Obama’s Memorial Day Tard Moments
This from Powerline video via Michelle Malkin, Gateway Pundit subject Line: Zombie Time!… Obama Sees Dead People at New Mexico Speech LOL!!!! - The Roadkill Diaries has: Raising The Dead - Is there nothing Obama can’t do?
Barack Obama must be the most gaffe-prone politician in memory. Today, he delivered a Memorial Day speech in New Mexico. After greeting the local Democratic Party dignitaries, he began:
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.
Memorial Day honors those who have died in our nation’s military service. Is it possible that Obama does not know this? Sometimes the things that come out of his mouth defy understanding.
What was really offensive about Obama’s New Mexico appearance, however, was what followed his very brief, but generally appropriate, tribute to America’s war dead. He continued with a town hall-style question and answer period that cast veterans in the only role with which the Democrats are comfortable–victims–and sought to politicize the holiday. A few excerpts:
OBAMA: We’re going to have hundreds of thousands of new veterans coming in, many of them who suffer post-traumatic stress disorder. They are not being diagnosed quickly enough, they’re not getting the services that they need quickly enough.And, sadly, the group of veterans that are probably being most neglected in this area are women veterans. We’ve got to do a better job of creating facilities…
(APPLAUSE)
… specifically for women veterans.
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Sphere: Related ContentMalkin also has: Obama’s uncle did what?
Obama also spoke about his uncle, who was part of the American brigade that helped to liberate Auschwitz. He said the family legend is that, upon returning from war, his uncle spent six months in an attic. “Now obviously, something had really affected him deeply, but at that time there just weren’t the kinds of facilities to help somebody work through that kind of pain,” Obama said. “That’s why this idea of making sure that every single veteran, when they are discharged, are screened for post-traumatic stress disorder and given the mental health services that they need – that’s why it’s so important.”
Purple Avenger, blogging at Ace of Spades:
Auschwitz of course is in Poland. It was liberated by the Red Army on Jan 27 1945. Poland, on most maps is usually placed to the east of Germany, although we may need to investigate the geography textbooks the Messiah used as a child…The Allies were wrapping up the battle of the bulge in late January of 1945 — the Rhine crossings were still well into the future when Auschwitz was liberated.
Either Obama’s uncle served in the Red Army, or he’s spinning Clintonesque lies about Auschwitz to sell his government programs. Hey, it’s for a good cause…but it’s not enough for him. It has to be personal. It has to be all about him.It’s like Bill Clinton whining about those Arkansas church burnings he witnessed as a child–church burnings which never actually happened.
I think the Obamessiah just out Tuzla’d Hillary. The man is…nefarious.
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May 28th, 2008 at 10:55 am
“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.”
“Memorial Day honors those who have died in our nation’s military service. Is it possible that Obama does not know this?”
You forget - this guy is a Democrat from Chicago - they depend on the dead voters so heavily, they can see them.
- MuscleDaddy
May 28th, 2008 at 11:17 am
As far as the ‘Red Army’ thing -
…strictly wishful thinking, that he had a relative in the Glorious Army, during the Great Patriotic War.
One other point, though - Check this:
http://www.time.com/time/printout/0,8816,1729524,00.html
According to TIME, Obama’s mother was born in 1942 and apparently had no brothers…
Now, unless his Kenyan “father” had a roughly-20-Years-Older-brother who was somehow in the US army, OR his Indonesian stepfather did…
Clintonesque - truly, beautifully Clintonesque…
- MuscleDaddy
May 28th, 2008 at 3:56 pm
Did his uncle spend that time in the attice worrying about his impending menstruation and swooning over a boy named Pietr? ‘Cause I’ve heard that one somewhere . . .