This is another time he saluted while there, not the one mentioned in the article.The article says he used his right hand at the base in Hawaii.
This photo above however is Obama and his LEFTY salute fumbling with his cell phone.
Obama is not in the executive chain of the military, has not been sworn in as President, isn’t an officer of any kind, is saluting with his left hand, isn’t facing anyone in particular, is holding an object in his hand, has no recognizable uniform, and for some bloody reason took the initiative to salute a USMC Lance Corporal.
Obama Tries Out His Salute
New York Times
second source
KAILUA, Hawaii
He’s not the commander in chief yet, but was President-elect Barack Obama briefly practicing his salute on Sunday?
On the first morning of his vacation here, Mr. Obama arrived at the Marine Corps Base Hawaii for his daily workout. As he walked out of the Semper Fit Center, his gray T-shirt soaked in sweat, he lifted his right hand and gave a quick salute to two Marines in fatigues who were standing in the distance.
The brief moment was not captured by cameras. Photographs and video were not permitted to be taken on the military base, according to campaign aides.
Mr. Obama and his wife, Michelle Obama, opened their day with a 45-minute workout inside a large gymnasium at Marine Corps Base Hawaii, which is located on the Mokapu Penninsula on the windward side of Oahu, about 30 minutes outside Honolulu. It is sunny and warm here, a world away, at least in terms of the weather, from Chicago.
The Marine base seemed sleepy when the motorcade rolled through shortly after 7 a.m. Home to the 3rd Marine Regiment, Marine Aircraft Group 24 and the 3rd Radio Battalion, the base is located only a few minutes from where the Obamas are staying, a rented home at the end of a series of cul-de-sacs (and security barricades) along Kailuana Place.
Mr. Obama, who arrived to his native Hawaii on Saturday afternoon, is taking a 13-day holiday vacation with his family and a few friends from Chicago. At least some work, though, followed him to Hawaii.
He is receiving his daily national security briefing and his transition team is scheduled on Monday or Tuesday to release an internal review of any contacts between his advisers and the Illinois governor’s office over filling his vacant Senate seat. That is the subject of a corruption case and federal investigation into Gov. Rod R. Blagojevich.
Mr. Obama is not expected to address the inquiry, but rather have it released through a written statement from Washington.
Insiders said Obama and his family will hold a private funeral service for his grandmother, Madelyn Dunham, while they are in Hawaii. However, officials with the National Memorial of the Pacific at Punchbowl Cemetery said nothing had been finalized.
The president-elect, after filling his Cabinet in record-setting pace, is taking a break. On tap for the rest of his Sunday? An afternoon tee-time and 18 holes of golf.
The Obamas and the families of two or three friends will stay at a Windward Oahu beachside villa with three multimillion-dollar homes. Each wraps around a lagoon-style swimming pool, with palm trees, grassy lawns and retractable glass walls for views of the beach.
The compound he is renting costs $8,250.00 per day.
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Wild Thing’s comment……….
A Muslim saluting with his left hand! I can’t believe this joke was elected president of our country. The more you think about it, the more shocking it really is. If that is possible.
I respect the office he will hold.
But I will NEVER respect Obama, and he will never be my President.
I will NEVER forget or forgive his betrayal of our troops on the battlefield. He championed defeat, he voted against funding them, he accused them of war crimes.
” “We’ve got to get the job done there and that requires us to have enough troops so that we’re not just air-raiding villages and killing civilians, which is causing enormous pressure over there,” Obama said.”
I read that 80% of the entire military voted for McCain-Palin.
wild thing,
“But I will NEVER respect Obama, and he will never be my President.”
calling yourself an American first wouldn’t allow you to say this. democratically electing out rulers is the essense of what it means to be an American. and accepting and acknowledging the results of that vote when your side loses is the essense of what democracy means. it is the Constitution that declares who your president is. it is the results of the vote that determines who your president is. to respect the office of the presidency obligates us to do the above.
this does not mean you have to respect the man who has the right to claim the title of the presidency. this does not mean that you have to like addressing him as Mr. President if ever given the opportunity to do so. all it means is, that you are an American in a very special sense of the word.
Hey The Griper, may I be the first to say that you’re an idiot? Okey dokey then, you’re an idiot.
Until he produces a legal birth certificate(as required by the Constitution), I consider Obama a Kenyan. A foreign born person cannot be President.
Griper–
Actually, calling ourselves Americans first means DEMANDS that we say that. Obama has said in no uncertain terms that he does not intend to uphold the Constitution, most specifically the Second Amendment. Therefore, the oath of office he takes will be a lie.
To call this man our president would be to betray the Constitution, not support it.
Griper, I will show as much respect for obama as the left showed President Bush. I have never seen a President disrespected as much as President Bush.
First obama is a usurper, He can not or will not prove, McCain did, that he is a legitimate Citizen.
Second obama is a liar, a cheat and in all likelihood a thief. Obama stole the election, paid for it with money obtained illegally from Foreign sources related to George Soros. He also has ties to communism and obam is himself a pure dyed in the wool socialist.
So Griper if you want to jump on the obama Socialist bandwagon but you will be the first target when it is time to ‘rock and roll’.
As Cuchieddie says, you are an idiot.
Thank you Cuchieddie, you are far more charitable than I.
Sycophants like ‘The Griper’ who spend all their time in front of those red diaper doper baby professors wouldn’t have a clue about the qualities of a true leader. Neither have they invested in the country, it’s security or it’s defense. They are content to let someone else risk their lives for their protection all the while they are sniping away at their efforts. One can’t help but wonder if he cheered the loss of life on 9-11 or simply griped about Bush, likely both. Has there been life outside the institution for him or has it been from kindergarten through college in one continuous exposure to the left’s philosophy, with dad and mom funding it all?
Hey Griper, the very host of this site has more boot time in a combat zone than John F’ing Kerry, has been into more hot zones than he ever went to and she did it all with grace and dignity, so don’t impugn her patriotism, her loyalty or her judgement when she outs a Communist.
Make no mistake, Obama is a Communist, elected by those who never use ration but only emotion and blind hatred to guide them.
The left has been exposed and their hypocrisy has been proven by their reaction to Sarah Palin.
“It’s amazing how much panic one honest man can spread among a multitude of hypocrites.” ~ Thomas Sowell
Thank you Chrissie and Cuchieddie for your unfaltering service to this nation.
By the way “But I will NEVER respect Obama, and he will never be my President.”
He will always be President Elect Barack Hussein Obama, the Baksheesh President.
Until Barack Obama produces a valid birth certificate to document that he is a citizen, as millions of Americans do all the time, he may have the title of “President” but his full title, in fact, will be Illegitimate President Barack Hussein Obama. It seems Barack Obama’s feelings of self-importance causes him to salute at will. He is also an ambidextrous saluter
Barack Obama stops to salute to the crowd before the rally on the UO campus.
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2212/2479208929_21ab43eb42.jpg?v=0
Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) salutes a group of supporters while campaigning with U.S. Rep. Sherrod Brown (D-OH) November 4, 2006 during a rally at The Civic in Cleveland Heights, Ohio.
http://cache.daylife.com/imageserve/00kI0sndJ82lw/340x.jpg
Not to be outdone, Michelle Obama likes to salute too.
http://www.moonbattery.com/michelle-obama-fist-salute.jpg
When it comes to respecting the military and their families, Obama doesn’t have a clue. Bush and Cheney get it.
EXCLUSIVE: Bush, Cheney comforted troops privately
Met with thousands of war injured, kin out of spotlight
http://washingtontimes.com/news/2008/dec/22/bush-cheney-comforted-troops-privately/
Les, that’s a great picture of The VP and nice cast. He’s been Vice President for 8 years and this is the first I’ve known he is a Fly-fisherman. Nice going MSM,. they do have a tendency to leave the important news out.
Having served as a Marine in WASHDC, I would just die if Osambo saluted me. Yuck!!
The Griper,this is my only response to you.I stand by my country and our military.
“Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the President or any other public official save exactly to the degree in which he himself stands by the country. It is patriotic to support him insofar as he efficiently serves the country. It is unpatriotic not to oppose him to the exact extent that by inefficiency or otherwise he fails in his duty to stand by the country.” Theodore Roosevelt
cuchieddie, I guess he does not understand the difference. Thanks cuchieddie.
Tom, I agree, well said. Obama needs to learn he is not an exception to the rule, to any law and certainly not to the Constitution the defines our country.
Trish ditto what you said, thank you.
“To call this man our president would be to betray the Constitution, not support it.”
Mark, thank you, thsoe sure are good reasons,and the other side like The Gripers have nothing to base their reasons.
Jack, thank you, I agree, I really believe Obama is a communist. He has been trained well since a child and has clung to it.
Les those are great thank you so much. All of them will come in handy. Thank you.
I smiled at the one of Cheney. I sure am going to miss him.
Steve Gaston, USMC, thank you, I feel badly for our troops that have to be around him.
first of all, people, i am not jumping on the obama bandwagon. there is nothing in my comment that should lead you to that.
cuchieddie,
“Hey The Griper, may I be the first to say that you’re an idiot? Okey dokey then, you’re an idiot.”
the answer to your question is no, you may not be the first to call me an idiot. that privilege has already been taken. but you may still call me n idiot if you choose.
tomr,
“A foreign born person cannot be President.”
i agree, but neither you nor i have the right to make that determination, only the courts do. you and i may not agree with the courts in regards to any decision but it is their determination that is law. there have been many determination by the courts that i have not agreed with but that does not men we should not abide by those decisions.
jack,
“…elected by those who never use ration but only emotion and blind hatred to guide them.”
i agree wholeheartedly. “rational” was not the basis of those that voted for him.
les,
“…Obama doesn’t have a clue.”
i agree here too.
now since nobody bothered to address my reasons but instead decided that they only need to demean me and without success i might add i can only say that my argument holds.
i will only add one more thing. once obama is inaugurated, that is if he is, i have enough respect for the military that if they salute him s their leader then i will too. and i think 80% of those troopers will not like it but they’ll still do it and so will i. now, if that puts me in a lone position in this blog, so be it. i stand alone in here but with head held high.
i will say one more thing. i have enough respect for the owner of this blog that when i see her say something that i feel she should think twice about i will say so just as i will for any of you and just as you attempted to do for me but without any success.
and there is only one reason that you failed. you allowed emotion to rule your responses, not reason.
Griper–
On the contrary, I did address the issue, and reasonably.
It’s too bad you don’t wish to do the same.
“The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge, natural to party dissension, which in different ages and countries has perpetrated the most horrid enormities, is itself a frightful despotism. But this leads at length to a more formal and permanent despotism. The disorders and miseries, which result, gradually incline the minds of men to seek security and repose in the absolute power of an individual; and sooner or later the chief of some prevailing faction, more able or more fortunate than his competitors, turns this disposition to the purposes of his own elevation, on the ruins of Public Liberty.” George Washington.
This is one of his arguments against politiacl parties. I believe the rats played this to the letter. 67 million people bought it too. Hook, line, and sinker.
Nothing left to be said that hasn’t already been said, here, but Chrissie, know that YOU are not alone! My sentiments on this echo yours… I will NEVER respect BHO and he will never be MY president.
Ahh, Griper, get a grip. The “owner of this blog” can say anything SHE wants without even having to think twice about it. Do you get it? It is HER blog!
bt,
yup, she can say anything she wants and she doesn’t have to think twice bout it as you say. and she can read my comments and consider them as nothing but gibberish from an idiot too if she wants. since she also moderates the comments in here she can also just toss mine or anyone else’s in the junk pile if she so desires. but that would not invalidate what i said. even you would have to agree on that.
trish,
i responded to what you said. my apologies for not including your name in with the others in my response. and my responses has been reasonable. i have given reasons for my every claim.
wild thing,
i liked your response to my comment even if it was something said by Roosevelt rather than your own personal thoughts. the key words in that quote though are the words “oppose” and “support”.
being opposed to someone is the essense of democracy. there is no democracy without opposition. but, being in opposition does not mean we should not recognize someone as they should be recognized. if we declare that we only recognize those persons we support as being our president, then democracy is dead.
now, to clarify my position on this i’ll say that i am opposed to the idea of Obama being inaugurated as the president of this nation. i will also say i support these lawsuits that he prove his qualifications in a court of law. i am also in support of the bill hjr9 that was introduced in the ohio legislature.
but i will also say that if these endeavors does not pan out in the way i would like i would have to accept the inevitable outcome. and that outcome is that he is qualified therefore i will recognize him as my president. the support he gets from me will depend on how he performs his duties.
and that is far more than the opposition gave to President Bush.
All right Griper, let me say what all the others want to say but who are far more respectful than I….
FUCK YOU!