What if John Kerry had requested an umbrella? He’s not the Commander in Chief, so would the Marine be breaking protocol if he held an umbrella for the Secy. of State?

But if it does just apply to Obama, than it applied to Bush as well. So let’s not start pointing fingers about protocol, *cough* IRS, Fast and Furious, Benghazi *cough*

1. I object to being called an idiot for merely citing the rules our military follows. Obviously Obama has final say, and I’m not criticizing the act, it’s merely a fun point to jab at. Since when did liberals lose their sense of humor?

2. It’s “Commander IN Chief” not “Commander and Chief” as you put.

I could argue semantics, but considering the President has asked for it, and another marine has allowed that it does happen, not sure you can rightly argue for this as a breach of protocol.

say, how about the breach in protocol where thousands of marines died under Bush because of a lie?

Marine Corps regulation MCO P1020.34F of the Marine Corps Uniform Regulations chapter 3 says a male Marine is not allowed to carry an umbrella while in uniform.

Rare or not, it’s still a breach in protocol. And I’ve never seen a male marine in full dress holding an umbrella. In the featured photo above, none of the other umbrellas are held by a Marine.

The photo is misleading and misses the point – it isn’t the fact that it’s an umbrella being held or a president it’s being held over, its the fact that a marine in dress is holding it.

Good blog, Joel!!

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2013/05/16/marines-holding-umbrellas-extremely-rare/

Rare indicates it does happen.

The Obama under the umbrella flap is reminiscent of the Obama with no hand over his heart photo that was supposedly taken during the playing of the National Anthem on Veteran’s Day. In actuality, the photo in question was made just after Obama took the stage at the Arlington wreath laying ceremony while Hail to the Chief was still being played. Under those circumstances, protocol dictates that the president is to receive the same respect as the flag if the National Anthem was being played.

Two simultaneous events have the right wing’s collective underpants in a twist. One is that a Democrat occupies “their” White House. Even worse is that president happens to be a person of color. It’s also why all the talk over impeachment and well as the sudden concern over the national debut – which was largely caused by the debt and war cycle under Republican presidential administrations that America’s founding fathers so feared.

Meanwhile, locked in a cerebral time warp of their own making, the right wing believes it’s still Morning in America with a reincarnation of Ronnie is just waiting in the wings. In reality, the world has moved on without them. It will take more than a few high class funerals to make the Republican Party viable again. That won’t happen for another 30 or 40 years.

When we examine even the simplest bacteria we find organisms that process “information” in a much more sophisticated way than our most complex computers. Perhaps one day we’ll find a materialistic explanation, but common sense intuition suggests that we should be looking for something above and beyond that.

Fine.

Okay.

But not in a theater. DVD. When it’s available from Netflix.

That’s the best I’ll do.