Barack Obama rejects Normandy trip to avoid offending Germany

Telegraph.co.uk ^ | April 2, 2009 | Toby Harnden, US Editor, and Henry Samuel in Paris

[Tax-chick]

Thank you very much!

[thestob]

for later

[scott says]

"I see these headlines and assume they are satire."

You got that right! I swear that every time I click on a story about Obama here on FR, I read a few sentences and wonder, Is this the Onion or some satire piece? Sadly it is not and this complete CLOWN Obama is actually this bad! I have come to the conclusion that Obama is actively and intensely trying to destroy this country, this is WAY more than being naive and ignorant---it is on purpose.

[Steel Bill]

In the 80’s I was a part of the Airborne Battalion Combat Team stationed at Vicenza Italy. We jumped into a field near Omaha beach as part of a D-Day ceremony. I cannot speak about the French population as a whole ,but the people in and around that area love America and Americans. Forever etched in my mind is the picture of the little girl who handed me some flowers she had picked as I departed the drop zone. She was with someone who I would guess was her grandfather and when I shook hands with him I noticed that he was crying. We did not say a word to each other, but the look of gratitude in his eyes told me more than anywords could about his feelings for America. Whenever I get down about the direction our country is going I recall that moment in that field far from home. Though the media may paint most of the world as being America haters, I know nothing could be farther from the truth. There are good people like the ones I met that week I spent in France that know what the world would be like if America becomes just another country in the world. That should make us all proud to be Americans.

[jveritas]

You are absolutely right right. Liberals want to only satisfy those who voted for them and those who voted against them can go to hell. Although without the tax money of those who voted against them they cannot give government handouts and welfare to a majority of the people who vote for them and hence they could not win elections. It is the one of the biggest paradox in existence.

[Northern Yankee]

A great book is The Few by Alex Kershaw.

The story of several American flyers that went to fight in the Battle of Britain. An amazing page turner.

[jveritas]

Memo to all governments: The Obama regime cannot be trusted in negotiations.

They know this already.

[Wild Irish Rogue]

If Obama refused to visit Normandy for fear of upsetting Germans,
then who was he afraid of upsetting if he visited American wounded at Landstuhl ??
The obvious and logical answer is Muslims.
And a lot of Democrats.
Obama was on his I Hate America Tour and wouldn’t dream of showing respect to our military, fallen and wounded.
He’s not a POS-he’s the entire thing.

[1_Rain_Drop]

Why is it any surprise that barak wouldn't honor American heros?
Look how he treated his own mother and white grandmother.

I am glad that he didn't go. May those soldiers rest in peace. They won't need to turn in their graves.

This European trip has been so revealing about his character, and lack of it. This pres_ent has no heart. He's not human.

[allmendream]

In the name of keeping things equal between France, Germany, and England?

Normandy was a trifecta.

We launched Normandy with the aid of our traditional allies, England. Remind them of this.

We launched Normandy to aid the frequently ungrateful benefactor of our military power, France. Remind them of this.

We launched Normandy upon a people of whom it is noted “they are either at your feet or at your throat”, in order to crush their imperial aspirations. Remind them of this.

What an incompetent team that is leading this incompetent President.

[Tax-chick]

Thanks! I’ll try my library catalog.

[Northern Yankee]

My daughter was in France a few years ago. She had a similar experience. She and some of her classmates were going to school there at the University of Caen. They traveled over to the beaches of Normandy. They went into the cemetery. While in there they saw some young kids being unruly. They chastised them for their behavior, and the kids left.

My daughter saw an elderly French woman. She came up to my daughter and asked, with tears in her eyes, "Are you an American?" My daughter answered, "yes!"

The woman gave her a hug, and thanked her for America's help during the war.

They both had tears in their eyes when they were finished talking.

[patriot08]

Thank you, FRiend.

[NowApproachingMidnight]

Michelle - Splaylegged.
That is some funny S***.

[sport]

The one white guy who appeared to be in his late 50s that I heard on television said,”I voted for him [obama] so that I could retire.”

In the interest of not geting banned I will refrain from further comment.

[Tax-chick]

You’re welcome. Help yourself to a Guinness to drink to our soldiers, living and dead.

[Shyla]

He such a POS.

Words fail me.

[Shyla]

What a damn downward turn our country went.

Damn him.

[frposty]

... Giving attention to OUR SOLDIERS GRAVES: boy what a good point. Somehow I managed to not see that fact.

[HotLead61]

And count on Obama doing the same thing when his thugs do a poll

If they do a poll on this, they'd better go somewhere else besides the Welfare office this time...