Obama Loves The Troops...No, Really, He Does...

Get a load (and I mean a LOAD) of this:

Evidently, if you're a soldier in Afghanistan and there are no cameras around to record how much you love the troops, you can blow them off if you are Barack Obama.

Blackfive got an email yesterday from a soldier in Bagram, Afghanistan that tells what happened when Obama visited the base

I wanted to share with you what happened. He got off the plan[sic] and got into a bullet proof vehicle, got to the area to meet with the Major General (2 Star) who is the commander here at Bagram. As the Soldiers where lined up to shake his hand he blew them off and didn't say a word as he went into the conference room to meet the General. As he finished, the vehicles took him to the ClamShell (pretty much a big top tent that military personnel can play basketball or work out in with weights) so he could take his publicity pictures playing basketball. He again shunned the opportunity to talk to Soldiers to thank them for their service. So really he was just here to make a showing for the American's back home that he is their candidate for President. I think that if you are going to make an effort to come all the way over here you would thank those that are providing the freedom that they are providing for you. I swear we got more thanks from the NBA Basketball Players or the Dallas Cowboy Cheerleaders than from one of the Senators, who wants to be the President of the United States. I just don't understand how anyone would want him to be our Commander-and-Chief. It was almost that he was scared to be around those that provide the freedom for him and our great country.

And Hot Air has news that Obama actually dropped a scheduled meeting with soldiers in Germany so that he wouldn't miss his big speech

The message here is that thousands of screaming German fans at the Tiergarten take precedence over visiting Americans serving their country at Rammstein and Landstuhl.  Maybe one of the networks following Obama could interview a few of the soldiers about how they perceive that set of priorities from Obama.

And in an update, we discover it wasn't "scheduling problems" that made Obama miss his date with the troops

Obama canceled a previously-planned stop to visit thousands of American service personnel, including troops wounded in Iraq and Afghanistan being treated at Landstuhl, so he could hold a political rally for Germans and go shopping in Berlin. Now that's a nice set of priorities for a man who wants to become Commander in Chief.

I guess unless he can use troops as props in his little propaganda shows, they mean nothing to him.

And this guy wants to be their leader??  This deliberate snub shows you just what he thinks of the men and women who sacrifice daily by being literally a world away from their families, some of whom have been maimed and killed to protect our freedoms.  They are props.  They are photo ops.  They are items, things to be used and discarded on a whim.  They are not worthy of even the basest courtesy, such as a handshake.

Rather than visiting wounded and homesick soldiers, Barack Obama goes shopping.

This man is despicable.

There's my two cents.