President Obama and the Medal of Honor

[pjohns]

I seldom praise President Obama--and for good reason:  I seldom agree with him.

In this instance, however, I want to give kudos to the man, for his posthumously awarding the Medal of Honor to two WWI heroes, who did not previously get the recognition they deserved.

And the president was correct in his statement that anti-Semitism and racism prevented Jewish Americans and black Americans from being recognized, almost 100 years ago.

Note:  I certainly do not recommend that people should feel sorry for themselves, as part of a Victim Class.  But there is no denying that anti-Semitism and racism were very much alive and well at the time.

[mystery-ak]

Do you have a link to this story...

[Dexter]

http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-obama-medal-of-honor-20150602-story.html

[Carling]

As with everything he does, he can't even hand out a posthumous Medal of Honor without injecting America's history race and bigotry into it.  Am I to take it that there have been no other Jewish or black Medal of Honor victims?

[Dexter]

As with everything he does, he can't even hand out a posthumous Medal of Honor without injecting America's history race and bigotry into it.  Am I to take it that there have been no other Jewish or black Medal of Honor victims?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_African-American_Medal_of_Honor_recipients

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Jewish_Medal_of_Honor_recipients

[pjohns]

Do you have a link to this story...

Here is a link from Fox News:  http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2015/06/02/black-and-jewish-wwi-heroes-finally-getting-medal-honor/

[ABX]

As with everything he does, he can't even hand out a posthumous Medal of Honor without injecting America's history race and bigotry into it.  Am I to take it that there have been no other Jewish or black Medal of Honor victims?

That was my first thought. The news stories I heard today all decried their lack of receiving the medal up until now was due to bigotry yet we've had many African American and Jewish Medal of Honor winners from WWI & II.  Don't get me wrong, both of these men's actions did rise to the level they deserved it, but many MOH winners were honored decades after the fact due simply to bureaucracy.

[Carling]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_African-American_Medal_of_Honor_recipients

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Jewish_Medal_of_Honor_recipients

Thank you, but it was a rhetorical question.   

It was a statement by Obama to fool/mislead Low-Infos, who probably think he's the first to ever award a Medal of Honor to a black man and a Jewish man.  Like all of his statements are, they aren't targeted at people with a brain.  They are targeted at people who believe every word he says.