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General Category => Editorial/Opinion/Blogs => Topic started by: rangerrebew on January 05, 2017, 02:35:59 pm
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January 5, 2017
Obama grotesquely had himself awarded a Defense Dept. medal yesterday
By Thomas Lifson
President Obama has another ironic award for his trophy shelf, to accompany his Nobel Peace Prize and all those participation trophies he got at Punahou for his basketball skills. His appointee and subordinate Ash Carter yesterday pinned a military medal -- the Department of Defense Medal for Distinguished Public Service -- on his boss, as Warner Todd Huston reported for Breitbart.
The ceremony took place at Joint Base Myers-Henderson, before a crowd that had an awful of of empty seats, almost as if the military service members who attended were there on orders.
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You have got to be F@&!#^% killing me. This has to be fake news right. Right?
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Unreal......... 15 days till we are rid of him.
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Unreal......... 15 days till we are rid of him.
He's like herpes....you never get rid of it. It keeps coming back over and over and over again...
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Grotesque is the right word for this.
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I wish the article would have mentioned if this has ever happened to a sitting President before.
ETA: Er, did some digging, and apparently SecDef Gates gave the same medal to Bush on January 6, 2009
http://www.navy.mil/view_image.asp?id=67729
...and SecDef Cohen gave Slick Willie the same medal in January 2001.
http://archive.defense.gov/photos/newsphoto.aspx?newsphotoid=3174
Also, Spielberg got it in 1999 for Saving Private Ryan.
http://archive.defense.gov/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=42941
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Is this the award:
http://geraldrfordfoundation.org/medal-for-distinguished-public-service/
Sorry I'm a little out of it today.
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I wish the article would have mentioned if this has ever happened to a sitting President before.
(http://www.navy.mil/management/photodb/webphoto/web_090106-F-6655M-124.jpg)
(Jan. 6, 2009) Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates awards the Department of Defense Medal for Distinguished Public Service to President George W. Bush during the Armed Forces Farewell Tribute for President Bush at Conmy Hall at Fort Myer.
http://www.navy.mil/view_image.asp?id=67729
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(http://archive.defense.gov/dodcmsshare/newsphoto/2001-01/010105-D-2987S-065_screen.jpg)
Secretary of Defense William S. Cohen presents the Department of Defense Medal for Distinguished Public Service to President Bill Clinton in a ceremonial farewell at Fort Myer, Va., on Jan. 5, 2001.
http://archive.defense.gov/photos/newsphoto.aspx?newsphotoid=3174
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I wish the article would have mentioned if this has ever happened to a sitting President before.
ETA: Er, did some digging, and apparently SecDef Gates gave the same medal to Bush on January 6, 2009
http://www.navy.mil/view_image.asp?id=67729
...and SecDef Cohen gave Slick Willie the same medal in January 2001.
http://archive.defense.gov/photos/newsphoto.aspx?newsphotoid=3174
Also, Spielberg got it in 1999 for Saving Private Ryan.
http://archive.defense.gov/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=42941
OK, understood, but they should have made an exception for 0.