Yesterday, the President made a huge flub that the main stream media will not tell you about. President Obama in his remarks to troops at Fort Drum Thursday told the US Army’s 10th Mountain Division about the time he awarded the first Medal of Honor to someone not receiving it posthumously. The medal, he said, went to an alive Jared Monti. The only issue is that Jared Monti died in service in Afghanistan, and did in fact receive the medal posthumously.
I searched abcnew.com, and msnbc.com and found no mention of this. Imagine if someone like Bush had made this mistake, do you think you would have known about it? Remember when they made a big deal about Bush leaving a press conference through the wrong door? This man forgot his very FIRST Congressional Medal of Honor presentation he gave to the soldiers surviving parents. How do you think they felt after seeing that? In my mind this shows that the award presentation meant little to him and how little that soldiers sacrifice moved him. Just words prepared for him by a staff writer, not words he truly did not feel with his heart. You would think that this should have been an occasion that would have left a strong impression about being the Commander In Chief and the vital role he is responsible for.
The least we can do for our honored dead is to remember them. (correctly)
Add this to the list of things that move me to assist in removing him from office in 2012. See the videos below, first the mistake yesterday, and then the actual presentation.
June 2011
March 2010
