On this Memorial Day, as our nation honors its unbroken line of fallen heroes — and I see many of them in the audience here today — our sense of patriotism is particularly strong.
Later in the day, the campaign airbrushed the gaffe from his remarks, which is as close as Obama gets to admitting a mistake, I suppose. (Via Instapundit.)
Amusing, but on a more serious note, the AP reports:
Obama spokesman Bill Burton declined to respond directly to [McCain’s invitation to visit Iraq], saying only: “Senator Obama thinks Memorial Day is a day to honor our nation’s veterans, not a day for political posturing.”
In Obama’s political-posturing-free campaign event in New Mexico (the one attended by fallen heroes), managed:
- To criticize the quality of treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder in female veterans,
- To attack the President for his promised veto of the “GI Bill for a 21st century,”
- To hint at a prosecution of security contractor Blackwater, and
- To assert that the funding for the war in Iraq must be cut off in order to pay for roads, bridges, broadband, jobs programs, and (ha!) middle-class tax cuts.
I doubt they even see the irony. After all, Obama is The Only Man Who Can Heal Our Souls. When he does it, it’s not posturing, it’s gospel.
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