Posted on 04/06/2009 4:20:18 PM PDT by CitizenM
Barack Obama, concerned about offending Britain and Germany, rebuffed strenuous attempts by President Nicolas Sarkozy of France to persuade the new American president to make a trip to Normandy this week.
White House officials travelled to France at the start of March to discuss a visit by Mr Obama to Omaha Beach, the site of the American Cemetery, established in 1944 just after D-Day and where 9,387 American personnel are buried. Among them is Theodore Roosevelt Jr the eldest son of the 26th US President.
French officials and senior American military officers walked with White House staff through the cemetery discussing how the two presidents might follow the same route. But even before their trip, the White House had decided that Mr Obama would not travel there this week.
"It wasn't going to happen," said an American official in Washington. "We went through the motions to placate President Sarkozy but giving special treatment to France was not on our agenda.
"During this trip, we wanted to maintain a balance between the British, German and France". A White House spokesman in London declined to comment. Last month, White House officials briefed that a Normandy visit had been considered but it had not been logistically possible.
Mr Sarkozy is said by French officials to be piqued that Gordon Brown became the first European leader to meet Mr Obama and was then lavished with praise by him at a 50-minute joint press conference in London on Wednesday.
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According to French reports, Mr Obama was to visit the Normandy American Cemetery and Memorial at Colleville-sur-mer, just north of Omaha Beach. The pair were apparently to have dined at the nearby chateau de Bénouville in Caen.
The White House rejected the offer....(see rest of story)
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
They would spit on the muzzie in Normandy.
LLS
My daughter went to Normandy when she was in France. She felt honored and humbled; thankful for what her grandfather and great uncles had done for her.
Exactly. The idea of honoring Americans who sacrificed their lives for freedom and liberty is so repugnant to this cretin the White House he has to lie about his reason.
Definitely. It would be a sacrilege.
Honor, duty and country aren't in his teleprompted lexicon.
LOL I wish I'd said that!
If there were stray stones on Utah Beach, I swear he’d arrange them in either a Hammer and Sickle or a Crescent Moon.
Thread over; thanks Tax-chick!
And the Corollary:
Either you have class or you don't. If you don't, you can't pretend that you do, because either you have class or you don't.
Oh, just a bunch of arrogant Americans buried there...
“Especially in light of how far he went out of his way to say how awful America is, he could have at least made a point to visit a site that represents how great America is.”
You nailed it!
I cannot even put into words the dislike I have for this moron in chief. I cannot stand looking at him, listening to him. If there was any doubt about this guy’s hate for America, this trip has dispelled all doubt.
Not that I had any doubt. I have always known how much he hates this country. No one can sit in a church for twenty years, listening to that diabolical so called reverend spew his hate and love this country.
He doesn’t want to offend Germans? Maybe he really means Nazis.
I think most Germans are pretty disgusted at what their country did...in fact I recall the remains of a bombed out church in Berlin or Frankfurt (can’t remember which) and they left the part of the building that held the steeple as a monument with a plaque saying “lest we forget”.
Even that sexual predator and rapist from Arkansas (what was his name?) went there; and if I remember right, had American flags pulled up and laid on the ground so he could thoughtfully and pensively (with lower lip bitten, of course) stand them upright . . . a ridiculous and horribly unpatriotic thing. Better that this empty suit not go there and do something really stupid like say he wishes he could speak “Normandy” to tell everyone how he feels. What a moroooooooooooon!
BTTT
How many Kenyans came ashore at Normandy?
Well, he probably did more honor to the dead by not going there rather than showing up and apologizing to the Germans or something equally as appalling.
“It wasn’t giving special attention to FRANCE YOU MORON!!!
It was giving special attention to OUR SOLDIERS GRAVES!!!
I despise this man.”
You nailed it...
Please note that the _Telegraph_ doesn’t even quote someone calling Obama on the carpet for offering such a transparently lame excuse. Sycophants.
My thoughts exactly. For the longest time I have been telling myself that it is Philosophy and Policy that is driving my disgust with this man. But I must admit it is really personal. God forgive me but I loath this man as a person.
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