Obama Snubs Vietnam Vets of Rolling Thunder

Thursday, May 27, 2010 | Kristinn

[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.

[freeourpows]

Having the obamessiah anywhere near our Memorials on Memorial Day would be a travesty anyway, glad he is giving us the snub! He is the enemy within, period! He is a communist fascist and our Memorials are to those who fought and died fighting communism and fascism. As a Rolling Thunder participant since 1998 and a friend of Ted Sampley who told John “Ho Chi” Kerry to stay away from the Vietnam Wall, I say good! Keep all those commie nuts away from our Memorials!!!!!

[Vaduz]

Rolling Thunder = November

[a fool in paradise]

“It appears that Bush was there every Memorial Day with the exception of 2002 when he was at the American Cemetery in Normandy.”

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

[Katarina]

Thank you so much, I was wondering about this since he will not be at Arlington either.