A D Day Tribute to the Men who Fought on “Obama Beach?”

Aqua, what is it about this POTUS that he has such a deplorable grasp of history? In his first few words…

Good afternoon. Thank you President Sarkozy, Prime Minister Brown, Prime Minister Harper, and Prince Charles for being here today. Thank you to our Secretary of Veterans Affairs, General Eric Shinseki for making the trip out here to join us. Thanks also to Susan Eisenhower, whose grandfather began this mission sixty-five years ago with a simple charge: “Ok, let’s go.” And to a World War II veteran who returned home from this war to serve a proud and distinguished career as a United States Senator and national leader: Bob Dole.

I’m not sure where he’s getting this tale of simplicity, but I put the full text of Eisenhower’s message sent to the troops just before they invaded in my post with the Army’s footage and veteran’s narration. Obama, instead, relates some nonsense that seems to equate Eisenhower as a WWII version of Todd Beamer on Flight 93, saying “let’s roll”. Considering the magnitude and scale of this operation, it seems Obama’s embellishment about Eisenhower’s purported “charge” requires “the willing suspension of disbelief”.

I didn’t expect anything moving from Obama today. This was an event that, not only was shared by other leaders, isn’t one that he (and his speechwriters) celebrates from the heart. It would have been inappropriate to pull the usual Obama’ism… make it all about him and his visions of the future that he will orchestrate from the Oval Office. I figured passable was all we’d get.

But here’s a few things that I found interesting:

I am not the first American president to come and mark this anniversary, and I likely will not be the last.

“Likely”? Is he anticipating a lifetime position? Of course other Presidents will again make this journey. There’s no “likely” about it, unless the world destroys itself inbetween.

I was also not surprised to see his opening historical perspective had little to do with valor, dedication and courage, but military errors. He instead, opened with citing how it went wrong. Yes… it did. But is that the first thing to remember in retrospect? Yes… if you’re Obama.

And this, in describing the enemy and the justification of war.

We live in a world of competing beliefs and claims about what is true. It is a world of varied religions and cultures and forms of government. In such a world, it is rare for a struggle to emerge that speaks to something universal about humanity.

The Second World War did that. No man who shed blood or lost a brother would say that war is good. But all know that this war was essential. For what we faced in Nazi totalitarianism was not just a battle of competing interests. It was a competing vision of humanity. Nazi ideology sought to subjugate, humiliate, and exterminate. It perpetrated murder on a massive scale, fueled by a hatred of those who were deemed different and therefore inferior. It was evil.

Funny how he doesn’t recognize the parallel quest for a Shariah law Caliphate and it’s oppression.

And it is my great uncle who was part of the first American division to reach and liberate a Nazi concentration camp. His name is Charles Payne, and I am so proud that he is here with us today.

I see he’s still locked into his lie that Mr. Payne was one of those who liberated Auschwitz… as he claimed in the video below.

Auschwitz was, of course, liberated by the Soviets. Odd that a Kansas man was serving in the Red Army…. details details, eh? But then, the big Zero can’t possibly make a speech without elevating himself… even on the backs of his American relatives.. to greater heights.

All in all, lackluster. But then, as I said… I’m not surprised. It is a moment in history from that America he wants to “remake”, and that his wife finds no pride. How could he possibly speak from the heart? I would bet that, were this appearance really not demanded and didn’t offer a good excuse to bring the family to Paris, he would have said “thanks, but no thanks”.

Ah… clarification on the “fence straddling” INRE the “OK, let’s go”. As you say, he said that when told of the weather break as a “go”. But it seems rather offhanded and misleading to portray Eisenhower’s grasp of such an improbable-for-success mission by using that instead of his message. Leaves the impression that Eisenhower was somewhat cavalier and frivolous about it all.

I certainly agree that there are some days I just don’t want to address how I feel about this President, his policies and his performance. This was one of them. I purposely dodged Obama’s speech at the ceremonies because I didn’t want to be disappointed or embarrased at worst, or underwhelmed at best. But then you had to provide the text link to the speech… dang it all. LOL

Just annoys the tar out of me that he always gives America’s failures top billing (i.e. the mistakes made in the beach storming mission). Had I heard that live, I would have been livid at starting out that way in his speech. I could be wrong, but I don’t believe that was what his live audience wanted to hear…. that the military made errors. While that is a fact, it is not the purpose of the day, and to commence his speech with that tact casts an allusion of devaluation to their lives and sacrifice. When it comes to things military and strategic, Obama out gaffes Biden, the gaffe master.

Looking forward to Old Trooper’s take as he’s up close and personal there. Or perhaps he dodged that event in order to preserve the better memories.

BTW, from what I understood, Obama did not mention Ahmadinejad by name when he was at Buchenwald, and just said “.. there are those who insist the Holocaust never happened”. Not exactly bold in calling him out by name, eh? But I also heard he did specifically suggest the Iranian leader visit himself in an interview with NBC last Friday, and before he toured Buchenwald. That was, however, when coaxed and prompted by a question, and not offered independently.

So I guess I agree with you today. The “sliver of soil” for me is that he didn’t tremendously embarrass me, as he’s done all across Europe thus far. The clean up team following him are working overtime … especially with the Israelis.