Obama doesn't take SEAL group attacks 'seriously'

[maddezmom]

Source: Politico

Comments (3) By BYRON TAU | 8/20/12 5:54 PM EDT
President Obama said Monday that he isn't too worried about two groups of military veterans running campaign ads against him.

Last week, two groups — Special Operations Speaks and Special Operations OPSEC Education Fund - formed to criticize Obama on national security policy, the Osama bin Laden raid and intelligence leaks.

“I don’t take these folks too seriously. One of their members is a birther who denies I was born here, despite evidence to the contrary," Obama told The Virginian-Pilot. "You’ve got another who was a tea party candidate in a recent election."

"This kind of stuff springs up before election time," Obama said.

The founder of one group, ex-Navy SEAL Larry Bailey, told Foreign Policy magazine last week: "I have to admit that I'm a birther."

Read more: http://www.politico.com/politico44/2012/08/obama-doesnt-take-seal-group-attacks-seriously-132620.html

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Virginia Pilot article here:
Obama calls for compromise to head off military cuts
http://hamptonroads.com/2012/08/virginianpilot-military-editor-interview-obama

[high density]

1. I like these ads as a reminder to the teabaggers that our socialist muslin Kenyan president killed

Osama bin Laden.

[secondwind]

8. AMEN!

[Jackpine Radical]

2. I think it's always a mistake

not to take filthy Republican tactics seriously.

Time for a smackdown--bring on the clips of General McRaven attributing the success of the mission to BO.

[Merlot]

9. Obama is saying he doesn't take them seriously, he's showing confidence in the truth.

That doesn't mean that his re-election team is going to ignore them. They will do what's necessary to make sure these guys don't get any traction.

[Cha]

12. Exactly. And, he brought out the birther admission

and expunged their credibility because they ran as a teabagger! HA!

You know those ex SEAL Stupid Operators are Pissed!

[kelly1mm]

3. Hmmmmmm, Isn't that what Sen Kerry said in 2004?? nt

[HooptieWagon]

5. I don't think they're why Kerry lost.

Though noisy, they were mostly preaching to the choir. I doubt many voters changed their mind due to them.

Kerry lost because he was running against an incumbent, election shenanagins in Ohio, and he didn't convince swing voters a change in status quo was warranted.

[demwing]

11. Hmmmmm, isn't it more improtant whether the response strategy is the same?

rather than whether there is superficial similarity between the words used by both candidates?

[Control-Z]

4. I would feel so damn stupid

saying, "I have to admit that I'm a birther".

What a dumb fuck.

[jody]

6. "Obama doesn't take SEAL group attacks 'seriously'" and neither did Osama! nt

[oldsarge54]

7. Opsec

Opsec is not "spy stuff". That alone gives the takes away the legitimacy of this group. Opsec is a concept of controlling phones calls, mixing up routines while prepping aircraft or distributing frag orders, and generally changing behavior as to not opponents a clue about to transpire. Dates back to the Nam era and pounded into the heads of all Air Force personnel (I cannot speak for sure about the other services, but I'm sure they remember too). Consider when BUsh ordered Powell to discuss means of data collection when trying to persuade the US that there were WMD in Iraq, I had kittens. Had I said any of that the FBI or OSI would be knocking at the door. This all has Karl Rove written all over it. The problem is I think the Republican rank and file will lap it up.

[Tom Ripley]

10. So, they're just REMFs?

That makes sense

[Jessy169]

13. Welcome to DU, old sarge!

Glad to have another x-service member here to lay down the truth from time to time. I appreciate that info!

[jody]

14. You don't recognize the range of special operations units claimed by SOS, see link below

http://specialoperationsspeaks.com/

[oldsarge54]

16. There is a difference

I'm referring specifically to the term OPSEC and having it called "spy stuff." It is intellectual laziness to over characterize, and I'd rather it were the cons that displayed that ignorance. Again, I was appalled when Colin Powell briefed the UN on our evidence of WMD by revealing our collection techniques.

[jody]

17. The OP cited "Special Operations Speaks". Your digression misleads the naive who have not worked in

Special Operations.

Have a great day.

[reACTIONary]

15. I've been having fun posting replies...

...to the comments on the Politico article. Fun to make fun of them.