Matt Drudge Takes One Last Stab at President Obama Memorial Day Meme

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Matt Drudge Takes One Last Stab at President Obama Memorial Day Meme
by Tommy Christopher | 11:16 am, June 1st, 2010

In the run-up to Memorial Day this year, conservatives expressed varying degrees of selective outrage that President Obama would “not honor our troops,” sending Vice President Joe Biden to Arlington National Cemetery. Of course, the President was scheduled to attend a ceremony at Abraham Lincoln National Cemetery in Illinois, but I guess those soldiers are somehow less worthy in conservatives’ eyes. It was only a matter of time before someone suggested that the thunderstorm that shortened the President’s speech was the will of almighty God. Enter Matt Drudge.
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I’m inclined to agree that this entire meme amounts to a sickening politicization of a solemn occasion. One of the more high-profile purveyors of this crap, CNN’s Erick Erickson, has an interesting rationale for why it’s OK for a gang of GOP presidents to skip the Arlington National Cemetery ceremony, but not President Obama:

The problem for Barack Obama is simple. The troops don’t like him no matter how much
the White House propaganda machine tries to gin up staged pictures of Obama voting
soldiers fawning all over him. But see the tepid response from cadets at West Point or talk
privately with lots of soldiers and sailors and you get something else — they fundamentally
do not respect their Commander in Chief.

Well, if Erick Erickson says it, it must be true, right? He probably spends a lot of time at West Point, shooting the breeze with cadets and such. Never mind the fact that, despite being misled by the McCain campaign regarding Obama’s support for the military, then-Senator Obama outdrew McCain 6 to 1 in donations from troops overseas. Never mind the fact that the soldiers who fight and die for this country deserve to be honored without political distraction, no matter who they voted for.


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