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 ...
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.
That is too good.
Obama doesn’t want to iritate the nazi sympathizers. Arafat’s uncle alligned with Hitler to eradicate the Jews.
This man is bringing shame on our nation.
“Good. 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....”
Indeed. BO is a clueless, classless, unappreciative, America loathing dolt. I hope he NEVER walks the hallowed ground in Normandy.
Would he reject going to Hiroshima to avoid offending Japan.....
.....No, he would go to say that he thinks America was wrong to drop the bomb.
Which of course is exactly the real reason, not the bushwa put out by the mushpeddlers.
There are many legitimate reasons for a President might not make a stop at Normandy on a trip to multiple European cities. However, to give the reason as “not to offend the Germans” is idiotic. But it’s the Obama White House, nothing like this should surprise us.
I really which someone would post a countdown clock to the next presidential election. I could use a morale booster right now.
They are all the hated Christians and Jews too, I'd bet.
“Good. 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.”
Correct! I’m glad he’s not going. He doesn’t belong there.
There’s somethin’ stirrin’.
Your father was a real man and a real hero.
I do not imagine that it has crossed Mr. Obama’s mind that were it not for the sacrifices of American soldiers, he would not possess the freedom to gallivant about Europe apologizing for America. To rise above mere detestation of our presumptive leader at a moment like this requires an effort that pales in comparison to theirs.
0bama doesn’t give a darned about the sacrifices made for our liberty. He is completely out of touch with history, with dignity, and with honor.
What I don’t get - how can the American people be so absolutely stupid as to continue to support this absolute disaster?
Not on the apology tour itinerary.
You know, the odds are better than even that if he goes to Japan he will do that very thing given his statements re nuclear disarmament.
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Bill Clinton’s scene with the rocks on the beach was unspeakable, but B.O. would be worse. Suppose he decided it was time to apologize for the United States’s unwarranted intrusion into the affairs of Europe?
"We went through the motions to placate President Sarkozy but giving special treatment to France was not on our agenda..."
I never thought we would see another President as despicable as Bubba, but I think we've found him.
You have got to be kidding me.
But can you find a bigger hole next time?
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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