President Obama spoke Monday morning at Arlington National Cemetery in observance of Memorial Day, after laying a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. In his speech the President called on Americans to observe a day of “silent remembrance and solemn prayer,” and pause for a national moment of prayer at 3pm. It seems the President only intended to remember and pray precisely at 3 o’clock, he spent the rest of the day playing golf.
The President spent four hours on the course after asking Americans to “ring a bell or offer a prayer, say a silent thank you, and commit to give something back to this nation, something lasting in their memory, to affirm in our own lives and advance around the world those enduring ideals of justice, equality and opportunity for which they and so many generations of Americans have given that last full measure of devotion,” this morning.
I’m not nitpicking here: our brave men died to defend our rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness—whether they believed in the ideals of the French Revolution is another point entirely. I was shocked to hear the President bypass Liberty completely given his allusion to Lincoln’s Gettysburg address. That cause for which our honored dead gave their last full measure of devotion is the cause of Liberty. In Lincoln’s day they fought to repair our torn Republic so that future generations could prosper in Freedom—today our heroes fight to maintain that freedom at home and bring liberty to people that have known nothing but equality in oppression.
If the President believes more in “Justice, Equality and Opportunity” than in Liberty, he should have given a father who had to go to work on Memorial Day while grieving for his lost son the opportunity to play golf in DC while the President took over his backbreaking work. Anyway, isn’t that what leftists consider Justice?
