Proof that Obama Really Hates Our Troops and America

King Hussein Obama will not be in Washington, DC on Monday to observe Memorial Day at Arlington National Cemetery. Instead, he’ll be doing honors from another national cemetery - the Abraham Lincoln National Cemetery south of Chicago. The Usurper-in-Chief had made plans to spend part of the weekend home in Chicago - home of thugs, thieves, political machines and fake birth certificate holders.

Needless to say, Patriots are up-in-arms over this blatant lack of respect for every serviceman/woman to have died in our conflicts. What they overlooking, however, is that not every President has always stiltingly moved a festooned wreath 5 or 6 feet. Not even St. Ronnie of Reagan!

1983: Reagan attended summit meeting; Defense Department official Thayer laid wreath at Arlington. Deputy Secretary of Defense W. Paul Thayer laid a wreath at Arlington Cemetery during the Memorial Day ceremony in 1983, according to a May 31, 1983, Washington Post article (accessed via Nexis). The AP reported that President Reagan attended a “summit meeting in Williamsburg, Va., with leaders of the industrialized democracies.”

1992: George H.W. Bush allowed VP Quayle to lay wreath. In 1992, Vice President Dan Quayle laid a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknowns at Arlington National Cemetery on Memorial Day, according to a May 26, 1992, Boston Globe article (accessed via the Nexis database). The Globe reported that President George H.W. Bush attended a wreath-laying ceremony and made brief remarks at an American Legion hall in Kennebunkport, Maine, where he also played a round of golf.

Veterans Day 2007: Cheney attends ceremony to pay tribute at Arlington as Bush remained in Texas. On November 11, 2007, the AP reported that “President Bush honored U.S. troops past and present at a tearful ceremony Sunday for four Texans who died there.” The AP further reported that “Vice President Dick Cheney went to Arlington to pay tribute to Iraq veterans.”

Anne Kornblut posted about this yesterday and the comments from We the People are priceless. In other news, VP Joe Biden will do the wreath-moving honors on Monday.

h/t Below the Beltway and this freak.

Posted by gimmeabreak on 05/26/10 at 12:03 PM • Permalink

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Funny, Ronald Reagan had plenty of time to honor the Nazi war dead.

Thanks, gimme. This Obama-snubs-fallen-patriots bullshit is wall-to-wall on Talk Radio today, in all of its glorious, historically-inaccurate, hate-baiting mendacity.

It’s really bothering the wingers that the Obama agenda is rolling right along, with Scott Brown’s help, while Establishment RINOs are crushing Tea Party Candidates everywhere but Kentucky. They need more crazy hate, STAT!

Comment by StrangeAppar8us on 05/26/10 at 01:00 PM

Needless to say, Patriots are up-in-arms over this blatant lack of respect for every serviceman/woman to have died in our conflicts.

Because screw all those soldiers who didn’t get a spot at Arlington! In fact, screw all those poofy VA run cemeteries and every soldier in them!

Or something.

I expect there’s a lot of discussion of the hidden meaning behind his choice to go to the Abraham Lincoln National Cemetery but I’m not going to look because I’m feeling queasy enough today.

Comment by Hunger Tallest Palin on 05/26/10 at 01:29 PM

Half the commenters think Obama’s the Anti-Christ because he’s not going, the other half are relieved because they believe his presence somehow tarnishes the ceremony. He’s literally damned if he does, and damned if he doesn’t.

Fucking nut cases.

Comment by Tom65 on 05/26/10 at 02:00 PM

He’s literally damned if he does, and damned if he doesn’t.

yup!

Comment by gimmeabreak on 05/26/10 at 04:03 PM

Meanwhile, wingnuts will watch the Arlington ceremonies on TV, then spend the afternoon and evening barbecuing and drinking, or taking that other American passport to oblivion, shopping.