UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)
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If you don't have or want to take the time to research then don't post it. Sounds pretty simple to me.
President Obama!
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If you don't have or want to take the time to research then don't post it. Sounds pretty simple to me.
UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)
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That wasn't the point and you know it. Your OP claimed that Obama forget to honor the Marines on their birthday. It had nothing to do with the quote.
tieguy
Banned
I'm trying to do the research here and I admit I cant find the birthday message either. Giving a quick blurb saying happy birthday does not do justice here. More's post is looking for a meaningful happy birthday from the president to the marines. I cant find where that happened.
As a veteran I attend a ceremony every year where I go to a local vietnam veterans memorial site and pay my respects. I am often irritated that local officials can not find the time to attend and thank those who put their asses on the line. Instead they send some lacky who speaks on their behalf. I'm sure they have many requests for their time but you would think they would rotate their committments so they can personally thank the vietnam vets here ever couple years. If the president actually gave the marines a meaningful thank you then it should be easy to find. I have not been able to do so.
moreluck
golden ticket member
Hey, Obama thought it was more important to be out of the country!! If he doesn't have his teleprompter with him, he's lost.
The good wishes from Obama supposedly was on the Huffington post.......a place I avoid like the plague. She's right up there with Gloria Allred !!!
The good wishes from Obama supposedly was on the Huffington post.......a place I avoid like the plague. She's right up there with Gloria Allred !!!
moreluck
golden ticket member
Maxine on Obamacare (Maxine is fictional....that's for upstate's benefit so he doesn't think it's true)
Let me get this straight. We're going to be "gifted" with a health care plan we are forced to purchase and fined if we don't,
Written by a committee whose chairman says he doesn't understand it, passed by a Congress that hasn't read it but exempts themselves from it,
To be signed by a president who also smokes,
With funding administered by a treasury chief who didn't pay his taxes, to be overseen by a surgeon general who is obese,
And financed by a country that's broke.
What could possibly be wrong with this plan?
Let me get this straight. We're going to be "gifted" with a health care plan we are forced to purchase and fined if we don't,
Written by a committee whose chairman says he doesn't understand it, passed by a Congress that hasn't read it but exempts themselves from it,
To be signed by a president who also smokes,
With funding administered by a treasury chief who didn't pay his taxes, to be overseen by a surgeon general who is obese,
And financed by a country that's broke.
What could possibly be wrong with this plan?
UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)
Well-Known Member
Garbage in, garbage out.
tieguy
Banned
I've been to a lot of birthday balls and the message from the president is usually a pretty short and to the point "Happy Birthday, Marines!", I honestly can't remember the actual words to any of them beyond that. Assuming that message being attributed to Obama is accurate, it's par for the course.
UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)
Well-Known Member
Tie, this is all I could find:
https://web.archive.org/web/20130523120938/http://www.lejeune.usmc.mil/wwbne/news/
I'm sorry. I really don't get it. Birthdays are for kid's and grandkids. Cake, ice-cream, clowns, that kind of thing. These are grown men and women in a profession. I can understand being mindful of the service that individuals provide, but making an issue over not saying "Happy Birthday"? That seems rather petty to me.
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