Vice President Joe Biden told a White House dinner designed to thank veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan that no commander in chief has ever cared as much about the troops as President Obama.
Dozens of service members representing all armed forces branches and various ranks and backgrounds were feted in the East Room on Wednesday night with a dinner of aged ribeye and chocolate creme brulee.
Obama, Biden, first lady Michelle Obama, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Martin Dempsey all attended.
“There’s no one I’ve encountered — and I’ve been here for eight Presidents — who cares more about you, and all of you who continue to serve, than this man,” Biden said in introducing Obama.
Biden became a senator in 1973, during Richard Nixon’s term.
Obama thanked the troops for their service and dedication.
“I’ll leave you with a picture that captures this spirit,” he said. “It’s from that day in December, when the last convoy rolled out — five American soldiers standing beside their vehicle, marked with the words, ‘Last vehicle out of Iraq.’”
“They’re young, men and women, shoulder to shoulder, proud, heads held high, finally going home. And they were asked what it was like to be, literally, the last troops out of Iraq,” Obama continued. “And one of them gave a simple reply: ‘We completed the mission.’ We completed the mission. We did our jobs.”
There was no mention of the president’s proposed budget that calls for military families and retirees to pay more for healthcare as part of the Pentagon’s $487 billion in spending cuts.
“Biden became a senator in 1973, during Richard Nixon’s term.”
Wow – longer than I’ve been alive. The fact that few see this as a problem is part of the problem.
And no one choked on their aged beef?
Biden’s only excuse is he was drunk on cheap wine.
Obama ain’t got no excuse, aside from habitual serial lying.
Sure, he cares for the troops. Is that why 2/3rds of those killed in Afghanistan died on his watch? In just three years?
http://icasualties.org/oef/
Remember, this is Bidenspeak. When properly translated, “who cares more” reads “who cares less.”
Right,Biden. The Won has just gutted the military and “he feels their pain.” I love it!
You and your cronies need term limits and benefits packages that “retire” when you stop serving in the public sector. BTW, no cushy salary as a lobbyist. No jobs for your relatives. Run one of those “green” companies that votes bonuses for their execs while losing millions at taxpayer expense.
Only those with a conscience can ever feel ashamed of themselves.
This is totally a fantasy-land, Grade-AAA (gooood stuff, Maynard!) sugar-cube Leftard hallucination.
Cut from the same Orwellian believe-me-not-your-lyin’-eyes cloth as, “Oceania has always been at war with Eastasia.”
Agree with ya, Rusyy — Having no conscience and no moral standards at all that even an infantile conscience might trip over means never being ashamed of themselves. Likewise, they’ll never experience cognitive dissonance, since that would require some discernible level of initial cognition against which reality might cause dissonance. They’re still blissfully insulated from that shock.
USAF vet Hawaiian-good-luck-sign salute to our Narcissist-in-Chief and his Mini-Me sidekick.
It’s a negative caring, liberal sort of thing. Kinda sorta like Crusaders cared about Muslims.