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Obama blows off Medal of Honor recipients
This Ain't Hel* ^ | 1/21/2009 | Jonn Lilyea

Posted on 01/21/2009 2:14:18 PM PST by mojito

According to TSO who was at the “Salute to Heroes Inaugural Ball”, this newly sworn-in President for the first time in 56 years blew off the ball (that’s 14 Inaugurations).

Some background on the ball:

"The American Legion sponsors the ball, which recognizes recipients of Medal of Honor, the nation’s highest military award. It started in 1953 for President Dwight D. Eisenhower’s first inauguration.

Event co-sponsors include 13 other veterans service organizations, among them the Military Order of the Purple Heart and the Paralyzed Veterans of America."

So where was our new President instead of honoring Medal of Honor recipients who by some miracle are still alive? According to Huffington Post, this was his schedule for Inaugural celebrations:

"Later that day, the Presidential Inaugural Committee will host 10 official inaugural balls:

_ Neighborhood Inaugural Ball at the Washington Convention Center.

_ Obama Home States (Illinois and Hawaii) Inaugural Ball at the Washington Convention Center.

_ Biden Home States (Pennsylvania and Delaware) Inaugural Ball at the Washington Convention Center.

_ Midwest Inaugural Ball at the Washington Convention Center.

_ Mid-Atlantic Inaugural Ball at the Washington Convention Center.

_ Western Inaugural Ball at the Washington Convention Center.

_ Commander in Chief’s Ball at the National Building Museum.

_ Southern Inaugural Ball at the National Guard Armory.

_ Eastern Inaugural Ball at Union Station.

_ Youth Inaugural Ball at the Washington Hilton.

Unofficial balls include:

_ Congressional Black Caucus Inaugural Ball at the Capitol Hilton.

_ Creative Coalition Inaugural Ball at the Harman Center for the Arts.

_ Recording Industry Association of America’s ball for Feeding America.

_ BET’s Inaugural Ball at the Mandarin Oriental Hotel.

_ Africa on the Potomac inaugural celebration at Crystal Gateway Marriott in Arlington, Va.

_ American Music Inaugural Ball at the Marriott Wardman Park Hotel.

_ Inaugural Purple Ball at the Fairmont Hotel.

_ Human Rights Campaign’s Equality Ball at the Renaissance Mayflower Hotel.

_ Inaugural Peace Ball at the Smithsonian National Postal Museum.

_ Impact Film Fund ball."

Mr. Wolf from Blackfive sends along this link to which Inaugural Balls Obama actually attended last night.


TOPICS: Extended News; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: americanlegion; bhoinauguration; medalofhonor; obama; snub; veterans
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Such a classy messiah.

Please, when will this man show his true colors?

1 posted on 01/21/2009 2:14:20 PM PST by mojito
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To: mojito
Please, when will this man show his true colors?

Seems to me he just did.

What a piece of crap...

2 posted on 01/21/2009 2:16:26 PM PST by Lurker ("America is at that awkward stage. " Claire Wolfe, call your office.)
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A live link to the story of where the 0 did go last night:

http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=100616


3 posted on 01/21/2009 2:18:47 PM PST by mojito
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To: mojito

If they would have only booked Snoop Dog!


4 posted on 01/21/2009 2:18:54 PM PST by TexasCajun
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To: Lurker
Perhaps I should have used the “sarc” tag, but in this instance I didn't feel it was necessary.
5 posted on 01/21/2009 2:20:04 PM PST by mojito
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To: mojito

He never served yet he will command our sons and daughters to battle in the suicide terrain of Tora Bora.... Meat to the grinder for this little prissy prince.


6 posted on 01/21/2009 2:22:48 PM PST by tomnbeverly ("In the hour of darkness and peril and need, the people will waken to listen and hear.....)
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To: mojito

Well now you know he was going to the BET Bash. There is no way he was going to miss that one.....

Does that tell anyone how he feels about our men and women that protects his a$$.


7 posted on 01/21/2009 2:24:19 PM PST by nbhunt
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To: Lurker

Couldn’t agree with you more. What a massive turd-age!


8 posted on 01/21/2009 2:29:33 PM PST by GOP Poet
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To: mojito

I wonder why the organizers don’t combine the Salute to Heroes ball with the Commander-in-Chief ball. That would make sense both logistically and thematically. Unless by combining them the group gets to be too large. Just a thought....


9 posted on 01/21/2009 2:31:26 PM PST by kittykat77
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To: mojito

The military got the shaft with this snub and now the reversal of Don’t ask, don’t tell.


10 posted on 01/21/2009 2:32:21 PM PST by autumnraine
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To: mojito
Obama blows off Medal of Honor recipients

See, in Obama's eyes, and in those of his followers, National Service is a Government Job, politics, community activism, working with or for welfare or some other social office, being a bureaucrat, pushing paper....

Police, Fire, EMTs and (especially) Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines, Coast Guard, National Guard.... those are for dregs of society.

11 posted on 01/21/2009 2:35:34 PM PST by theDentist (Qwerty ergo typo : I type, therefore I misspelll)
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To: mojito

Mitchell Paige (USMC, Guadalcanal) told me that he boycotted the event when Clinton was inaugurated; I’m assuming it was the second time around because then Willy’d had enough time in office to be despised.


12 posted on 01/21/2009 2:36:49 PM PST by ErnBatavia (Here's hoping the Kennedy family trust is in deep....with Madoff)
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To: mojito

Although Bill Clinton “loathed” the military he did show up to honor our heroes. I guess that Obama is giving us a message, or does he have a credible excuse?


13 posted on 01/21/2009 2:39:32 PM PST by olezip
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To: mojito

I dunno. I don’t think he has much to say to MOH winners anyhow — and they probably had way too much they wanted to say that he didn’t want to hear.


14 posted on 01/21/2009 2:40:07 PM PST by Ronin
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To: kittykat77
My guess (and it's just a guess) is that the grouping of "official" balls is handled formally by committee and isn't very flexible.

This seems like a non-issue to me -- the transcript at Fox News shows he went to all ten of the official balls and zero of the unofficial ones, including the BET one that someone upthread is saying he went to. Considering it took them four hours to hit those ten balls, that they ended at 12:30 in the morning after so full of a day, and that the Commander-in-Chief ball, honoring the military, was among those he attended, I fail to see how this particular attack makes a lot of sense.

15 posted on 01/21/2009 2:41:56 PM PST by kenboy
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To: mojito
He did promise change....


16 posted on 01/21/2009 2:43:30 PM PST by Iron Munro (Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself)
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To: kittykat77

Your post was harmless enough but it got me to read your posting history.

Reading through all of your posts, it seems that you only post to throw a little sand into every thread, it is always soft, but no matter the topic you seem to always have the same goal.

The one thing that I can’t find in your posts is conservatism, I’m thinking a sophisticated troll has recently signed up.


17 posted on 01/21/2009 3:07:01 PM PST by ansel12 ( When a conservative pundit mocks Wasilla, he's mocking conservatism as it's actually lived.)
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To: mojito

Obomba’s already toast!


18 posted on 01/21/2009 3:27:06 PM PST by IbJensen (The USA has been failing since Wilson, Take this country back now before it's too late.)
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To: mojito

Who’d you rather rely on if you got in a tight, his prissyness Obama or someone like the late Audie Murphy?


19 posted on 01/21/2009 3:29:43 PM PST by donaldo
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To: kittykat77
The current commander-in-chief has nothing to do with heroes.

Let's wait a year and then circulate the petition to impeach this fraud. Then we can talk about balls.

20 posted on 01/21/2009 3:30:49 PM PST by IbJensen (The USA has been failing since Wilson, Take this country back now before it's too late.)
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