Obama’s Low-Key Memorial Day Weekend

I think Mr. Obama is making a big mistake…
America is feeling abandoned by leadership…
Tonight is the biggest national party of the year in D.C. it will be attended/watched by millions…
But there will be one thing missing… the Commander-in-Chief, who is not even in town…
He could have done a lot to help his image in the light of the tragedies of the spill, the flood of illegal immigration, the exploding national debt, the lack of jobs, etc. just by coming out on stage and sharing with the people…

Why can our President not be at this time honored event deserved by more
than he can count. Is this a ceremony that is beneath or above him?
GOD bless and GOD please help America!

I don’t find any problem with Obama honoring Veteran’s Day at Abraham Lincoln National Cemetery rather than Arlington. It is certainly not the first time the President was not at Arlington. And he shouldn’t be concerned by the hatred from the Right – it is not like they cared the slightest bit about Obama honoring Veteran’s last year. Indeed, the far right used his 2009 visit to fuel their hate then too.
“Barack Obama’s speech commemorating Veterans Day at Arlinton Cemetery this morning was received with stony silence by those in attendance.
What should have been applause lines for Obama about caring for our veterans drew no cheers, no clapping and no ‘hooahs’.” -2009 Freerepublic
Or those various email slanders that took stills of Obama standing with his hands at his side while everyone else was saluting that claimed Obama refused to salute the dead (in reality, as video shows the stills were taken as everyone was saluting the President entering the stage – check out the standard Urban Legends debunking site).
Just like the US dealing with Iran, Obama shouldn’t worry much about people who hate him making up a new reason to state how much they hate him.

Seems to me Obama is living in a “Truman” or “Stepford Wives” world… He is the center of his world. I am sorry that he is president.. I am sorry that he thinks more of himself on Memorial Day than respecting the Fallen Heroes at Arlington as the past presidents have done… Shame on our President…

Stoney Silence eh? I count the word hate three times and haterd once in those five paragraghs. Just where and how do those words fit any meaning in the honoring our fallen heroes on Memorial Day?

Um… JHW 539…. We are not celebrating VETERAN’s day… Ummm I think its called…..MEMORIAL DAY.. Memorial day is when we honor our heroes from past wars that have died for our country so we can have the freedoms we take for granted…Please get your days straight

Thank You for staying away.
The Men and Women who have fallen are in far better company with you playing B Ball and eating ribs in Chicago. You sir are a disgrace as a President.
Please have your patsy “Joe” sign any condolence letters for future Fallen Heroes. Can in a thousand nightmares you imagine the insult of a family who’s “President” choose to ignore the Supreme Sacrifice and sent a proxy? The thought of your hollow sympathy would be and is an insult to their sacrifice. You Sir are the Commander and Chump
Frankly in hind sight you might be doing us all a favor by publicizing how undeserving you are of the office or he respect it deserves.

I’ll assume that you were all this upset when GW Bush had a fill in at Arlington on Memorial Day; or his father – or Reagan?? Because you certainly wouldn’t be hypocritical about it.
Jon Garcia shame on you for your purposeful obfuscation.

Where is the love? Give the man a break. Do you ever need a break from what you do? He is deserving of a holiday just like any other President republican or democrat. I can only imagine how stressed you would all be if you were the President. instead you are critics. What have you done besides sit here and make negative comments on your thrones? Start thinking positive, you bring down the morale of everyone around you. Look at the good instead of dwelling on the negative.

Please get your days straight
Helen | May 30, 2010 9:17:31 PM
My mistake; I do treat Memorial day and Veteran’s day similarly – I honor those who have served in our military. Of course, as you point out I am apparently quite wrong to honor those who served us and did not die for us on Memorial day. In my defense, my church is also wrong as today we had those Veterans in the congregations stand for a special blessing (obviously, since they were alive Memorial day is not meant to honor them).
While I am embarrassed to be caught honoring living Veterans as well as those who died for Memorial day, the entirety of my point still stands.

While I am embarrassed to be caught honoring living Veterans as well as those who died for Memorial day, the entirety of my point still stands
Posted by: jhw539 | May 30, 2010 10:21:07 PM
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No problem… it happens…
But still, your point is wrong…
Yes the dead in Chicago are as worthy of his presence as those in Arlington…
But he is not free to choose… He is President… he belongs at his post, in the Nation’s Capitol, presiding over the National Service Honoring of those who served and have died in service or since….
Now 1000 brave young American lives cut short in Afghanistan… how many more?
The Nation is crying out for leadership… leadership is an obligation, not a choice… the Nation is concerned about the flood of oil from the Gulf, the flood of illegal immigration from Mexico, the flood of debt from the Government, the nuclear potential of Iran, the possibility of terrorist attacks, the dearth of jobs…
If he were to appear at the National Concert in D.C tonight, he would be welcomed like a rock star… like he was at his inauguration… his absence speaks volumes…

The real issue is the reason behind Obama’s choice to skip Arlington. Not wanting to interrupt his vacation is not a legitimate reason. If there were some type of overriding circumstance (like Bush junior’s being in Normandy), then attending a substitute location would be perfectly acceptable. But on what planet is it okay for the Commander-in-Chief, whose soldiers are involved in two wars, to skip out on a national symbol of remembrance and gratitude because he doesn’t want to be inconvenienced on his vacation? Arlington, like all cultural symbols, is invested with meaning, and for Obama to ignore what that meaning is to millions of Americans is just further proof that he has no business leading this country. And for all those who claim that Arlington does not have special meaning, all the polls I’ve seen on this story indicate that you are part of the small minority who, along with Obama, just don’t get it.

The President will lay a wreath and delivery a Memorial Day address at the Abraham Lincoln National Cemetery – a veteran’s cemetery. Might not be good enough for you, but do you somehow think the fallen soldiers at Abraham Lincoln National Cemetary are somehow less deserving? They are not.
You cheapen the day by using it to spin out your personal political agenda.
Learn some class and show some respect.

I think it is disgusting that you couldn’t wait for your vacation to CHICAGO. You have access to a jet. This is like a slap in the face to our military. You could fly back for this tradition and do what has been done. YOU SHOULD BE ASHAMED! What is wrong with you. Like I heard at work today I bet Senator MC Cain would have layed a wreath on the Tomb of the Unknown soldier first and formost. I believe more and more everyday I voted for the wrong person. We wanted change but not this kind.

Posted by: Quo Warranto? | May 30, 2010 11:46:45 PM
The President will lay a wreath and delivery a Memorial Day address at the Abraham Lincoln National Cemetery – a veteran’s cemetery. Might not be good enough for you, but do you somehow think the fallen soldiers at Abraham Lincoln National Cemetary are somehow LESS deserving? They are not.
You cheapen the day by using it to spin out your personal political agenda.
Learn some class and show some respect.

Since when does the Israeli Prime Minister get to make U.S. foreign policy decisions? Sorry, that would haveen Bush/Sharon and a cool $1 trillion dollars ago.

Posted by: Quo Warranto? | May 31, 2010 12:00:18 AM
No, it’s you who should show some respect.
The President will lay a wreath and delivery a Memorial Day address at the Abraham Lincoln National Cemetery – a veteran’s cemetery. Might not be good enough for you, but do you somehow think the fallen soldiers at Abraham Lincoln National Cemetary are somehow less deserving? They are not.
You cheapen the day by using it to spin out your personal political agenda.
Learn some class.

Posted by: Quo Warranto? | May 31, 2010 12:05:04 A
Stop your hypocrisy – it makes you look foolish.
The President will lay a wreath and delivery a Memorial Day address at the Abraham Lincoln National Cemetery – a veteran’s cemetery. Might not be good enough for you, but do you somehow think the fallen soldiers at Abraham Lincoln National Cemetary are somehow less deserving? They are not.
You cheapen the day by using it to spin out your personal political agenda.
Learn some class and show some respect.

My only point is that he should be on the National Stage tonight, of all nights… He missed an opportunity…

We need leadership on the war in Afghanistan, the war in Iraq, the flood of oil from the Gulf, the flood of illegal immigration from Mexico, the flood of debt from the Government, the dearth of jobs, the threat of nuclear weapons from Iran….
WHERE IS OUR LEADER????
I don’t know…
Quo Warranto? | May 31, 2010 12:00:18 AM
That last line about sums it up. You have to be willfully ignorant to not be aware of the extensive work Obama has put in on all those issues, from his exhaustive review prior to doubling the troops and firing the general in Iraq (‘dithering’ to the Right, who prefer to go from the gut and stay the course I guess) to his establishment of a presidential commission on the deficit after Congress refused to do so (in an extraordinarily hypocritical flip-flop by a number of GOP Senators who used to be strongly-pro exactly such a Congressional deficit commission).
Your ignorance of ‘where our leader is’ speaks poorly of your knowledge, not the job Obama is doing.

If he were to appear at the National Concert in D.C tonight, he would be welcomed like a rock star…
Quo Warranto? | May 30, 2010 10:51:08 PM
He sure wasn’t last year. It is documented as being just another chance for the Right fringe to carp and make up stories (in that case, about how the audience refused to applaud or lies about him refusing to properly salute the fallen); see my earlier post for examples.

jhw:
wow, your statistics are staggering! Is that all you can come up with for our meddler in Chief? You forgot Obama’s complete big government overhaul of the best health care system in the world, you forgot his massive spending bills with money that doesn’t exist, you forgot his failure to put a dent in the unemployment figures, you forgot his massive bailouts of the car industry, the banking industry, and his planned overtaking now of the oil industry.
His failures outnumber his accomplishments. Period.
This deal on Memorial Day Weekend, just like Veteran’s Day, when he delegated any patriotism to his sidekick Joe Biden is just another example of his lack of true interest in our nation’s interests. Obama’s interests do not equal America’s interests. He has an agenda and that is the only thing driving him day in and day out. Joe Biden standing next to Obama, makes Biden look like John Wayne.
Joe Biden deserves the respect of a true American patriot and American statesman for his support of our nation’s heroes, because Biden is willing to do in public for our country those little things that mean a lot, what Obama cannot bring his radically warped conscience to do.
That is, support the noble traditions of our great nation. My hats off to Biden.

Posted by: EPU | May 31, 2010 12:38:00 AM
The best health care system in the world is one that leaves millions of its citizens without coverage or lined up in emergency wards where it costs the taxpayer at 10 times the rate of a normal visit to a doctor, others cut off from coverage once they get sick because it costs too much, and others with children who can’t even get coverage because they have ‘pre-existing’ conditions? And the system is bankrupting the country?
That is the best the country can do?

Gee, that sure doesn’t sound like the do-nothing, absent non-leader that Quo Warranto (the post I was explicitly replying to) claimed Obama is. Could you GOP’ers agree on whether the President is a do-nothing empty suit OR deliberately destroying the entire nation in 18 months? Because that level of double-think is just not worth arguing with.
Posted by: jhw539 | May 31, 2010 12:43:48 AM
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Hahahaha . . . they can’t figure out what the President is but they know there’s something they don’t like about him . . . he’s not a right wing Republican apparently.

Did he appear last year???? Funny, I can’t recall…
Posted by: Quo Warranto? | May 31, 2010 12:48:24 AM
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Yeah, isn’t that ‘funny’.

what Obama is all about: a radical disinterest in our nations values and traditions.
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No, actually I took up a real issue, rather than just your biased ranting.

The likes of Cuba not Costa Rica. You get the point.

So tierra, in your little socialist mind, how do you explain Obama’s Health care bill that opposed 55% of the American’s support? Is this a democracy or is this a banana republic? Me thinks you like the latter not the former.

* In 2006, about 150,000 American citizens traveled to Latin America and Asia for medical treatment.
* In 2007, the figure increased to approximately 300,000.
* In 2010, experts say that the number could increase to well over 1 million.

So tierra, in your little socialist mind, how do you explain Obama’s Health care bill that opposed 55% of the American’s support?
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I’m surprised the bill gets even that much support after all the lies the Republican right told about the bills, all the controversy and negativity they generated – and the amount of misinformation spread.

Americans believe that both Republicans and Democrats were fighting about health care reform because of politics, not policy, a new CBS News poll finds.
Americans had an even more cynical view of Republican motivations: Sixty-one percent said Republicans were acting on the basis of political concerns, while 29 percent said Republicans truly believed the bill was bad policy.
For Congressional Republicans, meanwhile, their approval rating on health care stands at just 25 percent, up from 17 percent in October. Their disapproval rating is 64 percent.
By the way, people just don’t trust either Republicans or Democrats on health care – why? Because of all the bickering and lies told, because of the demonizing going on . . .
Because of things like you’re saying . .

No matter how you try to spin it, an overwhelmingly vast majority of Americans do not see any benefit to Obama’s health bill. Period. Once again, democracy or banana republic?

jhw:
didn’t you read this article? Joe Biden is the one performing the solemn honor of laying the wreath on the tomb of the unknown soldier.
Frankly, I would rest much easier with Biden leading this country than Obama. Obama displays very little interest in our American noble and honorable heritage.

Apparently Mr. Obama lives in a very strange neighborhood in Chicago…
Posted by: Quo Warranto? | May 31, 2010 1:08:41 AM
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Again, your lack of knowledge about something does not make your imaginings accurate . . .

“According to a CBS Poll 60% of Americans DO NOT believe that the health care reform bill will benefit them”
And something like 80% of people who drive think they’re better than average drivers too. Sure our health insurance system benefited everyone….as long as you stayed perfectly healthy.
“big government overhaul of the best health care system in the world”
No it’s the best medical facilities in the world, cost and coverage wise we had one of the worst health care systems in the world.

didn’t you read this article? Joe Biden is the one performing the solemn honor of laying the wreath on the tomb of the unknown soldier.
EPU | May 31, 2010 1:11:58 AM
And Obama is honoring those who died for our nation at Abraham Lincoln National Cemetery. Not sure what your point is. He made three visits to the Unknown Soldiers tomb in 2009, I think he understands the solemn honor.

Skip, please… thousands of Canadians depend on the ability to travel south to get the health care they need
Posted by: Quo Warranto? | May 31, 2010 1:21:25 AM
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* In 2006, about 150,000 American citizens traveled to Latin America and Asia for medical treatment.
* In 2007, the figure increased to approximately 300,000.
* In 2010, experts say that the number could increase to well over 1 million.

* In 2006, about 150,000 American citizens traveled to Latin America and Asia for medical treatment.
* In 2007, the figure increased to approximately 300,000.
* In 2010, experts say that the number could increase to well over 1 million.
Posted by: tierra | May 31, 2010 1:25:52 AM
Yes… and they paid for it… In the future, even more will travel for health care due to Government intrusion in the US heath care system… there are currently heath care plans that will pay all expenses for you to travel to Costa Rica to receive certain treatments (due to PE layers like Mr. Edwards).
With continued Government intrusion, trial lawyers, you will be unable to afford heath care in the US, even if you are Canadian, you will have to go to South America… Good Luck!
Where are you, our leader, Mr. Obama!???

tierra, America’s population is 309,381,000 and you claim that the last hard figure recorded was 300,000 that went internationally for medical work. According to my math that is roughly .01 percent. How does that square again with your argument?

didn’t you read this article? Joe Biden is the one performing the solemn honor of laying the wreath on the tomb of the unknown soldier.
EPU | May 31, 2010 1:11:58 AM
And Obama is honoring those who died for our nation at Abraham Lincoln National Cemetery. Not sure what your point is. He made three visits to the Unknown Soldiers tomb in 2009, I think he understands the solemn honor.
Posted by: jhw539 | May 31, 2010 1:21:33 AM.
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Three visits to the Unknown Soldier tomb in one year. Who cares says the Republican right.

How does that square again with your argument?
Posted by: EPU | May 31, 2010 1:37:25 AM
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How does it not?

tierra, .01% – are you kidding?!!!

jhw:
Once again a CBS poll reports that 60% of Americans do not believe Obama’s health care reform bill will benefit them. Now ask yourself, is this a democracy or a banana republic?
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This argument has already been dispelled several times on here including by jhw himself.
“Democracies are run by votes, not by opinion polls and out of context quotes from them (I see no benefit from the health insurance regulation reform, but I fully support it).”
Posted by: jhw539 | May 31, 2010 1:15:12 AM

Maybe the Chicago Blackhawks winning Lord Stanley’s Cup is what’s really on the Chicago thug politician’s mind this Monday.

Go against the will of the vast majority of Americans on health care – now THAT’S democracy at work!

“Once again a CBS poll reports that 60% of Americans do not believe Obama’s health care reform bill will benefit them. Now ask yourself, is this a democracy or a banana republic?”
I’m going with ‘democracy’ on that one. The Democrats ran on a platform of reforming healthcare…and they did. You might not like how they did it but nobody can say they didn’t keep their word!

And Obama is honoring those who died for our nation at Abraham Lincoln National Cemetery. Not sure what your point is. He made three visits to the Unknown Soldiers tomb in 2009, I think he understands the solemn honor.
Posted by: jhw539 | May 31, 2010 1:21:33 AM.
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I think he understands the solemn honor too – and I think people like EPU are out to smear the President while at the same time insulting the soldiers and families Obama is honoring. He wants to dimish the honor the President has shown.
Show some class.

Not at all. What percentage of Canadians come to the U.S. for treatment? Please show me the figures.
Posted by: tierra | May 31, 2010 1:46:34 AM
When things get serious… they head south…
Posted by: Quo Warranto? | May 31, 2010 1:49:02 AM
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I know english comprehension is a problem for you . .. but I’m not interested in your imagination, I’m interested in facts.
What percentage of Canadians come to the U.S. for treatment? Please show me the figures.

Nice try tierra, do you even play to hang your American flag on Memorial Day? I certainly do and like I do on Veteran’s Day and every major American occasion I bring all my kids out with me to do it. That’s what Americans do.

So why do you suppose the system in a nation of about 30 million, overwhelming white people can be scaled up to serve a nation of over 300 million racially diverse Americans?
Quo Warranto? | May 31, 2010 1:44:56 AM
What does that have to with anything? The recent health insurance reform is ABSOLUTELY NOTHING LIKE THE CANADIAN SYSTEM. My time would be better spent discussing the issue with a fence post if you’re so far off in right field you don’t know that.

tierra, nice try broadbrushing my statements, but guess what? I’m not a republican. Go judge some other political cheerleader.

What percentage of Canadians come to the U.S. for treatment? Please show me the figures.
Posted by: tierra | May 31, 2010 1:51:00 AM
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Like you tierra, those interested in prolonging their lives will borrow whatever it takes to get treatment south of the border… For the moment it is the USA, soon it will be Mexico, Costa Rica, Czechoslovakia, Poland, wherever freedom still breathes… but NOT CANADA… on the other hand,if you have a skinned knee… no problem…

What percentage of Canadians come to the U.S. for treatment? Please show me the figures.
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No figures yet?

“Obama’s health bill is a product of our elitist socialists on steroids”
I think it was the product of courage by Democrats against the right-wing propaganda machine.

100 percent of Canadians with the will to live, and with the ability to finance the cost travel south to the USA to get treatment with life-threatening disease for which they have been put on a waiting list in Canada…
Quo Warranto? | May 31, 2010 2:14:29 AM
Do you know any Canadians? Because the only one I know who had a life threatening disease high tailed it from the US back to Canada to get treatment and rehabilitation. And he had no waits at all – the reason there are long waiting lists in Canada is because the life-threatening diseases are pushed to the front of the line.

I guess that’s why so many Mexicans are coming to Canada and the United States – to escape all that freedom.
Posted by: tierra | May 31, 2010 2:01:50 AM
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So you have a problem with illegal immigration too…?
Actually the Mexicans are fleeing lack of economic opportunity… not lack of freedom…
Mexicans,in their own country are actually freer than Americans… fewer nanny state regulations… The problem they have is corruption at all levels of government… and the lack of any apparent sense of community… I can’t explain it… can you?
It’s the same thing with cheap labor… if cheap labor is so good, why is Mexico struggling….?
BTW why do you find it necessary to combine your responses to any post with a personal insult? Do you lack any confidence in your argument?

So that’s your definition of freedom? I guess that’s why you liked the Bush administration.
Posted by: tierra | May 31, 2010 2:32:10 AM
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So cute… do you ever engage in serious discussion…?

In Canada, everyone is covered and you may have to wait a matter of months.
Posted by: tierra | May 31, 2010 2:24:06 AM
Or until you die…
The average wait for a maternity bed is 11 months… so they contract with clinics in the US….
If you have breast cancer… you are not going to go on the waiting list… you are going to borrow whatever you need and head south to the USA…. soon that option will be closed…. Se habla espagnol???

A typical waiting list procedure in countries with universal care would be a hip replacement.
One thing we know about the American system – if you don’t have health insurance, or aren’t rich – the waiting time for a hip replacement is . . . forever.
tierra | May 31, 2010 2:24:06 AM
Not true – you just have to be old enough to qualify for Medicare. That’s right, when a Republican trots out how the wait time in America for a new hip is less than half that in Canada you should agree, and point out that the vast majority of hip replacements in the US (almost 64%) are paid for by the government run public insurance plan: Medicare.

every thing inside the fence is neat and clean, but outside the fence is dirty and litter strewn…
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They don’t seem to be as good at hiding their garbage as we are. But then again, they don’t produce as much as we do, nor waste as much.
My impression is cultures that have gone from agrarian to ‘modern plastic packaging’ culture have trouble with all the packaging. In an agrarian culture almost everything is quickly biodegradable, plastic and packaging is not.

Posted by: Mike | May 31, 2010 4:05:32 AM
The President will lay a wreath and delivery a Memorial Day address at the Abraham Lincoln National Cemetery – one of our national veteran’s cemeteries.
I’m sure you don’t think the fallen soldiers at Abraham Lincoln National Cemetery are somehow less deserving?

“the average wait for a maternity bed is 11 months.”
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Got to give you that one, jw!

As I recall, there has not been any criticism of previous presidents that did not go to “Arlington” on Memorial Day. Get REAL idiots…the soldiers buried outside of Chicago in a Military Cemetery is NO LESS than those Buried at Arlington. They are ALL SOLDIERS who sacrificed SO much for ALL of us. I recall Reagan and George I (king of the least competent political dynasty “regime”)didn’t go to Arlington. For all the angry…I say, boy, BO sure in the hell had NO Hand in making POLICIES for our country that is NOW FALLING APART ONE by ONE, that was made by the “right-ones” for decades.

It seems Obama has created a whole new reason for the “duck and cover” exercise practiced in the 60′s by SCHOOL CHILDREN..

Bush Jr. missed it ONE TIME. Why you asked??? No, he was not on personal time at a friends BBQ but in France, 2002, paying repects to the Battle of Normandy…Clinton missed ZERO times…In times of conflict, should attend every one to show support to our military…

tierra,jhw,mama et.al.- do really think that leaving Washington while highly-publicized attempts to stop the spill fail is a smart move?Do you really think it looks good for Obama to be vacationing in Chicago while Israel may be on the verge of a Masada moment?What happens if Turkey and Israel go at it?

I would rather see Biden at Arlington than Obama.
At least Biden seems sincere.
You could prop up a cardboard cutout of Obama and stick it in front of the teleprompters, and get just as much emotion.

Being a celebrity president isn’t so much fun anymore.
Posted by: hank | May 31, 2010 1:37:59 PM
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It didn’t stop Bush.
“We gonna git them terrorists . .. now watch me hit this drive.”

Bush looked arrogant and tone deaf when he did “now watch this drive”.
But Obama takes the cake on arrogance and detachment. Never seen a president so out of touch with regular everyday people.
I bet someone had to tell him to stay off the golf course for awhile.
Obama just doesn’t get it.

Well, Obama’s great “event” in Chicago got washed out.
Whose bright idea was it to send the sitting president of the United States out in a LIGHTNING storm with an umbrella to tell the people they needed to get in out of the rain?

Posted by: Nephron | May 31, 2010 12:16:04 PM
What I really think is that the right is relentless and fanatical in its hypocrisy and hating on the President. It happened to the Clintons, too, but strikes me as even worse with Obama in office.
In fairness, Bush became very unpopular and the left certainly held his feet to the fire— but we rallied around him after 9/11 and I gave him a real chance despite my disappointment in the ultimate results of the messed up 2000 election and recount. I never once complained about his vacations, visits home to keep in touch with his roots ad reality, or his exercise/rest and relaxation. I complained about policy, warmongering, and saber rattling.
We elect human beings to the most powerful and stressful job in the world. They age faster than normal before our very eyes.
I’m very concerned about the oil spill and the situation with/attack on the Gaza flotilla of ships carrying aid. I’ve said my prayers. Ranting about the President or the rain in Chicago or some other crazy tangential thing doesn’t strike me as fruitful.
I’ll stick to reminding people that moving backwards by trusting or voting in more of those associated with the GOP and their failed policies won’t solve our problems.

mama,why would Obama’s doctor advise moderation in alcohol if there wasn’t a problem? Canadian tierra brought this up,not me!

Bobby Jindal has shown great leadership throughout this whole Gulf disaster.
Obama not so much.
His idea of leadership is to read off the prompter, recite talking points, and play with tar balls on the beach.
Jindal has been presidential.
Obama has been on the sidelines hiding from the press.

Double standard?
Posted by: Nephron | May 31, 2010 8:23:56 PM
I don’t micromanage others’ posts– but, full disclosure,I don’t always agree with the other Obama supporters and progressives who post here, on a variety of topics. And yet, I find them to be very intelligent and I’m in common cause with many of them on many things– so I’ll simply note it isn’t my choice to go there. Imho her posts to some degree are meant to remind folks suffering from collective amnesia what went down during the 00′s. But I never resented his vacations, and I admire his ability to overcome any problems he may have had with alcohol. I consider anything prior to his presidency really off topic and not worth discussing. His policies and the results are what I found– find– highly problematic

i am really upset that obama didn’t show his face at Arlington on memorial day. he is suppose to be our president, the leader and commander in chief, of our country and he has not supported our country and has just made things worst, i am really upset he need to be impeached if he does not care about America don’t make a mistake and keep on in next year.