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Semper Latte: Cup Salute Seems To Generate More Attention Than Undeclared War In National Debate

1411505445739_wps_3_Americans_weren_t_amused_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.

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  3. Google Images, which are on the internet and not hosted on your computer. Any image with a URL attached to it will work.

    Now if someone can tell me how to do italics and boldface in the comments that would be cool.

  4. I will have to locate another copy on the Internet. Darn. And Annie, I did not know that. 🙂 I can do blockquotes and bold and that is the extent of my knowledge in WordPress. 😉 And sometimes I screw them up.

  7. just copy the url

    –“http://www.gunssavelife.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/whining-baby.jpg” — without the quotes and dashes and the image should appear as above.

  8. Paul, cut and paste the http. that ends with jpg. Here in the comments section, not the image itself, you knew that, right?

  10. Don’t you have other things to worry about Paul…. Or am I your only concern….

  11. Not working guys. Something is going haywire. Not getting the Copy Image Location. Have it on my desktop.

    1. Eric – I will be sending you a bill for the carpel tunnel. 🙂 That said, I would posit that there are no positive acts of terrorism against the United States yet. Kidnapping is not terrorism. Beheading kidnapped victims is not terrorism. So I am just not sure it falls under the purview of the act. Even declaring war is not terrorism, it is an act of war.

  14. Paul, click on “View Image”, then just cut and paste here into a comment. Just remember it MUST be a jpeg image.

  17. Paul C. Schulte: “However, since they are not calling it a war damned if I know what power he is using.”

    See my comment at September 24, 2014 at 1:19 pm.

  18. Annie,

    It does say that if you have an issue with another poster don’t trash em, just send the professor an email and he will take care of it…. Somehow or another, I suppose my emails are in the spam filter and the dynamic duos get through…. I am puzzled….

  20. I also had a source state that my comments had been placed in moderation. WordPress is user friendly, if you know what I mean.

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