Commander-in-Chief: Book Depicts Cranky Obama On Baghdad Visit

Buzzfeed   "Michael Hastings' new book, The Operators, jabs at what could be a vulnerable spot for the Obama Administration, the president's relationship with the troops.

"The book describes a visit to Baghdad:"

After the talk, out of earshot from the soldiers and diplomats, he starts to complain. He starts to act very un-Obamalike, according to a U.S. embassy official who helped organize the trip in Baghdad.
He’s asked to go out to take a few more pictures with soldiers and embassy staffers. He’s asked to sign copies of his book. “He didn’t want to take pictures with any more soldiers; he was complaining about it,” a State Department official tells me. “Look, I was excited to meet him. I wanted to like him. Let’s just say the scales fell from my eyes after I did. These are people over here who’ve been fighting the war, or working every day for the war effort, and he didn’t want to take f--king pictures with them?"

 Rolling Stone, of all magazines, has this to say about the book  "To Hastings’ astonishment, McChrystal and staff had plenty to say about the White House and its handling of the war – none of it complimentary, much of it contemptuous, and almost all of it on the record. Hastings reported their unvarnished comments in "The Runaway General," an explosive and award-winning Rolling Stone article that unleashed a global media storm and led President Obama to order McChrystal back to Washington, where he fired the general on the spot.

Allen West on Obama’s Dismantling of the Military  "Coupled with Obama’s announcement that he will flagrantly violate the law to provide our Russian rivals with nuclear military secrets, this neutering of the military illustrates exactly the foreign policy you would expect from a pupil of anti-American Marxists Frank Marshall Davis, Bill Ayers, and Jeremiah Wright."