by the men and women

of the armed forces

Our presidents are able to hold their office because of the ultimate sacrifice made by the men and women. Without those sacrifices we would not have an elected president. If, indeed we even still had a country.
As the Commander In Chief of the armed forces,Memorial Day should not be a day off. It should be a work day. A work day unlike any other. It should be a day for him to show at the highest level the ultimate in respect and honor for those who have died for this great country and for those who now serve,prepared if necessary to give their all.

To my mind a sitting President, treating Memorial Day as lightly as Obama has,shows a complete disdain for those who serve and total lack of sensitivity.

“…members of our highest court…..are charged with the vital task of applying principles put to paper more than twenty centuries ago…”

Twenty centuries??? Well I guess that would cover the Ten Comandments but make that stone tablets..not paper. Is this an Obamaism or a Teleprompterism and is there a difference?

What is thing, this sense of duty? What tugs at a person until he or she says “Send me”? Why, in an age when so many have acted only in pursuit of the narrowest self-interest, have the soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines of this generation volunteered all that they have on behalf of others? Why have they been willing to bear the heaviest burden?

Whatever it is, they felt some tug; they answered a call; they said “I’ll go.” That is why they are the best of America, and that is what separates them from those of us who have not served in uniform — their extraordinary willingness to risk their lives for people they never met.

Now tell me again why he ran against Mr. McCain? Tell me again why he won?

Second, Obama chose to spend Memorial Day just like hundreds or thousands of people I saw yesterday in Myrtle Beach, ie. hitting the course.
LastRick on May 26, 2009 at 8:19 AM

Rick, Rick, Rick, you are missing the point. Yes, many other people were playing golf and doing other recreational activities on their day off yesterday, however, they were not elected President of the United States. POTUS should be held to a higher standard, his job is 24/7, 365 days a year. Yes, he should be allowed to take days off, and have leisure time, and vacations, but his timing, as usual, is lousy. He is representing our Country as our leader, and Memorial Day is not the day he should be playing golf, especially when crucial foreign policy events like occurred yesterday, are happening. As has been typical with this President, he and his administration are lacking in judgement. President Bush could not even take a working day off on a non-event Saturday without being criticized, yet Obama does this? It all comes down to class, or lack thereof, and protocol, which this President has shown to know nothing about.

As a veteran, I’m not suprised that a coke head, foriegn born, slective service dodging, bastard (as in abandonded by his father) would spend his Memorial Day doing exactly that.

It doesn’t even bother me. I’m just happy he doesn’t walk around Arlington pissing on graves, which if it didn’t cost him so many approval rating points, he’d be likely to do.

Hog Wild on May 26, 2009 at 11:12 AM

You mean 2012 likely democrat votes?

Was it to Allah or God?
Did he say it in Austrian?
Vote for safety for all 57 states?
Pray for those who died and he sees in the audience?
The special olympic’s bowlers?

You gotta love the comedy he provides, if it was not so depressing.

He has disdain, and contempt, for our men, and women in uniform, and while he’s safely in the skies, or in a bunker, if a nuclear attack hits….he’s covered. So what if a few million turn to dust?

It helps depleting this over populated earth….and democrats just love to decide who lives, and who dies.

It doesn’t even bother me. I’m just happy he doesn’t walk around Arlington pissing on graves, which if it didn’t cost him so many approval rating points, he’d be likely to do.

Loxodonta

I thought he was A-hole #1.

I haven’t felt that. In fact, I wish he would take more time off, like say 1200 days or so.

LastRick on May 26, 2009 at 9:34 AM

Heh!!

Mr. Malleable’s uh-ah-uh-uh-uh eloquence is so atrocious. Couple his nuanced stutter with Obama’s Afganistan vs. pahkeestahn side-by-side gaffs denoting who counts and who doesn’t so far as The One is concerned.
maverick muse on May 26, 2009 at 9:41 AM

What do you expect from a man that speaks Argentinean and has no idea who his Secretary of Defense is.

It’s like he is in the Special Olympics or something.

To lay back and not fight against this hypocrisy now would be to continue this mistake.

Baxter Greene on May 26, 2009 at 9:20 AM

The Right is outnumbered as the Left always has help from the media.

LastRick on May 26, 2009 at 9:37 AM

I agree,
we are outnumbered.
But surrender is out of the question.

The same “5 minute news bite” person that was so easily persuaded by the liberal news cycle will also be disenchanted with this current administration in a quick hurry.

The “hope and change” idiocy that was sold left some pretty seriously high expectations that are not going to be met.

Higher energy costs,higher taxes,higher debt, and higher job losses hit Americans directly in the pocket book and depress their somewhat “spoiled” lifestyles.

Combined with the failure of “smart power” which is just another word for international capitulation and abandoning our allies, and you have a recipe for disaster.

If Republicans stay strong,keep exposing these failures,and provide solid alternatives,the public will swing the other way.

History shows this.
So no quarter to Obama or his supporters.

Even then people may still be so snowed by the “Bush’s fault” mantra that we may not be able to take it back.

crazy_legs on May 26, 2009 at 9:32 AM

All the more reason to shout that down every time it gets repeated.

Don’t permit the whole cloth fabrication of Obama’s audacity of hope to be sold without forcing historical fact back into context in each day’s dialogue with/against Leftists.

If Bush flubbed a word (such as nuclear) it made the MSM rounds and over time, all of these constant cut-and-paste attacks, left the populace with the impression that Bush was a bumbling idiot.

Since he’s left office, I keep noting exactly how many men Bush’s generation IN THE MEDIA and in politics persist in the ol’ pronunciation from childhood. It’s not so much a mispronunciation as a mark of a generation, those who practiced the bomb drills in elementary school. George W. Bush had a fantastic sense of humor, and let it roll to keep from being overwhelmed. It was like GWB tossed the media candy with his “strategery” and being the juvenile delinquents they were/are, they bit the hand that fed them.

Mr. Malleable’s uh-ah-uh-uh-uh eloquence is so atrocious. Couple his nuanced stutter with Obama’s Afganistan vs. pahkeestahn side-by-side gaffs denoting who counts and who doesn’t so far as The One is concerned.

It’s a sad state of monopolized affairs is the understatement of this presidency.

What are the Kos Kids going to do when Barry decides to play golf during the next major natural disaster?

Illinidiva on May 26, 2009 at 9:14 AM

Keep on carrying his water?

To lay back and not fight against this hypocrisy now would be to continue this mistake.

Baxter Greene on May 26, 2009 at 9:20 AM

The Right is outnumbered as the Left always has help from the media.