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Obama speech to soldiers met with silence
EMCS
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August 31, 2012
Obama speech to soldiers met with silence
By Neil Munro
President Barack Obama was greeted with fleeting applause and extended periods of silence as he offered profuse praise to soldiers and their families during an Aug. 31 speech in Fort Bliss, Texas.
His praise for the soldiers - and for his own national-security policies - won cheers from only a small proportion of the soldiers and families in the cavernous aircraft-hanger.
The audience remains quiet even when the commander-in-chief thanked the soldiers' families, and cited the 198 deaths of their comrades in Iraq and Afghanistan.
The audience's reaction was so flat that the president tried twice to elicit a reaction from the crowd.
"Hey, I hear you," he said amid silence.
FULL ARTICLE HERE
http://tiny.cc/zvhxjw
Obama speech to soldiers met with silence
By Neil Munro
President Barack Obama was greeted with fleeting applause and extended periods of silence as he offered profuse praise to soldiers and their families during an Aug. 31 speech in Fort Bliss, Texas.
His praise for the soldiers - and for his own national-security policies - won cheers from only a small proportion of the soldiers and families in the cavernous aircraft-hanger.
The audience remains quiet even when the commander-in-chief thanked the soldiers' families, and cited the 198 deaths of their comrades in Iraq and Afghanistan.
The audience's reaction was so flat that the president tried twice to elicit a reaction from the crowd.
"Hey, I hear you," he said amid silence.
FULL ARTICLE HERE
http://tiny.cc/zvhxjw
Comments
"The president's speech to the soldiers is part of his constitutional duties as commander-in-chief."
Really? I have never read that.
From the link....
"The president's speech to the soldiers is part of his constitutional duties as commander-in-chief."
Really? I have never read that.
The commentary ( I wouldn't call it reporting) is pretty suspect in its totality.