Funerals Show Obama Insensitivity and Hypocrisy "Three funerals this month — of Maj. Gen. Harold Greene, Chicago student Shaquise Buckner, and Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo., tell us much about the Obama Administration’s attitudes toward the military and hypocrisy on issues of race.
"Maj. Gen. Harold Greene, the two star general assassinated in Afghanistan was the highest-ranking U.S. military officer killed in combat since the Vietnam War.
"One would think that the major general’s funeral would have merited attendance by the president or at least the vice president.
"Did the president attend or in his absence send his vice president?
"No. He was relaxing in Martha's Vineyard.
"He sent Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel and Army Chief of Staff Gen. Ray Odierno.
"The absence of the Commander-in-Chief or his Vice President was an insult and slap in the face to our military."
Also this comment sent by a friend in California (you may know him since he is the guy in that state who did not vote for Mr. Obama):
"Not only has Obama been unable to make any comment about the General’s sacrifice, he also was unable to find the time to make it to General Greene’s funeral, held on Thursday in Arlington National Cemetery. Obama himself was conspicuously absent, but so were the Vice President and the Secretary of Defense.
"This is beyond outrageous, and should be taken as a blatant slap in the face of every military member and civilian that knows and understands the tradition, honor, and respect that comes with military service. In what can only be a gross oversight, or else a belligerent middle-finger, Obama hasn’t even ordered flags to be flown at half-staff, like he did for the deaths of singer Whitney Houston, as well as the former communist and South African President Nelson Mandela.
"The activity that Obama thought more pressing than this hero’s funeral? Golfing."
Snopes says the President did not break tradition by not attending the General's funeral
Hat tip to Corporal Robert Hope, USMC; Sacramento, CA. Thanks, Jarhead
Snopes says the President did not break tradition by not attending the General's funeral
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