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Obama To Be A No Show At Memorial Day Ceremony
KGO Radio | 5/25/2010 | me

Posted on 05/25/2010 10:32:37 AM PDT by muleskinner

Obama will be on vacation in Chicago this Memorial Day, instead of presiding over Memorial Day ceremonies at Arlington. This may be the first time since the Civil War that a president will not pay respect to the veterans passed.


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KEYWORDS: arlingtoncemetery; bho44; bhodod; bhotreason; democrats; kenyanvillageidiot; memorialday; military; narcissism; narcissist; obama; osamasgopher; snub; traitor; treasonousbastard
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To: muleskinner

America’s history and traditions are going to have to change.

He said this during the 2008 campaign.

People didn’t pay attention.


21 posted on 05/25/2010 10:39:34 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Throw the bums out in 2010.)
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To: Thurston_Howell_III

Oh but dead people do vote in Cook County, IL and Zapata County, TX. and they voted for JFK and LBJ.


22 posted on 05/25/2010 10:39:34 AM PDT by rod1
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To: muleskinner

Bush was there every Memorial Day with the exception of 2002 when he was at the American Cemetery in Normandy.

Related articles:

2001
http://www.usmemorialday.org/remarks.html

2002
http://www.defense.gov/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=44009
President George Bush, who was taking part in a Memorial Day ceremony at the American Cemetery overlooking Omaha Beach in Normandy. That beach and area of France was the site of the fierce, prolonged World War II Allied assault to wrestle German control from France starting D-Day, June 6, 1944.

Bush, in Europe for meetings and a NATO summit, said during the ceremony “our wars have won for us every hour we live in freedom. Our wars have taken from us the men and women we honor today, and every hour of the lifetimes they had hoped to live.”

2003
http://www.arlingtoncemetery.net/president-bush-052603.htm

2004
http://www.arlingtoncemetery.net/president-bush-memorial-day-2004.htm

2005
http://www.arlingtoncemetery.net/memorial-day-2005.htm

2006
http://www.arlingtoncemetery.net/memorial-day-2006.htm

2007
http://www.defense.gov/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=46204

2008
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nj_przdeva4

FUBO


23 posted on 05/25/2010 10:39:47 AM PDT by TSgt (We will always be prepared, so we may always be free. - Ronald Reagan)
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To: muleskinner
Shameful but not really shocking.

Barack Hussein Obama is a man that has no loyalty to or understanding of America and the esteem our people have for our military and, especially, fallen soldiers. He is making it clear to even the apathetic among us that he is not worthy of the office he holds.

It's already clear enough to many that his socialist/communist agenda will deliberately bring down the greatest country on earth. The November 2nd election will be or last chance to stop this man and his like-minded cohorts in congress, if we still have the right to vote by then.

24 posted on 05/25/2010 10:40:11 AM PDT by Jim Scott (re much)
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To: muleskinner

He’s supposedly going to a cemetary in Chicago.


25 posted on 05/25/2010 10:40:28 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Throw the bums out in 2010.)
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To: muleskinner

If he wanted to set some new precedent he could have done both. Arlington in the morning, Lincoln in the afternoon. Maybe he couldn’t get a flight?


26 posted on 05/25/2010 10:40:34 AM PDT by Shark24
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To: muleskinner

Partying in Chicago is more important.


27 posted on 05/25/2010 10:40:42 AM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four fried chickens and a coke)
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To: muleskinner

Given his ineptitude, maybe we’d rather not have him at any services to respect fallen Americans.


28 posted on 05/25/2010 10:41:18 AM PDT by knittnmom ("...only dead fish 'go with the flow'". - Sarah Palin 7/09)
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To: muleskinner

Wouldn’t look good if he showed and vets &code pink were both there protesting & booing his sorry ass


29 posted on 05/25/2010 10:41:55 AM PDT by Joe Boucher (Just say NO to RINOs. (FUBO))
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To: muleskinner

Skipping Arlington on this one, very solemn day

what an especially thoughtless stab in the heart to all the families that have lost their sons and daughters, husbands, wives etc since he took office- we just passed the 1,000 dead mark in Afghanistan and the fighting over the summer will be brutal.

He is a selfish clod. Obviously Arlington Cemetry does not stir his imagination.


30 posted on 05/25/2010 10:42:36 AM PDT by silverleaf
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To: Thurston_Howell_III

Yes they do. They vote exclusively democrat, but they have voted ever since the original Mayor Daley.


31 posted on 05/25/2010 10:42:38 AM PDT by jazminerose
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To: a fool in paradise

Hey, besides the illegal aliens, that’s where the votes are. Can you blame him for pandering to his constituency? What a despicable excuse for an American as well as a human being.


32 posted on 05/25/2010 10:42:54 AM PDT by OriginalChristian (Neutralize In November...)
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To: muleskinner

Actually, it’s good that 0 won’t be desecrating Arlington with his presence. Arrogant puss bucket.


33 posted on 05/25/2010 10:44:13 AM PDT by tgusa (Investment plan: blued steel, brass, lead, copper)
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To: muleskinner

I wish he’d take a vacation every day until his term is over with. The nation would be FAR better off for it.


34 posted on 05/25/2010 10:44:47 AM PDT by highlander_UW (Education is too important to leave in the hands of the government.)
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To: muleskinner
This may be the first time since the Civil War that a president will not pay respect to the veterans passed.
Has anyone seen any research indicating that term "may be" should actually be "will be"? While I could be mistaken, I can't recall a single president in my lifetime who wasn't at Arlington on Memorial Day.
35 posted on 05/25/2010 10:44:49 AM PDT by Bob
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To: Pride in the USA; Stillwaters
The plebeians don't understand that he has much more important things to do.


36 posted on 05/25/2010 10:45:53 AM PDT by lonevoice (If Fox News is the only outlet reporting it, did it really happen?)
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To: muleskinner

Can anyone tell me how many times President Bush attended the Arlington Memorial Day ceremony, and how many he sent Dick Cheney?

I’m definitely not trying to be provocative, but I am trying to understand whether a year-on/year-off arrangement between POTUS and VPOTUS is a reasonable modern standard. (Obama was there last year)

For anyone willing to accuse me of being an Obamabot - HA!


37 posted on 05/25/2010 10:45:57 AM PDT by MortMan (I'm just an injet printer in a holographic world...)
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To: muleskinner
He passed on any December 7th ceremony too. Didn't he?

He also took the family back to Hawaii for their first White House Christmas. I can't imagine how exciting it would be for a normal, America-loving family, with two young girls, to spend their first Christmas as First Family in the White House.

These are some weird people.

38 posted on 05/25/2010 10:47:12 AM PDT by Deb (Beat him, strip him and bring him to my tent!)
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To: muleskinner

Is anyone surprised??


39 posted on 05/25/2010 10:47:14 AM PDT by valkyry1
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To: muleskinner

Is there a link to verify this is true?


40 posted on 05/25/2010 10:47:54 AM PDT by dinoparty
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