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Rain, lightning interrupt 0bama's Memorial Day address
Chicago Breaking News ^
| May 31, 2010 12:07 PM
Posted on 05/31/2010 10:14:30 AM PDT by Chi-townChief
UPDATE: President Barack Obama's Memorial Day address at Abraham Lincoln National Cemetery in Elwood was just getting started when lightning and heavy, gusting rains stopped the proceedings. The president, umbrella in hand, encouraged spectators to get to a safe place to ride out the storm and said he would hold off the ceremony because he didn't want anyone to get hurt.
"Excuse me, everybody listen up," Obama told the crowd. "We are a little bit concerned about lightning. This may not be safe. I know that all of you are here to commemorate the fallen. ... What we'd like to do is if possible have people move back to their cars and if this passes in the next 15-20 minutes I'll stick around."
He said he hoped the ceremony could resume later. "But we don't want to endanger anyone, particularly the children, in the audience. A little bit of rain doesn't hurt anybody but we don't want anybody struck by lightning."
TOPICS: Culture/Society; Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Illinois
KEYWORDS: 0bama; address; damienthorne; day; illinois; interrupt; liberals; lightning; memorial; memorialday; obama; obamas; rain; zot
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Makes ya wonder ...
To: Chi-townChief
God works in mysterious ways...
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posted on
05/31/2010 10:15:37 AM PDT
by
ByDesign
To: Chi-townChief
As if the hand of God reached down to shut him up.
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posted on
05/31/2010 10:16:10 AM PDT
by
JrsyJack
(a healthy dose of buckshot will probably get you the last word in any argument.)
To: Chi-townChief
The Lord works in mysterious ways, His wonders to perform.
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posted on
05/31/2010 10:16:27 AM PDT
by
BipolarBob
(Even the earth is bipolar.)
To: Chi-townChief
I think I’m past wondering.
And I think it’s awesome!
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posted on
05/31/2010 10:16:48 AM PDT
by
homegroan
(Proud member of the Hoi Polloi......ILLIGITIMA NON CARBORUNDUM..... -that's 4U Dad!))
To: Chi-townChief
If it passes in 15-20 min. he’ll stick around.
Quite the hero. Our real heroes don’t go scurrying in out of the rain, they carry on.
Something this girly-girl would know nothing about.
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posted on
05/31/2010 10:17:13 AM PDT
by
Carley
(DADDY DIDN'T PLUG THE HOLE YET)
To: Chi-townChief
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posted on
05/31/2010 10:17:47 AM PDT
by
KeyLargo
To: Chi-townChief
I do not wonder in the least. The more he appears, the worse it gets.
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posted on
05/31/2010 10:18:06 AM PDT
by
carolinacrazy
(Bow to your sensei.... BOW TO YOUR SENSEI...... www.jackassdemocrats.com)
To: Chi-townChief
and if this passes in the next 15-20 minutes I'll stick around."That's pretty magnanimous of him, boy he sure does care a lot.
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posted on
05/31/2010 10:18:33 AM PDT
by
Rome2000
(OBAMA IS A COMMUNIST CRYPTO-MUSLIM)
To: Chi-townChief
To: Carley
The storm won't be passing anytime soon.
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posted on
05/31/2010 10:19:13 AM PDT
by
KeyLargo
To: Chi-townChief
"But we don't want to endanger anyone, particularly the children, in the audience. It's for the children.
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posted on
05/31/2010 10:19:50 AM PDT
by
AAABEST
(Et lux in tenebris lucet: et tenebrae eam non comprehenderunt)
To: Chi-townChief
Not even God can stand to listen to him.
To: Chi-townChief
alas, it was a perfectly gorgeous morning in Arlington
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posted on
05/31/2010 10:21:08 AM PDT
by
EDINVA
To: KeyLargo
Yep, Elmwood’s in that extended red band South of Chicago. I’m at the very tip of the top-left yellow band.
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posted on
05/31/2010 10:21:16 AM PDT
by
bcsco
(Obama: Hokus Pokus POTUS)
To: Chi-townChief
...:"if this passes in the next 15-20 minutes I'll stick around."That was white of him.
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posted on
05/31/2010 10:21:54 AM PDT
by
Albion Wilde
( Racism is the first refuge of liberals. --J.T. Young)
To: Chi-townChief
“...and if I’m not speaking the truth, may God strike me with....uhh...hold on....”
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posted on
05/31/2010 10:21:56 AM PDT
by
ROCKLOBSTER
(Celebrate "Republicans Freed the Slaves Month")
To: Chi-townChief
Save TOTUS! The rain and lightning could kill the teleprompters.
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posted on
05/31/2010 10:21:59 AM PDT
by
KarlInOhio
(I am so immune to satire that I ate three Irish children after reading Swift's "A Modest Proposal")
To: Carley
” If it passes in 15-20 min. he’ll stick around.
Quite the hero. Our real heroes don’t go scurrying in out of the rain, they carry on.
Something this girly-girl would know nothing about.”
Agree....
Tell the Normandy vets this, and see how they respond....
To: Chi-townChief
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