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interesting that this troll thread was posted today given it's been proven, how many times? that bush and reagan both had their VP's go to arlington.
i guess they skipped it for the same reason.
nutters.
interesting that this troll thread was posted today given it's been proven, how many times? that bush and reagan both had their VP's go to arlington.
i guess they skipped it for the same reason.
nutters.
That's not the point at all.
I'm surprised by this letter to Obama. It casts a different light on his decision.
Hey now...this is no different than believing 9/11 was an inside job.interesting that this troll thread was posted today given it's been proven, how many times? that bush and reagan both had their VP's go to arlington.
i guess they skipped it for the same reason.
nutters.
That's not the point at all.
I'm surprised by this letter to Obama. It casts a different light on his decision.
It does? How-so? Did he say he took it into consideration? Did you ask him if he did? Jesus Christ you need a therapist.
I guess I am missing something here. The letter asks the president "not send a wreath or some other commemorative token to the Arlington Confederate Monument during your administration or after.'An interesting letter sent to Obama last year by a group of black academics and historians encourages him to not participate in the Memorial Day Ceremony at Arlington:
May 18, 2009
President Barack H. Obama
The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20500
Dear President Obama:
Since the administration of Woodrow Wilson, presidents have sent annually a wreath to the Arlington Confederate Monument. Prior to the administration of George H. W. Bush, this was done on or near the birthday of Jefferson Davis. Starting with George H.W. Bush, it has been done on Memorial Day.
We ask you to not send a wreath or some other commemorative token to the Arlington Confederate Monument during your administration or after.
There are several reasons as to why this monument, a product of the Nadir in American race relations, should not be honored, and we list and explain them in this letter.
The monument was intended to legitimize secession and the principles of the Confederacy and glorify the Confederacy. It isnt just a remembrance of the dead. The speeches at its ground-breaking and dedication defended and held up as glorious the Confederacy and the ideas behind it and stated that the monument was to these ideals as well as the dead. It was also intended as a symbol of white nationalism, portrayed in opposition to the multiracial democracy of Reconstruction, and a celebration of the re-establishment of white supremacy in the former slave states by former Confederate soldiers. In its design it also tells wrong history, boasting fourteen shields with the coat of arms of fourteen states. Thus it claims that Missouri, Kentucky, and Maryland were part of the Confederacy. They werent. ....
Dear President Obama: Please Don't Honor the Arlington Confederate Monument
More on this at DailyKos:
Daily Kos: State of the Nation
The optics here are not good.
And some people criticize those of us who think Ethnic Studies Degrees are bunk.
People should get their ethnic history from Glen Beck. He's the only legitimate source and the only person that cares about black peoples history.And some people criticize those of us who think Ethnic Studies Degrees are bunk.
Why do you think that?
You must also think that history and anthropology degrees are bunk.
For somebody who is supposed to be a political genius, Obama is completely tone dear on this issue.
How weird.
I wasn't aware of the significance of Arlington as being anything like a Confederate War Memorial.
I HAVE been there, and was struck with the irony of the land for the cemetary being confiscated from Robert E. Lee, and then being used as a graveyard during the Civil War.
He honored our troops! The story is own, the right is being picky. If anyone believe he doesn't care about our troops, then they are as dense as the peace activist a few years ago then said the same thing about Bush!
I believe many things about Obama (most are negative), but the one thing I never believed was that Obama hates this country, hates the troops, doesn't have our best interest and is nothing less than true and honest to god patroit.
His policies are wrong, but I do thing he loves his country!
He honored our troops! The story is own, the right is being picky. If anyone believe he doesn't care about our troops, then they are as dense as the peace activist a few years ago then said the same thing about Bush!
I believe many things about Obama (most are negative), but the one thing I never believed was that Obama hates this country, hates the troops, doesn't have our best interest and is nothing less than true and honest to god patroit.
His policies are wrong, but I do thing he loves his country!
I'm sure he does love his country... I wonder when he plans to go back?
*Joke*