Posted on 10/07/2013 4:52:33 PM PDT by jazusamo
Leadership: From the closing of national cemeteries to the blocking of public roads to deny access to scenic overlooks of Mount Rushmore, the list of federal shutdowns shows a president whose pettiness knows no bounds.
We have witnessed the shameful spectacle of the administration placing barricades — "Barackades" and "Barrycades," as they've come to be called — around the World War II Memorial to prevent those who stormed the beaches of Normandy and Ronald Reagan's honored "boys of Pointe du Hoc" from seeing the monument built with public funds to honor their service and sacrifice.
As the Associated Press reports, tourists traveling to Omaha Beach to pay their respects to the 9,387 military dead at the Normandy American Cemetery and Memorial are being turned away. The site, overlooking the D-Day invasion beaches, is one of 24 U.S. military cemeteries overseas that have been closed.
These noble burial grounds have been closed by a petulant president who has never visited the Normandy beaches even when he's had the chance. We have a commander in chief who now finds that honoring the war dead who preserved our freedoms is an expense we can't afford — just as he proceeds to peel away our freedoms one by one.
The sad part is these are sites that have no natural barriers to access. It requires both effort — and callousness — to place barricades in front of veterans in wheelchairs. If whatever security required is against vandals, there's no shortage of veterans and volunteers, here and abroad, willing to do it for free, just as they were willing to lay down their lives when called upon.
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It is the job of the House to put a control on spending. In so doing/ trying they are being treated to a temper tantrum
No more Barrycades!!
Precisely right, 0bummer always throws a tantrum if he doesn’t get his way, many times if he even thinks he’s been slighted in the least bit.
We have a child as a president.
BUMP!
Is it my imagination or is he targeting “white folk” in choosing what to shut down?
I seriously doubt it’s your imagination, opening up the Mall for the immigration protest kinda says it all.
Paybacks can be h311!
There are a hell of a lot of black, brown ,yellow and red vets who served bravely and honorably; just in case you were not aware of that.
In the case of the Marine Corps and Army; we were all part of Uncle Sams big Green machine; the Air Force and Navy were part of the big Blue machine.
This.
Insert photoshopped picture of Marrianne
with Sarah Palins face and American flag here.
Obama needs to be arrested and imprisoned.
Of course I realize that. I was thinking more about the national parks, the people being evicted, and the like. Of course I realize people of all walks of life use these.
I guess I should have said “conservative” instead.
Ping for later
“Just how small this administration is, and how skewed its priorities, is shown by the grocery stores that Bloomberg News found closed on Army bases while the golf course at Andrews Air Force base southeast of Washington, D.C., remained open.
Air Force Capt. Lindy Singleton, chief of public affairs for the 11th Wing at Andrews, says the golf course is open because it is financed by user fees. Surely there are enough tax dollars still flowing into the Treasury to let soldiers buy groceries on base with their own money.
Commissaries are also closed, forcing troops and their families to shop at local stores that cost about 30% more, Lt. Gen. Raymond Mason, the Army’s deputy chief of staff for logistics, said last week at a House hearing.”
Hey Obamadork,
Tear down the walls to your awful academic records.
We know you are stupid,
...and your laughable records will prove it.
You are slime.
Ignorant quota baby slime.
Pure excrement.
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