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President Obama Apologizes to Family of Fallen Soldier (SFC Jared Monti, Medal of Honor)
ABC News ^ | Friday, June 24, 2011 | Jake Tapper

Posted on 06/24/2011 6:22:38 PM PDT by kristinn

SNIP

Sgt. 1st Class Jared Monti was actually killed in Afghanistan on June 21, 2006. In September 2009, President Obama awarded him the Medal of Honor posthumously.

On his Facebook page this evening, Monti's father, Paul, posted: "FYI- President Barack Obama telephoned me personally this afternoon to apologize for his error in his speech to the 10th mountain division re: Jared's medal ceremony. Apology accepted."

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To: RasterMaster

Yep. The apology was part of his reelection scheme.


41 posted on 06/24/2011 7:39:41 PM PDT by Ghost of Philip Marlowe (Prepare for survival.)
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To: kristinn

Obama didn’t care enough to make sure he had his facts right before opening his mouth. He seems to do that a lot.


42 posted on 06/24/2011 7:40:30 PM PDT by PapaBear3625 ("It is only when we've lost everything, that we are free to do anything" -- Fight Club)
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To: kristinn

Classless POS


43 posted on 06/24/2011 7:41:50 PM PDT by Munz (All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.)
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To: kristinn

It’s not as if he gives out Medals of Honor every day. They’re not like, say, waivers to Obamacare. Medals of Honor as so unique, and reflect action so profound, to mess this up is really showing a heartbreaking lack of real caring by the CinC.


44 posted on 06/24/2011 7:48:15 PM PDT by EDINVA (uw.)
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To: AGreatPer; xzins; wmfights
Has anyone noticed since David Axelrod has been gone things have been much worse? I have been saying since the beginning here on FR that Axelrod is running this country.

It has just been going downhill since he was elected. Frankly I think a lot of it is just God's judgment on this nation for abandoning him and electing a morally corrupt man who thinks it is a natural right to kill your children -- even after they are born.

Well we are, as a nation, reaping what we have sown. It is time we repented and elected a person who truly believes in God and not one who believes he is god.

45 posted on 06/24/2011 7:48:20 PM PDT by P-Marlowe (LPFOKETT GAHCOEEP-w/o*)
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To: GGpaX4DumpedTea

Apology or no, if you can’t remember hanging the Medal of Honor around a fallen soldier’s parent’s neck, then what kind of a ‘genius’ are you, exactly?

This guy is one weird dude.

Seriously.


46 posted on 06/24/2011 7:49:55 PM PDT by Whiskeyjim (Riots in 2010)
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To: kristinn

How could a President make that BIG mistake. Obama is a disgrace.


47 posted on 06/24/2011 7:50:16 PM PDT by Grey Eagle
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To: AGreatPer

“it has been going on from day one. Mistake, after mistake.” Mr. Potato Head’s
Comment 49. - “First time I saw 10th Mountain Division, you guys were in southern Iraq. When I went back to visit Afghanistan, you guys were the first ones there. I had the great honor of seeing some of you because a comrade of yours, Jared Monti, was the first person who I was able to award the Medal of Honor to who actually came back and wasn’t receiving it posthumously.“

As we all know, SSG Sal Giunta, of the 173rd Airborne, was the first living recipient (2011) of the MOH who fought in Iraq/Afganistan. SFC Jared Monti, 10th Mountain Division, was KIA in Afghanistan in 2006. He was posthumously awarded the MOH by Obama in 2009. (June 23, 2011)

* “The Middle East is obviously an issue that has plagued the region for centuries.”
–Barack Obama, Tampa, Fla., Jan. 28, 2010

* “Just this past week, we passed out of the out of the U.S. Senate Banking Committee — which is my committee — a bill to call for divestment from Iran as way of ratcheting up the pressure to ensure that they don’t obtain a nuclear weapon.”
–Barack Obama, Sderot, Israel, July 23, 2008. Obama was not on the Senate Banking Committee.

* “The reforms we seek would bring greater competition, choice, savings and inefficiencies to our health care system.” –Barack Obama, health care roundtable, Washington, D.C., July 20, 2009

* “The point I was making was not that Grandmother harbors any racial animosity. She doesn’t. But she is a typical white person, who, if she sees somebody on the street that she doesn’t know, you know, there’s a reaction that’s been bred in our experiences that don’t go away and that sometimes come out in the wrong way, and that’s just the nature of race in our society.”
–Barack Obama, 2008 campaign

* “What I was suggesting — you’re absolutely right that John McCain has not talked about my Muslim faith…”
–Barack Obama interview with ABC’s George Stephanopoulos who corrected him: “on his Christian faith.”

* “On this Memorial Day, as our nation honors its unbroken line of fallen heroes — and I see many of them in the audience here today — our sense of patriotism is particularly strong.”
–Barack Obama, Memorial Day commemoration,

* I’m always worried about using the word ˜victory,™ because it invokes this notion of Emperor Hirohito coming down and signing a surrender to MacArthur. “Barack Obama, July, 2009 on Iraq

* “I’ve now been in 57 states — I think one left to.”
–Obama 2008 campaign event, Beaverton, OR

* It’s not surprising, then, they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.
–Obama on the working class at SF fundraiser, 2008

* “In case you missed it, this week, there was a tragedy in Kansas. Ten thousand people died — an entire town destroyed.”
–Barack Obama, 2007 campaign speech on a Kansas tornado that killed 12 people.

* “I think when you spread the wealth around, it’s good for everybody.”
– Barack Obama defending his tax plan to Joe the Plumber , Toledo, OH, Oct. 12, 2008

* “The Cambridge police acted stupidly.”
–Barack Obama, commenting on a white police officer’s arrest of black scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr ., at a news conference, July 22, 2009.

President Obama’s next job starting 2013, Vegas lounge comedian

http://pajamasmedia.com/michaelledeen/2011/06/23/whats-up-with-all-the-presidential-gaffes-anyway/


48 posted on 06/24/2011 7:52:58 PM PDT by anglian
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To: Grams A
IMO these types of errors should never occur.

With the current Clown in Chief (CiC), we've got non stop errors.

Just recently, he "Royally" screwed up the toast to the Queen of England.

He read the Irish Priminister's speech on the teleprompter, in which he thanked "the American President."

He gave a blind, English politician a set of American Format DVDs.

He gave the nearly deaf Queen of England an iPod with his speeches.

As I recall, he also gave a "shout out" to one of his friends at a medal ceremony.

It's a new screw up every week!

49 posted on 06/24/2011 7:53:01 PM PDT by Grizzled Bear ("Does not play well with others.")
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To: kristinn
Medal of Honor Presentation to Jared Monti's Parents by President Barack Obama

How does Obama make this speech, then forget the soldier died?

Only explanation: it was just words for the camera. He couldn't have meant a word of it.

50 posted on 06/24/2011 7:54:01 PM PDT by Neverforget01 (It Could Have Been Worse Is Not A Defense For Bad Policy)
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To: kristinn
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When you're in a hole, Obaama, stop digging.

Cheers!

51 posted on 06/24/2011 8:07:09 PM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: unkus; Ghost of Philip Marlowe

I sick of DUmbass DUmocrats and their pi$$-poor attempts to “personalize” a speech through outright lies. It is only after the lie has been exposed do they wish to extend worthless appologies. It is nothing but focusing more attention to themselves without concern for those whom they have harmed. If that doesn’t work, their media lackeys spin it as “mis-speak” when it was a deliberate lie.


52 posted on 06/24/2011 8:11:49 PM PDT by RasterMaster (FU DUh-bama and the JACKASS you rode in on!)
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To: kristinn

Americans in all 60 states have got to be disappointed in him.


53 posted on 06/24/2011 8:12:46 PM PDT by South40 (Ron Paul and his flaming antiwar spam monkeys can Kiss my Ass!!" -- Jim Robinson, 09/30/07)
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To: kristinn
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Cheers!

54 posted on 06/24/2011 8:15:13 PM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: kristinn
Photobucket

Cheers!

55 posted on 06/24/2011 8:16:19 PM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: anglian
POSUS.

NO cheers, unfortunately.

56 posted on 06/24/2011 8:17:18 PM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: kristinn

WHAT A CLASS-A MORON AND EMBARRASSMENT TO THE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES AND COMMANDER IN CHIEF OF OUR BRAVE TROOPS.


57 posted on 06/24/2011 8:34:22 PM PDT by tina07 (In loving memory of my father,WWII Vet. CBI 10/16/42-12/17/45, d. 11/1/85)
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To: RasterMaster

Well said.


58 posted on 06/24/2011 8:40:25 PM PDT by unkus
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To: kristinn

You can’t fault Obama for not remembering. Prolly at the first ceremony his mind was elsewhere when the posthumous CMOH was awarded. As president he has really important things to do. Likewise here where he was addressing some military, he doubtless had the immanent downfall of the country on his mind.


59 posted on 06/24/2011 8:40:42 PM PDT by UnChained (The "stimulus" CAUSED the economy to tank.)
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To: Nepeta

Obama really thinks all the world adores him. This audience wasn’t the church ladies from the neighborhood, but that’s just a detail. What a preener.


60 posted on 06/24/2011 8:49:01 PM PDT by Havisham
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