Obama takes photo op at Dover



I have no issue with the President visiting Dover to welcome home fallen soldiers. However, taking a photo op while there makes me want to puke.

Another entry for IfBushhaddoneit.com

I wonder if Reagan, Clinton and Obama had to get instructions on how to properly salute?

(10-29-2009 08:56 AM)GGniner Wrote:  Another entry for IfBushhaddoneit.com

Was thinking the same thing.

Can you imagine if Bush had done this the outcry we would have heard from the media and dems that Bush was politicizing dead soldiers?

I see he's wearing a lapel flag these days.

It is almost funny seeing Democrats who hate the US Military saluting, but since our troops are dying it isn't funny.

Here is the crackpot view of the photo-op:

Quote:Obama at Dover AFB Coffin Ceremonies
Posted by Lew Rockwell on October 29, 2009 10:32 AM

I have to give Obama a little credit. George Bush wouldn’t have been caught dead near US war dead, and his censors banned media images of the coffins. I know, I know, it’s probably a trick to keep the Democratic base in line with his wars. And note that I could only really respect Obama in this regard if he went on a funeral tour for Afghan, Iraqi, and Pakistani dead. And how about Vietnamese, Cambodian, and Laotian dead? Don’t forget Waco either.

You have to wonder if these loons are really this politically stupid OR if they have some other alterior anti-GOP, anti-Conservative motives, which of course does nothing more than aide their Far-Left friends like Glenn Greenwald ultimately.

(10-29-2009 07:34 AM)Ninerfan1 Wrote:  Obama takes photo op at Dover



I have no issue with the President visiting Dover to welcome home fallen soldiers. However, taking a photo op while there makes me want to puke.

I feel the same way .... it actually makes me physically sick to watch Soldiers have to Salute this clown and to watch him Salute back is like a knife being plunged thru my heart.

It is truly sickening to the N'th Degree and beyond.

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As long as a press notification was not sent out before hand (or intentional leak), this was not a photo op.

http://www.ap.org/FOI/foi_042909a.htm

Quote:Media interest has fallen off sharply since almost 40 reporters, photographers and camera operators turned out to document the arrival of Myers' body (first return open to press. At a more recent casualty arrival, the only media representative was a lone photographer from The Associated Press.

Odds are there was very little press there. I have to give credit where due.

Quote:Odds are there was very little press there. I have to give credit where due.

Since the story is from April I'm not lending it a ton of weight.

Given that nearly all politicians are media whores I'm prone to believe it was a photo op. I'd think the same if Bush had done it.

(10-30-2009 12:29 AM)T-Monay820 Wrote:  As long as a press notification was not sent out before hand (or intentional leak), this was not a photo op.

http://www.ap.org/FOI/foi_042909a.htm

Quote:Media interest has fallen off sharply since almost 40 reporters, photographers and camera operators turned out to document the arrival of Myers' body (first return open to press. At a more recent casualty arrival, the only media representative was a lone photographer from The Associated Press.

Odds are there was very little press there. I have to give credit where due.

Looks like your faith may have been misplaced. Obama took the press-pool with him.

Reporters went with Obama as reported by NYTimes, then scrubbed by NYTimes

From the pre-edited story:

Quote:A small contingent of reporters and photographers accompanied Mr. Obama to Dover, where he arrived at 12:34 a.m. aboard Marine One. He returned to the South Lawn of the White House at 4:45 a.m.
<…>
The images and the sentiment of the president’s five-hour trip to Delaware were intended by the White House to convey to the nation that Mr. Obama was not making his Afghanistan decision lightly or in haste.

The above was scrubbed from the story after the fact with no mention of why. Bare in mind this had already gone though the editing process and been posted. It was approved. Also note the statement of what the White House had intended by the photo shows 1) they had stated as much and 2) it was, indeed, a staged photo op.

Washington Post article on it

Quote:The carefully choreographed visit to Dover, the nation's entry point for U.S. military personnel killed in action, brought Obama face-to-face with the grimmest realty of war as his administration mulls the best way forward in Afghanistan......

Obama's visit was not announced in advance on his public schedule. Instead, the White House gathered a small group of reporters to accompany him on short notice for the middle-of-the-night trip.

Then the NYTimes scrubs their article. Guess the White House called to let them know they shouldn't do it. Yeah, there's no bias in media.

(10-31-2009 07:58 AM)Ninerfan1 Wrote:  

(10-30-2009 12:29 AM)T-Monay820 Wrote:  As long as a press notification was not sent out before hand (or intentional leak), this was not a photo op.

http://www.ap.org/FOI/foi_042909a.htm

Quote:Media interest has fallen off sharply since almost 40 reporters, photographers and camera operators turned out to document the arrival of Myers' body (first return open to press. At a more recent casualty arrival, the only media representative was a lone photographer from The Associated Press.

Odds are there was very little press there. I have to give credit where due.

Looks like your faith may have been misplaced. Obama took the press-pool with him.

Reporters went with Obama as reported by NYTimes, then scrubbed by NYTimes

From the pre-edited story:

Quote:A small contingent of reporters and photographers accompanied Mr. Obama to Dover, where he arrived at 12:34 a.m. aboard Marine One. He returned to the South Lawn of the White House at 4:45 a.m.
<…>
The images and the sentiment of the president’s five-hour trip to Delaware were intended by the White House to convey to the nation that Mr. Obama was not making his Afghanistan decision lightly or in haste.

The above was scrubbed from the story after the fact with no mention of why. Bare in mind this had already gone though the editing process and been posted. It was approved. Also note the statement of what the White House had intended by the photo shows 1) they had stated as much and 2) it was, indeed, a staged photo op.

Washington Post article on it

Quote:The carefully choreographed visit to Dover, the nation's entry point for U.S. military personnel killed in action, brought Obama face-to-face with the grimmest realty of war as his administration mulls the best way forward in Afghanistan......

Obama's visit was not announced in advance on his public schedule. Instead, the White House gathered a small group of reporters to accompany him on short notice for the middle-of-the-night trip.

Then the NYTimes scrubs their article. Guess the White House called to let them know they shouldn't do it. Yeah, there's no bias in media.

Or maybe they found out it was complete bull**** and took it out.

(10-31-2009 06:54 PM)RobertN Wrote:  

(10-31-2009 07:58 AM)Ninerfan1 Wrote:  

(10-30-2009 12:29 AM)T-Monay820 Wrote:  As long as a press notification was not sent out before hand (or intentional leak), this was not a photo op.

http://www.ap.org/FOI/foi_042909a.htm

Quote:Media interest has fallen off sharply since almost 40 reporters, photographers and camera operators turned out to document the arrival of Myers' body (first return open to press. At a more recent casualty arrival, the only media representative was a lone photographer from The Associated Press.

Odds are there was very little press there. I have to give credit where due.

Looks like your faith may have been misplaced. Obama took the press-pool with him.

Reporters went with Obama as reported by NYTimes, then scrubbed by NYTimes

From the pre-edited story:

Quote:A small contingent of reporters and photographers accompanied Mr. Obama to Dover, where he arrived at 12:34 a.m. aboard Marine One. He returned to the South Lawn of the White House at 4:45 a.m.
<…>
The images and the sentiment of the president’s five-hour trip to Delaware were intended by the White House to convey to the nation that Mr. Obama was not making his Afghanistan decision lightly or in haste.

The above was scrubbed from the story after the fact with no mention of why. Bare in mind this had already gone though the editing process and been posted. It was approved. Also note the statement of what the White House had intended by the photo shows 1) they had stated as much and 2) it was, indeed, a staged photo op.

Washington Post article on it

Quote:The carefully choreographed visit to Dover, the nation's entry point for U.S. military personnel killed in action, brought Obama face-to-face with the grimmest realty of war as his administration mulls the best way forward in Afghanistan......

Obama's visit was not announced in advance on his public schedule. Instead, the White House gathered a small group of reporters to accompany him on short notice for the middle-of-the-night trip.

Then the NYTimes scrubs their article. Guess the White House called to let them know they shouldn't do it. Yeah, there's no bias in media.

Or maybe they found out it was complete bull**** and took it out.

I would explain to you why you're a moron for thinking that...but it would do no good.

But the facts are not in dispute. They took reporters with them. It was a photo op. End of story.

I take a different approach toward resolving the issue of whether this reflects genuine concern or was simply a photo op.

If his other actions reflect genuine concern, then this reflects genuine concern.
If this is an outlier, then it was a photo op.

So far, I lean toward outlier.

With all the things to bash BO about..I find this much to do about nothing. Move on.. and bash the important things. This is not noteworthy.

(11-02-2009 06:37 PM)Fo Shizzle Wrote:  With all the things to bash BO about..I find this much to do about nothing. Move on.. and bash the important things. This is not noteworthy.

They can't help themselves Fo. It'll be a long few years for them. I love it.

He's president. He gets to do those things. The people who take offense do so because they think this is an overwhelming display of hypocrisy and insincerity. It is--but so is everything else this guy has done.

No news here--move along.

(10-30-2009 12:29 AM)T-Monay820 Wrote:  As long as a press notification was not sent out before hand (or intentional leak), this was not a photo op.

Well, I see a picture, you see a picture, we all see a picture. It only takes one guy with a camera.