Yet again, the right attacks Obama for honoring veterans

I guess we shouldn't be surprised, but the right wing has managed to find a way to attack President Obama for speaking at a military base on Veterans Day. The Drudge Report is hyping Charles Hurt's New York Post column, in which Hurt accuses Obama of being "AWOL on Vets Day." How was Obama AWOL, you ask? Well, because he celebrated the holiday at a U.S. military base in South Korea, rather than in the good ol' USA. You see, in Hurt's world, servicemen and women serving overseas apparently don't deserve the same respect as those stationed in the U.S.

Hurt wrote that Obama is "halfway around the world instead of being here in the United States to celebrate the sacrifices American soldiers, sailors and airmen have made around the world to keep the real, still-burning flame of freedom alive." While he acknowledged that "Obama honored our veterans from afar by laying a wreath during a ceremony at an Army base in South Korea last night," he nonetheless immediately attacked him for it, writing, "That is a distance from here matched only by the chasm that has opened up between him and the voters who elected him two years ago. This aloofness of his really is becoming a problem."

http://mediamatters.org/blog/201011120007

No matter what he does, they will complain.

They'd still find a way to minimize and marginalize his actions.

We'd still be hearing he isn't worthy of honoring our troops at all because he did not serve in the armed forces. (And then there's that whole muslim Kenyan thingy).

Unlike, you know, AWOL Bush, Five Deferment Cheney, and all the other chicken hawks.

And at the expense of veterans. I shouldn't be surprised at how low they will go, but I continue to be.

like he should send Boner a big box of dog crap to welcome him to the senate.

Something that is happening far, far too often in the press lately.

See if they think that was a slap in the face. ANYWHERE in the WORLD where servicemen from this country have given their life is a place to honor them. The main thing is he DID recognize servicemen and women on the day when we all do. What can they complain about next? How about idiots who get out because of boils? Those who fight tooth and nail to get out by deferments? Those who hide in universities until someone else's number comes up? :grr:

It is most appropriate to honor veterans for their sacrifices where those sacrifices were made.