Obama Administration Denies Veterans Access to Vietnam Memorial on Memorial Day (Video)
Posted by Jim Hoft on Monday, June 11, 2012, 12:09 PM
US veterans were denied access to the Vietnam Memorial on Memorial Day because Obama was going to give a speech there.
According to retired Lt General John Sylvester – 0bama was only there for 16 minutes, around 9:00 AM. They had the area closed until 3:00 PM.
FOX Nation reported, via Free Republic:
Due to high security surrounding President Obama’s visit to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial on Memorial Day, many veterans were turned away, unable to mourn their fellow soldiers at The Wall.
Retired Army Lieutenant General John Sylvester was one of the vets turned away, and he spoke out about the rebuff on Fox and Friends. Sylvester said that he didn’t take offense on his own behalf, but on behalf of all those who died in the war. He said, “It’s about those 58,000 plus soldiers, sailors, airmen, and Marines that are represented on that wall. That wall is America’s wall. It is not the presidents wall.”
The organization of which Sylvester is a part, the 11th Armored Cavalry Association, gathers on both Memorial Day and Veterans Day to place a wreath on the wall and to “be able to stand there reflectively, to be able to reach up and touch names of real-life humans, people that we knew, and it is our day as veterans to go and honor those men who are represented on that wall.”
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Mary commented:
Had heard this from a friend a few days after Memorial Day. Was hoping (praying) it was just an ugly rumor. Pray for our country.
Granny commented:
And since the 11th Armored Cavalry has been doing this for many years, you can bet your last red cent that the current regime knew darned good and well what they were doing.
But then military lives quite obviously mean jack-all to The None.
Granny commented:
OMG – rewatching the video I noticed that there was NOBODY in the “audience” – there was NO audience!
OldSailor commented:
Access blocked off for 6 hours AFTER Zero departed the area? WTF for? I understand security, this isn’t security … this is idiocy.
kathteach commented:
I actually heard from friends who were there -trying to get into the Vietnam Memorial Wall….and they left after waiting four hours.
All for a White House photo op.
Tragic disrespect for the citizens on such an important day.
But – check out Senator Harry Reid complaining about how the tourists SMELL in the Capitol:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1LRB-SpHrM
We wouldn’t want any more of that – you know.
What a disastrous regime of Democrat losers. Let’s get rid of them all in November
Brandon In Baton Rouge commented:
I understand security, this isn’t security … this is idiocy.
Frankly, I think it is Bambi flipping the bird at the military.
OldSailor commented:
Granny, would you have been willing to stand in line for hours, been TSA frisked and scanned and probed and gropped just to listen to that empty suit for 15 minutes?
Thought not. But probably those few that were willing were probably allowed no closer than the Washington Monument or Tidal Basin.
mikennv commented:
This is what happens when the president of the United States is someone who has never served a day of his life in the U.S military. And being Commander-in-Chief does NOT count as military service.
I believe that nobody should be President unless he or she has served. In fact, an amendment to the Constitution to that effect should be considered – but it will never happen. Too many politicians would see their presidential aspirations go down the tubes to allow it. Military service should also be mandatory for Secretary of Defense too.
BADKarma commented:
The BOBO views the US military as a prop. He Exaltedly has absolutely no use for them beyond that. He Exaltedly added insult to injury just two weeks later when He Exaltedly commemorated the 68th anniversary of the D-Day invasion by… Attending a golf outing and a series of fundraisers in The Communist People’s Caliphate of Calexico.
Patty commented:
Coast Guard: Unmanned Navy Aircraft Crashes in Md.
It was only a matter of time.
http://abclocal.go.com/kfsn/story?section=news/local&id=8693537
Patty commented:
#12 is Off topic, sorry
Patty commented:
Dear God, we have a dictator in the most important office in the land of the free and the home of the brave.
great unknown commented:
At the time, he and his inner circle were rooting for Ho Chi Minh
Patty commented:
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Angela Rye, Executive Director of the Congressional Black Caucus, argued that President Obama has struggled during his first term due to racially-motivated opposition from conservatives who dislike having a black president.
“This is probably the toughest presidential term in my lifetime,” Rye said during CSPAN’s Q&A yesterday. “I think that a lot of what the president has experienced is because he’s black. You know, whether it’s questioning his intellect or whether or not he’s Ivy League. It’s always either he’s not educated enough or he’s too educated; or he’s too black or he’s not black enough; he’s too Christian or not Christian enough. There are all these things where he has to walk this very fine line to even be successful.”
She said that “a lot” of conservative opposition is racially-charged, citing the use of the word “cool” in an attack ad launched by Karl Rove’s Crossroads GPS superPAC.
“There’s an ad, talking about [how] the president is too cool, [asking] is he too cool? And there’s this music that reminds me of, you know, some of the blaxploitation films from the 70s playing in the background, him with his sunglasses,” Rye said. “And to me it was just very racially-charged. They weren’t asking if Bush was too cool, but, yet, people say that that’s the number one person they’d love to have a beer with. So, if that’s not cool I dont know what is.
She added that “even ‘cool,’ the term ‘cool,’ could in some ways be deemed racial [in this instance].”
Rye said “I don’t know” when asked if black enthusiasm for Obama might be lower than in 2008, but added that the Democrats have to explain how voter ID laws are racist to help motivate black voters.
“I think that there is a lot of work that needs to be done to educate people on the issues with voting rights this time,” she told CSPAN. “A lot of our members feel that the voting rights bills that have been passed on voter ID . . . is going to create a barrier whether there’s an enthusiasm gap or not. You have a situation where it’s a modern-day poll tax.”
MSNBC’s Ed Schultz argued last year that “break” is a Southern racist term that should also never be applied to President Obama.
http://campaign2012.washingtonexaminer.com/blogs/beltway-confidential/cbc-staff-opposition-obama-racist/592346
Patty commented:
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Fed: Americans’ wealth dropped 40 percent
Thanks Obama!!
http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/fed-americans-wealth-dropped-40-percent/2012/06/11/gJQAlIsCVV_story.html
tommy mc donnell commented:
the monument was closed on memorial day for almost six hours after obama left. this shows the incompetence of the federal employee. this is what the goal of affirmative action always was, the creation of an incompetent workforce.
Patty commented:
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Well, won’t believe it, unless you read it with your on eyes.
Obama believes the most important issue of second term is ‘climate change’
Ed Lasky
President Obama is quoted in a New Yorker column by hooked-in journalist Ryan Lizza as believing the most important issue to address in his second term would be climate change
“Obama has an ambitious second-term agenda, which, at least in broad ways, his campaign is beginning to highlight. The President has said that the most important policy he could address in his second term is climate change (italics mine), one of the few issues that he thinks could fundamentally improve the world decades from now. He also is concerned with containing nuclear proliferation.”
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Read more: http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2012/06/obama_believes_the_most_important_issue_of_second_term_is_climate_change.html#ixzz1xW5bH4II
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