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President Obama Apologizes to Family of Fallen Soldier (SFC Jared Monti, Medal of Honor)
ABC News ^ | Friday, June 24, 2011 | Jake Tapper

Posted on 06/24/2011 6:22:38 PM PDT by kristinn

SNIP

Sgt. 1st Class Jared Monti was actually killed in Afghanistan on June 21, 2006. In September 2009, President Obama awarded him the Medal of Honor posthumously.

On his Facebook page this evening, Monti's father, Paul, posted: "FYI- President Barack Obama telephoned me personally this afternoon to apologize for his error in his speech to the 10th mountain division re: Jared's medal ceremony. Apology accepted."

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: corpseman; iapologize40bama; jaredmonti; medalofhonor; nonapology; obama; obamagaffes; obamaquotes; sorryigotcaught; thefullmonti
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To: kristinn
My question is: Who does the protocal in the WH?

Let me guess. Valarie.

21 posted on 06/24/2011 6:57:16 PM PDT by AGreatPer (Support the troops. Every Friday night at Walter Reed.)
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To: kristinn
This is the Wunderkind who saved health care?
22 posted on 06/24/2011 6:58:46 PM PDT by Huskrrrr
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To: kristinn

The Showboat-in-chief is an evil, ignorant, ignoramous.


23 posted on 06/24/2011 7:01:03 PM PDT by GGpaX4DumpedTea (I am a tea party descendant - steeped in the Constitutional legacy handed down by the Founders)
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To: Hotdog

now let’s get him in the history books as a one term President!

I’d rather see him impeached and convicted before then.


24 posted on 06/24/2011 7:01:17 PM PDT by chainsaw (I'd hate to be a democrat running against Sarah Palin.)
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To: Grams A

I don’t think he was reading the teleprompter this time. What writer would insert all the juvenile and insulting “You guys” references to the troops into a written speech? This was his lousy extemporaneous speaking ability on display and his very clear inability to think like an adult.


25 posted on 06/24/2011 7:03:53 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

The wheels are coming off. The glitterati that surrounded him early on are abandoning ship, leaving only 2nd stringers to keep his pitard hoisted.


26 posted on 06/24/2011 7:07:33 PM PDT by HMS Surprise (Chris Christie can go to hell.)
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To: Hotdog

“”I’ve been around since Truman and he’s definitely going down as the worst one in my life time so far...””

I think he had to be held at gunpoint to make the call - why can’t he do it right and issue an apology to the entire military? And I’ve been around since FDR so have seen a lot but never before one like this who isn’t even ashamed to show that his priorities are to DESTROY THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA!


27 posted on 06/24/2011 7:10:19 PM PDT by Thank You Rush
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To: kristinn
The Showboat-in-chief didn't have the guts to announce his apology. He left it to the Monti family to announce it on Facebook.

The apology should have been to SFC Monti's family, the entire military and veterans, and the country as a whole for the grave disservice a Commander In Chief speaking so callously of two soldiers' sacrifices.
28 posted on 06/24/2011 7:11:59 PM PDT by Renderofveils (My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music. - Nabokov)
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To: AGreatPer

I feel your pain...and I’ve had enough the day after he was elected...it’s like a story I heard once...a black guy was being reprimanded for the last time at work...he said you’re firing me because I’m black...the HR person said “No, we hired you because you were black...we’re firing you because your useless!”
I heard that long before the big “O” was elected...


29 posted on 06/24/2011 7:12:30 PM PDT by Hotdog
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To: GGpaX4DumpedTea

Wasn’t someone going on and on about what a great memory the president had, only had to hear something once, yes, I think it was his wife saying that about him. Apparently it doesn’t include remembering what he himself said.


30 posted on 06/24/2011 7:12:56 PM PDT by Razzz42
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To: Thank You Rush

I’m on your side...he’s a disgrace to this country and the world!


31 posted on 06/24/2011 7:14:11 PM PDT by Hotdog
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To: kristinn

To my knowledge, ABC is the only network to cover this. Jake Tapper is the closest thing to an honest journalist in MSM.


32 posted on 06/24/2011 7:15:32 PM PDT by bwc2221
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To: kristinn

president dumba$$


33 posted on 06/24/2011 7:15:56 PM PDT by j_tull (I may make you feel, but I can't make you think.)
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To: Grams A
This was off-TOTUS stuff.

He kept saying “you guys”, stuttering, and then botched it all.

I really think the guy is a moron. If there is even one insider who isn't committed to Barry's Commie Cause, the stories in the book will be incredible. I bet they just sit him in the corner and let him watch SportsCenter while things are debated.

34 posted on 06/24/2011 7:18:11 PM PDT by Carling (At some point, those surrounding Obama have to realize that they are working for a psychopath)
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To: Nepeta
Disappointed, but not surprised or shocked.

In order to be disappointed in someone's behavior, you have to have expected better. I would not expect that Obama could do better. He was off his teleprompter. If he were reading from a teleprompter, then you could express disappointment... in his speech writers.

Obama is an empty shell. You can't expect much from such a shallow soul.

35 posted on 06/24/2011 7:24:58 PM PDT by P-Marlowe (LPFOKETT GAHCOEEP-w/o*)
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To: kristinn

Reminds me a bit of someone from Minnesota that refused to make a direct/public apology for her actions...just saying


36 posted on 06/24/2011 7:25:20 PM PDT by Friendofgeorge (SARAH PALIN OR BUST....Bachmann no thanks)
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To: P-Marlowe
Has anyone noticed since David Axelrod has been gone things have been much worse?
I have been saying since the beginning here on FR that Axelrod is running this country.
37 posted on 06/24/2011 7:33:11 PM PDT by AGreatPer (Support the troops. Every Friday night at Walter Reed.)
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To: RasterMaster

To hell with the fraud-in-chief and his “appologies”. They’re nothing more than empty words from a pathological liar.


Exactly. He’s a wicked bastard and an apology isn’t going to lessen that fact.


38 posted on 06/24/2011 7:36:32 PM PDT by unkus
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To: kristinn
Had I been that father, I would have told him to "go to hell!"

Climb to Glory, 10th Mountain!

39 posted on 06/24/2011 7:37:46 PM PDT by MountainDad (Support your local Militia)
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To: kristinn

And they called Bush stupid.

Obammie the Commie is truly a stupid tool.

But he dances very well at the end of his puppet strings. And he has that FM voice from smoking. So he’s their fair-haired boy.


40 posted on 06/24/2011 7:38:22 PM PDT by Ghost of Philip Marlowe (Prepare for survival.)
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