Green Energy
I wondered if McChrystal didn't calculate this to some degree. If he has been hamstrung by Obama on how to fight this war, he certainly put Obama in a tough spot. Why else would a commanding general give an interview to, of all the rags in all the towns in all the world, Rolling Stone?
Newsbusters:
ABC Frets Over Pickle McChrystal Has Put Obama Into: Look 'Petulant' or 'Weak'
By Brent Baker Tue, 06/22/2010 - 20:41
ABC, CBS and NBC all led Tuesday night with multiple stories on the “firestorm” over disrespectful coments by General Stanley McChrystal and his aides about President Obama and other administration officials, but ABC's Diane Sawyer and George Stephanopoulos particularly despaired over the position in which McChrystal has put Obama.
Sawyer fretted that Obama “now faces a mind-boggling choice,” before Stephanopoulos kvetched “the President has really been put in a real political box” and “a very painful political position,” forcing him to choose between “looking thin-skinned and petulant” or “looking weak.”
CBS's Katie Couric didn't go that far, but she was disturbed by the burden on Obama: “This controversy is about the last thing the President needed on his plate as he deals with two wars overseas and another against an invasion of oil off the gulf coast.”
Sawyer asked chief political correspondent/Good Morning America co-host Stephanopoulos: “What are you hearing, George?” He worried about Obama's plight:
- Mcchrystal Out, Petraeus In
Understand I am NOT complaining at all about the choice of replacement -- quite the opposite in fact, but damn if this didn't surprise me, coming from Wonderboy. Newsmax: Obama Fires McChrystal, Replaces Him With Gen. David Petraeus Wednesday, 23...
-
Obama Colluding With Left to Subvert His Own Afghan War Policy Click on title above to get the whole story at Big Government. In a move by the Obama administration that is gallingly cynical and would be considered treasonous in a less...
-
Beyond Unreal: White House Didn't Know Gen. McChrystal's Was Ordered To Defeat The Taliban, "Is That Really What You Think Your Mission Is?"... Speechless....In June, McChrystal noted, he had arrived in Afghanistan and set about fulfilling...
- Shock From The Left Of Center ..richard Cohen Nails Obama
It rings for thee: Obama Doesn't Seem Ready to Lead By Richard Cohen Barack Obama's trip to Copenhagen to pitch Chicago for the Olympics would have been a dumb move whatever the outcome. But as it turned out (an airy dismissal would not be...
- "war Is Inevitable"
In an interview with ABC News' Diane Sawyer, North Korean Gen. Ri Chan Bok sent a message to the world: Oct. 19, 2006 — If President Bush continues to ask North Korea to "kneel," war "will be inevitable," and it would begin on the Korean Peninsula,...
Green Energy
I wondered if McChrystal didn't calculate this to some degree. If he has been hamstrung by Obama on how to fight this war, he certainly put Obama in a tough spot. Why else would a commanding general give an interview to, of all the rags in all the towns in all the world, Rolling Stone?
Newsbusters:
ABC Frets Over Pickle McChrystal Has Put Obama Into: Look 'Petulant' or 'Weak'
By Brent Baker Tue, 06/22/2010 - 20:41
ABC, CBS and NBC all led Tuesday night with multiple stories on the “firestorm” over disrespectful coments by General Stanley McChrystal and his aides about President Obama and other administration officials, but ABC's Diane Sawyer and George Stephanopoulos particularly despaired over the position in which McChrystal has put Obama.
Sawyer fretted that Obama “now faces a mind-boggling choice,” before Stephanopoulos kvetched “the President has really been put in a real political box” and “a very painful political position,” forcing him to choose between “looking thin-skinned and petulant” or “looking weak.”
CBS's Katie Couric didn't go that far, but she was disturbed by the burden on Obama: “This controversy is about the last thing the President needed on his plate as he deals with two wars overseas and another against an invasion of oil off the gulf coast.”
Sawyer asked chief political correspondent/Good Morning America co-host Stephanopoulos: “What are you hearing, George?” He worried about Obama's plight:
That a debate has been raging inside the administration since this article hit last night, and that the President has really been put in a real political box. If he fires McChrystal after this, he risks looking thin-skinned and petulant. But if he accepts these words, which some consider insubordination, then he risks looking weak. So it's a very painful political position right now for the President.Sawyer had led the June 22 World News:
Good evening. There was a giant explosion heard around the world today, and it
had nothing to do with weapons. Everything to do with words. General Stanley
McChrystal, the commander of U.S. forces in Afghanistan, gave an interview to a
magazine. And in it, he and his aides took aim at everyone from the President to
the Vice President to Senators and diplomats.
The General has been summoned to the White House by President Obama, who now faces a mind-boggling choice. Does he fire the man central to the war right before a major battle? Jake Tapper takes us inside a stunned and furious White House.
- Mcchrystal Out, Petraeus In
Understand I am NOT complaining at all about the choice of replacement -- quite the opposite in fact, but damn if this didn't surprise me, coming from Wonderboy. Newsmax: Obama Fires McChrystal, Replaces Him With Gen. David Petraeus Wednesday, 23...
-
Obama Colluding With Left to Subvert His Own Afghan War Policy Click on title above to get the whole story at Big Government. In a move by the Obama administration that is gallingly cynical and would be considered treasonous in a less...
-
Beyond Unreal: White House Didn't Know Gen. McChrystal's Was Ordered To Defeat The Taliban, "Is That Really What You Think Your Mission Is?"... Speechless....In June, McChrystal noted, he had arrived in Afghanistan and set about fulfilling...
- Shock From The Left Of Center ..richard Cohen Nails Obama
It rings for thee: Obama Doesn't Seem Ready to Lead By Richard Cohen Barack Obama's trip to Copenhagen to pitch Chicago for the Olympics would have been a dumb move whatever the outcome. But as it turned out (an airy dismissal would not be...
- "war Is Inevitable"
In an interview with ABC News' Diane Sawyer, North Korean Gen. Ri Chan Bok sent a message to the world: Oct. 19, 2006 — If President Bush continues to ask North Korea to "kneel," war "will be inevitable," and it would begin on the Korean Peninsula,...