Okay, first off... thank you for taking the time.
1.) Allowing openly Gay to serve.- Undermines cohesiveness within the unit/crew
2.) Has forced the continuing resolution (no budget) so that cuts in Military personal has been forced due to sequestration.-Cut funding to needed systems
3.) Armed our enemy by turning over Afghanistan while not pulling out our physical assets. (Guns, MRAPS, Ammo, Various weapons systems
4.) Lost SAM handheld systems in Benghazi with no support to protect a direct Presidential Represented.-Aided and abetted the enemy and committed 2nd degree murder)-Aided and abetted the enemy
r. (by his inactions, he help killed the ambassador and the team assigned to protect the compound)
5.) Calling the Fort Hood shooting a "work place violence" action instead of what it should be a "Terrorist Act" (Again demoralization of A/D serving to include those that have served)
6.) Putting a highly trained A/D tactical team (trained to kill) in a foreign country to fight Ebola where he will readily admit a foreigner into this country from a country that has Ebola running rampant.- Again demoralization
Do I really need to continue? Probably another 15 items that I will list if needed.
1 - Disagreed. People said the same thing about serving with minorities and we got over it. People are currently saying the same thing about women in combat roles and eventually we'll get over that too.
2 - Isn't the budget the responsibility of our Congress?
3 - Agreed, and on more than just Afghan.
4 - I agree that Benghazi was a cluster. Aid and abetted an enemy is not correct, but most definitely our embassy should never have been left vulnerable to that sort of attack. I'm not sure if that responsibility belongs to Obama or Clinton though... I think more Clinton.
5 - I will look that up. I've been offline a lot due to long work hours and two young kids, but I agree that Ft Hood was a terrorist attack.
6 - Not really agreeing with you here. There are a lot of nations that are working to contain this before it becomes a worldwide catastrophe... if anything, this is probably one thing he has done better.
7.) Do I need to bring up the VA? My claim is about a year and a half out. Still have got no resolution. Gee, the CIC doesn't give a rats a$$ about those that have servered. But will give money to those that haven't done anything but worked on their backsides and sucked off the producers in the US.
7 - yeah, okay. Not that I'm excusing Obama... but when was the last time the VA really worked well? Maybe I should ask if it ever did. It's on Obama, but it's really on the DOD more and on all the previous administrations and congresses, because all of them were perfectly fine with using, abusing, and discarding military members when expedient.
Other presidents have had their missteps too... and while I do not believe Obama to have been a good president, I think some conservative peeps really just go overboard where anything and everything is specifically his responsibility. Does the buck stop with him? I suppose. But, we have a lot of people that comprise our government, and each is responsible for his or her part.