If the father of the dead soldier has accepted the President's apology, that's good enough for me, although I can see from your post you're disappointed you can't keep it going, Major Bean.
Did you expect anything more out of a man like Barrack Obama? To bestow American's highest military honor and then make a screw up like that tells me EVERYTHING I need to know about the quality of the man who would misspeak like that. Unbelievable.
Obama could have called a fly an ant and some here would have made a federal case of it. I no longer take the outrages from the right too seriously., you all have cried "wolf" too many times on ridiculous stuff that if you are now truly outraged, it's meaningless.
The man made a mistake...and most will admit it was a bad one, but it doesn't make him uncaring or indicates he finds the Medal of Honor meaningless. The ceremony where he gave it to a soldier who had returned home was very special and obviously was very meaningful to him and to the recipient.
You are like children with their parents.....your parents can do a thousand things for you and you never notice or care, but let them slip up and suddenly you are the harshest of critics. Sorry.......you have played the I'm outraged with Obama card a few too many times to be believable.
WayneH wrote: If the father of the dead soldier has accepted the President's apology, that's good enough for me, although I can see from your post you're disappointed you can't keep it going, Major Bean.
It is also not uncommon for the parents of a murder victim to forgive the murderer. That absolves the murderer?
Jared Monati's parents were being gracious. What else could they do?
Obama offended more than just the parents of the posthumous Medal of Honor recipient. There is also the living Medal of Honor recipient whose ceremony Obama did not remember. That was tremendously insulting to him. It is beyond excuse.
WayneH wrote: If the father of the dead soldier has accepted the President's apology, that's good enough for me, although I can see from your post you're disappointed you can't keep it going, Major Bean.
It is also not uncommon for the parents of a murder victim to forgive the murderer. That absolves the murderer?
Jared Monati's parents were being gracious. What else could they do?
Obama offended more than just the parents of the posthumous Medal of Honor recipient. There is also the living Medal of Honor recipient whose ceremony Obama did not remember. That was tremendously insulting to him. It is beyond excuse.
I repeat.....you, and some others, have spent the last 2 years being outraged by the very fact that Obama is the President of the United States.....just leave it at that.......whatever else you post is is just so much noise. You have already removed any credibility you might have had. Annoying isn't it, you rendered your own outrages as meaningless because you have had so many meaningless outrages.
The outrage is Obama, the one-termer. The liberals know that his performance in this matter is indefensible, inexcusable, and very revealing.
Liberals like to be outraged about private citizens, such as Sarah Palin, who holds absolutely no power. They do not dare criticize the big liberal in power, Obama.
What a shame.
p.s. don't "just leave it at that". Say what you mean.
Each action has to be evaluated on its own merits. We cannot overlook his gross mistakes because he might have done something else right. (And I say, "might have".)
His disrespect of the military cannot be overlooked and it is not "meaningless". He has demonstrated this weakness too many times and it is too vital to our protection to go without remark.
major bean wrote: Each action has to be evaluated on its own merits. We cannot overlook his gross mistakes because he might have done something else right. (And I say, "might have".)
His disrespect of the military cannot be overlooked. He has demonstrated this weakness too many times and it is too vital to our protection to go without remark.
Too many times? Can you cite some other examples of his disrespect for the military? I assume that you have lots and lots of these examples, otherwise, you would not have made that statement.