President Obama's Memorail Day Schedule in Chicago

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I left this in GD but it will be gone in about 3 seconds..sigh..


Obama will use Memorial weekend for a trip home to Chicago

By Anne E. Kornblut
With the long Memorial Day weekend on the horizon, President Obama is finally addressing one of the great broken promises of his administration: his early pledge to return home to Chicago every six weeks or so.

In 16 months at the White House, the Obamas have been back home just once - in February of 2009. But they plan to make the trip over Memorial Day weekend, an official said. After arriving on Thursday night, they will visit with friends and participate in private events.

On Monday, Obama will make remarks at the Abraham Lincoln National Cemetery, south of Chicago - missing the usual tradition of presidents speaking at Arlington National Cemetery on Memorial Day.

Vice President Biden and his wife will appear in Obama's place, laying a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, as well as holding a breakfast for Gold Star families -- families whose loved ones died in military service -- at the White House earlier that day.

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1. Republican poutrage in 3...2...1...

Oh, wait, hasn't Cheney laid a wreath in Arlington in President Georgie's absence?

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2. They (the right wing media) have this magical (cough) way of presenting half a story..

The right is shameless.. and we wonder why people are so confused and join things like tea parties.. they are being lied to by omission on a daily basis..

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3. I love it that VP Biden is going to lay the wreath at Arlington

and Pres Obama is going to do it in Chicago.

Vice President Joe Biden is quite capable and an excellent representative of our country to lay a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at Arlington..especially since his son Beau is a Capt in the Military..

http://www.syracuse.com/news/index.ssf/2010/05/vice_president_joseph_bidens_s.html

"Right-wing media figures are suggesting that President Obama's plan to participate in a Memorial Day event in Chicago and have Vice President Joe Biden lay a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Arlington National Cemetery is unprecedented and a sign of disrespect to the military. In fact, both Presidents Reagan and George H.W. Bush had representatives lay wreaths at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier."

http://mediamatters.org/print/blog/201005250034