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Obama To Be A No Show At Memorial Day Ceremony
KGO Radio | 5/25/2010 | me

Posted on 05/25/2010 10:32:37 AM PDT by muleskinner

Obama will be on vacation in Chicago this Memorial Day, instead of presiding over Memorial Day ceremonies at Arlington. This may be the first time since the Civil War that a president will not pay respect to the veterans passed.


TOPICS: Breaking News; Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: arlingtoncemetery; bho44; bhodod; bhotreason; democrats; kenyanvillageidiot; memorialday; military; narcissism; narcissist; obama; osamasgopher; snub; traitor; treasonousbastard
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To: Steve495
Were you disturbed when Bush went to Normandy instead of Arlington? Are the war heroes buried in Chicago less important than those in Normandy or Arlington?

There is a big diffference between the American Cemetaries in Normandy, and the ratther small Abe Lincoln National Cemetary. Both in size and signifgence. Arlington symbolizes all those who died in the service of the Republic, not just those interned there. Normandy stands for the magnitude of the effort required to invade and free Europe from Hitler's clutches. Now if he'd gone to the Punchbowl, that would be somewhat more akin to Normandy, symbolizing as it does those who gave all to defeat Imperial Japan.

201 posted on 05/26/2010 3:17:52 PM PDT by El Gato ("The second amendment is the reset button of the US constitution"-Doug McKay)
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To: muleskinner

This is good news. One less communist to desecrate the hallowed ground of Arlington National Cemetery. Better that he never sets foot in Arlington again.

Who wants to bet he will choose to be buried there. I guarantee he does, just like Bill Clinton, which really thwarts my vow to piss on Clinton’s grave. I pray that Clinton is buried in Arkansas so I can make good on my vow.


202 posted on 05/26/2010 4:11:43 PM PDT by Freedom_Is_Not_Free (Liberal are like termites eating away our cultural foundations.)
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To: El Gato

Thanks for your response to that... I literally couldn’t even think straight after that comment, much less wage a defense against the implications he was trying to assert.


203 posted on 05/26/2010 5:21:31 PM PDT by LibertyRocks (http://libertyrocks.wordpress.com ~ Anti-Obama Gear: http://cafepress.com/NO_ObamaBiden08)
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To: AdmSmith; Berosus; bigheadfred; Convert from ECUSA; dervish; Ernest_at_the_Beach; Fred Nerks; ...
For those who think Moslems have not contributed anything to American culture, 9/11/2001, and now:
Obama will be on vacation in Chicago this Memorial Day, instead of presiding over Memorial Day ceremonies at Arlington. This may be the first time since the Civil War that a president will not pay respect to the veterans passed.

204 posted on 05/26/2010 6:51:01 PM PDT by SunkenCiv ("Fools learn from experience. I prefer to learn from the experience of others." -- Otto von Bismarck)
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To: Pan_Yans Wife

He’s an idiot. A dangerous idiot.


205 posted on 05/26/2010 8:10:03 PM PDT by MWestMom (Tread carefully, truth lies here.)
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To: muleskinner

In the good old days, the President of the US was an AMERICAN, not a foreigner with an inferiority complex sublimated into arrogance.


206 posted on 05/26/2010 8:14:35 PM PDT by 2harddrive
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To: dusttoyou

My eldest made Eagle Scout last year. The Obama White House didn’t “do” congratulatory letters for Eagles last year. They may have changed their tune since; I really don’t know (and son doesn’t care).


207 posted on 05/26/2010 10:13:49 PM PDT by shezza (Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord.)
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To: metmom

Most of them are probably glad. I don’t think they feel terribly honored when he uses ‘props’.

White House, Congressional Dems Reach Agreement to Force Vote on Repeal of Don’t Ask Don’t Tell
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[Dumping on vets this Memorial Day in more ways than one.]


208 posted on 05/27/2010 4:37:44 AM PDT by Arthur Wildfire! March (Low taxes, low government budget -- works every time. Next question?)
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To: SunkenCiv

Disgraceful. But then what else would we expect?


209 posted on 05/27/2010 4:52:19 AM PDT by StarCMC (Sometimes you need a Jimmy Carter to get a Ronald Reagan.)
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To: LibertyRocks

OK. I’ll take the “prepared comments” remark as a compliment since in a parallel life I occasionally write and manage internal corporate communications. I don’t work in radio.

I thank your family for their service, and we can agree to disagree. It is possible I do not know where you are coming from.

This thread has been composed of various opinions, from those who are glad he’s not stepping on sacred ground (and never should), to those who are mad because he is not, and a few who think there is too much being made of the situation. I’m part of the latter group.

Your point that he is heading out to Chicago for some R&R and will visit there simply because it happens to be convenient in relation to his travel plans is a good one.

In no way was my comment about importance of our war heroes in different cemeteries meant to disgust you. Sorry about that.


210 posted on 05/27/2010 6:51:38 AM PDT by Steve495
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