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Obama official Brandon Friedman: Bergdahl’s platoon may have been ‘long on psychopaths’

By on June 5, 2014 at 1:12 am
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Deputy Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Brandon Friedman, has been tweeting that Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl may deserve “sympathy” because of the possibility that “his platoon was long on psychopaths and short on leadership.”

If that were the case, he argues, “the soldiers in his platoon would have all the more reason to smear him publicly now.”

He continued to lament that “this story could not be more unbalanced–with so many premature calls of ‘traitor.'”

Friedman once served as the Vice Chairman of a hyper-partisan (although it describes itself as “non-partisan”) non-profit called VoteVets.org, which seeks to promote the elections of progressive veterans to public office. He was also the “Director of Online Communications at the United States Department of Veterans Affairs in Washington, D.C.”

Friedman quotes Mao Tse-tung prominently on his blog,

“There are some militarists who say: ‘We are not interested in politics but only in the profession of arms.’ It is vital that these simple-minded militarists be made to realize the relationship that exists between politics and military affairs. Military action is a method used to attain a political goal. While military affairs and political affairs are not identical, it is impossible to isolate one from the other.” — Mao Tse-tung, On Guerrilla Warfare

Here are his tweets:

 

What do you think? Is there a possibility that Bergdahl deserted his platoon because they were all psychopaths?

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Renee Nal is a co-founder of TavernKeepers.com, a news and political commentary site founded by former Glenn Beck interns. She is also the National Conservative Examiner and a contributor for the Brenner Brief.

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  • jbtutor

    That’s about two microns from saying that the soldiers who died searching for Bergdahl only got what they deserved. Impressive.

  • http://geoffreybritain.wordpress.com/ Geoffrey_Britain

    What an utter POS. An American in name only, a Marxist traitor and an internal enemy of America.

  • Xavier

    The more the left froths about Bergdahl, the more you can be sure it’s a ploy to distract from the administration’s crimes.

    They know Barry might have a hard time getting out of this one.

    • Valerie Finnigan

      I don’t disagree with you about that. However, I think those wishing Bergdahl dead and harassing people in his hometown just because they want to celebrate one of their families being reunited are also somewhat guilty of “frothing.”

      As someone who views both the left and the right as an outside observer, I think it’s appropriate for both sides to mind their own behavior- and focus on solving the problems our vets face when they get home.

      • Veritas

        How’s tghat Kool aid taste Valerie?

      • Valerie Finnigan

        I don’t know. You keep drinking it all.

      • Xavier

        Bergdahl isn’t the issue. The military should handle him as they would any other soldier, without interference from anyone. The rest of us, and the media, should focus on the crimes and lies the administration committed to secure his release.

  • GrimmCreeper

    Friedman’s not a “fan of such speculation,” but that doesn’t stop him from speculating on something with not one iota of evidence.

    • J.e. Dyer

      Hey, speculatin’s a dirty job, but someone’s got to do it.

      • wreed22

        I looked at Mr. Freidman’s website. Last post May 2012. He writes about setting up social networks for Vets. Perhaps the seriously ill Vets can e-mail each other while they are waiting to die because the VA is busy with paperwork.

  • johnholliday

    Astonishing.

  • PrincessBarryLIES

    This Brandon Friedman sounds like the psycho and tard. How is he commenting on this? He is in HUD…

  • PrincessBarryLIES

    What does this POS have to do with it?

  • johnholliday

    Frickin’ idiot. Just like the rest of this garbage regime.

  • southboy1

    this is idiot is the sociopath. What is scary is that these people are in our government. I went to school with many of them. They are anti American, hate this nation, and have disdain for our history, our economic and political system, and think the rest of us are stupid. These people are evil. The are descendants of the Nazis and communists who undermined their nation before destroying it.

  • NaCly Dog

    He is a tool in the Left’s toolbox. In a just America he would loose his job. Swim in your own lane, HUD guy.

  • Saltporkdoc

    What are the odds of a “perfect storm” of all those psychopaths coming together in one of thousands of units in the military? Ohhhh…about the same as all those psychopaths coming together in one adminstration in Washington DC I suppose! BUT, the White House psychopath gets to choose his compatriots, the soldiers did not.

    • Veritas

      That’s a winner. Keep it up. Except this wouldn’t happen in the military, the odds are too great, after all the military requires you have a grip on reality, Obama dispenses with it.

  • http://www.JPAttitude.com/ J.P. Travis

    Geez, does Obama ever hire someone who isn’t a low-life? Where does he find all these creeps?

    • Steven

      Where does he find all these creeps? He gets a list from the DNC. The supply of available low-lifes exceeds the supply of non low-lifes. N.B. the last 2 elections. There are more of them than us, J.P.

      Steven

      • Howard Portnoy

        I believe he keeps binders full of them.

      • Renee Nal

        Awesome. I lol’d.

      • Steven

        Yes, Howard is a funny guy.

        Steven

      • Howard Portnoy

        Thanks, Steven (if that IS your real name).

  • Robert Jacoby

    Gee, yet another administration official who likes Mao. And he thinks anyone who disagrees with the president is crazy. How very Soviet Union of him.

  • Carter_Burger67

    Liberals are so predictiable. If you don’t like the message, attack the witnesses. BTW, anyone heard anything out of the Benghazi witnesses?

    • Renee Nal

      Who also had to sign “nondisclosure agreements”…

      • Carter_Burger67

        to a president who disregards the law, what’s your point?

      • Renee Nal

        The point is that whether it is Benghazi survivors or Bergdahl’s platoon, anytime people are forced to sign “nondisclosure agreements,” it is because there is something to hide. In this case, the WH wanted Bergdahl to be a hometown hero, and his desertion did not fit into that narrative. My hope is that anyone who signed these nondisclosure agreements are empowered, as they see others defying them.

      • Carter_Burger67

        Excellent point. I think we are fast approaching the point where the disgust of what this president is doing over rides their desire to abide by some nondisclosure agreement.

  • Anthony Benson

    Fits the standard pattern. The POS in the WH gives orders andthe oobedient leftist lemmings respond. Why tell the truth when your whole life is a fabrication? So much easier to have your goon squad smear the reputation of anyone who disrupts your fantasy world and claim innocence. And no one will be punished, either.

  • http://pennyrobinsonfanclub.net/ PennyRobinsonFanClub

    Wow. Just wow. Only last night it seemed like the unofficial line from the Left was that we’re “making it all up.” Guess THAT meme fell apart too quick. Any bets this is gonn be the standard riposte from all the leftards now?

  • Azsteve53

    Blame those poor souls who had to deal with the actions of Bergdahl, as if because if they had just paid more attention to him he would not have been a deserter and enemy collaborator. Yep, all of their faults, not poor misguided Bergdahl.

  • gimmesometruth

    One has to remember Obama’s father was Nigerian and Obama was raised in Hawaii, so maybe he just doesn’t have the usual feelings about American security that say a Midwestern might. Remember also that his modus operandi is character assassination against anyone who disagrees with his radical partisan politics. His message is to anyone in his administration is OK to lie and if caught first order of business is cover up while avoiding any responsiblility. So perhaps they are sympatico with a deserter.

    • midlands

      Did Obama just hear about this on the news? He knew nothing before that. Who will he throw under the bus for this one?

  • Robert L. Rice

    hey Brandon,im sure that the people in his platoon,know what theyre talking about,but,YOU DONT !!!!!

  • Hap Stone

    Huh what a dilemma!! Suppose for a moment you and Brandon are walking together down the street …some rude guys with mayhem on their mind accost you … you get the impression while Brandon may not run you can be damn sure you are now his bargaining chip and when the deal is sealed then he runs …the same impression I get from Obama …

  • PridebeforetheFall

    There was but ONE person responsible for Bergdahl walking away from his post, his brothers, his country, and that person is Bergdahl! In life we have the freedom to make choices, some choices have bigger consequences than others and unlike liberal ideology, we are RESPONSIBLE for our choices.

    Is it really that difficult?