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Posted on Thursday, May 27, 2010 10:04:40 AM by kristinn
Maybe he doesn't like the sound of hundreds of thousands of motorcycle
riding freedom-fighters roaring through the streets of D.C. all day and
night for four days?
Barack Obama is turning his back on the Vietnam veterans of Rolling
Thunder who will gathering in Washington, D.C. this Memorial Day weekend
for their 23rd annual demonstration to remind the nation of those
servicemembers still missing or held as prisoners of war.
In addition to skipping out on his duties at Arlington National Cemetery
so he can vacation at the family mansion in Chicago, Obama will be
cancelling what, under President George W. Bush, had become a
traditional meeting at the White House between Rolling Thunder and the
administration.
Last year, after initially rebuffing the veterans group, the Obama
administration invited Rolling Thunder at the last minute for a low-key
meeting that Obama dropped in on.
Even though Obama toyed with them, Rolling Thunder released a gracious
statement praising Obama and his wife for their attention given to
veterans and military families.
This year, according to Jennifer Harper's Inside the Beltway column at
the Washington Times, the Obama White House has frozen out Rolling
Thunder completely. No meeting with staffers, no sit down with Vice
President Joe Biden who is remaining in Washington, no nothing.
I wonder if Obama will pal around this weekend with his Chicago neighbor
and friend Bill Ayers, the terrorist whose group, the Weather
Underground, plotted to murder soldiers at Fort Dix with a massive nail
bomb during the Vietnam War.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2522234/posts
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