It is being called “Semper Latte” and, if this is the biggest scandal that President Barack Obama has to worry about, his Administration is safe. Various people are denouncing the President for saluting his Marine guard while holding a cup of tea or coffee. From CNN to the Daily Mail to ABC to the New York Daily News to the Washington Post to the New York Post to NBC to CBS to countless others, the salute is generating heated comments across the country. YouTube clips show the salute over and over along with multiple postings expressing outrage. My reaction is a bit different. The President has launched another declared war that his aides say could last “years.” However, there seem more debate over this tempest in a tea [cup] than the fact that we are bombing another nation.
The President did not put his styrofoam cup in his other hand while stepping out of Marine One — a breach of military regulations and decorum. He appears to have forgotten the salute as he multitasked with his cup while buttoning his jacket.
What truly amazes me is that the White House released the photo. No one saw the problem and actually viewed the picture as worthy of sending out on the web.
However, it is the relative attention given the issue that is mystifying. Many irate people over the salute are less aggrieved by the war just commenced on the sole authority of this President. Just as there is an appropriate way to salute a Marine, there is an appropriate way to send a Marine to war. The Constitution is quite clear about starting wars and there is far more at stake. We should be at least as aggrieved when our Constitution is being disrespected or ignored as we are the Marine guard this week. Just a thought.
That’s why they enlist the UN…all powerful oz….
Sandi,
We have not declared war since WWII. Korea, sometimes known as the forgotten war, was a police action by the United Nations with us in the lead. Vietnam was another non-declared war.
I wonder if the lack of declaring war allows the US to circumvent some treaty requirements of doing so, hence the police actions.
O-5 Charlton.
Wasn’t Korea a police action? Was war ever declared? Ditto Vietnam. Have we declared war since WWII?
Eric,
He is a mustang officer. Former silent drill, knows his rules backward and forward. He did not get all that braid, fruit salad and gold wings by sitting on his hands. They have tried to get him to come back as an O-5 (Commander). He knows his protocols.
The USCG was founded in 1780, four years before the Army.
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“Just the facts, ma’am.”
Now go look under your bed John, I hear communists are hiding there.
John, you wish. Guess what, I won’t. Just to bug you.
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Ya think?
You voted for Bush? Guess what, it’s your fault our economy almost tanked.
You voted for Bush? Guess what, it’s your fault Iraq is a mess.
Why don’t you just call for his lynching Olly? You wonder why some think that kind of rhetoric is extreme?
Yup, some don’t like his color. Some don’t like his inability to admit when he’s wrong. Some don’t like anyone lying to them, EVER. Some don’t like his friends. I happen to loathe his lack of humility and utter dis-respect for our rule of law. I actually feel sorry for those that trusted him because he’s brought shame upon their character. They have only one choice and that is to ride the horse until it can’t be ridden any further. His legion’s need a Robin William’s character telling them: “It’s not your fault”.
Black Olly, black. I think it’s unrealistic to say there isn’t a contingent of people in this country that are bigoted toward black people.
Next you’ll tell us we can’t be “nationalists.”
Oops! The global collectivists already did.
Looks like the only thing left to “be” is a “global warmingist.”
Oops! Due to egregious fraud and corruption, they changed that to being a “climate changeist,” right?
It’s so hard to keep up with the collectivist campaigns.
Geez! Individual freedom and self-reliance would be so much easier.
Annie, are you saying people hate Obama because he’s white or because he’s black? How would one tell? I’ve never been given a satisfactory answer.
It’s so tiresome when people keep denying the obvious.
It’s so tiresome when people keep trotting out the race card.
Fact: Many people opposed Obama’s Presidency, even after he was elected, BEFORE the mountain of scandals began piling up.
Cause A: They were all completely racist, and their opposition had nothing to do with the facts.
Cause B: They opposed him after he was elected for the same reason they opposed him before he was elected. Namely, his Liberal politics and close association with highly objectionable people, such as the unrepentant domestic terrorist Bill Ayers (who wished he had done MORE), and the racist Rev Wright. He also ran on Obamacare, which many opposed. He had very little experience, having never actually run anything, and wasn’t even in the Senate very long.
Not coincidentally, he has fulfilled what critics promised he would do based on his past statements and politics. For example, that Obamacare would increase health care costs, and people would lose their policies and their doctors.
You know, this may come as a surprise to some Obama supporters, but not everyone actually likes his policies or their outcome. And that has nothing whatever to do with the basal melanin of his skin.