Obama to attend Carrier Classic on Carl Vinson

[Scurrilous]

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"President Barack Obama will attend the Carrier Classic basketball game on Veterans Day on the USS Carl Vinson, the aircraft carrier that buried Osama bin Laden at sea.

The White House confirmed Thursday that the nation's basketball-player-in-chief has accepted an invitation to attend the Nov. 11 matchup between North Carolina and Michigan State, the first college hoops game on an active flat top.

The Carl Vinson and its sailors have attracted considerable attention since early May, when the carrier conducted bin Laden's burial at sea after he was killed by Navy SEALs in a raid ordered by Obama.

"This Veterans Day, President Obama will honor our nation's veterans by laying a wreath at Arlington National Cemetery and then by traveling to San Diego, California, to attend the Carrier Classic on the deck of the USS Carl Vinson," the White House said in a statement. "He looks forward to a great game between Michigan State and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill."

Read more: http://www.miamiherald.com/2011/10/13/2452307/obama-to-attend-carrier-classic.html#ixzz1ah8r5Koe

[Enrique]

1. they used an aircraft carrier to bury a body at sea?

seems a bit excessive.

[hack89]

2. They wanted to bury OBL at sea

they needed to land the helicopter carrying his body from Afghanistan somewhere - I suspect just dumping him at 1000 feet might have created some PR problems.

[Wait Wut]

6. Priceless.

:rofl:

[SpartanDem]

3. Yep no big deal.

just the President coming to watch my alma mater play bball on a aircraft carrier.:patriot:

[COLGATE4]

4. Go Green!

[Old Troop]

5. I'm with the President. With the NBA season delayed or cancelled

Ya got to go somewhere to see a game.