Posted on 06/06/2015 5:41:03 PM PDT by Din Maker
By all accounts, Harold was a bright child. He grew up in America. He went to school and had a bright future ahead of him. Harolds full life was cut short in a violent moment. While few people had ever heard of Harold before his death, many did afterwards. And in death, something shocking happened. What was so shocking, especially when it is compared to the death of someone else recently in the news? . Harold is Harold Greene, Major General United States Army.
On August 5th, General Greene was killed by a Taliban terrorist. He was returned to America with full military honors. It has been a tradition that the President attends the funeral of flag officers killed in the line of duty. Richard Nixon attended the funeral of a Major General killed in Vietnam and George W. Bush attended the funeral of Lieutenant General Timothy Maude, who was killed in the 9/11 attacks.
. While Major General Greene was buried, Barack Obama was golfing. The Vice President wasnt there either. Neither was the Secretary of Defense. Flags were not even lowered to half staff .
Four days after Harold Greene gave his life for America, Michael Brown was killed in Ferguson, Missouri. It is safe to say, Brown was at best a thug. . The media has repeatedly shown photos of Brown flashing gang signs. Some media outlets have even associated him with a specific gang. . In the minutes before his death, Brown committed a robbery at a local convenience store. According to other reports, Brown struck officer Darren Wilson and shattered his orbital bone.
Obama sent a three-person delegation to Michael Browns funeral!! Obama would not attend the funeral of the highest ranking military officer killed in the line of duty since 9/11, yet he will send a delegation to the funeral of a thug.
When Margaret Thatcher, one of Americas staunchest allies and Ronald Reagans partner in bringing down Soviet communism, died... Obama sent only a small low-level delegation to her funeral.
The snub was not missed by the British. . .... When Chris Kyle, the most lethal American sniper in history was murdered, there was no expression of sympathy from the White House.
There was no White House delegation at his funeral. .. . American heroes die and Obama goes to the golf course. A thug dies and he gets a White House delegation. . No wonder real Americans hold Obama in contempt.
It isn’t any old thug, it is His Own Thug?
The American people are so hungry for honest anything they will even go for honest racism and honest racial nepotism.
Wow. A very poignant observation.
"Change will not come if we wait for some other person or if we wait for some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek"-- BARACK OBAMA
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"Barack Obama told supporters that
'change has come to America' as he
claimed victory in a historic presidential election."
http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/11/04/election.president/index.html
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Every year the French have a 4 day celebration in Normandy complete with American uniforms, tanks, jeeps and guns. They still honor the Americans who died there....
June 6, 2013, the 69th anniversary of "D-Day", the largest invasion ever attempted, where 200,000 Americans stormed the beaches at Normandy to begin the final push to defeat Nazi Germany in WWII. D-Day marked the turning point in WWII in Europe... Today, European heads of state make it a point to recall and honor the sacrifices of those who landed in Normandy, as do our Presidents.... well, most of them....
In the 69 years since D-Day, there are four occasions when the President of the United States chose not to visit the D-Day Monument that honors the soldiers killed during the Invasion.
The occasions were:
For the past 69 years, every American President except Obama have taken the time to honor the memory and sacrifices of the 6,000 American soldiers killed on D-Day. ...Except Obama!
June 6 2010, Obama had no events scheduled.
June 6, 2011, Obama met with the National Security team and was interviewed by WEWS Cleveland and WDIV in Detroit about the auto industry - FAR too busy to visit the D-Day memorial.
June 6, 2012, instead of honoring our fallen soldiers, Obama made a campaign trip to California on Air Force 1 (at our expense) to raise funds for (his) upcoming election.
June 6, 2013, Obama was doing ANOTHER fund raiser with the multimillionaires in the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee in Palo Alto, CA, once again at our expense.
Four times in 69 years!!
"The Communist Party USA views the 2008 elections as a tremendous opportunity to defeat the policies of the right-wing Republicans and to move our country in a new progressive direction.
The record turnout in the Democratic Presidential primary races shows that millions of voters, including millions of new voters, are using this election to bring about real change. We wholeheartedly agree with them."
http://cpusa.org/cpusa-2008-electoral-policy/
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After the election....
A Landslide Mandate For Change
A breakthrough election
Congratulations on an extraordinary history making election!
We can think back with pride to decades of hard work toward our strategic goal of a big enough, broad enough and united enough labor and all-peoples movement that could overcome the ultra-right blockage to all progress. That all peoples movement has come to life, it is dynamic and it has the potential to keep growing.
The election of Barack Obama and a strengthened Congress creates new conditions in our country. There is now the possibility to shift gears and move forward. This new day requires us to further develop our tactics in order to continue to deepen and broaden labor and peoples unity.
There are thousands of experiences that we all have had in these momentous days, some large, some small, all of which express the enormity of change in thinking and readiness for involvement that is underway and that steels us for the battles ahead.
The tears of joy we all shared as crowds gathered to watch the election results here and throughout the world dramatize the new moment we are in.
http://cpusa.org/a-landslide-mandate-for-change-report-to-the-national-committee-meeting-11-15-08/
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July 1, 2009...
Change is Here, Change is Coming
Sam Webb, National Chair, Communist Party, USA:
Let me begin with a simple observation: If the last 30 years were an era of reaction, then the coming decade could turn into an era of reform, even radical reform. Six months into the Obama presidency, I would say without hesitation that the landscape, atmosphere, conversation, and agenda have strikingly changed compared to the previous eight years.
In this legislative session, we can envision winning a Medicare-like public option and then going further in the years ahead.
We can visualize passing tough regulatory reforms on the financial industry, which brought the economy to ruin.
We can imagine the troops coming home from Iraq and Afghanistan while U.S. representatives participate in a regional process that brings peace and stability to the entire region.
In the current political climate, the expansion of union rights becomes a real possibility.
Much the same can be said about winning a second stimulus bill, and we sure need one, given the still-rising rate, and likely long term persistence, of unemployment.
Isnt it possible in the Obama era to create millions of green jobs in manufacturing and other sectors of the economy in tandem with an attack on global warming?
Cant we envision taking new strides in the long journey for racial and gender equality in this new era, marked at its beginning by the election of the first African American to the presidency?
And isnt the overhaul of the criminal justice and prison system a system steeped in racism no longer pie-in-the sky, but something that can be done in the foreseeable future?
All these things are within reach now!
Ride a girl’s bike, hang curtains, lick big ice cream cones, pretend to shoot skeet, etc. Meanwhile, play golf and go on fantastic vacations. Fantasy Island all the way.
Yeah... maybe it’s wicked but at least it makes no pretenses about not being wicked. If Obama pees on your leg and tells you it is pee, that is preferred to being told it is rain.
Obama State of the Union: He got the ball rolling:
http://cpusa.org/obama-state-of-the-union-he-got-the-ball-rolling
That A$$hole Obummer is way beneath any contempt.
I bet they enjoy so many links to FR :-)
We used to kill communists...now we have one a pResident.
Dear Mr. President, you have worked so hard to give me so much. Thank you, but I don't want anything from you. Stop trying to possess my soul.
Cause Barry isn’t a Real American?
While Major General Greene was buried, Barack Obama was golfing. The Vice President wasnt there either. Neither was the Secretary of Defense.
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Sec Def Hagel was there, for whatever small comfort that might have been.
From Stars & Stripes:
Maj. Gen. Harold Greene receives full burial honors at Arlington
http://www.stripes.com/maj-gen-harold-greene-receives-full-burial-honors-at-arlington-1.298353
Your usual excellently researched post.
No, Presidential attendance is the tradition. Was Hagel sober?
Big, hairy, stinking, f'ng deal.
I have nothing but contempt for this so-call president.
I hate him.
I would (and will, if I live long enough) piss on his grave.
He is a contemptible, lowlife, ignorant, dumb ass piece of human detritus that just happened to be black enough to set the stupid birkenstock-wearing, nanny-staters all a-twitter, cause "it's time for a black president".
No, it's time for his treasonous self to be impeached, frog-marched out of the peoples house and immediate work begun to return our United States to the former glory it was before this piece of crap was installed.
He does not have the sense of history to realize that as the Commander in Chief, his appearance at the funeral proceedings of a Major General of the United States Army, killed under combat conditions, is paramount in the importance attached to it by the people that serve his office and have sworn allegiance to him.
He disgusts me.
He has taken the US Constitution and the sacred trust of every American and used it for a drink coaster.
He should disgust every true American.
We have allowed the piece of canine offal to screw our wonderful republic up, almost to the point of no-return.
I hate the man (and I use that term loosely, very loosely)...I spit on the ground upon which he walks.
I will never quit damning his name.
Good night, sir!
Obama’s presence would have only cheapened and dishonored a sad occasion. Better he wasn’t there.
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