Friday, November 12, 2010

Obama Honors Vets -- In Korea And INDONESIA!

At the New York Post Charles Hurt has a great column about how President Obama not only managed to be out of the country on veterans Day but also about how the President honored Indonesian heroes while we celebrated Veteran's Day here at home. here's part of what Hurt says:

Obama honored our veterans from afar by laying a wreath during a ceremony at an Army base in South Korea . . .
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.
Not that Obama doesn't appreciate the sacrifices of veterans. He absolutely does. Just ask the Indonesians.
He was in Jakarta for their Heroes Day this week to honor their veterans "who have sacrificed on behalf of this great country."
"This great country," of course, being Indonesia.
Click here to read the complete column.

2 comments:

Josh said...

What choice did Obama have? Was he supposed to fly 8,000 miles back to the U.S. just for Veterans Day when he had to be at the G20 in South Korea?

There are plenty of legitimate things to criticize Obama about. But I think you're being unfair here.

mj loehrer said...

Well, he might have considered mentioning the guys in South Korea; probably would have taken 30 seconds.