Best endorsement for Obama & Biden: Robert Gates wants more adoration. [View all]
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Sounds like Gates is upset that the Prez & VP is not allowing the military to set the agenda. He's taking that as a lack of respect.
Robert Gates: Obama's lack of passion disturbs me
"CBS Sunday Morning" last weekend drew its biggest audience in two decades.
The program is likely to post huge ratings for its telecast this weekend, which features Rita Braver's interview with former Defense Secretary Robert Gates. The program starts at 9 a.m. Sunday on WKMG-Channel 6.
Gates is promoting his memoir, "Duty," which he calls a non-partisan take on polarized Washington. But his criticisms of President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden have made the most headlines.
Gates repeatedly praises Obama in the book but finds that the president lacks conviction.
"It's one thing to tell the troops that you support them, it's another to work at making them believe that you believe as president that their sacrifice is worth it. And that they must succeed," Gates says. "President Bush did that with the troops -- when I was secretary. I did not see President Obama do that. It was this absence of passion, this absence of a conviction of the importance of success that -- that disturbed me."
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