estranged from the very Afghan military surge he ordered and suspicious of and hostile toward top leaders of the armed forces.

President Obama’s lack of commitment to the War on Terror is something our enemies already figured out and are exploiting.
Gates is especially critical of Vice President Joe Biden, writing that he has been “wrong on nearly every major foreign-policy and national-security issue over the past four decades.”

He blames Biden and others for leading Obama to believe that military leaders were giving the president “the bum’s rush” in seeking more troops in Afghanistan in 2009, according to excerpts.

“Suspicion and distrust of senior military officers by senior White House officials — including the president and vice president — became a big problem for me,” Gates writes.

Hillary Rodham Clinton also comes off as a craven politician, with Gates saying he witnessed Clinton confess to Obama that she opposed the 2007 Iraq surge because she thought it would help her 2008 presidential campaign.

To continue reading Michael Goodwin's column in the New York Post, click here.

[We Keep Receipts 9,238]

Good job. Even when a republican screws up, I can always count on you to keep the focus where it REALLY belongs.

[The Nature Boy 4,224]

Good job. Even when a republican screws up, I can always count on you to keep the focus where it REALLY belongs.

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[GandD 5,966]

Marvin I do really appreciate the vote of confidence dude. Most of you left types only post snide hateful comments.

The "right types" only post peace love and happiness comments. Nothing ever hateful about women, gays, or "left types"

EVER!

[luckytxn 2,264]

It is one thing to be the worst POTUS ever but to be so weak also is shameful.

http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2014/01/13/former-defense-secretary-gates-book-lays-bare-obama-incompetence/

With media attention focused on Chris Christie and Bridgegate, it was easy to miss a more important Washington story last week. The other shoe dropped on the Obama presidency.

Still battered at home by the ObamaCare debacle and the permanently sluggish economy, the last thing the White House wanted was bad news on foreign policy. But that’s exactly what it got, and then some, thanks to the shockingly scathing book by Robert Gates.

The former defense secretary offers the most devastating critique to come from an Obama insider. He paints the president as estranged from the very Afghan military surge he ordered and suspicious of and hostile toward top leaders of the armed forces.

President Obama’s lack of commitment to the War on Terror is something our enemies already figured out and are exploiting.
Gates is especially critical of Vice President Joe Biden, writing that he has been “wrong on nearly every major foreign-policy and national-security issue over the past four decades.”

He blames Biden and others for leading Obama to believe that military leaders were giving the president “the bum’s rush” in seeking more troops in Afghanistan in 2009, according to excerpts.

“Suspicion and distrust of senior military officers by senior White House officials — including the president and vice president — became a big problem for me,” Gates writes.

Hillary Rodham Clinton also comes off as a craven politician, with Gates saying he witnessed Clinton confess to Obama that she opposed the 2007 Iraq surge because she thought it would help her 2008 presidential campaign.

To continue reading Michael Goodwin's column in the New York Post, click here.

[GandD 5,966]

Won't the military always be for more troops, more weapons, and more action?

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

It is one thing to be the worst POTUS ever but to be so weak also is shameful.

Do you honestly believe Obama is the worst potus or are you just saying it to get at others on the assumption that they think he's the best?

What if you believe he's neither the best nor the worst?

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

Won't the military always be for more troops, more weapons, and more action?

You mean for more big government? Yes. The military will always be for more big government.

[GandD 5,966]

What if you believe he's neither the best nor the worst?

Then you're a sheep apparently.

[Penny Lane 8,159]

There are some that honestly believe Obama is the WORST EVER. Short memories, I guess.

[We Keep Receipts 9,238]

It is one thing to be the worst POTUS ever but to be so weak also is shameful.

Sorry, but it's premature to say he's the worst ever when you will have so many more for centuries to come.

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

There are some that honestly believe Obama is the WORST EVER. Short memories, I guess.

There are a lot of things to criticise Obama for, but to say he's the worst president ever? That's a difficult argument to make...

[Penny Lane 8,159]

There are a lot of things to criticise Obama for, but to say he's the worst president ever? That's a difficult argument to make...

It's a super easy argument to make when you don't back it up with anything.

[We Keep Receipts 9,238]

It's a super easy argument to make when you don't back it up with anything.

Even easier when you consider that he's not even American to begin with.

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

Bush 2 was bad for pushing aggressive foreign policies at the expense of the domestic agenda.

It's interesting that people say Carter was the worst potus ever, yet he inherited a bad economy from Nixon and Ford. Nixon also pushed foreign policy to the detriment of the domestic.

Personally I think Nixon was worst in living memory. Worst ever? Obviously Ulysses S Grant.