# Obama does his best to degrade a couple of Marines. Next episode: Wipers! **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [May 16, 2013, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-does-his-best-to-degrade-a-couple-of-marines-next-episode-wipers/658538 "2013-05-16T18:51:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 213
**Author:** ![septimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/septimus/32/410_2.png) [@septimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/septimus)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2013, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-does-his-best-to-degrade-a-couple-of-marines-next-episode-wipers/658538/213 "2013-05-17T21:40:00Z")
I’d hardly noticed Mr. Ate before (many of his posts are in threads I don’t even read, e.g. “Why does it take so long for people to poop?”) but this OP — and especially his peculiar need for the sober followup admitting that GWB’s Iraq Blunder was “lots” worse than Umbrellagate — did induce me to click “Show Posts.” I see that Mr. Ate is no newcomer to the meme that those to the left of Glen Beck think Obama is the Black Messiah: > [@I must admit, I'm surprised and disappointed](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-must-admit-im-surprised-and-disappointed/639956/2): > > Because how could _anybody_ not have wet drams about Obama? Another of his posts exposes the secret of who tells Mr. Ate what his opinions should be: [Index of /blog/](http://americanthinker.com/blog). (The “thinker” in the domain name is of course an oxymoron.) [Here’s American “Thinker’s” article on Umbrellagate](http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2013/05/theyre_marines_mr_president_not_butlers.html), with a link to an even stupider website where people pretending to be soldiers comment on the Marines’ "humiliation"and “dishonor.” (I don’t get CSPAN where I live. When Congress takes up Umbrellagate, will some kind Doper please send me links to the YouTube highlights?) --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-does-his-best-to-degrade-a-couple-of-marines-next-episode-wipers/658538)._