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Rolling Thunder Not Expecting Obama Greeting
The Washington Times ^ | May 21st 2009

Posted on 05/21/2009 8:31:28 PM PDT by Steelfish

Rolling Thunder not expecting Obama greeting

By Jennifer Harper

Friday, May 22, 2009

The last time Rolling Thunder roared into Washington, the president welcomed the riders in the White House driveway with a smile on his face and heartfelt personal greeting. This year, maybe not.

"We initially got a call this year saying the president wasn't going to greet us," said Artie Muller, founder of the group that is marking its 22nd annual patriotic motorcycle ride through Washington to draw attention to policy issues influencing veterans, active-duty military, prisoners of war and those still missing in action.

But a second call in recent days revealed that the White House would do something.

"We expect it will be a member of the staff, not a meeting with President Obama. We really won't know until sometime on Friday afternoon.

But this is a step in the right direction," said #Nancy Regg, a spokeswoman for the group, which has 88 chapters across the country and expects to draw as many as a half-million bikers for a "Freedom Ride" on Sunday from the Pentagon to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: bho44; bhodod; memorialday; mia; pow; rollingthunder; second100days; vets; vietnamvets

1 posted on 05/21/2009 8:31:29 PM PDT by Steelfish
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To: Steelfish

This last election was a no win for sure.


2 posted on 05/21/2009 8:35:14 PM PDT by armymarinemom (My sons freed Iraqi and Afghan Honor Roll students.)
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To: Steelfish

This is not Swivel Heads’ type of crowd.


3 posted on 05/21/2009 8:35:56 PM PDT by Rennes Templar
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To: Steelfish

Carol Browner will greet the bikers and lecture them on pollution...


4 posted on 05/21/2009 8:36:08 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist ("President Obama, your agenda is not new, it's not change, and it's not hope" - Rush Limbaugh 02/28)
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To: armymarinemom

> “We initially got a call this year saying the president wasn’t going to greet us,”

Obviously. ....Obama hates the US military.


5 posted on 05/21/2009 8:36:40 PM PDT by max americana
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To: max americana

There’s no loss of love for McCain by many with Rolling Thunder.


6 posted on 05/21/2009 8:38:22 PM PDT by armymarinemom (My sons freed Iraqi and Afghan Honor Roll students.)
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To: Steelfish

>>We expect it will be a member of the staff, not a meeting with President Obama.

They will find a white scullery maid to wave at the riders.


7 posted on 05/21/2009 8:39:40 PM PDT by freedumb2003 (Communism comes to America: 1/20/2009. Keep your powder dry, folks. Sic semper tyrannis)
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To: Steelfish

He won’t. He has the Garrison Keillor mindset. Remember when Garrison wrote up that column insulting the Rolling Thunder for distrupting his quiet day taking in a painting at a DC museum?


8 posted on 05/21/2009 8:40:14 PM PDT by Winstons Julia
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To: Winstons Julia

A little two cycle oil in the fuel and you could turn it into a blue day in DC.


9 posted on 05/21/2009 8:42:13 PM PDT by Oldexpat
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To: Steelfish
But a second call in recent days revealed that the White House would do something.

Sure. A cardboard cutout of The First Thug. On the bright side, it has no choice but to listen, it won't have the bikers rounded up & executed for poisoning our dewwicate pwanet, and a cardboard cutout has a helluva lot more personality than The First Droid.

10 posted on 05/21/2009 8:46:10 PM PDT by kromike
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To: Steelfish

God Bless Rollig Thunder!

I love those guys!


11 posted on 05/21/2009 8:47:35 PM PDT by Randy Larsen ( BTW, If I offend you! Please let me know, I may want to offend you again!)
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To: Steelfish

Obama would dare send staff out to met a group of veterans like Rolling Thunder? What is he afraid of?


12 posted on 05/21/2009 8:47:51 PM PDT by chris_bdba
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To: Steelfish

The last time they came into town, we had a president. This year there is no president, but only an imposter in chief.


13 posted on 05/21/2009 8:47:54 PM PDT by jesseam (Been there and done that!)
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To: Randy Larsen

Rolling Thunder...My bad.


14 posted on 05/21/2009 8:49:07 PM PDT by Randy Larsen ( BTW, If I offend you! Please let me know, I may want to offend you again!)
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To: Rennes Templar

“Swivel Head”....snort!


15 posted on 05/21/2009 8:49:34 PM PDT by Mister Muggles
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To: jesseam

Obama is reminded of everything he is not. First on the list is they are Americans.


16 posted on 05/21/2009 8:55:17 PM PDT by healy61
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To: chris_bdba
What is he afraid of?

50 states demanding a view of his certified "natural born" birth certificate and a Supreme Court understanding this issue is not going to go away until it is resolved to the satisfaction of all parties who have thus far litigated and been rebuked for their efforts. Someone who spends nearly a million dollars to keep this document secret certainly presents an appearance of hiding something he doesn't want known.

17 posted on 05/21/2009 8:58:31 PM PDT by MamaDearest
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To: healy61

AMEN! GOD BLESS AMERICA AND GOD BLESS ROLLING THUNDER!!!


18 posted on 05/21/2009 9:01:22 PM PDT by Patriot777 (Land of the Free and Home of the Brave!!!!!)
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To: kromike
A cardboard cutout of The First Thug.

You know, that would be a brilliant PR move on the part of the Rolling Thunder organizers.

Put a cardboard cut-out of the Precedent on the WH driveway and have lots of bikers pose next to it with the WH in the background.

That picture would be worth a million, billion, trillion words of spin from the MSM and the Zero camp.

19 posted on 05/21/2009 9:07:09 PM PDT by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: Steelfish

If Obama wants to make a good impression, he should stand out in the middle of the road with Geitner, Emanuel, and Hillary and wave as the bikes approach.

This would be a great way to heal America.


20 posted on 05/21/2009 9:47:44 PM PDT by struggle ((The struggle continues))
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To: Steelfish

I remember seeing pictures of Pres. Bush greeting Rolling Thunder - shaking hands, patting them on the back, and making them welcome. The same with the disabled veterans bike ride: Pres. Bush walked into the group, greeting them and shaking hands and exchangng smiles, while the Zero greeted the same group by giving one of his pompous narcissistic teleprompter statements from a podium.


21 posted on 05/21/2009 9:48:45 PM PDT by hsalaw
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To: Steelfish

Joe Biden on his Big Wheel?


22 posted on 05/21/2009 9:53:34 PM PDT by Kirkwood
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To: hsalaw
while the Zero greeted the same group by giving one of his pompous narcissistic teleprompter statements from a podium.

You don't really expect someone so "pure & perfect" to come into close proximity with us unwashed masses?

Truth is, The First Thug is actually terrified of real people; he can't relate to them. He literally cannot conceive of people who might actually love this country, who might actually fight to defend it, who prefer independence to government-sponsored nanny-ism. These are alien concepts to him.

He's also afraid that someone might yell at him. And his feewings are quite dainty, you know.

23 posted on 05/21/2009 10:36:48 PM PDT by kromike
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To: Steelfish

Why would RT want to greet this horrible man in the WH. I think Vets should do what they did to Clinton..at the memorial..remember when they all turned their backs to HIM.


24 posted on 05/21/2009 10:57:48 PM PDT by celtic gal (I think the democRATs should change their logo from a jackass to a RAT with a long tail.)
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To: Steelfish; All
Gee, do you reckon Duh!1 is skeered O' real men?

25 posted on 05/22/2009 2:53:29 AM PDT by backhoe (All across America, the Lights are going out...)
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To: backhoe

He’s not “skeered” of real men, afterall, he’s got Michelle.


26 posted on 05/22/2009 3:17:02 AM PDT by RushLake (Democrats & Maobama have never met a terrorist they didn't like.)
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To: RushLake
He’s not “skeered” of real men, after all, he’s got Michelle.

Zing! You nailed it!

27 posted on 05/22/2009 3:43:42 AM PDT by backhoe (All across America, the Lights are going out...)
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To: Steelfish

bunch of damned extremists.
Veterans, motorcycle riders, conservatives, Christians. Call out the military to protect the district from this horde .


28 posted on 05/22/2009 4:13:16 AM PDT by Joe Boucher
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To: chris_bdba

“What is he afraid of?”
-—He’s no doubt afraid of the thing being covered
(but he might be able to keep the cameras away)/
If this were covered like a million other Presidential
“news events”, Obama would be
shown reeking to high heaven with a fake half-smile,
body language speaking in tongues, and a barely-concealable lack of enthusiasm if not downright contempt
for the whole IDEA of this. So what he’d be afraid of is
being revealed to be what he is, and also afraid of his
inability to hide, for once, who he is.


29 posted on 05/22/2009 5:40:11 AM PDT by supremedoctrine ("You can't make an omelette without breaking eggs. That's what they tell the eggs./ R. Jarrell)
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To: Rennes Templar
Obama's Rolling Thunder: Image Hosted by ImageShack.us

30 posted on 05/22/2009 10:59:01 AM PDT by WOBBLY BOB (ACORN:American Corruption for Obama Right Now)
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