No, he didn't spray perfume on it and make it wear fishnet stockings
Far worse.
The President awarded the Medal of Honor to a soldier yesterday, not for taking lives, but for SAVING them.
And that has the knickers of one of America's Best Christians TM in a twist.
Jump.
President Obama, today:
Staff Sergeant Giunta, repeatedly and without hesitation, you charged forward through extreme enemy fire, embodying the warrior ethos that says, “I will never leave a fallen comrade.” Your actions disrupted a devastating ambush before it could claim more lives. Your courage prevented the capture of an American soldier and brought that soldier back to his family. You may believe that you don’t deserve this honor, but it was your fellow soldiers who recommended you for it. In fact, your commander specifically said in his recommendation that you lived up to the standards of the most decorated American soldier of World War II, Audie Murphy, who famously repelled an overwhelming enemy attack by himself for one simple reason: “They were killing my friends.”
That’s why Salvatore Giunta risked his life for his fellow soldiers -- because they would risk their lives for him. That’s what fueled his bravery -- not just the urgent impulse to have their backs, but the absolute confidence that they had his. One of them, Sal has said -- of these young men that he was with, he said, “They are just as much of me as I am.” They are just as much of me as I am.
Now that seems pretty deserving of the CMH to me. Pretty darned gallant.
Someone who was kind of old-fashioned sexist might call it downright manly.
I think anyone would agree that Staff Sergeant Guinta is certainly a mensch.
But, just like nearly everything else this President does...trust someone to have a problem with it.
We have feminized the Medal of Honor.
According to Bill McGurn of the Wall Street Journal, every Medal of Honor awarded during these two conflicts has been awarded for saving life. Not one has been awarded for inflicting casualties on the enemy. Not one.
Gen. George Patton once famously said, "The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other guy die for his."
When we think of heroism in battle, we used the think of our boys storming the beaches of Normandy under withering fire, climbing the cliffs of Pointe do Hoc while enemy soldiers fired straight down on them, and tossing grenades into pill boxes to take out gun emplacements.
That kind of heroism has apparently become passe when it comes to awarding the Medal of Honor. We now award it only for preventing casualties, not for inflicting them.
So the question is this: when are we going to start awarding the Medal of Honor once again for soldiers who kill people and break things so our families can sleep safely at night?
No. That is not snark. That is not parody. That is quite real.
Those are the expressed views of the American Family Association's Bryan Fischer, lover of grizzly bears and Islam.
Bryan Fischer, who seems to have an obsession with body count and a pathological need to express ideas in military terms:
The casualty count every time a pregnant woman walks into a Planned Parenthood abortuary is one dead, one wounded. It’s about time we provided some “graphic warning labels” about that.
Bryan Fischer, who seems to have taken at least ONE verse of the Gospel to heart:
Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword. 10 Matt. 34
So okay. I think I get it.
In Bryan Fischer's twisted world, killing people - and bears - is manly manly man stuff.
As for saving lives? Only sissy girly girls do that?
Does ANYONE take this creature seriously?
Except, of course, for being seriously irritated at those who so hate this President, and everything he does, that they would go THAT FAR out on a limb to slam him, and denigrate an honor awarded to a gallant, good MAN and true in the process.
With a heavy dose of good ole patriarchal religionist sexism thrown in just for shits and grins.
Grrr.