Obama Skips Memorial Day...

[Adam Of Angels]

Originally Posted by orb451

Well the opposite generalization could be said as well - everyone regards him as a genius

Look, obviously Fox News has its own brand of spin. That's a given. Did any of you actually read the article, let alone beyond the fact that it's on Fox News' website and think you were going to get some glowing praise for Obama? Or some actual "fair and balanced" reporting????

Personally I don't care what Obama spends his time on, on Memorial Day. I don't like him though and if that means I'm a "Fox News loving, Right-wing parrot" and that's the scope and depth of your (in the general sense) analysis on opposing view points then I think in the long run you'll find that it's YOU that has problems.

Point being, not everyone has to love everything the guy does. And conversely, not everyone has to hate him for no reason or because Fox News tells you, you should. In my opinion, somewhere between being an apple polishing sycophant for him and being a card carrying Klan member, sits people like myself who've yet to see a whole lot of difference between him and any other president that's sucked at their job. And yes that means W, Clinton, Bush Sr, Reagan, etc.

Agreed, sir. Although, I don't dislike him as a man - I actually rather like him simply as Barack Obama... but just because I like Peaches doesn't mean I want them in my tomato soup. On the other hand, I think some good things might be coming from his putting the foot down on the banks. We'll see. Regardless, it has nothing to do with this story, but I basically 'ed over the folks here saying "this makes my stomach churn". Come on now - who gives a .... about this, really?

[Homebrew1709]

Maybe he's just trying to give VP Biden a quick moment in the sun!

[AK DRAGON]

Flame me all you want, I don't care.
I said what I said for a reason.

I think it's shameful that he is forgetting his duty to our national hero's buried in Arlington (I would make the same comment to ANY sitting President).

[orb451]

Originally Posted by Randy

Wow, all of them, eh? I don't think we'll ever see a "perfect President" since perspectives are always going to be very different from person to person and you can't make everybody happy.

Everybody's obviously entitled to their own take on things but for myself, I lowered my expectations for what I expect to see from somebody and stick by just a few core values. I actually didn't hate Clinton or H.W.

Just that I'm not necessarily impressed with any of the past presidents. In my opinion they've all had their moments (good and bad). I don't believe in lowering my expectations because of past performance. Like gambling, future results can not, and should not be measured, by past outcomes. I think the same is true of the presidency. In my mind, every new guy on the job gets a blank slate. And in my mind, Obama hasn't done much to make me think he's as gifted as some would have us believe. If you don't see the spin from the other side, the constant fawning over him and everything he does, though to be fair it's not as in your face as it was a few months ago, then I'm sorry but you're blind.

Now, contrary to what you or others may think, my mind is still open to the guy. If he starts doing things that I happen to consider meaningful change, then I'd be happy to support him. I just don't believe in drinking the Kool-Aid from EITHER camp, just for the sake of going with the flow.

And Adam, I agree, this is a non-story. Who gives a rats ass? If the guy on Memorial Day, decided to go take a piss on the grave of the unknown soldier or something along those lines, then yeah, I'd say that's pretty awful. Short of that... get on with life, there's bigger things going on in the world at the moment to be giving a shit about this. But again, that's just Fox News doing what Fox News does. How anyone could be surprised by that boggles my mind.

[Adam Of Angels]

Originally Posted by AK DRAGON

Flame me all you want, I don't care.
I said what I said for a reason.

I think it's shameful that he is forgetting his duty to our national hero's buried in Arlington (I would make the same comment to ANY sitting President).

They're dead, yo. They don't give a .... - neither do I. Let's worry about the planet and LIVE people that are suffering from the things going on today.

[fretninjadave]

Originally Posted by MF_Kitten

aside from the fact that you said "sheeple" (reminds me of the goth/emo crowd calling anyone who isn´t following their specific style sheeple), i agree.

If I had known that before I would never have wrote it.

[Eric]

Originally Posted by Adam Of Angels

Oh yeah because everybody regards him as an idiot.


Oh and .... war, and .... the military.

Originally Posted by Adam Of Angels

Agreed, sir. Although, I don't dislike him as a man - I actually rather like him simply as Barack Obama... but just because I like Peaches doesn't mean I want them in my tomato soup. On the other hand, I think some good things might be coming from his putting the foot down on the banks. We'll see. Regardless, it has nothing to do with this story, but I basically 'ed over the folks here saying "this makes my stomach churn". Come on now - who gives a .... about this, really?

Originally Posted by Adam Of Angels

They're dead, yo. They don't give a .... - neither do I. Let's worry about the planet and LIVE people that are suffering from the things going on today.

Well I, for one, give a "...." and respect those who serve our country, and you wouldn't be sitting in the comfort of your home strumming 20 high end guitars in front of a computer without them. Perhaps if every other word in your argument is "....," you should refrain from sharing your overwhelmingly intellectually stimulating political views with others, as it just makes you look like a giant ignorant jackass. Surely you can come up with something more intelligible to say than "I ....in' don't want ....in' peaches in my ....in' tomato ....in' soup."



Oh yea, and I think the families of all those brave service men and women buried in Arlington may also "give a ....."

[Metal Ken]

Originally Posted by Eric

Well I, for one, give a "...." and respect those who serve our country, and you wouldn't be sitting in the comfort of your home strumming 20 high end guitars in front of a computer without them. Perhaps if every other word in your argument is "....," you should refrain from sharing your overwhelmingly intellectually stimulating political views with others, as it just makes you look like a giant ignorant jackass. Surely you can come up with something more intelligible to say that "I ....in' don't want ....in' peaches in my ....in' tomato ....in' soup."



Oh yea, and I think the families of all those brave service men and women buried in Arlington may also "give a ....."

Nothing like using someone's choice of adjectives to try and descredit their whole argument. Awesome. Ad Hominem logical fallacies totally drive home the point.

Look, EVERY President, except one has missed a memorial day service at least once. He's going to another VA cemetary, and he's spending time with his family. How much more memorial day can you get?
I realize its bad PR, considering people are still flipping out over a bunch of other trivial crap like the birthers and whatnot, but it is what it is. There's nothing wrong with what he's doing, and to try to spin it like he's the first president to skip a memorial day at Arlington is just foolish.

[Adam Of Angels]

Originally Posted by Eric

Well I, for one, give a "...." and respect those who serve our country, and you wouldn't be sitting in the comfort of your home strumming 20 high end guitars in front of a computer without them. Perhaps if every other word in your argument is "....," you should refrain from sharing your overwhelmingly intellectually stimulating political views with others, as it just makes you look like a giant ignorant jackass. Surely you can come up with something more intelligible to say that "I ....in' don't want ....in' peaches in my ....in' tomato ....in' soup."



Oh yea, and I think the families of all those brave service men and women buried in Arlington may also "give a ....."

Well, that's not how I said it - you even quoted it after all. It was obviously a metaphor, and I won't insult you by assuming that you didn't catch that.

Anyway - sure, in the past we've had our freedom protected by our soldiers at war, but the wars that America is involved in today aren't ensuring that my freedom is kept in tact. In fact, its arguable as to whether or not an American war has ever been necessary (in so far as the preservation of freedom is concerned) beyond the American Revolution and, maybe, the Civil War. There's literally no reason to even go into that, but the fact of the matter is that I don't and never will stand for violence, no matter what's at stake. I don't want to hear that our boys are currently dying to protect us from terrorism because they're not.

Aside from that, this discussion still has nothing to do with what YOU or I think about our fallen soldiers, but has everything to do with in what way our President paid his respect to them this Memorial Day. He did pay his respect, and that's that. If he didn't, I wouldn't give a ..... Nothing wrong with using profanity, even if distasteful at times, and whether or not your emotional outburst can be avoided by my choice of words is another matter I give no .... about. If you want to tell us that you support and respect our fallen "heroes", then go ahead and do so, but its not my fault that not everybody agrees.

[Eric]

Originally Posted by Metal Ken

Nothing like using someone's choice of adjectives to try and descredit their whole argument. Awesome. Ad Hominem logical fallacies totally drive home the point.

Look, EVERY President, except one has missed a memorial day service at least once. He's going to another VA cemetary, and he's spending time with his family. How much more memorial day can you get?
I realize its bad PR, considering people are still flipping out over a bunch of other trivial crap like the birthers and whatnot, but it is what it is. There's nothing wrong with what he's doing, and to try to spin it like he's the first president to skip a memorial day at Arlington is just foolish.

Interesting... So since we're using our college educations to evaluate the validity of each others' arguments, if you can show me one place in this thread where either I or the article "spun it like he's the first president to skip Memorial Day at Arlington" your argument may establish some sense of credibility. I know he's not the first and I know he wont be the last. I just think that as Commander in Chief of the military it sort of becomes an important event on the annual calendar. I don't like it that Obama did it, just as I don't like it that Bush did it.

Oh yea... and in the sentence "I don't give a ....," "...." is a noun... Ask for your money back.

[Adam Of Angels]

Besides, his not being at Arlington is simply a matter of him not following tradition. He still paid his respect. If people are "sickened" by our president not following tradition, then God help us.

[Metal Ken]

Originally Posted by Eric

Interesting... So since we're using our college educations to evaluate the validity of each others' arguments, if you can show me one place in this thread where either I or the article "spun it like he's the first president to skip Memorial Day at Arlington" your argument may establish some sense of credibility. I know he's not the first and I know he wont be the last. I just think that as Commander in Chief of the military it sort of becomes an important event on the annual calendar. I don't like it that Obama did it, just as I don't like it that Bush did it.

I realize you don't like having your shit called out, but lets read my post again:
First, I said there was nothing wrong with what he did.

Second, maybe I wasn't clear with what I meant, if you're gonna argue semantics and implications, where did I say you said that? You're acting like this whole go-to-chicago-thing is some big-ass revelation. "Holy shit, he missed memorial day!" --like this is a completely unique travesty of the Obama administration, so is everyone else who's making a big deal about it. He didn't miss it. He did something else, and went to a different cemetery closer to his home, a VA Cemetery in Illinois.

And ,if you want to bring up the article, it makes no mention of the fact that this has happened with just about every other president. Its selectively leaving off that info, and we're stuck with people reading it and acting like its a big deal.

[splinter8451]

ZOMG OBama went to a different cemetery on MEMORIAL DAY





Someone find the thread where we argued about this when Bush skipped Memorial Day

I doubt there even was one. Everyone gets on Obama's shit for everything is it cause he's black? Cause he is a democrat? Cause people are always looking for something to freak out over is more like it

I cannot believe it figuratively (Im really hoping not literally) sickened people that he would break tradition and go to another cemetery today. It really should not be that big of a deal. The VP was there, that's good enough. It's not like there were a thousand people standing around the cemetery with no person to give a speech and lay flowers on the unknown soldier

[Eric]

Originally Posted by Metal Ken

I realize you don't like having your shit called out, but lets read my post again:
First, I said there was nothing wrong with what he did.

Second, maybe I wasn't clear with what I meant, if you're gonna argue semantics and implications, where did I say you said that? You're acting like this whole go-to-chicago-thing is some big-ass revelation. "Holy shit, he missed memorial day!" --like this is a completely unique travesty of the Obama administration, so is everyone else who's making a big deal about it. He didn't miss it. He did something else, and went to a different cemetery closer to his home, a VA Cemetery in Illinois.

And ,if you want to bring up the article, it makes no mention of the fact that this has happened with just about every other president. Its selectively leaving off that info, and we're stuck with people reading it and acting like its a big deal.

Originally Posted by THE ARTICLE

The Arlington visit is a fairly recent tradition. Former President Ronald Reagan attended four of them in his eight years in office, while former President George H.W. Bush sent Vice President Dan Quayle to every one. Former President Bill Clinton, though, attended every year and George W. Bush missed only one, in 2002, when he was in Normandy, France, visiting the American cemetery.

I realize you don't like "having your shit called out" (like when you try to sound intelligent and call nouns adjectives) but there's a quote from the article that you may have "selectively" left out of your last post. Try reading it first...

[Adam Of Angels]

I'm pretty sure you're just bitter for little to no reason and arguing for the sake of it. In any case, I'm not amused by this thread any longer.

[Aurochs34]

Originally Posted by Eric

I realize you don't like "having your shit called out" (like when you try to sound intelligent and call nouns adjectives) but there's a quote from the article that you may have "selectively" left out of your last post. Try reading it first...

Originally Posted by Eric

"I ....in' don't want ....in' peaches in my ....in' tomato ....in' soup."

Oh yea, and I think the families of all those brave service men and women buried in Arlington may also "give a ....."

I'm just gonna jump in here for one very brief moment and no longer--because frankly this whole thing is ball-shrivellingly ridiculous--to suggest we not get into an intellectual dick-measuring contest, here...
Unfortunately, one may note "...." (with all its grammatical possibilities...such a great, versatile word) is used in a couple different ways, above...not just as a noun.

That's it. Peace out. Go make some sausages and properly pay your respects.
...or cook something else if you don't eat meat. I don't know what, but make it tasty.

[theperfectcell6]

Fox news should be paying their respects rather than spending their time criticizing Obama. They shouldn't even be a news source. Everything is always negative towards the president, or anything else that leans away from the right. Buncha shitttttt.

[Explorer]

So, what did I learn?

I learned that Obama did celebrate Memorial Day at a National Cemetery.

I learned that a lot of people were outraged and sickened by something which turned out to be untrue.

I also learned that a lot of people didn't retract what they said upon that proving to be untrue.

Okay, so the thread title is a lie, and bears false witness. Is anyone sickened or outraged by that?

Just curious!

[Cheesebuiscut]

I'm outraged by the fact that people think it freaking matters...

Theres a big difference between not doing some cheesy ass ceremony that accomplishes absolutely nothing and wastes his time (for the sake of the publics ego) and people acting like he said *LOL .... THE TROOPS NOOBS GOT PWNED*.

People need to get the holiday sticks out of their asses and be realistic for once. Today Isn't any more meaningful than yesterday, tomorrow, 3 weeks from now, etc.

Also the news article even said that he goes on vacation and doesn't get to actually do any vacationing because all his time gets wrapped up in bull... so its not like he even gets a moment anyway on his "vacation"...

[RenegadeDave]

I don't think it was very prudent of him to miss the ceremony, all things considered.

The thing that got me the most from that article was the "second vacation since the BP oil spill" part.

He just gave detractors a big chance to paint him as unpatriotic and further anti-military/troops/whatever. Not a big deal that he missed the ceremony, but not a decision I would have made were I in his place.

[Adam Of Angels]

^Agreed, Cheese, that's what I'm saying here... but the funny part is, he didn't even ignore the ceremony - he DID waste his time.

[Metal Ken]

Originally Posted by Eric

I realize you don't like "having your shit called out" (like when you try to sound intelligent and call nouns adjectives) but there's a quote from the article that you may have "selectively" left out of your last post. Try reading it first...

Who's trying to turn this into an intellectual pissing contest besides you? You're telling people their arguments don't matter cause they have "...." in them, so I called you out on it. Then you try to sound all high and mighty.

The title of the thread is a blatant lie, the article is clearly biased, and you're being a prick about the whole thing.

[Adam Of Angels]

Oh and to the guy that neg rep'ed me saying ".... the military? I guess you don't realize how different your life would be without them--and not for the better." - Care to share this with me? How would my life be? I'm well versed in history, especially American history and I will NOT back down from my stance on the military. Did you ever stop to think that its beneficial to the military to support your view point in every way possible? Maybe its somewhat inflated given how much power the military has? Perhaps you only take this stance because you've had a necessity to "support the troops" force fed to you your whole life? I respect our fallen "heroes" where due, but I'm afraid most American military endeavors don't have my respect owed to them. I won't condemn you for feeling differently, so drop it.

[Shannon]

Obama is going to the national cemetary in IL. So, he's breaking tradition, but so what? As a veteran, I say maybe our country NEEDS some rule breaking because the typical political traditions haven't been working for 30 years now.

Anyway, he's still paying his respects by going to a national cemetary, which is more than a majority of Americans are doing today. Sadly, most are looking at today as a free day off work & an excuse to grill out.

And lastly, consider the source of this thread. Fox News will ALWAYS spin the story to the extreme right.

[Eric]

Originally Posted by Metal Ken

Who's trying to turn this into an intellectual pissing contest besides you? You're telling people their arguments don't matter cause they have "...." in them, so I called you out on it. Then you try to sound all high and mighty.

The title of the thread is a blatant lie, the article is clearly biased, and you're being a prick about the whole thing.

I'm a prick for thinking the president should be at Arlington instead of a Blackhawks game, having a distaste for people who use "...." as every other word, and disagreeing with you...