A NEW LOW? – Obama’s Salute to Marines – Most Degrading Salute Ever to Men in Uniform???

[kpete]

"A NEW LOW – Obama’s Salute to Marines – Most Degrading Salute Ever to Men in Uniform"



http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2014/09/a-new-low-obamas-salute-to-marines-most-degrading-salute-ever-to-men-in-uniform/

W WINS AGAIN!!!:



And we should note that the custom (not duty) of presidents saluting members of the military is a recent phenomenon (started by Ronald Reagan in 1981), and many people believe it should not be done at all.


MORE:
http://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/43870_Jim_Hofts_Incredibly_Moronic_Post_of_the_Day-_The_Most_Degrading_Salute_Ever!

[Archae]

1. Jim Hoft has earned the moniker, "Stupidest Man On The Internet."

http://americanloons.blogspot.com/2013/10/769-jim-hoft.html

[Enrique]

2. this one has legs

a scandal stupid enough to catch fire with the RW.

[FSogol]

3. Of course that applies to every single one when dealing with the GOP. n/t

[BeyondGeography]

7. Yeah

Home page material:

http://www.necn.com/

[malthaussen]

4. Hey, neither one of them should be saluting without a cover. n/t

[Aristus]

5. I'm in the 'The President Should Not Salute' camp.

Saluting is a privilege (not a requirement) of the uniformed services. I assert that it is a privilege by the fact that service members detained in a brig or a stockade are prohibited from saluting officers.

Saluting should never be done in civilian clothes.

Anyone being saluted while in civilian clothes, like for example, taking a salute from an MP at the front gate of a military base, should nod to the saluting individual and say or mouth 'thank you.'

I'm sorry to say it, but all Presidents look silly saluting.

OTOH, I really loved it when President Obama shook the saluting Marine's hand before boarding Marine One that time...

[Jenoch]

6. I think the only people the president should salute are Medal of Honor winners.

[treestar]

8. He should not have had the coffee cup

But once he did, he chose so salute over not saluting.

But this shows how routine and meaningless it has become.

[hifiguy]

9. The look on that Scottie's face:

"GET ME THE FUCK AWAY FROM THIS IDIOT!!!"

[NuclearDem]

10. I don't get the trouble with the CIC saluting.

But then again, I was Air Force, and AFI was pretty relaxed on who could salute who (enlisted could legally salute other enlisted under AFI).

[Boom Sound 416]

11. From 'Hope and Change' to 'W did it, so their'

[yortsed snacilbuper]

12. I walked out of a PX in Viet Nam past some guy and didn't salute,

he chewed me up one side and down the other, he said he was a LT in the MC, I said so what and he got madder!

[pinboy3niner]

13. After our Infantry OCS graduation/commissioning ceremony at Ft. Benning...

...we were taken to a small building where the Company First Sergeant gave us a few words of farewell...and then stood at the door saluting each of us as we exited and collecting the traditional 'first salute' dollar from each man.

I snuck past him while he was saluting someone else and then walked over near a cafeteria by the jump towers and got my first salute from a PFC who passed me there. I stopped the PFC and gave him my dollar.