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President Obama Apologizes to Family of Fallen Soldier

Posted: Jun 25, 2011

I'm waiting for the apology to the nation for the total ineptness of this witless wonder. Is game 74 of golf on his agenda today?

President Obama today apologized to the family of a Medal of Honor recipient whom he erroneously said was still alive.

On Thursday at Fort Drum, the president told troops from the 10th Mountain Division that he previously "had the great honor of seeing some of you because a comrade of yours, Jared Monti, was the first person who I was able to award the Medal of Honor to who actually came back and wasn’t receiving it posthumously.”

Wrong. Sgt. 1st Class Jared Monti was actually killed in Afghanistan on June 21, 2006. In September 2009, President Obama awarded him the Medal of Honor posthumously.

On his Facebook page this evening, Monti's father, Paul, posted: "FYI- President Barack Obama telephoned me personally this afternoon to apologize for his error in his speech to the 10th mountain division re: Jared's medal ceremony. Apology accepted."

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It is nice that he apologized - sm

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but you would think he would have his facts straight especially about something as sensitive as this...just saying. All presidents make mistakes so I guess we shouldn't judge too harshly on this though.

This and all his other blunders - mt

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Make it so we can judge him harshly on everything. I never would have thought that I would find Jimmy Carter wasn't the worst president so far. Our current man-child president is a complete embarassment. I pray he is not re-elected in 2012.

Yet they pale in comparison to the blunders - being played out in Congress

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Check out approval ratings for democrats in Congress, republicans in Congress and Congress as a whole (the lowest number of all in the history of polls) and compare to the president's ratings. I could post a bunch of links but in the interest of saving myself from the slay the messenger feedback, feel free to select the polls of your choice. The results will be the same and will support the assertion that the public is far more forgiving of an individual than they are of a corrupt collective.

Reminder: W already had a long list of blunders on his record in 2004, but managed to get re-elected in spite of it all. In the grand scheme of things, this blunder critique really does not amount to a hill of beans in terms of political significance, although I suppose it does allow the president's detractors to enjoy a fleeting moment of superiority while distracting themselves from much more pertinent and pressing political issues.

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