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Obama Snubs Vietnam Vets of Rolling Thunder
Thursday, May 27, 2010 | Kristinn

Posted on 05/27/2010 7:04:40 AM PDT by kristinn

Maybe he doesn't like the sound of hundreds of thousands of motorcycle riding freedom-fighters roaring through the streets of D.C. all day and night for four days?

Barack Obama is turning his back on the Vietnam veterans of Rolling Thunder who will gathering in Washington, D.C. this Memorial Day weekend for their 23rd annual demonstration to remind the nation of those servicemembers still missing or held as prisoners of war.

In addition to skipping out on his duties at Arlington National Cemetery so he can vacation at the family mansion in Chicago, Obama will be cancelling what, under President George W. Bush, had become a traditional meeting at the White House between Rolling Thunder and the administration.

Last year, after initially rebuffing the veterans group, the Obama administration invited Rolling Thunder at the last minute for a low-key meeting that Obama dropped in on.

Even though Obama toyed with them, Rolling Thunder released a gracious statement praising Obama and his wife for their attention given to veterans and military families.

This year, according to Jennifer Harper's Inside the Beltway column at the Washington Times, the Obama White House has frozen out Rolling Thunder completely. No meeting with staffers, no sit down with Vice President Joe Biden who is remaining in Washington, no nothing.

I wonder if Obama will pal around this weekend with his Chicago neighbor and friend Bill Ayers, the terrorist whose group, the Weather Underground, plotted to murder soldiers at Fort Dix with a massive nail bomb during the Vietnam War.


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: antiamericanism; bho44; memorialday; motorycycles; obama; rollingthunder; snub; unamerican; veterans; vietnamvets
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To: PghBaldy
FYI, Reagan, Bush Sr., and Bush Jr. did not attend every Memorial day at Arlington while President. But for them, I don't think there was any question about their loyalty to our Vets.
21 posted on 05/27/2010 7:20:33 AM PDT by jaydubya2
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To: Non-Sequitur

I have a photo of Rumsfeld hanging out with the Rolling Thunder taken by my daughter on Memorial Day when we had a real President.


22 posted on 05/27/2010 7:24:14 AM PDT by sarasota
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To: jaydubya2

What is your evidence for the claim that Reagan, Bush SR. and Bush Jr. didn’t attend every Memorial Day at Arlington? I saw Reagan there and I remember Bush Jr. going what seemed to be every year.


23 posted on 05/27/2010 7:25:55 AM PDT by laconic
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To: kristinn

Thank you for bringing attention to this Kristinn.


24 posted on 05/27/2010 7:28:01 AM PDT by BykrBayb (Somewhere, my flower is there. ~ Þ)
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To: kristinn

0dumbo couldn’t make it any clearer that he disdains anyone who might not have voted for him.


25 posted on 05/27/2010 7:28:22 AM PDT by RWGinger
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To: kristinn
This communists Muslim pig has his empire conquered and we will be damn lucky to get rid of this dictator. We are a communists Nation now and it will be lucky if we can get back anything that resembles our Constitutional Nation. America will fall damn hard before we wake up the sick idiot Americans that believe in this snake oil salesman and the sheep that still follow this pig. Vets should be real upset.
26 posted on 05/27/2010 7:29:07 AM PDT by Logical me
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To: Enterprise

The only rolling thunder Obama hears in when Michelle’s thighs rub together when she walks. How’s that war on child obesity coming Michelle? Too bad your mamma didn’t have those guidelines when you were growing up and you may want to skip the drawn butter for your lobster. Don’t expect too much respect for the military from the muslim in chief. Hopefully in 2014 we can be done with the “piece” and his thug/inept administration.


27 posted on 05/27/2010 7:29:18 AM PDT by Bitsy
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To: kristinn

Glad he won’t be there since i know he hates to honor us in any way. He should be banned from ever entering the gates of Arlington.


28 posted on 05/27/2010 7:29:39 AM PDT by fatrat (extremely extreme right-wing radicalized veteran)
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To: Tijeras_Slim
Thanks, my life is now complete.....

ROFLMAO-- A real coffee-spewer, that!

29 posted on 05/27/2010 7:31:03 AM PDT by Albion Wilde ( Racism is the first refuge of liberals. --J.T. Young)
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To: kristinn
From three years ago....

Rolling Thunder Visits The White House President Bush Hosts Memorial Day Motorcycle Tribute's 20th Year

Has some nice pics of 43 with the Rolling Thunder gents.

30 posted on 05/27/2010 7:31:42 AM PDT by mewzilla (Still voteless in NY-29.)
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To: mewzilla

yes, i was there in 2007. W also overflew the group a couple of times as we gathered in the Pentagon Parking lot for the start of the memorial day parade.


31 posted on 05/27/2010 7:35:45 AM PDT by fatrat (extremely extreme right-wing radicalized veteran)
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To: fatrat

“...He should be banned from ever entering the gates of Arlington...”

Agree fully...I’m a Vietnam vet, My dad was a WWII vet...My uncle was KIA on Iwo...

This so-called “man” who occupies the White House has insulted ALL veterans, both living and deceased...This is truly a shameful time in an otherwise glorious American history...Our country is in peril because of people like Obama...


32 posted on 05/27/2010 7:38:49 AM PDT by Boonie
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To: laconic
I actually heard it on the radio, but here are a couple of links that support it. I trust the Heritage link, but I'm always skeptical of snopes.

http://blog.heritage.org/2010/05/26/president-obamas-memorial-day-vacation/

http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/memorialday.asp
33 posted on 05/27/2010 7:40:42 AM PDT by jaydubya2
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To: kristinn

I didn’t vote for the scumbag.


34 posted on 05/27/2010 7:43:15 AM PDT by hgro (Jerry Riversdun)
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To: PghBaldy
"The thing I wonder is why he did something last year, and not this?"

They probably think they've made enough progress to allow them to drop that part of the facade.

35 posted on 05/27/2010 7:43:22 AM PDT by norton
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To: Enterprise

HAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!


36 posted on 05/27/2010 7:44:21 AM PDT by dtrpscout (A bad dog is better than most good people.)
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To: Enterprise
The only rolling thunder Obama hears in when Michelle farts under the sheets at night.

LOLOLOLOLOL!

I'm sure the 0b0z0s hold the sheets tightly before the volcano erupts!

I'm sure this is their interpretation of the "Catch and Release" policy.

37 posted on 05/27/2010 7:46:37 AM PDT by melancholy
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To: Boonie

I was once asked a very stupid question by a young man

I refused to answer it. Why?

I told him, “it’s a Vet thing, I couldn’t explain it and you wouldn’t understand if I tried.”

Better to think of this as Bammy giving US a vacation.


38 posted on 05/27/2010 7:52:50 AM PDT by ASOC (Things are not always as they appear, ask the dog chasing the car)
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To: Non-Sequitur

At this time in American History, Nam Vets represent the largest group of America’s wartime veterans. While not approaching the vast numbers of vets from WW2,the Nam era had over 3 million servicemen and women serve in country from 63 to 73. If you count those in Thailand, the Philippines, Korea, and Yankee Station the numbers may go as high as 4 million. They were volunteers, draftees, regulars,some Guardsmen and some Reservists. They represent a cross section of America, then and now.To treat them with such disrespect is an abysmal performance by the CiC.But Obama sees the world through the red prism of his mentors in Hawaii, NYC. Cambridge, and Chicago. For them Vietnam isa crime and their work to end it is the great moment of their lives. Ignoring the vets of that war is Obama’s way of showing respect to his mentors.


39 posted on 05/27/2010 8:03:11 AM PDT by xkaydet65 (Never compromise with evil! Even in the face of Armageddon!! Rorshach)
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To: kristinn

Just another instance of Zero “bringing us all together.”


40 posted on 05/27/2010 8:08:00 AM PDT by Renderofveils (My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music. - Nabokov)
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