At West Point, Obama Gets Icy Reception, Bush Greeted With Roaring Applause--The Difference Between Two Commanders In Chief

Tale Of The Tape: Cadets Sit For Obama; Bush Has To Ask Them To Sit Down

May 29, 2014 by Personal Liberty News Desk 

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The half-hearted enthusiasm graduating cadets at the U.S. Military Academy showed for President Obama has exploded across the Internet in the day since Obama delivered the commencement speech at West Point.

But the tepid greeting, which featured all of the cadets remaining firmly planted in their seats – and an aborted attempt by others in the audience at a standing ovation – appears all the more revealing when set alongside footage from President George W. Bush’s 2008 introduction, when the President had to ask the applauding servicemen to take their seats.

Here’s Obama’s walk-on:

And here’s Bush’s:

The YouTube comments on the Obama video are brutal.

The vastly different reception the two Commanders-in-Chief elicited from the Nation’s future military leaders makes it clear that the Presidency has lost a lot of respect in the eyes of the fighting forces who volunteer to pay, with their lives, to preserve the ideal of freedom.