The worst part is it's Justice that's supposed to be blind, not the state run media.
Posted on 11/13/2009 10:44:50 AM PST by kristinn
He didn't introduce himself. He didn't have to.
President Obama simply stuck out his hand and asked for my name as he stepped toward me amid a bone-chilling drizzle in the Gardens of Stone.
This was Section 60 of Arlington National Cemetery. I wasn't there as a reporter, but to visit some friends and family buried there when Obama made an unscheduled stop - a rare presidential walk among what Lincoln called America's "honored dead" - after laying a Veterans Day wreath at the Tomb of the Unknowns.
What I got was an unexpected look into the eyes of a man who intertwined his roles as commander in chief and consoler in chief on a solemn day filled with remembrance and respect for sacrifices made - and sacrifices yet to be made.
I'm sure the cynics will assume this wasjust anotherObama photoop.
If they'd been standing in my boots looking him in the eye, they would have surely choked on their bile.
His presence in Section 60 convinced me that he now carries the heavy burden of command.
I had stopped at Arlington to see the resting place of Ken Taylor, Ed Lenard and Dave Sharrett. Ken and Ed survived their service, in World War II and Korea, and died as old men. Dave did not leave Iraq alive. He was 27.
SNIP
And then Obama noticed a tall, bearded figure. He probably didn't see the mud-caked combat boots I trudged around Afghanistan in a few years ago.
"What's your name?" a somber President asked as he extended his hand.
"James Meek, sir," I replied, struggling to pull off my wool glove and pull my hood back from my head. "I'm here visiting a friend, Pfc. David H. Sharrett II, who was killed in Iraq last year."
SNIP
I then told him I'm a reporter for the Daily News - but was just there to visit friends.
"Well, James," he said, looking me in the eye, "just because you're a journalist doesn't mean you can't honor your friends here."
The First Lady smiled and squeezed my hand. I thanked her for coming to Section 60.
Her face opened up into a smile filled with warmth and comfort, a welcome antidote for the weather and sadness around her. She said there was no finer place to be on Veterans Day.
Ironically, I was ready to leave the cemetery an hour earlier, but it went into lockdown because of Obama's visit.
The warm and friendly eyes of Uncle Joe Stalin.
Remember to rinse, Meeks.
Trying to one up Dubya. Man, this guy is disgusting.
BS.
I agree. If Obama was sincere about loving our country; he would be doing things a heck of lot differently.
“His presence in Section 60 convinced me that he now carries the heavy burden of command”.
Yet he never paid a visit the family members of the fallen at Ft. Hood. And refuses to call the murderer what he really is. I’d be insulted by this if one of those soldiers were in my family.
This peopaganda is just too easy to spot nowadays. There isn’t even any sublety to it.
Poopaganda
Obamaganda?
For REAL!
Photos of Joe Stalin look like a jolly guy who’d be FUN to drink with. Obama doesn’t even look THAT fun!
We have to remember one thing:
Imagine the EVIL a person must have in his heart, the deals he must have made with Lucifer to have been able to outfox Hillary.
And then to have made her resign the senate to become a “neutered” SOS. How was he able to convince HER to do that? Surely she knew what she was getting into.
Where’s the photo of Clinton making the cross out of stones he ‘found’ on the beach? Yeah, that was a real moment too. /s
The secret service wouldn’t let this just happen. They clear the area first, so he had to be a plant.
I stopped reading at this point “I’m sure the cynics will assume this was just another Obama photoo p.
If they’d been standing in my boots looking him in the eye, they would have surely choked on their bile. “
Bull frickin crap.....
The man didnt even salute the Flag.
The Secret Service doesn’t allow anyone near the President without a careful vetting. They do this even for bad Presidents. This story is made up crap.
0bama disgraces the hallowed ground of Arlington, and I would NEVER salute him, or shake his hand. In fact, I would make it a point to turn my back on him. I respect the heroes buried there too much to allow this traitor to turn it into a photo op.
That must be why the Gelding-in-Chief is so decisive on Afghanistan.
James Gordon Meek, Guest Expert, is an award-winning investigative reporter in Washington, D.C. Since 2003, he has covered national news, politics and terrorism for the New York Daily News in its Washington bureau.
Meek reported on the 9/11 attacks from the Pentagon, and has since traveled to Afghanistan and embedded with U.S. special operations forces to write about the secret war against Al Qaeda. He covered the trials of 9/11 conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui and Lewis “Scooter” Libby, the White House aide convicted of perjury in the Valerie Plame/CIA leak case. Meek has broken countless stories about terrorist plots, including the July 2006 plan by Lebanese militants linked to Al Qaeda in Iraq to blow up tunnels in New York City and flood lower Manhattan. He first wrote about Osama Bin Laden during the Millennium scare, when he participated in the investigation of an Al Qaeda cell in California that recruited one of the plotters in Jordan and Bin Laden’s young American spokesman, Adam Yahiye Gadahn. Meek also has broken a series of stories about abuses of inmates at the U.S. terrorist prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
Previously, Meek worked for United Press International, APBnews.com and the Los Angeles Daily Journal. As a freelancer, he has written about terrorism and true crime for Reader’s Digest, Stuff, Blender, Ladies Home Journal, National Journal, the New York Press and Law & Order magazine. He contributed reporting to CNN terrorism analyst Peter Bergen’s 2006 book, “The Osama Bin Laden I Know.” A decade ago, Meek was the first cyberjournalist accredited by Congress and the White House. He has been awarded recognition by Investigative Reporters & Editors Inc., the South Asian Journalists Association, the National Press Club and the International Union of Police Associations.
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