Obama to Skip Out on Memorial Day at Arlington

Boy, oh boy.  When was the last time a sit­ting pres­i­dent didn’t lay the wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Sol­dier?  Accord­ing to the AP, Obama won’t be doing it — Joe Biden will.  Obama and his fam­ily will be going home to Chicago for “vacation”:

The White House says Obama and his fam­ily will travel to their home­town on Thurs­day and stay through the week­end. It will be their first trip back home since a visit for Valentine’s Day week­end in Feb­ru­ary 2009.

He will, however, attend a cer­e­mony at Abra­ham Lin­coln National Ceme­tery in Elwood, Illi­nois.  I know it’s not a require­ment for the Pres­i­dent to do it, but it is a mat­ter of respect and rever­ance for the ser­vice and sac­ri­fices made by our sol­diers.  If it was a one-time deal, I wouldn’t really care.  But this reminds me of the time that, shortly after assum­ing the office, Obama went to Europe and rejected vis­it­ing Nor­mandy to avoid offend­ing the Ger­mans.

I think that, and this is just a guess, Obama is trav­el­ing to Chicago so he can apol­o­gize to Rev­erend Wright for “throw­ing him under the bus”.  I won­der if he will attend Trin­ity United Church of “God Damn Amer­ica”?

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