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 ...
LOL!
Get this POS American hater out of OUR White House. Have you had enough yet????? Is his agenda not clear enough yet?????
For comparison purposes, I had a very interesting conversation some time ago, with Sen. George McGovern (as everyone knows, a Democrat) regarding his memories of WW-II - he talked about a good friend that he lost and still thought about 50+ years later like it was still YESTERDAY. It was extremely touching and totally sincere. Sen. McGovern really is a great American.(I "classify" myself as a conservative , Repub, btw)
Except I'd be worried that Uhh-bama would put the rocks in the shape of a Crescent, or a Hammer-and-Sickle.
I thought this was from Onion but no the POTUS is a narcissis fool....the silver lining if FR is an indication, this pos-er is a one termer at most!
Of course he could make a crescent out of the stones on the beaches of Normandy.
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.Memo to all governments: The Obama regime cannot be trusted in negotiations.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
I really thought this was a joke.
I guess the second most unbelievable aspect of this behavior by zero is that he does not care what 45% of Americans think.
The most unbelievable aspect is that half of the body politic thinks (I means feels) that this is A-OK.
What has happened to our country?
I am so sad for my children. I had it so great for so long and didn’t even know it.
President Ronald Reagans Speech at Point-du-Hoc, Normandy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBeyZAmmJNg&feature=related
Obama in those honored resting places of our American heros would be desecrating them.
Exactly - the perfect, concise statement.
MY GOD, how in the name of everything holy could people in this country have been so f-ing stupid to elect this POS.
Not as many as there were of the good old American GI's.
If I ever get to France that's the first place I'm going.
My daughter even brought me back some sand from Omaha Beach. I treasure that very much.
Obama doesn’t deserve to be in the same graveyard as the WW2 dead, or on Omaha Beach. Saves us having to listen to him read mealymouthed, hypocritical platitudes while Michelle stands around, splaylegged, dressed in the hotel bedspread.
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Bravo.
Priceless
The Germans can handle the truth. They know we kicked their ass, making the world a better place. If Zero was president during Hitler’s rule, he probably would have tried to find “common ground” with the Nazis.
Thats beautiful! Well said Madam!
Probably a few British Kenyan settlers wound up, by 1945, in units assaulting Europe. Many more colonial units - white, black, Indian, and others - fought in the Middle East and North African theaters, and in the Pacific with ANZAC troops.
(/WW2 trivia ... I'm reading biographies of British generals currently ;-)
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