Posted on 05/29/2017 3:23:44 PM PDT by BenLurkin
Obama offered a reprise of one of his earliest gaffes on the national political stage...
"[A] lot of those men and women who we celebrate on Veterans Day and Memorial Day come back and find that, when it comes to finding a job or getting the kind of care that they need, we’re not always there the way we need to be."
Almost four years ago, Obama offered this on the campaign trail as a presidential candidate:
"On this Memorial Day, as our nation honors its unbroken line of fallen heroes — and I see many of them in the audience here today — our sense of patriotism is particularly strong."
One might have thought that three years in office would have taught Obama the difference between Memorial Day and Veterans Day. On the latter, we celebrate our living veterans, but on Memorial Day, we remember those who died in the service of their country. The men and women we “celebrate” on Memorial Day didn’t come back to find jobs; they came back for their final resting place, if they came back at all.
(Excerpt) Read more at nation.foxnews.com ...
Quota boy is not too bright.
Only libs regard his mental abilities as superior.
And those abilities are superior.
To other libs..
Give Obama a break. In Nigeria they don’t have a Memorial Day or a Veterans Day.
;)
Give him a break. He is not from this country and doesn’t know all our traditions yet.
Well, I don’t know the difference between Eid-Al-Adha and Eid-Al-Fitr, so what can I say?
He also seems to confuse USA with USSR
Well, after he visits the 57states, he may get an understanding
All poking of fun at the Kenyan aside, I find that on Memorial Day, the lines have been blurred by the public between honoring the war dead and honoring all veterans. Is that necessarily a bad thing if the honor and remembrance are sincere?
See what happens when you’re not an American and too lazy to read the cheat sheets provided by your handlers?
He should have a corpse man fill him in on the details.
B.Hussein Obama was raised in Indonesia by his adoptive father and his birth Mother and Hawaii by aged WHITE grandparents...that he neglected later in his life...He has no Class or Character..
Then when he became president he put all information about his past under lock and key...that box now needs to be opened...and the contents revealed and maybe then we will know just who Barry Sonranto Barack Hussein Obama really is...
IMHO Yes it is a bad thing. If a person does not even bother to learn, understand or remember that Memorial Day is held in memory of our fallen soldiers then that means they are not sincere in the least.
If Trump had done that it would be all over the news. Hold bammy to the same standard.
Amazing the MSM didn't pick up on that
And just a notch below that screw-up, that illustration of possessing no patriotism, who forget a similar illustration of possessing no regular boyhood rooting for a baseball team, as he referred to the great Comiskey Park as Kaminsky Park.
DITTO THAT!
Barry doesn’t know the difference and doesn’t care… and makes a point of showing he doesn’t care. Just like the 57 states.
Besides, he just reads what’s on the teleprompter. I don’t know how he had conversations in real life without one.
p.s. I know I spelled his adopted name wrong, you should have corrected me ...seems a few posters here like to correct posters who spell words wrong...
thanks for not insulting me...I spelled it like it sounded to me...
Before it was Memorial Day, it was Decoration Day. A day to decorate the graves of the fallen in the Civil War. So it has always honored the dead. In states that sent soldiers to both sides, a sign of reconciliation was the practicing of decorating the graves of both Union and Confederate soldiers (which would be condemned today because of—racism). After the Spanish American War the decorating was done for the fallen of that war as well.
Veterans are honored on Veterans’ Day, which also has changed names. When I was growing up, it was Armistice Day, remembering the end of WWI. As time went by and WWII and Korea came along it was expanded to include all veterans, not just the WWI vets.
I guess the lesson here is that the passage of time means that unforgettable events, do in fact, become forgotten. As the people who lived them (and their children) pass away things fade into the mists of time.
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